Evening star., 1924-06-22

days after my appointment, had a
news story that the Hon. Eurypylus
Smith, having distinguished himself
by many acts of great public service,
has been chosen by the President for
an office requiring rare judgment and
intelligence
"Rube painted my portrait, and
after a good many years / died with
out having done anything more i'm
portant than send home for money.
That appointment, signed by the
President, made me the best ancestor
in the county
The ghost rose from the stump and
said:
Il will see you again in the course
of your Good Hope rambles to set
you straight on things you have got
wrong. You newspaper fellows get
much exaggeration.'
The specter of Pyle started across
the field toward the main road, and
after half dozen steps vanished.
There are several green banks at
Good Hope. but that which you are
to see is on the south side of Good
Hope road. opposite Naylor road.
Silver poplars are growing there.
They are not old trees, but one
might call them middle-aged. Where
their bark is SCARED and wrinkled it
is dark. but between the rugose
patches it is gray-green. The face of
the leaves is dark. glossy green. and
the inferior side is wooly-gray. The
leaves are larger and deeper-lobed
than leaves of other poplars. and the
lobes are incisely toothed. The long,
flexible petioles let them swing with
any breeze, and, turning topsy-turvy.
their woody underside gives the whole
tree a look of gray. When that hap
pens people say rain is coming"
Under the trees are heaps of bricks
that were the foundation Of a frame
house. These bricks were burnt red,
but now are brown and purple black,
and some of them are green with
lichens. Here also grows a black
locust, its branches crippled by
storm. Its trunk" supports little
shelves Of that fungus which old
Maryland boys called "spunkwood,"
local name for "touchwood" or
punk" the story being that this
fungus. after drying and being
stepped in a solution Of saltpeter
was used as tinder before there were
friction matches
This was the site of the home of
Judson Richardson, first postmaster
at Good Hope, in 1847; justice of the
peace in the early thirties, and a man
| whose record has been traced in pre-.
| ceding rambles to 1925. Many mer
have lived in that house, and Il
| passed away about ten years ago.
A few rods to the south. but mo-
| visible because of trees, is the home
of James William Talbert, who cam,
to Good Hope from Cheltenham, tool
this, the "old Reilly place" and mar
ried a granddaughter OF William
fudge, who carried messages between
| the Capitol and the White House dur
| ing the civil war and who is one o.
| the Good Hope men The Rambler
Homeric typewriter will tell of.
| Leaving the green bank and goint
to that old house which for more tha,
a century was Good Hope Tavern ant
| successfully known as Spaulding':
| Tavern, Smoot's Tavern, Jenkins
| dNeTH anu tcIIuiillOu ldVeIus III
Rambler set up his camera in tn,
| garden Of the landmark and mad
pictures of Good Hope people. H
trusts that you will recognize tn
| faces of the Misses Talbert, Mrs
Rosie Johnson and her grandchildren
Rosie and Buddy Wilkinson; Mis-
Lille Rose Yochelson, Aaron Yochel
son, Miss Louise Atwell, Miss Mari
Atwell, Francis Atwell and William
Atwell, jr.; Miss Viola johnson, Wal
ter johnson, Mrs. William Atwell an,
Bill Atwell. Bill gathered me a pos.
of sweetwilliams. Thank you, Bill
Mrs. Yochelson brought me to tn
car line in her auto. A perfectl
charming chauffeuSe!