. Book of the Royal blue . rom Baltimore to St. Louisover the Baltimore \- Ohio is a panoramaof liisti>rieal interest, beginning witli Balti-more itself, the starting point of Xe\t is Washington, theiiatioiTs capital, and no sooner is it out ofsiiiht than the tnt\eler sees the Chesapeakeand Ohio Canal, which General Washing-ton thought would supply the transporta-tion since supplied by the steam comes Williamsport, the home ofOtho Holland Williams. Cumberland wasthe center of important movements duringthe Civil War, and it was here that the latePresident Mc
. Book of the Royal blue . rom Baltimore to St. Louisover the Baltimore \- Ohio is a panoramaof liisti>rieal interest, beginning witli Balti-more itself, the starting point of Xe\t is Washington, theiiatioiTs capital, and no sooner is it out ofsiiiht than the tnt\eler sees the Chesapeakeand Ohio Canal, which General Washing-ton thought would supply the transporta-tion since supplied by the steam comes Williamsport, the home ofOtho Holland Williams. Cumberland wasthe center of important movements duringthe Civil War, and it was here that the latePresident McKinlev saw active servicewhile wearing the blue. And all along the route every farm house,every factory, eviiy hill, every town hasits history, written and unwritten, and inyears tt) come the historian who follows theold National road and the route of the Bal-timore & Ohio and writes of the stirringevents which remained hidden for acentury, will write an important and thrill-ing |>art of the histor\ THE LAST OF PLEASANT HILL AND GENEROSITY. A WASHINGTON ROMANCE. i |HKN thf Piscatawavs, Anacostiaiis,Manalioacs and Powhatans werefirst disturbed in the peaceful pos-session of their lands by theScotch and Irish emigrants as far back as1663, there is strong evidence to show thatthe red men did not have a more favoritehunting ground than in the vicinity ofRock Creek Cemetery and the Soldiers*Home at Washington, D. C. These Indianslet\ no mounds, no pottery, no carvings, nocuriously worked jewelry, by which to traceand locate their towns or do not say that either of the boards cover heart-pine logs, liewu withsome kind of edged tool from trees of thenative forest. In a few places the weather-boarding has been ripped off, exposing thelogs, which are in almost a ])erfect state ofpreservation, although placed there morethan two centuries ago; the house beingknown as Lanhams Tavern when JohnBradford bought and gave the 100 acresadjoining for S
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