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The Salisbury High School is much
interested in a debate on Woman Suf-
frage to be held by the literary socie-
ties on the 30th instant. There is much
discussion, too, over the prize which
the Just Government League of wi-
comico County offered to the ninth,
tenth and eleventh grades for the best
essay on Votes for Women. There is
some fine suffrage sentiment among
these ladies and gentlemen and there
are some "foemen worthy of their
steel."

In Memory of John C. Bentley

The following address in memory of
the late Mr. John C. Bentley, was
made by Mr. Charles F. Kirk at the
meeting of the Montgomery Farmers
Club at the Home of Washington B.
Chichester, near Olney, on January
17th:

"What lack the valleys and mountains
That once were green and gay?
What lack the bubbling fountains?
Only the sound of a voice,
Tender and sweet and low,
That made the Earth rejoice,
A year ago.

What lack the tender flowers?
A shadow is on the sun:
What lack the merry hours,
That I long that they were done?
Only two smiling eyes,
That told of joy and mirth;
They are shining in the skies,
I mourn on earth.

What lacks my heart, what makes it
so weary and full of pain,
That trembling hope forsakes it,
Never to come again?
Only another heart
Tender and all mine own,
In the still grave it lies;
I weep alone!"

These beautiful lines by Adelaide
Proctor never could be made more ap-
propriate than this meeting tonight
"a shadow," in every truth, is over
us. When we look around and see
only "the pictures on Memory's wall"
of those who have gone "never to
come again," a pall seems over every-
thing.

Walter H. Brooke, Joseph T. Moore,
Jr., Roger Brooke, Benjamin D Pal-
mer, Henry H. Miller, and now John
C. Bentley!

This Montgomery Farmers Club has
been much more to those of us who
have been members of it for more than
forty years than a mere school of
agriculture.

The social intercourse, the intimate
visiting at each others homes has
brightened our lives and drawn us in-
to closer friendship. And when we re-
flect that it is not too much to say that
those we have lost have contributed
even more than their share to the gen-
eral good, by their geniality, and wit
as well as by their wise counsels, the
burden or our loss is indeed heavy.

"The Autumn wind rushing rafts
the leaf that is searest.

But our flower was in flushing when
blighting was nearest."

Our beloved member, John C. Bent-
ley, to whose memory we dedicate this
meeting, was in the full maturity of his
manhood when the blow fell, it is not
worth while to recount to those who
knew him, the many qualities of heart
and mind that made us love him, to
those who may read these pages when
we too have gone, we trust and believe
to meet him, we inscribe this tribute to
his memory.

He was deeply interested in agricul-
ture and in this club, and in the dis-
cussion of all questions which came
before it. His habit of observation
and quick, clear deductions gave point
to what he said and claimed the ap-
preciative attention of those who heard
him. As a host, and a genial com-
panion everywhere, he has never been
surpassed.

His ready wit and bright speeches
will be quoted while our memory en-
dures. In his long, and most dis-
tressing illness he displayed a courage
and heroism that was sublime. In line
what more can be said of any man,
than that he did his duty on earth as
a man? That he lived like a man and
that he died like a man.

We may be well assured that wher-
ever Almighty God is His Wisdom
decreed that a man shall go; he is.

-

A bill has been introduced in the
legislature by Delegate Cummings
authorizing a bond issue of $30,000 for
school houses in Bethesda district
Delegate Water has offered a bill to
repeal the act incorporating the town
of Hyattstown. A bill providing state
aid for mothers, with dependent chil-
dren under 14, was introduced by Dele-
gate Snowden, by request

-

The Board of Directors of the Agri-
cultural Society have elected Mr. Lee
Offutt, president; Mr. Charles F.
Kirk, vice-president; Mr. John J. Hig-
gins, treasurer, and Mr. James T.
Bogley, secretary. It was decided to
hold the annual fair on August 25, 26,
27, 28.

-

HESSELIUS "LAST SUPPER"
ADORNS ROCKVILLE HOME.

Mrs. John H. Gassaway, of this
town, has an old picture, "The Last
Supper," whose great value has late-
ly been known through an offer
of $30,000 for it by an art critic. Af-
ter purchasing the picture, her father,
the late O. Z. Muncaster, gave it to
her and told her to keep it, as at some
future time it would be worth a for-
tune. In a recent Washington city
dispatch to the New York Herald the
history of the picture is given as fol-
lows:

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The Salisbury High School is much
interested in a debate on Woman Suf-
frage to be held by the literary socie-
ties on the 30th instant. There is much
discussion, too, over the prize which
the Just Government League of wi-
comico County offered to the ninth,
tenth and eleventh grades for the best
essay on Votes for Women. There is
some fine suffrage sentiment among
these ladies and gentlemen and there
are some "foemen worthy of their
steel."

In Memory of John C. Bentley

The following address in memory of
the late Mr. John C. Bentley, was
made by Mr. Charles F. Kirk at the
meeting of the Montgomery Farmers
Club at the Home of Washington B.
Chichester, near Olney, on January
17th:

"What lack the valleys and mountains
That once were green and gay?
What lack the bubbling fountains?
Only the sound of a voice,
Tender and sweet and low,
That made the Earth rejoice,
A year ago.

What lack the tender flowers?
A shadow is on the sun:
What lack the merry hours,
That I long that they were done?
Only two smiling eyes,
That told of joy and mirth;
They are shining in the skies,
I mourn on earth.

What lacks my heart, what makes it
so weary and full of pain,
That trembling hope forsakes it,
Never to come again?
Only another heart
Tender and all mine own,
In the still grave it lies;
I weep alone!"

These beautiful lines by Adelaide
Proctor never could be made more ap-
propriate than this meeting tonight
"a shadow," in every truth, is over
us. When we look around and see
only "the pictures on Memory's wall"
of those who have gone "never to
come again," a pall seems over every-
thing.

Walter H. Brooke, Joseph T. Moore,
Jr., Roger Brooke, Benjamin D Pal-
mer, Henry H. Miller, and now John
C. Bentley!

This Montgomery Farmers Club has
been much more to those of us who
have been members of it for more than
forty years than a mere school of
agriculture.

The social intercourse, the intimate
visiting at each others homes has
brightened our lives and drawn us in-
to closer friendship. And when we re-
flect that it is not too much to say that
those we have lost have contributed
even more than their share to the gen-
eral good, by their geniality, and wit
as well as by their wise counsels, the
burden or our loss is indeed heavy.

"The Autumn wind rushing rafts
the leaf that is searest.

But our flower was in flushing when
blighting was nearest."

Our beloved member, John C. Bent-
ley, to whose memory we dedicate this
meeting, was in the full maturity of his
manhood when the blow fell, it is not
worth while to recount to those who
knew him, the many qualities of heart
and mind that made us love him, to
those who may read these pages when
we too have gone, we trust and believe
to meet him, we inscribe this tribute to
his memory.

He was deeply interested in agricul-
ture and in this club, and in the dis-
cussion of all questions which came
before it. His habit of observation
and quick, clear deductions gave point
to what he said and claimed the ap-
preciative attention of those who heard
him. As a host, and a genial com-
panion everywhere, he has never been
surpassed.

His ready wit and bright speeches
will be quoted while our memory en-
dures. In his long, and most dis-
tressing illness he displayed a courage
and heroism that was sublime. In line
what more can be said of any man,
than that he did his duty on earth as
a man? That he lived like a man and
that he died like a man.

We may be well assured that wher-
ever Almighty God is His Wisdom
decreed that a man shall go; he is.

-

A bill has been introduced in the
legislature by Delegate Cummings
authorizing a bond issue of $30,000 for
school houses in Bethesda district
Delegate Water has offered a bill to
repeal the act incorporating the town
of Hyattstown. A bill providing state
aid for mothers, with dependent chil-
dren under 14, was introduced by Dele-
gate Snowden, by request

-

The Board of Directors of the Agri-
cultural Society have elected Mr. Lee
Offutt, president; Mr. Charles F.
Kirk, vice-president; Mr. John J. Hig-
gins, treasurer, and Mr. James T.
Bogley, secretary. It was decided to
hold the annual fair on August 25, 26,
27, 28.

-