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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1911-10-03

Rev aud Mrs w X Flanagan have returned
and are at the Baptist parsonage.
Mr. w l. Dalgarn and Miss Ella Mcintyre
attended tbs Berkeley Apple Carnival.
v Rev VIM ] Roberts and daughter. of An
napolis, are visiting relatives at Middeway
Mss Esther West, of Rippon. has en-
tered Wilson College, at Chambersburg, Pa
Miss Nan Cooper. of Winchester has been
spending several days with Mrs Theodore
| A Brown.
Nur former countyman Mr. B Posten, of
near Gaylord. gave US a pleasant call this
morning.
| Mrs Thomas Elliott has returned from a
weeks visit to relatives in Washington and
Baltimore.
Miss Minnie Sachs, who has been quite
sick for a week, has recovered and is nbe to
be out again.
| Miss Nellie Campbell left on Saturday for
a visit to Mrs Campbell and Mrs Wmfeld
in Cumberland.
Messrs. Philip and Lewis Sprecher, of
Mt Morris, Ill.,, are visiting their sister,
Mrs s. H. Lands,
! Mr. S Murphy, Jr, and his friend, Mr. G
| DIN Wiley. left on Monday for Green Bay,
| Wis They will be absent two weeks.
Mrs. Mary Strother, who has spent the
summer in Berkeley Springs, has returned,
and is at Mrs Margaret Aisquith's for the
winter.
| Novelties in fall dress goods and silks at
| Palmbaums.
New gloves, hosiery and underwear at
Palm baums.
| Ask Wall what a eve will WOO or will be
worth in April if tat.
| For Sale.
A Knabe Piano (Square) in good eondi-
ton. Apply TO this office. 19-3t.
Mr.. John Fl CFinch') LennoX. for
merly of Harpers Ferry. died at Savage,
Md , last week
| 81 ,O0O. 90 to loan on Real Estate. Apply
to r. Il. H.,
| Box 397.
3-5* Charles Town w. Va. =
|
| MONEY To LoAN-On approved real estate
security. Apply to
| JOHN L. PoRTEkFIi II.
| Charles Town, W, Va.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1911-10-03

If you want nice fresh clean grocene,
give us a call We can supply you with an.
thing in the grocery line, at right prices
E. FRANK RoNEMUs.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1911-10-03

For RENr-Stals in the stable just across
from the Charles Town High School
Very convenient for school children. APP
ply to c. F. Wall.
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]. o. o. F., adopted a resolution providing
for board of trustees, consisting of thir-
teen members, to perfect the plans pro-
posed by the committee. The original
board was composed OF Past Grand Mas
ter w. W. Moore and Past Grand ]. G.
Robinson, OF Central Lodge No. l: Past
Grand John Sessford. jr.. and Past Grand
Joseph Beardsley. of Washington Lodge
No. G: Past Grands w. G.. Deale and ].
Lloyd, of Columbia Lodge No. 10: Past
Grands L. Clark and J. W. Colley. of
Beacon Lodge No. Is: Past Grand Mas
ter S. Stettinius and Past Grand S.
Lewis. Of Columbian Encampment No. l,
and Grand Master A. G. Herold. and
Past Grands Magruder and Pascoe of the
Grand Lodge. February 10. 1Si5. the COM
mittee purchased the present site from
John F. Cox and his wife for s4,so5. and
building was constructed on a portion
Of the site and occupied by the order in
May. 1916
The building continued as originally
built until 1S13 when 1t was remodeled
and rebuilt as at present. and was re-
dedicated during the term of Office OF
Thomas w. Fowler as past grand master,
July q. 1874 Additional improvements
have been made from time to time.
The stock in the hall is now owned by
the Grand Lodge of the District, Central
Lodge No. !. Washington Lodge No. 6.
Eastern Lodge No. :, Columbia Lodge
No. 10, Beacon Lodge No. Is. Excelsior
Lodge No. l.. and Columbian Encamp-
ment No. l. The present board of trus-
tees, which is made up of two members
from each of the stock holding bodies.
is composed of Past Grand Master John
II. Wood and Past Grand Anson S. Tay-
lor. representing the Grand Lodge; Past
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cupy the first floor. A large modern
equipped lodge room, with committee
rooms and offices Of the officials, takes
up the second floor. The third floor is
given over to spacious dancing hall,
which also is used as banquet hall.
The roof IS built with stage for con-
certs, and the garden is a popular re-
sort for the members and their friends
all through the summer months
The membership Of the lodge is now
more than 500. The present officers are
James l.. Ward, exalted ruler; Frank
Kidd, esteemed leading knight: John Cor
man. esteemed loyal knight: George
Hamil. esteemed lecturing knight; Col
Richard A. O'Brien, secretary: G. Nc
Cormick, treasurer; Charles Uttermeal.
esquire: Thomas ]. King. tiler. and Joseph
Watson. inner guard. A large sum Will
be expended this fall to complete the
decorations and furnishings OF the home.
History of the PythiEns.
Ground was broken for Pythian Tenn
Pile, located at 1012 Ninth street north
west, on March Il, 1904, and the corner
stone laying ceremonies took place May
l5, 19Oi F. G. Atkinson was the archi-
tect and William A. Kimmel the builder.
The years OF struggle by the member
ship of this order, which was founded
in this city. to acquire a permanent
home, is a record of patient industry.
optimism, and success. On February 2S
1859. the Grand Lodge. by resolution
introduced by y. Burch. authorized the
appointment of a committee Of five to
confer with the subordinate lodges in
the movement TO organize a Pythian
Temple Association. The committee was
composed of n. Burnh, Richard Good
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hart. William H. Mohler, William T.
Bailey. and George W. Heisley.
February IS, 1880. the Grand Lodge
authorized a committee Of one from
each subordinate lodge to carry on the
work of the project. The committee
was composed of L. F. Fugitt, A J.
Cunning. Richard Goodhart, W. II. Do
herty. Paul Neuhaus. G. ]. Foxwen, j.
". Coon, Harry Coggins, Ed Brown. n
Bunch, J. II. Schombert. G.. w. Heisley
G. ". Lee. B. NJ. Mundell. and P. B
Jones. The various Pythian bodies have
occupied the building since December /
1904. The present board of directors
which has in charge the plans for many
improvements this summer. is composed
of William A. Kimmel, president: John
T. Clark, vice president; II. ]. Gasson.
secretary: Thomas A. Bynum. treasurer
Louis Hartig. Albert Kahlert, Thomas
r. Riley, ]. F. Skidmore, and II. p.
WILEY.
Pythian Temple is a five-story brick
structure. faced with Indiana stone.
The armory of the military department
of the order is located in the basement.
The main auditorium, which Is fitted
with n stage and gallery, occupies the
first floor. and the other floors are given
over to modern equipped lodge rooms
for the various organizations which
meet in them.
Pythian bodies which use this tenn
pie are as follows: Lodges. Franklin,
No. .: Mount Vernon, No. ): Webster.
No. Z: Decatur, No. 9: Calanthe. No. IL J.:
Excelsior, No. IA; Germania. No. Is:
Equal. No. II: Harmony, No. 81: Union,
No. %: Capital. No. "a; Columbia, No.
&c: Rathbone-Superior. No. 90; Century,
No. so; Pythian Sisters, Rathbone Tenn
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| Grands i. P. Pumphrey and Elwynn
Greene. representing Central Lodge: Past
Grands w. J. Hope and Ray l.. Smith.
| representing Washington Lodge: Past
Grand Master John l. Brown and Past
| Grand S. E. Boyce. representing Eastern
Lodge: Past Grand Masters Thomas w
Fowler and George Z. COLLISION. represent
ing Columbia Lodge: Past Grand Master
Ernest w. Bradford and Past Grand L.
, W. Bennett, representing Beacon Lodge;
Past Grands G. A. Freedman and w. w.
Heusler. representing Excelsior Lodge:
Past Grand +. d. Seffert and r. L.
Wines, representing Columbian Encamp-
ment.
Story of the Elks.
Washington Lodge. No. Is. Benevolent
stituted February 12, 1852. incorporated
October Il. 1882, and chartered December
10. 1852. The first clubrooms of the
lodge were located at 1905 street north
west. The membership grew with rapid
ity. and the corner stone of the beautiful
home now occupied by the order, located
at 9l9-921 II street northwest, was laid
by Hugh +. Harvey, then exalted ruler,
in May. 1907. Senator George +. yelling
ton, of Cumberland. Md. made the prin-
cipal address on that occasion.
The new home was occupied April l.
1905 The building committee was COM
posed of Col. r. A. O'Brien, NJ. c. Nc
Cormick. and Lorenzo Bailey. B. Stanley
Simmons was the architect and the
Charles J. Cassidy Company. the build
ers. The building is three stories high,
with rathskellar and roof garden. The
reception rooms. library. card rooms.
buffet, and pool and billiard rooms. oc-
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who come our way. English ivy will al
| most cover the building by and by
| There will be rookeries, high planting
and low planting, formal rose gardens
and beds of irises, and peonies and prive
hedges, tennis courts, an Italian pool anG
an apiary. / have planted 12,0Cp roots anC
bulbs, so that We may begin with daffo
dis and tulips in the early spring and
end in a blaze of beauty with chrysan'
themums late in the fall The cost will
be small and we shall not have to buy a
new stock of bulbs and roots every year
because they will duplicate themselves.
How City Men>Are Tenching Farmers
Are farmers responsive to the efforts
of city men like yourself to lift them
upT'
Many Of them are making headway
but most Of them are still old-fashioned
in their methods. In the South, they are
plowing two inches deep and getting
much less cotton than is possible. The
farmer Is a business man primarily. He
should be as competent in bargaining as
a hardware merchant or a butcher. To
know how to sell is to know when to
sell. There are always plenty of buyers
for standard crops-wheat, cotton. hay.
corn. and oats But there are vital mo-
ments in agriculture. as there are in
every other kind OF business. II 1 were
a farmer. should try to sell inteIligently.
and having sold, should go Immediately
at something else. 1t doesn't pay to
stand around half the winter for the
price Of wheat to advance a cent in SELL
ing price. Time Is lost. i believe in
making every minute count.
Then I should buy the best seed to
be obtained. plant 1t scientifically. culti-
vate my fields diligently. and raise the
largest crops in the neishborhood David
Rankin. who died in Missouri, not long
since, leaving an estate of several mil
lion dollars gained by agriculture. was
famous as q grower of corn. He once
wrote me saying that good seed corn
is cheap at-fve times the price Of ordi-
nary market corn Always In the mar
ket for the best kinds. planting from
4,ooO to 5000 bushels every year. he raised
crops that were celebrated far and wide. -
Best Practical Farmer.
who is the best practical farmer in
your acquaintance" / inquired.
''As a money-maker on q large scale,
I suppose Rankin was the most success
ful asriculturist in the United States
He had vision. industry. judgment. and
intelligence, and would have been a
leader in any enterprise. While other
men. during his youth. were taking up
farms along streams and In the forests,
he bought rich prairie land. ready for
the plow. He wasn't afraid of dying
from thirst or Of freezing to death IN
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By JAMES b. MORROW.

New York, May 13-Persons who live
by wages-r1en and women alike-makers
Of things who are hampered by want
Of room and light, city folk and villagers
will curiously watch, perhaps skeptically,
the unique experiment now being worked
out by Frank Nelson Doubleday and his
partners on forty acres of land, some
twenty miles from New York.
Almost any great writer will courage
ousiy confess that the word deficiency
in its modern application. was popu-
larized, not to say hackneyed. by him
self. Everybody and every instrument
tality must be efficient nowadays. or
have a license from an accepted and
strenuous authority that he or 1t. not
to draw the point too fine. may live or
exist on trial Occasionally, a man may
be a thinker. a philosopher, or a his
torian, in which event he is exempt by
benevolent consent. but privately he may
be regarded as a burden on industry.
Well. Frank Nelson Doubleday tall and
tanned like a farmer, is as savage as an
Aztec priest in his devotions and
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ministrations-
around the modern altar Of economy.
Hurrying past me, before he sat down,
wearing a golf cap, but no coat, he ex-
claimed: Yes, sir; 1 am a crank on
efficiency. That's why 1 moved out Of
town." Hauling things up and letting
things down in a skyscraper shocked
his commercial sensibilities. So he fed
to the country by truck and freight
train.
Leading n Gay Little Army.
1t can be said, moderately, that Mr.
Doubleday is one of the chief command
ers of the gay little army that Is march
ing through the Elysian fields OF expec-
tation back to the magical farm that is
now selling at about 500 an acre, espe-
cially II 1t is good for corn, rhubarb, or
asparagus. What the army will do when
It gets there is another problem. Nor will
what the bookkeeper says when he hives
his first swarm OF bees or milks his in
ftiatory cow be heard by Gen. Roosevelt,
Gen. Doubleday. or the other officers.
Meanwhile, the bookkeeper's wife, In a
sunbonnet. a gingham apron. and kid
slippers. may scandalize her environment
by rummaging through her patch for
strawberry shortcake in purple days of
Indian summer.
Still Mr.. Doubleday Is a serious man
with definite and practical purpose.
He has capitalized an idea into a profit
able publishing enterprise. THE way to
get along?" he repeated, In answer to
an extemporaneous inquiry. why. by
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winter. When he was married, in 1852.
he had eighty acres of land and a few
cattle.
The Possibilities of Corn and Beef.
That was the beginning of his great
fortune. He told me that he paid from
10 to IS per cent interest for monty with
which to operate his farms. His profits
were spent in buying more land. which
he promptly fenced hog tight He early
saw the possibilities of corn and beef
just as a financier perceives the prospect
i've profits of a proposed railroad-and
spent his life in the work of fattening
steers with the crops from his own fields.
Corn, his raw material, was converted
into beef. his finished product. He raised
l, 900 bushels of corn every year and
bought large quantities from farmers
who were too dull to turn their own
crops into pork or beef and double their
profits.
But let me tell you of Charles Lyman.
Of Connecticut, small man when COM
pared with David Rankin, but a man OF
genius, nevertheless. He bought 600
acres of stones and dug them out with
shovels and dynamite. When the land
was cleared he planted 10000 peach trees.
fruit, most luscious to look upon. He
knows how to grow and how to gather;
but, more important still. he knows how
to SELL He doesn't pick loo baskets
being too busy doing that to think OF
anything else-and then hunt market.
He sells first. telephoning to Boston.
Worcester Springfield. New Haven, and
Providence. and having sold a certain
number Of baskets he calls his pickers
into the orchard and goes to work. Con-
sidering the quality of his land, the dis
advantages which he overcame, and the
results he has obtained, Charles Lyman
stands first among the crop producers OF
my acquaintance"
High Cost of Living.
Have you an explanation for the dear
cost Of modern living?'
1T Is caused principally by ineff1ciency
on the part of everybody. Mechanics and
clerks live remote from the land. Those
who live on the land do not know how to
supply the wants of those who dwell In
large towns and cities. We lack system
and consequently we lack economy.
Things are handled to often. We are
doing some Of our chopping with the
head OF the AK and some with the blade
The excursions of the potato from the
time II leaves the hill in the field until II
comes hot and steaming on the break
fast table are complicated and ridiculous.
commercially. But don't care to enter
tho subject further. The story Is long
and rather heathenish, giving II . twen>
tieth century Interpretation" /
tCopsEisAt M. b 5ans ,. AWvHl
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marrying a clever woman and sticking
to ones own business" He was mascu-
line enough to imply by what he said
that Netje De Graff Doubleday. writer
of books on birds, gardens. and wild
flowers, is to be credited with some OF
his success as money-maker and lead.
er in the movement that is glorifying the
| rural regions.
Ten years ago." he observed, 81
thought the people who liked the country
as place of habitation would support
a publication devoted to that phase OF
living. The idea seemed sound to me.
Every man to whom 1 spoke. however,
said it was the limit of publishing i'm
becility. Accordingly, 1 borrowed $5,0O0
and here" swinging his arm In a mighty
half-circle within his beautiful new build
ing of brick, steel. glass. and cement,
lis the visible proof of my experiment"
He did not say the idea was Mrs. Double
days. and maybe it wasn't.
The only photograph that I could find
after long hunting had him sitting In a
swivel chair and making physical signs
Of reading. Thus, business, in the pat
tern of the chair. and literature, as rep
resented by the book. give this angular.
big nosed and big-Jawed personality the
logical atmosphere Of his tastes and en-
ployment He has been a publisher or a
publishers assistant ever since boyhood.
Also, as an item Of more than ordinary
interest, he has been Rudyard kipling 8
most personal friend in America. Double
day thought-a new idea again-of putting
all of Kiplng's stories into q uniform
size and binding. Kipling declared the
undertaking to be impracticable. He had
contracts with three competing houses.
Doubleday conciliated and succeeded, and
SO began the friendship. When Kipling
writes a poem, Doubleday is the first man
in the United States who il asked to
read 1t. Kipling. however, is a good
poet and his stanzas are limited.
From Office Boy to Publisher.
II had gone to work in stationery
store at the age OF fourteen" Mr.. Double
day said, giving me some early details
as leading up to and touching ION his
theories and odd experiment. Paper
suggested books, because books are made
OF paper. suppose. told the Scribners
they had the chance Of hiring mighty
willing office boy for 8 week. They
accepted the chance. Professionally
worked along. going from one department
to another. until 1ss6. when was made
manager of their magazine. After q,
partnership with 8. 8. Mcclure. bor-
rowed $500 and went into business for
myself
"You became acquainted. of course" I
said, with the eminent writers Of that
period?'' !,
7 was brought into direct contact With
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Record of the Odd Fellows.

Record of the Odd Fellows
For nearly twenty years after the In
dependent Order of Odd Fellows was
inaugurated in this city the lodges in
the central portion of the city We're with
out a permanent home, and the last tenn
porary place of meeting was in the
council chamber of the City Hall. The
first step looking to the building of a
permanent home for the order in this
city was taken on January 9. 1S43 when
a resolution was offered in the Grand
Lodge by Past Grand Thomas c. Dom.
of Washington Lodge, No. s. to the effect
that a committee of five members be
appointed to make the arrangements for
the building of a hall. The committee
was composed of Past Grands ]. T. Wal
ker. W. G. Deale, J. G. Robinson, G. II.
Grant, and John Sessford, jr., which
made a report on April TO- 1Si5, recon-
mending the purchase of a building
known as the Masonic Hall. The reporl
was not adopted.
Several other locations were offered
and refused and the original committee
was discharged, and on August q. 1874,
the Grand Lodge, by resolution, appoint
ed Past Grands G. H. Grant, W. W.
Moore W. G. Deale, ]. G. Robinson. and
suitable site and ascertain the cost of a
building in keeping with the dignity or
the order. The committee first recon-
mended a site on the south side of Penn
sylyania avenue, which was rejected, and
on January l3, 1s45. recommended the
present site of Odd Fellows Hall, 419
to 423 Seventh street northwest, and their
report was adopted and the sit accepted.
On January IS, 1915. the Grand Lodge,
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China's Queue Resources.

Prof. Paul S. Reinsch, of the Univer
sty of Wisconsin, sees a big economic
result from the Chinese imperial edict
against the time-honored pigtail- The
immense demand for false hair through
out Europe and America Prof. Reinsch
says. has reused these Orientals to the
realization that they possess natural re-
sources which will find more ready
market to-day than immense deposits OF
coal and iron in the Interior of the coun-
try. There are more than 800 100000 queues
in the Chinese empire. Each pigtail has
q market value of from 80 cents to 81. ac-
cording to its size and quality. and the
money raised from the sale of them will
go long way toward paying of the ma
tional debt of China.
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has three MISUNDERSTANDING. manufac'
| turing, and selling, the sellers being
called the publishers. There is SO much
competition now that publishers are COM
PEELED to do their own printing and
binding
What kind of books are the most
profitable aside from those on the better
life, which is farzning?"
Simple stories of humanity; whole
some pictures of honest love. The prob
lem novel which attempts hazardous
tests with sex relationship may cause a
temporary stir, but 1t does not last.
The normal American stays at home and
respects his wife. Garish tales of inf
deity are so palpably commercial they
they fail to impress"
Are many city men Of moderate means
buying houses in the country?' I asked.
PLENTY of them. The movement to-
ward the rural regions is national.
During the past year. more than .5.7c0
houses have been built in a single neigh
borhood, not far distant from New York.
Detached houses, with yards and gar
dens, and the women, SO far as / can
Judge. are as eager to move away from
the cities as are their husbands and
fathers.
Plants Factory In q Bed OF Flowers.
IT am a professional exponent of coun-
try life. Until recently, however, my
business was all done in New York, some
here and some there. because 1 couldn't
concentrate 1t economically at one spot.
I could have bought site 100 feet wide
and 100 feet long for lot Of money. but
the building would have had to be twelve
stories high. Raw material moved up
from floor to floor, and the finished prod
uct moved down would mean a waste of
time and steam. 1t is being done.
know, in every large city IN the United
States, but it is not scientific and is
contrary to the first principles Of COM
mon sense.
ITO save money, and, likewise. to be
consistent, decided to carry out a plan
that I was positive would work. / went
twenty miles from New York. bought
forty acres Of land. and put up a fire.
proof building that Is solid as rock
Manufacturers said / was making a mis-
take. City men. they declared. would
not move into the country among the
-crickets and katydids. would have a
labor problem right OF. The building
would go up. of course, but would be
unable to hire or coax any one to start
the works. Well. almost before the roof
was on. 600 clerks and 100 mechanics
applied for jobs"
But what are you going to do with all
the landr' asked
Cultivate It. have already set out
5000 strawberry plants. I mean ~ grow
fruits. flowers. and vegetables and make
them pay. There ~ to be q green and
Aourishing object lesson for the pilgrims
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There is South American duck which
loses the power of flight as it natures,
the growth of wings not keeping pace
with the growth Of its body.