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Sour-HIiiIS biscuit.

One quart Of -four; a tcaspoouful OF
baking soda, slfted with the flour; n
spoonful Of SALT onc-haif cup lard,
chopped into the flour, Mix all togcth.
or. adding enough very sour milk to
make biscuit dough
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26
M ISIS ANNIE HENDREN, Rocklyn,
A'A Wash writps

Il feel better than have for over four
years. | have taken several bottles of
Peruna and one bottle of Manalin.
Il can now do all of my work in the
house, milk the cows, take care of the
milk, and so forth. think Peruna is a
most wonderful medicine.
Il believe | would be in bed to-day if
| had not written to you for advice. l
had taken all kinds of medicine, but
none did me any good.
"Peruna has made me well and
happy girl. | can never say too much
for Peruna."
Not only women of rank and leisure
praise Peruna, but the wholesome use
full women engaged in honest toll would
not be without DR.. Ilartman's world re-
nowned remedy.
The Doctor has prescribed it for many
thousand women every year and he
never fails to receive a multitude of let
tiers like the above, thanking him for
his advice, and especially for the won
derful benefits received from Pcruna.
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EleCtrifying, Too.

Among other records to break is that
Of the output Of the locomotive works.
During the past six months the number
of engines completed is more than 1900
If it were just that number it would
amount to fifty n week; or more than
eight every twenty-four hours, emitting
Sunday .-Philadelphia Record.
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Fine Wool Sheen

The Wensleydale breed Of sheep is
far from common even in its home,
England None is in America. 1t IS n
fine sheep, superior in some respects
to all others. 1t is said that for cross
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ing on any other breed the Wensley-
dale has no equal. Since the Royal Agri-
cultural Society Of England commenced
giving prizes for wool three years ago,
the Wensleydale wool has each time Sc
cured first prize in the "any other long
wooded class" No long wool produced
in the British Isles is equal to the
Wensleydale in quality or value.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26

This IS simply an ordinary melted
butter sauce, with teaspoonful Of
chopped parsley Cwell dried before
chopplngJ and a squeeze of lemon juice
u,trrn1 I'm
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Sir Jonathan Williams, a retired ply,
stefan of Great Britain, declares that tho
purest English spoken in the United
Stntes is in NentnCkY.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26

to advantage as q mulch around trees
mainly for the purpose Of heeping the
sell moist and keeping grass from
growing around them.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26

MRS WlNSLO" \ SOOTHING SYRUP for
Children tecthing; softeus the gums reduces I'm.
Illumination. hllnys pain, cures wind collie. ~
cents n bottle.
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Farm IrrIentlnn pInnt.

4 current wheel TO run chain and
bucket geariAs is quite feasible for
farm irrigation purposes Herewith Is
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-07-26
TERRIBLE TO RECALL.

Five Weeks in He'd with Intensely
Painful Kidney Trouble.
Mrs. Mary Wagner, of 1867 KoSSu'h
Ave- Bridgeport, Conn, says: 81 WAS
So weakened and generally run down
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All Hallows' church. Exeter. Eng
land, 100 years old has been torn down
in order that a street may be widened.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-14
JEROME PAYS RESPECTS
TO OUTDOOR SPORTS

breakfast. returning to late and not
over sociable dinner. THAT was the end
of their honeymoon. so far as she was con-
cerned He meant we'll, but the thing had
gone too far. The vice had entered into
his blood. and the smell efrehe links drove
out all other considerations.
X
We are most of us familiar. I take it,
with the story of the goifing parson who
could not keep from swearing when balls
went wrong. Golf and the ministry don't
seem to go together" his friend told him.
Take my advice before it's too late and
give it up, Tamus" A few months later
Tamus met his friend again. ''Ye were
right jamie cried the parSon cheer
fully. They dinna run well In harness
golf and the ministry. | haze followed
your advice. I haze given 1t oop." Then
what are ye doing with the sack of clubs?'
inquired Jimmy. What am l doing with
them?" repeated the puzzled Tamus why
I'm going to play golf with them"
light broke upon him. Great heavens,
man." he continued we didna think
twas the golf I'd gren up!'
The Englishman does not understand
play; he makes a lifelong labor of his
The health resorts of Europe-to para
phrase famous saying that nobody APP
pears to have said-draw half their profits
from the playing fields of Elton and else
where. In Swiss and German kurhausen
enormously fat men bear down upon you
and explain to you that once they were
the champion sprinters, the high jump rep
resentatives for their university-men who
now hold on to the banisters and groan
they haul themselves upstairs. Con-
sumptive men, between paroysms of cough
ing. tell you of the goals they scored
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Copyright, 1906. by Jerome K. Jerome.)
VHAT we English attach too much
a %P's sayns TO 'p taA. goes " nas
been said so often as to have
become a commonplace. One OF
these days some reforming English novel;
list will write a book showing the evil
effects of overindulgence in sport-the neg
iected business, the ruined home, the slow
but sure sapping of the brain, what there
may have been of it in the beginning, lead
ing to semi-imbecility and yearly increas-
ing obesity. young couple 1 once heard
of went for their honey moon to Scotland.
The poor girl did not know he was a
a period of idleness. enforced by q sprained
shoulder) or maybe she would have avoided
Scotland.
The idea they started with was that
of tour. The second day the man went
out for a stroll by himself. At dinner time
he observed. with a far away look In his
eyes, that it seemed a pretty spot they had
struck and suggested their staying there
another day. The next morning after
breakfast he borrowed a club from the
hotel porter and remarked no would take
q walk while she finished doing her hair.
He said II amused him, swinging golf
club while he walked. He returned in
time for lunch and seemed moody all
him and urged that they should linger yet
another day. She was young and mex
perienced and thought maybe il was liver.
She had heard much about liver from her
father. The next morning he borrowed
more clubs and went out, this time before
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mated at thirty square miles. or about
29oD0 acres Arriving in Maryland. he
took up his residence at or near Piscata
way, but the site of his dwelling is ua-
He was devoted Oxford man and Oxon
was the short form of Oxonian. The
name survives In Oxon rum a pretty
stream that rise in the country near the
Marlboro road between Oakland and For
estville and pours into the Potomac OPP
posite Alexandria; in Oxon hill, a very
old f,, hamlet hamlet and post once and In oxon
county. bounded by the District of Col
umbia, Spaulding, Surratt and Piscataway
districts. John Addison attained promi-
nence ip the colony, became chief justice
OF Charles county, colonel of militia for
the defense Of the colonists against the
Indians and was one of the signers of the
address of welcome sent by Charles county
to King William and Queen Mary on their
succession. About 1876 or 1877 he took as
his wife the widow Of Thomas Dent, born
Rebecca Wilkinson, daughter of the Rev.
William Wilkinson of St. Georges Hun
dred In Sprague's American Pulpit
there is this sketch Of Mr.. Wilkinson:
-. -
1.-THE Rev. William Wilkinson, with his
wife, his two daughters and some indent
ured servants. in all. nine persons. left. the
land of his fathers and crossed the ocean
to plant himself here. Mr.. w. came not
to an endowed church or to a people capa-
BILE of supporting him. He was the first
clergyman of the Church of England who
had come to the province. though it had
been settled sixteen years. There were,
however. at this time several rude places
Of worship. built of logs from the forest
They were located not far from the wa
terside. for the settlers all chose their
residences on the banks Of some or othe..
of the beautiful creeks and rivers which
served them as highways"
Elizabeth Hesselius Murray, in lone
Hundred Years Ago" says that Mr. VIII
kinson received grant of nine hundred
acres for the nine persons brought to the
colony, and later he took up 11.OO0 acres
more. Thomas Dent MRS. Addison's first
husband) lived at Giesboro on the East
ern branch. The Dents called the place
Giesboro in honor of their English home
-Giesborough- on-theTees. Mrs. U. 8.
Grant, who was a Miss Dent. was a men,
Der OF this family.
1t Is believed that John Addisons inter-
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to keep the balls lower. suppose it the
continental sky. 1t Is so blue, so beautiful.
fact remains that most tennis players on
the continent. whether English or foreign,
have a tendency to aim the ball direct at
heaven.
At an English club in Switzerland there
existed in my day young Englishman who
was really a wonderful player. To get the
ball past him was almost an impossibility.
1t was his return that was weak. He only
had one stroke; the ball went hundred
feet or so into the air and descended in his
opponents court. The other man would
stand watching it. a little speck In the
heavens. growing gradually bigger and big
ger 1t neared the earth. Newcomers
would chatter to him, thinking he had de-
tected a balloon or an eagle. He would
wave them aside, explain to them that he
would talk to them later. after the ar
rival of the ball. 1t would fall with a thud
at his feet. rise another twenty yards or SO
and again descend. When 1t was at the
proper height he would hit it back over the
net and next moment it would be mount
ing the sky again. At the tournaments I
have seen that young man. with tears in
his eyes, pleading to be given an umpire.
Every umpire had fed. They hid behind
trees. borrowed silk hats and umbrellas 'and
pretended they were vistors-any device.
however mean, to avoid the task of umpir
ing for that young man. Provided his OPP
ponent did not go to sleep or get cramp.
one game might last all day Any one
could return his balls, but, as I have said,
to get ball past him was almost an i'm
possibility. He invariably won. The other
man, after an hour or so, would get mad
and try to lose 1t was his only chance OF
dinner.
1t is a pretty sight. generally speaking.
a tennis ground abroad. The women pay
more attention to their costumes than DO
our lady players: the men are usually IN
spotless white. The ground is often charm
ingly situated. the club house picturesque;
there IL always laughter and merrimenI
The play may not be so good to watch,
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huge volume Of smoke settled over the adj
joining hills. Numbers of people in this
city went to the streets facing the river to
look at the fire. which continued to rage
unknown, from the fact that ice In the
river rendered it impossible to communi-
cate with the opposite shore. Nothing now
remains of the former building but the
walls and the four chimneys."
The walls and chimneys long ago fell.
and trees and shrubbery are now growing
from the heaps of debris that mark where
the old house stood.
The bones of several generations of the
Addison family lie in the burial plot about
fifty yards southeast Of the house site. The
first American Addison is not buried here,
he having died when on visit to England
in 1906 The ground Is densely matted with
honeysuckle and upgrown In cedar. If the
place were cleared no doubt many of the
fiat gravestones would be revealed. but at
present only one is visible. This is inscribed:
To the Memory of
Elizabeth Addison.
DIED Z. JuI h 81 eI isos. aged IS years
beam of truth from eternal brightness flowed,
Played DER her breast and checked each rising
With pious faith to heavens decree she bowed.
And viewed the awful bournes without q fear.
Her soul. enlightened by a Ssvior's grace.
Lived but to die. and dying lived to peace
The dust under this tomb is that of Eliz-
abeth Hesselius of Annapolis. wife of the
Rev. Walter Dulany Addison. This Addison
was distinguished Episcopal clergyman.
He was the great-great-grandson of John
Addison the first, pastor of Broad Creek,
and friend and teacher of the eminent
Bishop Meade. He was the founder of st.
Johns Church, Georgetown. and for long
time was its rector. According to an ac-
count by the Rev. DR.. c. M. Butler, 1.-The
first service conducted by an Episcopal
clergyman in Georgetown was held by the
Rev. w. D. Addison in 1884" Walter D.
Addison died at Baltimore in 1S4S and was
buried beside his wife at Oxon Hail. Next
the tomb of Elizabeth Addison is old
grave, but the stone has either been
moved or has sunk into the earth. The
grave no doubt is that of Mr. Addison.
OXon Hall about 1880 passed by pur-
chase into the possession of the Berry fam
lily. In the hillside overlooking the river are
relics of the burial vault Of this family. The
vault was excavated in the hillside. the
sides, floor and roof bricked. and stone
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He would rather catch the ball upon his
head than score a goal. II he can maneu-
yer the ball away into corner. kick it up
into the air twice running and each time
catch 1t on his head he does not seem to
care what happens after that. Anybody
can have the ball: he has had his game and
is happy. They talk Of introducing cricket
into Belgium. / shall certainly try to be
present at the opening game. am afraid
that until he learns from experience the
Belgian fielder will stop cricket balls with
his head: That the head Is the proper
thing with which to play ball appears to be
in his blood. My head is round, he argues.
and hard, just like the ball itself What
part of man more Mt and proper to meet
and stop ball. except, perhaps-but no,
the head comes more readily.
a.
Golf has not yet caught on but tennis
is firmly established from st. Petersburg to
Bordeaux. The German, with the thorough
ness characteristic Of him, is working hard.
University professors. stout majors. rising
tice back handlers and half volleys. But to
the Frenchman, as yet, 1t still remains a
game. He plays 1t in a happy, merry
fashion that is shocking to English eyes.
you. An occasional yard or SO beyond the
line happens to any one. but this mans
object appears to be to break windows.
You feel you really must demonstrate when
the joyous laughter and tumultuous APP
plause Of the spectators explains the puzzle
to you. He has not been trying to serve.
he has been trying to hit man in the
next court who is STOPPING down to tie up
his shoe lace. With his last ball he has
succeeded. He has hit the man In the
small of the back and has bowled him over.
The unanimous opinion of the surrounding
critics Is that the ball could not possibly
have been better placed. A Doherty has
never won greater applause from the crowd
Even the man Who has been hit appears
pleased; 1t shows what a Frenchman can
do when he does take up a game. But
French honor demands revenge He for
gets his shoe, he forgets his game He
gathers together all the balls that he can
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for several generations has lived near Camp
Springs. or Reds Corner. pace on me
Washington and T. B. road seven or eight
miles southeast of Anacostia. In 1873 the
Rev. DR.. Ethan Allen. the distinguish q
Maryland antiquary, came as passor at
Broad Creek. He was followed In 1875 by
the Rev. George l.. Mackenheimer, and he
was followed by the Rev. John Woart. For
two years after 1885 the paStOrate was va
cant, the pulpit being filled by lay readers.
In 1887 the Rev. Edward Vandeusen became
pastor, and 1t was during his pastorate that
St Barnabas Chapel was built In 1874 the
Rev. John Martin. came as pastor. and ne
remained with this congregation TILL lS6.
From 1870 to 1874 the Rev. William J. ker-
shaw was pastor He was the organizer OF
the mission at Surrattsville. now cal ed
Clinton, about eight miles northeast OF Pts
Getaway. He was succeeded by the Rev. ].
Owen Dorsey. who built the chapel at Sur
rattsville, and who res. gned in 1878 to take
a clerkship In the Indian bureau In tbs
city. The Rev. William D. Hyland follow
ed from 1873 to 1890, and the Rev. Martin
L. Poffenberger served from 1880 to 1881.
After Mr. Poffenberger came the Rev. r. T.
kerfoot, who served the pariSh~till his re-
tirement, about one year ago. Mr.. kerfGot
is the historian Of the parish, and 1t Is
through his industry that The Star Is IN
debted for the essentials of this narrative.
Mr. Kerfoot and his wife live at Takoma
Park. The old pastor and his wife are held
in affectionate remembrance by all the par
ishioners of Broad Creek with whom The
Star man talked in his ramble through
those parts. The present pastor is the Rev.
George c. Groves, jr.. during whose rector
ship a new parish hall has been constructed
and other improvements made.
+
The story Of Broad Creek Church ls SO
interviewer with that of Oxon Manor that
it is difficult to tell them separately.
John Addison came to Maryland in 1867.
He was son Of the Rev. Launcelot Ad-
olson and a brother of Launcelot Addi-
son. dean of Litchfield and Of the Rev.
Anthony Addison. rector of Abingdon and
chaplain to the Duke Of Marlborough.
He was uncle to Joseph Addison Of Spec
tator fame. John Addison had received
in England a royal patent to lands in
Maryland extending from Piscataway
creek on the south to the Eastern branch
of the Potomac on the north. and from
the Potomac on the west to Il line about
four miles west, comprising land esti-
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his wish the parish of Piscataway and then
of st. John was in Las renamed King
Georges parish. -
Broad Creek Church was rebuilt between
1853 and 176S. and took the form 1t bears
today. In 1863 the assembly of Maryland
granted that King Georges parish might
levy $1,000 lbs. of Teba eco to enlarge the
Parish Church. Broad Creek"
When the American revolution came on
Mr.. Addison continued his allegiance to the
crown, refused to take the oath of allegiance
prescribed by the state of Maryland. sur.
rendered his cure and returned to Englind.
An indictment was found against him for
adhering to the enemy. and his lands were
appropriated to the state. In 1850 the gov
ernor issued a proclamation guaranteeing
immunity to those exiles who should return
within time stipulated. The Rev. Mr.. Ad-
olson set sail from England. but he did not
reach Maryland In time to save his prop
erty. 1t Is said that he fingered In New
York to be a guest at public dinner given
to the British general commanding at that
city. Part of the estate confscated was
soon after restored to his children. When
relations became ominously strained be-
tween the colonies and the mother country
In the late eos and early 70s of the eight
eenth century the parish name was changed
from King Georges to St Johns.
**
The first vestry elected after the expulsion
of the British colors from the late colonies
was John Dent Richard Dent. Luke Mar
bury, Leonard Marbury. William Baker,
Anthony Addison. William Bayne. and 10 IN
Mcdaniel. church warden. This vestry
called the Rev. Joseph Messenger as rec Or
In 1898 Walter Dulany Addison. great
great-grandson of Col John Addison the
first, was ordained a minister of the An
gl.can Church. Walter Dulany Addison
was the first minister ordained by BisnOp
Claggett, the first diocesan for Maryland.
Mr. Addison first charge was in Queen
Anne's parish. but in ioJu ne came to Broad
Creek Church as assistant rector to Mr.
Messenger The latter retired in 1SOj and
Mr.. A idison succeeded him. Mr.. Messenger
died in 1863 at his home near 7. B., about
ten miles east of Piscataway and two miles
west of Brandywine. In 1918 Mr.. Addison S
brotherrin-law, the Rev. Lewis Gibson, sue
ceeded him as rector Of Broad Creek and
Mr.. Gibson was followed by the Rev. Enoch
Magruder Lowe of the Lowe family which
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- LID Piscataway Parish about 1896
found itself no longer in old
Charles, but in a new county Gre
~ ated out of the northern portions
of Charles and Calvert. About the
same time old Broad Church began iouno-
ing missions. a church was erected IN
New Scotland Hundred, or the region of the
Eastern branch. The mission was near Bla-
aensburg and was called Addison Chapel
because the building and the land are
thought to have been donated by Col. John
Addison the first proprietor of OXon Hail.
Sometimes the old chronicles speak of this
chapel because of its situation with refer
ence to the Piscataway Church as 1.-The
upper chapel" The neighborhood was call
ed New Scotland Hundred because of the
Scotch settlers who had taken up land there
and on the north side of the Eastern branch
on the present site of Washington.
Early in the seventeenth century Scotch
traders appreciated the opportunity for
trade with the Indians and the increasing
European population in the Potomac coun-
try One of the important places they set
tied was Dumfries on Quantico creek 1t
is recorded that some of these Scotch
traders were the first whites to settle on
the land that about a century and half
later became the Territory or District of
Columbia
Mr.. Frazier Broad Creeks first minister.
Rroad Creat's yestrv records show that Mr..
Erazier was also ordered On AnriI - 171o
70 nreacb ar Pock Creek Chanel then a
nission IF Brood Creek
TIE yastrv of Broad Crook In January
17o5 decided IN rnh,,iId their church with
brick the first structure having been of
wood In that wear there we're I 1O5 tax
.bIa resjdents in the .narfsh DIR Hawkes.
saws that in 1I2o there we're between ten
and eleven thousand Fnisconal families in
the nrovince of MARYLAND In 17o6 there
were 1 A1o taxables in Piscatawav narish
The MARYLAND legislature in I122. carved
ont of Piscataway parish a new parish
northward to the boundary of Prince
George county. In lI42 Prince George par
ism was dlVioeo ana the parish OF All
a..abl,stad pa nasnita tba reductio i
the size of Piscataway parish. or St. Johns
parish. as II had come to be called 1t con-
tained, In 1741, T91 taxable inhabitants and
enjoyed annual revenue of 81 $40 pounds
of tobacco.
4*
Addison chapel and ROCK Greek chapel
were not the only missions sprlnging from
.hs ,,o,,sr church ~ pro,d cr.sk Tn 1900