Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-16


cession of the years, has been worn
considerably below the level of the
fields 1t crosses. Its banks wear
veil of honeysuckle, plant-immi-
grant from Japan by way of England.
which has made a beautiful conquest
OF many acres of American soil.
The vines were as green as Irish
wales and glens when the Rambler
walked that way. though the foliage
of al the trees told of winters COM
ing. Even the heavy and insensitive
oak leaves were brown or red. the
dogwoods glowed with tints of flame.
the mitten shaped leaves of the per-
the star-shaped leaves of the gum
trees were blue black, purple, pink
and carmine. and the sumac shrubs
held up their scarlet torches along
the way. A dying chestnut tree of
immense size caught the Rambler's
eye. and to visit 1t he passed part
way through an orchard where the
ground was Uttered, or embellished,
with red apples. Then, a few minutes
for refreshments. People in the neigh
borhood now eighty years old remem-
Der that when they were little chill
dren that tree was noted as the big
chestnut tree The chestnut tree and
apple orchard occupy land that was a
part of Springfield, but which later
became the farm of John McGharrity
and is now the farm of Thomas Ross
The lanelike way passes the burial
place and monuments Of Col. Charles
Broadwater and Lieut. Charles l..
Broadwater of the revolution, and
Lieut.. Guy Broadwater of the war of
1912. Then it passes close to the south
side of the long and rambling house
or Springfield. where colonial box
bushes grow. Then it passes the log
dairy Of the homestead, whose logs
and shingles rest under a deep growth
OF moss. Then it leads roughly down
grade through an arcade of locust and
walnut trees, whose leaves cover the
roadway and fill it's ruts.
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In the distance, on ridge to the
east, you see a plain house whose
weatherboards are gray. It's archi-
lecture is Of the simple rectangular
Kind which one sees so frequently in
the country. No architect tried to in
troduce novel lines and curves in its
construction. 1t was a plain carpen-
ter-designed and carpenter-made
house. and the carpenter followed a
pattern which he had followed many
times before, and pattern which had
made the outer husk of many a good
home. OF course, true homes are
made from within. Homes cannot be
made by architects or carpenters or
though they set their courses with
rare marble. Homes are made by
father. mother. brothers and sisters
and sometimes with the help of q
grandmother or an aunt, and even
sometimes by q kind and benign old
uncle.
Well. as your stride bears you along
the road toward the old house, which
is on the left of the way, you will see,
fifty yards of the right hand, a white
pine tree which towers above the shrub
berry dumped around it. "That white
pine pine said the Rambler to John Boyle.
who was along on this trip, marks
either the site of an older house than
that on the left or it stands in the burial
ground Of the family that lived there"
Inc white pine is not a native of these
parts, but our ancestors used to plant
1t for ornamentation, though the tree is
no handsomer than the long-leaf vir-
ginta pine. which was common and
which may still be seen in the neighbour
hood OF Washington. To see what lay
beneath the tall white pine, the Ram
bier, or the two ramblers. crossed
muddy path Of kale and turnips In the
tangle of wild shrubbery around the white
pine was stone wall inclosing plot
room. The wall is about four feet high
and two feet thick. built of gneiss, with
an occasional quartzite bowlder. Within
grow Norway spruce, an arbor vitae
push, small red cedar, bit Of box
bush and some wild shrubbery. Stand
ing within the wall are two upright
husband. James Hunter, MD. born
May Z. 1906. died February 3. 1867. Els
teemed for those virtues which most
adorn the character OF man. An honest
man Is the noblest work of God" The
other stone is inscribed, Sarah A., wife
OF DIR. James Hunter. born January 20,
1915, died August 10, 1897 At rest"
THESE were the people who lived in the
old gray house on the ridge. Outside
the stone wall is grave which honey
suckle has entwined. A white marble
monument stands above 1t, inscribed,
Ida l. Won Dachenhausen, 1S70-1S9S."
The young girl who sleeps so peacefully
there was Of the family which now owns
the place. r.'
Dr. Hunter received this farm from
MS father, John Hunter. the Scotch inn
who obtained the large tract,
which he named Ayre Hill in memory
OF AYRSHIRE, his home county in Scot
land. This subtract received the name