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taat u should be so. for IL is the first
port south OF Panama. II is not as far
from Panama as is New York from Chi
cago. and when the canal is completed it
viii BE- nearer Boston than from Boston
10 Liverpool The town lies about sixty
miles from the ocean 1t is on the wide
and deep Guayas river. up which boats
can 90 during the rainy season for 200 Or
20, miles. The town lies almost on the
equator. Il Is under the shadow of the
snowy peaks of Chimborazo and Coto-
paxL hut 4 is surrounded by jungle Just
nov il IS afflicted with bubonic plague
and yellow fever and these conditions
Wy have 20 be wiped out before Ecuador
..su po allowed the free use of the Pan
ana canal
The Ecuadorars have come to realize
IN, seriousness OF their situation. They
know taat their ports must be made
clean Or they viii block the country's
discussing the question for several years
and foreign experts have been called in
10 make plans for the clean ng OF Guaya-
quil- Dr, Gorgas has been here and
given suggestions, and scheme after
scheme has been proposed TO remedy the
eNtl. just now a contract with j. q.
White < Co of New York and London
IS under way That firm has had its
engineers on the ground and il is ready
to enter into a contract for d series Of
public improvements that will cost $1o
.-r.S1. This sum viii be enough to do
the things Immediately necessary. 1t
VIII pave the streets. put In sewers. in
crease the water supply and inaugurate a
systematic upbuiidlng and renovation
that Will make the port safe for the
traveller and trader.
At present Guayaqail is SO dangerous
that no one stops here who can help it.
the new cases Vf bunonic plague now
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early sheriffs of Prince Georges county.
was a friend of Mrs. Surratt Both were
devout Catholics, and both were men,
bers of the little church Of St Mary's.
at Piscataway, a church which was re-
moved from place now called Chapel
Hill. near the present post Office of
Friendly. Prince Georges county, to the
town of Piscataway, about 1s20-the
Rambler, without looking up the facts.
believes, that the date was 1928. The
church has been rebuilt within the last
few years but the lines and dimensions
of the older church have been retained.
The friendship between the Bryans and
the Surratts did not do the Bryans any
good That country was under federal
control through the civil war. The
slaves of the Bryan family nearly all
took their leave before emancipation.
many of them settling in the wretched
villages which sprang up around the
Union camps in the environs of Wash
ington.
Nearly all the stock of the Bryan
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was anything unusual in these drivcways.
and those women who came from another
city We're struck with the fact that there
not remember having heard any Wash
ingtonian comment on these cross-pave-
ment. semi-circular. up-to-the-f -fyont-door
drives. but the thing being called TO your
attention YOU look into il and marvel
that You had never noticed 1t before.
You are surprised at the number OF these
drives In some cases you suspect that
the tenants of the house served by one
of these up-to-the door drives use the
street ears in going to and coming from
their work, but in most cases they wind
up to the front doors of houses, whose
tenants own an automobile and hire a
chauffeur.
You can count these drives by the
score along Ma assachusetts avenue,
Connecticut avenue. New. Hampshire
avenue. and the east and west and the
north and south streets in those neigh
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BRYAN HALL, NEAR SURRATsrSVILLE, MD.

borhoods where the dwellers own en-
graved visiting cards, have at-home
days carry small pet dogs and go away
for the summer. Most of the new and
big houses on the upper part of the
Avenue of the Presidents are supplied
with these curb-to door drives
In front of many of the houses is a
porte -cochere-if that is the right
word, or the right two words-or
glass shelter before the entrance, so
that on rainy days the tenants may
step from the vestibule of their house
into their car without getting their
feathers wet or borrowing an UNI
brella from the neighbors.
A large number of apartment
houses have these cross-over drives
in front of them, presumably to aid
their tenants in catching street car
and punching the time clock at the
office on time. But in this age of open
air and outdoor propaganda il is quite
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number ten or more every day, and there
have been seventy new cases of yellow
fever reported within the past two weeks.
The officials have begun to vaccinate for
the plague. and the moment the traveller
lands he is grabbed by the doctor and the
plague serum is injected into his arm.
1te then gets certificate proving that
he has been vaccinated. and he has TO
show this before he is allowed to 60 into
the interior. There are two kinds of vac
ciuation given for the plague. The one
used here is the HaHkine process. 1t
consists in injecting the dead cultures
of the plague bacilN The needle hurts
as X goes INTO Your arm. and you have
at the end a little pouch of juice contain
ing some millions of bacilli under the
skin. The arm is sore a short while. but
the vaccine does not make you sick. This
Is supposed to render one immune from
the plague for several months. The other
form of vaccination Is by the Yersin anti
toxin II is given only TO those who
have caught the plague, and is supposed
TO neutrahze the poison in the system
During my stay at Panama l had a
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thur Bryan. who learned the trade of ma
chinist, served for a number of years at
Rock Island arsenal and then took 10
running a steam shovel on the Panama
canal He died three or four years ago.
A sister of his. Susannah Page Bryan ID.
was in The government service at Ancon,
Canal Zone. either as a teacher or Il
nurse Another of the Bryan girls. Re
becca Bryan-Lyons. lives in one on the
Bryan ancestral houses about mile and
half from Bryan Hall.
Bryan Hall was destroyed by fire about
1880 and was partly rebuiit-that is, a
smaller frame house was built on part
of the old foundation. That is stand
ing.
1t is an interesting trip down into that
part of the country. and it is so close to
Washington that at night the glare of
the city lights may be seen. 1t is
good road now from Good Hope. by way
of Silver Hill and Reds Corner. 1t is
one of the state roads of Maryland. and
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ST. MARY,s CHURCH, PIscArAwAY.

about two miles southwest of Surratts-
vile. the crossroads where the Surratts
removed to after they moved away from
the mill on Oxon run in the District of
Columbia. just beyond the present town
of Congress Heights. Til Surratts kept
a tavern or hotel at Surrattsville, and John
Surratt. husband of Mrs Surratt, was
postmaster there, before Mrs. Surratt re-
moved to Washington to conduct the
boarding house in which it was alleged
the pot to assassinate OF kidnap Pres
dent Lincoln and his cabinet was formed.
The Surratt tavern is still standing.
Old Mrs. Susannah Bryan, who was a
daughter of John II. Lanhsm, big
Maryland landowner, and one of the
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than a half million dollars worth OF
small houses, that We're said to be m
tested with rats, burned to the ground.
The danger of yellow fever getting INTO
Panama through Guayaquil is serious
one, and this disease, also. Will nave 10
be wiped out before Americans VIII be
safe in allowing our ships to come mere
or for travellers to go through the candi
after leaving Ecuador. Already several
Americans have died in Guayaquil and
there are new cases now every day. IL
is not safe for any American to settle IN
Guayaquil to do business in Its present
condition. You will remember that
Thomas Mast. the famous cartoonist, was
appointed consul here and how he came
to his grave. He died of yellow lever
have spoken of the death of DIR. Wight
man He was supposed to be a yellow
fever immune. third prominent case
is that of Mai. John A. Harman, the eng
gineer who built the railway over the
Andes from Guayaauil to Quito, and
fourth Is that of Commander Bertolette
of our gunboat Yorktown, who died only
a short time ago.
The yellow fever comes from a kind
of a mosquito that can carry 1T only
after biting a yellow fever patient.
After the mosquito bites human be-
ing afflicted with the fever it gets the
yellow fever itself; and it can then in
ject the yellow fever bacilli into your
system if it bites you. 1 had good
chance to study this disease during the
great epidemic at Panama In 1905.
That epidemic came from Guayaquil.
and 1t killed some OF the oMcials who
were working on the canal was at
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out of which Culpeper county was
carved was wild and Indian country
A great many of the hustling and
energetic people of old Maryland and
the more closely settled Virginia coun-
try along the Potomac river went
west Immediately after the American
revolution. of course, there had been a
good deal of Immigration west toward
the Blue Ridge and Allegheny country
before the revolution. but stronger
tide set out after the coming Of peace
These people went for cheaper lands
Men then counted their wealth In acres
and hands" There were no great op-
portunitieS for investment in other
WAYS. There We're some turnpike COM
panies in which one might buy stock.
but there were no great railroads. tele-
graph. telephone, steamship, lighting or
traction companies. Nor were there big
concerns in which a man
might obtain interest by buying
stock.
Even in the cities the opportunity for
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his old home on the Potomac. in Charles
county. and a number of whose descend
ants are living there and in Washing
ton. Bob walked back to Prince Geor
county after the surrender at Appomat-
toX and then went west. taking up the
life of prospector. He was murdered
near Colfax, Cal, about twenty years
ago.
Another of the boys was William Pike
Bryan. who was IN the I'd Maryland
Infantry. Confederate. and after an un-
prosperous old age died in a Washing
ton hospital three or four years ago and
is buried in St Mary's churchyard, Pis-
Getaway, under one of the noblest and
oldest weeping willow trees in the state
There is another son popularity known as
ouddy' Bryan who owned a large farm
adjoining Marshall Hail.. and the 'front.'
age of which on the Potomac was
Bryan's fishing shore-property which he
inherited from his father. Richard
Bryan of Richard. Mrs. Susannah Bryan
had another son. Bayne Bryan, who is
now living. in Buffalo. n. Y, and has
been for many years.
Mrs. Bryan had two daughters that the
Rambler knows of. One, Sampron a, mar
ried Christopher c. Semmes Of Washing
ton and was the mother of Charlie
running through that part of Prince
Georges county. The other daughter was
Eleanor, who became the wife Of Walter
P. Griffin. a son of DR.. Griffin of Piscat-
little graveyard behind the relatively
new Catholic Church, ST Johns. Sur
rattsville. The Griffins settled one of
the Bryan farms overlooking. Birch $
creek. on the road from Surrattsville to
T. &.
They called the place Highland Hall.
and the last time the Rambler was down
that way the old frame house was still
standing. There are many interesting
stories about that old house, but here
is one. Sidney E. Mudd. long a repre-
sentative of the fifth Maryland congress
sional district in the House of Repre-
sentatives. and one of the most promi-
nent party men of Maryland. was. in the
seventies the teacher of a small country
public school in the Surratts district, the
ent post office of Tippets. He boarded
with the Griffins Highland Hall-that
is, he probably stayed there. for so far
AS the Rambler knows-and he does
know-the Griffins. though they always
had a house full of company. never took
board pay from anybody. Sidney Mudd
fell in love with the first daughter of the
family, Ida Griffin.
She was famous as one of the beautiful
women Of the south At the tournament
southern knight, winning. crowned her
Queen of Love and Beauty" She was
q charming girl and developed into
woman as lofty, gentle and generous as
her mother. She sleeps in the church
yard of st. Thomas, at Chapel Point,
Md. overlooking the waters of Port To-
bacco creek.
Ida had a brother (it should be remem
bered that these are grandchildren of
Mrs. Susannah Bryan, Walter p. Griffin.
Santiago
the 1st Volunteer Cavalry, the Rough
Riders. enlisting in one of the southwest
territories. whittier he had moved from
Maryland After the Spanish-American
war he came home for visit, and in the
Anglo-Boer war Joined an English regi-
ment and was killed in action. Queen
Victoria sending a bronze medal to his
folks in Prince Georges.
Another grandson Of old Mrs. Bryan
a son of William Page Bryan-was Ar
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investment, except in land. was small.
Each man conducted his own business
Few persons lived in city through
choice. 1t was the proper thing TO live
in the country. in your own house and on
your own land. 1t was scarcely respecta-
BILE to live in rented house. for then you
were a tenant of another man. and
there was something of reproach in the
word tenant Thus. men invested in land
and pushed on to the westward as the
Indians were thinned out, subdued or
driven farther back into the wilds At
the time of the American revolution the
the Alleghanies were far west" There
were a few white settlements in the Ohio
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long chat with DR.. Il. c. Perry. the chief
health officer. who is in charge of the
sanitary conditions at the isthmus with
regard to the ports along the west coast.
He has visited every port from Callao to
Panama. and has spent much time in
studying the situation at Guayaauil. He
tells me that the only way in which this
city can be cleaned is by practically re-
building it. The town of today is swarm
ing with the rats the fieas from which
carry the plague. The most of its houses
stand close to the ground. and many OF
them have wooden floors. under which
the rats can burrow. The walls have
wooden posts, upon which are nailed
laths of split bamboo. This framework
is covered with stucco OH the outside. and
plaster or boards on the inside. 1t makes
a beautiful wall to look at, but the rats
can crawl inside the walls and walk up
the lathing.
Many of the poorer houses are built
right on the ground. DIR. Perry says that
they should be jacked up and placed on
posts so high that the rats could not
jump to the first floor. He says that the
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was driven off or confiscated.
Besides the intimacy between the Bryan
and Surratt families, three of the Bryan
boys. like most of the high-bred youth
in that country, were in the Con-
federate service One of the boys was
Pliny Bryan, who became an aid-d :
camp on the staff of Gen. Beauregard,
died of yellow fever about the end of
the war, and is buried in Magnolia
cemetery, at Savannah, Ga. Anothe- If
the boys was Bob Bryan. who served
through the war in the 1st Maryland
Battery. Horse Artillery, attached to
Stuarts cavalry, and generally known
to fame as Dement'S Battery, after the
officer. William or Billy"
Dement, who sleeps under the sod at
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Private Driveways.

HnID you ever see SO many pri-
II vate driveways?" Two women
We're talking. They We're strangers in
the city. We're doing the town, and
one of the things that impressed them as
unusual was the number of those car
riageways that lead from the street across
the sidewalk and the parking. pass close
to the front door of a house and then
curve backward across the parking and
the sidewalk to the street. The Rambler
has lived in Washington for some time.
but had never before thought that there
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country, but few people need now to be
told that it was then wild west" coun-
try.
1t was in this rush for western land
that William Bryan, or his father, it is
believed, left the we'll settled and closely
held lands of southern Maryland and einl-
grated to the west-as far west as what
is now Culpeper county.
Some members. but not many, OF the old
Bryan family remain in the southern part
of the state. What was left of the fam
lily at the outbreak of the civil war was
almost wrecked at its close. One of the
important branches of the family owned
large tracts of land in the districts of
Piscataway and Surrattsvilc, within
few miles of Washington The Bryan
manor house. called Bryan Hall, stood
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UAYAQUIL Is the
New York OF Ecu
ador. 1t is the
chief port of the
country. 1t has
an export and i'm
port trade of more
than s2o.OOO,G0 a
year. and this will
be quadrupled II
the place can be
made healthy. II
Is important TO US
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the grades have been greatly reduced.
Before that improvement. Soper's hill
and Middleton's hill, on the road, were
the terror of teams and drivers in that
country.
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INCOLN. Neh.. has
sometimes b e c n
called in the press
dispatches and in
humorous p a r a :
graphs Bryan s
T O W H. Though
"Bryan's Town is
a Jest. there is in
Maryland, not far
from Washington,
a real Bryantown.
1t is in the back
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woods and the backfelds of the state
but address i letter to BryantoWn, Nd
and ii Will find it's destination 1nls
Eryantown IS in southern Maryland II
Is in the county Of Charles. about mid
way between the Potomac and Patuxent
rivers and SIX miles from a railroad sta
rien. Il is n hamlet of half dozen
families or so and the settlement is at
least 200 years old.
The Rambler. while in that part of the
country adjacent to Washington was
told by al old resident that Bryanto"n,
Md Is associated with the ancestors OF
the present Secretary of State and that
the village takes its name from thefn'
The Maryland Bryans OF other genera
tions were important landhoIders IN
Charles county and the north adjoining
county OF Prince Georges Some ot the
descendants of these BryanS are stl!t nv
ius, on the ancestral lands Bryans Point,
nearly opposite Mount Vernon ana now
iSed by the United states government as
:; station of the fish commission, belong
ID. up TO the time of its purchase by the
government q few years ago. to one
branch OF this old Maryland family
II is "A tasl which some genealosist
willing 10 examine the parish and county
court records of southern Maryland must
assume. If 1t is desired to trace the pre-
cis, relationship between William Jen-
nings Bryan and the founders of Bryan
town It is believed there that the rela-
tionship exists.
The Rambler was told that William
Bryan. the great grandfather of William
]. Bryan. is first heard of IN Cuipeper
county Va. a county named for Lord
Cu'pepsr, or Colepeper, who, with the
Earl of Arlington, was co-grantee under
the crown nj England to Virginia Will
liam Bryan OF Culpeper county had
three children. One of these, John. was
married in 1897 to Nancy Lillard. They
was born at Sperryvile. CulDeper county.
went west in 1884. following that tide
of emigration that set away from the
older states to the new lands of the
Ohio and Mississippi valleys in the
early part of the nineteenth century. II
was this exodus in search of new, rich
and cheap lands that drained away so
rruch Of the rich red blood of the
Potomac and Patuxent valleys.
silas GiIlard Bryan final y settled AT
Salem IL where he was married to
Maria Eliza beth Jennings These We're
tte parents of William Jennings Bryan.
NOW. tie Rambler was told at Bryan
ttWn that II is a moral certainty that
" jllianl Bryan: who is heard OF In Cul-
' eper county. Va. about 17s5-17s0 was
csie Of the Maryland Bryans- 1t may
' % heen this Bryan. or it may have
be.en his father who left the Bryan
ls,.5-,e seat in southern Maryland. and
Lore is where the genealogist and his
''I.ssGles county and its parent county
{ the south. ST. Marys county. were
-, eouAtry when that part of Virginia
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Can 1t Be Cleaned for
the Panama Conal2
Big Contracts Under
Way = Yellow Fever
Now Raglng-The Bu-
bonic Plague and the
Terrible Rat-How the
City Looks-Its Big
Business in Ivory, Nuts
and Cacao-New Rail-
roads Which Will Con-
meet Quito With the
Amazon.
Copyrighted. 1919. Ly Frank -; Ca1pen,tr.t
CEAYaOI-IT I,cuador
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GCAYAQJIL. Ecuador
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Another grandson of old Mrs. Bryan
son of William Page Bryan-was Ar
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{ the south. ST. Marys county, were
-, ecgltry when that part of Virginia
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-12-18
Perpetual Motion.

Alderman Curran of New York city
worked his way through Yale college.
During his course, he was kept very
busy by the various jobs he did to help
with his expenses. On graduation, he
went to New York, and was even
buster than he had been in New Haven.
After some months of life in New
York, friend met him, and said:
Henry, what are you doing?"
81 have three jobs, replied Mr.. Cur
ran. Il am studying law, am news
paper reporter, and l am selling life
insurance"
How do you manage to get it all
in?" said the friend.
oh" replied Mr.. Curran, that's
easy enough. They're only eight-hour
Jobs. Youths Companion.
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large shallow tank is construct II
WHICH has wings of galvanized iron
The tank is filed with kerosene Tho
natives then start the drive three o"
tour miles away and close in gradual
ly, driving the grasshoppers befo e
them into the tank. The grasshoN
pers are then dried and sent to mar
ket.
II the Filipinos would use Profos-
sor Deans method of poisoned hra1
mash it would prove more effective
believes President Waters, than the
system which Is used.
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Russian Woman Martyr.

Mrs. Catherine Breshkovsky, known
as "Baboushka,' or grandmother to
the Russians. has been ordered to
some point on the arctic circle. after
having been imprisoned at Irkutsk for
trying to escape She is seventy years
old and was sentenced to the life Of
a convict because of her anarchistic
activities. Several years ago she
made a lecture tour of the United
States,
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keted in Manila in a year.

kcted in Manila in year.
There is grasshopper plague
every ten years in the Philippines"
said President Waters, "and the
problem of combating the grasshop.
pels in warm climate like the Phil
ippines Is more difficult THAI in coun.
tries where cold weather serves as
check.
There are many acres of unset
tied country which serve as breeding
places for the grasshopp 'rs Ths
method used in capturing the grass
hoppers is to organize a drive. A
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QUEER FOOD OF FlLIPINoS
Three Thousand Tons Of Dried Grass.
hoppers Marketed Annually In
Philippines.

Dried grasshoppers are used as
food in the Philippine islands," saiu
Henry Jackson Waters. president of
the college, in a talk before the agri.
cultural society of the Kansas State
Agricultural college. Three thou
sand tons Of grasshoppers are mar
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Louical.

Nurse-Goodness me, what ave you
been doing to your dolls?
Joan-Charley' killed them. He said
they were made in Germany, and how
were We to know they weren't spies?
Punch.
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Extravauant,

Clerk-Mr. Goldbug, as am to mar
ry, would like more salary.
Boss-How much more do you want?
Clerk-Ten dollars a week.
Boss-My gracious! How many
women are you going to marry?