The Palatka news and advertiser., 1916-10-06

Maryland is Virginia's affinity,
See, the rivers of Maryland keep
constant tryst with Virginia rivers
in the basin of the Chesapeake, ex-
changing experiences of life and love
and nigh emprise that have been con-
fided to each stream in the two coun-
tries through which they have mean
dered to the Bay.
So alike in spirit are the legends of
both chivalric lands that in the tell
ing they are commingled into one
harmonious whole.
AS in Virginia, so in Maryland, rev.
erence for the past has worked res
traint in social changes. Similarly
handed down from high-minded ances-
try that dates back to the Proprie-
tary Government of Lord Baltimore in
1852 (or the earlier settlement of
Maryland by Virginian in 1881 the
obligation of superior class have
safeguarded old ideals and hoary Gus
toms from any too rude displacement
by modern thought and new inven-
ton.
Alike, also in both states, large
part of the laboring population earns
a livelihood by following the water
The tidewaters of the Chesapeake
Bay and its tributaries furnish as
valuable fisheries in proportion tc
area as are to be found in the United
States. Rockfsh, drum, perch, her
ring, crabs, sturgeon, shad, oysters OF
renowned flavor and other choice sea
foods abound. A distinct industry
is the seine fishing for menhaden
which are taken in nets, by the
thousands, to be manufactured into
high grade fertilizer. And on the
marshy flats of the bays tributary
rivers in both states sportsmen bag
hundreds of canvasback ducks that
have become doubly delicious as ia.
BILE delicacy through feeding on the
wild celery of the moist land. Still
further uniting rather than separat
ing Maryland and Virginia, the broac
Potomac flows between, an object OF
mutual interest, pride and affection.
Who, then, can say but that the
Partisan Rangers of Col. John Mos.
by, C. S. A., in crossing the Potomac
from "Old Virginia shore" to Cum
berland City, Maryland, one dark
night away back in the 60's, were
laboring under the mistaken notion
that they were still within the con,
fines of "Mosby's Confederacy" wher
they inconsiderately reused the Fed
eral Generals Crook and Kelly from
the sweets of three o'clock slumbers
hurried them from hotel beds tc
awaiting horses and rushed them of
to Richmond? Maryland, as is wei
known, had not been allowed to Sc
cede.
Nevertheless, the first blood spilled
in the war between the states was
"the patriotic gore that fiecked the
streets of Baltimore when her cltl
zens resisted the passage of the Mas
sachusetts and Pennsylvania regl
ments through the city to Washing
ton in response to President Lincoln'S
call for troops in April, 1861. .
And later, the valor of the ole
MARYLAND Line, of Revolutionary
| tame, dJleSIeu oll many q :,
as it stood shoulder to shoulder Wltf
Confederate brigades, the devotion OF
the state to the cause of the South
The Confederacy was under further
obligations to Maryland for having
given birth to the Alabama's unique
commander, Raphael Semmes, who
flung his unsulled EXcalibur into the
sea and surrendered himself, his flag
and his ship of a hundred victories
only to the waves, when fate STRUCK
the hour, off Cherbourg, France, IL
1864,
Baltimore, the emporium of Mary
land, commandingly seated on the
Patapsco, fourteen miles above where
the broadening river tumbles head
long into Chesapeake Bay, holds fast
to traditional dignity and culture, still
boasting its scholarly men, still fam
! ed for Baltimore bellies" despite {
degree of commercial prosperity anc
forward march in business meth
ods which ranks the city among the
foremost market places of America
Nothing short of the hackneyed type
of the phoenix will serve to illustrate
the prompt reincarnation of the bus
mess life of the Monumental City
after the great fire which destroyed
almost the entire business section II
.G04.
The first monument in the Unite!
States dedicated to George Wash.
ington was erected in Baltimore, g
patriotic appreciation of his services
which gave rise to the city's popu-
lar nickname.
The towering column overlooks, sea-
ward, in the offing, small island that
is so completely occupied by Fort Nc
Henry, to the utmost limits of the is
land, as to give the impression of
massive fortress walls springing sheer
from liquid foundations in the bay.
Francis Scott Key, while detained
on a British attacking ship in the
bay, in 1914, and witnessing the
bonibardment of these mirage-like
walls by his country's enemies, wrote
with nervous emotion on a scrap of
paper the electrifying words of "The
Star SpangIed Banner"-words that
stir the red blood of every true AM
erican wherever said or sung. With
more enthusiasm than true patriotism
relic hunters removed the tiny United
States flags so often from the grave
of Francis Scott Key, in the quaint
old Maryland city of Frederick, that
a daily renewal of the appropriate
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