Show ’f GRANITE Wat Abode of Commander of Revolutionary Forces In Pennsylvania — Where Campaign of Lafayette First Appeared A Philadelphia — Gen Washington’s first headquarters In his Pennsylvania a house wherein campaign of he spent a longer time than he did In any of his numerous other temporary abodes of that period excepting only those at Whitemarsh and Valley Forgo has Just been transferred at public sale The building Is an ancient farmhouse near the village of Hartsville Bucks county at the point where the Old York road crosses the Neshamlny creek Though no battle was planned or directed at that place the house Is nevertheless of much historical Interest because of events that occurred there chief among which was Gen in the Lafayette’s first appearance American army The building together with the adjacent farms belonged to the Bothwell family and then Henry Campbell became the owner At the recent sale the property passed into the possession of G W Rubinkam of Jamieson Bucks county who paid $7475 for it While some alterations have been made in the dwelling in the past 130 years In many respects It remains the same as at the time when the “Father The of His Country” resided there black dining-roowith polished joists and a large fireplace is just as It was when Washington and s Lafayette sat at meals there On the outside of the house is a bronze tablet which the Bucks County Historical society placed there in 1897 The Granite mountain quarries at Granite Mountain Tex are said to be the largest in the world During' the last 20 years there have been shipped from these quarries 250000 carloads of granite averaging 50000 pounds per car The removal of this enorIt mous quantity is hardly noticeable appears as if children had been playing around the mountain’s base and had chipped off a few pieces of 6tone The mountain covers 100 acres and is ex200 feet in height "‘'The granite Quarries tm ' 4r ' X J MOUNTAIN QUARRIES Texas Deposit Could Supply United States for 200 Years It Is Said House Once Washington’s Headquarters Changes Hands 4F at Granite Mountain Tex STRONG CONCRETE CULVERT BUILT AT MODERATE COST FIVE CATTLEUEH ARE INDICTED Recent Cowardly Sheepmen Wyoming Assassination of Near Spring Creek May be Avenged Made That All of the Indictment Were In the Vicinity at the Time of the Shooting of Sleeping Men The Assertion Men Under Cheyenne Wyo— The grand Jury which has been investigating the recent raid on the sheep camp of near Spiing creek on & Emg Friday returned indictments aga’nst M A Alexander George Saban Dise and Thomas Dixon William Charles Ferris all well known cattle men of Ten Sleep charging them with complicity in the murder of a herder named Lazier and Allemand and Emge All of the men ind cted are now in jail Itjh? asserted that hey were in the basin at the time of the raid On the night of Maich 2 the camp of Allemand & Emge Mas attacked by a party of eighteen masked men The sheepmen were shot and the bodies burned with the of two of them camp The sheepmen had been warned not to cross a certain line with their flocks Large rewards have bem offered for the arrest of the ra'ders tends into the ground to an unknown depth Experts who have inspected this wonderful store of building stone declare that the mountain contains sufficient granite to supply the whole United States with building stone for 200 years This mountain of granite came into commercial prominence at the time plans were adopted for the construction of the $3000000 state capitol at Austin' The building commissioners were charged under the law to select Texas stone and were casting about for the necessary material when the owners of Granite mountain sought to MURDERER OF WOMAN HANGED have their product selected for the purpose A geologist was sent tothe Fred Seward Goes to The Gallows and quarries by the commission to invesMeets Death Bravely tigate the quality of the granite and Boise Idaho— Fred Seward was he made a report that it was unfit for in the Idaho penitentiary at 8 The owners of the hanged building purposes mountain immediately sent samples of o’clock Friday morning for the murthe granite to experts in various por- der of Clara O’Neal a woman of the under world at Moscow in October tions of the United States and the re1908 Seward met death bravely His ports of these experts were unaniwords on the gallows were to state The favorable only capitol mously “Do a good Job the executioners building commissioners thereupon selected this stone for the big building boys” he said just before the cap was pulled over his head His neck The owners of the quarries furnished was broken by the fall Seward slept the granite tree of cost to the state the contractors for the building payluring the night and ate a hearty of As he was marched down the breakfast cutting quarrying expenses ing In quarrying the and transportation the corridor from his cell the prisoners bade him farewell to which he granite for the state capitol building God in responded: ' 300 convicts were employed and nWaced ref cutting and polishing the stone 200 bless you” Seward Scotch granite workers found employa short time ago and the pastor ment The contractor was fined Washington’s Headquarters In church acof the First Presbyterian for importing these Scotchmen in companied him to the gallows the inscription briefly narrating the violation of the foreign contract labor Seward’s crime was one of premed facts that make the old building notelaw murder Itated Angered because worthy The jetties at Galveston by which Clara O’Neal with whom he was InWashington had his headquarters means that port secured permanent fatuated would not quit the life she there from August 10 to August 23 deep water were built of granite from was leading toe went to her apart1777 while his 12000 troops were enthis mountain Large shipments now ments and holding her with one camped along the nearby Neshamlny are being made to Aransas Pass hand by the neck shot her dead He had creek The commander-in-chiestone is being ysed in the then made an unsuccessful the where attempt to moved the army from New York into construction of the United States govPennsylvania to protect Philadelphia ernment jetties for that future deep commit suicide He was convicted in December and sentenced to be hangfrom the threatened invasion of the water The great sea wall at Gal- ed in British and a halt was made at the veston port February but was twice reprievwhich has a length of more His aged father and mother reNeshamlny to ascertain the enemy’s than five miles is built of the same ed side at Republic Wash plans Thus was begun the campaign material that was to lead to the defeats at FRUITS OF PEACE CONGRESS Brandywine and Germantown and the FROM CUBA NEW MINISTER terrible winter at Valley Forge Fund Secured to Provide for Lectures on the This headquarters building Peace Upon International Is Son Carlos Garcia Velez a Gen Neshamlny held so conspicuous of Officer Who Won Fame In War Chicago — The first material fruit of plaee in Lafayette’s memory that in for Independence the National Peace congress which later years he had a painting made of closed here Wednesday night is a it This is still in the possession of Washington — Secretary Knox the fund of $25000 donated to Northwesthis descendants and was exhibited at other day presented to President Taft ern university by John R Lindgren the Chicago world’s fair in 1893 Swedish consul to Chicago and cashAnother of Washington’s ier of the State Bank of Chicago who was with him at that time The fund provided by Mr Lindgren and who was destined to attain disof Is to be utilized for the purpose tinction in the republic which he was Alexander founding a permanent series of lechelped to establish tures and to secure an annual payment Hamilton then but 20 years old of prizes for essays upon the quesMuch ' Important correspondence tions of International peace and Inter from Washington’s pen was dated at denominational harmony this camp which was variously called A second gift of $25000 additional Bridge Neshaminy Neshaminy’s to the same Institution to found a Camp or simply Cross Reads that chair of Scandinavian literature was the point where the road to Brte announced by Mr Lindgren also tol crossed the Old York road headA short dlsetance from the BANDITS AT WORK Is the Neshaminy Presbyteriquarters The church that stood an church ExCivil War In Turkey Furnishes there at the time of the encampment cuse for Excesses of Rabble was used as a hospital and — Is considerThere Constantinople were also held In it Several oththe country surable disturbance er old buildings near by were the rounding Constantinople and briganheadquarters of division and brigade dage Is carried on In the very suburbs commanders This condition of afof the capital Though picturesquely situated with fairs Is the result of rapid changes In the Neshaminy on one side and the government and undoubtedly can be v undulating hills on the other the headlaid to the doors of deserters from quarters is so far from railroad and the former Constantinople garrison trolley lines that comparatively few and political fugitives who have unpersons visit it though occasionally Gen Carlos Garcia Velez who suc- dertaken to live on the country historical and patriotic societies make ceeds Dr Gonzales Quesada as Cuban it the destination of pilgrimages The minister at Washington Pinchot Will Appeal to President Gen Garcia Velez was born in Hanearest railroad station is Ivyland on Wilson Washington — Secretaries the New Hope branch of the Reading vana in 1867 and is the son of Gen ind Ballinger denied Friday that their faa Garcia some six miles from Cuban Calixto Willow general railway were at serious variance departments mous in the war for independence Grove over the refusal of the Interior deSenor Garcia Velez took active part to withdraw lands from pubin the different battles in Cuba win- partment Cure Worse Than Disease lic use as forest ranger stain commission his the Cuban tionsentry for “According to this magazine” said ning declining to coniply Beyond He was appointed Mrs Blffingham “sliced onions scat- army as general with the request of the forest service tered about the room will absorb the by President Palma to be Cuban min- to withdraw these lands the Interior -Mexico which to he held ister post odor of fresh paint” department has taken no action In until two years ago He is a brother the matter It is stated that Forester “I guess that’s right” rejoined Pinchot will appeal to the president "Likewise also a broken of Senor JoBto Garcia Velez secretary with a view to having the law gov of of Cuba state neck will relieve a man of catarrh” by erning the question interpreted the attorney general 1 S Roads Are One of the Essentials to Farmers In Traveling from Place to Placet Whether on Business or Pleasure — By A J Sager Good It is by the wagon ways that the farmers generally pass from place to place for business or for pleasure and those wagon ways appear far worse than we should expect to see them with the great wealth and advanced civilization the people have attained The farming class that has had charge of the public roads for the last 100 years or more has been slow to learn that the soil made by nature through grinding or pulverizing rock with some humus or vegetable matter when it is wet and mixed up is mud and when very dry and worn by public travel is dust says a writer In Hoard’s Dairyman For six months out of a year if an earth road is with crowned properly constructed center for surface drainage and deep side ditches for subdrainage by addnew a little soil each year or as ing often as worn out the earth or soil road will be good until the bad roads season then It will be out of commission 6ut if the road as It is engineers will go defter Into the bottom of the ditches after the subsoil and surface the road grade after any system the perfectly crowned surface Mill compact and with a Trail road drag to go over the road after a long continuous rainstorm the new subsoil road material will coalesce and press together in a compacted mass and make the next quality to a gravel or stone road for light traffic on the less traeled crossroads Civilization owes few greater debts than that to John Luden Macadam The historian Macaulay tells us that “of all Inventions the alphabet and printing press alone excepted those A tton in every place the road Is not It likely to withstand public traffic Mill become loose In some places and muddy In others Such variations may occur every few feet and even at the same place one M'heel track being In loose sand and the other In mud Where this condition occurs more good tough clay should be Incorporated in the first and more sharp sand In the Becond section Frost Is another cause of failure and one more difficult to deal with than any heretofore mentioned’ and should be treated when the foundation is wet with tile Failure is sometimes due to the kind of sand selected None except Band made up of angular grains is road making adapted to Sand with grains M’hich are worn off found or sand Mhich has been ground up by the action of M’heels or water until very fine Is unsatisfactory and often M’orthless When the road surface becomes M’orn and dusty In dry weather or muddy In wet weather there should be added more good tough clay and coarse sharp sand which will add cementing material and may be made hard by sprinkling and rolling or by dragging lth a road drag after every heavy rain Just as the material begins to dry sufficiently to work smooth under the drag The use of round sand should be avoided as a perfect bond cannot be effective hnd the road cannot resist the rolling action of wheels the tendency being much the same as when pressure Is applied to a mass of marbles Care should always be taken to select the sharpest and cleanest sand that can be found Clays containing iron and lime are Substantia inventions that bridge distance have done the most for civilization’’ Lord Bacon said: “There be three things that make the nation great and prosperous — a fertile soil busy workshops and easy conveyance for man and goods from place to place” Macadam defined the road as "an artificial flooring forming a strong smooth solid surface capable of carrying the greatest weight over which carriages may pass without meeting any impediment” Many failures have been made In the building of roads and the first cause of failure is the want of perfect drainage It is customary to give to the road a little greater crown than Is given to a macadam or stone or gravel road especially where the grade Is above three If the subsoil upon which per cent the road is built Is clay It Is Important that the bottom of the side ditches should be 18 inches or more below the crowd or middle of the traveled track The better the surface is cared for— i e the smoother the surface Is kept — the less the crown required The more level the road other things being equal the easier to travel on If there is not enough crown the water cannot easily reach the side ditches and hence the road soon becomes water soaked The crown can be too great so that the traffic keeps continually In the middle of the road wearing the middle out hollow and retaining the water until evaporation takes place instead of Again shedding It into the ditches If the earth is piled too high in the middle the side slopes will be washed Into the side ditches which not only damages the road but fills up the side The crown should be more ditches on steep grades than on the more level portions since on the grades the line of steepest descent Is not perpendicular to length of the road and consequently the water in getting from the center of the road to the side' ditches travels obliquely down the road grade instead of following the track and washing the hill lengthwise Another cause of failure Is the want There may be a of thorough mixing proper amount of sand and clay placed upon the road yet If it is not thoroughly puddled and mixed to satura- - Culvert the best and sedimentary or chalky clays as they are commonly known are the poorest for purposes because of the fact that this particular clay has rarely iron or lime sufl5clent to cement or bind the mate rial together Get Full Value of Manure — To get all the value out of stable manure It should be taken to the field as soon after It Is made as possible My plan Is during winter just as soon as there accumulates a load It Is hauled to the meadow and put on thinly ps a top There is nothing equals 9 dressing good manure spreader for this work Any farm that produces 100 or more loads of manure per year should not be run without one The manure Is used also for top dressing corn just after the first cultivation When scattered thinly about six cords per acre Increases the yield about 25 to 40 per cent To let manure lay in the barnyard where the stock may run over it and the winter rains and snows fall upon it to leach the best part away is very poor policy But Mhere manure accumulates in the stalls or feeding shed until bare spring there can be no objection The Value Peas— They can far north as Dent corn and on land so poor that lover would not catch at all They are called “the poor man’s clover” you can get such quick results A crop of cow peas can be grown in three months and it will be fully equal to a two year’s crop of clover You can sow the peas any time from May to August and can get a good big crop an early crop taken off in following June or July Plowed under after the first frost they will leave the ground in elegant shape for a crop next year The seed costs about $250 per bushel and should be drilled in at the rate of bushel per acre of Cow be grown as wan be grown Rest Your Team— The man who has sense enough to let his team stop a minute or two about every 15 or 20 minutes when plowing or harrowing will accomplish more work in ten hours than the fellow who drives his team at a brisk gait for an hour or two before he will let them take a rest J f V' |