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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-11
Woman Led Cavalry Raid.

Mrs. Sarah e. Thompson who per,
formed highly meritorious service for
the Union cause during the Civil War,
died in Washington on Friday, April
23d, as the result Of injuries received
in a street car accident
The deceased had the distinction of
being the only woman in the country
drawing pension as a soldier of the
Civil War. She was native of Ten.
nessee, but through the Rebellion was
loyal to the Union. She discovered
the hiding place of the Confederate
leader, Gen. John T. Morgan, and i'm,
mediately gave the information to the
general commanding the Federal
forces, then, at the head of battalion
OF cavalry, led the way to the rendez,
vous, where, in the fight that follow,
ed, Morgan was killed. For her serv.
ices In the war Mrs. Thompson re,
ceived high praise from Gems. Grant,
Rosencranz, Sherman and other Union
commanders. She was employed by
the army as scout and spy In the
southwest, rendering service upon the
rolls as a soldier. Her first husband,
Col. Scott, organized a regiment OF
loyal men through the Confederate
lines to join regiments elsewhere.
Many years ago Mrs. Thompson was
appointed to government Office through
the influence of Senator Pritchard of
Tennessee whom she had befriended
when he was barefoot boy, and who
never forgot her goodness and kind,
ness. In the department where she
was employed she was beloved by all
for her kindly and gentle nature and
was Familiarity known as Mother"
ThomDson. WASHINGTON Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-11

may each be we'll developed and sym
metrical. Even men can make a great
variety of constructions which equally
manifest beAuty and power. These
blended elements are always present
in the noblest architecture, in real
poetry and mighty music, in swift
ships and In that marriage of mind
and matter to which we give the name
of machinery. If man can build mat
ter into endless variety of symmetrical
forms, God can certainly do as much
with souls as his material.
The Christian ideal Is nothing less
than human perfection. 1t has been
embodied in Him who was sinlessly
and ideally human because He was
divine. Beholding and rejecting the
glory of Jesus the Christ, our Lord,
we are transformed into the same
image from glory to glory, even as
by the Spirit of the Lord. The initial
germ of the Christian life is glorious,
for 1t is the inward life of God vitaliz-
ing and Transforming the heart; and
the development Of this inward divine
life is conditioned upon the contem-
plation and vision of the character of
Jesus. In Him the active life and the
devotional life were perfectly blended,
and the central principle of both His
prayers and His deeds was love. The
secret Of His joy was self-sacrifice. The
badge of His power was humility BY
dying He became the life of humanity
By self-renunciation He won universal
empire over the minds and hearts Of
men.
The more perfectly we become &C.
quainted with the character Of Christ,
the more completely we are conse-
Grated to Him. the more closely we fol-
low In His steps, the more fully and
the more tremendously we shall be
developed individually and socially.
To initiate Christ, we must know
Him; and this knowledge requires per-
sonal acquaintance and communion
with Him, as we'll as the constant
study Of His life and His words. The
most broadening, the most inspiring,
the most creative of all knowledge Is
the knowledge of Jesus the Christ.
Thereby comes the strength which Is
beauty, the weakness which is power,
the humility and love which fill every
avenue Of activity with joyous, fruit
full service.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-11
a Neglected Garden.


DiscOuraging as neglected garden
nav appear, it is not beyond redemp-
lion. even so late in the season-but
T must be taken hold of at once.
Stunted and failing crops, choked by
weeds. should be pulled out at once,
weeds and all, and burned, and the
round plowed or spaded, and replant-
3D.
How much more satisfactory and
profitable it might have been to have
planted only half the space, and work
I'd it we'll, than to have scattered the
AVAILABLE labor over the entire ground
and do nothing to perfection.
A garden with rows upon rows of
ali the delicious vegetables OF mid
summer and not a weed to be found,
IS indeed a pleasant picture. But how
few of that class are found Instead
Of choice vegetables there are rank
weeds, and where order and beauty
should reign, desolation stares at one
In too many family gardens, caused in
the majority of cases by simply bit
ing off more than we can chaw."