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plants the easier 1t was for him to
attend to them; until at last he
reached a point where 1t was easier
for him to attend than not to attend.
He had developed a strong sec
ondary passive attention towards
plants any fact connected
with them aroused attention ire
spective of the WILL" -
It is through this third stage d.
concentrated attention, of isolation
from the world. that great thinker.
have contributed to the advance Oil
civilization by figuring out some nevt
connection of ideas.
Two rules about attention 1t is well
to know:
The more you know about sub
ject the more you will attend to it
and the sooner you will reach the
third stage.
The more desire, the more motive or
emotion-power you have, the more
you, will attend, the sooner you will
reach the third stage and the more
you will accomplish.
The first rule explains why It is that
It is easier for educated people and
for specialists to succeed.
The second rule explains why It is
that poor boys are more apt to make
good than rich boys. Boys whose
childhood has been spent in an en-
vironment of poverty usually are ami
matedSby an intense desire to rise in
the world. Russell H. Conwell once
Investigated the lives of 4,o43 Amer
lean millionaires. He found that all
but twenty had started as poor boys.
Also mot one rich mans son out of
seventeen dies rich." he states.
+ X 4
DAYING concentrated attention to
subject becomes a habit, great in
terest, without which a person is un-
happy. Work becomes a solace, a
form of pleasure, of play. Henry
Ford once spent most of a vacation
watching horses legs, figuring out
the tractor idea. That was his way
Of having wonderful time" To
work out the solution of how to i'm
prove the tractor would give him
more delight than anything else. so
he went to it with as much enthusi-
asm as a flapper to a jazz dance.
This alert direction of ones atten-
ton in the right path day after day
is an advantage that cannot be over
estimated in the strenuous COMPETE
ton Of the modern world. Your abil-
ity to pay immediate voluntary at
tention to q matter in hand. to di-
rect your thoughts to things worth
while instead of letting them fly this
way and that, inconsequentially. is
character.
Don't be a Ciarinda!
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In the ONCE Of the clerk Of the court
at Marlboro is deed from William
Nichols and Mary Nichols to An
thony Drane. recorded October 12.
1717. conveying call that piece and
parcel of land wherein the said Will
liam Nichols now dwellest, being part
of Brock Hall. situate on the east
side of Collington branch in Prince
Georges county aforesaid, formerly
given and bequeathed to the said
Mary Nichols in and by the last will
and testament of her late grand
father. Edward Brock"
The Anthony Drane Of this deed died
in 1928. his will being probated in
June of that year. Tho will, witnessed
by Clement Hill. Benjamin Hall and
Patrick Hepburn, was written in
March. 1913. Anthony, the first Of
Brock Hall. bequeaths to his sons
Thomas and Anthony my plantation
and the piece of land that hold, dur
ing the natural life of Mary Nichols,
wife of William Nichols, equally be-
tween them. with remainder to my
son James," There is also this pro-
vision: II give unto my son James all
the plantation and tract Of land I now
live on after my wife's decease, to
him and his heirs forever. All the
rest of my personal estate give and
bequeath unto my loving wife. Eliza
beth Drane, to dispose Of among her
children as she shall think best, ap-
pointing her, full and sole exeeutrfx
OF my last will. and testament"
1t would appear from this that An
thony Drane, who died in 1928, did
not live on the Brock Hall property
On collington branch, but on another
plantation. and it was probably that
plantation near Bladensburg which
we are In search of. The probabilities
are that 1t descended to his son
James. who left 1t to his son Anthony.
who was the Anthony whose bones
are now in Rock Creek cemetery.
However, it is idle to speculate on
this, because the facts will most like
ly be brought out soon.
TN the story dealing with Parthenon
you were told how the Rambler
happily strayed into the garden of an
octagon house on the north side Of
the branch" which divides Bladens-
burg and Hyattsville. The house has
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There Is Primitive. Automatic Way; Then the
Kind That Requires Effort, and Finally the
Third Method. Which Is That of the Great
Thinkers-The Great Lever. and What Car
nesie Did

continued attention to it for fear Of
their men.
This active voluntary attention is
our means to a livelihood. 1t. is the
lever that raises a human being from
the animal plane to full human
height It also carries him on into
the third stage. secondary passive at
tention-a stage that has been called
godlike, the most perfect happiness,
and which kitchener Of Cornell. than
whom there Is no more learned
American authority In this expert
mental field, declares to be the chief
condition Of human progress"
Archimedes, the Greek philosopher.
was in a state of such Secondary pas
sive attention during the storming Of
Syracuse. He WAS SO enErossed in
his geometry that he did not realize
that anything unusual was going on
until he was fatally wounded. To
the Roman soldiers who entered his
room he only said 'Noli, turbare cir
culos meos." Don't disturb my cir
rcles" He was SO interested in his
problem that no other thoughts could
compete.
Newton. Edison. all great men have
experienced. usually habitually. this
third form of attention. A recent
case OF what may have been sec
ondary passive attention we smiled
over recently when we read in a
newspaper of the young prosecutor
out west who SO lost himself in argu-
ing for the conviction Of bootlegger
that he threw his arm out of joint in
one particularly free and vigorous
gesture. Much may be expected Of
this young man.
\ r
NF this third and rare form Of at
tention William Glover explained:
"A botanist may be so engrossed in
the examination Of a tiny plant as to
fail to hear the savage bellowings Of
an approaching bull. The plant had
no intrinsic right to engross his con-
seriousness as it did. and in a scale of
natural impressiveness the bull would
easily come first. How then did the
plant attain it's superiority?
THE process was probably as fol-
lows: When the botanist began the
study Of botany he had to attend to
a plant actively and with conscious
effort, but the more he learned about
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OUR FAMOUS SONGS
-ssMaryland, My Maryland".

land" was secured by Miss Rebecca
Nicholson, who was a grandniece o.
Francis Scott Key, author Of "The
Star Spangled Banner"
EOR many years after the war Ran
dali was secretary to Representa-
tive Fleming, and later was'secretary
to Senator Joseph e. Brown, both of
Georgia. During his residence at the
National Capital he was correspond
emit for the Augusta Chronicle and his
letters to that paper were regarded
as the most brilliant of their day. He
spent considerable time in Augusta.
making that city his home for years,
SO that Georgia almost claims him as
her son. Later he was editor of the
Admission. Ala, Hot Blast, but the
later years Of his life were not very
prosperous and were full of many dis
appointments. He died in 1908.
Among the collected poems of RAN
GALL there are many beautiful lines.
In fact, his Arlington" .sResuryramn
and There's Life in the Old Land
Yet" all burn with the fire of patriot
ism. They have life, they move and
compel. for all that he wrote was un-
der the spell OF inspiration. And vet
all Of his brilliant literary work sinks
into forgetfulness beside the one song
that will always live. Perhaps IL he
had not written MY Maryland" his
other poems would be better known.
His one book is Maryland, MY Mary
land, and Other POEMS" published by
John Murphy Company of Baltimore,
1908.
the original poem contains
nine verses the two stanxas
usually appearing in the song are here
given:
Ny Maryland,
The despot's heel Is on thy shore,
Maryland:
His torch h At thy temple door,
Maryland:
Avenge the patriotic gore
That fecked the streets of Baltimore.
And b the battle queen of yore,
Maryland, Ny Maryiand
Hark to thy wandering sons appeal,
Maryland;
Ny mother state. to thee kneel,
Maryland:
For life and death, for woe and veal.
Thy peerless -chiyalry reveal,
And grid thy beauteous nIrN 9Th steel.
Maryland. Ny Maryland:
While my Maryland" is still sung
and will continue popular, SO long as
the old-time songs Of the south cheer
and charm the soul, yet there was a
time when its martial notes sounded
through an expectant land like the
call Of q busle- In fact. it was call.
pressive Of al pleadinge for "men to
the 'front.'" . call which swept the en-
tire south from the Potomac to the
Mexican bordsrt
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after immigration began in western
Maryland. TN early days." which
may be Interpreted as the closing
decades Of the eighteenth and early
decades of the nineteenth centuries,
young members of the Maryland and
Virginia Dranes were drifting to
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and
North Carolina. In every generation
there was an Anthony. perpetuating
the name Of the original Sir James
Anthony Drane.
And, by the way. one Of the descend
ants Of these Maryland Dranes is
Representative Herbert jackson
Drans Of Florida. He Is a great
grandson Of Anthony Drane and Ann
Smith, both Of Prince Georges coun-
ty. Nd" the Inscription on whose
Tombstone In Rock Creek cemetery
the Rambler copied. He is q grand
son Of the Capt. Anthony Drane who
caused Michael r. Berry. sexton Of
Rock Creek Church, and stegagnini
to make ard mark the grave in 1871.
Representative Drane was born at
Franklin, Simpson county, KY. and
went to Florida in 1888 in connection
with railroad construction and from
the railroad camp then established
grew what Is now the city Of Lake
land, which Is the representatives
homo. He is serving his third term In
Congress.
Capt. Anthony Drane. who caused
the monument to be placed in Rock
Creek cemetery. was born on the
Drane farm near Bladensburg. Young
Anthony r,rane was appointed to
West Point by President Monroe. the
notification, certified by John c. CAL
houn. Secretary of War. and dated
April II, 1920, being addressed to
Cadet Anthony Drane, Bladensburg
Maryland"
TN connection with the notification
Is a statement of Qualifications
necessary for admission" meaning, Of
course, admission to the Military
Academy. The old document lies be-
fore me- and will give you copy Of
the Qualifications" They follow:
Each cadet. previous to his being
admitted a member Of the Military
Academy, must be able to read dis
tinctly and pronounce correctly: to
write a. fair legible hand, and TO per-
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Randall famous - Maryland, My
Maryland" At the time it was writ
ten it was sung all over the south,
and had all the fire and patriotic stir
of the famous war hymn Of France.
At that time-1S61-it perhaps did
more than anything else to solidify
southern sentiment. and the song
alone sent thousands to the front who
otherwise would have delayed. Wom-
en- sang it and wept while men were
quickly swayed to the cause OF arms
by the fre of patriotic feeling which
every line aroused.
The writing of this song was case
where opportunity and the man met.
Randall was only twenty-five. OF a
romantic nature and had just settled
down as q teacher in Poydras College
in Louisiana. He read in the papers
Of a clash in his native town, Balti-
more, between citizens and company
Of Massachusetts soldiers on their
way to the front. Maryland was yet
wavering, and this, with the incident
mentioned. gave him the subject for
the martial song.
Up to that time Randall had writ
IAN INIT little. vet with this one poem
=. ,.an.d Mt once into fame, It was
$3.50 IN a, insnired moment and
80. -. 40, ., vss ,,bli.hed 10 the
:. 10. ,o.t mona of its conn
80 a..
pe'te
JAMES RfDER h GA vas -
y in Baltimore In 1888. ais cary
training was entrusted to III. :. a
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voluntary. natural. spontaneous, pas
sive in that it required no effort. He
attended to her automatically when
she came near him just as the average
person attends to color or to a bright
light or to an automobile horn sounded
toward the rear Of him. Practically
all other thoughts were inhibited in
his mind. This was . case Of what
scientists and pedagogues call natural
passive attention. It is the first form
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-05-07
BY MARJORIE WILSON.

A DDISON in 1.-THE Spectator"
~ gave transcription from the
n diary Of woman of fashion
called Clarinda- This excerpt
covered five days. Clarinda's atten-
ton during this time was entirely
taken up with her own toilet, wash
ing and combing her lap dog. shop
ping and beating down the price Of
two fans. entertaining company and
in working one-half of q violet leaf
on handkerchief. Wrote Addison:
II would have clarinda consider
what a pretty figure she would make
among posterity were the history of
her whole life published like these
Ave days Of it."
. We have modern Cfarindas, both
mon and women. who allow their at
tention to be occupied day after day
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in ways useless to themselves or any
one else: Tapping" jazzing, movie
ing, their minds being the sport Of
one excitement of the senses or emo
tions after the other. drawn this way
and that. their interests and energies
being dissipated. scattered to the four
winds.
EoR the most part however, We are
workers. We all have to bend
our attention In one direction during
our working hours. At least 1t Is this
ability to direct our thought, to con-
centrate our attention, that makes
us good workers or poor. and in the
end makes US competent or incompe-
tent human beings. commonplace or
superior characters.
MY experience il what agree to
attend to-" William James. the great
psychologist, has told US. A man
builds up his life and experiences and
outlook ON the universe through the
things to which he attends. Imagine
Clarinda's outlook!
There are three ways. that human
beings attend to things. The first form
of attention is q primitive form and
automatic. requiring no effort on our
part. The second form. important to
attain, requires effort, in that the
person selects one thought and keeps
that in consciousness by effort. some
times q kind Of mental agony, not al
lowing himself to think Of anything
else. The third form Of attention can
be reached only by passing through
the second, and In the third there is
no effort, the mind being 80 interest
ed in the subject that concentration
upon it is play rather than work.
Active attention, the second form. is
a kind Of battle that goes on in our
heads and that we must win II we ever
expect to achieve. II you have such
mastery Of attention that whenever
YOU must solve a problem you can
center it on that problem Just as you
focus your eyes on q thing to see 1t
clearly, everything else about it be-
ing blur, you are on the high road
to success.
We all Of us start out In life with
only the elementary stage Of atten-
ton. We attend passively. involun-
tarily, to bright colors. lights. sounds,
things that move. painful and pleasur-
able feelings. And throughout our
lives we are to certain extent in
bondage to this primitive. spontaneous
form Of attention.
WHEN the late Jacob Riis, New
w York newspaper man. author and
social reformer, was passing through
the calf stage Of life-age fifteen
he worked in a lumber yard. That is,
he worked as much and AZ well as he
could; considering that he was violently
enamored Of q little girl Of thirteen.
whose custom it was to play among the
lumber.
It was difncult for Jacob to keep his
mind on his work. His attention and
interest just naturally were conferred in
the object Of his alteration. So en-
crossed was he in watching her one
day that he cut his shin with an
adj with which he was working 50 that
an ugly scar was left.
Another time the little girl was
dancing ON q beam near by. Jacobs
eyes were glued on her as he worked.
And he cut of part Of his forennEer
with an AZ
Again. he fell OF = roof one day
when bending forward to sse her 30
round = corner ~ She left the humber
yard.
The attention. that Jacob Riis PAID
|at these times TO ne 1ittis sfri Wa H.
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not met anybody who could
tell him where the. Drane place was.
and It would seem that the informa-
: tion must be sought in the deed books
at Marlboro. A good many years
/. ago the Rambler wrote the story OF
Dranesville, settlement at the con-
vergence point Of the Alexandria and
Leesburg pike and the Georgetown
and. Leesburg pike, about twelve
miles west Of Great Falls. The
founder of that settlement was one
OF the Virginia Dranes. branch Of
the Maryland family. This is mat
ter which the Rambler hopes to take
up at another time after meeting
/, some engagements which press upon
him.
In Rock Creek cemetery within,
few yards Of the east wall Of Rock
Creek. Church. IL = tombstone bearing
this inscription: 'Tn affectionate re-
membrance Of my father and my.
mother, Anthony Drane and Ann
: Smith. both Of Prince Georges county,
Md This tablet is placed by their
youngest son. The stone is a slab
I Of marble laid on brick walls that
rise about foot and half above
the turf. The remains that rest un-
der the stone were removed to Rock
Creek cemetery in 1871. The place OF
+, original interment. whence they were
removed to Rock Creek Is not known.
/. The burial was probably on the Drane
farm, near BladensburE.
+ +
THE Rambler has come into pos
i session Of bills and receipts for
, building the tomb. Among them is
this:
Washington City. July IT. 1s4i.
Or. Capt. A. Drane, to
L. stegagnini, Or.
10 q moulded tomb marble slab. let
tered, and cross cut on same. $3.50
Cartins. same at Rock Greek Church
and sending q man to set It up. 500
Bricklayer's bill for building foundation
and wall, 10 inches, above ground for
same, material included ............ 30 %
,es. %
TO digging 4 grave and taking up two
bodies and moving the same to the
Young oak tree .................... 100
s sos. %
Received payment Of Capt. A. Drans ct
Nine. Jennings. July 20. 1871. the full Of this
account. (Signed) Z. sTEGAGNINI.'
Attached to- the foregoing bill as
exhibits and receipts are various
!, documents, one of them being:
Received Of L. Stegsgnin for Capt. A.
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TAKE TELEGRAPH MESSAGES.
distractions Of immediate appeal to .
youth, but he fought them back and
out Of his consciousness, because OF
his more permanent desirei his am,
bition.
Workers In offices, shops, factories.
every day display this second or arti-
fetal form Of attention. They volun-
tarily put their minds on their work
because OF some imported interest.
such 10 ambition. necessity. duty.
eegotism.
THIS form Of attention is probably
the product Of civilization. we
are told, some sociologists holding
that sayages only display it In flashes.
It being natural to prefer inertia to
mental effort. People began to think,
or give this artificial attention to =
thing, only when they had to. It IL
probable that this higher form of at
tention: the voluntary. originated In
women rather than men. because. the.
thssry ~ iamonE savages. the work.
the druAgssy Asesssazy e sxistsnce
vas done ~ vems1 who hed 70 pay
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| HE Marseillaise Of the Con-
federacy" is what some one
has aptly called the song
-h;ch r,ode JameS RYDER
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One in Each Generation
Of Old Family Bears,
Name of Sir James
Anthony Drane, FIor-.
tiicultural Wiz ar d !
Who Sent His Seven
Sons to the New
World.

EAR Hladensburg lived the
Dranes. This was SO long
ago that the Rambler has
not met ANYBODY who could
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-05-11
PLAN WHAT you WILL CAN
BEFORE YOU PLANT A GARDEN

Radishes and lettuce usually pre-
dominate in the beginners garden,
probably because they come up early
and give the gardener indisputable
proof of his industry. Crisp young
radishes and lettuce are best eaten
fresh from the garden; whereas the
succulent string bean, the prolific to-
mato, the iron-rich spinach, to say
nothing of carrots, Swiss chard, peas,
beets, corn, asparagus, or okra will
delight the palate and enrich the diet
many months after they mature in
the garden, if properly put up in cans
or jars and stored in the pantry, says
the United States Department of Ag-
lricluture.
1t is not enough to enjoy these
vegetables when they are fresh. From
October to June the storage cellar
and the corner grocery are likely to
yield only potatoes, turnips, old car
rots, cabbage, and onions and the use
of these vegetables is likely to prove
Imonotonous without occasional re-
minders of the summer garden. 1t
may take a little more time to plant
and cultivate two rows of beans or
two dozen tomato plants instead of
one, but it furnishes these vegetables
for winter as we'll as summer use, it
lis worth the while.
The amount of each kind of vege-
table to be canned depends upon the
preference of the household, and the
garden must be planned according
| ly. A family of fve-mother, faith
er, and three children-or four adj
Iults-may well use 70 pounds week
of fruits and vegetables weighed
fresh or uncooked. This would be
the equivalent of such a combination
as pounds canned, 3 pounds dried,
and "A pounds of fresh material. Of
this allowance, half, or 35 pounds a
week may we'll consist of fresh or
canned vegetables. Four pounds, or
2 quarts, of canned vegetables are
considered minimum weekly allow
ance for the winter months.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-05-11

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Davis,
a baby girl who will be called Emma
Kate.
The death angel visited the home
Of Mrs. Bill Hamilton, early Thurs
dav morning and took their darling
husband and father to His heavenly
home. He leaves to mourn his death
two daughters, Mrs. George Waldrop,
and Mrs. Fred Stephens, four sons,
Mr.. Jess Hamilton, Mr.. Eunice Ham
ilton, Mr.. Albert Hamilton, and Mr..
Burt Hamilton, besides a host Of rel
atives and friends. He was laid to
rest of Post Oak, Friday at eleven
o'clock. The Rev. Harley Mabry and
Rev. Kinks conducted the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. FELTON, Grower, and
family, of Atlanta, spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Bob Mitchell.
Misses Irene and Lucille Belts Wis
tied Misses Marie, Florence, and No
"a Hembree, of Holly Springs, Sat
urday night and Sunday.
Miss Ozelle Belts spent Saturday
night and Sunday with Misses Essie
and bessie Davis.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-05-11
PAYNE

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Collier. and
Mr.. Jack Collier, all of Atlanta.
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. w.
H. Collier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Hill spent
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. W. R.
Grier.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Fountain, of
Atlanta, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. NJ. Collier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grady Collier spent
Monday with Mr.. VIM. Fountain.
and family.
Mrs. Lloyd Ingram and little daugh
ter, Doris, Of near Bethel, have
been visiting her sister, Mrs. Penn
Fountain.
Mr.. Lopez McCollum, of Mars
Hill, spent Wednesday with his sis
ter, Mrs. w. P. Fountain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Orie Fountain spent
Friday with Mrs. Ingram, of New
Bethel.
The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1922-05-11
SMYRNA SOCIAL NEWS
MISS NANCY LEE POLLOCK


Mr. Frank Mcmillan has return
Cd from Manchester, Ga, where he
led the siging in revival meeting.
Miss Agnes Lloyd, of Atlanta,
.ron+ last weekend with Miss Myr-
tice Power.
Miss Helen Pace entertained the
conior B. Y. P. U. last Friday eve
S so at her home on Atlanta street.
Mrs. H w. Vansant is visiting
roIatives in Douglasville, Ga.
Mrs Emma Eubanks, of Atlanta,
Visited Mrs. Julia Dunn, last week.
Misses Wilma Martin, Victoria and
Colene Reed, Emaline Handy, Allene
Matthews, Maude Pair, and Mary
Sue Pollock, members of the gradu-