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mountains. They remind one of q
heecy girdle running around the waist
of the mountains.
Crossing the boundary into Alaska,
the first settlement is an Indian VIII
lage, above which, on a pole erected
beside log church, floats the American
flag. Nearby may be seen the black
mast of the wireless station. the first
outpost of the Signal Corps of our
army. whose telegraph system covers
the greater part of the territory; and
still farther on is Eagle. the first
American town on the Yukon. Eagle
prides itself on Its Americanfsm. 1t
has a poem. celebrating the advantages
Of Alaska over Canada, which was pre-
pared as a greeting for the tourist on
crossing the boundary. l give you
part of one verse:
You may here forget there are crowns and kings.
Ladies' In waiting and such like things;
For now you are under the Eagles wings.
As 1t was, we could sec the Amer
loan nags Of Eagle. even before we
caught sight of the houses. Every
cabin has a tall nagstaff attached to
its roof. and from the Yukon I count
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great effect and the galley was captured
with the loss Of three of her crew, one of
whom was her commander, Lieut.. War
rem. The survivors were taken prisoners
to st. Mary's.
The name of Claiborne's commander
Lieut.. Ratcliffe Warner and the name of
the pinnace was the Cockatrice. The
names of Corvallis vessels were the st.
Helen and the st. Margaret.
On a hill near Glymont and having as
fine an outlook on the Potomac as Mount
Vernon stands the Pye house to which
the Pye family gave the name Tranquil
lily. 1t Is the belief of the Rambler
that this house was once in the possession
Of the Chapman family and is now in pos
session OF a member OF the Smoot family.
but this is matter for future investigation.
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and achieves. the decadence of a fam
NY And such a family! Eleven of
them: the children of an easT-going
English squire and a hopelessly femi-
nized mother. In a most pRrural COM
pick of interests, one common to the
English country life of this class, the
story progresses, the reader not quite
conscious at first, certainly, that this
is downhill road. SO slight is the
steady decline, SO familiar and unsus-
pected are the elements of decay that
exist within the family. Having dis
covered these elements. and having de-
cided to make use of them for the pur-
poses Of this novel, the writer never for
a moment turns aside to avoid. or to
beg of. from the course set by the
facts Of this family inheritance and
upbringing. Steadily; and even ruth
lessly, one after another of the eleven
children recede from any promise that
childhood and their inherited place in
tae world might seem to offer them
The family potentialities Of decay are
Irresistible, and the writer stands by
them. One is absorbed in this family
circle, in the various personalities. in
the round of English sports, in the
haphasard of home life. Indeed. so
completely are his affections engaged
s~sses him. heart and SOUL over the
pity of the whole tragic affair.
very distinguished piece of novel
writing.
WHITE ARRIVES: A Novel. By Elias
Tobenkin. Frontispiece by ]. Henry.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes
Company.
This is the story OF a Jewish immigrant
family in America. 1t is both story and
picture. a finely realistic picture Of the
home life Of Aaron and Masha Witkowsk.
with their three children and the neigh
borhood friends Of their own race. The
narrative follows these alien Jews in their
progress toward Americanism, depicting
with rare sympathy and comprehension
the opening of their minds and hearts to-
ward the ideals and attitudes of their
new freedom, toward the responsibilities
Of self-government. Upon Emil, the
youngest of these children, the story cen
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A friend Of the Rambler. after reading
the narrative dealing with Glymont and
ST. Charles Church, sent the following let
ter containing much information of the
Pyes:
The John A. and Edward r. Pye you mention
were j. Arral and e. Rudhall Pye.
The Pyes are ancient HereforGshire family.
The earliest was Walter Pye OF saddlebow, about
1895. OF later one there is this inscription to
be found at Dewchurch, in Herefordshire:
Here lieth the body Of John Pye of Mynde, a
traveller in far countreys. His life ended he left
behind him Walter his heire OF Mynde. A
hundred and six years he was truly and had sons
and daughters two and forty"
He was born in 1444 and died in 1860. might
add that he was twice married.
1t was from Sir Walter Pye. born 1871, died
1925. and his wife Joan, daughter of William
Rudhall Of Rudhall. the last of his name, that
the American branch Of the family is descended.
Bis grandson. Col Edward Pye, married Anne,
daughter of Henry Sewall. He had two sons
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THE SIDE OF THE ANGELS. BY Basil
King, author of The Inner Shrine"
etc. Illustrations by Elizabeth Ship
pen Green. New York: Harper &
Brothers.
HE popular author Of that much
discussed novel, Tho Inner
Shrine" appears in the case Of
1.-THE Side Of the Angels to have
lost his working plan, to have mislafd his
blue print. BY reason Of this obvious mis-
adventure the reader is put to it to
know what this story is. after all.
about. Is it love story whose hero
marries one woman when he thinks.
only thinks. that he loves another one.
little Rosie Fay. over whom he and his
spoiled young brother fight a prodi-
giously melodramatic duel? Is it the
story of a young reformer, this same
hero. who without any SPECIFIC infor-
nation about the needs of this one
Or that goes splitting help from both
good feeling? Is it story of the So
cial ups and downs of a community
with touches of the causes and conse-
Guences of this common game OF see
who are on their side And what
about it all. anyway? To be sure. one
is always interested in the color OF
Basil Kings incidents. In his arrange
ment of scenes. in the free glide of
his pen, the smooth flow of his ink
But. even so, this is an unworkmanly
book for SO practiced and popular a
writer to build.
THE FAMILY. BY Elinor Mordaunt
author of "Bellamy." etc. New York
John Lane Company
Here is a novel of rare beauty OF
workmanship. A single. well defined
purpose is met by a carefully worked
out plan, whose parts fit into one an
other perfectly, and all contribute to
a complete unity of effect. 1t is a very
ambitious story and very depressing
one. Mrs. Mordaunt here undertakes
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Yukon fats. as they might wander into
channels that would lead them into the
Arctic ocean instead of the main course
Of the river.
The channels are really uncharted
and practically unsurveyed. and the
steamers have difficulty in making their
way. In the trip preceding the one I
am making. the Alaska. supposed to be
the best ship Oh the river. struck a
newly made sandbar below Circle City.
and it was Ave days before she was
again on her way.
Our steamer has spars at the side
which can be dropped into the sand
in such way that the engine can
pry itself off when so grounded The
Alaska was similarly equipped, but the
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runs on and on through these great
islands. covered with trees and luxuri-
ant grass and spotted with great beds
of wild flowers.
The river is wonderfully quiet. You
may sail "a hundred or more miles with
out seeing a town Or any sign of habi-
tatin. Indeed. it is said that outside
Fort Yukon there are only three men
living at intervals of forty or fifty
miles apart on the whole course of
the river. These men are Woodchoppers
and hunters. They sell wood to the
steamers. The captain asked one of
them the other day the price of his
wood. The man replied: Dave Drol-
lette has been telling around the neigh
borhood that l have been selling wood
at IS cord, but 1t amt So" The
humor of this lies in the word neigh
borhood." The mans nearest neighbor
Is forty miles Off and Dave Drollette
lives 100 miles UP the river.
This absence of man makes the
wilderness impressive. The mighty
stream and the great dome of the sky
In which the clouds hang low. but are
apparently stationary. cause one to feel
that he is but an atom in Gods mighty
world. For the most of the time the
only living things visible are those on
our boat. and the only noises are the
splashing of the paddle wheel at the
stern. the voices of the human on deck.
and the howls of the dogs we are car
ryfng to the roadhouses down stream.
The day will soon come when the
Yukon will be one of the tourist routes
OF the world. A company is now being
organized to put up great hotels at
Skagway, Dawson Seward and Fair
banks, and to turn our European travel
to this part of the world. AS soon as
the government railway is completed.
Alaskan travellers will come from Puget
sound. thousand miles northward,
through scenery more wonderful than
that of Norway and be carried on the
White Pass railway over the Coast
Range of mountains. They will be
taken down the Yukon, past the Klon-
dixie gold region, and into the Arctic
circle. where they can see the sun shine
at midnight. From there they will go
on down the Yukon to the mouth of the
Tanana and up that river to Fairbanks
to connect with Uncle Sans road. and
go across country to Seward On the
way they will pass through this great
inland sea known as the flats, they
will visit the widest parts of the in
terror of Alaska, and make side trips
to Mount Mckinley, the highest peak
on our continent. The course of the
Yukon from White Horse to Dawson
is as picturesque as any part of the
kline or the Danube. and the whole
of the journey will have all of the
wildness of virgin country which
until now has been untouched by man.
In coming down the Upper Yukon
you steam by mountains that rise to
the clouds. you pass by rocks that look
like castles and wind your way among
hills blanlketed with pink flowers that
remind you of the heather-cIad hills of
old Scotland. Just inside the interna
tional boundary saw two rocks facing
one another on opposite sides of the
river. They were of gigantic proper
lions, parts Of the mighty cliffs that
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try is as green as any part of the
United States. Thick bushes line the
shores and evergreens, spruce and
pines twenty or thirty feet high rise
behind them. The woods climb the
hills; cover them with a mass of dark
green in which, here and there, are
open spaces that look like pastures
and give the whole country a parklike
appearance. Now and then you see
great beds of flowers. There are many
clouds in the sky, and the clouds rest
in the laps of the hills and leave long
ribbons of white hanging midway be-
tween the water and the peaks Of the
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sion for children given by the Washing
ton Chronicle in July. 1878. There were
addresses by A. S. Solomons. ]. B.
Thompson and Arthur Shepherd, and
among the others conspicuous in the
event were ]. A. Ellinger. James Hud-
son, Matt Trimble, Fred Aiken. Joshua
X. Rodgers Ambrose Aman, Mark
Barton, Sergeant Seibold. J. N. Hub
H A. Dobson, J. NJ Embrey, Miss M. E.
Chamberlain. Miss Hattie French, Miss
L. Elwell, Miss waneheld. Mrs. M. c.
Smell and Capt. Samuel Gedney.
The Rambler can also recall q tourna-
ment there on Saturday. August 20.
1873. 1t is perhaps true that every
church in southern Maryland holds a
tournament each year as q means of
raising funds, and everybody knows
that there is not a church in southern
Maryland that does not suffer because
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PYE,s LANDING ON THE POTOMAC

early 70s. when The steamboats, Wa
waset and Mary Washington carried
excursoniSts there. 1t was a popular
excursion resort with churches. Sunday
schools and social and fraternal or
CARNATIONS at the time when Mount
Vernon Springs, White House. Green
Spring, above Georgetown. and Ana
lostan Island were extensively patron
lied by excursionists from Washing
ton. Glymont seems to have been
taken over by the Potomac Ferry Com
pany in the spring of 1872, for the
Rambler has resurrected this adver-
tisement, printed May 81, 1872:
Having leased from the owner this favorite
excursion site, I putting the pavilion din
ing room and grounds in thorough order and
repair for the comfort pleasure and entertain
ment Of e1oursionists. Good order will be
maintained and polite attendants will be on
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tion apply to the undersigned at the once OF
''e GEOkGE A. sHEKELL.
There was a riot at Glymont on Mon
day, June 10, 1879. Company B Of the
Washington Light Infantry was giving
an excursion. and the chronieler OF the
time says that the disturbance was
suppressed by the promptness and De.
cision OF the military excursionists.
There were a number Of arrests when
the boat reached Washington. extradi-
ton proceedings followed. a number OF
the 'rowdies" were turned over to the
Maryland authorities and there was a
trial at Port Tobacco. The offenders
were convicted.
One Of the Glymont events which the
Rambler can recall was free excur-
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school. I asked one of the women why
this was. She replied: THE only reve-
nue. the town has Is the $1,000 license
paid by the saloon, and it takes all OF
that to keep UP the town pump
Leaving Eagle, our next stop was at
Circle. another half-deserted village
living on the memories of its past: II
sprang up in 1892, when gold was dis
little later it had population of 1000
miners. Then the gold began to play
out and the most of the men left In the
stampede to the Klondike. 1t has now
many abandoned homes made of logs
a store or SO, and a restaurant. The
population altogether Is two or three
hundred. During my stay I called at
the restaurant and Its owner. Fred
Brentlinger, showed mo pair Of arctic
OK horns which he had dug from the
prehistoric ice thirty feet under the
ground. These horns measure three
feet from tip to tip and are in good
preservation. ! asked him the price
and he told me It was $500. This whole
animals locked up in vaults Of per-
petual ice. In the Klondike they have
dug up the bones Of mastodons and
other giant animals Of the past: and
tusk or skeleton Of an animal that
lived In Alaska before the ice age be-
gan. They sell curios made of such
ivory in many of the stores, and II one
thousand years old 1t Is easy to get 1t.
Brentlinger, the man who owns the
aFctic OK horns. has two cub bears.
each of which lives in a ten-gallon
keg back of the restaurant. They are
as black as ink and as lively as kit
tens. He has named them Teddy and
Niger. Teddy is the fighter and he acts
the part Of the hero in every battle with
Niger.
1t is wonderful how tame these
Alaskan bears become when caught as
cubs and treated as pets. l find some
in every mining settlement. There are
two here at Fort Yukon within q
stones throw of where the steamer
lands. They watch for the stranger
and will eat and drink out of his hand.
I have amused myself feeding them
pop out of bottle. ! buy the pop at
% cents a glass at Jim Haley's road
house, and the bears will drink 1t out
Of the bottle while hold 1t in my
hand: or / can give the bottle to Bruin
and he will sit down and drink 1t.
l have experimental here with taking
photographs at midnight. My snap
shots are fairly good, and with a gentle
results. Fort Yukon is Just inside the
Arctic circle, and at this time of the
year it Is light for twenty four hours.
It Is the most northerly point on the
Yukon river. and tourists will be
brought here over the White Pass
route in the future to see the mid
night sun. Eighty such came this year.
and they had e ma gnifcent view Of the
great orb as 1t lowered over the hori-
zon and then rose again.
Fort Yukon has been Of great i'm
portance AZ q mining center. It 10 bet
ter known ~ Q fur-trading station.
The Hudson Bay Company used to come
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known as Eagle City. It had hundreds
Of inhabitants and all the wild life
that came from tho successful gold
diggings nearby. 1t still has about
100 one-story log cabins. but half of
them are deserted and some are falling
to ruins. 1t has a two-story hotel. a
two-story log customhouse and a
trading station that belongs to the
Northern Commercial Company. There
is an Episcopal missionary who lives
at the western end of the town.
Many of the cabins have gardens
about them in which are large crops of
potatoes and carrots. The streets ars
grass-grown. and grass and flowers
grow luxuriantly on the dirt roofs of
the cabins. AS our boat came to anchor
l heard rooster growing, and as
walked up the banks I could hear the
bells of the cows pasturing near the
town pump.
The town pump is one Of the features
of Eagle. It stands over q well and ts
worked by q windmill. There IL tall
white tower beside the windmill, and \
drinking place at the front. Eagle has
q flrst-class saloon. but 1t has no public
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Charles Of the Mynde. who married Mary Booth
of Brienton, County Herford and Walter, who
married Margaret Tant of st. Marys. county.
Md. John, the son of Charles and Mary Booth.
married Henrietta tdied 17IO), daughter OF Wal
ter Pye and Margaret Tant.
From this union Mary. who married
Henry Stonestreet, whose tombstone you read;
Charles. who married Sarah Rozier, nee Edelen
fdied October 18, 1so9). daughter Of this
Charles married Nicholas Stonestreet. son of
Henry above mentioned.
Edward Joseph Pye married (frst) Mitchell
and (second) Jenkins.
The only Pyes in this section now are the chill
dren of Brent Pye, living in NanjemOy and one
in this city.
G,ymont was one of the ante-bellum
pleasure resorts of the Potomac river,
but it's most popular period was in the
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Question Time.

M. LILLIAN JENNINGS BRYAN, hsv-
wv ing concluded one Of his lectures
on temperance. announced that IL was
now question time"
Thereupon a pretty girl arose ana
asked:
'Mr. Bryan, would you advise . g11o
to marry a man to reform himf"
MY dear young lady" MT. Bryan
replied. "the risks are quite great
enough when a girl marries a man Who
doesn't need to be reformed"
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ed dozen American flags floating in
the breeze. They were probably put
up to welcome the steamer from Can
ada. Strolling in and out among the
cabins, 1 went into the country behind
to visit Fort Egbert. This army post
was established by the government
about fifteen years ago, when the gold
mines were prospecting. 1t has since
been abandoned and the barracks are
in the hands Of caretaker.
The Eagle of today is has been. 1t
is like the deserted mining camps of
the west which were abandoned when
the gold had played out. 1t was once
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range or chum over their luck around
campfires, somewhere in the frozen
silence of a Yukon night
Sheep and caribou hunting In the st.
Elias range: the goat ranges OF the
Sims mountains, where one not alto
gether obliging ram permitted the
author a snapshot. but baked At MS
rife. and the stalking Of a moose. bare
ventures in a book of exciting interest.
For the artistic reader. who lacks the
thrill Of the hunsman or the JOY OF the
collector Of skins and horns, there are
Alaska's white-hooded sister - the
Yukon.
EARLY DAYS IN OLD OREGON. BY
Katharine Berry Judson. NJ. A., au-
thor of Legends Of California and
the Old Southwest" etc. With nu-
merous illustrations and four maps.
Chicago: A. c. McClurg & Co.
History is indebted to this author for
SO valuable a contribution to a subject
SO little known. Her Information was
land, where access was secured not
only to the documents of the Public
Record office. including unpublished &C.
counts OF various explorations, but also
to what was q far rarer privilege. ac-
cess to the journals, diaries and letters
Of the Hudson Bay Company" This up
building from original authority Is of
important interest to tho reader. and
especially to tho young reader. for
whom the book was primarily written.
since 1t assures him knowledge which
history has not heretofore supplied.
Most Of us know our thimbleful about
the Oregon trail, but the first "early
days in old Oregon" knew no trail. and
the book, beginning at the beginning.
glimpses an Indian conception OF the
first ship, the first white man and.
later on. the adventures of Capt. Cook
and the daring sailor men who followed
after At first no one went to Oregon.
SO there was only the trail for the
fur traders and trappers who went to
the Rocky mountains with their trading
goods and came back with the packs Of
furs.'' The official trail starts. how
ever, in excitingly interesting style
exactly in the middle of the book. The
Adventures of Lewis and Clark" make
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the general value of such training and
to make clear, also. it's specific import
ance in time of war. The concrete
character of the evidence, the scope of
the Investigation, the expert knowl-
edge and practical experience of the
writer, combine here to add to the
basic purpose of propaganda a broadly
informing view of the subject of mil
itary training for boys in both its i'm
mediate and ultimate effects. In pur-
suit Of his objective Col Gignilliat de-
scribes in adequate compass and detail
the activities of the purely military
school as these activities are proper
toned and regulated to meet the pur-
pose of military training. This part of
the discussion gives one an admirably
military schools of the United States,
with the special modification of each to
meet its particular function in the gem
eral scheme of military training. Sum-
ming the effects of this trafning-the
intellectual, the physical and the moral
effects-the writer shows what Is al
ready being done by the secondary
schools and colleges to obtain these
effects through the channel of military
training. projecting this summary into
plans for still larger use of this spe-
cific instrument of education. Col. Gig
nilliat possesses a fund of sound boy
psychology. Moreover he is sane. not
war mad. These two factors account
for the balance, the true proportions OF
this study. Its scope gives one a COM
plete survey of the present status Of
military training in both the profess
sional and general schools of the
United States.
THE GREAT PUSHi An Episode Of the
Great War. By Patrick MacGill, au
thor Of 1.-THE Red Horizon" etc. New
York: George H. Doran Company.
Tho aep}codoo ~ 1ybtoy, Do%ry,l, Me-
Gill here writes so graphically is the
famous charge at Loos. an episode in
which the writer himself figured to his
temporary damage. after most aston
ishing and many-sided adventures.
Around this charge at Loos Mr.. Mac
Gill gathers innumerable acts of gal
lantry on the part of this one or that.
concerted movements of unbelievable
bravery and daring. heart-breaking
scenes of courage pickering out OF
mangled bodies, pure patriotism leap
ing like flame in the midst Of death,