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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30
BLACkBURNS SEEK
VAST FORTUNE VAINLY
Family Went to England to Claim 3
Large Estate.

LONDON. April 30--Certain Ameri-
cans resident in the State OF PennsyI-
vania will learn with regret that they
CashiTe. including the thriving manurac-
turing town OF Blackburn. Thus the
records at Somerset House merciIessIy
destroy another cherished family ira
ditfon.
Probably one-third of the old families
in the United States who can trace their
ancestry back to that overcrowded emil
grant ship. the Mayhowar, or farther,
possess legend regarding the existence
of a fabulous estate In England which,
by right, should belong to them.
Among them the Blackburn family in
Pennsylvania handed down from father
to son the story of al estate In the mid
lands once held by a follower OF VIII
liam the Conqueror, and since passed
Illegally into the possession of pIu-
tocratic Englishmen.
DR.. ]. P. Blackburn. prominent mem
Der of the family, living IN McKees-
port, Pa. decided to investigate this
story for himself. aud crossed on the
James E. Finley. assistant public prose-
cutor of Pittsburg
In Dublin, Liverpool, Manchester. and
Blackburn they patiently followed the
thread of the Blackburn family's for
tunes They found branches OF the fam
lily in ireland possessing the sames ira
dition regarding an immense fortune
which had passed into the wrong hands
In Lancashire they discovered that the
original estate included the city of
Blackburn. Roughly speaking the for
tune represented about &16, 0o0, eco. with
other counties to hear from Cheered
by this information, they came to Lon
don aid pored over musty records In
Somerset House and the public record
oeace.
Trey unearthed plenty OF family his
tory, from the tine of the hrst de
Blackburn" who came from Normandy.
EDWARDS, but at the end of their inves-
LEGATIONS they also found indisputabIe
proof that the fortune had descended
IN the proper manner, from one mem
Der of The family to another The sum
of their labor is represented by a box
that the town Of Blackburn is not theirs,
There is considerable gloom among
other members OF the American branch
Of the family. bat Dr. Blackburn hopes
TO soften the disappointment oy taking
back the Blackburn coat of-arms which
he discovered at the College O. HeraIds.
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carry forward L'Enfant's work as
sentimental and fantastic extrava-
gance. But the future will surely
demonstrate both their wisdom and
their economy. The development they
suggest should undoubtedly be accom-
plished by slow degrees. But the goal
at which they aim should never be OBJ
seured nor forgotten.
Washington opinion should fight to
the last the false economy which
would sacrifice to temporary consid-
erations its true ideals of growth. II
should unite now and always in re-
sisting any influences which tend to
discredit or to disfgure the noble
architectural conceptions which 1t Is
destined some day to realize.
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A Noble Cartoonist.

The Duke of Cirella. who has made
his debut as a cartoonist. in the pages
Of the Paris edition OF the New York
Herald" with some very clever car
toons, signed Cir" belongs to the Nea-
politan nobility, and his mother was
one Of the most famous beauties in En-
rope in the closing days of the Bourbon
court at Naples. In those times the
CireIlas were very wealthy. and pos
sessed vast estates. But. like so many
other patrician families in Italy. they
became impoverished, and the duke,
while not in want, is certainly sensible
in turning his talent as a caricaturist
to good account.
The duke will be remembered as hav-
ing some years ago challenged Sir Rob
ert Peel to a duel, Sir Robert at the
last moment throwing up the sponge and
preferring to apologize TO the duke
rather than fight him.
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0bliyious to Times Flight.

Emperor William, like so many of US,
is obIvious occasionally OF the passage
of time. and seems to forget that he has
been some fifteen years or more on the
throne. that he is nearly forty-six. and
that he IS no longer "one OF the young
est sovereigns in Europe" 1t was as
such that he described himself the other
day at Copenhagen in his speech deliv-
cred at the state banquet given In his
honor by the King Of Denmark. Yet
there are today quite number of Old
World monarchs who are considerably
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30
Downfall Of Prohibition.

The "Healey system regulated the
| traffic in a number of cities Of New
Hampshire until former Governor
Goodell petitioned for and secured from
| Judge Peaslie In January, 1902. a manda-
tory order that the saloons be closed.
| The mandamus proved to be the down
fall not only Of the Healey system, but
OF the prohiht0ry law
For several weeks the saloons were
actually out OF business. but under the
pretext of selling soft drinks and mo
per cent" beer. they gradually resumed
la thriving trade. New saloons. freed
from illegal regulation, spTang up where
no saloons had been before. So the last
state was worse than the first and the
demand for repeal rose to irresistible
proportions.
Politicians are fervently praying that
the liquor question shall never again
become an issue Of heated campaigns.
In the New England States. the West
and the South the situation is the game
Virginia does not want the question TO
come up, though. because Of a large
negro population, which for the greater
part Is composed OF an irresponsible
class. the State is almost willing TO
face the direfuI experience which has
been that of Vermont and New Hamp-
shire.
Senator Daniel probably has made
more Democratic speeches IN Virginia
than any other man. living or dead He
has taken an active part IN the cam
paigns since 1853 with unfaiIing devo-
ton to the cause he represents. Be
sides this he has delivered many ora
lions which illustrate the history OF the
people of the State. He is a man who,
il may be said. would lay aside party
principles If he believed it was to
the best interest of the State. but he
Is found now contending against the
adoption OF the prohibition policy. gov
erned, he says. by principle. not politics.
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New England Liquor Laws.


Some confusion exists in the popular
mind concerning the reaction against
prohibition recently manifested IN the
New England States. Total prohibition
| OF both the manufacture and sale OF
alcoholic liquor for many years has been
law in Maine. New Hampshire and Yer
mont, but The two last mentioned States
have taken action to abandon the policy.
This does not imply that there is not
a majority in those States still oppos-
ed on principle 10 the liquor traf1c, but
| it means that the policy of prohibition
has not brought the results desired and
Expected, and that the trend is from a
theoretical and ineffective plan of aboli-
ton toward some practical method Of
regulation
The reaction in sentiment which
brought about local option in Vermont
aud New Hampshire is marked by the
fact that ten years ago. when a mo-
for repeal of the prohibition law. it
had no respectable support, and prior
TO that time there had been no serious
effort at repeal.
The condition that led to the change
OF sentiment was the recognized failure
OF the prohibition law. Il was sustain
ed In those communities where strong
and resolute popular sentiment support
ed it. but in most of the towns II was
openly violated, the liquor sellers sub
hitting to a system of periodical fines.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30

Mr. Carnegie's latest proposal TO
give $500 900 to the government Of
the Netherlands to erect and maintain
a court house and library at The Hague
for the permanent court OF arbitration.
is one of the finest schemes Of NUM-
fcence which he has yet associated with
his name. So important and august a
tribunal ought TO be permanently and
suitably housed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30
Thinks Washington Supreme.


The Rev. P V Barker. OF Suffolk
county. England is a guest at the New
Willard. He is accompanied by his
wife. and they arrived In Washington
late yesterday afternoon for a few days
ght-seeing They Will then go 10
Niagara Falls and visit points OF in
terest before returning home at the end
OF two weeks. Mr.. Baker Is one of the
eminent divines OF the English Church
and is known as a rural dean" having
charge of more than twenty five
parishes in the county in which he lives.
The bishop, as he would be termed
in the United States, has not visited this
country in twenty years. and to Times
reporter, said: L am greatly surpris-
ed at the growth of the United States
in the past twenty years. I could not
think the country had grown so rapid
ly until I stepped of my boat yesterday
in New York and rode TO my hotel. That
great metropolis has grown beyond all
comprehension. It is destined 10 be
the greatest city in all the world
~ only came to America for q fort
night and hope my brief trip will give
me rest, which i have needed for sew
eraI months. I always enjoyed Wash
inston sights. and came here direct that
l may spend as much time here as pos
sible. II Is great and wonderful city
and far more beautiful than any city
in the world that I have ever visited
and I think I have seen ali OF Washing
ton 5 competitors.
The Church OF England has no in
tentions of affiliating with the Roman
Cot TaFF l..
in this country. The church was never
in a more fourishing condition and &C
cessions are being made every day.
am unable to state how the rumor ever
started, and whoever originated 1t did
not know OF what he spoke"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-04-30

his juniors, including the Car, the
Kings of Portugal. Spain, Servia, and
Italy, the Queen of Holland, the Prince
of Bulgaria, and the reigning Grand
Dukes of SaXe-Weimar and OF MeckIen-
burg SchweTin. In fact. the Kaiser is
today no longer among the youngest
sovereigns of Europe" but among the
older ones.
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HEARD IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

largely to the efforts OF Senator Elkins.
who has done much 10 develop the State
and bring large amounts OF capital there
It is predicted the majority OF the Re
publicans will be near % 900 at the next
election Camden, Chiffon. and Stall
maker have all retired from politics, and
are now actively engaged IN business.
A Wedding at the Raleigh.
The Raleigh was the scene of a pretty
wedding last night and the many guests
of that popular hotel were much inter
ested in the elimination of what must
necessarily have been a successful WOO
ing. The principals In the happy event
were Oliver F. King. OF Lawreneeville.
Brunswick county, Va, and Alice 1.
Thomas. of the same little Virginia
town
Accompanied by Bertram Tabb, of
LawreneeviIIe. the young couple ar
rived at the Raleigh late yesterday I'm
mediateIy. they took Mr. Collins, one OF
the clerks, into their confidence and
learned from him where a marriage Ii
Icense could be obtained. Mr.. Collins
y
OF Christ Church and at S o'clock last
night, the Rev A. s Johns arrived and
the ceremony of marriage was per-
formed
or course, every guest in the house
was interested Right we'll however,
did the young couple retain their COM
posture as they met in the pariOrs in
the presence of number of guests and
assumed the marital bonds. After the
wedding. Mr. and Mrs. King were the
recipients OF many congratulations from
their newly made acquatatances and
the remainder OF the evening was en-
ljoyed in their presence
Mr.. King was not inclined to discuss
the event with the newspaper men, but
his bride said; 'It is not an elopement-
We wanted TO have quiet wedding and
came TO Washington. We appreciate the
kindness OF our new friends and Will
enjoy portion of our honeymoon in
Washington"
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Against the "Code DueIlO."

While the Austrian and Hungarian
ministers of war have recently cham
pioned in parliament at Vienna and at
Pest the system of duelIo, and have
advocated its cause. the minister OF war
OF Belgium, Lieut.. Gen. Cousebant
d 'AIkamade, has come out fat-footod
against It, and declares that while duel
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27
From Street TO Farm.

A man who has been for twenty
five years wholly engaged in the
strenuous life of a member of a board
of trade in m of our largest cities
writes and wants some suggestions
and advice along the line of quitting
his board Of trade business and buy
ing a good small farm and settling
down as an up-to-date progressive
farmer. He writes that he is fast
nearing the & when he will be
turned down and forced aside In favor
of a younger and more vigorous man
and would like to be somewhere and
be doing something where gray hair
would not bar him. He says that he
is well read on the technical and
scientific side of agriculture, but that
his actual experience is limited to
garden and poultry work on a small
scale. The particular thing he is anX-
ious to know is whether it is safe to
make this radical change of employ
ment in a financial way. Yes, if he
will not carry to the farm his board
of trade style of living and be content
to begin in a very moderate way,
learning as he goes. We see this diff
ficulty-the excitement, high pressure
and ~intoXication, as it may be term
ed, associated with a board of trade
life would make for him the quiet,
peaceful work of the farm seem mex
pressibly dull and monotonous at
times, and it would be strange in,
deed if he did not long for the flesh.
pots of Egypt; but possibly the Ger
tainly improved health and appetite,
the release from the ever present ner.
your strain of city life and the oppor,
tunity thus afforded to crafty his
love of nature and natural things
would to a large extent compensate
and tend to make him contented
Something also depends upon how his
wife and family look on this scheme
for a man had better rush up and
down the city streets till he drops
dead than undertake to enjoy life il
! the country with a petulant, discon
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27
ALFALFA IN IOWA.

State Dairy Commissioner Wright
is sending out sever.l circulars to
dairymen and farmers on subjects Of
Importance to them. One of these
circulars is on Growing Alfalfa in
Iowa" Mr.. Wright is strongly in
favor of more extensive growth Of
alfalfa, and says if it's value was more
generally appreciated a more per-
sistent effort would be made to dis
cover just how to proceed in growing
it. He says further:
Not only does successfully grown
alfalfa produce three or more tons of
hay to the acre, but it has a feeding
value almost exactly equal to that of
bran. 1t furnishes the protein which
is not found in sufficient amount in
any of the commonly grown grains or
folders from which a balanced ration
can be put together. If Iowa farmers
can grow alfalfa they will no longer
need to buy bran and oil meal to feed
with corn to their COWS, and neither
will the steer feeder find it necessary
to buy cotton seed meal to balance
his ration for his steers. The extra
ordinary value of alfalfa will warrant
considerable expense in experiment.
ing on a few acres.
1T is useless to try alfalfa on soil
that is wet or that has a hard pan
sub-soil. 1t requires soil sufficiently
porous so that it's roots may go down
from ten to IS feet. Mature alfalfa
is one of the most vigorous plants,
but young alfalfa is one of the weak
est plants grown. 1t grows slowly, is
a weak feeder. and is easily checked
h, u,anlC nv nthnr inf unroh1n nnn-
ditions of soil or weather. Hence. the
soil should be free from weeds, in the
best possible filth, rich in plant food
and not too loose on the surface or
the seed will lack moisture on the
surface for termination and growth.
for termination and growth. Alfalfa
Alfalfa should be seeded at the
rate of 20 or more pounds per
acre and should have the full
use of the land the first year,
and should be moved but not
removed from the ground as soon as
is at all sour, lime may be added with
profit. .
Some experiments in Illinois seem
to indicate a probability that inocula-
ton of the soil will be a valuable aid
III SioWlu6 alfalfa. ny putting N IL
soil some of the soil brought from
old alfalfa fields of western Iowa or
Nebraska it is believed that the bac-
terra necessary for the successful
growth of alfalfa will be furnished
and will quickly multiply and insure
the best results from the alfalfa.
The dairymen of the state will find
the question of the proper ration COM
pletely solved as soon as they can
raise sufficient alfalfa hay for their
cows. as alfalfa hay and corn make a
balanced ration for COWS Under
present conditions, ever if the farmer
has good clover nay, he must buy oil
meal or bran or some other feed that
will supply the lack of protein in corn
and corn fodder and the other farm
grains and rough feeds"
In another circular Mr.. Wright
urges all producers of milk to provide
some green feed to supply his cows
late in the summer to make up for
short pasturage. He advises plant
ing a few acres of some variety of
corn, planted thick. and fed to cows
late in July or August. Sorghum
planted at the rate of 100 pounds to
the acre is also favored.-Des Moines
Register.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27

In these days of almost universal
combination of business interests we
note just two lines yet left out in the
cold-the farm and the church. Zach
Of these is jogging along at the same
old gait, going it alone in the old COM
petitive way while meeting the power
of combined interests at every point.
The farmer today is rocked to sleep
as a baby in a cradle made by a trust,
he like enough is raised on a bottle
made by a trust, he goes to work
later on in a trust made wamus, over.
alls, shoes and hat, he plows with a
trust pillow, seeds his fields with a
trust seeder, drags them with a trust
drag, c%ultivates his corr with a trust
c%ultivator, harvests his crops with a
trust harvester, thrashes it with a
trust thrasher. hauls his crops to mar
ket on a trust wagon, has his load
weighed on a trust scales and sells to
a representative Of the grain dealers
trust; he loads up in town with a load
Of trust lumber or coal, buys some
trust sugar and beef and tobacco and
goes home to sleep in a trust bed.
When he dies, he is buried in a trust
coffin after being treated by a trust
doctor and laid out by a trust under
taker, about the only thing in his
whole career not being controlled by
a trust being the funeral sermon by
the UNCONVENTIONAL parson, who alone
with the deceased still fights his way
through life free of any religious
trust. This state of affairs should
operate to turn the granger's
thoughts toward religion when he
finds that the trusts are 100 many for
him.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27
Clover In the Cornfield.

About sowing Cover in a cornfield:
1t car be done successfully provid-
ed the season is favorable. In a
clean field given as level cultivation
as possible the clover may be sown in
early July Immediately after the last
working and with sufficient rain will
give a good stand for a crop the next
season. The corn Should not be pick
ed until the ground is frozen, and the
stock should not be allowed the run
of the field. The stalks should be
broken down just before the frost
goes out in the spring. One objection
to this plan is that with the old stalks
left on the field the first cutting of
hay is a rough old mess.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27
WHO BUYS SNUFF.

The general impression is that
there has been a great decline in the
use of snuff. Snuff boxes are no
longer in evidence in fashionable So
ciety. In the cities not one man In
10000 takes snuff. In the country dls-
tricts of the North not one mar in a
township is addicted to the use of
snuff. In the rural districts of Ken
lucky and Tennessee less is used than
before the civil war.
Yet the American Snuff company,
which controls 95 per cent of the
product in the United States, reports
net earnings for last year of 81 $780,
GIT, and pays dividends of 1895 ,042.
After paying dividends, the company,
with assets of $25,315, 900, has a sur
plus of SLABS 4S. This would indi-
cate a heavy business in snuff.
There were manufactured in the
United States in 1876, $4,000 pounds
of snuff; in 1902 there were manu-
featured 16, 70 900 pounds. In other
words, five times as much snuff was
made in this country last year as 25
years ago. Who buys it; who uses it?
The statistics of manufacture do
not answer these questions, or the
10, 1905, 81 pounds of snuff manufacture
ed In the United States In the census
year of 1900, New Jersey produced
4,23S,5 SAL pounds, Pennsylvania $685.
SAL pounds, Tennessee 1885,, 927
pounds, Maryland 1892 2 pounds,
Illinois 7O7, 1915 pounds, Virginia 640,-
075 pounds. The people of one Of
these states, however, were heavy con-
sumers of snuff.
or the five kinds of SNUFF manufac-
tured that year, the greater part of the
Scotch grade went to Germany and
to the whites and negroes in louisa
ma, Arkansas, Texas, and Indian terri
tory. Sweet snuff, used for dipping.
found heaviest sale in North and
South Carolina. |f-'i
OF Maccaboy snuff the largest sales
were in New England, and, Rappee
snuff found many buyers in the North
western state, though most of it went
abroad. But wherever it was sold it
is certain that we are manufacturing
more snuff than ever before and find
ing a ready market for it.-Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27

"'You never kin tell which way any
pleasure is a. comm. Who ever
would "a thought, when we aimed at
the cemetery, that we'd land up at a
first-class fire?'"
al b1ieve in havin' a good time
when you start out to have it. If you
git knocked out of one plan, you want
to git yerself another right quick, be-
fore yer sperrits has a chance to
fall"
THE way to git cheerful is to
smile when you feel bad, to think
about somebody else's headache when
yer own is most Dustin, to keep on
believin' the sun is a-shinin' when
the clouds is thick enough to cut"
Don't you go an git sorry fer yer.
self. That's n thing l can't stand
in nobody. There's always lots of
other folks you kin be sorry fer Std
of yerself. Amt you proud you amt
got a hairlip? Why, that one thought
is enough to keep me from ever git
tin sorry fer myself"
The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-27
Logging Bees.

Fifty years ago all through the
states of Wisconsin, Indiana and
Michigan the logging bee was a COM
mon thing. We recall it as we knew
it in the state of Wisconsin, where
settlers had located in the big timber.
The great thing to be desired then
was to get rid of the splendid timber
with which their land was covered in
the easiest possible manne so that a
field on which crops might be grown
could be cleared up. The wood at
that time had no value whatever
either as fuel, fencing or for MANI
featuring purposes. This timber was
largely hard maple, white a and
beech, the growth Of centuries, many
of the larger trees being three feet in
diameter. The settler would cut
these trees down and into lengths so
that they could be moved into leg
piles. When he had a sufficient
amount felled, the neighbors would
come TO the logging bee, which con-
sisted of hauling these logs into piles
and burning them up, a process
which, though seemingly necessary
in those early days, seems to us of
this day a wicked and wanton waste
Of a most valuable product. We have
seen a single log heap burning con-
tanning timber which would sell for
hundreds of dollars today. So far as
we know there are no logging bees
going on today.