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HMUhrd Wcda?day ?ad Saturday. ?BT? 08TEEN PUBLISHING COMPANY IUMTKR, a C. Tornas: |l.?u per annum?tn advance. Advertlneanoato: Square Oral insertion.$l.tt subsequent Insertion.It Contracts for three months, er Mr will be made at reduced rates. All communication* which sua re private Interest* will be charged fee aa advertisements. Obituaries and tributes of respect wilt be charged fer. Tat *uroter Watchman was found as tu late end the True Southron la ISIS The Watchman and Seuthrea now has th* combined circulation and Influence cf both of the old paper*. Is manifestly the best advertising Hum in Sumter. ~ J l ????ff?? THE V KOKT ABLE GARDEN. n 1.xtension Work. ? Article LXIV. Entirely too little attention Is paid to the garden by our 8outh Carolina farmers. In the mad rush to grow as much cotton'as possible the garden Is lost sight of to a great extent. If one-ha If acre is planted in garden crop* on good soil and given good fertilisation and cultivation. It will produce as much profit as a whole acre of cotton. One year's trial with accurately kept accounts will con? vince any one that the above state? ment la true. The greatest mistake made by those who pay some attention to the gar? den lie* in the fact that they plant the whole thing at one time?just as If It were a cotton Held. The result te aq abundance of vegetables for a fjtw week*, and that is the end of the garden until the next year. This should not be the case. A succession eg one or more of the following va rletles should be planted: Alaska. Lightning Excelsior, and Champion of England garden or greun flodson green pod. Black Valentine. New Pencil pod Black Wax snap tSxtra early. Egyptian. Crimson and Detroit dark red beets. Half Ix>ng. Dalvers carrots. f"nr WaltefleM HaHy ler W.kenVld. All .<?m-?oms. ?? >>1 Large Flat l>utch cabbage ?arty Green Cluster. Improved Long Oreen ThorSuW < Rvtrbcanng in bora. Country Oentleman and ordinary geld varieties of corn. Black Beauty, and Florida High Bush Egg planta Cabbage. Big Boston, and Improv? ed Hanson lettuce. Extra Karly. White Pearl. Price er -"outhport White Olobe onions. Bell, Ruby Giant, Red Cluster pep La-? Noiflow Crown parsnips. French Breakfast. Cardinal Globe Crimson Olant radish. Long Season and Norfglk Savoy eplnlarh. atammotb Sandwich Island salsify oyoter plant. Tho-nurn's Earliest. Spark's Earll aarly tomatoes Stone. Aeme. Perfection. Enor? mous, general crop of late tomatoes. Irish Cobbler. Red Bliss, and Early Rose Irish potatoea The avarage farm garden should bo about one-half acre and should be k>ng and narrow If It U the In? tention to do any cultivating with the Bora? plow. A piece of ground ho x 270 feet will We approximately one-naif acre and ts the right shape. A garden of this slse will give plenty of room for a few watermelons, csntaloupes, Irish potatoea. etc. If the late vegetables follow the rly ones two or more crops can be m on all of the ground each year. For 'hla ahn? garden one nhould pur ehaas about 1 quart snap beans. 2 wuit* ? * rmeta. 1 packages cabbage. 1 package carrots. 4 gallon corn. 1 ?un< ? cumbers. 1 package egg gg 3 packages lettuce, 2 ounces mv I package parsnip*. V4 gallon gardi n peas. 2 packages peppers, 3 parks Irish potatoos. 3 ounces rad Inhe* 1 ounce splr.lch and 3 pack? ages lomatoea. I wish specially to urge our people tn grow more winter vegetables. There y* N r. m mi in Iht world uliy eevernl Sind-* of vegetables < onld not be had ffggi th| garden every month In the year. Cabbage, coilurds ovst.r it. parsnips, gale, splnlch , tables that should he found In the garden during the winter. Prof. L A. Nlven, A?*t. In Horticulture. Fel>. 2?. 1*13. It r* hiird to *nv WhOthef GoV, BJtoaae h.ol rither veto I.Ills or pur don convicts.?Charleston Pont. "How Roosevelt Stands*' Is a head? line ?.\er his t'olmnbu* speech. He Isn't Standing. Hg I? running -Wil? mington star. U -? Fair Mary Ball, the Mother of General Washington ft /F Ihf assertion that a woman happily fa love is at her best be true, there can be no more interesting woman to read about under these droum _._stances than Mary Ball? \he mother of George Washington. Fredericksburg, Virginia, her birthplace, k one of the most historic towns m America. Founded long before the Revolution, upon the Rappahannock River, it has been for generations the oentre of social hfe in that rich region known as the northern neck of Virginia, where were bom and bred so many of the great Fathers of American Liberty. Within a radius of thirty miles wert born John Marshall George Washing, km, George Mason, Thomas Jefferson, lames Madison, James Monroe,Matthew Fontaine Maury and Robert E. Lee. <*ff T WAS also In this little town of #|| Frederlcksburg that a convention tl? of delegates of twelve compan? ies of horse assembled and pro? claimed their purpose to defend the colony of Virginia or any other colony against the king of England, and marched under the command of Pat tick Henry sgalnat Lord Dun more This occurred twenty-one days before the famous Declaration of Mecklen? burg and was therefore the first and most emphatic declaration of our In? dependence. It Is also worthy of note that in 1782, when that Independence had been accomplished. It was a citizen of Frederlcksburg who Introduced Into the legislature, which had then been replaced by the bouse of burgesses, the first resolution for the emancipa? tion of the negroes and for the prohi? bition of the slave trade ever offered In America. Oen. John Minor of Frederlcksburg, was the author and advocate of the measure, and here in this same town was born, lived and died Mary Ball, the mother of Wash? ington. The place teems with interesting relics and traditions of this remarks ble woman?traditions which have been handed down from mother to daughter, and when told you by a eil ver haired old lady who prefaces her story by "My dear, I remember as though it were but yesterday, mj mother telling me she remembered uei grandmother telling her of Mar" Ball, v horn she knew as a girl," you feel that these traditions must be, as the children say, for true. The Bell family came early in the sixteenth century to Virginia. Thf home of Joseph Ball, the father of Mary, was known as HEpplgg Forest, near the Itappahannock river, in Vir? ginia Mary hall, as n young girl, van Strikingly handsome, ami arg! known as "The Kose of Bpplng For . I " and WSJ the helle of that part f?f th?? conn try. Daring our Civil ear l I? tter a si nicked up In an old home in Virginia. The latter wai partially de?tro\cd. lait It gives us Just a d us your Job work. glimpse of Mary Bail at the most at? tractive age, sixteen. It is dated "Wil Uamsburg, Va., the 7th of October, 1722. Madame Ball and her sweet Molly have gone home. Mother thinks Molly the comeliest maiden she know8. She la about sixteen, Is tall and very sensible and loving. Her hair 1b like flax, her eyes are the color of yours, and her cheeks like the May blossoms. I wish you could see her." The home of Washington's mother in Frederlcksburg Is in an excellent state of preservation. It is now the property of a noble band of Virginia women, known as the "Society for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.** In spite of the terrible shot and shell of two wars, It remains unmolested. Tmrlng the battles around PYoderiekg* inirv; lg tho Civil war tb>io Id (he lit? tle town and county of Bpottsyivanin it Is said more groat armies maneuv? ered, more gr?rat battles were fought, more men were eugageu in morUu combat and more officers and privates were killed and wounded than in any similar territory in the world. More men were said to have fallen in bat? tle in this one county during the Civil war than Great Britain has lost In all her wars of a century, and more men were killed and wounded in four hours at the Battle of Frederlcksburg than Great Britain lost In killed, wounded and prisoners In her eight months' war In South Africa. When these terrible days were over the old house was found without a scar. Apparently, not a shot had touched it. It is of frame, with a hall running through the center, with rooms on either aide. There is noth? ing to betoken luxury; there is no fine paneling or frescoing which is so marked a feature of so many of the homes of that date In Virginia. As far as obtainable much of Mrs. Washing ton's furniture is there. In her bed- j room we are shown her four-poster, her bureau, her cap-box and one or twe old chairs. In her dining-room an old-fashioned table, chairs and her bread-box. We are so prone to ideal? ize our heroes, and all that pertains to them, but close and candid investiga? tion will reveal that In the latter years of Mrs. Washington's life we find much that is stern, undemonstrative, and not what we would be pleased to term "a dear old lady." She was a woman of most Indomitable will. Mother and son were alike in this re? spect, and the consequence was that there was not always harmony be? tween them. She was said to be most penurious, a trait which Wash? ington Inhf rtteiV it is Haid. As will be aeen by her will, which Is a copy of the original preserved in the courtho ise in Frederlcksburg, she speaks of 1 er "Negro Wench, old Bett." 'Tis said shortly before her death she requested this faithful slave be burled by her side, and their dust has mingled for many generations. The old-fashioned garden at the rear I of the house must have been in its day one of its chief attractions. Mrs. Washington was devoted to flowers and spent many of the last days of her life in this spot. It was here that the visit of Marquis de Lafayette was I announced to her. She came forward to meet him dressed In a white cotton frock, which history also states was tucked tip. She received him without the slightest trace of embarrassment, remarking, as she did so: "Marquis, I should not pay you so poor a compli tuen as to detain you while 1 change my gown." Bha battled in the last days of her life with much pain and ?uffeiingi dying of the t< rrlble disease, cancer, she lies buried n< a thescenef of her youth and her happy girlhood days, while history recalls nor as the mother of Washington, ihe be'le and , beauty oi Virginia, "The Ross of Bpplng Forest." ?? ur fob work Dl Ti ll C LASH WITH CHINESE. Warships Ordered to Horn ban I Java Unless Holland Pays Indemnity. San Fransisco, Feb. 27.?Chinese warships have been ordered to Java, under instructions to begin a bom? bardment of Balavia if the Dutch gov? ernment does not pay an indemnity demanded for the Killing of Chinese, said to have been attacked by Dutch soldiers. In an ultimatum sent to the Dutch government yesterday, Provis? ional President Sun Yat Sen stated that an attack on Tava would he he gun if the indemnity was not paid within a week. This information was received here today in a private dis? patch from Dr. Sun's private secre? tary to Ton King Chong, editor of the Chinese Free Pres?. Dr. Sun declared In his ultimatum that passports would he handed to thS Dutch minister, who is said to b at Shanghai, en route to Peking, if the Idemnlty was not paid. Three cruisers which left Shanghai are the Hal Chan, the Hai Yuh and Hai Sun. They are fully provisioned land equipped under orders of Wong I Chung Wei, minister of war. i Advices to the Chinese newspapers here declare that the attack on the (Chinese by Dutch soldiers was made j 1 without provocation .and that three I Chinese were killed and many others ' arrested. [TO CONSIDER CARLISLE CASE. Washington, Feb. 28.?In response I to an appeal made to him today by | Senator Tillman and R .?presentat.ves Finiey, Johnson. Bllerbe and Byr'-i 8, in behalf of M. A. Cai lisle, of New ' ? l y. President Taft has directed Attorney General W <\'-rsham to I old up the mandate of the court ?ending- Carlisle to the Federal oris? on at Atlanta until the President < ould look into the mi I r and con I'der the petition for nardon. The mt ndate would otherwlsa have issued n ? t Friday. Rsprooontatlve Lever would have accompanied the delegation l?ut for an important committee engagement, and he will write to the President urging clemency for the aged bank? er. 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