The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-02

of acres of vegetables luxuriate i'm the
sandy soil and the pleasant atmos-
phere. Fruit trees are laden with
the most tempting products. Surely,
Whittier's lines could we'll have been
written of this section: &.
Golden the good-wife's butter.
Ruby her currant Wine:
Grand were the strutting turkeys.
Fat We're the beeveS and swine
yellow and red We're the apples,
And the ripe peas ruSset-brown
And the peaches had stolen bushes
From the girls who shook them down"
In history, this land partakes of
that which concerns all the other
colonies of the southern Atlantic coast.
| shall not attempt to outline it. Sew
eral different nations GAINED the land ,
and considerable trouble was had ere
the matter was settled; but at last it
became possession of the English, as
did the rest of all this section. It's
history is English from that time on.
The State of Delaware occupies a
portion of 'Delmarvia.' This is, in
area. next to the smallest State i'm the
Union, but in population it is the very
smallest State. The reason for this
Is that Rhode Island is a manufacture
ing state, neceSSitating a close pOpu-
latiOn, while Delaware is an agricul-
tural State, necessitating sparse
population The State is about ten
miles wide in{ it's northerly portion:
thirty miles wide at it's south end, and
is ninety-five miles long The north
ern Crescent shaped) boundary line
of Delaware, and the northern line of
Maryland and Virginia constitute the
famous Mason and DiXon's line"
which figured so much in "antf-slav-
cry literature as the most northerly
limit of slavery. This famous line was
run in 1868 by these two Englishmen,
who were brought from England to
run this special line, as marking the
division of lands owned by William
Penn, on the north Of the line, and by
Lord Baltimore on the south. Little
did they dream of the fame they were
earning when they ran that line. The
name Dixie" is coined from the
Mason and Dixon's line Us descrip-
tive Of the slave lands south of that
famous boundary.
Delaware is specially thrifty, as il
has ever a ready market for all of it's
produce i'm the large cities to the near
north. And most of the towns and
cities in all of Delaware are prosper
Gus. The most of the people are not
wealthy, but nearly all are ''well-to-
do Wilmington is one of the thrift
lest cities l have been i'm for many a
day.
The Whipping-poSt and the Pillory.
Frequent reference is made in print
to the use of the whipping-p post and
the pillory i'm Delaware; 50 | took
pains to look this. matter up as far as
possible. These institutions come
down from the Colonial days. In the
earliest of the Colonial days, they were
used at the mere discretion of the au-
thorities, but in 1717 their exact use
was enacted by law: since that time
they have been used only in due course
of law. and many features have been
modified therein. At first, women
were whipped. as well as men. but Of
late years men only. / carefully eX-
amined the whipping post. and the
rillory in Dover, and will describe
them now. The whipping post is
much like an old fashioned town
pump" in looks II is about six feet
high. eighteen inches in diameter, ana
hepgonal in form. About four feet