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Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15
the men of Mount Vernon and Bel

the men Of Mount vernon ana Del
voir.
And now for some of the causes
which led Washington to take such
reminiscent delight in his early as
ISOLATION with the place.
The first owner and founder OF Bel
voir was William Fairfax, a YORK
shireman, cadet OF the house OF n2nl-
ing FairfaXes. He had been in queen
Anne's service in Spain when only d
m%idshiDman of fourteen, and after Il
long career OF adventure and mlllldr3
service for the English crown by lana
and sea, came to Virginia as collector
Of the Kings customs, and agent ol
the immense estates Of his first COUSIN
the sixth Lord Fairfax of GreenWay
Court. He finally become President Oh
the Virginia Council, was for that fea-
| son called "Colonel,' and ended Ills
honored life on the Virginia hillside
Wher he now lies.
THE sCHOOLBOY GEORGE.
1t was to the household Of this ac-
complished and kindly gentleman-a
large family of young people destined
in various ways to cOme into contact
! with Washington's life-that the
schoolboy George, not so very long
graduated from the teachings OF the
| sexton, Hobby. but more recently Il
pupil Of Mr.. Williams school at Wake
field, was introduced by his brother
Laurence. whom he had come to WISH
at Mount Vernon.
Now such a visit" might last three
DAYS. three weeks. or if sufficiently ell
joyable, three months, without HnduiT
stretching the welcome OF ones host.
Georges brother Laurence had mar
ried Colonel FairfaA's charming daugh-
ter Anne, who made things most agree
able at Mount Vernon. There was a
perpetual exchange of dinings and tea
drinkings between Mount Vernon and
Belvoir. At stated intervals all the
gentlemen Of, the county met at one
place or the other for a foA-hunt break
fast.
The Colonel. L%aurence's father-ln-
law. took an immense fancy to young
George. whom lie early began to enter
tain and instruct in the art OF war
by r~ecitais of his W adventures.
| And last-perhaps not ~least-theFH
were always some nice girls stopping
at B%clvOir!.
What wonder that Georges visit to
Laurence and Anne extended itself
Indefinitely? That Mount Vernon and
Belvoir both became tc him new
homes?
We may safely picture him about this
time of life as Gi?v. awkward. some
what @awks indeed. presenting few
suggestions Of the imperial man-as
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

Much depends on the selection we
make of those fowls which we intend
to keep in the breeding yard next sea-
son, and after the season has passed
we will be able to locate the mistakes
we have made and perhaps be better
able to act more wisely in the future.
If we are breeding fancy poultry we
are doubtless trying to reach high
points of perfection in different sec
lions of the fowls; trying, as it We're,
to eliminate certain faults which ex
ist, without in any way changing the
meritorious points already possessed.
But how is this to be done?
Certainly not by indiscriminate
breeding-by selecting fowls at random
without first considering every ma
terial %point-the parents for several
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

S~~A%sSCGNSsME#&Hx DIV may Il better appeal
~ No for interest in this long-de-
* IL y serted and half-forgotten
e. 80 Virginia home, situated
&KSssSsASs3aFssafSS9sasks some four miles below
Mount Vernon on Il noble
bluff ~oycrhanging the Potomac River.
and low oyererown by forest trees and
tangled wild vines. than by quoting
the words OF Washington himself con-
corning It: The happiest moments OF
my life had been spent there"
The aappiest moments of that bril-
liant, crowded, epocl-makin@ life!
In The flush of his glory after the
Revolutionary War, While the great
leader was tasting to the full the cup
of earthly success in his modest re-
tiremeat at Mount Vernon. we find
him going off for & solitary ride to Bel
vo:r, through the bowery stretch Of
woodland between the two estates. Il
road SO often and so eagerly trayersed
IN his boylood in search Of the kind
friends and CHEEKY comrades who made
BalvoIr his favcrite resort.
WAsH1NGTON'S LETTER.
Upon his return to Mount Vernon.
Iufi OF the emotions inspired by the
lonely expedition to this forsaken
haunt OF former joys, he sat down to
pen q setter to the absent owner OF
Beivo:r, and i'll so doing allowed HIM
self az unusual burst of sentiment.
Alas! Bc-yoir is 10 more. l took
q ribs <Ac"e 10 visit the ruins. and ruins
Indeed they are. The dwelling house
ana the Two brick buildings that ull-
terUgnt the ravages of fire are very
rnuc!l injured. When L viewed them,
when t considered that the happiest
moments Of my life had been spent
there when l could not trace Il room
IN the house, now all rubbish, that
did not bring to my mind the reco!-
lection CT pleasing scenes l was
obliged 20 ty from them. and came
home with painful sensations and sor-
rowing for the CONTRAST
One can readily imagine the effect
OF this letter upon the proprietors OF
the place, long resident N England.
fou pathetic description of the
ruins OF B~eEvoir,' writes Washington's
correspondent, in return. produced
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15
Rape Gives Satisfaction.

Rape is comparatively a new plant
in the Southern States, but where it
has been tested it has given entire sat
isfaction. 1t is a nutritious forage
plant, which closely resembles SWede
turnip, can be easily grown on any
average soil, and is especially adapted
to lands that are about half fine sand.
1t makes excellent feed for sheep, hogs
and cattle. 1t will withstand hot
weather, and we have known it to
keep a herd of fifty hogs in Tennessee
in good condition when all other green
crops had about burned out.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15

It will certainly pay. then, to grow
cowpeas for fertilizer, but why NOT
first obtain the feeding value II still
retain seyenty-five per cent. OF the
fertilizer value in the manure? be-
cause we have found a good thing IS
no reason why we should not get all
out of it possible. If the fertilizer
value of & ton of cowpca hay is SlV'
and seventy-tiye per cent, OF $7.3o, OF
that is obtained in the manure alter
the hay is fed, it is clear that if we
had the live stock to consume it, this
ton Of feed would only cost us twenty
five per cent. Of its fertilizer value, or
$3.50. y
What is coWpea hay worth as Il feed!
We may. possibly. best answer this
question by comparing it with Whea
bran with which we are all familiar.
For producing milk. II and one-
fourth pounds OF peayiEe hay have
been found equal to II pound OF
wheat bran. Can we afford to plow
such a valuable food as this directly
into the soil i'll order to q V twenty
five per cent. Of its fertilizer value?
If the great need of our soils is vege-
table matter. which is certainly true
and this vegetable matter has 4 double
vaiue-fertiliZor and ~fooG-then it is
apparent that we can only get these
two values through the feeding of our
crops to live stock before putting them
into the soil to supply the deficiency
Of humus.-Tait Butler. State Veterin-
arian. North Carolina Department of
Agriculture, Raleigh.
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rounded i'll Il manner by water.
The mansion house stood upon high
commanding ground
1t does not appear that Sir John Sin
clair eyer made overture toward pos
sessing Ralvoir: but it is easy to sym.
pathize with Washington in his desire
to have the dear old house-originally
after the early colonial model. broad
English elegance and comfort than
were common i'll the neighborl,ood-
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15
Odds and Ends.

L. B. Harris, of Lyndonville, Vt. says
that he has noted an interesting fact
in regard to sheep. He has just i'm
ported some sheep from England and
the steamer had a rough passage. AL
though passengers horses and cattle
alike were terribly frightened by the
heavy rolling and pitching of the big
ship, the sheep paid, no attention
whatever and contentedly chewed their
cud through all the tossing.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-02-15
News of the Day.

The ffty-eighth report of the COM
missioner of lunacy, issued September
7, 1904, shows that in England and
Wales on January 1 last, 117,199 per-
sons were certified as insane, being
1926 in excess of the number on the
same day in 1903. This increase is
comparable with that of 1921 in 1902,
2,769 in 1901, and 1888 in 1900, the
average annual increase in the 10
years ended DECEMBER 81, 1903, be-
ing 2.513.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
M1LFoRD's TAYLOR LIBRARY,

At the annual meeting of the incor-
 porators of Taylor Library, Milford,
 held Monday evening, the following of
 ficers were elected: President, w. B.
 Stoddard; vice-president, Mrs. Mary A.
 Hepburn Smith; secretary, Ernest Wit
 terWell: treasurer. W. c. Durand; li-
 brarlan, w. s. Chase. The committees
 ChoseE at the same meeting are: Ex.
 ecutive committee, W. B. Brotherton,
 A. A. Baldwin, Herbert I. Mathewson,
 Charles W. Beardsley, w. c. Durand; library committee, Herbert I. Mathew
 son, Mary l.. Clark, Mrs. H. I. Parsons,
 A. A. Baldwin, W. S. Chase; finance committee, Herbert I. Mathewson, c. A. Tomlinson, Mrs. Mary A. Hepbrun- Smith, A. A. Baldwin aEd Henry A. Taylor, H. A. Taylr was also at this meeting made a member the board of Iincorporators in place of Madame de Chrapovitsky, resigned. From the re- port of Treasurer Durand it is found that the receipts of the incorporators for the past year have been! From the town of Milford, $1,000; from the collections of fines. $61.S5. There was
 on hand at the begiEning of the present fiscal year $17S.35, making the total re- ceipts $1,2352O. The disbursements have been for salary of librarian, for other operating expenses and fzp the purchase of new boiler to heat the 1 building, $1,203.18, leaving a balance to begin another years business of $32.02.
 The report of Librarian w. S. Chase, which is his eleventh annual, shows
 that during the past year ninety-eight new cards have been issued, making a total of 2,323 cards issued since the T- brary was opened to the public. Ore
 hundred and ninety-eight volumes have been added to the library during the year just closed. Of these the state of
 Connecticut gave ninety volumes, Mrs, N. G. Pond eighteen volumes, Mrs Mary
 L. Clark one volume, Rev. H. c. Me-
 serve five volumes, Mrs. George w
 Tibbals four volumes, Mrs, E. T.,
 Sanford five volumes Mrs. Magan thrt,,
 volumes. Dr. J. s. Walker three voI- umes, Mrs. Sarah ,Stoddard two vol.
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umes, Miss Nettie Mott two volumes,
 Miss Sarah Provost, W. and Mrs.
 Shrove, Mrs. N. w. Pond, Mrs. T. Ri- ker, Mrs. c. T. Dunwell, Miss Catherine
 Lyons, Miss E. L. Wilcox, Mrs. W. M.
 Brown, Miss Jennie M. White, Miss
 Grace w. Merwir and Mrs. Robb one
 volume each, besides which friends
 whose names are not giyeE gave five
 volumes and five were purchased. Mrs.
 George M. Gum has given several
 magazines regularly each month. Miss
 J. G. Beach, A. R. DoWnes and c. R.
 Chase have also contributed regularly
 with magazines. The publishers of the
 New Haven Leader, the Journal aEd Courier, Telegram Union and Milford Citizen have each given copy of their paper regularly all through the year. These have the thanks of the members of this board as well as the donors of other publications whose names are not known. The circulation of books dur ing the year has been 31,620 volumes, an increase of some fifteen hundred volumes during the year. Some of the books in the children's alcove are in very bad condition, having been in use for eleven or more years during which
 time some of them have been rebound number of times, and the problem of replacing them Is one that has to be
 faced at this time, and some two hum
 dred volumes are badly needed in this
 department of the library right now to replace thoseWorn out by continue hard usage, The reading room of this library is very we'll patronized and is at times very busy place. There have
 been a large number of strangers call ing as visitors during the past year, and
 all express their pleasure at having
 seen our fiEe public library. There is
 great need of better light in front of
 the library, and there have been some narrow escapes from bad accidents
 during the year, as people not acquaint- ed here invariably stumble in the dark ness, aEd some means should be provi-
 ded to properly light the entrance to this public building before some one gets seriously injured.
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nest for the female, some little pocket with a gravel bottom protected from the strong current, but with plenty of fresh water; aEd then hugs or pushes the female into 1t. The eggs are spawned by the female, who swims away, and leaves them to their fate The male fertilizes the eggs and then for a few days watches over them, flaming them occasionally to insure a circulation of fresh water and keeping off other fish who would deyour the eggs. The male fish have been kEown to follow the little fry for several days, protecting them until they were able to care for themselves.
 ''I have seen a school of say fifteen hundred bass fry devoured in five min utes by few sun bass or perch min nows. Under the care of the fish hatcheries fifty to ninety-five per ceEt. of the eggs become fish fry. How many of the fry live to be year old or so after they are planted in the streams it is very hard to determine. It de- bends so greatly upon conditions that no reliable estimates can be made. - Evening Wisconsin.
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NEW COMPANY FORMED HERE.

Connecticut House Wrecking Company.
 The organization of the Connecticut House Wrecking company of New Ha- ven was perfected last evening. The capital stock of the new company is $25,0OC, with 10 per cent. paid in. The board of directors are: William F. Whitney of Wallingford, William and Horace Chidsey of East Haven, S. U. Stowe and F. M. Staley of New Haven. The officers elected are: William F. Whitney. president; S. J. Stone, secre- tary and treasurer; William Chidsey, superintendent.
 The charter of the company gives it the right to buy and sell real and per- sonal property of all kinds. The object of the company is to buy and remove old buildings and to deal in second hand material of all kinds.
 The prospects of the new company are very bright as the men at its head are all wide-awake business men who know the ins and outs of this class of work thoroughly.
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the keenly popular upland sports with dog and guE, seem in the main to be unfavorable. Undoubtedly there are small areas here and there, mere hooks in comparison to the whole vast prai- rie liabitatton of the pinnated grouse, which contain birds a plenty and which will afford ample sport for the favored few who have access to them;
 but for the hundreds of chickeE shoot
 CTS who take their chances without pre- ltminary Investigation much failure and disappointment are In store.
 The reports from many of the prairie
 districts where the pinnated grouse iii
 times past were in abundance, or at
 least plentiful enough to afford good
 sport, indicate an unusual scarcity. Undoubtedly the destruction of the pinnated grouse Is greater than it's pro- l duction. The decrease in it's numbers
 seems to be steadily progressive with | the passing years. The area of the ] habitat of species also is gradually di- | miEishing, though this is not manifest l ed by the entire and sudden extermina- l ton of the chickens in a certain section, nor their sudden abandonment of it. The change from abundance to dearth comes about gradually. Some sections | in former years which afforded sport
 for weeks in later years afford sport for
 days only. From abundance the supply | becomes meager. OfteEtimes the
 changes from plenty to poverty, the la- mentable results of extermination or | abandoned habitat, are not noticed by
 the sportsman till he is confronted with | the fact when diligeEt seeking for sport | afield with dog and gun ends in failure. The enormous decrease in the num-
 bers and decreasing habitat of the prai-
 rfe chicken are not realized by the younger sportsmeE of the present time.
 Nor do the older sportsmen realize it | by any comparisons of more recent years. A comparison of present condi-
 tions concerning chicken shooting with 1 those which obtained fifteen or twenty years ago will bring into conspicuous relief the progressive decrease, which
 has resulted in the scarcity of the pres 1 ent.
 TweEty years ago the habitat of the
 prairie chicken, belonging in western Louisiana and Texas, extending through the prairie region of the middle | and west far up into British America, l and pleEtifully stocked with chickens, was far in excess of the prairie chicken habitat of the present Plentiful as were the birds then, they occupied a l lessened habitat and were far less in
 number than they were when Audubon, ! OF. 8 visit to Kentucky, wrote of them
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
FRANK D. TROWBRIDGE
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF NA.
 TIONAL NEW HAVEN BANK.

Prominently Connected With Bank for
 Years-PrOmoted from Cashier-E. E.
 Mix Chosen Cashier-Other Changes.
 At a special meeting yesterday of the directors of the National New Haven bank Frank D. Trowbridge, for the past three years cashier of that institution, was chosen a member of their board and president of the bank to succeed the late Wilbur F. Day.,
 To fill the vacancy caused by this ac- tion Edward F. Mix, at present assist ant cashier, was elected cashier, and the following promotions made:
 Charles H. Raymond, who has been paying teller, to be assistant cashier.
 Wilbur F. Day, son of the late presi- dent. who has been receiving teller, to be teller.
 James w. Woodwork, who has been assistant bookkeeper, to be bookkeeper.
 Frederick H. Pardee, who has been clerk, to be assistant bookkeeper.
 Harold L. Mix, son of the cashier. was elected clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
MATERNAL INSTINCT OF FISH
How the Bass Looks After the Eggs
 and the Young.

''The female fish has no maternal in- stincts whatever" said ]. Nevin f Madison, superintendent of the state fish hatcheries. Tn fact the fish is the most unhuman creature in existence, that is, of the aEimals which have any degree of intelligence at all.
 Perhaps it is well that it is so, for if the parent fish took care of their young as other creatures do the waters of the earth would be filled with them in a very short time. Under natural conditions not one egg in a million ever becomes fish 8 year old. As an ex- ample, I have seer female brook trout go up into the spawning places and spawn their eggs and then turn around and deliberately eat them,
 For the past few years. I have been much interested in experimenting with bass and studying their ways. Here the male parent has some maternal in- stincts apparently. He builds the
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
In the third congressional district,

In the third congressional district, comprising New London and Windham counties, a special election for congress- man takes place on the same date as the town elections, October 2. In this district the congressional ballot will be enclosed with the town ticket and the constitutional amendment tickets.
 As the opening and closing of polls in' this congressional district in town elections vary in hours in state and congressional elections, a little confu- sion is likely to arise. Voters in New London, for instance, who wish to vote for congressman between half-past six ad nine o'clock can do so, but they will thereby lose their right to vote for town officers because the time for opening polls for a town election in New Lon don is nine o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
SMITH COLLEGE OPENED.
Carnegie Gift of $125,O00 for Nev
 Laboratory Announced.

Carnegie Gift of $125,Ooo for a New
 Laboratory Announced.
 Northampton, Mass, Sept 21.-When Smith college was opened to-day, Pres ident seelye announced that Andrew Carnegie had promised the sum of $125,- 900 to the college. providing that friends of the institution raise an equal amount. The money is to be used for the erec- tion and maintenance of a new bfolog- ical laboratory. When MT. Carnegie was here in April his attention was called to the inadequate facilities at the Lilly hall of science, and his gift is a result of that knowledge
 President seelye also announced that the alumnae had presented $5,000 for the enlargement of Cobb house, the i1ew hall for students. The freshmen class numbers 86O, the largest in the history of the college, and the total number of students is 1,209. Many new teachers and instructors have been added.
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as being so over-plentiful there and de. structive to crops that they were little short of being a pest.

The fall term of the night schools of this city will open on Monday evening. October 2, and will continue on the same plan as that in use in the last term. The schools will be graded as follows: The Boardman advanced, for pupils advanced in the studies; the Hillhouse elementary, for beginners: the zunder for the Russian scholars, and the Hamilton and Fair street schools for the Italian classes. E.
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MANY BALLOT BOXES.
OCTOBER ELECTIONS TO HAVE NEW FEATURES.
Probability of Confusion in Third Com gressionaI District, Where Hours for Opening of Polls Vary-COrrupt Practices Act i'm Force.

At the town election, October 2, in this state, it will be necessary to vote on two contitutional amendments, lone permitting use of voting machines, the other extending term of certain town off1cers), and also upon the ques- tion of free text books in such towns as have not already adopted the same. Secretary of State Bodenwein has de- cided that while it is the duty of his office to supply yes and no ballots for voting upon each of the proposed amendments, in the case of the free text books it will devolve upon the towns to provide ballots.
 The secretary under the new corrupt practices act will have to provide blanks for the use of candidates, party managers and agents in filing election expenses. There will be five kinds of blanks and a liberal number will be sent to each town clerk, from whom those interested can obtain them.
 It is evident from the reading of the act compelling towns to vote upon the question of free text books that spe- ciaI box marked Free text books must be provided for women's ballots and another to receive the ballots on li- cense where that question is voted upon. The ballots for town officers and the two constitutional amendments, all go into the one official envelope, which is required by the secret ballot law.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
NOTICE.
Reduct,ou. ,n. tbe price of Gas

At the recent meeting of the direc- tors of The New Haven Gas Light Com pany, 1t was voted that on all gas sold after December 1, 1905 the price should be one. dollar and five cents ($1.05) per thousand cubic feet, with the usual dis count of 10c per thousand for prompt payment, thus making the net price 95c per thousand feet.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
VANISHING GAME BIRDS.

Destruction of Prairie Chickens Great
 CT Than the Reproduction.
 The general prospects this season for good prairie chicken shooting, one of
The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-22
COMMITTEE ON SEWERS AND

9Nk QAfLElSo.@
 The Committee on Sewers and Squares will hold a public hearing in Rooms 10 and II, City Hall, Friday September 22, at p. m, to consider the following petitions.
 All persons interested are hereby mo- tified to attend without further notice.
 Petition of Samuel H. Williams ct al for public park near the center of the Ninth ward.
 Petition of B. E. Henrahan ct al. for a new public park near the center of the Ninth ward.
 FRANCIS S. HAMILTON, JR.. ..r-,-,oo,,r, = -.---. Chairman. s21 2t Assistant City Clerk.
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SMants.

One esat . word for each Inaertfon. Eve cents word for a fall week. seyea times.