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The La Jara chronicle., 1906-08-17
RELICS OF JAMESTOWN.
Site of Exposition battle-ground of
Conflicts Between Early Settlers
and Indians.

OF all the Smiths who have ever
| lived Captain John is becoming the
most famous, due to the prominence
| given to his doings, incident to the
| jamestown Exposition. The romantic
days of Pocahontas and Captain John
Smith are vividly recalled by the old
Indian and frontiersmen's relics which
have been dug up in preparing the
J ground for the jamestown Exposition.
I The site selected for the celebration
of the three hundredth ar versary of
the first permanent English settlement
in America was once an Indian village
| occupied by the Powhatans, the most
powerful tribe of the early American
Indians, who roamed over the country
east of the Ohio River several CEN
turtles ago.
Near the State Exhibits Building
stands Il majestic live oak tree, the
"Powhatan Oak" estimated to be
nearly 1000 years old, which was Il
favorite camping ground of the In
dians before America was discovered
by the Palefaces. Here We're held
councils of war when the only weap-
ons in use We're stone hatchets, stone
war clubs, spears with stone points
and bows and arrows. The arrow
heads used We're made of flint, clipped
down to n cutting edge, almost as
sharp as knife, every arrow head
representing many hours of hard and
patient toll. Scores of these flint ar
row-heads are being found on the EX
position ground, in eXcavating for
streets and buildings. Some of them
are broken, perhaps by striking some
foe of the Indians in battle or some
wild animal-in those days the woods
about Hampton Roads We're alive with
deer, bear and other animals. At Sc
wells Point where these relies are
found We're fought bloody battles be-
tween the early English settlers and
the Indians and, according to old In
dian traditions, this was also the
BATTLE ground on which warning In
dian tribes desperately contended for
the right of domain. long before the
occurrence of the historic event which
the Jamestown Exposition commemo-
rates. The valuable fisheries of what
are now called Hampton Roads and
Chesapeake Bay, tie beautiful hunt
ing grounds along the water courses
and the many attractions peculiar to
this locality made this particular
point of land very desirable, and for
its possessions Indian tribes warred
with one another. Now, after CEN
turies have gone by and the old In
dian nations that once controlled this
region have passed away, their an
cient battle fields have been trans
formed into magnificent internation-
al exposition ground, just outside the
corporate limits of the city Of Norfolk,
Virginia.
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the country for eight days in the in
terests of the new course of study.
As a result, considerable interest was
aroused in the proposed new work,
a tentative agricultural course was out
lined, and arrangements were made
with the three farm implement dealers
of the town to open their warehouses
to the classes in agriculture and fur
nish experts to give instruction on the
mechanics, care, and use of farm ma
chinery.
STARTING IN AGRICULTURE.
The agricultural work of the course
includes botany, with special reference
to variation, development of species,
hybridization, and the influence of
light, heat, moisture etc, on the plant;
soils and tillage; plant physiology,
farm crops, grain judging, and horu-
culture; farm accounts; farm manage
ment, including farm plans, methods
of cropping, farm machinery and its
care, and rural economies with spe-
cial reference to the problems of a
business nature that will be met on the
farm; animal production and stock
Judging, and dairying. The teacher of
agriculture reports that the implement
dealers have given further evidence
of their interest in the agricultural
course by offering prizes aggregating
S112 in value for a grain-judging
contest, open to all young men in the
country and that these prizes have
been supplemented by a $15 suit OF
clothes from a clothing dealer. Con-
tinuing, he says: Il am well pleased
with the way the boys take hold of
the work. Out of 10 boys we have 8
enrolled in the agricultural course, and
| think most of the first-year boys will
take it up when they get to it in the
| course. 1t is proving popular in the
school and entirely free from the pre-
judice | had anticipated at the outset"
This is the nucleus of an important
experiment in education. Norton is
just in the edge of the great semiarid
region of the Middle West. Agricul-
tural practice in that region differs ma
| terially from that of the more humid
regions on the one hand and from
that of the irrigated districts on the
| other. The teacher of agriculture is
thoroughly familiar with the agricul-
ture of the'region, and has but recent
! ly graduated from an agricultural col
| lege which is devoting much study to
the problems of the hundredth meridi-
an belt. The agriculture of this belt is
extensive. Here one man works as
/ lIluNI ldIll as lOuI vi lNG Iltll III NIlt
| East: he cultivates three rows of corn
at one crossing of the field. and does
other things on an equally extensive
scale. Improved farm machinery makes
this method of farming possible. 1t
] is therefore of the greatest Importance
| hat much attention to farm machinery
| he given in the agricultural course
| ut the Norton County High School
| The cereals (corn and wheat) are the
| leading field crops, hence the import
| ance of grain-judging contests and
other school work relating to these
great staples.
The county superintendent of schools
has expressed the hope that the school
may also do much work that will be
of immediate practical benefit to the
agriculture of the country, such as
testing seeds for viability. or germin-
ating power, and milk and cream for
| butter fat; treating oats and wheat
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cluded that he would gain in both
purse and pleasure by going back to
the farm. Such young man, and
there are many like him in the Norton
County High School, would have well
coined an agricultural course, and
would have gone back to the farm
much better prepared for the duties of
life than he was with business train
ing. So the county superintendent of
schools and the other members of the
board of trustees decided that an
agricultural course should take the
place of the general science course, and
hired graduate of the Kansas State
Agricultural College to teach agricul-
ture and other sciences in the high
school. Secretary Wilson of Agricul-
ture, while making a trip through the
"short.grass country" learned of the
enterprise. became much interested in
1t, and in response to an appeal for
aid sent a representative of the Office
of Experiment Stations to Norton to
help start it. The president of the
Kansas State Agricultural College also
responded to a call for assistance and
made one of party of four that toured
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"It's simply fine in you to come.
Have some seltzeri" cried the lady. A
hearty laugh from the group on the
terrace broke in upon her greeting and
made her call hastily: Don't tell any
stories about me. Let us go over
there" she said, rising, "one can never
afford to miss a good laugh. and Ger
man dialect is too rare on these prem
had one of my own, or that Joe Weber,
Lew Fields or Sam Bernard could hear
some of the attempts at English that
reach my ears during the opera season.
AS it is, l can only enjoy them for a
moment and repeat them afterward to
some one who can perpetuate the in
cident. Oh. we have droll times"
Mrs. Story has a keen sense of hui
NOR. and quite loses herself as she
listens to group of story-tellers. Un-
like most strong personalities, she
does not rob those around her of poise
and ease, but possesses the rare fac
ulty of bringing out the very best that
is in them.
After dinner that wonderful even
ing music came in for its share The
last Wagnerian production to the popu-
lar songs of the season was the range
A fragment of "Tammany" was sung
by that voice which will go down in
in many keys by the dinner guests
All had heard the voice before. but it
was not Madame Eames of Grand Opera
who sang. 1t was Mrs. Julian Story
singing to her friends.
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DIVA OF GRAND OPERA.
SIMPLE LIFE FOR MRS. JULIAN
STORY WHEN SEASON ISO OYER
FOR EMMA EAMES.

Joted Singer Flies to Husband at
Italian Home as Soon as Last Note
of Contract Season Falls from Her
Golden Throat.
There are thousands of Madame
Emma Eames' admirers who. hearing
her sing this season, will think they
know her we'll They will have seen
her in the trailing robes of Juliet, or
the simple gown of Marguerite; dark
skinned as Aida or fair and white as
The young BRIDE Elsa. They will find
in her neighbor, giving plenty of
heart and strength and personality to
those who weep or thrill as they listen.
Sympathy is meat and drink to the
singer; but, in the spring when the big
theater home of her triumphS is
closed, Madame Emma Eames flies to
Vallombrosa where sympathy awaits.
AS soon as she reaches her Italian
estate she becomes Mrs. Julian Story.
1t is the beginning of the simple life;
of household duties and dairy superin-
tendence; of the friendship of little
chickens. new puppies and old ponies,
Of favorite flowers in a personal gar
den, and the companionship of a
husband.
Mrs. Story was reared in New Eng
land; Mr.. Story in Rome. They have
a luxurious house in Paris, out 1t is
this sunny mountain slope in Italy
that awakens a responsive throb when
the home longing is keen and the ap-
plause of the public fails to reach the
heart.
OLD vALLoMBRoSA MONASTERY.
Many years ago, W. W. Story,
travelling for his health in Italy
found the beauty of the Appenines
to culminate in the stretch of land
known as Vallombrosa. The monas-
terry Of the name, founded in the tenth
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WILD WOODS BECOME PARKS

The landscape gardening which h s
transformed a wild woods into one Of
the most beautiful scenic parks, Will
also serve as an object lesson to farm
ers and all who have grounds to beau
tify with flowers, shrubs and trees.
More than million plants and trees
are growing on the Exposition
grounds. many of which have been
transplanted; others are native to the
soil. Among the trees transplanted
were several hundred old trees, some
comprising an apple orchard, whose
trees were removed and planted
around the thirty-acre drill plain on
the grounds. These and the pines,
cedars, dogwoods and other trees have
not suffered by being transplanted.
Even trees which were hauled many
miles over land and water and plant
ed on the Exposition grounds arc
thrifty. They have all been handled
under the guidance of landscape engin-
GERS. The work has been done scien-
tifcally and skillfully. The results are
seen in the fine condition of the trees.
The arrangement of trees, flowers
and plants of all kinds, in various
parts of the Exposition grounds can
be studied to great advantage by all
landscape gardeners, and the unique
fence of wire and Towering vines, is
study worth going miles to see. a
magnificent model which every fence
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JUVENILE GARDENING,
JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION has A
MODEL SCHOOL GARDEN OF
A HUNDRED BOYS.

Practica al Demonstrations by Depart-
ment of Agriculture and Various
States-Landscape improvements
and Beautific atoms.
Among the many novel features at
the Jamestown Exposition is the gar
den work by school children. One
hundred boys from the public schools
of Norfolk, Newport News and Hamp-
ton, near the Exposition grounds. were
selected by their teachers to carry out
the plans for a school garden at the
Exposition. Special trolley cars con-
veyed these young gardeners and their
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From Above the Clouds.

The view of storm-cloud from above
is one of the most interesting sights
ever beheld by man. According to a
famous aeronaut, storm view from
that position has the appearance of
vast sea of boiling, upheaving snow.
The falling of the rain can be distinct
ly heard, making noise like a water,
fall over a precipice. The thunder
heard above the storm-cloud is not
loud, and the flashes of lightning ap.
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Want Industrial Training.

Resolutions We're recently adopted
at the closing sessions of the Ameri-
can Institute of instruction at New
Haven favoring the installing of in
dustrial departments in every efficient
school system. The institute also
placed itself on record as holding that
in view of recent developments of dis
honesty in high places and of the in
crease of crime in different directions,
1t is the duty of the teachers to per-
sistently train the American youth in
honesty, integrity, and uprightness.
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The Homer Pigeon,

The homer pigeon. when travelling,
seldom feeds, and if the distance to its
home be long, it arrives thin, exhaust.
ed, and almost dying. If corn be pre-
sented to it, it refuses to eat, con
tenting itself with drinking a little
water, and then sleeping. Two or
three hours later it begins to eat with
great moderation. and sleeps again
Immediately afterwards. If its fight
has been very prolonged the pigeon
will proceed in this manner for forty.
eight hours before recovering its nor
NAL mode of feeding.
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for smut and potatoes for scab; spray
ing trees and garden crops for insect
pests and diseases, and making plans
for farm buildings, roads, water sys-
TENS, etc. Such work could be done
largely by the pupils at school or on
the different farms on Saturdays. 1t
would be educational and at the same
time would make the farmers feel
that they were getting some immediate
tangible return for the taxes paid in
support of the school,
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In the Friends burial grounds, in
Salem, N. j., there stands the largest
oak tree in the State and possibly the
largest in the United States. 1t is now
used as the "trade mark" of the New
Jersey Forestry Association.
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century, was in the hands of a few
monks. The scattering of the monastic
order was the first of innovations. The
locality, famed for its health giving
properties, offers peace and immunity
from the world, in a few hotels and
sanitoriums. Two or three American
millionaires have erected summer
homes on nearby hill tops and several
families of the aristocracy of Florence
spend the hot months here in feudal
strongholds.
The shooting box of the ancient
Medici family, where the American
poet lived and died, is occupied by his
daughter; and Julian Story. because
the spot is endeared to him through
his fathers memory, has built on a
farm of many acres great square
tower and hall. Campiglioni is the
farm. ana Tore Di Campiglioni is
the home, which signifies the happy
abode of art and good fellowship.
Mr.. Story paints pictures, and
,pends his energy wherever his por-
trait commissions may take him while
his wife is singing. To the visiting
friend of the singer the 20 mile trip
from Florence was fitting approach
to her beautiful retreat. The road
which eventually led up to the terrace
Of II Tore was tied in bowknots. and
worked out like puzzle. The puzzle
was solved, however. and in the open
living room or 'loggia," Mr.. Story
gave me hearty welcome.
ENTIRELY DEMOCRATIC
The girl who had been separated
by professional etiquette from the great
singer, looked forward with some ap-
prehension to meeting a divinity in
sweeping sun-embroidered velvet drap-
cries. Soon Mrs. Story came out in
a white duck skirt and a drawnwork
shirtwaist.
"a 60)
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builder will find worthy of following.
rms fence is eight feet high, made of
seyeral strands of wire, and running
oveF the wire in every direction, COM
pletely covering it, are vines of honey
sucEie' crimson rambler, rose and
trumpet creeper, making what seems to
be an immense hedge of towering
vine
HOME IMPROVEMENTS
Ii the Exposition results in imbuing
its many thousand visitors with the
spirit Of home Improvement and with
a determination to go back home and
make Of their own towns, or houses
anG Erounds models of beauty and con-
venieace, it will go far toward proving
a national success.
Rustic benches and bridges, pretty
walls under canopies of vines and
flowers shady lanes and streets and
a thousand other interesting things at
the Exposition are studies for the peo-
pie, worthy of the most careful at
tention. 1t will not be an exposition
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when the lions eat grass like an OK.
And the fisherman swallows the whale;
When the terraplns knit wooden socks.
And the hare is outrun by the snail;
When serpents walk upright like men,
And doodle bugs travel like frogs;
When the grasshopper feeds on the hen,
And feathers are found on the hogs;
When Thomas cats swim in the air,
And elephants roost upon trees;
When insects In summer are rare.
And snuff never makes people sneeze;
When the fish creep over dry land,
And mules on velocipedes ride;
When foxes lay eggs In the sand.
And women In dress take no pride;
When Dutchmen no longer drink beer,
And girls get to preaching on time;
When the billy goat butts from the rear,
And treason no longer is crime
When the humming bird brays like an ass
And llmburger smells like cologne;
When plowshares are made out of glass,
And hearts of Tennesseeans are stone;
When sense grows in Republican heads,
And wool on the hydraulic ram;
Then the Democratic party will be dead,
And this country not worth a.
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NO FARMING TAUGHT.

Previous to this year the Norton
County High School has offered college
preparatory, normal, business ana gen
eral science courses, sbut no course re.
lated in any direct way to the leading
industry of the county-farming. The
county superintendent of schools said
that his attention had been forcibly
directed to this lack in the curriculum
of the high school by the experience
of young man who came to the school
from one of the many large farms in
the vicinity, took the four-year busi-
ness course. spent one year in local
bank at $50 a month. and then con-
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Equipped High Schoo-Students
lmbibe the Spirit OF Village lmprov-
ement.
Actual examples of successes-of
things that already have been done
are more convincing than a thousand
plausible arguments to prove what pos
sibly can be done. The Department of
Agriculture cites a case in Kansas,
showing the practical operation of
county high school, which has done
much for Norton County, and which,
if faithfully worked out in other in
stances, would give a tremendous i'm
petus to any other county in any
state.
Kansas has local option in the es-
tablishment of county high schools.
AS a result several sparsely settled
counties or counties in which there
are few large towns are supporting
such schools. Norton County, which a
few years ago was 60tted with sod
school houses, and which still has
| many sod dwelling houses, now sup
ports a good county high school in the
village of Norton, a town Of 1900 in
habitants, located near the geOpraphi-
cal center of the county. The high
school building is of brick, stories
| nigh, over a We'll llghted basement,
and is located on the outskirts of the
village where land can be easily Sc
cured. The basement contains fur
mace and fuel rooms, lavatories, and a
gymnasium. On the first floor is a
physics and chemistry room, a natural
history room, music and art room,
and the rooms of the business depart.
ment The second floor contains an
assembly and study room and two re-
citation rooms. The apparatus and
other equipment for the work in ply.
sizes, chemistry, and natural history
are exceptionally good for a small high
school. There is also good library
and reading room with current news
| papers and magazines.
The expense of running the school
in 1904 was $9.5SS, including $4,43O
for teachers salaries and S5.15S for
buildings grounds and incidentals,
This was a year when considerable
sums were spent for furniture, appara-
tus, supplies, and additional land. The
running expenses for the first six
months in 1905 were S3,775. Hereto
fore five teachers have been employed
but this year there are six.
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teachers to the grounds, April 16, 1906,
and under direction of Warren H.
Manning, landscape designer of the
Exposition, every boy was assigned to
small plot of ground in the garden
and was given sseeds to plant and in
structions how to plant them. In
these gardens are now growing beans,
peas, parsnips, carrots, marshmallow.
parsley and other vegetables. They are
attended by their little gardeners and
are kept clean and free from weeds,
most of the boys taking a special pride
in their gardens.
This is but a preliminary training
for The schoolchildren in gardening
trial heat, as it were. for the race next
year. The actual work is to be taken
up at the jamestown Exposition next
spring.
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PRIZES FOR BEST GARDENS.

Those who have made success OF
their gardens this season will be given
preference next year and will have
their same gardens. The Exposition
Company will give prizes or medals for
ytha best cultivated garden on the
Exposition grounds and the young
gardeners will be given some yalu.
able lessons in agriculture. The L. ).
Department of Agriculture and some
of the state departments will have eA-
perimental stations and gardens at
the Exposition as object lessons TO
the young as well as older gardeners.
The young minds amongtthe visitors
which have a bent toward agricultural
pursuits will have an opportunity TO
learn much of value in the way of till
ing the soil. They will learn when TO
plant, what to plant and how to plant,
TO get the best results. They Will
also be given an opportunity to study
soils and their treatment, and how 10
enrich and improve them. Tree plant
ing and transplanting will constitute
another phase of Uncle Sans object
lessons, as are done at other govern
ment experimental stations. At the
st. Louis Exposition Uncle Sans gar
dens and the children's gardens proved
exceedingly interesting as well as iu-
structive to the farmers who We're
wise enough to appreciate the bene-
fits to be derived from them. At the
Jamestown Exposition it is expected
the Agricultural Department VIII
broaden its scope of instructions in
many ways and surpass its efforts at
st. Louis.
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JOHN WESLEY s "POEM. !"

Representative j. W. Gaines of Ten.
nessee, Created Roars of Amuse-
ment in the House, During
Closing Days OF Session by
Reciting "M'hen Democ-
racy Will Die"
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FARM HIGH SCHOOL.
GRE4T 4T IMPROVEMENT IN EDUC4-
TION4L NE THODS IN THRIY~
ING KANSAS TOUN.

Consolidation of the Sod-House
Schools into Large and Well
Equipped High Schooi-Students
lmbibe the Spirit OF Village lmprov-
SmGnI.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24

The newspaper publicity incident to the ceremonies attendant upon the dis interment of the body of James Will son, one of the signers of the Declara- ti0p of Independence, which Tor the last one hundred years had rested in the Johnson burial ground at Eden ton Ns C., and its removal to PhiladeI- pnIa and reinterment in the yard ot Christ Church beside the remains ot the patriots wife, on Thursday of this week, revealed the fact that In Mont romery there resides a great grand son and daughter of Mir. Wilson.
 William Wallace Seidie train con ductor for the Atlantic Coast Line, 415 Washington Avenue are descended in direct line from the illustrious sign CT of the Declaration of Independence'
 Miss Seldle who came from Pennsyi- yania about two years ago to make her home with her brother when seen yes terday by an Advertiser representa- tive, talked Interestingly and enter Wilson was twice married; The eldest Robert Wallace The youngest daugh- fer of MT. and Mrs. Wallace married
 William Shaver and the oldest daugh- ter Of Mr and Mrs, Shaver married Luther R. Seidle. There were born to Mir. and Mrs Seidie three children, one daughter, Miss R. Seidie and two sons; W. W. seidle of Montgomery ana ia Fnfisesinoti, The notber of Mr. ssidle died in fbe ' grSh asso iisF, Mrs Shaver. died in that city six years ago aged so years. 1t was through the grandmother AMrs'