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changed even TO the isolating of its peony
bed and aromatic borders, and with the
self-same rustic arbor in which our grand
mother received the cavaliers who came
ACQUIRING, appear to US at rare intervals
through the embrasure of hedges; not
more than a ilalf-dozen times in hfe's
length, perhaps, and only in the older por-
lions of the old, old towns. But they are
always the same quaint protesting re-
cluses, whether we find them in Salem or
Bristol or Richmond or Savannah or New
ties with the condition of climate and peo-
pie; the hedges of New England changing
to the high stone walls and narrow wickets
of Spanish St. Augustine, and the lay
locks and cornfreys and strawberries of
the one. to the myrtles and oleanders and
hibiscus of the other. 1t matters not in
which of the old towns we are. or in
front of what manner of old-fashioned
garden; the reverential curiosity Is the
same Many a time have walked along
st. Georges street of the Ancient City,
watching for rhe possible opening of a
wicket in the grim wall which lowered four
or five feet above my head, and feeling am
ply rewarded Ii caught a glimpse of the
old Spanish garden within. And the same
feeling has been with me when negotiating
for entrance INFO an old garden at Pensa-
middle Atlantic states. It Is not beauty
or artistic arrangement that influences US,
but rather reverence for that which has
been created and deemed good by our an
eestors We may fail In adequate express
sion of our admiration for some of the
magnificent gardens in the suburbs of Bes-
ton, and at Newport, R. l., but our rapture
has little In common with the holy feeling
which takes possession of US when we
enter one of, the quaint, unchanged gar
dens of the ,fder portions of the towns.
In rural eoninunNeies there was an odd
custom of isalating the garden from the
house and surrounding 1t with a stone wall.
Why it was so is not apparent, for the small
Enclosure WAS difficult for the farmer to
IL fs@F.rx
easy of access for the women of the house
hold. At my old home THE garden, so
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AND
81
OLD TIME G. ARDEN S
FLOWERS AND HERBS THAT
GRANDMA USED TO GROW.
Memory of the Box Hedges, the Al
thea Bushes, Sweet Williams
and Hollyhocks.

From Bob TayIor's Magazine.
Our memories OF the quaint, oid-fash-
toned gardens Of our childhood are Of
sweet-scented smelling herbs and roses
and danodils: OF hardy. free-growing per-
ennlals sim in honored positions; and of
peonies and hollyhOcks and foxgloves not
yet relegated to the semi-obscurity OF back
grounds and garden corners. There are
suff incloslng hedges which are uncompro-
missing in their attitude TO the outer world;
and IN the charming interior are prin.
geometrical outlines OF box which separate
the ANNALS from the perennials, the ever
green from the deciduous, the sweet-smell-
ing from the merely rich OF boom. There
are rows OF mint, and squares OF rosemary,
and circles Of lavender. and perhaps cres-
cents and Oblougs and dots of balm and
sweet martoram and thyme. Beds of pink
towering daphne and OF cOlumbine and
Canterbury bell are inclosed by borders OF
white daisies and creeping phlox and Solo
mons seal and these In turn by the IN
eyitable guard Of box. June pinks peep
shyly over their walls at the sweet Will
hanas across the path, and stately holly
hooks observe and bend down with ting
ling cheeks 10 whisper 10 the lilies, whose
fair white faces scarcely change.
Rustic arbOrs hold an honored position
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yicissitudes of a changing age. We catch
gltmpses of 1t through the narrow en-
brasures of, frowning hedges, and Whln
it's aromatic odors with strange sensa-
ton of being away from ourselves and in
another world. It Is invested with ST.
lence appropriately its own, and we almost
feel like raising our hats as we ttptoe past
To hear children playing noisy games IN
such a place would be almost as much OF
a shock as to see the sedate. specialized
owner come through the emhrasure on
bicycle.
Such gardens are rare, of course, for
the spirit of innovation Is strong and only
on the questionable streets OF the oio.
old towns have their barriers renamed
intact against the investment OF outsioS
progression.
Disappearance of tine Hedges.
But everywhere are reminders Of them,
old gardens whose hedges have given way
to modern low walls and chain fences.
and geometrical figures of box have yield
ed their out-of-date herbs and '4o'clocks'
and evening beauties to the Haunting,
high-colored novelties of the seed cata-s
logues. Hollyhocks, self-seeded from the
old stock. may stin linger along the back
hedges and quaint patterns of box and
perhaps a bed OF peonies and Canterbury
bells be allowed to remain by sufferance
in their old positions; but the chances are
that the old arbor has given place 20 a
tennis court. and the generous beds of
herbs to the gorgeous set-colors of car
pet and ribbon-bed patterns 1t is as
though the eyes of our grandmothers were
questioning US from under the briH1s of
modern millinery.
These evolving oid-fashioned gardens are
familiar TO the villagers and country folk
OF New England and the south, and
though. IN way, they are but distorted
vistas of the pest, yet they give us many
backward glinpses we could not otherwise
obtain.
But the real old-fashioned garden, un-
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and Jacks and Paul Neyrons and Glorie
de Bordeaux and of French damasks. We
remember them as eyer-blooming, begin
ming with May and only ending with cold
weather. but of course with a superabund-
ance of flowers in June. There was rarely
a time between frost and frost when the
young man could not find bud fer his
buttonhole, or the maiden for her hair.
These old gardens are rich In plants that
increase in beauty from year to year.
There are no ribbon or carpet beds of
coleus and other bright-hued. short-iived
plants. Such frail things when had, were
kept by our gFandmothers as window
plants. The garden was not for day or
month. but for permanence; and the
ground was laid out and prepared with
almost as much care as was given to plan
ming the house itself In congenial soil
the lilies and hollyhocks spread out into
strong clumps, the roses bloomed and
rebloomed, the masses of peonies became
rounded hiilocks OF immense white and
and away until there were no more heights
for them to conquer. Spring was ushered
In with rnyriads OF snowdrops and violets,
with yellow daffodiis and rare blue scillaS,
and then followed in quick succession by
lilies of-the-valley, Hlacs, daphnes. roses,
poppiess columbines, pinks, lilies, holly
hooks, foxgioyes, larkspurs, primroses; and
only when the SHOWS of late November shut
down over the face OF the garden would the
season close with last bright bunch of
heart s-ease. And all of them. from the
snowdrops to the hearts-ease, are Inn
pressed upon our memories as the most
beautiful Of their kind. Who ever saw
roses like those our grandmothers raised?
or climbers like those which covered the
garden hedges. or clambered over the caves
OF the house and up the ganlhrel roof to
the very base of the great colonial Chin
ney? Not you or T. certainly: or, for that
matter any one who has regard for the
truth.
Occasionally we come across one of these
old gardens of our grandnothers. quaint
and unchanged; lifted bodily as IL were
from the past. and brought to US across the
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called, was at considerable distance from
the house, with a wide lawn or ward .
and one field to cross. No one seemed to
know its origin. save that 1t could be traced
back hundred years or more to a great
grandfather. 1t had never been worked
even In the memory OF the Oldest member
OF the FAMILY, more convenient garden
having been made directly behind the
house. But to US children the few sauare
rods of neglected, bushgrown, wail-in-
closed land, whereon we had never seen a
mower MOVE or vegetable grown. was always
: Kitchen Garden.
AT more pretentions places there was
often rose garden thus Isolated, and per-
haps surrounded by a hedge in addition
to the wall Even now, half-wiid de-
scendants OF some of the rose roots may
be found in old. neglected gardens.
Joining this Enclosure, and separated from
them by hedges. were usually the flower
garden proper. made up mostly of hardy
shrubs and herbaceous plants, and the
kitchen garden, wherein may stIll be found
occasional evidence of ancient rhubarb and
.'sparrergrass'' beds
Few of these isolated gardens are worked
now They are too small for the modern
farmers idea OF space. He disikes wall
angles and dividing fences. and feels that
he cannot turn his plow to the sharp angles
of the small Enclosures. But for some
reason he does not tear the old walls down,
as he does other useless divisions on his
farm; so they remain, choked with shrubs
and weeds, pathetic reminders of past
which is obscvEred by distance.
Most of our early gardens were from
English models even to the time of plant
ing and varieties OF seeds. Then as the
climate and its conditions became better
known. slight changes were made in the
plants and planting to meet the new know
ledge. but for the most part the manner OF
working and the modelling remained the
same
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The Waters Napkin.

From the New York Mall
The human brain is continuance which
has. of late added TO its other peculiarities
of action a surprising fertility in the de-
visement of new theories Of disease. Mos
Guitoes and flies. CLAIMS and oysters. milk.
drinking cups, BARRIERS, pretty much every
common food substance and utensl has
been declared the carrier of germs Hither-
TO, so far as we have observed table linen
has been. exempt Now, however, word
GENES from Berlin that one Prof. Kron is
getting up scare over the walters nap
kin. which. he says. is a -deplorably un-
hygienic piece of linen and should be abo-
ished In all civilized countries"
1t Is unquestionably oftentimes a nasty
looking rag. and may perhaps be the fire.
croscopic colonies. but 1t cannot be abol-
ished; such a radical prescription is en-
tirely out of the question. What would a
waiter look like without his napkin? You
might as well abolish the waiter as the
napkin. 1t is to him what the wand is TO
the magician, the scalpel 10 the doctor, the
sword to the captain-his sign manual OF
office
1t enables him to surround the high tin
per with a halo of dust and bread crumbs,
to mop up his overturned wine with a
pleasant smile, ostentatiously to scour his
plate and other tools of feeding. and to
emphasize hts adherence of the low Upper
by an equally ostentatious neglect OF any
of these offices of financial affection. Evil
IDENTITY, therefore, the walters napkin is an
institution which cannot be dispensed with.
II it should prove true. Prof Kron de-
clares, that infectious disease turks In it's
greasy folds. some method OF routine dis
infection might be adopted.
After every customer II could be soaked
In carbolic lotion ana wrung out ready for
the next. The smell wouldn't pleasant, but,
this is small matter anyway, and might
be partially overcome by burning Joss
sticks IN restaurants, or an automatic
sprinkling system using violet water.
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255c.

In these gardens, and the wistarias and
honeysuckles and trumpet vines which
Chamber over them seem to riot In their
own righteousness. Every point of van
tage is taken possession of by the eager
swaying tendrils. until the arbors are SEEM
ing mounds of flowers and foliage, about
which butterflies and hunming birds DART
and into which robins and sparrows pene-
trate and nest In the shade four-o' clocks
bloom and mass themselves into thick,
yielding carpets, and perhaps near the en-
trance is a cIump of tiger lilies or a COM
pact, gorgeous bed of peonies. IL is in
these arbors that the children study their
lessons out OF school hours, and give their
tea parties; and, later, where the young
men Of the neighborhood whisper sweet
things to the maidens of the house.
In conspicuous corners are great clumps
of liIacs or 'laylocks," whose fragrance
predominates the morning air and diffuses
itsef over the entire vicinity; and among
the flower beds proper are the cherished
-'ioye apples" not thought edible, but
which We're later prescribed to the vege-
table garden under the rechristened name
of tomatoes Pear trees encroaeh the flow
ers on one side. or perhaps separate them
from the vegetables; while along the
hedges are trellises upon which grapes
rlpen in questioning defiance of the frost
olden Roses.
But most prominent and distinguished of
all are the roses. the acknowledged queens
of old-fashioned gardens They held first
place IN the hearts of our mothers and
grandmothers. who trained them over the
windows and angles of their comfortable
gamhrel-roofed houses Our memories are
rich with them; syrshires ami prairies and
multidoras. clanbering over the sides of
buildings. and over fences and walls, and
trailing riotously upon the ground among
the flowers and aromatic old garden herbs;
sweetbriers. and MOSES. and great strag-
Cling colonies of red and white roses with
out name; aud In favored spots of the gar
den. glorious masses OF Madame Planters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-29

Trimming Dept.-First Floors. KAHN,
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RUBBER ELIAS

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Dress trimmings and buttons.

PERSIAN AND 9TH
Err TRIMMINGS, odds
and ends of lines which
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during the season, and
are still so. In BAND
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G II l F + o n TRIM
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BELTINGS.
In beautiful pale pastel
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MOney=saylng notions.

Money-saving, because they are
little articles that you constantly have
need for. and will have to buy them
some time. Do II when the price is
down.
Lightweight Dress Shields In all sizes.
Regular price, 10c. to Csc. a pair. Sc
Monday ..-.........-...
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X. B. Hairpins, straight or II
crimpled. Per paper.
Belmont Hairpin Cabinets. Reg 2c
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Sanitary Safety Pins. Regular &c., &c.
and &c. dozen kinds. Tomor- ~
row. two dozen for
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10c to 25c. Supporters. To close, II
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three dozen Observation-Disclosures.
Gem Needle Point Pins. Regularly
&c. a paper. Tomorrow, three 0C
"a yards Cotton Tape; white or &c
black Per piece.
Bone Hairpins, seconds of regular 25c.
pins. Six different styles Per &c.
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Dress goods specials.

Haven't you a want in dress
goods? If you have. you will do well to
satisfy 1t tomorrow at these prices:
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FANCY E N A M Ell
BUTTONS, in four or
five different sizes, in a
great variety of color
ings and combinations.
Very rich in design. In
such a great variety as
to match almost any
suit. These buttons sold
formerly for from 39c.
to 79c. a card. Clearance
price tomorrow, a card,
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1906-08-02
SLAIN BY FARMLAND
Are Wife and Three Children While
Husband is at Church.

Pittsburg, July 30.--Mrs. Richard
Pierce and her three children, living
near Venice, Washington county, were
shot and beaten to death by a negro
farmland during the absence of Mr..
Pierce at church. After killing the
family he set fire TO the house and
fed. The bodies were consumed.
Neighbors, who were attracted by
the flames, saw the negro going over
the hill. heading toward this city.
When they arrived at the burning
building 1t was too late to save 1t,
but blood.stained ak lying in tho
dooryard told the story of the crime.
Pierce was on his way from church,
In company with a number of his
neighbors, when they saw the smoke
rising over the hills which told of a
fire. The church is but a half mile
from the scene OF the tragedy. and the
entire congregation hurried to the
spot. When they learned the ghastly
truth the party of men who had been
worshiping but few minutes before
Immediately changed into a band OF
viligantes, and they are now searching
the hills for the fugitive negro, deter.
mined that he shall pay for his crime
with his life. and without the inter.
vention OF taTdy justice.
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PAID HIM TO KEEP AWAY.
wife No. 2 Found the Peculiar Con-
tract With wife No. I.

Dayton, O.-Bigamy with alleged
unusual conditions attending Is the
charge made against Gilbert Thomas
Lloyd, 35 years old, who Is native
Of England, but who has been living
in this city, Van Vert, o., and Rich
mond, Ind, for a number Of years.
Mrs. Rose Lloyd, alleged Wife MOI
3, is in possession Of a contract into
which Lloyd entered with his former
wife In Sussex, Eng, In July, 1896,
wherein Wife No. promises to pay
Lloyd in weekly installments the sum
approximately of $50 in English mon
ey, with the condition that Lloyd shall
not interfere with her in any way and
shall permanently absent himself.
This amount has been coming to Lloyd
regularly, payment having been made
through bank of Toronto, Canada.
Lloyd, however, claimed that the mon
oy was being paid to him by an older
brother as the revenue from an es-
tate Of some proportions in England.
He has not been living with Wife
No. for some time, but his arrest was
effected through her cooperation.
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Judge Places Property in
Hands of Receiver.
HAS FULL CHARGE.
DOwie Allowed to Retain Possession
OF Shiloh HOuss-tiaS Moth
ing to Say at Present.

Chicago, Ill-Judge Lands, of the
United States district court, gave
his decision Friday in the controversy
between the adherents of John Alex
ander Dowie and Wilbur q. Voliva
over the property at Zion City.
The court holds that Zion City and
Its industries do not belong to Dowie
that, while the contributors of the
funds did not express a formal declar-
alton of trust, trust was created.
and Dowie had no right to treat the
property as his own.
The court refused to appoint Alex
ander Granger receiver Tor the reason
that Granger made a vow recognizing
Dowie as "a messenger of the cove
nant, the prophet foretold by Moses.
and Elijah the restorer," to which
vow "all family ties and obligations
and relations to human government
shall be held subordinate d.
The court said he was not obliged
to repose confidence in man so con-
stituted that. living In this republic,
he would serenly vow his readiness
at all times to abandon his family and
betray his country.
The court ordered an election on
the third Tuesday of September Of a
general overseer, all members Of the
church residing in Zion City, male
and female. to have one vote. He an
nounced that suitable provision would
be made for Dowie on account of his
services as trustee.
John c. Hately was appointed re-
ceiver of Zion. His bonds we're placed
at $4,000.
The effect Of the decision is to place
the industrial affairs OF Zion City In
the hands of the court through the
agency of Mr.. Hately. while the
church's spiritual matters will come
under the supervision Of the overseer
to be elected in September. Claims
R-aiHst Dowie are now claims against
the receiver.
Receiver Hately was in court and
his bond was approved Soon after
wards the receiver left for Zion City
TO assume full charge Of the city. The
court announced that Dowie is to re.
main In possession Of Shiloh House
and to have complete freedom Of Its
appurtenances. including his library.
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YOUNG OFFICERS
Certified For Commissions In the Ohio
National Guard.

Columbus, O.-The military examin
ing board certified the names of the
following offifflcers for commissions
having qualified at the examination:
Capt. Hugo A. Bernhard, Canal Dover
Ensign Frank G. Warner, Cleveland;
Ensign Thomas D. Bolton, Cleveland;
Lieut.. Harry L. Andrus, Cleveland;
1st Lieut.. Roy A. Phillipson, Gallon
1st Lieut.. Charles D. Kelley, Kenton
1st Lieut.. Harry Mallow, Greenfield;
I'd Lieut.. Jemes N. Kisling. Greenfield
I'd Lieut.. Curtis A. Hammer, Canal Do
yer; I'd Lieut.. Chas. G. Peck, Spring
field; I'd Lieut.. Robert Miller. Spring
field; I'D Lieut.. Robert Wittler, Nj
amisburg: Sd Lieut.. William N. Tuck
er, Covington; I'd Lieut.. w. c. Shanks
Kenton.
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FOR UNIVERSAL PEACE.
Delegates to Interpariianentary Union
VIII Formulate Plane for the Set
tIement Of international Con-
fiots by Arbitration.

London, Eng. - William ]. Bry-
ans proposed rider to the model arbi-
tration treaty was discussed at a
session OF the international council OF
the Interparliamentary Union Tues
day morning and resulted in its being
recast, as follows:
''If disagreement should arise
which is not included In those to be
submitted to arbitration, the contract
ing parties shall not resort to any act
of hostility before they separately or
jointly invite, as the case may neces-
state, the formation Of an interna-
tional commission Of inquiry or medi-
alton OF one or more friendly powers,
this requisltion TO take place II neces-
sary in accordance with article Will.
Of the The Hague convention provid-
ing for a peaceful settlement Of inter-
national conflicts"
On the resumption Of the sessions
Of the conference Of the lnterparlia-
mentary Union Tuesday the above
was unanimously adopted after
speeches by ex-Austrian Minister OF
Commerce Won Plener ana Mr.. Bryan,
warmly supporting the amended rider.
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant,
head OF the French delegation, subse-
quently opened the debate on the limi-
tation OF military and naval forces.
He declared that IL the powers were
undecided among themselves how to
act for their common interests they
would be -orced to do so, first by
bankruptcy and then by revolution
He said that limitation or ornaments
had no connection with the chimera
OF disarmament. The arguments
against disarmament were based on
the augmented expenditure OF the
powers. The augmentations In the
United States .were due to the unfor-
tunate example of Europe. but In pro
portion to the population. the Ameri
can forces had not been increased un
reasonably and the expenditure had
been augmented proportionately.
Congressman d. l.. Granger. OF
Rhode Island, was elected vice presi
dent OF the American delegation for
the coming year and Congressman
Richard Bartholdt, OF Missouri. and
T. T.. Burton, OF Ohio, were elected
members Of the international council