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Show QUIET STREAM OF ANTIETAM Pretty Little Brook on Whose Banks Was Fought Most Terrific Battle In American Annals, Hut fftr tho most terrific battlo In tho niifials of American wars n pretty lit-tlo lit-tlo stream that flows through the heart of Muryland would ho unknown beyond be-yond Its Immoillato locality, Winding sluggishly down from tho Pennsylvania hlllH, It bends romantically In Its com so, now past the nnclent mill, under un-der Its quaint bridges, stono-arcliod, singing on Its way through kjii nnd Ehndow nnd, llko Tennyson's brook, go-Ing go-Ing on forever. ' "" There Is no moro plcturesquo part ot our country than thnt through which tho Antletam flows. It skirts tho most beautiful farms ot Mnrylwul, laves the rounded limbs of tho kino while tlioy drink, In tho shadows of tho trees that-lino Its b;mlin, and fluully lose3 Itself In tho broad Potomac Tlmo was, and not ory long ago, when tho farmers of the Antletam, fording Its shallows, dreamed not of tho great drama to be enncted thero. No tourists from afar soushtthla entrancing en-trancing region nn! thu barofooted fisher-boy, also oblivious of Its bounties, boun-ties, angled for eel with the patience of the renowned Izank Walton. From "Where tho Antletam Flows," by Thomas C. Ilarbauah, In Four-Track News. |