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Now Is The Time to Get Printing We please particular folks with our work because we're "on to the job." Our printing bespeaks individuality. It's superior because of the excel lent type faces which we've installed. We make a specialty of high class work. It's Been Handed to Us that we are expert printers. That we've had handed to us for 78 years. Holding Down our Record and we are going to hold it as long as we do printing. It's a record worth while. I Won't you try us on your next order? Come in and let us show you samples of work that we've done recently. If you are going to need job work any time soon, now is the time to have it done, in order to avoid the rush later on. You will get better work by doing this. We've Been Jobbers for 78 Years And we're Still Jobbing. 1 i NOTED NATIVE-BORN DEAD He Had Served in the Creek War, Florida Campaign, Mexican and Civil Wars. There died in Washington the other day a man noted all over the conti nent, Capt. Wesley Markwood, who was presumably at the time of his death the oldest native-born inhabi tant of Washington. He at least al ways claimed to be. He took part in the Mexican war, and was supposed to have been killed there, and for fifty years a grave in Texas bore a monument erected by his family. He enlisted under another name, and it was that man who was killed. Later he enlisted under his own name, served throughout the war of the re bellion and was In the Indian wars. TJnder the name of Captain Markwood, and under the name of Col. Samuel H. Walker, he gained wide renown as a soldier and scout. The history of hiB life was kept a secret by him until be died, only members of his immediate family even suspecting the real story of hie past. It was while using the name of Walker that he was supposed to have been killed. , I At the age of twelve Markwood en listed for the Creek war. He after ward served in the Florida campaign. In the spring of 1843 he joined a com pany of Texas Rangers, under Capt Jack C. Hays. In the war with Mexico he played a distinguished part and his name was often mentioned for bravery. He was supposed to have been killed at the battle of Huamatania, and a coun ty in Texas was named in his memory Just how he happened to escape and his name included among the dead was never revealed by Captain Markwood. Not long afterwards he resumed his former name, and again enlisted in the army, serving again with distinction. At the close of the Mexican war he enlisted in the navy, and after the termination of his enlistment obtained an appointment as non-commissioned offcer in the Second U. S. Dragoons. When the Civil war broke out he was transferred to the Fourth cavalry. In 1864 he became a commissioned offi cer, and served two years more, later r-ecoming an agent for the Freedman's bureau. F. S. KEY MANSION IS RAZED ; Washington Home of Author of "Star j Spangled Banner" Last of Old Relics. The Francis Scott Key mansion ls | the last of the old relics of Washing ton to fall before the scythe of time. Today its ruins litter the ground and tomorrow a new building destined to commercial pursuits will rise upon its site. Francis Scott Key, the author of "The Star Spangled Banner," the na tional anthem of the United States, built his house upon the banks of the Potomac shortly after the treaty of Paris had been signed. It stood in Georgetown, on what is now the main street of that city, and in the early dayB of the city the Key mansion was a stately house, set in a large garden which ran down to the main channel of the Potomac. The Key mansion, it is claimed, has never had the attention which it has merited. On Key's death it passed io a relative of bis and remained in his possession for some year6. Later it passed out of the family. Then came a period of commercial development in Georgetown. The old Chesapeake & Ohio canal was built from George town, up the river to Harper's Ferry and beyond. This canal usurped the garden of the Key mansion, penetrat ing directly through it and cutting off the house from the riverside. Then warehouses and mills of various sorts were erected along the banks of the canal. In that period of development the old time beauty of the Key prop erty was destroyed, and it never has been restored. Whereas in the old days there was a fair stretch of garden before the house, as well as on the river side, soon M street was produced directly before the door, and when the house .was pulled down the doorstep of the remarkable entry way rested directly on the sidewalk of that street Restoring a Masterpiece. The ingenuity with which clever workmen restore damaged master pieces of paintings is shown by the means taken to rescue a famous Ma donna by Botticelli. The New York Tribune describes the process: The Madonna was painted on a wooden panel at least 400 years ago. Recently the wood began to crack, and it was feared that the painting would be ruined; but the restorer was found who Baid that he could save it. His first step was to paste thin strips of tusBue paper on the face of the picture, pressing the paper into the uneven surface of the paint He added layer after layer, until a thick body of paper concealed the picture. Then the restorer turned the pic ture over and began to sandpaper the board away. After many months of careful work he had all the wood re moved, and nothing but the paint ad hered to the paper. Next, he glued a piece of linen canvas very carefully to the paint, and slowly and patiently re moved the paper blt by bit. The work took nearly a year; but when it was finished the painting was in a condi tion tc last another four centuries. Lauds Baby Raising. Less instruction in Latin and the classics and moro in baby raising in women's colleges, United States Com missioner of Education Claxton told an audience, would increase the world's moral tone. GREAT CURIOSITY SHOP ETHNOLOGICAL SECTION OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. Figures Are Lifelike, Modeled to Per fection From a Plastic Substance, Clothed in Proper Articles of Dress and Adornment. The groups and single figures lu the ethnological section of the Na tional museum catch the fancy and bold the at tention of more visitors than any other exhibits in that great curios ity shop. These figures are lifelike and life sir?. Mod eled to pertection from a plastic substance, color ed, clothed with such articles of dress and adorn ment as the peo ple represented wear, they are sur rounded by a setting peculiar and ap propriate to the subjects. The figures do not as a rule stand at attention or in mummy postures, but are pictured as engaged in those occupations nat ural and usual with the people. The single figures are in big glass show cases, and the groupB are inclosed in glass quarters as big as the show win dows of shops. These exhibits re mind one of the long popular "tab leaux vivants," only these groups are not "vivant," but are decidedly more verisimilar and realistic than that form of show probably ever was. The ex hibits are of a high educational value, and to overhear the comments of average Americans as they stand be fore the groups one realizes that the common run of people peed informa tion about strange folk. In one of the halls are numerous groups of American Indians, common j ly from five to seven in each group, and usually represented a6 engaged in their domestic work. Many of the ! women are pounding corn into meal or grinding it into meal by rubbing the kernels between flint stones. There will be one large, flat piece of j flint inclined at about the same an gle at which a washboard rests. The worker will have a round piece cf j flint, fashioned something like a roll i lng pin. and by rubbinb the grains of corn, a handful at a time, between : these stones, just as a woman washes I clothes, she grinds the grain into a very coarse meal. j Among the exhibits are groups of Cocopa Indians from the Colorado river country in Mexico. Hopi Indians engaged in beautiful basketry, show ing the leaves of the yucca in all j stages of manufacture; a family I group of seven Sioux with one woman ! pounding up strips of dried buffalo i meat for a stew, one woman scrap lng the hair off a buffalo hide and two , maidens making beaded moccasins, j There is an Apache group with the flg j ures dressed in barbaric elegance us j uaJ to the prosperous members of j that tribe. A group of Navajo silver smiths-four of them-are fashioning silver rings and bracelets by means of a curious bellows and crucible, a blow pipe, hammer and stamps. A j group of Pueblo Indians is represented as making bread and cooking a meal, and the scene is not usually tantaliz j ing to a white man's appetite. There ! is a group of Zunis represented as go ing through the ritual of "Crention." the Kaka. or sacred drama of these people. The Maya Indians of Guate mala are represented, and so. too. are the Tehuelche Indians of Pataeonia. the Loucheax Indians of the Yukon M^Kenzie country, and the Cbilkats of he north Pacific region, and there ls also a large group of Kiowa In dians which attracts a good deal of notice. There is a picturesque Samoan household. A woman is pounding bark in the making of cloth and a girl is straining kava. Another woman is decorating bark cloth, while a man with a spear is looking on. The wom en have garlands of flowers around their necks and their raiment, though scanty, is sufficient There is a family of negritos, small and very black people, who live in the out-of-the-way places in several of the Philippine islands. The explanatory card on this exhibit says that these people are small, but strong and hardy, of remarkable endurance, j cheerful, intelligent, peaceable and 'moral, and that "they love music and dancing." There are three men. two women and a child in the group. Two of them are represented as making fire by friction with two strips of bamboo. Nearby is a Filipino group mainly engaged in making cotton cloth. There are three women, a girl and a man. Further on is a group of Igorots engaged mainly in the making of crude pottery. Astonishing Vitality. A case of youthful vitality that has astonished the medical profession is that of George Krouse, a boy of thir teen, who died in the Lebanon hos pital. A red-hot steel umbrella rod was driven through the boy's beac* from ear to ear while playing with some children in a vacant lot in the Bronx 1? days before. That life was sustained so long as it was is consid ered exceptional by surgeons inter ested ih the case, says thu New Yor'.t Tribune. In addition to the terrible injury to the child's brain, owing to the pressure of broken bones upon it, it had been completely pierced and burned by the heated steel. Adds Fertility to the Soil-Yields Three to Four Crops of Hay Each Year in the Corn Belt. EXCELS EVERY OTHER CROP The Introduction of Alfalfa as a Gen* era! Farm Crop in the United Statea . Will Revolutionize Agriculture- j Mean* More Live Stock, Better Soli and Larger Returns From the Crops That Follow. By PROF. -P. G. HOLDEN, Director Agricultural Extension Department Internationa! Harvester Co. of New Jersey. Alfalfa Should be Grown on Every Farm 1. It is a profitable crop. 2. Increases farm values. 3. Excels every other crop In yield per acre In feeding value As a drouth resister As a soil enricher. 4 No harder to grow than clover. 5. Make a beginning-start now grow some alfalfa. Repeated experiments made by the agricultural colleges, and the results; obtained by the actual growers of al falfa in the semi-arid sections of the west, throughout the corn belt states,, and In the south and east, are conclu-' sive evidence of the great vaiue of: alfalfa There are few farmers whose profits | would not be increased greatly by rais ing alfalfa. Every farmer should aim. tc produce, as far as possible, his: foodstuffs upon his own farm. During the last few years, the area; devoted to alfalfa has greatly in-: creased in the region west of the Mis-, souri river, and it is certain thats there will be an equally rapid lu-? crease throughout the eastern and southern parts of the United States. Macy of the attempts in the past to prow alfalfa In the humid regions have failed, but with our present knowledge of the requirements of the crop there will be little, if any, more I trouble in securing a stand. Alfalfa will soon be grown abun dantly and profitably upon every farm, lt is no more difficult to grow than clover and gives double the yield. The deep roofing habit of alfalfa enables it to resist drouth when clover, tim othy, blue grass and other forage grasses die for want of moisture. Al falfa roots grow deep into the Eoil far beyond the roots of other plants. \ Its drouth resisting power is of no| greater importance than its great; value as a soil enricher. The long} roots bring phosphorus, potash andi other plant foods from .below and| store them in the upper soil for the) use of other plants. Experiments show j greatly increased yields of other crops j grown upon j.lfalfa sod. Alfalfa is lich in protein the most' essential element in feed to make! bone, blood and muscle in growing ani-? mais. I Why We Need Alfalfa. ? There is no combination of feeds' BO economical for tbe production ofi beef, pork, mutton, butter and eggs,! as corn and alfalfa. Neither will give! the best results alone. We need alfal-? fa because lt balances up the corni ration and saves the large waste of j starch which always takes place-i where corn ls fed alone. We needj alfaifa because we can by moans of it,' grow on our own farms the protein! more profitably than wo can buy it in! feed stuffs. We need alfalfa because it feeds the soil and enables us to grow larger crops of corn and oats. We need alfalfa because it produces; on an average double the feed value per acre of clover or any other forage. ?op. : Advisable to Inoculate. In regions where alfalfa has not1 been grown it is found to be neces sary to inoculate the ground by sow-, ing three or four bags of soil secured from a field where alfalfa or sweet, clover has been grown for a! number of years; or where it is more convenient, artificial cul ture, such as "nitragln." "farmo germ," etc., may be applied. Whera alfalfa has not been grown before it may make the difference between suc cess and failure. Alfalfa Essentials. A well prepared, firm, solid seed bed, plenty of good barnyard manure,, and fallow to kill the weeds, are most important. Lime? Yes, one to two loads per acre, and by all means in oculate. Ground too wet for corn is not suited for alfalfa. Make a Beginning-8tart Now. Every farmer should try at least a small piece of alfalfa and if he. does not' succeed at first, try again and keep on trying until he does, succeed. It is worth the while. If: the work is thoroughly done and at the proper time, you will most cer tainly succeed in securing a good: ,'stand; If the work ls half done and out of season, you will just as cer tainly fail. Make a beginning-start now.