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now tranSlatlng the notes | made on
horseback during the trip.
despair of making you see the won.
derful beauties of the peninsula. The
trip was through one little valley after
another. with the grandest of noun
tainS everywhere in sight. The valleys
are from a half mile to three miles in
width and are like great natural parks.
They are often covered with woods, but
the forest fires have cleared open
spaces, and it is easy to see that the
whole could be turned into farms. In
going through the valley / wound my
way along rushing streams. in which
great red salmon were battling against
the current, making their way over the
rocks and through the debris of dead
trees and floating brushwood. These
salmon were the color of beefsteak, and
they looked like streaks OF raw meat
flying along through the water. The
streams were Of the clearest crystal,
and. here and there. they made water
falls as they dashed down the hills.
In other parts of the journey / skirt
ed beautiful lakes so clear that the
their wonderful vegetation and curious
outlines, were reflected as though in a
looking glass. / wish l could have pho
tographed the colors. They made me
think of the paintings of the latest Ger
man art schools, where the pigment is
laid on in great patches with such
striking effects of light and shade.
The valleys of the peninsula seem to
be wonderfully fertile; About twelve
through a natural park of spruce. cot
tonwood and birches. rising out of
grass which in the open places reached
to my shoulders. This grass was as
green as that of the Nile valley. and
where the forest fires had destroyed the
trees 1t came through beds of fireweed.
making vast sheets of green busted
with pink. Some of the fireweed is
from six to eight feet in height. l have
M q "a
are nine feet from the ground to the
topmost flowers. l saw many berries
on the way across country. There were
high and low bush cranberries of bright
red. blueberries of deep purple and
salmonberries of a pale lemon color.
There were wild flowers of different va
rieties. and in places the woods were
carpeted with stunted tree ferns eight
or ten inches high. In some places the
forests are green, in others they are
frosted silver and in others dead white.
The green trees are alive. and the sill
yer and white ones are dead or dying
from forest fires. The dead forests are
as picturesque as the live ones. The
lacelike branches of the <pruce then
change to an ivory wilderness and they
look like exquisite carvings.
And then the live things we saw on
the journey I already have spoken of
the salmon. We could see the trout in
the streams. and 1 am told that all are
full of CRAWLING and other fine fish. I
met one man on the way who had
stopped for an hour at the head of
Trail lake and caught tWenty-Seven
trout. pulling them out as fast as he
could throw the line in. l could have
easily caught salmon and trout with
my hands in the smaller streams.
Now and then during the journey I
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family and referred to Judge Robert
Ould, son of Robert Ould. the brother OF
Henry Ould, who was associated with the
earliest educational activities of Wash
ington. Recently the Rambler met a law
yer. who as student read law in the
Office OF Judge Ould. That was just be-
fore the breaking out of the war between
the north and south, and Judge Ould s
office was then over the old banking
house of Corcoran & Riggs. To this
gentleman the Rambler is indebted for
the followings facts relating to Judge
Robert Ould:
Robert Ould. the elder. lived at the
corner Of 2Sth street and Dumbarton
avenue. in Georgetown. and Is buried in
the northwest section of Oak Hill ceme-
terry. where most of the older generation
OF Gecrgetownians lie at rest.
His son Robert was born in George
town in 1920 and graduated from the
Columbian College in 1889. Soon after
his graduation he was admitted to the
bar in this District and won high rank
in his profession. AS the Rambler has
already mentioned. he was recorder of
Georgetown for number of years.
That was an important ofice, having
been occupied by such men as John
Marshall CAN'T, one of the trustees to
whom the land to be occupied by the
federal district" was conveyed; Fran
els Scott Key, Judge James S. Morsell,
Judge James Dunlop, Judge Walter s.
of the town.
The recorder was not only the law
officer. but also the presiding officer
of the board of aldermen. On the
death of his intimate friend. Philip
Barton Key. at the hands of Daniel E.
Sickles in 1850 Robert Ou1d succeeded
him as United States district attorney,
and as such was prosecutor in the
sickles murder trial. In that trial he
bore himself among the distinguished
counsel with great ability, and many
sharp encounters occurred between
him and Edwin NJ. Stanton. counsel for
the prisoner Mr.. Ould charging Mr..
Stanton with having Carried on the
part. whether assigned to him or not.
as the bully and bruiser,' and referred
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wool is converted into guncotton sim
ply by sleeping it in nitric acid. The
cotton, containing carbon, corresponds
to the charcoal in gunpowder. and the
nitric acid. containing oxygen. CORE
spends to the saltpeter. During manu-
facture the cotton combines with the
nitric acid in such a way that the bulk
of the oxygen is more intimately asso-
ciated with the nitrogen and oxygen
present than with the carbon. But
this disposition is unstable. With
very slight inducement the oxygen
will desert it's associates and instan-
taneously combine with the carbon.
yielding in the process so much GAS
carbon monoxide and carbon-dioxide-
that the resultant explosion is about
a dozen times more powerful than the
explosion of the same weight of gum
powder.
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CONTINUED From Fourth Page.)
for the succeeding lectures by DR.. Will
ham Wallace Campbell. director of the
Lick Observatory Mount Hamilton. Cal.
VINO explained the principles of stellar
evolution and the development of nebu-
lous matter into solid bodies like this
planet
The third course. delivered at the last
annual meeting by Prof Thomas
chrowder Chamberlain of the Univer-
sity OF Chicago. carried the subjects
somewhat further. He took the earth
and traced its geologic history by show
ing how its surface features have been
altered during the flight of time by the
action Of gravity. fire. water and other
cosmic forces.
Further lectures will deal with or
ganic evolution and show the develop
ment of plant and animal life. The
evolution of man will form the subject
of subsequent course, and the series
Will be closed with an account Of the
rise of the earliest civiiza tions. bring
ing the history Of man and matter up
TO the present day.
The lecturer at the coming meeting
VIII be Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn.
president of the American Museum
of Natural History of New York.
He is an authority on the subjects of
paleontology, anatomy and biology
and holds distinguished associa tons
with scientific societies all over the
world. The subject to be treated by
Prof. Osborn is the origin and evolu-
ton c. life on the earth. Since il is
aimed in this series OF lectures to elimi-
nate all uuessential technicalities and
present the subjects clearly and intel
hgibly to general audiences, it is ex-
pected that the public interested in
the broader phases Of evolution will
be prompted to attend DIR. Osborn's
lectures, which are to be rnagnificently
illustrated. and which will be given at
the New National Museum Monday even
ing and Wednesday afternoon at 4
O'Clock
The medal of eminence in the appIi-
cation of science to the public well
dDwments. IL was provided through
the generosity of Mrs. Helen Hartley
Jenkins. in memory of her father. Every
year medal is presented for the rec
ognition Of exceptional achievement in
field which appeals alike TO patriotism
and scientific ideals. Awards Of this
medal have already been made to Col
George w. Cocktails and Gen William
Gorgas for their distinguished serv-
ice in engineering and sanitation in
building the Panama canal and two
awards will be made this year
II is the purpose OF this medal to
mark the appreciation of the National
Academy for services TO the public
which are performed without a view of
great financial reward. but with aims
that are truly scientific. and at the
same time OF high service to mankind.
The Watson medal for distinction in
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A Bore.

Id G. woDEHoUsE. the English
U. humorist, has been doing of late
some theatrical criticism in New York.
Mr.. Wodehouse went the other even
ing to criticise the first performance of
a play that turned out to be a great
bore.
He sat in his chair sitting yawn after
yawn behind his white-gloved palm
Finally, as he stif1ed his eighteenth or
twentieth yawn. he muttered to his
companion:
This dramatic criticism is what !
call a hand-to-mouth existence"
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new kind of guns that began to be
used after the Crimean war Then the
cannon had smooth bore, were COM
paratively short and fired a spherical
shot. 1t came to he generally recog-
nized that by making shot to spin
while it flew its course was much
straighter. and to make the shot spin
spiral grooves were cut inside the bar
rel and the shot was elongated to the
now familiar projectile form, with d
band of soft metal around it to engage
smoothly with the rifling and SO to ro-
tate the shot.
To be effective a rifed gun needs to
be pretty long in proportion to i,s
bore. and gunpowder is unsuited to a
long gun. This is because gunpowder
explodes SO rapidly that the maximum
propelling pressure is developed long
before the projectile reaches the muz-
projectile had begun to move very
quickly. After that point not only does
the projectile not acquire any increase
in speed, but it is positively retarded
by the friction between 1t and the gun.
This was at first to some extent got
over by COMPRISING the gunpowder
into solid slabs. Just as scraps of pa
per burn quickly and solid book can
be burnt with difficulty. SO the slabs of
gunpowder exploded relatively slowly.
AS the speed of the projectile rose COM
bustion was still going on to increase
its speed all the way to the muzzle.
Next. the slabs or disks were succeeded
by prism shaped blocks with a central
hole. Combustion was started inside
the hole only, and as the mass burned
away the amount of surface exposed to
combustion became greater and great
er until the outer surface was reached.
Thus the rate at which gas was evolved
increased in something like the rate at
increased, so that the pressure did not
fall until the projectile left the muzzle.
At the same time the initial stress try
ing to burst the gun before the pro-
je0tile could begin to move was much
reduced. However, these stresses were
still too great in the larger guns then
coming into use, and some further
change became necessary.
Mechanical lodges having failed to
tame" the powder sufficiently, chemi-
cal means were tried. The first step
in this direction was the change from
black to brown powder-"cocoa pow
der" In this the charcoal was made
proportion of saltpeter was Increased
and the sulphur reduced. This brown
powder was found to burn more slowly
than the black, and it yielded only to
explosives in which the ingredients
were chemical compounds instead of
mechanical mixtures.
The best known Of these compounds
is guncotton. which is roughly typical
of the whole class. 1t was invented or
discovered long ago-about 1S32-but
not until much later was 1T made really
suitable for guns. Ordinary cotton
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K@mai Peninsula Opened by New Railroad.

started up covies of grouse Some of
the birds were big chicken.
They ran along in front of my horse for
hundreds of feet like so many turkeys.
They did not seem to be much afraid,
and it was though j We're driving
them i saw also ptarmgan and at a
cabin at Mile IA, where ] stopped for
dinner, a miner cooked for me some
ptarmigan he had just killed.
Later / saw the tracks of brown
bear here and there on the trail. and
once or twice scared up porrupines
which scuttled away through the
grass. My guide told me to be careful
not to ride over a porcupine. saying
that the animal is sure to lame the
horses, if stepped on. The porcupine
shoots it's quilts into the flesh at such
times, and if not pulled out at once the
horse soon becomes unfit for travel.
The 'porky'' will shoot its quilts into
a man if he stumbles upon it in walk
ing, and if the quilts are not pulled
out they are liable to work their way
through the flesh. travelling about like
needle that finds its way unbe-
known into ones body.
The kenai peninsula has some Of
the best moose pastures of Alaska. It
has hundreds of moose and the moose
are increasing in number notwith-
standing the hunters who come here .
to shoot big game and carry home the
antlerS as trophies. 1t is no trouble to-
get deer or moose horns in this part of
the world. l have seen moose antlers
that measure siXty-six inches between
the tips of the horns and have had my
self photographed with them to show
what mighty Nimrod 1 am. l will not
say who killed the moose.
During my stay at Sunrise l have had
plenty of fresh game to eat. We have
had roast and broiled moose and Carl
bou steak with wild cranberries on the
side. Wild fowl is plentiful and there
are excellent fish from Six Mile river
and Turnagain Arm. Now and then
bear meat is brought in, and at times
one can get mountain sheep. The bear
meat is not popular. 1t tastes like
tough beef. The mountain sheep is
the most delicious of all the game
found in Alaska.
The most of the food used here comes
from the wildS. 1t can be had for the
taking and this makes the cost of liv-
ing comparatively cheap. On my way
north over the railway / rode with a
miner who told me that he and his
partner had fed well for two weeks on
$1s0 worth of flour and bacon. in addi-
ton to the fish and game they had
caught. During that time they covered
about twenty-five square miles looking
for gold, and nowhere were they unable
to get ptarmigan and fresh mountain
trout. ] met them later on the trail
They had packs on their backs, and were
along at the rate of four miles
per hour. AS I passed them they offered
me a grouse for my supper. saying they
had already killed fourteen. and had
taken a big trout from Trail lake. This
was enough meat for the two for week
and it was all caught within three hours
after leaving the railway.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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1oH1lnued from Sixth PageD
sides of the green, below the snow line
you can see the trails made by the
mountain sheep. The lake is as clear
as crystal, and it mirrors it's surround
ings.
A little farther on is Trail lake
which should say is eight or ten
miles in length and which. like kenai
AXE. is full of salmon trout, bass and
srayling. The salmon-trout of Renal
are caught by the thousand and dried
for dog feed. They sell for cents a
pound
1t was at Mile 90 that left the rail-
road and took horses to go across
country to Sunrise. At that place is
Oscar Christiansen's roadhouse. Oscar
is willy Swede who has a half dozen
horses, which he rents out for all that
the traffic will bear. He charged me
Sic a day for two horses and guide,
and told me that 1 could pick up the
guide on the way. / picked him up
long after dark, and we had terrible
time finding the trails.
Before leaving l dined at the road
house. The meal was moose meat or
Alaska beef cooked over the Goals by a
six-foot pioneer. His kitchen stove
was a range made at Hamilton, Ohio,
and In the living room adjoining were
chairs and tables and rosewood VIC
trola with several dozen records on top.
There were flowers in the windows.
Around the wall were spring beds.
The stove of the living room was a
section of hydraulic pipe as big around
as a flour barrel, with legs of gas pipe.
1t was long enough to take in a whole
stick of cord wood.
Leaving the roadhouse, I started out
through the forest and spent the bet
ter part of two days in getting to Sun
rise. The horses were fairly good, but
the saddles were eXcruciating am
accustomed to riding. l cover about
fifteen hundred miles every winter in
the parks about Washington city, and
usually ride ten or fifteen miles every
day. 1 have an English saddle. and
can be on horse for hours without
firing. 1t was different in this ride
across kenai. Our horses were broad
backed Percherons. and the saddles
were a -pommeled variety, SO made
that they threw one far to the front.
1t was like sitting on saWbuck with
ill-f1tting stirrups. 1t brought an en-
tire new set of muscles into play and
gave me the sensations and pains of
the man who takes long ride for
the first time. 1 found it impossible
to go off a walk. and when we came to
mining camp. after fifteen hours in
the saddle. I was SO stiff that had to
be lifted from the horse. The next day
I walked part of the way and had to
be lifted off and on to the horse when
ever / rode.
During the journey we thought. we
were lost. The guide failed to turn up.
as expected. and when he did SO he
took us along the sides of cliffs, over
a trail where the forest fires had made
it exceedingly dangerous, and where
ness, with no telling what might be on
the opDOSfte side, i slept the clock
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TRAIL THROUGH THE WOODS.

run from branch the Rambler does
not know. Generally creek is larger
than run, and generally run is larg-
er than a branch, but many runs are
larger than many creeks and many
branches are larger than many runs.
and some branches are larger than
some creeks.
Scots run pours into the Potomac
six miles above the Chain bridge. Its
numerous feeders rise in the country
northeast of the Alexandra and Lees
burg turnpike in the vicinity of Tyson
Cross Roads and Peach Grove hill. 1t
flows north, passing to the west OF
Lewinsvil1e, crosses the Leesburg and
Georgetown turnpike at Swink's mill,
at the west base of Prospect hill. Then,
for a mile, it flows in increasing vol
ume through fine wild woods, and.
plunging into a deep gorge which 1t
has cut for itself during the course of
many centuries, it foams in number
OF cascades and leaps Off Cliff. Then
1T joins the river. The junction OF
SCOTS run and the river is called Stub
blefield Falls, a point in the environs
of Washington known. to some fisher
men and to the jewellers in the country
tributary to Scptts run.
Where the great river rushes past the
mouth Of SCOTS run a few jagged gray
rocks jut above the surface and the trou-
bled water shows that rock masses lie not
far below the surface. The water whirls
and eddies furously there and at seasons
of low water the obstructing rock masses
cause a. cascade in the river. Now
whether that is "Stubblefield Falls or
whether Stubblefield Falls is the point
within the gorge of Scots run where the
waters plunge over a cliff the Rambler
does not now know Nobody lives nearby
and in that rocky spot where the run
roared through its gorge the Rambler met
no man to ask 4 question CT
North of the pike and along .he cast
side of che run the rock hills and SPLEEN
did woods are owned, according to the last
survey examined by the Rambler. by the
Langley. Land Company. For Il thouss nd
yards north of tho pike and on the west
side OF the run the land is that of the
r. D. Evans estate and from the north
line of that property to the Potomac river
is another large tract belonging to the
Langley Land Company.
on the northwest and having long 'front.'
age on the river, extending from near the
mouth Of Scots run to the mouth Of Bull
Neck run, is property marked in the name
of E. w. LIN. East Of the land COM
pany's tract is narrow strip of land be-
longing to Sallie = Ball; east Of that
strip is block of land extending from
the pike to the river. belonging to W. S.
Ball, and east of the Ball tract is 4 two
hundred-acre tract marked or the plat as
belonging to DIR. Loren b. +. Johnston.
West of SCOTS run and between the pike
and the river are large tracts laid down
on the plat as The property Of Mrs. c. Hell
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1.-The writer's object is not to attempt
but to apprise the public that there
exists such an interesting object of at
traction here at our very doors yet
wholly unknown. Here. Nature as
though expressly for the accommoda-
tion of picnic parties, has constructed
tables from her everlasting rocks and
surrounded them with ottomans that
would well adorn the portico or even the
parlor of a prince
In note in the writing of Joshua
PIERCE. attached to the above, was the
following:
He Cthe hermit Dice or Tice) was
supposed by many who knew him to
have been an officer in the Hessian
army sent out to aid the British king
during the American revolution. but
nothing of his history or the cause of
his seeking hermit's life was ever re-
vealed by him.
HE died he lived, not unattended
by some of the humane of the neighbour
hood. but obstinately adherinG to his
sheltering rocks in preference to the
more suitable accommodations prepared
for the occasion near at home.
While the Rambler recalls Joshua
PIERCE. he also recalls that a few days
after writing the story of Joshua PIERCE
klingle. who inherited Linnean Hill. he
received the following letter, which con-
tains an interesting fact
ut was with great deal of interest
that / read your article in Sundays
Star. but j would like to set you right
as to Mrs. Klingle's maiden name.
Mrs. klingle was a Miss Laura Tier
was Mrs. Gay Robertson Herman. Her
old home was called Gay Mont. II is
still in possession of the family and
is situated near Port Royal Virginia"
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~ Colts RUN is one of those
~ numerous, almost numberless,
branches that drain the coun-
W try around Washington and add
their waters to the Potomac. These
streams form noteworthy feature of
the District of Columbia and its parent
states and contribute to the charm and
variety of the local near-local topog-
raphy. They have generally carved for
themselves deep and winding valleys,
and as rule these valleys take on
the abrupt form of gorges. where they
pass through the ridges which bound
the upper Potomac. These watercourses
are called Creeks runs and
branches" and here and there is one
that is called brook" The word
brook" has strong literary associa-
tons and particularly strong associa-
ton with the poetic form of literature.
1t is also a word that is more used in
the north than in the south.
The best known brooks in the
neighborhood of Washington are Little
Falls brook and Willetts brook. Little
Falls brook furnished the first water
that was turned into the Washington
conduit before the conduit had been
completed from Great Falls. Its waters
were impounded in that reservoir
across which the northwest boundary
line of the District passes and which is
called the receiving reservoir. When
the water came down from Great
Falls, Little Falls brook continued to
pour itself into the receiving reservoir.
But it's watershed coming to be set
tied by men it's waters were polluted
and they tainted the Washington water
supply. or additionally tainted it, for
the river itself was polluted.
After long discussion and much work
recurring engineering skill Little Falls
brook was excluded from the reservoir.
1t was made to fall into deep shaft
outside of the reservoir. then to pass
through a deep tunnel and discharge
itself into the Potomac. flowing under
the Conduit road and the Chesapeake
and Ohio canal.
The other brook" Willetts, flows in
to the upper or northern end of Little
Falls brook. 1t rises in the highlands
south and west of Bethesda, and flows
southerly, generally paralleling the
Georgetown branch of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad. and crosses the
River road, or is crossed by the River
road. trif1e less than two miles west
of Tenleytown.
All the other minor watercourses
around Washington are called runs
branches and creeks" What dis
tinguishes creek from run and a
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Recollections of Robert Ould.

A FEW weeks ago the Rambler wrote
~ an extended account Of the Guild