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The commonwealth., 1902-03-27

nanieS from each of the three regiments
of the State, under the command OF Col.
I. F. Armfield, of Statesville, will be N
Charleston.
MANY of the cities of the State have
special ...Days' during that week, andA it
will be a great place where Carolinlans
from the east. the west and the center
will fraternize and clasp hands Win
their brethren of South Carolina.
THE CITY AN EXPOSITION.
The city of Charleston is in itself an
Exposition. It has within and without
it's CITY walls score on score of places o.
intense interest. for here has history
heen made. In another section OF THIS
paper space is given to Charleston ltsea.
but the visitor. to the Exposition Will
need condensed memorandum, and mere
is presented list of places, eacn o1
which should be seen while in Charles
ton.
Some of the spots of beauty and fame
are:
The Famous Central Market and it's
Hall.
Circular Church.
St. Philips Church.
Old GRAVEYARD.
Hall of Records.
St. MichaePs Church, attended by
washington. Chimes brought from Eng
land.
Burial Place of Robert Y. Hayne.
Washington Square.
Pitts Monument.
Statue of Timrod "a Southern Poet.)
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27
BOARD IN CHARLESTON.
Accommodation and Reasonable
Rates In Some Private
Homes.

To parties desiring entertainment at
other places than the hotels when liz
Charleston, the following information is
given:
Exposition visitors will be welcomed
by Mrs. SHuger Bacot. 20 Tradd street,
one door west of Meeting street car line.
Terms so cents and up for lodging, ac-
,cording to location and number in room.
Meals, three per day, one dollar. Pay
ment In advance.
A comfortable home for permanent or
transient boarders will be found on troll
ley line, 36 Charlotte street, Miss Lizzie
F. Smith. Terms $3.50 day for board
and lodging.
Mrs. S. E. Menke, sc Society street
convenient to all car lines, offers to re-
ceive guests at the following rates: 81
per day for two meals and one nights
lodging. Three meals and lodging $3.50.
Lodging so cents a night. Special rates
by the week.
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27
EXPOSITION GROWING MORE
BEAUTIFUL.

The latest number of the Charleston
News and Courier says of the present
state Of affairs at the Exposition:
Yesterday was a typical winters day
in Charleston. The sky was bright. the
sunshine warm and the air filed with
the perfume of flowers, and the trees
and hedges were vocal with the song OF
birds. The streets were filed with peo-
pie and the Exposition grounds and
nearby resorts were thronged with visi-
tors.
The Exposition is growing more beau
tiful every day, and now that the
weather is making out-of-door life SO
very attractive. the authorities are pro-
viding continuous performances for the
visitors. Every afternoon and evening
Alfreno. the most daring high rope
walker in the world, startles and delights
the visitors to the Midway with his mid
air performances. The gallant Capt.
Leonard, of the Marine Corps, has con-
sented to give daily exhibition drills on
the grounds. The Cadets of the South
Carolina Military Academy will give a
dress parade on South Carolina Day, and
the Helen May Butler Military Band,
which has been engaged by the EXPOSE
tion Company, will play for this parade,
and give daily concerts in the Court OF
Palaces. Next Saturday afternoon and
night, the First Artillery Band will give
two concerts at the band stand, Court of
Palaces, and on Sunday afternoon, after
the organ recital in the Auditorium, will
give a grand sacred concert in the Court
of Palaces. And next week and the week
after, up to the end of the Exposition ill
June or July, it is proposed to provide
the public With SO many and so varied
attractions that the Exposition will re
the very centre of all life in the commit
nitv.
"All visitors to the Exposition are d.
lighted with tits splendid architecture.
it's enchanting vistas, it's beautiful fiow-
ers and jakes and fountains and statu-
ary. and it's wonderfully representative
character. The right thing to do. evi-
IDENTIFY. is to go to the Exposition, and to
keep on going. 1t will soon vanish like
the baseless fabric of dream. Let us
all enjoy it while We may
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27

Building Shattered by Shell from Union
Gunboat.
Washington Light Infantry Monument.
Church Damaged by the Earthquake.
The Wall Street of Charleston, Broad
Street.
The Confederate Home.
The Charleston Library.
Consular Offices.
The Old Post Office, from which Extend
the Steps from which Gen. Washington
Spoke, and which was formerly a War
Prison.
Museum.
The Isle of Palms.
U. S. Custom House.
Wharves.
The Mall.
Magnolia Cemetery.
Country Club Grounds.
Indian Battle Fields.
Mount Pleasant. over the River.
Naval Site, purchased by Government.
Old Lawton Plantation and Homestead.
Chicora Park.
Palmetto Trees.
Porter Military Academy.
Memminger, Bennett and other Public
Schools -
Mile Stone dated 1888.
Quaint Old Gate to WAGNER Planta-
tion.
Citadel Green.
German Lutheran Church.
) Famous. Statue John c. Calhoun.
South Carolina Military Academy.
Citadel Square Baptist Church.
Piece of Tabby Wall. -
Colonial Lake.
Historic James Island. -
1 st. t.3Finhar's Cathedral and Chapel.
Fine Specimens OF Colonial Mansions.
South Carolina Hall.
Fort Sumter.
Fort Moultrie. ~ =
The Beautiful Battery.
= Picturesque Meeting Point of thu
Cooper and Ashley Rivers.
Evidences of the Destructive Work oe
Earthquake of 1886.
Memorial to Confederate Dead.
Jasper Statue.
Bust of Simms.
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27
THREE GREAT HOTELS.

The visitor to Charleston will have no
difficulty in being housed in Charleston
during his visit, and he can pay In sums
as his fancy or his pocketbook may de-
termine.
Here are hotels, boarding houses and
private houses with rates OF 81 to So a
day and hotels whose figures are from
81 to So per dav. II preferred there are
rooms to be had at from 25 cents to ;.
a day and meals can be had on the
European plan at from 25 cents upwards
in restaurants scattered over the city
and at the Exposition. A letter to the
Department of Publicity at the Exposi
ton will bring you a complete list Of
boarding houses.
But Charleston boasts OF three great
hotels: The Charleston. long establish
ed, the st. John and the Argyle leach of
which are fully abreast with modern
hotel ideas, the rates being from $3.50
to So per day. according to the hotel se-
lected and the accommodations received.
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27
ATTRACTIONS IN THE CITY.

Visitors Co Charleston will ind most
of interesting places to visit. which It
viewed thoroughly would take weeks,
perhaps months. A short account OF
some of the chief places Of interest will
be of value to the North Carolinian who
wants to learn what is to be seen.
The city and county government IS
happily housed in spacious and COM
manding buildings at the corner OF Meet
ing and Broad streets, and along this
street will be found large number OF
banking houses and the offices Of the
professional men of the city. On one
corner OF Meeting and Broad is the Ia
nous st. Michaers Church, whose his
toric chime of bells have crossed the
ocean five times, and have history OF
their own In the pews of this historic
church Gen. George Washington sat in
worship and in its graveyard the mar
bles show the names Of men who have
been forces in their day. From the tow
er each quarter of an hour is told OF In
the chimes, and on Sunday their music
swells and dies in hymns. while on fes-
tai occasions they break into merry
peals of well known airs which have in
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27


their notes fellowship and good will.
The new postoffice, a magnificent
is across the way, and Just be-
.yond is the Police Department, a most
interesting structure. In the city square.
located between the City Hall and the
Fire Proof Building. is the Pitt statue,
which shows the hard usage time has
brought to it.
At the foot of Broad street is the ''Old
Postofffce,' from whose steps Gen. Wash
ington spoke in 1891, and which is place
with an interesting history. At one
time a prison Col. Isaac Hayne was con-
fined in its cellars. and led from it to
execution. this being, during the time it
was used as the Provost. by the Brit
ish commandant in 1780-8f.
The Custom House, ON East Bay, near
the foot of Market street, is a beautiful
building, and from it's eastern side fine
view of the Cooper river is obtained.
The Central Market is another place
of interest. 1t begins with two-story
hall on Meeting street, opposite Market
street, and extends across many streets
to East Bay. Here the visitor should
go early in the morning, or on Saturday
evening between 6 and o'clock il he
wants to see the method of business.
Along the side of the market, especially
of that section devoted to the sale OF
meat and fish. may be seen the useful
buzzards, the "scavengers without COST
that are unique sight.
Besides the places mentioned in this
review of Charleston there are others of
great interest, among these are St. Phil
in oh,
monuments to famous men may be seen
that Of Cardinals greatest son, John
Caldwell Calhoun. On the southeast
corner ofs Church and Queen streets is
the "Huguenot' church, we'll worth a
visit. On Broad street is the Roman
Catholic Cathedral, st. Finbars. which is
now being re-erected on the old lines,
! having been destroyed in the great fire OF
| 1861
The Citadel Square, with a specimen
of the old "Tapia'' or "Tabby'' wall, part
Of the old Revolutionary lines of de-
fense, should be seen. On the plaza the
drill of the cadets will be enjoyed.
Th various schools and colleges have
imposing buildings and these are worth
visiting. Especially should the library
and Museum of the College of Charles
ton be seen.
The Pringle House, one of the oldest
houses in Charleston, built about 1765 by
Miles Brewton, is probably the best pre-
served and most elegant specimen Of CO.
lonial architecture to be seen In the city.
lit IS on the west side Of King street. the
Esec0nd above Lambol1 street. Miles Brew
ton. with his whole family. was lost at
sea, and the house passed to three sis
l fuYc hoe NOS Dnha
Motto. famous in Revolutionary times,
who was living in it when the British
Occupied the city. 1882. The house was
then the headquarters of Sir Henry
Clinton and was afterwards used by Lord
Rawdcn.
The William Washington House is an
other historic place. 1t is a wooden
building, corner of South Battery and
Church streets, and was the property o
Col. William Washington. of fame as q
Revolutionary officer.
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27

it is just possible there may be other
betrothals made during the Exposition.
Two other fine bronZes are those loaned
by Mr.. Theodore B. Starr. One is
PAN by MacMonnies, while his The
Fisher Boy" is another. On the edge
of Lake Juanita, as if just arisen from
hiding place in the marsh is a third
bronze, the work of Shrady. 1t is
great moose and the sculptor's work is
true to nature.
A group destined to become famous is
''The Negro Group by Charles A. Lopez,
who has embodied in it the negro in
three characters-moral, agricultural.
educational. Because the negroes OBJ
jected to it this was not placed in front
of the Negro Building, it was regard
ed by them representing their race il
too menial occupations. 1t is typical and
is a much studied group.
1.-The Mermaid and Dolphin pedestal
and balustrade around the lake in the
Sunken Garden by Gudebrod is eff
fective conventionalzed representation
of two little mermaids sporting about a
dolphin. 1.-THE Colonial Group of Lenz
is another beautiful creation, as is the
bronze enlargement of the "Bucking
Broncho," by Burglum, seen just before
entering the Midway, while Martino's
"Fisher Boy is yet another.
In antiques there are many such as
Apollo, Mercury, Borghese Warrior,
Diana, Venus Milo, Marble Fawn, Ura1!ia
Cupid and others. In busts there arc
Hermes, Bacchus, Venus Curdos and
others. making in all most charming
display.
NORTH CAROLINA WEEK
= The magnificent exhibit made by North
Carolina is an attraction which will be
an added power to draw North Carolin-
fans to the Exposition, and from all Lover
the State they are going to give aid TO
heroic Charleston in making a success
of her Exposition.
While visitors from this State will go
by thousands during the Exposition there
is one week that will see Charleston
captured by the forces from North
Carolina. This is the week beginning
April {, and during that time Governor
Aycock and his sta #. escorted by COM
posite regiment made up of four COM
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27


end Is a large window In 'front.' of which
is the chancel and in it the altar, pulpit
and reading desk, with canopy above.
winding stairs leading up to the pulpit.
Over the window are the Royal Arms of
England. Four Doric columns support
the roof and marble tablets adorn the
walls.
Summerville is about twenty two miles
from Charleston and is famous resort
in the centre of pine woods. The magni-
fieent Pine Forest Inn and the Dorches-
ter Inn are here. and the visitor who
wants to visit one Of the finest health
resorts in the world should pay a visit
to Summerville.
The famous Pinehurst Tea Farm Of DR..
c. U. Shepard is one Of the chief attrac-
tions. The hunters find game in abund-
ance in the woods around, and the place
is growing rapidly.
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27

The average man who contends that
paving insurance premiums is an un-
economic investment spends them ia
barrooln to prove il. 4 s.S
The commonwealth., 1902-03-27
THE RACE TRACK.

horse racing is an exciting sport, and
-l4ae feature OF the Charleston Expo
lion are the daily races which take
1la.e here each afternoon. The track is
" nalt mile one and is located near the
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19

Oak stain is made by mixing togeth
or pint OF boiled linseed oil, n gill
and half of turpentine. three table
spoonfuls OF raw umber. three table-
spoonfuls OF whiting. Mahogany stain
Is made with one pint OF boiled oil,
gill and half OF turpentine, three tn
blespoonfuls OF burnt sienna, three Ia
blespoonfuls OF whiting, half n table
spoonful or yellow ocher, half n table
spoonful OF bismarck brown and half
tablespoonful OF aniline black. A
little OF the stain should be tried on
piece OF board before trying 1t on any
articles or furniture or n floor. The
shade Of color may be deepened or
nghtened by increasing or diminishing
the colorIng matter. The stain should
be rubbed into the wood and after a
day or two the floor rubbed hard with
n soft wooden cloth.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19

If grapes are sacked the latter part
Of July, they may remain on the vines
until freezing weather aud will be
cleaner and finer favored. says an ad-
vocate OF the practice
The national farmers congress will
be held at Macon. Ga. Oct 40.
Big crops of both wheat and corn
II conditions continue favorable, are
now the talk.
The live stock market continues
strong.
Angora goats stand dry weather
well.
Baling hay directly from the wind
row appears to be a growing practice
In dry regions of the west and south
west.
The soil is the farmers bank, and
plant food represents his deposits
therein.
Continued cold weather and heavy
Gains In June have severely damaged
the grain and fruit crops OF France,
Germany and Austria.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19

A Massachusetts cook who has n
good word to say about the value OF
seasoning in cooking makes some sug-
gestions along this line which win be
novel to many people. For instance.
she seasons apple pie with three table
spoonfuls of freshly made Japan tea.
baked beans with a half cupful OF
sweet cream during the last hour OF
baking, corned beef hash with cayenne
pepper, fresh meats with q tablespoon
ful of brown sugar and fish with cider
vinegar.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19
SOY BEANS.
Why They Sometimes Dfsapual~a
Farmers at Their Ffrst trial

T.
Farmers ut Their First Trial.
Soy beans should never be soyyu
until the soil is thoroughly warm.
They are hot weather plants. Immedi-
tely after planting corn is generally 4
Sood time 10 put the seeds In the
ground. IL planted for seed. sow with
grain drill. stopping up the holes so
as TO make rows about thirty-two inch
es npSrt. When grown for hay or soil
Ing. they may be drilled like wheat.
using about live pecks of seed TO the
acre. but they are vigorous plants. aud
even for hay better results will gen.
orally be obtained by giving them
more room. They may be cultivated
With a weedcr or one horse cultivator
at the outset. Later they cover the
ground and take care OF themselves
until ready to cut. The cutting can be
done with special bean harvester IL
the soil is soft enough to permit or
with an ordinary mower. though it
should be remembered that the stems
become tough and hard to cut as the
plant rlpens, and on this account Il Is
well not to delay the harvest longer
than Is necessary. For hay the plants
may be cut soon after they begin to
blossom; for silage as soon as the pods
are developed and before they are ripe.
III grown for seed, it is well to harvest
as soon as the seeds are ripe and be-
fore the pods dry out and begin to
split
Farmers are liable to make the mis-
take OF assuming from a first years
experience that the soy bean will not
develop tubercles on their land. In
1900 four varieties were grown In our
forage plots, and all made fine
growth. But none OF the plants devel-
oped nodules. In the spring OF 1904
three OF these plots were planted With
seed gathered from them In the fall of
1900. The fourth plot was some dis
lance away I'm 1900. and It was decided
to plant seeds obtained from Il next
the other three. The plot chosen for
this seed bore i'm 1900 an imperfect
stand of blue lupines. To my surprise,
the plants in the three plots that had
borne soy beans In 1900 produced tu-
bercles i'm 1901 In large numbers. while
on those of the third plot, which. so
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19

SOY BEAN ROOTS SHOWING TUBERcLEs
far as known, had never before borne
soy beans. not n single tubercle was to
be found.
Just why the tubercles should not APP
pear the first year and should appear
In large numbers the second is not at
present easy 10 explain. but the fact is
important as Offering an explanation
Of the disappointment which some
farmers experience with the plant.
Planting n second season OH the same
land appears to be necessary TO get the
soy bean at work as Il nitrogen fixer.
In soils deficient In combined nitrogen
the crop is at first likely to anguish
because OF failure to develop root nod
ules.
The nOdules can be grown artiticially
the first season. II was demonstrated
In our plots in 1901 that the tubercles
can be grown in great numbers on the
roots Of soy beans by the use Of pure
cultures OF the tubercle bacteria.-H.
German, Kentucky Station.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19
wAfER RIehrs INvIoLArE.
spriaEz and Wells An Palestine Arc
Protected by severe Laws.


Protected by severe Laws.
Water is the most precious thing IN
Palestine. and the laws which protect
springs and wells are very severe.
Most of the wells are artificial. Rich
men at very great expense have CHS
etSd basins and reservoirs out OF the
rocks to receive the flow from springs,
and In many places where no springs
could be found they have drilled
through the limestone n hundred feet
and sometimes twice that distance TO
the artesian basin.
None but very rich Sheiks can afford
such an expenditure. Nevertheless,
they have not only been the greatest
benefactors of their fellow men, but
those who have sunk wells and built
fountains have erected monuments to
their fame more enduring than palaces
or temples or shafts OF granite.
The temple of Solomon has vanished
forever, but the pools which he walled
up with masonry and filed with water
still remain. The wells that Abraham
and Jacob drilled In the rock as acts
OF piety as well as power are as Inn
mortal as their names and viii live for
ever as long as men feel thirst.
According TO n Just custom OF tho
country, water rights could never be
forfeited. No man who owned well
might refuse his neighbor water for
his family or his focks, but the lord
OF the spring was invlolate. No cred
itor or enemy could take his water
rights away from him. To injure or
ill up well was an objectionable
crime. When the Philistines threw
earth and stones into the well OF Abra-
ham, they intended TO challenge him
20 war OF determination. These GUS
toms and regulations remain today
Chicago Record Herald.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19
the RALElSA HOUSE
MISS tETJIe HOLMES, PrOprietress.
BLUEFiElD, WEST VIRGINIA.

This is a new house, near the
depot Nice clean rooms and
beds. Table furnished with
the best A good home like
hotel for regular boarders or
transients. Rates only $l.0O
per day. A good livery at
tatched.
Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1902-09-19
A Few Good Bargains In
+ A r NJ S

800 Acres. stock fam i'm the best blue
grass section of southwest Virginia, on
the railroad one mile from station; good
Improvements, very large orchard of
best improved fruit, fine neighborhOOd
Price $40, 900. Easy terms.
"a acre fruit farm ali rich land, beautiful
orchard, comfortable cottage. Price
81. 900.
Beautiful grain, grass aud fruit farm, 100
acres, level land. on railroad half
mile from station, 1900 bearing apple
trees, best varieties. Rare bargain
~, 300.
40 Acre truck and fruit farm close 10
Roanoke, large strawberry beds, acres
red raspberries, 1000 fruit trees; nice s
room residence. For quick sale, - 300
$50 Acres OF iTst-class land in a high
state of cultivation. i'm sight OF Roam
oke city, at $40 per acre. Nothing on
the market better than this. do not
delay III you want IL.
215 Acres blue grass farm. 20 acres river
bottom, 20 acres timber. ba lance i'm blue
grass; fruit of all kinds; good improve
ments; on n. * w. railroad, a great
bargain at $4,000. Payments TO suit
you.
li6 Acres with lovely Improvements, nice
location ia the best section of Roanoke
county. $3.50 per acre. a great deal
OF fine creek bottom and No. trucking
land.
GA Acres in good. state of cultivation.
we'll fenced and good water and fruit
Plenty of timber. Six miles from the
city. 81. 500.
An ideal farm of 40 acres, in high
state of cultivation, with beautiful -
room brick residence, ON nice elevation
in grove OF large forest cakes, with
every necessary on building, very large
orchard, near the city. This is q &c OF
the most desirable farms In the Valley
of Virgin $50 per acre.
A beautiful farm of 40 acres on Roanoke
river l06 acres of bottom land; upland
all good. 10 room residence nicely
painted and papered, fine spring water
and plenty OF timber; near the city.
Price so, 800 in very easy payments.
A beautiful farm of 500 acres of the finest
land in Roanoke county. fine brick
dwelling, which cost over $4,000 to
build, tenant houses, all necessary
Outbuildings 9J acres of finest bottom
land. 200 fruit trees, some good TIM
Der. Price $4,000.
| Splendid bluegrass farm of 800 acres 4
miles from rail- Dad, first class I'M
| prOy3ment; everything in good condi-
dltlon. This rs beauty. $50 per acre,
Montgomery bluegrass farm of l36 acres
good improvements, we'll fenced, fine
/ water, plenty of fruit, all good land
Price IS, 5000.
Adjoining farms on N. IL w. Ry, q
mics east of. Roanoke, level and
SmOothe, with fine improvements, good
orchards. This land is hhe for grain
and especially adol ted to fruit growing
ana belong TO IN estate that must bt
settled up. Can be sold on long time
at nom IS to $40 per acre, in any size
tract desired