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John Baer' Tomato
The Earliest and Best Tomato
On Earth
SHIPPING FRUIT IN 30 DAYS

DAAAh ANu IlUIA ES 0U UA1D
John Baers Tomato produces perfect.
solid, High Grown, Beautiful. Brilliant.
deep red shipping Tomatoes In 10 days,
from large, strong, well-mntnred plants,
Ia veneer bands with roots undtstHrbeG.
EARLlNESS
ada.
Earlier and better than Earllana in New
Jersey.
Ten days earlier than Globe IN Florida.
IN Texas.
Three weeks ahead of any in Virginia.
three weeks Hhead of any iu New York.
Three weeks ahead any In Washington.
Two weeks ahead OF any In Maryland.
Set out May Soth, pieEed ripe fruit June
nth In New York.
Earliest and best In - varieties.
Brilliant, deep red color, snoothest. no
Almost free from seed; delIeIousiy fla.
Ear more meaty and solid than any other.
no culls: rtpens eTen up to the stem.
rIpening.
Picks two to ono to any other variety.
From 100 10 10 perfect fruit TO the vine.
JOHN BAER" FIRST TOMATO
PICKED THIS YEAR.
~ J. z. IYii.s.oq, Caigeyt Co.. Sd. August I9.
1919. tCritcs: John BGcI' Tomatoes are the
re 1,a1 5sg SJ ' s.,, r. tey y loud hae 6e
lChici nearly kilisf them: eUeR then tUas he frsi
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CANE FOR TEN NILES AROUND
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I3g0 plants from the 100 paokage Of seed. I
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10 The last Of Jly300 BASKETS In OIL selling them
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! John BAER"--.3 WEEKS AHEAD
OF ANY OTHER TOMATO
Z Mr. r. z. Sect Nottgscay Co.. Va. August %.
1914. trYiicg: " yohn BdeT' Tomatoes tcere ready
for s0Tef three ,0eeLs before any other tomato IN
or iocahtg IkaUe been picking fine, ksrge toHG-
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HOTEL SAINT
MARY'S
Leonardtown, Md.

HOTEL ST. MARY'S is
new building equipped with
gas. steam heat, hot and cold
water, well furnished rooms.
with telephones and splendid
service.
Since the first of NovemDel
the establishment has been
under the management of w
A. Fenwlck, who for the past
II years has made such a
success of the Donald" in
Washington.
The meals are excellent
and service is prompt and
courteous.
The management caters
TO the county patronage.
There is a grill room and
the Bar is unexcelled.
All in all Hotel St. Mary's is
the most compietely equipped
hostelry in Southern Mary
land.
You can always be ac-
Commodated.
Rates moderate.
Vim. A. FenEiGk. Prop.
n
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"PORTOBELLA,"
NO. 27o5o
wkazs1Ep
~ IN
PEDIGREE .
Dec -lg-tf

PortobeIlo, No. 27g50, 6ls. D.. ioaled
1894: by Gambetta Wilkes, 1850; dam
Winnie Wilkes. (dem nf Mamb 1no 9aid
,. I5A, eic) by he'd Wilkes, 1T4g. q d
dipsey Queen, by Bourbon Chief, 3s3
etc. (See Winnie Wilkes. Vol W Bred
by q. Il c. y. Cecil, DanvilIe, Ky passed
to E A. Goodwin, Elgin. Ohio. George
Wilkes. No. SO, Gambetta, No. 1893
Wilkes. No. l749. Winnie Wilkes. Clip
sey Queen.
(From Official Certificate of the American
Trotting Assoeiation)
Portobells 10 handsome seal brown
stallion; stands 10y hands high; weighs
1859; foaled 1894. Has amark Off 2DK;
q half in %; quarter in 30 seconds.
individually, he il a horse oI grand
finish and fine disposition. a perfect l..
dies horse, a strong aLa sInO nth road
horse and o sure ioai getter.
His blood lines ARE thew best being
a son of Gambetta Wilkes, the greatest
sire OF speed in the world, aud his dam.
Winnie Wilkes, In one Of the greatest
dams OF his get only few we're ever
trained for speed. but OF these, Nellie .
took a mark of 2.2l in the mud. Artho
j. was a good third in 2lOK over a
heavy track and has shown trial miles
in 400, while all his colts show great
sise style and speed.
For further particular address
j. a. MoURET.
Leonsrdtown, Md.
Mar 6-d.
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ICSz4N Back fIRsSF IlALAIC
PICKED THIS Y-AR
JOHN BAEP"---3 WEEKS AHEAD
OF ANY OTHER TOMATO

~. x. z. Scott NottotCag Co.. Va. August %.
1919, trTIieg: " John BdeY' Tomatoes tcevP raadv
for An0rf three toees before any other tomato IN
our locality. {haUe been picking fine, srgs fould.
foes on Of them f0T oVsT fOo n07tkhS. had psTy
Esars fri
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1915-05-06

Mar. ';-tf.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1915-05-06

John Baers Tomato produces perfect
solid, High Grown, Beautiful Brilliant,
deep red shipping Tomatoes in ~ days,
from large, strong, well-matnred plants,
Ia veneer bands with roots undisturbee
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to the knights Hospitallers. Ever
since then the Sneyds have made their
home at Keee Hall.
Sizerth Castle, i'm Westmorcland, on
the border of the lake country, has
been in the possession of the Strick-
lands almost since the dawn of English
history. 1t is a family which has for
over a thousand years borne as its crest
a bird which is described in old heraldic
phraseology as "a cock in his pride" and
was settled in Westmoreland long be-
fore the Norman conquest.
Sizerth Castle originally belonged to
the Deincourts. but was brought into
tine Strickland family through the mar
rage OF Elizabeth Deincourt, last of her
line TO Sir William Strickland in the
reign of King John. Thomas Strickland,
Sheriff of WeStmoreland under King
Edward III. and n companion in arms
of Edward the Black Prince, obtained
from that monarch a royal license bear
ing his signature to build the so-called
Pele Tower Of the castle and the parCh-
ment still figures in the family archives
of the StrcklandS. Walter Strickland
was keeper of the hounds TO Henry V.
Thomas Strickland was created "a
Knight of the Bath on the occasion of
the coronation of James l., and left a
curious will, still eXtant, in which he
bids his descendants above all things to
''avod gambling, a crime which is in
our blood and which sends more brave
men to the gallows than any other vice."
He also expresses the hope that all
Stricklands might be saved from taking
"tobako that bewltchng smoke"
The Towleleys of Towneley, in Lam
a.
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Towneey Hail. Lancashire home of the Towneeys for nearly
nine centuries.

In mentioning the Towneleys ! must
not omit to call attention to the fact
that one of the most celebrated Collec-
tons of ancient marbles in the British
Museum is that formed in the middle OF
the eighteenth century by Charles
Towneley, one of the best known anti
quarians of his day. 1t is held by many
to be of far greater value than the
famous Elgin marbles, which. as every
one knows, came from the Parthenon at
Athens
Space will mot permit of more than
passing mention Of the lie Stranges, who
have been in possession OF their Hun
stanton estates since the Norman con-
quest; the Gregorys of Styrechale Hall
in Lancashire. who have held uninter-
rupted possession of their home there
since the twelfth century; the Shrleyts
Of Ellington. -he Turner's of Stoke Roch-
ford, the Middleton Biddulphs of Chirk
Castle, and the ffaringtons of Worden
Hall, one of the oldest families OF Lam
cashire. From John de Harrington, who
was Lord Of the Manor of Worden in
1913, until Col. Harrington, the pres
ent owner of the estates. the latter have
descended from father TO son through
twenty-seven generations. Their name
England, and always with the two small
rs. The way that the use of these
double inlcial consonants arose was that
in the early days of printing the capi-
tai + and the capital l. were made by
means Of duplicating small rs and small
Is
Finally there are the Malets. who are
descended from William Malet a cousin
both of William the Conqueror and OF
King Harold. to whom the former con-
fidcd the remains of Harold for fitting
burial after phe battle of Hastings His
son was Grand Chamberlain Of Eng
land, and other Malets figured in the
first crusade. 1t was because of his
very justifiable pride in this illustrious
ancestry that the late Sir Edward Malet
declined the peerage which was offered
to him by the Crown in recognition of
his services as British Ambassador dur
ing many years at Berlin.
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never been permitted to cross the thresh-
old OF the Winter Palace on the banks
of the Neva. In England. too, there
are not only scores but hundreds of
cases. Of peerages and baronetcies hav-
ing been declined as superfuous by
what may be described as the untitled
aristocracy of the United Kingdom.
Prominent among these families in
England are the Scropes of DANNY Hall.
in Yorkshire, now headed by Gervase
Scrope, and who though untitled have
during the past centuries furn ished TO
the nation five Archbishops, two Lord
High Chancellors, five knights Of the
Garter. several earls and twenty hlrons.
Three of them have been immortalized
by Shakespeare.
A Richard Scrope was one of the
Lord Wardens of the Marches of Wales
in the days Of King Edward the Con-
fessor. Henry le ScrOpe was Lord Chief
Justice in the reign Of Henry III, and
in 1881 there occurred the great law
suit between Richard Scrope and Sir
Richard Grosvenor concerning the right
to certain armorial bearings which was
decided in favor of Richard Scrope, the
testimony still on record going To show
that even In those days the SCropes
We're accounted one of the most ancient
families in England.
\ Scrope figured in the battle of Flod-
den Field, as shown in the ancient bal
lad OF that memorable conflict and
other SCropes distinguished themselves
in the battles Of Agincourt and of Crecy
as we'll as in that of Shrewsbury, where
Hotspur met with his death. Arch
bishop Scrope Of York was beheaded in
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has the power to confer blueblooded
lineage and the popular consideration
which is attached thereto. True. the
Emperors of China, when they desired
particularly t. distinguish any great
statesman or dgnitary Of the realm,
used to issue a decree ennobling several
generations Of his ancestors. But these
Oriental methods have as yet found no
place in the Occident. and have even
been abandoned at Pekin since the es-
adjustment there Of the republic.
Hence 1t happens that while on the
one hand there are abroad dukes and
princes who Sy reason of their p,ehean
parentage or ancestry are not regarded
as "Honahig," that is TO say. admissible
to the various courts Of Europe, there
are on the other hand many untitled
"gentilhommes," whose birth and line
age render them not only Hoffahg. but
even Tafelfahig," that is to say, quail
fed to sit at the sovereign's table and
to associate with imperial and royal
personages on terms Of intimacy that
may almost be described az equality
, So thoroughly is it appreciated abroad
on yonder side OF the Atlantic that name
and ancestry are the chief qualifications
] Tor an dIlStOCIdtN, every tHlHB Else Dt-
ing subsidiary thereto and a matter OF
minor consideration, that in Spain many
of the members of the grandezza ana in
Italy scions OF the old patriCiates dis
dain to make use of their inherited
titles, do not even take the trouble tC
register them, permitting them to fall
into allegiance, and are content with
their historic patronymics and the pre-
fix Of don or dona to their Christian
names.
In Russia the most illustriOus family
Of the nobility. which has furnished
several Czarinas to the empire, is thai
Of the Narishklnes, who have always
refused to accept any title whatsoever
while there are perfectly authentic
princes who are earning their living a,
hack drivers at Moscow and St. Peters
burg. as stevedores at Odessa, and wh'
follow other equally humble callings
but who in spite of their titles have
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to that the SCropes had been established
at the Castle Of Bolton, in Wensleydale,
In Yorkshire, now nothing but a pic
turesque ruin. Bolton Castle was
great stronghold in the twelfth CEN
fury. and it was there that Mary Queen
Of Scots was detained in the custody of
Henry Scrope for over year. The
castle was d stroycd by the soldiers of
Cromwell in the civil war at the close
Of a long siege sustained by its owner
Col. Scrope. in behalf Of Charles I.
Another grand old English family
whose chief is now serving his country
as q soldier in France Is that of Col.
Alexander Fownes Luttrell OF Dunster
Castle, in Somersetshire. The Luttrells,
who have been territorial magnates in
the west OF England since the Norman
conquest and who have always dis
dained to accept nob!liary titles. con-
WINGED that no mere handle could add
anything to the distinction Of their his
toric names, have made their home at
Dunster Castle since the middle of the
fourteenth century, when il passed from
Lady Jane Mohun to her niece, the
Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, in return for
sum of money amounting to about
500, 900, this being paid by Lady Eliza
beth Luttrell in order that she might
secure possession OF the castle during
the lifetime OF her aunt instead OF
waiting t. inherit II on the latter 5
death. The receipt for this money, bear
ing the signature of Lady Jane Mohun
and the date OF 1850, is preserved at
Dunster Castle to this day.
The Luttrells first came into promi-
nence during the reign OF Richard CGur
de Lion when Godfrey Luttrell Joined
Prince (afterward King) John in his
rebellion against his Crusader brother
Lady Elizabeth Luttrell, the first Lut-
trcll owner Of Dunster Castle, was the
daughter of Hugh Earl of Devon, her
mother being a granddaughter of Ed
ward I. Lady Elizabeth's son, Hugh
| Luttrell. was Governor of Calais and
Of Honheur, Ambassador to the court
OF Burgundy and seneschal Of Nor
mandy. 1t was he who in 1417 rebuilt
the hall and the chapel He died ir
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serve how visitors from the other side
bearing old and historic names would
receive no attention whatsoever here on
the part of the public, of society and of
the press because untitled, whereas a
new flcdged peer or even baronct who
owes his mushroom honors to a gem
crous contribution to the electoral cam
paign funds of his political party will
be treated as a parsonage Of impor-
lance. And now, since the beginning OF
the war, / have noticed that the lists
Of British officers killed or wounded
which appear in the newspapers here in
the cabled dispatches from London are
almost entirely restricted to members
Of the House Of Lords, to their heirs
and to the baronetage.
Yet there is more blueness OF blood
and more lustre of lineage to be found
outside the upper chamber of the i'm
perial legislature at Westminster than
within its precincts For the real aris-
tocraCy of the United Kingdom one
must look to the old county families,
many Of whom have been in uuinter-
rupted possession Of their estates for
six, seven. eight and even nine cen
turtles hut remain without any nobiliary
titles In the accepted sense Of the word
Then there are those families, equally
untitled. that have sprung from the
younger sons of the more ancient houses
uf the pccrage. And north of the Tweet
there are the highland chieftains anC
Rowland lairds, who are so proud OF their
ancestry and of the semi-feudal pre-
eminenCe that they have always enjoyed
among the members of their respective
clans that they are apt to look upon
hereditary honors conferred by the
crown with something akin to con
tempt.
All of this untitled aristocracy of the
United Kingdom has answered the
sovereign's call With its members tn,
profession of arms is a matter of family
tradition. They figure extensively or
the roll Of honor reserved for those wh'
nave given their lives for their countr!
sld on the list of the severely wounded
In action since the beginning of the
present war. But their names are no
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IVY and lies entOmbed in the chapel of
Dunster Castle.
HIS grandson James LuttreH fell
mortally wounded at the second battle
OF 81. Adams ana naturally Duhster
castle nsureu no'apy IN the war oe-
tween OharIes l. ana armament, sus,
tanning nnefloraDle siege "il'ch las'eu
over lou uays' me 'as'ie Is gram
oIu pace i!l"E oe'Meen tle Dienuuii
nuns anu 'ne h''s'o' r"ui'ile' ot 'to
,,yi,,ia, a. 49,, 900 -, ,I,a ,1rinci,o,
a',,,,'anio,,s 30 VIM, tho Cnrn,,oror
a,,a NO., 80 - hirn In tho "Romon d,,
T',,. ~, t.,,;,,,,-
,.,,, yvr,io,, 40 Ntoio,
On, a,'.c II r,airt comnarron.
re err - '.'e enS''V va Wv 9''S 80
on the iou''uH''"i'9, sun ~ '"''' Va on
o'u HHNoh s"omS ''olu' an" nc . =,
utScr.ped III D'oii'Suay l'''N' "n''''
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NGLAND'S UNTITLED NOBILITY DYING FOR COUNTRY
Real Aristocracy of Kingdom Comes
From Old County Families--Nobles
Who Are Plebeians

family. He is married to n daughter
Of the late General Sir Arthur Ellis,
who spent the greater part Of his life
in the service Of King Edward while
the latter was Prince of Wales.
The Sneyds 1ourlshed i'm the reign OF
Henry ILL., one of them, Richard by
name, greatly distinguished himself at
the battle of poitiers. But the first
owner of Keele Hall was Sir william
Sneyd, Mayor Of Chester. in the reign
of Henry VIII. and Sheriff of his county
under Edward VI He was not only a
municipal dignitary but also a soldier
and courtier, and on the occasion of
the distribution of the lands of the
Church he secured In 1915 grant Of
Keele, which until that time had be-
longed to the knights Templars and
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Lists of Dead or Wounded Officers
Largely Confined to Historic Families
Who Scorn Handles to Names

considered worth while cabling to
America because they have no nobiliary
prefix.
George Ill. like canny King James I.
before him, was wont to remark that
though he could make a peer he could
not make a gentleman, that is to say
a man of gentle birth who has inherited
a right to armorial bearings from a long
line of forebears. Mere titles Of nobility
can be obtained through the more or
less worthy favor OF any ruler, great or
small. Even the Prince Of Monaco,
sovereign of the tiniest State in Europe,
has the right as such to bestow ducal
or princely curonets upon rnen or women
who have managed to win his good will.
But no monarch, be he ever y mighty.
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Rome the lamp burning before the altar
in the private chapel had never been
extinguished in over thousand years.
Lady O'Hagan. however. broke with
all the traditions of her family. For she
seeded in a sensational manner, with
her children. from Roman Catholicism
to the Unitarian Church. influenced
largely. 1t is said, by an eX-priest by the
name Of Leopold Klein, who while still
in the orders of the Roman catholic
church had been the private chaplain at
Towueley Hall and the spiritual adviser
Of Lady OHagan and of her family
Her conversion to Uuitlrianlsm coin
cided with the extinction Of the lamp in
the private chapel and with the sale W
Towneley Hall and of the estate to the
town Of Burnley.
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By D. CUNLIFFE-ow WEN.

- REAT BRITAIN'S aristocracy is
very far from being confined to
her pcerage. Paradoxical though
it may appear, there are num-
her Of members Of the House Of Lords at
Westminster who. despite their Coronets,
are in point of birth quite plebeian. The
possession of a title, be it ever so
authentic. does not necessarily mean
that it's bearer is a patriCian, while the
absence Of "A handle to the name does
not preclude its owner from being
recognized by his countrymen as hav-
ing in his veins some of the biuest blood
in England
It is we'll to emphasize this. For I
h,ye sometimes been Interested to OBJ
The Washington herald., 1915-08-22
Mary Magdalene Immortalized
AS a Feminine Third Floor
Back In New Play of Modern
Social Conditions.

put the scene into the big dramatic situa-
ton of the last act, when the Woman OF
the Town, saved from the mob by the rich
man whose convictions she has swept
away, drops into the posture of Henners
famous "kneeling Magdalene," and
speaks:
"a am the eternal Magdalene. Made
immortal by the touch of His hand, two
thousand years ago. When those that
would have stoned me turned suiIenly
away he raised me up, saying, woman,
appoint thee my messenger. Go thou
down the centuries and bear witness to
this that thou hast seen. In every CLINE
and in every season thou wilt find those
who have sinned as thou hast sinned.
Stand between them and their perseeu-
tors as | have stood between thee and
thine. And upbrad them not, for are
they not children Of the same Father7
There are those of my disciples who
shall preach of many things, but to you
entrust this text. Let him who 10
without sin among you first cast a stone
at her. And he departed and stood a.
one transfxed, gazing after him. And
my brow burned from his touch and
through my veins eoursed blood that
had been eIeansed as by fire."
When the play opens 1t is night in the
study of Elijah Bradshaw, the rich man,
who has financed a whirlwind cleanup
campaign conducted by Billy Dayson, an
evangelist of the hell-raising sort. Brad
shaw is an American business man of the
captain of industry type, firm, foreeful,
self-made, impatient of failure. He hates
sin in the same way that he hates any
other form of inefficieney. He is reading
to Rev. Birmingham Smollet, modern
clergyman, a statement prepared for the
newspapers.
Bradshaw have written briefly, but
to the point. Breads from his report AS
chairman of the citizens committee. | de-
sire now to congratulate the people of this
community on the great victory they have
won over the hosts of satan. The elimi-
nation of the segregated vice district at
midnight will crown with success a cru
SADIE that we have waged for months, pray
erfully, and with Gods help, potently. At
the stroke of twelve tonight, the doors Of
these dens Of depravity will close forever
and their shameless inmates will no longer
menace the youth of our fair city.
Smollet-Amen!
Bradshaw continues reading) AS
head of the committee | have been sub
jected to much criticism by certain senti-
mentalists who profess to believe that
these women have certain rights
l am disturbed by no such convictions
When a leper comes into
our midst the law does not inquire how
he came to be leper, but it says Danish
him instantly So say of moral lepers.
believe in giving sin no quarter; in hold
ing no parley with evil doors.
/ take this occasion to thank the mayor