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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.
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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."
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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. Senator Smith and Representative
Alken were not in Washington today.
Mr. l,egare took no part in the effort
in Carlisle's behalf.
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