davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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lowing as a committee of safety:
George Washington. George Broad
water. John West. George Mason. Will
liam Ramsey, William Rumney. George
Gilpin. Robert Hanson Harrison. John
Carlyle. Robert Adams, John Dalton.
Philip Alexander. James Kirk, William
Brown. Charles Broadwater. William
Payne. Marten Cockburn, Lee Massey.
William Hartshorne, Thomas Triplett.
Charles Alexander. Thomas Pollard.
Townsend Dade. jr.; Edward Payne.
Henry Gunnell and Thomas Lewis. OF
this committee of safety 1t was resolv-
ed that they or 4 majority of thep,
on any emergency, have power TO call
general meeting and to concert and
adopt such measures as may be
thought most expedient ana neces-
sary."
The village of Fairfax is one of the
interesting towns of America. 1t came
into being when the court of the
county was seated there. II was in
the center of military operations
throughout the civil war. Its main
street is the Little River turnpike from
Alexandra to the mountains. At the
west edge of the village and on the
south side of the pike is the village
cemetery, and in this stands a stately
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and native whites of mixed parentage
I3s. and the number of foreign born
residents was il2.
OF the small foreign-born element In
Fairfax county the English predomi-
mated. The German element was sec
ond in numbers and the Irish third.
Under the last census the number of
Fairfax residents born in England was
lo7. number of residents of German
birth 80, number born in Ireland 80.
born in Canada 40 and in Scotland %.
The number OF native sons and daugh-
ters of Fairfax county born of Irish
parents was l27, of German parents
81, of English parents 30 and of Cana
dian and Scotch parents II and II, re-
spectively. France, Italy, Austria,
Denmark, Holland. Hungary, Russia
Spain. Sweden and Switzerland are all
represented in Fairfax county.
The element OF German descent in Fair
fax county is large. The same current
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IN AIRFAN COUNTY. Va. adjoined
In the District of Columbia as the
District was originally con-
stituted. the territory which
Virginia ceded to the federal govern
ment being. up to the moment of the
cession. part of Fairfax county. From
the date of Virginias cession, in De-
cember. 1889. to the time OF the retro
cession by Congress to Virginia, in
September, 1916, of its territorial con-
tribution, Fairfax county abutted to
the southwest boundary line of the Dis
trict for its full length of ten miles and
abutted it's northwest boundary line
from the western angle of the District
to the Potomac river at a point trif1e
less than half mile above Chain
bridge
Alexandria county with its area OF
thirty-three square miles is now inter-
posed between the District of Column
bia and Fairfax county. If you cross
the Chain bridge and follow the road
that turns to the right, which is the
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the Warrenton turnpike crosses Bull
run, passes over the Southern railway
between Clifton in Fairfax county and
Manassas In Prince William county, and
winds and winds with Bull run until
II comes TO Occoquan creek. Occoquan
creek is but a continuation Of Bull run,
but from a point near where Broad run
and Wolf Trap Shoal run join, the
stream is called Occoquan creek
The southern boundary line Of Fair
fax county then follows the turnings Of
Occoquan creek. crosses the ancient road
that leads from Dumfries in Prince VII
liam county to Fairfax Court House.
passes the village of Occoquan, which
lies on the Prince William side OF the
creek, crosses the Richmond Fredericks-
burg and Potomac railroad near Wood
bridge, and runs TO the middle of Bel
mont bay, into which Occoquan creek
empties Then IL turns to the south
and ends al the Virginia Maryland line
on the Potomac river between Gunston
Neck and Freestone Point, and two
miles directly west of Indian Head. The
county unA then follows the Virginia
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sists of the rolling and elevated Pied
mont plateau. whose altitude ranges
from $50 feet on the eastern margin TO
1900 or 1900 feet in the western por-
ton. West of the Piedmont plateau the
Blue Ridge mountains constitute a
wall extending entirely across the state
from northeast to southwest. lmmedl-
ately west of the Blue Ridge occurs the
great limestone valley of Virginia.
which Is nearly twenty miles broad
throughout it's extent. The floor of this
valley is rolling and undulating. and
1T is frequently Interrupted by low
ridges. and even by mountain masses.
The western portion of the state con-
sists principally of the folded AL
legheny mountain systems, within
which several small limestone valleys
are to be found in the extreme SOUTH
western portion of the state. Only a
small portion of Virginia lies within
the Appalachian plateau"
Fairfax county includes sections of
tidewater and Piedmont Virginia, the
fall line passing through the county.
In the coastal plain section of the
county the soils are chiefly clays, loans.
silt loans, sand and sandy loans. In
the Piedmont section of the county the
soils are principally heavy red clays,
the northern portion of the Piedmont
section there is small area of soil
that, according to geologists, has been
derived from the weathering of the red
Ir1dSSlC Snd1eS.
The approximate land area of Fairfax
county is 266,SS0 acres. and the amount
of that land in farms is 190.995 acres.
OF the land in farms, the area of i'm
proved land is 1925 acres. The
woodland in the farms of the county is
about 10000 acres and the other un-
improved land in the farms is about
1000 acres The per cent of land area
in farms is 71.6. the percentage of farm
land improved is 60.9. the average num-
ber of acres per farm is S2.3 and the
average number of improved acres per
farm is fifty. These were the figures
of the census of 1910, and they are ap-
proxmate today.
There is probably today a somewhat
higher percentage of improved land IL
farms due to reduced acreage of
woodland and the reclamation of waste
places; and because of the increase in
population since the eleventh census
and the large increase in suburban
homes there has been reduction in
the average acres per farm These per-
centages are high for county that is
the suburban home of thousands of
urban residents, and measures up very
we'll in comparison with the average
Virginia county.
OF the entire land surface of Virginia
more than three-fourths is in farms,
and the proportion is less than two
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DRINCPAL Settlements of the County and the Larger Streams Which
the Potom-Aproxa Land Area Acreage
Results Amount Highly Improved andVale
Poultry Growing
Has Place the Comty ActtesCnt Vicinity Of Falls
Chmct-Ealy History of Setion-The Town of Fairfax
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Washington's airfax Count:

doubt, as such settlement was condi-
tion of the grant
These, then. were the first settlers
in the country which afterward became
Fairfax county and here, too. was an
outpost of English civilization in the
new world; an advance guard 100 miles
from Jamestown, the base; a gate
through which should come an army.
Could we follow step by step the lives
of Howsen men and their descendants
we could tell an Interesting tale of the
development into county of wilder
ness claimed through Lord Fairfax six
ty years after the reclamation had
been accomplished. But the hand of
time. is doing it's appointed work. and
the footprints of the first corners are
now almost completely obliterated."
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nish good material for foundations and
similar rough work. 1t is easy to
quarry and is strong and durable. In
many places it contains pyrite, unfit
ting 1t for ornamental use.
Rock is also quarried from the less
schistose portions of the granite
masses at a number of places in the
county. 1t is homogeneous, of even
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texture and good color and works out
readily into stones of moderate size.
Some portions of the rock in the Falls
Church area are colored by pink field
spar. Granite has been quarried in
Fairfax county to a small extent in the
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ffths in only three counties-Alexan-
dria, Bath and Allegheny. With the
exception of those counties and twelve
others-four on the western border and
eight on the coast which have from
40 to so per cent of their land in farms
the proportion is three-ffths or more.
Seventy-four of the Virginia counties
have from so to 80 per cent of their
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of German migration which settled the
Frederick and Haserstown valleys IN
Maryland and the Shenandoah valley in
Virginia enriched the wild western part
of Fairfax county. Columbus ID. Choate,
in the brochure on Fairfax county writ
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land area in farms. and eleven have
over nine-tenths of their total land
area in farms.
The total value of all farm property
in Fairfax county is set down by the
census S13,266,911, which was an in
crease of 11S per cent during the ten
year period, 1900-1910, and the increase
in farm values since the last census has
been marked. The increase for the
whole state of Virginia during the same
period was SO per cent. The value of
the farmland of Fairfax county was set
down at s7,76s,741, the value of the
implements and machinery at s4S7,351,
and the value of the domestic animals.
poultry and bees, $1,13s,402 The aver
age value of the land per acre was set
down at $40, while it's average value in
1900 was but S19.
On the farms of Fairfax county were
more than 1000 cattle, including more
than 1000 dairy cows, nearly 5000
horses, over 1000 swine, over 5000
sheep, and about 121 900 head of poul-
try. The receipts from the sale of
dairy products-milk, cream. butter fat,
butter and cheese--was s365,425, and
S201,275. These figures do not take
into account the value of dairy prod
ucts, poultry and eggs consumed in the
home use of the producers. The re-
ceiptS from the sale of animals was
S1S5,213, and the value of animals
slaughtered in the county was $S7,S18.
The value of the agricultural products
Of Fairfax county in 1910 was $780,
1856, and the value of the produce this
year, at a low estimate. is so per cent
more. Fairfax produced 550.000 bushels
of corn, $4,000 bushels of wheat. $4,000
bushels of oats $4,000 bushels of rye,
$4,000 tons of hay and forage, 125,000
bushels of potatoes, 10000 bushels of
sweet potatoes, 100000 bushels of
chard fruits-apples, peaches and nee
tarines, pears, plums and prunes, cher
ries and ounces. Fairfax county also
produced nearly 100000 pounds of
grapes and $4,000 quarts of straw
berries.
Though farming, dairying. poultry
raising and fruit growing are the great
industries of Fairfax county, quarry
ing has a place among the county ac-
tivities. In a bulletin issued by the
United States geological survey on the
GRANTEES of the Southeastern States"
it is written of Fairfax county that "a
complex of igneous rocks, largely al
tered. comprising chiefly granite, gran
lite gneiss, gabbro and diorite, mapped
by williams and Keith as archean, ex-
tends southwestward from Maryland
and the District of Columbia across
the Potomac into Fairfax county, Va,
passing Immediately west of Washing
ton. Granite gneiss is the most abundant
rock type and many portions of 1t fur
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shore of the Potomac to Jones Point
light, below Alexandria.
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monument. In big raised letters on the
base you read Confederate dead" and
above. on polished granite this:
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Music and Physiology.

That emusic hath charms to soothe
the savage breast" has usually been
accepted as a quotation from the ad.
mirable William Shakespeare, when,
as a truth, it should be credited to a
later dramatist, Richard Congreve.
The salutary effect Of music in quiet.
ing these pulmonary disturbances has
never been questioned, but the Journal
of the American Medical association
goes further in its claim for the be-
nignant influence of music and says:
"Not only is music physic for the soul,
dissipating mental depression, sooth-
ing psychic perturbations; but its in
fuence may also enhance nutrition,
further digestion (as by the liver mu-
sic of the French) and restore organic
equilibrium. Indeed, the entire work
ing of the human mechanism, physical
end mental alike, may be fabricated
by stream of music, which with art
and science should therefore have a
place in the medical armamentarium. /"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
rast;no with the Nose.

Sir Ray Lancaster, eminent man of
science, asserts that the favor Of food
and drink does not come to us through
the sense of taste. That sense, he
says, can only furnish sensations that
correspond to the chemical compost
ton of the substances presented to it.
These sensations, while almost in
finite in their shadings, are few in
number. We can distinguish by taste
only sweetness, bitterness, sourness,
and saltness, although the various in
tensities of these sensations are in
Vulnerable. The distinctive flavor of
various foods is not the result of
chemical action, and is not perceived
by the taste nerves. Flavors excite
the olfactory nerve instead, and are
transmitted by it to the brain. A per-
son whose sense of smell is impaired
is unable to detect the favor of the
food he eats, although he has the taste
sensation that it stimulates. This is
an explanation of the effect that In
fuenza often has apparently on the
taste, but, really, on, the sense OF
smell.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
HIGH VALUE OF GOOD ROADS
Cost of Hauling Farm Products Over
Common Roads is Twenty-Five
Cents Ton Per Mile.

After careful inquiry it has been
found that the average haul Of the
American farmer in getting his prod
uct to market or to the nearest ship
ping station is IL miles, and the aver
age cost of hauling over the common
country roads is 25 cents a ton per
mile, or three dollars a ton for 12-
mile haul, says Portland Oregonian.
An estimate places the total tons
hauled at 3O0,O0O,0O0 a year. On the
estimate of three dollars ton for 12
miles this would make the total cost
of getting the surplus products of the
farm to the local market or to the
railroad no less than s9OO,OO0,0 ,000-a
figure greater than the operating ex-
penses OF all the railroads of the Unit
ed States. If anything could make an
argument for good wagon roads this
statement surely may.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
seIf.BcIief the Key TO Success.

Do you still believe in yourself? IT
so, you cannot become failure. You
can, at worst, only have failed to learn
as yet the science of success, of which
s,slf-respect is the key. In the great
gamble of life we can afford to lose
everything but our self-respect. Money
lost is little lost; friends lost, much
lost; but self-respect lost, and all is
lost. Self-belief is the husband of self
respect, just as self-respect is the
mother OF self-reliance. Believe, in
yourself and you will win through. For
self-belief is the handspring of human
activity and the principal source OF
human improvement. 1t inspires you
to do things. 1t teaches you to try
again. The man who retains his be,
lief in himself will never give up try.
ing. And success is the reward of per,
sistent effort. Self-reliance will pull
us through many a struggle, from
which the coward fees in vain, and in
which the weak succumb. The ability
to "get up again" is the reward of the
self-reliant.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Rewards Of the Commonplace.

eff you want to go anywhere you
have to start from where you are, !"
said Burke. First steps are as i'm
portant as last steps. Starting from
where one is involves a right under
standing of the commonplace. A great
motive invests every deed with sig
nifcance, Murillo painted Angels
Kitchen. The convent porter, faith
full to his humble duties. finds the
kitchen filled with angels, each doing
a simple service. The monks vision
was his reward for ordinary work
well done. Commonplace tasks be-
come great achievements when per-
formed with all our might. The sol
dier dying in the trench-is he not
equal to the king on the throne? To
do common things in perfect man.
ner is truer sign of religion than to
do great things in an imperfect man
ner. The despised ordinary relation
slips of life may be the rounds in the
ladder that reaches to the skies.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
HIIDjEI II 4 VI NJ
INF IBQD ! Izl|lE|IIl ElI|llEEInIl
ROAD MOVEMENT is GROWING
Question of Public Highways Now In.
wolves Nation as Whole-Values
of Farm Property Enhanced.

Many of the southern and western
states have made remarkable progress
within the past two or three years in
the enactment of laws which provide
for the extension of their highway
systems, and for the construction and
care Of improved roads. The new con-
ditions arising from the development
of automobile traffic have enlarged the
question of public highways from one
of purely local consideration to an
economic principle involving not only
the entire commonwealth, but the ma.
tion as whole.
When the traffic consisted of wagons
drawn by oxen, or mules, or horses,
open roads to the nearest railroad
station or boat landing were all that
was required. The fact that even such
roads were not well built, nor kept in
repair, was due to a variety Of causes,
writes Robert P. Hooper, in Farm
Home. Each particular locality had
an explanation, purely local, to account
for the conditions. But, as rule,
these explanations did not explain,
even to the satisfaction of those max
ing them.
The fact still remained that nearly,
or quite, 80 per cent of the farmers of
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
suppIantina the TaIIow candle

Probably the first exhibition of in
aammable gas ever given in this coun-
try was the display made by fireworks
in Philadelphia in 1896. The exhibition
was merely for entertainment pur-
poses. The gas was released through
holes in iron tubes, for the burner, as
we know it today, had not been in
vented. No ore, however, thought the
illuminant would ever be generally
utilized, and it never dawned upon
those who saw the exhibition that the
tallow candle would, in the course of
time, be driven from the field by this
peculiar commodity. 1t was half a
century after this Philadelphia exhibi-
tion before gas had taken the place
Of candles and oil lamps in the homes
of the best people of our American
cities.-"New York Leads the World
in Gas Development" w. c. Jenkins,
in National Magazine.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24

~ ~ ts z - ; q Z
the country were keeping themselves
poor by reason OF the excessive cost Of
marketing their products. These prod
ucts could be hauled only at seasons
when everybody had to haul. This
resulted in temporarily oyerworked
railway service, congested markets,
and low prices.
The older and wealthier states saw
the point first, and began giving aid
to counties and towns in building i'm
proved roads, so that produce could be
marketed at any time in the year. The
result was almost electrical in its eff
feet. Thousands of farms which, be-
cause of their relative unprofitableness
under bad road system, had been
practically abandoned, became pro-
ductive again. The general values of
farm property were enormously en-
hanced. This was accomplished by
the building of few town and county
roads purely for local purposes.
Then the automobile became factor
in the road question, and the road
problem became widened and en-
larged With vehicles, which would
cover 100 or 200 miles day, the con-
ditions in each county rapidly became
known to the people in adjoining
counties, and a broader comprehen-
sion Of the whole highway question
was inevitable in country where
intelligence predominates.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Wooden Beads.

Children always like beads, and
their stringing passes many hours
safely and happily. At the same time,
the children gain knowledge OF color
and color combination and form from
the bead work. Large wooden beads
are the easiest for the small child to
thread on q: piece of stout thread. The
end can be waxed, or blunt-ended
needle can be used. These beads, half
an inch in diameter, are sold at Is
cents for three dozen, or 40 cents a
gross. They are shaped in spheres,
cubes and cylinders and are colored
red, orange. yellow. green, blue and
violet.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Guard Your Children
Against Bowel Trouble

Many children at an early age
become constipated, and frequently
serious consequences result. Not
being able to realize his own con-
dition, a child's bowels should be
constantly watched, and gentle
laxative given when necessary.
DR.. Miles Laxative Tablets are
especially we'll adapted to women
and children. The Sisters of
Christian Charity, SCI Charles ST.,
Luzerne, Pa, who attend many
cases of sickness say of them:
"some time ago we began using DR..
Miles Laxative Tablets and find that
we like them very much. Their action
is excellent and we are grateful for
having been made acquainted with
them. We have had good results in
every case and the Sisters are very
much pleased" ,#
The form and favor, of any medi-
j cine is very important, no matter
who is to take it. The taste and
appearance are especially imp portant
when Children are concerned. ALI.
parents know ncw aarG ie is 10 give
the average cl,i!d medicine" even
though tie taste is partially dis
guised. In using DR.. Miles Lax
ative TaLlcts, however, this diff.
Guilty is overcome. The shape of
the tablets. tiscir appearance and
candy-.ihe taste at once appeal to
any ci.;ld, with the result that they
are taken without objection.
The rich chocolate favor and
absence OF other taste, make DIR.
Miles Laxative Tablets the ideal
remedy for children. 8
If the first box fails to benefit,
the price is returned. Ask your
druggist. a box OF IS doses costs
only IS ccrts. Never sold in bulk.
MILES MEDICAL CO., EIkhart. Ind.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Important Duty of People.

The making of good roads is one Of
the most important duties of the peo-
pie and their prompt repair and care
full maintenance is essential. There
is probably no subject in which the
progressive farmer is more deeply in
terested than that of having roads
connecting him with his markets over
which he may be able to haul the
greatest possible load. Good roads,
like all cther good things, are too ex-
pensive to build and of too much value
Ito be neglected.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1915-02-24
Auditors Notice.

All persons owning property OF any
kind whatsoever, or in any capacity,
as husband, guardian, executor, ad-
ministrator or trustees are required to
make returns of the same to the Audi
tor under oath within the time mem
toned below and the Auditor is requlr-
by law to add a penalty OF 5o per
cent to all property that is not return
ed on or before the goth day OF FeDru-
ary in any year. =,
An male citizens between the ages
of q and 60 years except those eX-
empt by law are deemed taxable polls:
The so per cent penalty will be added
fer failure to- make returns.
For the convenience of tax payers. l
or nv represe ntative will be at the
following appointed places on the dates
mentioned to receive tax returns:
Roper, w Mednesday Jan. 13.
Meriwether, Thursday Jan. IA.
Collier, Friday Jan. Is.
Red Hill, Saturday Jan. l6.
Clark's Monday Jan. lS.
Modoc, Tuesday Jan. l9.
Parksyille, Wednesday Jan. 20.
Plum Branch, Thursday Jan.:2l.
Morgan's Store Friday:Jan.E22.
Liberty Hill, Saturday Jan. %.
Cleora, Monday Jan. rs.
Pleasant Lane, Tuesday Jan. rs.
Meeting Street, Wednesday Jan. n.
Johnston, Thursday Jan. 2S.
Herrin's Store, Friday Jan. 20.
Trenton, Saturday Jan. 30.
The Office will be open to receive re,
turns from the first day of January till
the goth day Of February as presclbed
y j. R. ZIMMERMAN,
Auditor. E. c. S. G.