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The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1905-06-01
Tuggle Bros.

The GAZETTE IL selling our
Poland Chinas. 1t paws to add
vertisc. Our mail carrier says
we get about oue-third of the
mail and furnish over one-halt
the cancellations on our route,
which is twenty-three miles
long.
TuGGLE Bros,
WATERFOWL, Tenn.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1905-06-01

Every farmer should work for
good roads. He should do all
he can to influence his congress-
man to work for national aid TO
good roads,
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1905-06-01

The eating OF deca wing flesh
BY fowls il very in urious.
The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1905-06-01
Breeders Cards,

Under this heading. ads will be in
serted for IS cents Il word for one year:
20 cents a word for six months: Is
cents a word for three months Name,
numbers and initials count as words.
No advertisement accepted for less
One Dollar. Count the words
carefully and Send Cash with
the Ad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19

youthful widow who has passed the teeth
ing stage of her bereavement.
= These We're only few of the simple ones
in style and treatment and title, but of the
many shown on the tall models during long
afternoons in those moss green parlors
there were dozens purchased by peers,
earls and a few dukes and their wives who
came to have cup of tea and pick out
something soulfully lovely for the next gar
den party or wedding in ST. Georges.
OF course, London is magic mad and Is
finding the occult in everything, from Jap
anese crystals to the American cakewalk,
but the mystical thought expressed in cos
tunes was one of the greatest things that
ever came there since the obelisk was
hoated down the Thames and set up on the
Embankment.
Here in America we have unconsciously
exploited the idea for many seasons, dur
ing which we have been industriously elm
mating evil things in the way of dress
street sweeping trains and SUCH
The American woman needs no japanese
crystal to tell her how to dress. She takes
a daily hint from Paris, embellishes II
here and cuts 1t down there and you have
as Worth declared before he died, the
best dressed woman in the world
Our horse show has become one of the
greatest dress meets in the world, great
even as the Grand Prix at Longchamps OF
dinners Sunday nights are certainly occa,
sions in which one not gifted with second
sight can read the story of woman'S emery
ment from her shell and mans enacemen'
of himself that she may shine against a
fitting background.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19

by artists who love to deck themselves in
loose, baggy velvet effects, murderous
sombreros and flowing silken ties. But no
one would care to have the Latin Quarter
fashions transplanted to Broadway.
A little of that sort of thing goes a
great way with US. for although we are
yet IN our primer stage of dress mysticism
we could not associate manly American
manhood with the lace collar and knee
breeches that Edmund Russell and some
others have sought to infect our civiliza-
ton with.
TX Is because we are beginning to per-
celTe truths in the relations of clothes to
the times and the individual that the plain
ness OF the American mans dress pleases
US SO much We are quite aware that the
moment they began TO trim up their hats
and wear openwork shirts there would be
corresponding lack of simplicity In per-
sonality manners and morals.
No real man can afford to go in for
beauty in his clothes, to pin punches of
violets at his horses ears or on his bull
dogs collar. Women were built for the
purpose OF hanging beautiful laces and
Jewels upon. and when man adfnires a
weii-dressed woman, as he does almost
childshly. he is admiring hneness deli
eacy, color. richness-all the gorgeousness
that is denied him in everything but his
dressing gown and pajamas.
The moment he dares to go In for frill
or two himself he Is lost. He can have
purple orchids on his mantlepiece, but II
he wears one in his coat 1t argues q desire
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-19

known the country round as Aunt Jane
live in the millers house on little hill
above the mill site. This house has been
remodeled, being two stories, whereas in
Washington's time 1t was one story with
high hip roof. But the foundation and some
of the framing of Dents house is that of
Washington's miller's house.
In the parlor of the Walton home hangs
the familiar picture of George Washington
seated on the veranda of Mount Vernon
explaining to Mrs Washington the plans
for the city of Washington. Standing near
the couple are Nellie Custis, George WASH
ington Parke Gusts and Billy Lee, Wash
ingtons body servant. Descendants of
Billy Lee live at Gum Springs. little
place between Mount Vernon and Alexan-
dria) This picture is only lithograph.
backed by brown cardboard. but on the
back of this cardboard, written In ink is
this: Presented to Mrs. EhZabeth-W ASH
ington by George Washington Parke Gus
It's, July T. 1902" Below this Is written:
Presented to Anna S. Wright by NJ. NJ.
Foot, January, 1s47." Mrs, Foot was de-
seconded from the Washingtons OF Mount
Vernon. She gave the picture 10 Anna S.
Wright of the family Of the Quaker Thomas
Wright. and Mr.. Walton married into the
Wright family.
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Walton Hose; Foundation Was Part of Washington. Mill

White House. In connection wiz. the meet
ing house, the Friends opened public GEM
etery, the first in that part of Fairfax
county The aristocratic families had their
private burying grounds but not so with
the poor whites of the neighborhood.
The cemetery is beautifully maintained,
the mound above each grave being kept
green and shapely. The Star man walked
among these graves and read the inscrip-
lions ON the headstones of many OF the
Quaker pioneers Chalkley Gillingham, 1s07,
1881; Kezia Dillingham; 1SO7-1S72; David
walton. Thomas Wright, Hillman Troth,
etc. Jacob NJ Troth returned to New Jer-
sew and died there. His son, Jacob III.
Troth, owns Belle View. picturesque place
next to Woodlawn mansion. This gentle
man is president of the Virginia Peace So
ciety. and in other ways prominent
Friend
David Walton in 1857 built the mansion
house of the farm called Walnut Hill. His
grandson Edward Walton, lives there to-
day. The foundation of this house is built of
stones from George Washdngtons mill ..M one
of these stones is rudely marked w. X.
117O' and ct. A. 1774." The assumption
is that Washington employed some men
to make repairs to the mill and that w;
r. and IT A." were workmen employed
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labor. Two weeks ago John Doyle a
young fellow of twenty-five, who had been
convicted several times OF theft, volun-
tarily surrendered himself to the rolce
and confessed that he had stolen Mr.
Sernes watch. London having grown a
bit too hot for him he had been lying
low for some time In the provinces, he
said, and had only just heard that Flynn
was doing time" for the robbery. He had
come forward, therefore, TO get an inno-
cent man out of jail and was quite pre-
pared to take his place
At the last ClerkenWell sessions Doyle
reiterated his confession, but the police
declared their belief that IL was untrue
and had been made solely for the purpose
of getting judicial clemency exercised in
Flynn's behalf Eventually the case was
postponed for further investigation. Doyle
was arraigned again recently. The prose-
cutting attorney stated that the investiga
ton which had been made by the police
on behalf of the home Office had only
strengthened their conviction that Doyle
was not guilty of the theft OF which he
accused himself. Whoever stole the watch.
they were certain it was not Doyle. Had
they taken any other view II would, OF
course, have been tantamount 10 an
acknowledgment that they had procured
the conviction of an innocent man. Any
how the matter stood with the police pro-
testing that Doyle was innocent and Doyle
declaring himself guilty. The only evil
dence against him was his own confess
sion.
AFTER due reflection do you still adhere
TO your statement" observed the judge
Mr. Loveland-LoveIand. to Doyle,
Yes, l do" said the prisoner firmly.
You say you are guilty."
"Yes, sir"
What else have you TO say?"
'Nothing-except THAI Flynn is limo
cent"
The sapient judge, whose decision does
not admit of revision. then sentenced
Doyle TO eighteen months hard labor-the
same sentence that had been passed Oh
Flynn. No consideration whatever was
shown Doyle because he had voluntarily
surrendered himself to save another man
from punishment.
And his sacrifice is without avail. IL the
judges assumption that he is really guilty
is correct Flynn is innocent. Doyle's con-
viction should have been followed immedis
ateiy by an order for Flynn's release But
Flynn still continues to serve his sentence.
The only course open to him Is TO appeal
to the home Office, and the home ONCE
having put on record its opinion that Doyle
did not steal the watch will not stultify
itself by pardoning the man who was first
convicted of the crime. Thus does British
justice oonnive at the punishment of two
men for a crime OF which one of them Is
certainly innocent
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One Man Guilty, But
Two Are Serving Time

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
LONDON, November s. 1905.
Two men are at present undergoing SEN
fences of eighteen months hard labor IN
British jails for crime OF which IT Is
certain that one of them must be inno-
cent. The case affords another striking
Illustration Of the travesties of justice
which British law sanctions. and which
the best lawyers are agreed can be REM
edied only by the establishment of a court
of criminal appeal such as exists In all the
states in America.
In March last James Flynn was arrested
on charge of having snatched watch
from q Mr.. Serne in Kensal road. The
evidence against him was BY no means con-
elusive and he stoutly protested his inno-
cence. but he was found guilty and sent
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Dilworth Buchanan, owns Washington's
Muddy Hole tract, and the place is still
called Muddy Hole Farm Children and
grandchildren of Chalkley Gilingham still
cling to the soil. CORTLAND Lukens, son
of the pioneer Lukens, owns 'Engleside,
one of the model farms of northern Vir-
ginia. Two sons of Edward Gibbs, j. Nor
man Gibbs and Charles L. Gibbs, are liy-
ing on the Mount Vernon lands; the son
and daughter of Levi Stiles are living In
Camden, N. j., and the descendants of John
Ballinger are residents of Washington.
When the Friends came to Virginia they
held their silent worship and inspirational
services in Woodlawn mansion. The year
after they worshiped in the mill and In the
third year after advent in Virginia Thomas
Wright built an extra room to his house
for the devotional exercises of the society.
Wright also built a school house, there
being no public schools in tina. part of the
country, and no school nearer than Alexan-
dria
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IL significance of lusters or oead
surfaces, straight lines or curves,
g. really older than the Pyramids.
The Queen OF Sheba in all probability
had more than an inkling of this when she
nut on her glorious buds and went to call
on King solomon. Cleopatra. II we are to
believe the theatrical representations.
donned very stacy boating dress for her
Journey down the Cydnus to meet Antony.
Since then even the least of us have
learned that white muslin and blue ribbon
stand for extreme innocence. black alpaca
for misfortune and spangles for certain
degree OF racy impropriety-a code that will
not balk at any small risks.
Blue is sweet and good and true Bou-
guereau said that the color blue was the
most beautiful thing in all the world. Nine
men out OF ten like a woman ina blue
gown. although they may not be able to
explain just why.
Brown is demure; gray Is modest and dis
Greet; all the shades OF purple from mauve
TO deepest violet are disturbing languor-
Gus and luxurious, while the different shades
OF scarlet. from pink to crimson. so even
deeper than purple into the realms OF the
Ought Not.
II Is a fascinating study even in its kim
dergarten stages, and when you can have
Jewels 10 play with as schoolbooks IL Is
like handling the living colors themselves.
For the occult In dress and In sheen and
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to be conspicuous or a strain of the femi-
nine desire for frlvols and clothes that
rustic.
In this automobile age We will not for
moment admit the use of the beauty man.
We want the male person who builds
bridges and invents flying machines and
wireless cables, or, lacking that then the
man who can crawl under the machine and
juggle successfully with the cogs and levers.
The modern mans dress in this country
expresses this sort of thing, and does so
very mysteriously rather by an absence of
things, a lack of color and a sparsity of
what in womans dress We call lines.
Even the least little touch of gayety blights
a man these days, and only a broker or an
actor can afford to wear boutonniere.
You may have admired man for some
new star or smashing game of polo, but
it, when you meet him, you find him with
a pale blue band on his hat and diamond
horseshoe IN his scarf, his mere humanity
is at once apparent to you-he Is throwing
away an invisible aureole for the sake of
little sparkle in1his necktie.
And so loud checks, violently striped
shirts that light up well in the haber-
dashers windows. but never on men: stones
that shine. paliid spats. cloaks instead of
coats, tassels where other men wear studs
all these things impress you WILDLY and
| occultly with the unfitness of the wearer,
usually an unfitness that is a part OF
youth and passes with IL unless 1t has been
| allowed to sink into the bone.
American men set an example to the
| world In this respect On the continent
| you see masculine creatures sporting the
! most absurd toys for travelling, or cloaked
| in fringed shawls like bearded ladies on
| tour. Then the delightful truth dawns dis
| tinctIy upon you that We are after all a
| distinctly different breed of humans and
| that. whatever advantage seniority in art
and culture gives to the old world peo-
niles our fashions in dress for men are
| saner, finer and more manly.
| OF course our men are not so easy in
/ their wearing of evening clothes as the
| EnGlishman, nor so dapper as the French
i man. but this is a fault of our youth and
i is again an occult expression of the fact
/ that we are not yet socially developed.
| The actor who comes on like a lurid sun
/ burst in black and white, holding his shout
| ders like motorman. TO suit the tailors
| pressing, stands with too many of US for the
| real thing when he IS only the real nobby
| thing.
| But It is the dress that is conveying the
1 impression, mark you, and not the man.
! lust as the frayed. carefully brushed,
tightly buttoned condition tells its own pa
thetic tales sad little story that we can
/ read so often.
And then there is the comedy that we
/ gather from the young man of ingrowing
| social ambitions. who in spite OF his SAVIOR
J faire and his intense admiration for the
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there. Mr.. Walton has the millstones. He
holds them as dear relics. One stone Is
set before the entrance to the house and
the other before the entrance to the barn
They are heavy flint stones and the creases
in the rock, or the vents from which the
meal escaped from between the stones. are
very distinct. The old mill steps are in
Walton's barn. They are of neavy hewn
oak. The rungs are broad, fiat oak planks
mortced in the side timbers. Some of these
rungs have been worn so thin that to pre-
serve them and prevent breakage, Mr.. Wal
ton has reinforced them by boiling oak
planks under them. David Walton did not
own Washington's MILL but merely bought
the stone from the man who did.
The site of the Washington mill is impress
sive. 1t stood on the side of Dogue creek
and ships for Europe loaded there. Today
the creek where the mill stood is only navig-
able for skiffs, and often in dry weather
even these small craft cannot find a way
out to the Potomac. Part of the founda-
ton walls of the mill may be seen. The
stable of a cOlored man, James Dent, covers
part of the mill site. and Dent and his wife.
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lackluster and tint has its beginning and
end In gems and their history.
Think how forms and outlines, the sill
houettes of men and women, have changed
within the century. From the times of
powdered hair and patches, the uandy days
when men sported ruffies and broeade
coats hlgh-heeled shoes with flashing
buckles, silk stockings and carriers. to
these of the billycoek hat and the cut
away-what stretch there is in times and
manners,
Observe how the clothes of the dressy
periods EXPRESSED the emotional rampant
ness of the age when every mans hand
was either in his snun box or on the nit
of his sword, when he necessarily made
love or fought duels with only slight pauses
for meals a,
The DAYS were beruffled as well as the
oyer-mannered heroes that go so Well Win
De Koyen music and a Hope iibretto, put
we latter day women who have passed the
stage of matinee actor worship are SIN
cerely grateful that our men do not wear
feathers In their hats or lingerie rufnes on
their shirt bosoms.
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II is not that we object to feathers. but
ne know that a modern man who could
wear one without feeling several kinds OF
a fool must be of far different caliber
from the men We wot of today, lacking
upholstery, lingerie and friils generally,
but accomplishing things and signing
checks for us with graceful insoaciance
that Impresses us more deeply than the
sweep of a sword. The stub pen Is might
Ter by far, believe us.
Mems dress today has been objected &c
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good, the beautiful and the true, Is wear
ing evening clothes one or two sizes 700
large for him, or, what Is mucn WORSE 'oo
small.
In women's dress the occult speaks so
strongly that we have learned to be subtle
The honest working girl knows In her
ankle length gown, sleekly brushed hair,
stout boots an umbrella and little form
less hat that one might wear TO funerals
with propriety. - -
the office In a startling pompadour under
a stunning hat with six plumes, an open
work waist, stockings to match and a vanity
bag. -,
Her employer is vaguely impressed with
something he cannot understand. poor man.
But it is her manner or dressing that rs
appealing to certain unused brain iopes'
The show girl catches nine out of ten men
either on the stage or at a typewriter Ana
SO 1t is that these girls are marrying an
the wealthy men, while the industrious nttle
Girl in the black gown and stout shoes
keeps on shaving to the end of the chapter-
| Her dress tells the truth, and that Is some
| thing no woman must ever do II she Wishes
| to charm men.
| TT was not until a smart London modiste
began to exploit the occult idea seriously,
| a season or two ago, that women COM
| menced to understand why 1t was that
| three feathers in the hair. with a court
| veil and q bouquet, mace even q Piaih-
| looking woman suggest pomp. royalty,
| power.
| Feathers have always stood for rank.
and the plume invariably signifies eere-
mony and state. whether it is on hearse
| or the head of an Indian chief.
The feather is the symbol of pomp. just
AZ white muslin is innocent and black vel
vet is stately. The reason for this lies not
| In custom. but In the line and texture and
1 color of the plume itself. So We wear six
/ In our hats this season to emphasize the
fact that we are not nuns. And so the
cardinals cloak and the soldiers coat
speak to US eloquently.
/ The London dressmaker made something
| ~ a furore among the English fashionables
/ when she began to put tears and smiles
i into lace and taffeta- She seized upon an
/ aid motif and built up an idea, delving
| into undiscovered depths for her themes.
So when she put gold spangles on a sui
i phur-coiored satin skirt, under five falls OF
i chiffon. through which one only got the
| EXPRESSING a thought that only graduate
in clothes mysticism could appreciate. She
( called 1t the harp of a thousand strings
and let 1t go at that.
Then she put forth a creation of peach
eolored velvet, with a little Irish point lace
coat and she hung few crushed plum
/ eoiored roses about the bodice and called
/ the thing .1ure to happiness"
| Violet embroidered mousseline de sole over
4 a deeper shade of taffeta, with transparent
sleeves and q garland of pearls about the
| shoulders, was q wave OF glory from dis
tant shore; surely an inspiration for a
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Washington and the husband of Nellie Gus
tbs, granddaughter of Mrs. Martha Wash
ington and ward of George Washington
There were two thousand acres In the
Woodlawn tract. The only clearing was one
of forty or fifty acres, In the middle OF
which stood Woodlawn mansion. The tim
was some great yellow pine. Chalkley
Gillingham bought the property and Jacob
M. Troth bought an interest in 1t from
Dillingham;. They moved into Virginia and
erected a sawmiIl on Accotink run and
founded the village of Accotink. Other
Friends followed and soon quite a colony
was grouped on and around the Woodlawn
lands, which when cleared of the timber
were usually sold, sometimes to Friends
and sometimes to persons not members OF
the society.
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Village of Acco ink.

now all settled on the Woodlawn lands,
several of them having bought into other
parts of Mount Vernon. Nor are all the
jewellers on the Woodlawn lands Friends,
though most of them are. 1t Is natural to
speak of this community as a settlement,
yet the Friends are scattered over several
miles of country. They are all farmers
and the farms are large.
The Friends of Woodlawn are descended
from New Jersey Quakers. In 1S47 two
prominent Friends of Burlington county,
N j., Jacob NJ. Troth and Chalkley Gill
bingham, talked over the proposition of ac-
curing timber lands somewhere in the
south. Their purpose was to erect saw
mill and cut ship timber to be sent to the
shipbuilding ports of New England. In the
autumn OF 1S4T Troth and Gillingham dis
patched a Friend, Thomas Wright, to pros
pect for a timber tract. He came to Wash
ington and proceeded to Richmond. There
he began his prospecting. He travelled on
foot. examining timber lands for miles
around. His course lay north, and In De-
cember he came to the lands of Woodlawn,
then owned by Lorenzo Lewis, son of Law
renee Lewis. who was the son OF Betty
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by Friends. 1t is an interesting community
and the members are perhaps peerless. and
certainly unexceled in thrift. neatness and
orderliness. Every member is intelligent
and acquainted with current affairs and
some of them are remarkable for book Gull
ture. They are well read on the life and
times Of the man who. in the latter part Of
the eighteenth century. owned the lands
they live ON. and they hold the memory of
Washington in deep reverence. Some of
them own rare collections of Washington
relics.
These members of the Society of Friends
are variously known as the Woodlawn
Quakers or the Friends of Woodawn-
Woodlawn being the name of the estate Of
Lawrence Lewis and his wife Nellie Gus
It's which estate was carved out of Mount
Vernon and given to Lewis and his wife by
George Washington. The Friends are not
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Among the Quaker pioneers were Dill
worth Buchanan, Edward Gibbs. Levi Stiles.
John Ballinger, George Haines, David Wal
ton. Lukens and Roberts. Wright's son,
j. Shepherd Wright. why, by the way, is
a descendant of John Hunt, the celebrated
Quaker preacher lives on the Mount Yer
non lands still. s. Harold Buchanan. son OF
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In 1854 the Friends Meeting House was
built 1t stands back from the Alexandria
Gunston road, and not far from the road
that leads down the Belvoir peninsula to