The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-03-02
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/ Superintendent OF Public Instruction
/ which has been lately renovated, the res
| idence Of the Commonwealth Attorney
! and several Of the churches are handsome
/ and ornamental TO the town. Al the cage
I Of the corporate limits stands the mohu-
/ mcnt TO tho Confederate soldiers VINO
fell I'm the two battles fought on tho
bloody fields OF the civil war The Nlr-
/ ginian who recalls those terrible days
/ cannot traverse this scene without
/ thrln Of memory sOr the brave men who
died here. How II seemed TO mark the
fact that VIC live IN new era, 20 hear
"a Northern lady on the train. visiting the
South for tho first time Inquire: was
not "A battle fought somewhere here
( abouts2"
Not far from the monument built OF
| the brown stone found 50 abUndanty N
this region. stands the Manassas In
dustrial School for Colored Youth es-
tablished some five years since upon
| hundred acres Of land presented by
Northern lady The school gives It's pu-
I pills a plain English education, and thor
! ougk instruction In the practical arts OF
/ cooking. laundering. sewing. carpentering
and farming Some Of the best citizens
OF the county. including many of tho
I officials. are members OF the board %
/ trustees. and unite i'm trshfyinc to tho
( good influence of the school on the color
! eli people Of the vicinity. Tho Mayor OF
! TIE town recently printed a statement
/ that the place was never so orderly as
/ Stree the opening Of this Institution
/ The superintendent is a graduate Of
! Bcrea College I'm Kentucky which Is
| built upon land donated by Gen. CAS-
sius NJ Clay for the education OF the
mountain people.
The board AT It's last meeting directed
! the superintendent. f. II Woodford. Ia
/ attend tho conference now going on at
! Tuskegce. Ala Booker Washington Ia
| nous industrial school, that ne might
! better understand the methods practiced
/ there.
/ Manassas will soon be. n II Is not now,
/ but a suburb Of Washington. There is
! constant communication in many ways
! between the fast growing big city and the
! thrifty little country village. Some OF
/ fce-holdcrs In the departments own pref
/ ~ little homes here. and 20 In TO their
1 work on week days. Students who have
/ finished the public school course find 81
/ cheaper to use the low rates given resi-
/ dents by the railroad and live al home.
while pursuing the higher branches. than
I 10 board In the city. Dairymen truckers.
/ fruit and poultry raisers IN this district
/ can all find ready sale for their wares
among the town folks
Robert Portner. of lager beer fame has
! built fine residence and made many i'm
! provements on the large estate he owns
/ at Manassas. This land begins az the
/ edge Of the village and runs several miles
| IN the direction Of Washington
II is said he has invested a hundred
\ thousand dollars IN his country place.
/ whore ne spends much time among his
| vineyards ana orchards.
| II was at Manassas. that Secretary
/ Morton said some years ago, Virginia
| should and could become "a big apple or
/ chard The way people are planting
orchards along the Southern Road incines
/ one to believe the Secretary spoke I'm
prophetic vein.
What can be done by the right kind Of
| people with Virginia land is fully Illus
/ trated by a family who come here from
Ohio about fifteen years ago They
! bought what looked like worn out land
| near Manassas. The farm purchased
! was about on hundred acres Of land.
/ unfenced. with no improvements except
/ a two-room cabin into which the family
/ moved and a few old scraggy neglected
| appletrees My Ohio friend had been
I a professor of chemistry in the Hoosier
/ country and brought his scientific knowl-
/ edge TO bear on the soil OF his most dis
couragiug looking investment lie had
/ beside book learning and e0od sense,
/ wife of fine ability and untiring energy.
/ They brought five or six children with
them and one or TWO olive branches
/ have been added TO the household treas
| ures on the Virginia farm When 7
4 visited the place two years ago the Wild
1 erncss had been made to blossom as the
/ rose. The farm was well fenced and
/ the dwelling grown room 10y room 10 the
/ proportions of a comfortable farm house
| was almost hidden from the road by use
/ ful and ornamental trees. Beautiful
I flowers boomed in the yard. and grace
/ ful vines climber over porch and door
/ way. Never have ] seen more luscious
! pears and apples than those undar which
I the boughs were bending on every side.
/ The thrifty house wife showed me the
/ shelves OF her pantry laden with the
/ glass Jars Of canned fruits which kept
/ her busy from strawberry time till the
/ late October peaches were gathered.
| The hens running about the place had
/ contributed a hundred dollars 10 the fam
/ lily purse that season and city customers
/ wore always eager 10 engage the fine
/ butter produced by the rat COWS grazing
! peacefully in the adjacent meadow. Lit
/ tie outside help was hired 10 carry on
I the work and the farm. father. mother.
sons and daughters each doing their
! share. Education was fully .ppreciatcd
/ hy The wise heads of the household and
as the children grew older after each had
/ taken the course furnished at the vii
/ lage school. hoys and girls were sent
| 20 college The eldest sister has been
/ teaching for some time and the three
/ eldest boys arc doing wei at William
/ and Mary. one of them has been elect
/ ed editor Of tho college magazine and all
\ give promise Of usefulness to the Com
/ monwoallh. which affords them the ad-
/ vantagos Of It's normal school
/ In the carly DAYS OF the Republic. Vir-
! ginia gave bounteously 10 the Western
I Reserve" and the Old Dominion will
/ have cause for gratitude In her turn, II
/ the great State Of Ohio will continue to
send us such citizens 10 build up our
waste places and give US such examples
/ Of model farming.
/ A PllPEl hP nAtlcuT