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The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22
. GORGE WASHINGTON, SOL
I dier, statesman and hero, was
y at his best as lover.

T EOhJL w NASdlNb lON, SUI
4 dicr, statesman and hero, was
y at his best as lover.
From the time when he was
an impetuOus youngster of fourteen
until he stood beside Martha Custis,
a proud bridegroom at twenty-seven,
the young Yirginian was continually
falling in or falling out of love.
He was barely in his teens when he
set about penning verses. Poetry,
however, was apparently the wrong
route to the heart of Mary Bland, Of
Westmoreland, who proudly reserved
her smiles, but whom Washington re-
ferred to for years as his "Lowland
Beauty"
But constancy was not a virtue in
the eyes of the fourteen-year-old
Washington.
In less than year he had been in
love with two others-Miss Lucy
Grymes and a nameless miss whom
he addressed as Dear Sally
The heroine Of the next engrossing
affair was Miss Mary Cary, a CON
nection Of the Fairfaxes. Though at
first Miss Cary reminded him too
painfully Of the "Lowland Beauty"
who had rejected him, and made him
long, as he said, to bury that chaste
and troublesome passion in oblivion, -
yet he finally succumbed to the new
attraction and the affair with Miss
Cary continued for several years.
Gallant youth though he was,
Washington did not always find favor
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22

Year by year it is becoming more
and more clearly recognized that
Washington is the great show city Of
the American continent. Whatever
tends to establish this status more
firmly is a public benefit of national
concern and interest, thinks the Phila.
Jlelphia Record.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22

In 1901 instruction was being i'm
parted in Guatemala in 1419 national
schools and seventy-two private
schools. Some 5G,sO2 pupils attended
the national schools, Of whom p ,455
were boys and 29,347 girls. The at.
tendance at private schools was 37O2.
The appropriations for educational pur-
poses for the year amounted to S1,513,.
915.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22
GUARDS AT THE TOMB
The Quaint Old CoIored Men Sta
toned at Mount Vernon.
Ioooo oooOooooooooeoooocl

Few of the millions Of people who
have visited Mount Vernon during
the last half century could have
overlooked the picturesque and stall
wart figure Of Uncle Edmund Parker,
the old colored man who reverently
guarded the tomb of Washington.
His courtly and dignifed manners,
his deeply marked face and the re-
spectful courtesy with which he an
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22
washington's Powers.

Washington held a record of twenty
two feet at Jumping, and he was
so expert wrestler that he was
known to have thrown in succession
three men, the lightest Of them weigh
ing 24O pounds.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22
rHn suRnRRAN nlri

ZEN Ia a permanent instLtc-
hon--a fixture at the NationaS
Capital. Thousands and thou
Rnnds of people can testify TO
the good work it has accom-
plished during the oast five
years in the line Of suburban
Improvement. II is the only
oewspaper in the District OF
Columbia that maintains a
punching bureau, whose duty
K Is to punch UP the authori-
Ties and keep them awake 20
ihe needs Of ths suburbs. ON
that account it deserves and ID
receiving substantial enooW
AqanRph.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22
WASHINGTON, D. C,

A Michigan scientist has made the
interesting discovery that the soul is
located in the spine. Alas for the hen
pecked man who has no backbone.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22

John D. Rockefeller, Jr., says the
world does not owe any man a living.
Nor does the world give every young
man q multi-millionaire for a father.
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22

with the maidens of whose charms he
was so promptly susceptible.
There was, for instance, a Miss
Betsy Fauntleroy, Of Richmond, with
whom, in 1852, Washington fell ard
emily in love. but whNq he IN vain
The suburban citizen., 1902-02-22

worth's zouaves at Alexandria as
cook.
When they went to battle he re-
mained in the city and cooked for the
commissary department and the
teamsters. Later he was cook at the
old capital prison for nine months.
He returned to Mount Vernon for a
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Raleigh. N. c.. January z, 1902.

if we had put the whole upon the
land.
No matter how it is used so it is
all saved and used.
AS we have so often said before,
the profit in using commercial fer
tilizers is very much greater on land
well supplied with rotting vegetable
matter. The humus makes the
plants hungry for potash and phos-
phorio and ammonia. If these are
then supplied we not only get good
growth but fine yield in fruit.
Good winter work can be done In
hauling in all available leaves, straw
and such like, and using it in bedding
and then, after catching the liquid
manure from the animals, carefully
distributing il upon the fresh -plowed
and narrowed fields. Such work
will pay in the next seasons crops
and in the permanent upbutlding of
ths farm.
Peas, clover, beans and such crops
help to create humus, and this in
creases the fertility of the farm.
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which has been grown from highly
bred seed, which Is very free from
the curse of barrenness and it's train
of attributes.
HOW TO MAINTAIN THE VITALITY OF
YOUR SEED CORN.
By securing a medium sized vari-
ETY. of corn that will be reasonably
sure of maturing a good grade of
merohantable corn (and seed of the
greatest vigor and Vitality during
average years followed up by the
practice of selecting each subsequent
years supply of seed from a field in
which you have carefully out out all
barren and diseased stalks before
they formed their pollen, and by
storing each years supply of seed in
q dry, airy place, you will not only
be reasona bly, sure of a frst-class
supply of seed, but you will secure a
considerably larger yield, of much
better grade of corn. This alone
should increase your ave rage yield
more than 15 bushels per acre.
Then by being sure that you are
planting seed from a highly bred
variety which has been bred very
free from the curse of barrenness
and it's attendant degeneraoy-dry
rot, smut, Incidence, disease, and
genaral organic langor, you will
without doubt increase your yield
another 15 bushels per acre.
J. @. SUFFERN.
Piatt Co., III.
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Washington, D. G.
WHAT WE HAVE LEARNED.

Asked by the News and Observer
for Thanksgiving sentiment, Mr..
o. w BlacknaIl, of Vance county,
sent this
Not within living memory has
nature been so unkind to her chill
dren in North Carolina as in this the
first year of the goth century. Yet
we may be thankful that she has
taught US, by a cruel drubbing, it is
true, but in the only way in which
man, the only Ounce in her school,
is ever taught anything-four in
valuable lessons:
1. That reckless deforestation is
suicide.
The imperative need of an effl--
cient system Of terraoing to prevent
soil erosion by means of which vastly
more fertility is annually lost in the
State than the value of all the COM
mercial fertilizers bought and which
would within ten years double the
value of all the hilly or even rolling
arabic land in North Caaolina.
8. The futility of overcropping
and undercultivating.
4. The unwisdom of single crop
ping-of putting all the eggs in one
basket
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No. A.

Fungous diseases may also be ma
terially reduced.
Weeds are more readily eliminated,
the soil is maintained In good filth,
the humus compounds of the soil in
creased, and the work of the farm
more easily distributed.
Any scheme of rotation should
have the growing of at least one
leguminous crop in its plan. By this
means largo gains of nitrogen may
be made frora the air. Potash and
phosphoric acid, unless already in
the soil, must be supplied by COM
mereial fertilizers. In the case Of
very poor soil il is not advisable to
remove the crops unless the manure
is returned until fair state of fer
tliity has been reached Stock rails
ing, dairying, and poultry raising
are profitable lines of agriculture TO
carry on in a scheme for improving
the fertility of poor soils. A rota-
ton for dairy farms recommended
by the New Jersey Station consists
of
ID Field corn, seeded to crimson
clover in July or August.
3. Crimson clover followed by
fodder corn, land seeded to winter
rye.
8. Rye fodder, followed by oats
and peas, seeded to red clover and
timothy, and
4. Hay. A three-year rotation for
the South recommended by the
Louisiana Station is Q) corn; Cd
oats, followed by cow peas; (3) cot
ton.
A scheme of rotation suited to any
individual case cannot be laid down.
It will depend upon the soil, climate,
market and to some extent on the
season.
A. B. MARRIOTT.
Washington. D. G.
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HARRY FARMRR's TALKS.
LVII.
J. @. SUFFERN
Piatt Co., III.

LVII.
correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
The high price of eggs has put
people TO thinking up some plan TO
make the hens lay more during the
months of November and December.
When eggs are worth at the country
store from Is TO 20 cents per dozen,
and very scarce at that, it should
stimulate us TO greater efforts. Mary
Jane has had a plenty for home use
and sells some every few days /;
sold enough 60 supply us with Christ
mas goods.
You must not think this just LUCK,
but simply the result of
PROPERLY FEEDING THE HENS.
1t is just the harvest of what we
SOW. 1t takes certain amount of
different materials to produce an
egg. You cannot produce eggs from
corn and nothing else. An egg oon-
sains but little fat, the thing that
corn produces most of. Now if you
feed hens exclusively on corn and
not allow them any other food, even
if they are laying well, they will
stop in a short time The combs of
many hens have bright color and
look the very picture of health, but
they do not lay. A CLOSE examina-
tion will show that they are very
fat.
Some one is asking himself, what
must do?" Here is what one farmer
did: He gave his hens some EPSON
salts and stopped giving them so
much corn, so that they had to hustle
around the farm after something to
eat They had to hunt bugs, worms
and grass seeds. This required a
great deal of scratching, furnishing
the proper exercise, and gave them a
balanced ration.
HOW HARRY's CHICKENS ARE FED.
Mary Jane took the small bones
from pigs' feet and, instead of throw
AN5 ouOuA q Ndy lO1 sOI4OOONy . OAO
suck egg dog to eat, gave them t.
her hens. The best poultry raisers
say that bone is the ideal food t.
produce eggs. When the pigs are
slaughtered all the raps and blood
are given to the hens. During the
very cold weather oats (sheaf oats)
are given III the morning, whlcl the
hens scratch in all day S me times
cow peas are fed tha same way. 1t
is nice to see the hens take pod and
thresh the peas out. In the late
afternoon, just little before sun
set, feed of whole corn is given.
You see all these things are found
on every farm. It is not necessary
TO send away TO get the high priced
feeds advertised, when you have the
same ingredients or can raise them
at home.
Egg farming is very profita BILE, but
to feed large number of hens which
only lay 7cent eggs is not.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co, N. G.
Observation-Disclosures Won NAV dc
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PROFIT IN PECANs.

The only drawback is the rather
long time required TO bring a grove
into bearing. The trees are healthy
and long lived, and produce abund-
ant crops when Of sufficient age. 10
has been found possible TO success
fully top-work trees, even of consid-
cradle size, by summer budding,
which is the best and cheapest way
to establish groves of named varie-
ties. The continued planting Of
pecans is heartily recommended. The
ordinary distance for planting, 40 TO
so feet each way, is so great that
while the trees are young they will
interfere but little with the use of
the land for other purposes Director
W c. Stubbs, Louisiana Experiment
Station.
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DIVERSIFIED FARM1NG.

Correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
Although the leaders in modern
scientific agriculture tell us that
specialization must become more and
more the feature of farming in the
future, it must be impressed upon
the average farmer that he has to
take this advice in a modified form.
Some sections of the country are
learning that specialization in farm
ing or horticulture is dangerous, for
when disaster comes to that region
every thing is ruined. The South
raise nearly all cotton at one time,
and lost heavily every year that the
crop was too large or it failed to pro-
duoe a fair yield. Now farmers
raise other things beside cotton in
the South, and they are doing better
in their diversified farming than
ever before. By not pinning all their
faith to one crop they are pretty
sure of something for the year 8 out
lay of time and labor. Likewise the
farmers of Florida, while still rails
ing oranges, do not exclude other
crops, but year by year they are in
oreasing the variety of their fruits
and truck vegetables. In other
words, the man who puts all his eggs
in one basket may sooner or later
lose all in one accident.
Specialism in farming is needed up
to the point of knowing all there is
to be known concerning one, two or
three crops. That is the specialism
we want on all farms to-day, whether
they are in the North, South, East
or West. The farmer who can raise
the finest possible crop of wheat or
corn, breed excellent sheep, COWS, or
pigs and add small fruit or vege-
table garden to the place knows we'll
that he has provided against Ordi
nary accidents of weather, drought
and insects. It is not too much to
ask any farmer to study three crops
like these 80 that he can excel in all.
He may make one his special hobby
and carry it to a degree of success
that will overshadoW all others, but
he needs sheet anchor to windward
that may come in to save him in
time of storm. Drifting from one
crop TO another is one of the worst
practices 80 prevalent in most parts
of the country. We heard of some
body else striking it exceptionally
rich in some crop we have not Quilt
waited, and forthwith we abandon
crops which we know something
about and try the new with which
We have had no experience Natur
ally we fail to attain expected re-
sulss, and the next year another re
port of somebody else's success with
another crop stimulates US to imi
tate him. Thus we may abandon
one crop after another, and reach
out for vain things. We cannot sue
ceed in this way because the knowI
edge which we purchase with expe-
rience is lost each year, and hence
we make no advancement. We must
pin our faith to a few crops, and
make them our specialties, studying
them in the light of modern knowl-
edge and personal experience which
will enable Us TO improve a little
each year. A. B. BARRETT.
Minnesota.
Glover shades the soil and thus re-
tains it's moisture. 1t roots deep
and thus breaks up the soil for the
reception of fertilizing elements
from the aEm0anh6Pa
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know a numbe of farmers who
haul their manure out and put it in
small piles on the plowed ground,
where they leave it until they are
ready TO harrow, when it is scat
tered think this is a mistake, for
the ground under the heaps gets
more fertility than it needs, at least
if there is rain, while the rest of the
ground does not get its just share.
I get good results from manure by
scattering on clover cod just after
the clover is out for hay, where
leave it till spring, then plow for
corn or potatoes.-D r. Butler,
K,rkman, Pa.
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Glover shades the soil and thus re-
tains it's moisture. 1t roots deep
and thus breaks up the soil for the
reception of fertilizing elements
from the atmosphere.
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Teacher-"Johnny, you may de-
fine the first person" Johnny
"AdRm."
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Columbus Co N. G.
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
SPECIAL SERVICES AT CATHOLIC CHURCH.
Beginning With Next Sunday Rev. Father
WaIdron viii Hold Three Days Services.

On Sunday next, October goth, spec
ial services will be held at the Catholic
Church at II a. M, High Mass and
sermon with Rev. Father Waldron, OF
Dover, as Celebrant. In the evening
at 1880, Vespers Sermon, by Rev.
Charles McGoldrich, and Benediction.
At.all the services, an elaborate musi-
cal programme will be rendered by
the excellent choir of 81 oily Cross
church, Dover. Choir will be under
the leadership of Miss Mary Hartnett'
The services on Monday Will be IN the
morning at Z and $50, and in the even
ing, Sermon and Benediction at H.So,
Tuesday morning, closing exercises al
10 a. m. The affairs will be elaboratelJ
decorated. The public is welcome t'
attend the services,
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
LARGE CLASS OF PROBATIONERS.
Will be Taken in Full Connection With Asbury
Church on Sunday Morning November
the Second Bishop Joyce Invited.

A special meeting ofthe Glass of Pro-
bationers will be held at Asbury M.
E. Church tomorrow evening at 7.3O
O'Clock when arrangements will be
made for Sunday November the second,
when the class will be taken in full
connection with the church. Rev.
Vaughan S. Collins, the pastor IS
especially anxious for afull attendance
of the class, as it will be the last
meeting before they are taken IN.
Pastor Collins had hoped to have Bis
hop GoOdsell present Sunday Novem"
Der end, but owing to other engage
ments he is unable to come. Rev.
Collins is now endeavoring to get Bis
hop joyce, who presided over the re-
cent session of the Wilmington Con-
ference to be with us, and he has Civ
en- his consent if the Committee in Will
min gton, interested in the meeting
and entertainment of the Board OF
Bishops there next week, will let him
off. The committee has been written
to by Pastor Collins an d a favorablJ
reply is anxiously awaited for. The
class of probationers number ia.
Last Sunday Pastor Collins startec
p his series of sermons on "Fundamen
r tai Truthes." His sermon Sunda,
t morning was "What is Man" and wa
+ enjoyed by a good congregation
n Next Sunday he will preach the secon
" of the series, "Man's Body"
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
SAD DEATH OF JOHN B. WHARTON JR.
Cut Down 10 Early MsuhOOd after a Short III
ness at His Home in Dover.

John B. Wharton, Jr., son of ex-
Sheriff John B. and Mrs. B. L. Whar-
ton, died at the home of his parents in
Dover Thursday evening in the gath
year of his age. He had been confined
to the house but week, and the an
nouncoment of his death came as
shock to his many young friends.
With the exception of short period IN
Philadelphia, all of his life was passed
among associates in Dover. For the
past several months he had been en-
gagged in merchandising on Locker
mau street. He was exceedingly pop.
ular with large circle of friends. Hi
funeral took place Sunday afternoon
Interment at Odd Fellows cemetery
Camden.
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
FARMS NEAR cHESwOLD SOLD.
Pretty Fifty -four Acre Farm Sold to 5. ".
Eyer Of Wyoming For So, lOO-Oiher Kent
County Real Estate Transfers.

E. P. Lapham of near Cheswold,
has sold his "a acre farm near that
place. to Mr.. S. w. Eyer of Wyoming.
The consideration was So, 100. Another
farm near Cheswold has also changed
hands. R. H. VanDyke ESQ.,, OF
Dover the trustee, has sold Mrs. L. ID.
Hicks farm for 800.
James H. Hughes has exchanged the
one-balf interest in the old fair ground
property near Dover with G. W. Lord
for the north side of the three story
brick dwelling on Bradford street
which formerly belonged to ID. Z.
Montgomery, Jr., and is occupied by
IT. Victor Danner. The prices named
are dwelling $1,000, fair ground prop
erty $4,000.
Other real estate transfers recorded
at the Office of Kent County Recorder
of Deeds are: James A. Smith, attor'
nev-in- fact for the heirs of Sarah Nor
ris. on Saturday last sold the Curtis
Morris farm of 113k acres situated II
Mispillion hundred, to Robert ID
Wyatt for $3.50; Sheriff Reedy Tues
day sold property of the late Cornel
ious Duross, near Woodside, to A. L
Magee for $4OO; Levi Morse to George
o anna Hoey, SO acre farm in Mispilllo
!. for $28OO; Harvey A. Berklite to jaime
. NJ. Fisher, farm near Woodside IL
Il S125O; Eli A. Hammond to William
Killen. 100 acre farm in MispilliC
N numbered for $4,000; Margaret S. Cu
>. len to Roscoe G. Taylor SO acre fur
>. near Casson's Corner for $500; Jac
,e L. Keagy to Roscoe D. Rawley, hou
"A and lot on Alley street, Clayton, $l3'
10 William E. Halls heirs to Hervey
n Hall, house and lot in Smyrna, $50
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
PROF. PAYNE ELECTED vICB-PRlNCIPAL.
Board Of School Directors Met Last Evening
and Made Him Successor Of Prof. Griffith.

meeting of the Board of Direc'
tors of the Smyrna Public Schools last
evening after the entertainment, Prof..
George W. Payne of Clinton, n. "
was elected principal of the
Smyrna Public Schools to succeed
Prof. A. S. Griffith, who re signed to
accept the superintendency of the Clay
ton N. j., Public Schools. The cleo
ton of Prof. Payne was unanimous
and was made from fifteen or twenty
applicants.
The Board has been holding the
matter under consideration ever since
the resignation of Prof. Griffith wal
rendered. The testimonials of Prof
Payne we're So fattering, that tn
Board invited him to come to Smyrn
and meet the Directors. He respond
ed quickly to the invitation, and cam
to SMYRNA last evening. The Direct
ors met at the close of the entertain
ment at the Opera House, and mad
: the election. Prof Payne is a sing
man. He is a graduate of Hamllto
College, N. Y, having completed b
course of study there last June. SIM
then he has been attending course
; study at Utica Institute.
s He holds professors certificate
the state of New York, and is We
IL
3 qualified to assist Principal Burde'
= in the High School work. He will e
4 ter upon his duties Immediately.
Smyrna times., 1902-10-22
DEATH OF MISS ANNA DOUGHTEN.
Passed Away at Her Residence, the Home OF
Mrs. Mary J. BewIey, on Monday Afer'
noon After Lingering Illness.

Shortly after the noon hour MONDAY
afternoon, at the home of Mrs. M. j.
Bewley where she resided, the beau
tiful life of Miss Anna DOughten, one
of our best known and most lovable
women, passed out and returned to
the Creator who gave it. After weeks |
of lingering illness from heart
trouble, with alternating hopes and
fears for her recovery, she suffered an
other attack and died almost suddenly
For the past two weeks she had
seemed better and hope was enter
tanned that she would get over this
illness, but her heart being weak she
was unable to Withstand another
attack.
Miss Doughten was the daughter OF
the late James and Elizabeth Dough
ten. of this town. She was born near
Odessa and when a young girl moved
with her parents to Smyrna. She was
educated at the old Smyrna Academy
= that stood on the site near Wright's
: lumber yard, and afterwards became
one of our useful women. For many
wears she was one of the. efficient
, teachers of the Smyrna Public School
7 first starting at the old No. school
before the schools were consolidated
and serving continuously as a membe
:, of the faculty up to her presen
illness. The deceased was a lovel.
70 character in every respect. In
: many pupils who had passed fror
- under her instruction, learned to al
: preciate her many virtues. Her lii
was sacrifice for others and she leave
- behind the fragrance of sweet men
~ ory that will linger in the hearts
~ her pupils and many friends. Ear
-: in life she united herself vii
Asbury M. E. Church. AS a test
IL mony of the high esteem in which 81
p.o was held at the Public Schools t
Board of Directors have ordered tn
the schools be closed on Thursday
a mark of respect The deceased
survived by her aged mother and t.
sisters, Miss Laura DOughten, W
W " lives with her mother at Chester, a
NJ Mrs. John E. Tygert, of Philad
n phla.
Services were held at her late re
-. dence, the home of Mrs. Bewley,
80 Main street, at one O'Clock this aft
!. '' of noon and the remains will be taken
the home of her cousin, Miss NJ.
80 Doughten, in Odessa, where serv
49, will be held at one o'clock to-mor
'no afternoon. interment in Odessa c
NJ etery. The Rev. Vaughan S. Col
NJ. will officiate.