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PICTURESQUE LANE NEAR FOUR CORNERS.

liam Carroll. 17se-1s55; George A. Car
roll. NJ. D.. who departed this life 18th
July. 1s4s. aged fifty-six years: and
tombs Sacred to the memory of Ann
Carroll born April :. 1777; died July 80.
1867" and Sacred to the memory of
Elizabeth pigges Carroll. born August 4.
1853: died January 81. 1s43.' Close by is
the grave Of Daniel Carroll. who died
June 10, 1890
In this churchyard was erected what
is believed to be the first Catholic
church which the secular clergy of that
church esta blished in the colony of
Maryland. It was built on the land of
Eleanor Carroll, the mother of John
Carroll and about half A mile from the
Carroll homestead. The Rambler does
not at this writing know whether the
house is standing. but he means TO
make further inquiries along this line
When the Rambler loitered in the
churchyard of old St Johns the day
was too far spent and leg-Wearfness
deferred him from going further.
1t is necessary now to go back to the
story of John Carroll who became
distinguished prelate and conspicuous
american patriot in the pre-reVolu-
tionary and the revolutionary period.
January s, 1735. Upper Marlborough Is
the same village, the county seat or
Prince Georges county. which so many
Washington motorists know simply as
Marlboro 1t was Upper Marlboroush,
because farther down the Patuxent
there was an older settlement called
Marlborough. and of which there are
now but few traces. The house at
Marlborough at which John Carroll was
born was standing a few years ago
when the Rambler was better ac-
ouainted down that way than he is
now, but he purposes soon to make an
other pilgrimage there.
The father of the famous John Carroll
was Daniel Carroll, son of heane car
roll This Daniel Carroll came to Mary
land soon after the opening of the
eighteenth century, and he was k1ns-
man of that family of CAROLS which
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for st. omer in French Flanders his
father, Daniel Carroll. died and his
mother and her family removed to an
estate on Rock creek at what is now
Forest Glen and other suburbs of Wash
ington in that vicinity. Father John.
taking leave of Richland, drove to his
mothers new home and settled there.
The Catholic Church in Maryland had
fallen on distressing times. The RAM
bier has read that in 1858 Father
George Hunter was superior of the
missions of Maryland and Pennsylva-
MIA, the only priests in MARYLAND under
his charge being James Asobey.- Arnold
Livers. Matthew Manners. Augustine
F'rambach, John Williams. James Pei
lentz. John Lewis. Frederick Leonard.
Lewis Roels. Joseph Moseley. James
Walton. Peter Morris, James Beadnall
and Robert Molyneux.
About the time of the coming of
Father John Carroll the Rambler finds
the names of these priests In Maryland
in addition to those of 1865: Ignatius
Matthews, John Lucas. Joseph Doyne.
George Ashton and Thomas DiggeS.
The Catholic churches were few and
poor, and so far as the Rambler knows
the only churches of this faith in
Maryland were at Port Tobacco. st.
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sisters. The first of the boys was Hen
nv. who was drowned while a school
boy. Then came Daniel, Ann, John. Ell
len, Mary and Betsy. Ellen became
the wife of William Brent of Virginia,
who had d great estate on Aqua creek
near it's entrance to the Potomac.
John Carroll after his course at st.
Omer studied for the priesthood at
Liege and was orda ined in 1883. He re-
turned to st. Omer as professor of phi
losophy and theology He renounced
all claim to his fathers property in
the interest of his brothers and sisters
and took his final vows as a member
of the Society of Jesus. He became a
professed father February 2, 1l11.
ANY reader desirous of pursuing the
career of Father John Carroll further
will find plenty of matter relating to
him in the Library of Congress. John
C;iImary Shea wrote an excellent life of
Archbishop Carroll in 1888. and in this
book is sketched the trials and dis
tresses of the Jesuits in England.
France and finally in Austrian Elan
ders and the dissolution of the society
by Pope Clement XIV in 1913. Father
Carroll Travelled throughout Europe.
but the sounds Of the approa ching
storm in the American colonies had
reached him. He went to England and,
bearing faculties as a secular priest
granted by the vicar apostolic of Lon
don, sailed from England and in June,
1I74, landed at Richland. which was
the name of the estate of his brother
in-law, William Brent. at Aqua creek
and the Potomac river.
Soon after John Carroll left America
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1nigoes. Newton, Whitemarsh, Melwood.
Tuckahoe. Frederick and Bohemia.
Boon's Chapel. near Barlboro, was still
in existence. Some of these geograph-
ical names have disappeared and have
been replaced by others.
In the neighborhood to which Johns
mother and sisters had removed, on
Rock creek. were a number of Catho-
lie families. and these were served by
a priest who came a intervals from
st. Thomas Church, on Port Tobacco
creek. Father John drew around him
a little congregation, and it grew so
that it was soon deemed desirable to
erect a special building. That build
ing was erected on his mothers land.
half mile from her house, and stood
in the grounds now covered with tomb
stones and in which the Rambler made
the notes from which he is writing
this account. The little church, frame
structure-was called st. Johns. The
first church became too old and was
replaced by another. and that in its
turn. becoming too old, was replaced
by the present handsome structure, on
the corner stone of which is the date
"1S93,' and over the door of which is
a stone tablet inscribed ITO the Mem
DRY OF Rev. John Carroll, D. D.. First
Pastor of St. Johns; First Bishop of
Baltimore" There may have been
more than three st. Johns on this site,
and the Rambler, seeking information.
knocked at the door of the parish
priest, the Rev. Charles o. Rosensteel,
but he was not at home.
From pastor of St. Johns, Father
John Carroll advanc rapidly in church
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honors. At the close of the American
revolution the Catholics Of the. United
States were anxious to be freed from
the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the
vicar apostolic of London and so petit
toned the Pope. The papal nuncio at
Paris conferred with Benjamin Frank
lin and the result of this conference
was that Father John Carroll was ap-
pointed superior of the Catholic clergy
in the United States. That was in 1854.
The bishopric of Baltimore was created
in 1888 and John Carroll was conse-
Grated at London in 1890 bishop of the
first Catholic diocese in the United
States. That diocese then embraced all
the United States. The Catholics in
the United States increased rapidly and
the archepiscopal see Of Baltimore was
created in 1905 with John Carroll as
archbishop.
John Carroll, the founder of that little
church at Forest Glen, was one of the
big men in a civil as we'll rs an &C.
clesiastical sense in the early years
of the American republic. BY all the
standards by which greatness is meas
ured he was a great man. He was a
constructive force in his own church
and probably did more than any other
man OF his time for Catholic institu-
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Ono after another they see promising
men run their erratic courses through
the headlines and then shrlTel and
waste away. Sooner than other men
they detect the early manifestations OF
the disease and among themselves fore
cast the end; but the remedy they are
poWerless to apply
And in saying all this I am by no
means denouncfng or dlscredlt1ns le-
gitimate publicity. l believe in pub
licity, both as a newspaper man ana
an official: but there is such wide and
distressing difference between lesiti-
mate publicity and dreadful publicitis
Publicity is giving to the public actual
facts about affairs and men In which
the public has a legitimate interest and
ought to know. Publicitis is a state of
degenerate vanity which leads men to
abuse, degrade, pervert and vuigarize
legitimate publicity through desire
for personal exploitation.
at is perfectly human and perfectly
proper that a normal man should nave
a pride in his good work. and that ne
should desire the world to know MIN
through his good work. But puollcitls
does not work along those lines or to
that end. The man with publicitis pri-
marily does not seek to be known
through his good work. He just seeks
to be known He Is willing to let the
good work go to the bowwows. Him
self - his own Importance - personal
prominence, is what he yearns for
His work is secondary. or OF no I'M
portance at all. He makes use or IL
only as a vehicle upon which he may
ride into the limelight. He manlpu-
lates his job and his official acts IN
such a way as to force himself Into the
forefront, and that's as FAR as MS OF
ficial conscience or responsibility goes.
I'm the very nature of things such a
course is bound to destroy d man
usefulness and discredft him In the eyes
of the world. A natural conclusion is
that such a course would be taken only
by weak mana man of pronounced
limitations and exaggerated ego. Ana
therein lies the most serious phase OF
publicitis. Like typhus or cholera, 1t
is no respecter of persons. 1t attacks
the strong and weak alike. About the
only difference between publicltis and
other plaques Is that when strong
man dies of typhus or cholera he has a
fine funeral and his friends weep ana
put up a costly monument to his MEM
ory. But when a man falls a victim
to dread publicitis. he just fades into
Oblivion and is forgotten.
And that is the way In which the old
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smother snn. alarmed b. his sisesf's screams. rag
into the sick chambex, seised Rayne end forced
him out but not before the asAihnf had
Nashed his head and faos.
Payne escaped. and soma tine fansR went to
the Slrratt houss. arrtving there tust ths 60
cupsnss Of the bcuss had been arrested. Be vas
then taken prisoner"
Payne was one of the four han1ed In
the arsenal grounds for participation
in the assassination conspiracy. His
right name WAS Lewis Thornton Pow
ell. and he was tho son of a clergy
man. For some reason which the Ram
bier has not asceTtained ne called him
self Lewis Payne He served in thu
Confederate army from the outbreak of
the war until the battle OF Gettysburr.
where he was wounded and ia ken pris
oner. He was sent to a military hos
pital in Baltimore. and on recovering
escaped. and, reaching Virginia. ~e-en
tered the Confederate service. In Jan
nary. 1855. he deserted and returned
to Baltimore. He was without none
or a place to sfeep when Booth met him
in Washin gton's sister city and enlisted
him IN the mad scheme to abduot Pres.
ident Lincoln. which scheme developed
into the murder plot.
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BYRON n. NEWTON,
Assistant Secretary of Treasury.

shows an inclination to give publicity
to something merely for the purpose
of attracting attention to himself that
the reporter says to him: Look here.
my friend. don't you think it would
be better to let this matter so out as
straight away statement Of news and
leave the personal phase out OF 1t,
at least for the time being
III the victim isn't too far gone he
sometimes takes the reporters counsel
and let's his official work speak for it
self. or prints nothing at all. But If his
case has become chronic he ignores the
good advice and sends for a sensational
cub reporter. who will not only be glad
of all the yellow copy he can get. but
will be glad of photograph and bi-
ographical sketch to go with it.
NO man in America today is better
judge Of public men. their ability and
their frailties than experienced Amer
lean newspaper man: and no class OF
men so intimately and exactly appre-
cate the peril and extent of publicitis,
Day by day they are compelled to
watch Its slow but sure process of de-
struction in the systems Of strong men.
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south and two at the north side. The
main door was In the middle of the
front, with one window on each side.
The grounds were inclosed with a pick
ct fence and big trees grew in the lot
at the. south of the house.
John G. Nico1ay and John Hay. in
their liIe of Abraham Lincoln, tell at
considerable length the story Of the
murderous assault on Secretary Sew
ard, and the following - extracted
from that book:
Booth had done his work eh8cientfy. His
Payne. had acted with equal audacity and
cruelty. but not with equally fatal results. he
had made a shambfes of the residence Of the
Secretary Of State. but among all his maneled
victims there was not one killed.
At O'Clock that night he received his Anal
orders from Booth. who placed in his hands q
prescription. and taught him his lesson. At
precisely the same moment when Booth entered
door Of Mr.. Stewards residence in Lafayette
square.
ger from the attending physician, and demanded
immediate access to the sckroom Of the Secretary.
Mr. Seward had been thrown from his carriage
had been fractured. The servant at the door
tried to prevent Payne from going up the stairs.
but he persisted, and the noise the two man
made in mounting the steps brought his son,
Frederick W. Seward. out into the hall
The Secretary had been very restless md
Sleep Fearing that this restorative slumber
might be broken Frederick Seward came out
to check the intruders. He met PAYNE at the
head of the stairs and after hearing his story
babe him go. Offering himself to take charge Of
the medicine.
Payne seemed for an instant to give up his
purpose in the face of this unexpected obstacle.
but suddenly turned and rushed furiously upon
1t missed fire and he then began beating him On
the head with it, tearing his scalp and frac-
turing his skull.
Still struggling, the two came tp the Sec
retarys room, and fell together through tho door.
Frederick Seward unconscious and remained
SO for several weeks
Payne attacked Sergt. G. F. Robinson, the
Se1etary's soldier nurse. with q knife struck
terrible wounds in the Secretary's neck and
cheek. It was then that Col. Augustus Seward
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Dsndelion-Yellow Peril.

HE dandesion sp9ing display /. on
u in full and yellow bloom. NAM
lawns are but dandelion beds. or. to n.
accurate, what should be lawns what
might be lawns and perhaps what ono.
we're lawns are now dandelion beds ard
are becoming more so. The dandelion
possesses q magnificent golden color,
but yellow Is the sign Of plague
So far as the Rambler knows. no poet
has gone 80 far sstraY from the facts
to write of the modest. shrinking
dandelion."
There are few fowers-there are no
other fowers-with the persistence. ef
frontery and determination which nils
the soul of the dandelion. 1t will take
hold of a taxpayers lawn. or tax
dodgers lawn. just as though it carried
in it's leaves deed in fee to the prop
erty. No dandelion ever walked up 10
the front door, rang the doorbeil and
asked permission to take possession of
the lawn. 1t operates by an underhand
or underground method. One little dan
delion unfurls its yellow flag. 1t is the
pitiless, remorseless dandeltons. Be
fore you realize 1t the dandelion has
got your little lawn by the throat or the
neck. Wherever the dandelion sets its
Aroused by the invasion and by the
outcries of your lawn, perhaps you may
arm yourself with table knife, and
with this trusty blade, that has served
tough chicken and rubber steak. yor
go forth to meet the dandelions. The,
laugh at you, One old dandelion, big
ger, stronger and ranker than the res
evidently dandelion of some stand
ing in that horde Of yellow perf.s-ltffs
up his Eolden-crowned head. and
speaking to the other dandelions. says;
"Fellow- behold you. stalk
ing down the lawn, a creature who's"
little finger is thicker than the stalk
OF the sturdiest dandelion in our midst :
He is armed with q falchion or cla'
more longer than any dandelion ieaf
that ever grew since there were giant
dandelions upon the earth. with thht
dread blade he would stab you in the
tap root and leave your zanthus, now
erets and emerald foliage to wtther
But be not alarmed. We may suffer
some losses, but for every dandelion
hundred dandelions will take its place.
Brave dandelions, We have selected
this fair lawn, among many others, as
a proper and a fitting place for settle
ment ard for the beneht OF our race.
These blades OF grass are too feeble to
resist us. and. therefore. II is meet that
they should perish This monster with
the knife may cut the throats OF few
of us, but revenge Will be ours He
has been reading some bulletins put
out by the bureau of soils on how to
exterminate dandelions! Cloud and
prolonged laughter.) We never have
been exterminated! We cannot be ex-
terminated! No sofl scientists shall
extirpate us with a bulletin! No mad
man with table knife shall stay our
conquest, (CheerA) This lawn and
all other lawns belong to us, and II the
citizens of Washington do not like
dandelions, they can move"
This speech by tho old dandelion
reused the thousands OF other dande-
lions to . high pitch of enthusiasm and
there was a great clapping Of petals.
One little dandelion on the edge Of the
crowd leaned over to the Rambler and
whispered: Every word our leader
has said is true"
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who had sent for him had been fired.
leaving the youth to the tender mercies
of that nastfly sarcastic city editor.
After those sad weeks of failure New
ton went hack to Wellsville, where he
remained for nearly a year, when an
other offer came to him, this time to
go to Buffalo paper. He went. Fiji
teen dollars a week was the salary Of
fered. 1t seemed princely.
For ten months he worked, and then
the management insisted that he do
the political reporting. Here he buck
ed. True, he had commercialiZed his
muse, but he could not bring himself
to do politics, sordid and unworthy and
reprehensible as he deemed that line
of endeavor.
Scornfully he threw up his prince1y
SIS week and got a job on another
Buffalo pa6er That was in 1887. BY
1891 he had become known as the best
political reporter IN Buffalo, and the
old paper hired him back at more than
double his old salary. to do politics and
nothing else.
bany correspondent of that Buffalo
paper, putting himself in the front
rank Of state political writer's
When the Spanish-Amerfcan war
came the Associated Press seized on
him as a valuable man, and through
that war he was employed as a war
correspondent for the great organiza-
ton in Cuba. After the peace he re-
turned to his Albany correspondence,
and eventually he was taken to New
York by one of the big newspapers of
that city. It was there his chief repu
tation was made.
It was Newton who. as New York
reporter. went down into North Caro-
lima. where. in great secrecy, the
Wrights were conducting their first
early experiments with heavfer-than-
air flying machines; and he secured
the first detailed story Of the new prin-
ciple in aerial navigation that was be-
ing developed. Hiding out in the sand
dunes, watching the flights, bringing
reading, Newton learned just what was
being done and told the world. a
warm friendship between him and the
Wrights presently grew up. Newton
paper, took many flights, became an
authority on the subject. wrote exten-
sively about it-and then went back
to writing politics.
campaign began did he quit newspaper
work to practice politics himself. He
Joined the Wilson organization. took
a large part in the fight to nominate
" lisou anu III tuc iiatioHdi cam
pafgn that followed. and then, on the
forming of the administration, he
came to Washington as private secre-
tary to Secretary McAdoo of the Treas
ury Department. Presently he won
promotion to the assistant secretary
ship.
When Mr.. McAdoo was in the hos
pital recently, accustoming himself to
the removal of his vermiform appen-
dix, Mr.. Newton was acting secretary
of the treasury, at the head of the
great financial branch of the public
service, with all it's manifold activities
From a fifteen n-do1lar-a-week reporter
to the control of Uncle Sans cash re-
sources, 1t has been a remarkable
flight. ASHMUN BROWN.
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CIT was at the conclusion of his first
days newspaper work in New York
city. For try-outothe city editor
& had put him sensational suicide
casa dissipated Young clubrnan had
blown out his brains in Union Square.
Three hours had been consumed in find
ing Union Square and the story that had
been produced was far. far from being
the journalistic triumph the fiction writ
ers always ascribe to the cub reporters s
first effort
"Ah,'' remarked the city editor, suaveiy.
as the youngSter came to the desk in re-
sponse TO a call. do you know there are
many lines of useful endeavor in the city
of New York besides newspaper work .:
He was one of the hastily sarcastic
sort. was this city editor.
And do you know he went on. that
every young man should seek that occu-
patton for which ne is mentally best fit
ted? Now, ] have observed your work
todsa and | have come to the conclusion
that you would make brilliant grocer.
but as a newspaper man you will never
be success. Good day, sir.
Then the cub reporter ooZed out of the
door, found his way to the s1.50-a-week
room he had rented in Brooklyn, lighted
his oil lamp and dried and warmed his
soaked feet over the flame as he sat on
the edge of his bed and thought. 1t was
not what might be termed auspicious
beginning of journalistic career.
II won't be a brilliant grocer 80 was the
angry conclusion that was reached when
the heat Of the lamp got in its work. IN
show him 80
Now, to make the story complete, it
should be related that he did show the
nastily sarcastic city editor that by mas
terly efforts he presently rose TO be man
aging editor, maSnanimousiy retained the
city editor on the payroll. married the
publishers daughter. inherited the busi-
ness and swiftly rose to fame and fortune
But truth will not permit. As a matter OF
TACT, the nastily sarcastic city editor
after the cub had wrest!ed manfully for
weeks. finally got his goat and the boy
returned to his home at ~ellsville, n Y
broken. shamed and abashed. failure. to
take back his old patty job on the little
local daily.
IL was in this way that Byron New
ton, now assistant secretary Of the
Treasury. began his career as news
paper reporter. While he never show
ed" that particular city editor. he did
show other city editors and showed
them to such an extent that eventually
ne was cditu tnt bcst IcpoFLeF III We"
York IL was the excellence of his
work as reporter that led him to his
present highly responsible position in
the federal government
Many newspaper men. called. have
been honored by high Office in the fed
,ral government in times past, hui
newspaper man is a broad term. ii
snight mean a wealthy newspaper pro
prietor with craving for political of
nee: or il might mean one who edttet
q political sheet early in his life be
man The term reporter" is narrower
and more definite. One who ie caliet
merely q reporter IL sure -enough
honest t-to-goodness newspaper man al