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timore's rent rolls for the various coun-
ties.
A tract called "Mattenly's Hope" in
Charles county, comprising 500 acres.
was surveyed for Thomas Mattenly on
May 10, 1886. II one will take the time
to go through the old records of south
ern Maryland he will frequently come
upon the name. It is said that among
the five brothers who settled In St.
Mafys county, one was named Ignatius
and one Caesar. The names of the
others seem not to have been preserved,
but the Rambler has read the will and
last testament Of Thomas Mattingly,
planter, Of St. Mary's county, probated
in 1714. He lived at a homestead call
ed Mount Misery" and the tract was
called 'Mattingly's Purchase" There
are certain bits of evidence that this
was not the same Thomas Mattingly,
whose name was spelled "Mattenly."
and whose tract. 'sMattenly's Hope"
was surveyed in 1856.
The Mattingly family Of St. Marys
county has spread itself all over the
United States. Many Of them went with
the tide Of emigration which set out
from Nthe old and closely settled lands
OF Maryland to take up new, wild and
cheap lands in the Ohio and Mississippi
valleys In the latter part Of the
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ERlCA LEADS THE WORLD I'm CANNING INDUSTRY

activities of that particular specialist
Germs do get into food. Right this
minute. though the doors and windows
are open, you and I are breathing in
millions of germs every second. All
germs. however, are not poisonous
Most of them are life-giving.
"Ptomaine germs, 1t must be remem-
bered. are developed by a process Of de-
composition. Gamers use fresh prod
ucts. Once the food is in the can and
is Theoretically sealed anad sterilized
the contents Of the can are devoid OF
any living organism and all decompo-
sition ceases until the food is again ex-
posed to the open air.
Three billion cans of food are pack ed
in the United States yearly. A hole no
larger than the point Of a fine needle
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ana ereat-grandcnildren OF Mf. Aes-
Close around the Mattingly monu-
ment the Rambler read the following:
Jun: s:ni. i fss 81 ~fs DIED Of NJ, sshs is,s ~ BORN
S.s ss .StE SSriR q psSghsr'y born Nov n 1855
r,s: s:erss e E . =. 1s%s of ss'.s z ss;ss
sacred to the Memory o. Anna. tie devoted
and beloved wife Of Lewis Johnsss. we DE-
parted this IN llfe on the 18th OF January. 1855.
sacred to the memory of Peter IA.srtn Do
age. and Charlotte MeNeiil, hi. wife. dsssAt.r
q sso asse s.s Dee Esq 1857 ss1n ,. !. Dus = Ire
This % stone Is ' sreeted ;; tSs.; .1.et,on.t. and
saiy child. Anna johnson. who smisrassd With
In the johnson lot are the tomho OF
William F. Leach, who died March 10.
1900: Mary E. Leach. who died 1915.
Strahan, who died September Q. 1915.
Standing around the Mattinsly lot are
tombs inscribed:
Charles Alexander. died October n. 1S11. in
the 62nd year OF his age. native Of Paris.
France. but for the last twenty-five yeesS an
honorable and esteemed citizen Of the United
States;
Mary B; Alexander, died Jany 8. lss1:
John Alexander. 1s24-lSS1; Sarah z, Alex-
ander. his wife. Adeiaid A. Alexander. Ddvsrd
=. Alexander. Michael Ryan. died octobsr ~.
1864 Ellen Gleeson his wife. disd ostobse IL.
% Eliza burke, ' II. wlfe s died died s.pssns.. e.
1871. aged e5; Timothy Duhey died 1891. Bridget
puhey D died 1899: J. W; Drans. is,s1soe and
Deborah Burch. died 1sSsi George Juenemann
died 1884 and Barbara T. Juenemann died
1904; John II. held died 1899. Johnny eshssth
a.
Francis Howard. died 1877.
which caused the Rambler to panss.
They are inscribed:
Chichester sweeny. wife Of George swssay q
Washington, d. c., and daughter Of the hate
Bernard Hooe ESQ. Of Prince william County.
Va. born April %. 1899. died May "a. 1884;
Sacred to the Memory Of George sweeny, q
native Of the city Of Baltimore, who died in
April e. i7ss died tiesnei No1 is ol 1885, sS ea n'r"
In Memory OF Mrs. Jane sweeny, wifs Of
George sweeny and daughter Of John Brent.
late Of Charles county. Nd, died January 10.
1s41. aged Al years.
1t is the belief Of the Rambler that
George Mattingly married Mary Shan
non. a daughter of Luke Shannon and
Cordelia Wade. who were married in
p,seataway ad,,nts a Up parish; H. Prime. Georges
dren were Catherine Artheiia, who
married George W. Talburtt: George F.
Mattingly. who married Louisa Mitchell
Hedgemann OF Stafford county, Va; Clara
". who married a gentleman named
Browne; Cordelia, who married Samuel
Marsh: John H, who married Mollie
Boury of Brooklyn, \. Y; Martina. who
married Edgar Bowling, and Sienna,
who died unmarried.
William Mitchell Mattingly. son OF
George E. Mattingly and Louisa Nit
chell Hedgemann. with his wife and
three children occupies the George Mat
t1ngly house. The list of the grand
children and great-grandchildren Of Mr..
Mattingly now living in Washington In
TOO long Tor the Rambler to print In
this sketch.
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launch. So the offer was accepted. with
sincere gratitude.
see the result" says the Belgian
business man. Tho French agent wrote
the story TO his owners. They decided
Eerous and that they ought to put new
steam launch on each one OF their boats.
The German consul must have rather
expected It, because there arrived IN
Paris from Hamburg, an agent OF the
shipbuilders who had made the launch
which he had coolly requfsltloned from
German third parties who could have no
possible interest in such deal--the
owners of tho Hamburg liner which
carried it-with an offer to furnish as
many similar steam launches as the
French company might need. tmmedi :
Ately. As at least three months would
have been demanded by French ship.
builders to obtain delivery Of frst
sample steam launch for such usage,
they gave the Hamburg man An order
for six--and got them. two py TWO. on
each bi-weekly German boat.
one more example, l think. Will give
US enough data of these mysterious and
really wonderful trade methods to make
American business men SIT up ana look
each other in the face with an inquirine
expression - something hike That OF
these other Europeans.
have IL from 4 Portuguese choco-
late planter who spends his vacations in
Paris. in war times exactly as In peace.
THE customs collector Of certain
foreign colony desired to buy an auto
mobile" tells my gay Portuguese. II
ought to add that the collector obtained
nearly ali his income from duties levied
on imported merchandise.
He approached the local agent Of Q
French transportation line, by prefer
ence, as he said. amiably, because
French autos were the best The French
agent wrote his company In Paris. The
NJ A~~ -
next boat the man who wanted an auto.
mobile received . full collection Of
French catalogues.
Beading matter for . year." says the
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The Penalty.
G ENAToR FALL was talking in N.

e ENATOR FALL was talking In New
~ York about the Mexican situation
'"This imbroglio.'' he said, diagustedly.
alluding to an earlier phase. was due to
observation-disclosures Well, absent-mindsd-
ness in affairs Of state gets punished ~
sharply as in affairs of love.
'T once knew an absent-minded dry
goods clerk who was in love with Q spirit
ed girl He took her hand ono night ana
droned:
Dear. dear little handi wonder@r
wonderland then his absent-mindednse
got its work in, and he said:
IT wonder II 1t will washT
''The girl gave q sudden start
No. George she hissed, 1t won't Vaah.
and may as we'll tell you. too. that N
won't cook. or sweep. or darn oodkA
either. Good EVENING""
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Portuguese. but he wanted an auto.
So he laughed and went to the agent of
the German steamship line. where the
result was different The next boat
brought a real automobile, not a pic
ture, German make. naturally, billed at
10000 marks and bill receipted-they
refused to accept a cent and declared
themselves happy to oblige. The col
lector also. From that day the German
liners boat continued loading and un-
loading after hours and through the
night, without paying any supplement
tary port dues"
AS the line had six boats in port per
month, the automobile rapidly paid for
as the steamshin people ware rumored
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Stories of German Export Trade Organization
Read Like Fiction to the Modern Business MAN

of the German consul. who said to him
Il learn that the boat which you are
awaiting and which ought to leave you
its steam launch before 1t sails for
France, has lost the launch while pass
ing bar. Happily. there is a Ham
burg liner in port here with two
launches. I have requisitioned one of
them. and 1t Is at your service"
The French agent was extremely
grateful. first, for the news. and, sec
ondly. for the important service. BY
economy. his French company. though
rich, had only one steam launch In those
waters, which it passed from boat to
boat and which was absolutely neces-
primitive coast. An incoming boat was
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tel continued dumping. And when the
Toulouse men returned and tried to
close out their cheap suits in job lots
the German agents from whom they
had bought the dumped cloth paid them
a polite visit and renewed their offers
Of goods at cut prices.
To the Toulouse men-a1though they
thought they knew the game-it was all
mystery. Here, of course. is the ques-
ton. What gave two ready-made suit
exporters in Spain the necessary cour-
age. capital ana wisdom to carry on
such a campaign in six cities? The an
swer is the German consul. commercial
attache and agent of a German trans
portation line. to begin with, and GER
tain chambers of compensations at
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home in the fatherland. to continue
directed by governmental experts.
II
The German consul in one Spanish
city, dropping everything. treated the
ready-made clothes men simply as their
business partner. The German steam
ship line took equal interest. In Mad
rid the commercial attache Btormed
about and obtained concessions. There
were many meetings. Confidential let
ters went to Germany. An excellency in
Berlin made dates in Dresden with rep
resentatives Of the weavers' cartel and
the clothiers syndicate Expert ac-
countants drew up the compromise. And
thus two German exporters of mems
and youths ready-mades were instruct
ed-not advised-to improve their quail
ity and Workmanship rather than cut
fixed living profits. plus all losses they
might suffer from selling $27 suits for
$3.50 In six Spanish cities-until the
French competition should be crushed.
according to Frenchmen. such cham
bers OF compensations exist for all cate
gortes of German export trade. BY
them exporting manufacturers are re-
imbursed the difference between the
German home price and the cut price
necessary to kill competition abroad,
after paying duties.
AS to the interest of consuls and
steamship agents, 1t Will be long before
other nations reach such q freemasonry
Here Is the opportunity Of the United
States.
1t is q wonderful wonderful oppor-
tuntty, the moro 10 as number of
other European countries have adopted
the eamo motto.
And. a. even with this opportunity
and motto-Amsricans will need all the
hints that any one can give them II they
Europe or IN South America, suggest
that all Americans concerned shall
mediate the stories have told here.
Or 1t home, either!
STERLING HEILIo.
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The cinnaminson Sage.

ssMs HE English cabinets dreAdeui
bunsles at daIlipoli and Kut ass
to be investigated-and the investigates
have been appointed by the oaAinse
ITSELF
The spea2kar. Representative AolIamseA
shook his head.
'sThis fact" he saad sfooad1o eho
episram OF the Cinnanainson saeos
''Ye can't strengthen neither . eyum-
blin' wall nor . crumblin' rsputatioa WetA
WhiteWAsh. q
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The Rambler Visits the Old Home of George

EI HE story of Edward Mattingly
and his family and their home
near the foot of Sd street south
east, close upon the Eastern
branch. was briefly told last Sunday
aad in concluding that narrative the
Rambler said: There was another
branch of the St. Marys county Mat
tlngly family, which early settled in
South Washington. The first settler of
that branch to come to the District OF
Columbia was George MattingIy, who
was prominent in Potomac transporta-
tion lines and in real estatae, and he
was one of the founders of ST. Domi-
MICS Catholic Church"
The big brick house which was built
by George Mattingly and in which he
passed from earth in June. 1884, is still
standing. but it has been divided and
remodeled. The west half has been
greatly altered and converted into q
small apartment house and the east
half. essentially unchanged, Is owned
and occupied by a grandson and the
great-grandchildren of George Mat
tingly. The house stands on the north
side Of F street between Az and 9Th
streets southwest. In the lifetime Of
Mr. Mattingly the number Of the dwell
ing was AT. That is now the number
of the apartment house, the nndis-
turbed half of the old home being No.
AIS,
1t has been told the Rambler by one
of the numerous MattingIy family that
this family was French, having been
settled FOR centuries in the Isle of Jer-
sey, the southernmost and largest Of
the Channel Islands. Long before the
introduction Of Christianity into the is
lands the population consisted prin-
cipally Of Brexons. who were Celts, and
according to authorities this original
population received successfully an ad-
mixture OF Romans, legionaries, saxons
and perhaps Jutes and vandals. It in
said that Christianity was introduced
in the fifth century. and the names Of
saints have been 1avished upon the
topographic features of the islands
A historian of the islands SAYS that
they were made over to William. Duke
OF Normandy. in s33. and that after the
Norman conquest of England their al
legiance shifted between the English
crown and the Norman coronet "ac-
cording to the vicissitudes of war
policy" In the reign of King John of
England. 1893 to 1916, the future of the
islands was decided by their attach
nent to the English crown in spite of
the separation of the duchy Of Nor
mandy There were various descents
upon the islands by French naval and
military forces during the reigns of the
English kings Edward II, Edward III
and Richard II, and in the reign of Ed
ward Nv one OF the islands Sark, was
taken by the French and recovered in
the reign of Mary.
According to the Rambler's informa-
ton. fve brothers Mattingly settled in
St Marys county. Nd, in 1854 Obvious
~ tnere 10 an error in this date. because
the Rambler finds the name in Mary
land earlier than that. The name Mat
tingly, variously spelled, appears
among the names Of the 1000 early set
tiers Of Maryland. with their earlies,
land surveys, as recorded In Lord Bal
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and loaded on wagons like hay. They
are grown from New York to Maryland
and as far westward as Illinois and
Wisconsin. The industry has also been
developed in Colorado. Utah and Cali
fornia- Thrashing Is done with q ma
chine called a viner. From the time
they are harvested until canned peas
are manipulated entirely by machinery
and the hands of the workers never
touch them.
The centers of tomato packing are
maryland. Delaware, New Jersey, vir-
New York and central and southern
California. Crops range from two to
twenty tons to the acre. The waste in
canning Is about SO per cent.
auerkraut is now manufactured by
the ton. Nearly all of the asparagus is
produced and packed in small corner
of California. Tip asparagus' is cut
eight inches down. just as the sprouts
b break through the earth. Pole lima
lima beans in the eastern states.
The peach is the king OF all canned
fruits-there are fifteen brands OF Cali
fSsnia fSsa ysiiHw snSu. elings alone. Peaches
the trees often lose their flavor and
texture when put in containers. Or
chards of canning peaches are planted,
lncFeAoFe, alOn8 tho Hactn0 coast,
Thousands Of bushels Of Bartlett pears
are also packed. Plums, too, are a
staple, and canned prunes are now on
the market.
lima. Mississippi. Louisiana and Texas
and $6.000,000 worth of pineapples In
Hawaii. Blueberries and whortieberries
grow wild and are scarca, but are
Maryland and northern Michtean.
Gooseberriee. onoe commonly used In piee,
have lost their popularity because Of
their acidfty. Two kinds Of grapes are
canned. the Niagara IN the east. and
Muscat on the western coast
'Loganberrien, which Aare q cross be.
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milk and vegetables. are to be found in
nearly every state Of the Union
FISHERMEN, farmers, butchers, gar
deners and orchardists are supplying
prepare the food and send 1t to market.
II their product Is not healthful. as
well as palatable, they will lose such
business as they have. together with
their factories. Thus honesty with
them. as with every one else, is the
best policy.
Anxious to make good, they have es-
tablished food research laboratory in
Washington and have employed the
ablest chemists in the country that
their products refined to the last prac-
ticable degree. DR.. W. D. Bigelow,
famous among scientific men here and
abroad. is our chief chemist. and DR..
America and Europe, is our food tech
nologist. They and their assistants are
working every day on the large and
small problems of the canning industry.
ing forty-nine different kinds of tin SO
as to learn the particular sort of con-
tafner that is best suited for each food
product that is packed. Tho tin coat
Ing on the cans is II various thick
nesses and the iron and steel plate on
which the tin is laid varies in many
ways. Sixty thousand cans of vegeta
bles. fruits. milk. meat and fish are
being used in the experiment.
Mr.. Pumpkin likes iron; Mr. Sweet
Potato doesn't. Now iron in food is
not harmful, but 1t isn't necessary. The
Gamers association, accordingly, is
willing to spend thousands of dollars
to eliminate the slightest traces of iron
that may be found at times in pies made
of canned pumpkin.
And. let me add at this juncture, the
Information we obtain is public prop
erty. We learn no secrets that we hide
away from the $50 Gamers who are not
members of the association. All of our
bulletins are mailed to them and we are
willing to help them in every way pos
stble. We are benevolently selfish, in
that we want the people to have conf
dence in canned foods, that our sales
may be increased.
Nor can we complain that the people
are lacking In confidence. Ten million
cases of corn are packed yearly in the
United States. There are two dozen
cans to the case. The pack Of tomatoes
exceeds considerably that OF corn. Peas
and corn are competitors for tho second
place on our active list. Corn is grown
and canned in Maine. and westward
from New York to Minnesota and south.
ward from Maryland to Missouri Isaac
Wfnslow OF Maine began experimenting
with corn in 1899. He tofled for thir-
teen years before he was even moder-
ately successful. and a quarter of a
century passed before his process was
patented.
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Across the way from this monumen.
is another tall marble shaft. at the
base Of which sleeps a daughter Of Mr.
Mattingly. The monument is inscribed: :
Sacred to the Memory of Ny Dear Husband
George W. Talburtt, Who Departed This Life
Nov. 10. 1885, in the 47th Year Of His Age.
stones, one marked &c. w. t. and the
other, much whittier and newer. &c A.
t. That is the grave Of Catherine
Arthelia Mattingly In that
lot rest a number OF the grandchildren
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tween the blackberry and the rcd rasy-
berry, having the size and shape of the
former, the color of the latter and the
navor OF both: are canned In great
quantities Indeed. all kinds Of fruits
are packed. apples among the rest
Machinery is used for grading as to
sizes. The machines in the canning In
dusery would make story in them
selves Corn is husked and cut from the
cob, apples and tomatoes are pared and
oored. peaches are pitted and green
beans are shipped by machinery
Clams are canned in Washington and
oregon. mostly. and nearly the whole
pack OF crabs comes from Chesapeake
bay and the Virginia coast. The supply
OF canned or cove oysters is obtained
along the Chesapeake bay, on the
shores of the Gulf of Mexico and near
Savannah in Georgia. Salmon are
packed on the Columbia river, Puget
sound and the Alaskan coast This
branch of the canning industry pro-
duces $50. .ooO. 900 of wealth annually.
American sardines. caught or the
Maine coast and in Monterey bay. Cali
fornia, promise to become a very I'm
portant branch Of the packing business.
The demand for shad roe. shrimp and
tuna fish is also Increasing. II has
been said that modern food manufac-
ture means in reality high-class com
munfty kitchen. There are 5000 such
kitchens, as | have said. in this coun-
try. We lead the world not only In
the quantity of the food packed, but
In quality. France and Italy arc the
foremost canning nations in Europe,
and yet the United States packs dve
times more food than both Of them
American canned meats are being
eaten by the French. Russian. British
ana Italian armies at this moment.
Some of our tomatoes, too, have gone
abroad. Our army buys sixteen lif-
ferent kinds of canned foods from
packers in the United States.
IT war comes the canner wi1l b a.
indispensable as will be the mauufac-
turer of powder and guns. He is the
man who will ration the soldier In the
field. and the work can be performed
promptly. no matter what occurs. We
have already seen to that The can
ming industry is prepared ~ the gem
erals of the army will tell you. Wsrs
you to ask.
Furthermore. the men In shs tFs1oh-
es and at sea would get food tha& -
fresh and pure. Gamers never u.s.
chemicals. Nicholas Appert. . HAfas
oonfeotioner. distilier. brewer eaA
Industry. Every woman who is put
ting up tomatoes and peaches this
summer is strictly following the sys-
tom he originated His process has
been handed down from mothss0 70
daughters for three senerstiona.
The French government In 17s8 On
$2.400 for a dependable method Of pre-
serving food. Appert won the prise
after nine years of experiments. He
found that heat and air-tight bottles
kept food from spelling"
Copyright, 1915. BY James 3. MaDAs
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to have obtained It At half-pr,cs. by
some mysterious workings Of German
chambers OF compensations.
And there you are.
Can the French do that sort Of thing?
Imagine French consul giving orders
10 French ship owner to relinQuish
his private property? Never in life.
Can Americans arrive at It? Imagine
an American agricultural works ship
ping reapers and binders half-price to
an unknown mayor of a town in Para
quay on the request Of a big American
believe IL.
OF all the organization behind the
scenes which makes 1t possible for
Germans these chambers of compensa-
tons are the most wonderful.
Here is an example told by a-but
never mind.
In 1912. the German woolen- -weavers'
cartel Cltke a trust. but different. be-
cause directed by governmental experts)
made an extra dumping in France, to
beat the English competition in cheap
grades and that of homo French mills
on their own ground in certain special
ties of lightweight summer suftings.
-
Now. look. Materials for mems and
boys suits were dumped 30 cheap that
1t permitted Q group Of smart French
men At Toulouse, who knew the game.
to make them up into ready-made suits
with cheap south Of Franco labor and
sell them in Spain under the nose Of
well established German ready-made
exporters.
Did It strain the system1 Did the Ger
man ready-made arms quarrel with the
German woolen weaversf No. they took
their time. and 30 improved the work.
mAnship and quality OF their products
for Spain that without lowering thar
prioes . psssta. they had the smart
Toulouse men with their cheap stocks
In each city shortly out Of business.
In Franco the German weavers' car.
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q home. Tho floral oferinsS were profusa. The
remains were placed in q vault at Mount o.
ivet cemetery.
Among the CONDENSED Locals" Of The
Star Of June ~. 1884. was this:
Mr.. George Mattingly an old and wsll known
citizen. is extremely i'll. His physician IL
In a beautiful part OF Mount Olivet
cemetery a tall marble shaft, shaded
by old oaks. bears on its several faces
the following Inscriptions:
In memory of George Mattingly. died June
%. 1884. aged 50 yeara;
Sacred to the memory Of my beloved wife,
Mary Mattingly. who departed this life Febru-
ary 20. 1895. aged 63 years;
Clara V. Browne. died April 16. 1900;
George E. Mattingiy, died August TO- 1901:
Our Mother-Louisa NJ. MattinSly, died May
o, 1904.