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crowded about him, to stop and shake
hands with the nearmost, and once or
twice to tell some whimsical story
that would set his hearers shouting
with glee.
But if the rugged features beamed
with kindness and sympathy early in
the December days and had ever a
smile in return for the greeting of the
shouting boys in blue, senior officers
who best knew him became aware of
growing anxiety and impatience on
his part ere Christmas came in, and
the crowded camps were jubilant with
feasting and good cheer. The beloved
little commanding general had been
taken i'll with fever and confined to
his bed. The president to whom he
owed his appointment had as yet no
information as to that generals plans,
and, strange as it may seem, the two
or three men in his. McClellan's. con-
f1dence were strangers at the white
house and the departments. When,
in his anxiety and sympathy, the pres
ident called in person at the invalid's
house, he was neither asked to the bed
side nor given information as to when
the general would be able to resume
duty. AS consequence the president
had to turn to other sources. and
Fred's division commander. Mcdowell,
was the first he sought. He was for
ever asking questions as to the con-
dition of the roads. the possibility of
moving guns and trains, and showing
not little eagerness when told that
through January. at least, they ought
to be hard and firm. but rough.
And yet, save for more drills and
ceremonies. and in spite Of the clamor
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TO bid what It was worth and e hna
been taken out Of the market. This
is an old frame building in West
Washington, or what is better known
as Georgetown, and is said by anti
quarians to be what was once the IA
nous Suter tavern. One hundred and
fourteen years ago Suter was host to
General Washington and Mr.. Jeffer-
son at this old building. The Father
OF his Country" often refreshed him.
self at Suffers tavern when he was en-
gagged in securing for the government
the land that eventually became the
District OF Columbia. He spoke very
highly of the food and drink to be OBJ
tanned at the old hostelry.
Suter was Scotchman and import
ed his whiskey directly from his ma
tive land. He got his rum from ia
maica and his brandy from the Lon
don docks. In spite Of the ascetic
look on Thomas Jefferson's face, the
original democrat was judge of good
living and of good liquors. When he
was minister to France he visited the
celebrated wine vineyards of Europe
and selected choice yintages for his
own cellar in America. His tribute
to old Suter was therefore worth
something when he said: mo man
on the Atlantic coast can bring out
better bottle of Madeira or sherry
than old Suffer-
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derby, the young officer took the Sud-
ley Springs road and trotted away
northward in search of the corps COM
mander. AS he came in view Of the
now famous Henry house and the
cleared fields up the slope to the right,
it lacked two hours to sunset. He was
now barely mile from the Warren
ton pike and, with abundant time to
spare, he decided to ride to. the crest
and have look at the battle ground
of the previous year. In front of him,
100 yards away, stood the old Virginia
homestead about whose walls the bat
tie ragged that hot July Sunday of the
year gone by-beneath whose shattered
roof the poor mother died, stricken
by whirring fragments of shell. Riding
thither and skirtiHg the enclosure. he
passed on, unchecked by silent, salut-
ing guardsmen. and as he rode some
thing prompted him to glance toward
the house again, and there at jagged
shell hole, just under the caves. peer
ing at him between the shattered clap
boards, his keen eyes caught an instant
glimpse of haggard face-a face that,
at his glance. was instantly withdrawn.
Three minutes later. out on the
northward edge of the plateau, he I'M
slung his field-glass to study the coun-
try outspread before him. Still think
ing of the face at that jagged hole,
some sudden impulse prompted him
to quickly turn in saddle, to bring the
powerful lenses to bear on little win
dow under the peak of the roof of the
Henry house, and there was the face
again, furtive, frightened, he could
swear, and again, instantly it popped
out of sight.
But his heart had given leap as sud-
| den as the sight. He whirled his
horse to the leftabout and rode
straight for the rear entrance to the
garden. Another moment and, dis
mounting, he raped loudly at the
door. A tall, slim man of middle age
appeared and, with grave courtesy but
| without welcome in his tones, asked
the purpose of his coming.
81 am Lieut. Benton, sir-aide-de-
camp to the general commanding the
division guarding your premises, and
have question to ask as to the oc-
cupant of your garrett"
Instantly there came from just with
in the doorway to an inner room half
stifled cry-a gasp-a rustic of skirts.
The tall man turned thither a quick
glance of warning and rebuke, then,
visibly paler, again faced his caller.
| ITO Re Continued
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Intensified.

Strange meanings are to be ex-
tracted from words. The most remark
able are sometimes the result of des>
peration. If boy cant think" of his
answer, he is likely to manufacture
it. A teacher tells this story Of draw,
ing OUT the power dormant in ths
pupils mind.
He was explaining to farmer lad,
who was studying Latin, and he'd been
called on to recite, the fact that q
proposition often intensifies the mean
ing of a verb.
''Take cavo, for instance" he said.
"It means to hollow out. Now what
will a proposition do to it?'
Intensity it. SIR
That's right Now what would
excavo mean?"
ITO holler out louder. Brooklyn
Eagle.
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Going "A Roundabout Way.

Some time ago DR.. Colt, now bishop
of Truro, was travelling on the Lon
don underground railway. One of his
fellow-passengers was a religious man
of the aggressive type, who is always
anxious for the souls Of others, but
has nothing in the way of a white tie
to explain the fact to the world at
large.
Quoth the enthusiast, Where are
you going tor
DIR. Colt, with his gentle manner,
answered. ito Victoria station" to
which his companion replied. I'm go
ing to Heaven"
so, hope. am l." said the future
bishop, but I'm going via Victoria. *
Onlooker.
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Copyright. 1909. by G. w. Dillingham; Co.
CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.
By GEN. CHARLES KING
Author of"Norman Holt. ""The Colonel's
Daughter, Fort Frayne," Etc.

Lincoln's rugged features had al.
ready begun to take on a shade OF
anxiety. The lines were digging far
ther in about the sombre eyes and the
broad humorous mouth by the time the
tall, gaunt president, in the abnormally
tall top hattie fashion of the day
took to driving out to KalOrama in the
August evenings, Mr.. Secretary Seward
dwarfing at his side-to take the air
and look at the one western brigade
OF all the commands then being mold
ed by Gen. Mcclellan into what was
to become the ggand army of the Po-
tomac. While at first Massachusetts,
New York and Pennsylvania had been
represented in the huge command as
signed to Fred Benton's general, with
one exception all eastern regiments,
were transferred to other divisions as
more Badgers arrived, and finally,
when the first frosts of October had
turned the Virginia shores to fire and,
strongly entrenched. the union army
covered the long front from Alexan-
dria to beyond the Chain Bridge. it
was brigade of four strong, stalwart
regiments, three from Wisconsin and
one from Indiana. not an eastern or
middle state represented in their ar
ray, that this compact command was
designated, of all others, to encamp
upon the beautiful Arlington estate,
and the general and his staff were di-
rected to occupy as headquarters the
fine old mansion, long the seat of a
famous family. The Badger brigadiel
moved in and took possession of the
homestead of his old-time friend and
associate in the corps of engineers,
when as junior officers they were build
ing Fort Monroe, and 1000 men of the
west pitched their white tents on the
lands of Virginia's knightly soldier
Robert E. Lee.
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nave received the most enthusiastic
receptions in other parts of the coun-
try have met with only a Chautauoua
salute in the national capital. The
cause of this seeming Indifference I'M
doubtedly lies in the fact that great
men are as common in WASHINGTON
as blackberries.
Despite this apathetic air the peo-
pie OF Washington propose to wake
up and show the country that they
are not Indifferent to their own dis
tlnguished citizens, among whom they
always claim the president of the
United States. They now propose to
give Mr.. Roosevelt a fitting reception
upon his return to the capital on
September 80. They do not intend
to have the garish display that other
cities might get up for such an &C.
casion, but the plan is to have the
citizens assemble by the thousand
along Pennsylvania avenue from the
railroad station to the white house
and applaud the president as the lat
ter drives from the train to his Of
fetal home. There will be no mill
tary display and no firing of cannon,
but just such a reception as the rech-
earche populace of this ultra conserva-
tive town might be expected to give
The Chautauqua salute was first dis
cussed, but compromise has been
sugg ested which is likely to be adopt
ed and that is to use small American
flags instead of handkerchiefs in wav-
ing The salute.
There will be no speeches at this
reception much to the regret of the
honorable commissioners who are gift
ed in this line. 1t is remembered that
two years ago when a similar demon
stration was gotten up to welcome
| the president home from a western
tour, the official orators drew up be-
fore the executive as he alighted and
prepared to deliver a formal speech
of welcome. Mr.. Roosevelt waved
| them aside, sprang into his carriage
and at once entered upon the drive to
the white house. There will be no
wasted efforts on oratory this time.
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OF the nation, the press and the gov
eminent. the army moved not, and the
line weather of December was gone
and January came. and stories went
from fire to fire that the president and
the people had become irritated at the
long delay, and that Little Mac was
being urged and importuned and even
blamed. Let Little Mac alone" said
the boys. "He knows what he's
about" for even in their Impotence
nothing could shake their loyalty
At.last the president took the law
into his hands and issued his first or
der directing the advance of an army
in the field. And at last. its corps or
ganization completed now-though
with generals not of McClellan's choice
Ito the glorious music of the innumer-
able bands, in splendid weather and in
splendid spirits, the long blue columns
filed out from the shelter of the cir
cling Notifications and took the road
to Centreville.
Promotion had by this time carried
Fred's division commander to the head
of corps and his brigade commander
to the head of the fine division, in
which until now the wild western.
ers had been numbered as the
First brigade. Now they became
the Third, and were both aston
ished and disguised to find that
their numerical destination de-
pended not, as they were inclined to
say, on their soldierly superiority, but
| upon the relative rank of the brigade
commander. 1t CALLED them, to tell the
truth, to find that the promotion to
division rank of the West Point SOL
der who had organized, drilled and
taught them from the start, involved
corresponding setback for them
selves. Some Badgers took the matter
so much to heart as to declare that
the general should have declined pro-
motion-let somebody else step up to
the command of the division rather
than see his old comrades moved from
the right to the left of the line, from
front to rear of the column. In vain
were they assured that it really made
no earthly difference, that the brigade
would take turns at the head of the
| column on the march, and, as for the
| line of battle, they would get just as
much fighting on the left as on the
right.
However, the brigade strobe away
most vigorously OH the march to Ma
masses, was one of the first to reach
the stored stream that wound along
at the foot of the heights, was one OF
the most Disguised to find the "impreg-
nable system of powerful works" held
only, by Quaker guns and abandoned
impedimenta, but to Fred Benton and
his general there came a lively sensa-
ton in the report from the lips of the
bearded colonel of the "Black Hats
His men had stumbled on lot of let
tiers and luggage unaccountably left be-
hind even in the calm deliberation OF
the confederate withdrawal-the prop
erty of certain officers of the Eleventh
Alabama
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CHAPTER V.
A STARTLING RESEMBLANCE.

Most skillfully and leisurely had
Joe" Johnston, the confederate COM
mander, withdrawn his army to the
line of the upper Rappahannock
When the first of the union cavalry
under Averell came twinkling into
view along the heights of Centreville,
the last of Johnston's 50,000-all he
had TO face McClellan'S field force OF
probably double that number-was re.
luctantly riding away from Manassas.
More for exercise and the name of the
thing than with the idea of a fight,
Little Mac had sent his big corps
forward to the scene of McDowell's
defeat of the previous July, and for a
whole day Fred Benton and his Badger
comrades wandered about the juno
ton, the Henry house, the Warrenton
pike and the old Stone Bridge, gather
ing relics and information, and it was
while so occupied that a squad of busy
searchers had stumbled on two or
three boxes in an abandoned hut
boxes that when burst open were found
to contain letters, papers and clothing
belonging to men of the Eleventh Ala
bama, and as luck would have it, to
First Lieut.. Paul Ladue.
Now, what have you got to say?''
demanded officers of the Montgomery
guard, home company, as one OF
them shook under Benton's paling
face an open letter addressed to Ladue.
will you own up that he was a reb
all the timer
mo-" said Benton sadly. 'He would
have remained there taking care of his
old father if it hadn't been for that
mob, and more than one of your men
was in it, Capt. O'Kane, as you very
well know"
Eight months had passed and the
matter of that purloined letter was as
deep mystery as ever, and now here
at Manassas, and, of all others, to the
men of the Badger brigade had come
confirmation of the statement insisted
on by McKinnon and denounced as lie
and forgery by Paul Ladue-that the
fiery young southerner was actually
an officer of the Eleventh Alabama.
The absent are ever in the wrong, and
with sad heart poor Fred listened to
the chorus of denunciation that fol-
lowed the discovery. He knew that
within 48 hours a dozen letters would
be flying homeward with the exciting
news, so what was the use of attempt
ing to suppress it?
By his generals advice he wrote to
his father forthwith, telling him of the
finding of letters and luggage belong
ing to Paul, the letters all tending to
show that he was now an officer of the
Eleventh Alabama-but that he, Fred,
still believed Paul's statement to the
effect that he had accepted neither
commission nor appointment up to
the time he was banished from his
northern home. The general added
some words of his own, and then as
a courier was to start for Washington
from McDowelPs headquarters that
evening, Fred was given leave to ride
thither. and thereby assure their let
tiers going ahead of the others
1t was an unusually bright and beau
dtul afternoon, as. followed by his O.
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Yerkes is not bothering his head
about any such preferment. He is
eminently fitted for the place he now
holds and has made an enviable rec
ord as the head of this most important
bureau in the government service. He
is one of the most affable men in the
public service and it is the delight Of
his newspaper friends to gather in his
Office in the treasury building and lis
ten to his fund of Kentucky stories
which he tells in most charming and
effective manner.
Mr.. Yerkes is Kentuckian and no
son of that state, renowned for her
fast horses, beautiful women and chiv-
alrous men, is prouder of his birth
right. He is a Kentucky republican
of the most aristocratic class and OF
the type Of Justice John M. Harlan, of
the supreme court, who is known as
Kentucky's grand old man." Mr..
Yerkes is splendid type of the tall
Kentuckian. He is a little over six
feet in height, well proportioned and
as straight as pine. He is of ruddy
countenance, has soft brown wavy
hair and a sweeping dark red mus
tache. He attracts attention wherever
he is seen by his carriage and distin-
guished air. He is well balanced In
tellectually and has fine reputation
as lawyer.
The south has been claiming that
she is entitled to representation In the
cabinet and will not accept Secretary
Bonaparte, of Maryland, as altogether
filling the bill. She wants some one
from the real south and the friends Of
Mr.. Yerkes want to know why he will
not meet requirements. President
Roosevelt has way of filling cabinet
vacancies himself without much re-
gard to what friends of available tim
Der may say, and he has given no In
timation that Mr.. Yerkes has been in
his mind for place at his council
table.
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vice in editing the daily consular re-
ports which have become so valuable
to the business world. Our consuls
have developed the writing habit to a
greater extent than formerly and are
encouraged by the state department
to send in reports on all matters Of
general business interest as well as
the odd and interesting things they
run across in their duties. Mai. Car
son takes these reports and with a
trained mind is able to extract from
them the paragraphs that are of es-
pecial value to American readers. He
has also changed the form of the daily
publication so that it conforms to
some extent with the daily newspaper
in makeup, the arrangement of heads,
subheads, etc. The pamphlet is still
of the mailaDle size, 6x9, but it has
been very much improved in typo
graphical appearance and in the read
able character of it's contents.
Some queer bits of news come out
in Maj. Carson's little publication
News from the uttermost parts of the
earth appears and the land of mythol-
ogy and ancient history is made to
contribute to the daily melange. A
recent contribution came from the far
off land of Mesopotamia, a name that
brings up Sunday school days and
scriptural jaw breakers. We are in
formed by the correspondent from
that land of dim history that great inn
provements are going on there, just
as we might hear of developments in
the wheat country of Canada.
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The Prince at Newport.

1ERE Will be a
gay old time at
Newport the lat
ter part of this
month, or early
in October, when
Admiral Prince
Louis of Batten-
burg with the sec
Ond British North
Atlantic squad
ron visits that
noted resort. To
have a member
of a royal family
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Memento Of George Washington.

Ne Oy one the
old landmarks
and historical
p a c e S a b o u t
Washington are
r e m o v e d or
changed but one
interesting old
tavern seems des-
tined to remain
for some time as
q memento of
George Washing
toms time. An
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Mr.. Yerkes of Kentucky.

r John w. YerkeS,
commissioner OF
internal revenue,
does not land in
President RoOse-
velt's cabinet it
will not be the
fault of an army
of good friends
who are contin-
ually holding him
up as the ideal
man from the
south for such a
position. M r :.
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Editor of the Consular Reports.

AJOh JOdN M.
CARSON, for
over 80 years one
of the best known
of the corps Of
Washington cor
respondents, now
at the head of the
bureau of manu-
facturers, in the
department o I
commerce and la
Dor, has brought
his old newspa-
per and editorial
instincts into SER
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-10-11
Washington GOSSIP
NATIONS CAPITAL A CHILLY
PLACE TO HEROES.
HISTORIC OLD TAVERN
Odd Bits Of Information from Utter
most Parts of Earth in Present Con-
sular Reports The Commits
sioner Of Internal Revenue.
XASHINGT q NJ

ASH N G I o N
The citizens of
Washington, as a
rule, are the most
undemOnstrati v e
lot in the coun-
try. They are
most phlegmatic
in sentiment. 1t
has been fire.
quently remarked
that noted men
and heroes who
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attempt was recently made to sell the
historic building but no one appeared
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-10-06

--H.r.L. w. Ill.,. 1854 "rtHttHIL E#
Think Of it!-78,00O,000 bushels
of wheat raised this year in North
Dakota! Turned into money at $50
a bushel, this means that $65,OO0,-
600 is to be divided among the
farmers of this state for this one
crop alone. But that $65,OOO,O0O
worth Of wheat, big as it is, only
serves as a solid foundation for the
crop fortunes which North Dakota
is building this year. There are
25,OOO,O0O bushels Of oats waiting
to be turned into $8,O0O,O0Oin cash
are 100000 bushels Of
cor waiting to pack 100000 Of
meat on the sides Of North Dakota
steers next winter, with flax, speltz,
hay and potatoes yet 70 hear from
yet to e cash IN" their enormous
crops, unknown 70 any previous
experience.-F. j.. & g. B.
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We rack our brains to find indus
tries that can proftably be located
in the northwest, and we neglect
one class which might be made to
grow to tremendous proportions
What is the matter with pickles
We do not raise fruit enough to
supply preserving factories, but we
do raise everything in the way Of
vegetable products which can be
grown anywhere in the north, and
they can be raised ON a scale I'M
known elsewhere. Just think OF
the list-green peas, string beans,
green corn, tomatoes, asparagus,
celery, beets, cucumbers, onions,
and score Of others which occur
to anyone who is. familiar with gar
dening. All Of these things find
their way into cans, and there ID
no reason Why we cannot can them
right here as well a. the people Of
any other locality. And one beauty
about such an indn1tsysis that il
can be stastedsid*a small way, on
5hmited capital, and added u q 10.
..Ls.- n n n.-fa
The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1905-10-06

Prof. Eadd, of the state agricul-
tural college, is making some chem
ical analyses of drinking water and
publishes in a recent issue of the
Forum some interesting data with
reference to the waters of the state.
He also gives directions as to the
taking of water samples from the
various wells for analysis by the
college, to determine whether or
not it is pure and healthful.