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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17
RRQUGHTOn & BULL SIS

she became attached to Gen. Jackson S
brigade, and one of her proudest trophies
was a hote signed by him, dated May %,
1862, after his defeat of Gen. Banks, which
read: Miss Belle Boyd I thank you,
for myself and for the army, for the i'm
mense service that you have rendered
your country to-day"
Twice Sentenced to BE Shot.
A drunken Union soldier who had In
suited her mother was shot by her and
she was acquitted by the Federal authorI-
ties. During her career she was twice
sentenced to be shot, and for eleven
months was a prisoner in the old Carroll
AMI Capitol prisons in Washington
AT the time of the commencement of her
career she is described as a girl of strong
aquiiine features coal black eyes and. hair
and magnificent figure and physical power.
MarJinsourg, her home. was most of the
time within the Union lines and her serv-
ices proved Of great value to the Confed-
craze commanders.
On one daring expedition she was cap
tured, but exchanged for the celebra ed
Col. Michael Corcoran of the Irish Brigade
who had been Confederate prisoner since
first Bull Run
After the battle OF Gettysburg she was
taken prisoner. court-martialed and or
dered shot, but her sentence was COM
Soon afterward President Jefferson
Davis sent her with important dispatches
TO Great Britain but the vessel she was
on was captured and the woman taken to
Boston. She was a second time court
martialed and ordered shot President
Lincoln commuted her punishment to ban
ishment.
on the Stage.
She went TO England and was married
there in August, 1864. to Lieut.. Sam
Wylde Harding. OF the United States
navy. She then took up a stage career,
making her debut at the Theater Royal.
in Manchester.
When President Johnson proclaimed a
general amnesty she returned to this
country and played in a number Of cities
AT New Orleans in 1869. where she was
a star in a stock company, she married
her second husband, who was Col. John
Swainston Hammond, and retired from
the stage.
In 1881 she secured a divorce in Dallas.
Tex, and the following year married Nat
r. High. son Of the Rev. y. =. High
OF Toledo, o. He was an actor. and with
him she went on the road. She afterWard
took up lecturing, reciting her experiences
as a spy.
She gloried in the fact that being a
woman, she was the more able to outwit
many Federal officers. whose gallantry got
the better of their discretion
Her own Account.
Speaking of her experiences, she once
said:
II had been conhscating and concealing
their pistols and swords on every possible
occasion, and many an officer. looking
about everywhere for his missing wea-
pons. little dreamed who It was that had
taken them or that they had been snug
gled away to the Confederate camp and
we're actually in the hands of their enc
mics, 10 be used against themselves.
Gen Shields introduced me TO the Off.
GERS Of mis- staff, two Of them were young
| Irishmen. And 60 one OF these, Capt
| k, am indebted for some very re
markable illusions. some withered flow
ers, and last, but not least, for a grea
deal OF important information. which Wa
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17
FanCieS in Fans.
for Bought
n oni Of
75c to So. 90.

carefully transmitted to my countrymen.
/ must avow the flowers and che poetry
were comparatively valueless in my eyes.
but let Capt. k be consoled-these
were days of war. not of love, and there
are still other ladies in the world besides
the Rebel Spy.
THE night before the departure OF Gen.
Shields, who was about, as he informed
us, 40 whip Jackson, a council of war
was held in what had formerly been my
aunt's drawing room. Immediately above
this was a bed chamber. containing a
closet, through the floor of which l OBJ
served a hole had been bored. whether
with a view of espionage or not I have
never been able to ascertain. II occur
red to me. however. that I might turn
the discovery TO account, and as soon as
the council of war had assembled stole
softly up stairs. and lying down on the
floor OF the closet applied my ear to the
hole and found TO my great Joy / could
distinctly hear the conversation that was
passing below"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17
ROYAL PROPOSALS.
ACES IN WHICH QUEENS AND
RINCEssES HAVE BEEN VOICED.

Ieen Victoria Had to Pop the cues
other Courtships of Crowned
Heads.
From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
No incident in MANS life so thoroughly
nnerves him as that fateful moment
nen he has to pop the question to the
SRI of his choice. Even though he has
IN expecting and preparing for the i'm
rtant moment for months-alas, often
s!-yet he is upset by the actual pro
as much as though he mad never
- a minute to think of it, and trembles
A a schooboy taking his turn before
school principal for a serious breach
+ school discipline.
l have thought, therefore that 1t might
not be undressing TO give some short
account of the places and circumstances
under which some of the best known royal
swans made that fateful proposal winch
has ever been considered so tender and SO
sacred. And it will be found that in such
moments of agitation and nervousness
even royalties suffer the troubles of or
binary mortals and have the same diver
EI;y of methods and places. The Prince,
like the peasant, has to take advantage
of the most favorable opportunity that
presents itself for telling the Princess now
much he loves her, and he finds a lonely
moor or a quiet, sequestered dell in u
wide park as useful an adjunct 70 the
process as does any factory girl off vita
james William" for the afternoon.
How did the Prince Consort of England
nanage with the Queen? The story has
Oft been told, and il is probably correct
In it's outline that it was not he in this
case who had to manage, but she. For
It appears TO be court etiquette for the
Queen to do the proposing in such case.
1t Is said that, while at a dance with the
Prince at Windsor Castle in 1910, Her
Majesty took from her dress a spray of
white lilac and gave 1t to him He had no
button hole in his uniform. as a soldier
out. taking out his penknife, he made a
slit In his coat and placed the spray ten
.rly in It. What happened next during
At quiet talk in one of the adjoining
p rtments, we may leave to conjec ture
the fact of the engagement was soon
known by the Queen to her Coun-
ow the dances at the castle used to be
id in what is known as the odd ball
om," and the Waterloo chamber and
her neighboring rooms were used as
ljuncts. Possibly 1t was In one of these
rooms therefore, after retiring from the
ball room, that the actual proposal was
made by Her Majesty to the Prince, and
cordially accepted by him who had been
kept by rigid etiquette from mentioning
the matter long before. But Whichever
room was the actual scene Of the affair
and the Queen has always kept II very
,ecreD there Is no doubt that most OF
the actual "courtlng" was done in that
part of the Home Park directly under the
sasde walls. This portion Of
he park, where the Windsor
-ose show has OF recent years been
acid, 10 extremely pretty and Secluded
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-17
Our Postal System.
From the New York Press

My old friend Walter Williams is a be-
lever in the United States postal system.
1T is great" he exelaims. A letter from
Australia addressed to IS. s. White.
America" reached San Francisco and was
forwarded to New York without delay.
Mr.. White has been dead about twenty
years. but the letter was delivered to the
firm he established. A postal card adj
dressed to IS. o. Church & Bro. Park
Row. Cincinnati, o." was promptly de-
lvered to the firm at No. Is Park Row,
New York. A letter addressed TO George
S. Beacham, New York" arrived at lis
destination In an amazing short time, not
withstandlng that gentleman's name is not
in the directory. And yet-and yet, breth-
rem, l have known letters TO spend Tires
days going from Ninth avenue to Madison
Square Garden.
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STORIES OF BELLE BOYD.
GIoried in Her Ability TO outwit
Federal Officers.

Federal O1hcers.
BELLE Bovd. the Confederate spy. whose
death at Kilbourne, Wis, was announced
in dispatch published yesterday, was
educated at the old Mount Washington
Female College. at Mount Washington,
and several times in her romantic career.
lived in Baltimore.
During the civil War. when she was
captured by the Federal troops. she was
held for a time as prisoner in the Eutaw
House. When taken Ill in California with
her second husband her mind gave way
on the birth of a son, and she was sent
to an insane asylum. She was taken from
this ASYLUM, which was at Stockton, ana
brought to Baltimore, where she was
placed at Mount Hope and afterward dis
charged as cured. In 1877 she again came
to Baltimore and lived here for a while.
Her daughter, Belle. was born during this
visit. A year later she moved TO Phila-
delphis.
Mrs John H Tegmeyer, sos Park ave-
nue.. was her close friend in this city.
Speaking OF her early life, Mrs. Teg-
meyer says that she was a dashlng girl,
with vivacious manners. She was Wen
educated and spoke several languages.
Mrs. Tegmeyer said that the army ex-
perience of Belle Boyd brought her into
disfavor with her friends because Of the
bold manner It developed. She wore male
costumes and otherwise acted in a way
that evoked criticism.
stonewaII Jncl1son's Note.
Belle Boyd was born at Msrtinsburs,
Berkeley county. now within the borders
of West Virginia, on May 9, lsis. Her
mother. Mary Glenn. was a daughter Of
Capt. 1Imes Glenn, and her father Benja-
min Read Boyd OF Msrtinsburg
Her decision to devote herself to the
cause Of the Confederacy as a Spy came
with the discovery while on visit 70 VIM
chester when the war broke out Of some
contemplated movements of Federal
troops. She galloped by night TO the head
Guoiters of Stonewall Jackson and reported
what she had discovered. From that time
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

man entered the car ana
tematically loot the passenger, ID
two other robbers kept them
with shotguns from the doeFs'
the fellow reached him ln' r.
looked up coolly and declared q
less than a dollar in his poem" al
;, he ' said "In tell you something s,,
knowing: That fellow in the % a
h hat go. %All right" said the = \
keep your watch and ehlest the
and he proceeded to confls'1, the 4
passengers cash. When rspders|
was all over, and the nar ran ID
denarted the St. Louis ina and ID
around, bursting with rage ' ior-d
ns "That was "a, a Si Tn ggoInA
trick" he roared, "and a ~ cd
no, nola ,,, sUu Il expected y,, you
friend frt , replied the major ..a a"' he d
here is the amount 1ou ,,ester IN
, Il happen stat ,1 army and have az ny
ter Of $500 in this ntsD rs.'' I felt in'I
Under the acrifcing YOU
it up to the Govern ,Inn Of funds
pense in transpor'a'
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utes later l hurried upstairs and had a
catch-as-catch-can with myself, for ev-
cry stitch on me stuck like a porous
plaster thought three or four times
would lose the contest, but finally
won out and soon had on a warm,
dry suit.
Now, you'd naturally think that af-
ter such an experience my rheumatism
would be worse Not a bit of it.
believe the COMPOUNDED thing can be
drowned, for / haven't felt a twinge
since. But you can't tell. The fact
that tossed the quinine through the
back window may have had something
to do with it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

kaa and Paauhau, one death at least
being caused by the former disease
Mr.. Calvert is the new sugar boiler
at Paauhau. succeeding VIM. Petersen,
who has held the place some fifteen
years. Mr.. Petersen becomes the boiler
at Honolulu plantation in order to give
his children the benefit of the Honolulu
schools.
Dr. Buffet. late of Nova Scotia. has
located at Kukaiau for the practice of
ms profession. He succeeds to the
practice of DR.. Stowe, the latter intend
ing to practice in Honolulu in the flu
ture
A. Lidgate and wife have returned
from a visit to the Coast improved in
health.
MT. A. j. Watt and Mr.. A.. Black and
their brides are at their homes in Ho-
nokaa and Kukuihaele. respectively
since last week.
Inc teachers of Hamakua held a
meeting in the school house at Homo
kaa on the 18th inst and are said to
nave had an interesting program. The
next meeting will occur in February.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17
SOMETHING NEW IN CURES.

A Complete Wetting Cures Man of
Rheumatism.
He is a seasoned warhorse in poll
tics and the hero of many campaign.
He tells what happened to him last
Monday night.
81 had been to my mans house and
fixed up little deal that promised
we'll. On my way home l was in a
block of vacant lots when the cloud
burst"
CLOUD burst?" from listener.
Eyes; cloud burst. More water fell
in five minutes than at any time since
the deluge. l thought at first that a
water main must have exploded. I had
to throw my umbrella away to keep
from drowning. l waded, floated. tread
water and went with the tide, for tenn
porary rheumatism in both legs kept
me from running. The first port
drifted into was drug store and the
storm quit as soon as escaped.
az hustled home and my wife i'm
mediately ordered me to take a big
dose of quirine and whisky. Five min
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

Years ago Major Patterson was trav-
cling on the railroad through Western
Kansas when he fell into conversation
with a congenial ST. Louis man, who
remarked that he had an excellent
scheme for hiding his money. Il sim
ply put it under the swaziland or my
hat he said,. land no robber in the
world would ever think of looking there
for cash." With that he pulled OIL MS
hat and showed where he had S25o
planted" as he described. About an
hour later the train was suddenly
halted while it was turning lonely ra-
vine and in a few moments masked
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17
'Hamakua Notes.

HoNokAA, Hawaii, Dec. &c. III.
Is. Fowler, sugar boiler at Honokaa
mil. has returned from a six months
business and pleasure trip to his old
home in England
Honokaa and Paauhau are the onlv
mills In the district still grinding
Ihere Will be no interval to speak of
between the two crops.
A. ]. Wilson. principal of Kapulena
scnooi, is In the hospital at Honolulu.
a very sick man. His school IS c1osed
for the rest of the term.
Rev. c. w. Hill will hold service, -
the Lyceum at Honokaa on the gard
inst. This will be the only Christmas
service held in Hamakua and a large
congregation will no doubt be In at
tendance. Rev. Hill will minister unto
the people at Honokaa once each month
for the coming year.
Diphtheria and mumps are said to
prevail among the children at Homo
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

Also, twenty cases Of Lawns, Organ
dies, Percales, ETC., which we must
clear out. Thirty-six inches wide at
121kc; usual price 15c. These goods are
all new and clean. Our only reason for
selling them so cheaply is our want of
space.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17
For the Gentlemen

We have everything that man can
wish for in Furnishings. Our Neck
wear, Shirts. Collars, Cuffs, Hose, Un-
derwear, Pajamas, Bathrobes; also
Towels, cannot be competed with in
this city, both for quality and style.
Trunks in every shape and size at
economical prices.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17
For the Household

In Domestics we are indispensable
We offer you 1914 Sheetings at zoe,
Pillow Castings from 10c to 1Sc; big
25c, 271sc, &c and 35c.
selection.
Blankets, in every shade, per pair,
S0c. $1.00, 1.50, $1.75, $50, 1915, $3.50,
etc.
Don't forget we are great handlers of
the best Sewing Machines to wit: The
Standard. Domestic, Automatic, Nor
wood and Vindex.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-17

Soft and mellow is Spruance, Stanley
& Co.'s 20. F. c." whisky.
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|Dinities

In great variety, 1-3c, 10c. 121tc, 15c
l17kc and zoe.
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Bed Spreads

sci Uptimo," 75c. 800, s1.25 each
Price is no criterion.
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For the Ladies
Specially

Shirtwaists, excelling anything Of the
kind ever brought to this town, in all
colors and designs; latest sleeves, col
lar and cuffs, at SOC, 65c, 75c. S5c and
81 90.
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.IanneIettes

In most beautiful shades, 1-sc. 1oc
an6 12hc.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28
stockholders Meeting.

The regular annual meeting of
the Stockholders OF the Fort Lyon
Canal Company will be held on the
Second Monday in December, being
the 10th day of December, 1900, at
10 o'clock a M, at the courthouse
in Las Animas, Colorado, for the
purpose of electing Board of Trus-
tees and transacting such other bus
mess as may properly come before
the meeting. At the special meet
ing of the Stockholders neld on the
1st day of October, 1900, only a
minority Of the stock was represent
ed. The reservoir proposition was
discussed at some length and an ad-
journment taken until the regular
meeting in December, at which
time the reservoirs will be discussed
and all reports therein submitted for
for consideration, by the Stockhold-
ers of this company.
B. B. BRowN,
FRANK KRKYBILL, Pres.
Secv.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving
Day, and the people of this country
certainly have great deal to return
thanks for. In the past four years
we have gained the front rank among
the nations of the world, and the
prosperity resulting has extended to
every section of the country and to
al! classes. The future looks even
brighter than the past has been.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

home loving, home honoring aver
age American which rejected the
false doctrines OF class distinction,
and which rebuked those teachings
which would destroy the faith OF
American manhood in American
character and American institu-
tions."
By their votes on Nov. 6 the
American people did emPhatically
declare "what they believe and
and would have maintained in gov
ernment." The President is right
in Interpreting the result as an "un-
questioned Endorsement of the gold
standard. industrial independence,
commercial expansion, the inviola-
bllity of public faith, the indePend
ence of the judiciary, and American
sovereignty in the Philippines"
The American people by their votes
demanded that their credit be pre-
served, the honor of their arms
maintained, and the obligations of a
righteous war and wise treaty of
peace strictly fulfilled.
No President, and no party, could
ask for higher expression of con
fidence than the American people
have given Mr.. Mckinley and the
republican party. sit is great
thing" Mr.. Mckinley truly says, "to
have this confidence; it will be a
greater thing to deserve and hold
it."
TO the republican party and the
Mckinley administration have been
committed new and grave problems.
That the President realizes and
seeks to impress upon all republi-
cans the tremendous responsibilities
placed upon and them is most en-
couraging. 1t is an augury of sue
cess. When properly led the Amer
ican people have never proved un-
equal to any task. Let the republi-
can party advance fearlessly and in
the true American spirit and there
will be no failure. By shaping
every measure with an eye single to
American ideals and interests the
republican party will deserve and
continue to receive the peoples con-
fidence.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28
CONTEST NOTICE.
U. s. LAND OFFICE LAMAR, Colo.
Nnvamhar On IA00

A SUFFICIENT contest ailidayit having
n been filed in this Office by Richard Emer-
son, Prowers Co. Colo, contestant against
timber culture entry No. 4I6l. made juno 1,
1888. for SEX. Sec. II, Twp. "a s. RING. 4G W. by
David W. Circle, contestee in which it is alleged
that: the said David W. Circle has for more
than ten years last past wholly aband, ned
said land and that each and every year SINCE
the expiration of the second year of his said
entry has wholly failed to break. plow or culti-
vate to trees, tree seeds. nuts cuttings, or to
crops or otherwise any portion of said tract
nor has he caused any of said work to be done
on said land, and that said default exists to
the present time. That II any breaking wal.
ever done said tract all evidences thereof
have disappeared and said tract is now
grown up to sod and grass and is wholly
raw and unimproved prairie land, said
parties are hereby notified to appear. respond
and offer evidence touching said allegation at
10 o'clock a m; on December 2s 1900 before the
Register and Receiver at the United States
Land Office in Lamar, Colorado.
The said contestant having. in proper affida-
Wit, filed Nov 20 1900, set forth facts which show
that after due diligence personal service of this
notice cannot be made, it is hereby ordered and
directed that such notice be given by due and
proper publication.
n2t-dla w. A. MERRILL. Register.
J. X. DOUGHTY. Attorney.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

The difference between talk and
action is we'll Illustrated by the pres
idents of the two Boer governments.
A few months ago Kruger was max
ing loud talk about fighting to the
last ditch, staggering humanity, and
SO on; now he is holding public re.
ceptions in France. Steyn has never
done much talking, but is still in the
field fighting, and will probably only
quit at the last ditch.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

The Indiana supreme court has
rendered decision which will be
very effective in stopping the lynch
ing habit in that state. 1t holds that
a sheriff is responsible on his bond
for the safety of prisoner in his
charge, and in case of lynching can
be made to pay damages to the heirs
of the deceased. There will be few
lynchings i'll Indiana hereafter, it is
safe to predict.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

The majority of the Colorado pa
pers have been advocating that Colo
radc line up with the south in oppo-
sition to the customs and principles
of the effete east, and now many of
these same papers are denouncing
the people of Lincoln county for fol
lowing this advise. They say the
state has been disgraced, but the fact
is fusion corruption and yellow jonr-
nalism have already brought the
states reputation so low that an affair
like that at Limon causes very little
outside comment.
The Lamar register., 1900-11-28

Governor Thomas rushed himself
into print to tell the world that the
sheriff of Lincoln county is a repub-
lican, and now the sheriff, who ought
to know, says the governor is liar.
Thomas should stick to his old hobby
and lay lynchings and ever thing
else on the broad shoulders of Mark
Hanna. 1t is safe because Mark don't
pay enough attention to such men as
Thomas to deny anything they say.