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they met there might have been different
chapters in history from those that have
been chronicled of the nation but the
seconds We're men of sense and when
they learned that Lincoln had written
only one of the letters and that most of
the others were penned by Mary Todd,
with whom Lincoln was in love and who
later became his wife. they decided that
the affair did not warrant a hostile meet
ing. Lincoln was prevailed upon to write
such letter would permit Shields to
withdraw his challenge, and he did SO.
Your conduct toward me-" Lincoln
wrote, so far | know. has always
been gentiemanly. ! had no personal
grudge against YOU and no cause for any.
! had no intention of injuring Your per-
sonal or private character or offending
you as a man or A gentleman
The whole Attain was ridiculous. Lin
coin never referred to II except with
chagrin. He acted throughout in a most
manly spirit. but his political enemies
10 his dispara cement. Shields on the
other hand. gained public applause and
in the following year appointed jus
tice of the supreme court Of the state
to succeed Stephen a. Douglas. But he
did not remain on the bench long. Pres-
dent Polk appointed him land commits
sioner Of the United States and he was
in Washington occupying this office when
the war with Mexico began.
1t was in this war that Shields earned
his greatest laures and became ma
tional hero. He was commissioned a
brigadier general and put in command
of volunteers from South Carolina. Ill-
nois and New York. Along the Rio
Grande he served under Gen. Zachary
Taylor and after the battle of Buena
Vista he and his command joined the
forces of Gen. Winfield Scott at Vera
Cruz and took leading part in that
marvellous campaign which earned for
Scott undying fame.
Scott himself won no higher Ia,rrolS IN
the eyes of the public than did Shields
1t was at Cerro Gordo that Shields became
a national figure. He was leading a
charge of the wings of the army when a
erapeshot struck him in the ligh: breast
The bullet which was IL inches In di-
ameter-as big as the marbles with which
boys play in summer days-passed into
the right lung, and. going through the
body, came out of his back alongside the
spine
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would take trouble to analyze politics the
application to the individual would at
once become apparent, and from the in
dividual ii extends to the community
and herein is made plain the usefulness
of women learning the real meaning of
everything instead of a composite and
indefinite impression of the general SUBJ
ject.
Mrs. Gore has enjoyed exceptional op-
portunities for learning political wisdom
at first hand. for a day never passes
without her reading to the senator some
authoritative work which bears on politi
cal history or philosophy or economy.
Recently she has read from cover to
cover. THE Theory and Practice of Tax
ation." by d. A. Wells; The Tariff His
tory of the United States by Taussg:
The Farmers Tariff Manual by
Strange and The United States in the
Twentieth Century by Leroy Beauiieu.
She became deeply interested in these
books as her husband and she watches
for developments suggested by such
works quite as keenly any of the men
who are thrashing out the subject In the
Senate. Such questions she has found alb
sorbing and vital in themse YES and she
believes if they were only studied seri-
ously many women who do not now
take an interest in them would add ex-
ceptional enjoyment TO their lives.
Mrs Gore is deeply interested in al
that concerns her state in its Intellectual
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craved adventure and whose dreams were
of the great world achievement Amer
ica seemed to the boy the land of prom
ise and when he was sixteen he sailed
away across the Atlantic One of his
uncles had been in the war of the revo-
hutton am in the war of 1912. but When
the youth reached America the uncle was
dead. Business had little attraction for
Shields, so he turned to the sea for a
livelihood. The vessel on which he ship
ped furnished more of excitement than
he bargained for. II was wrecked on the
Carolina coast. and when il struck,
Shields. who was in the rigging. was
thrown to the deck and had both legs
broken.
Hardly had his bones mended than he
had his first chance in actual warfare
The Indians in Florida were making
trouble and an expedition was organized
10 go against them Shields volunteered
He got commission as lieutenant
served with distinction. received two slight
wounds and. when the Indians surren-
dered. he turned to what was then the
far west Out in kaskaskia III. then a
frontier metropolis. he established himself
kaskaskia has long since disappeared
swallowed up by the Mississippi but in
those days it was trading post al which
Indians. Frenchmen and Americans gath
cred in considerable number.
In 1880 he was elected a member of the
Illinois legislature Stephen A. Douglas
Lyman Trumbull and Abraham Lincoln
were members of the same body When
his Legislative term ended he was elected
state auditor and served two terms
1t was in 1872. while he was state audi
tor. that ne had his famous encounter
with Lincoln. II was A time of bitter
partisanship Shields and Lincoln were
members of opposing parties. Newspapers
We're given TO malevolent personalities
and few men in public life were spared
Out of some happenings in the state
auditors office A controversy arose that
stirred the passions of many men
Suicide was lampooned unmercifuly in
series of articles that appeared in one OF
the whig newspapers and mat were
known as the "Rebecca of the Lost
Township Letters. Shields was rather
vain regarding his good looks He was
five feet nine. distinguished looking.
something of a dandy and extremely sen
sitfve TO criticism. The Rehecca Letters
were cleverly satirical and drove Shields
to frenzy. He demanded the name of the
author from the editor. and when Lincoln
assumed the responsibility Shields chal-
lenged him TO duel. The challenge was
accepted and swords We're selected as TIE
weapons.
Against such an antagonist as Shields
Lincoln had little or no chance, and had
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older states. In some communities II Is
considered a vital issue; in others II is
oyershadowed by the common causes
which interest all women. On all munie-
ipal questions the women vote. In every
section of the state they are engaged on
the broad lines in beautifsing the state
by encouraging love of trees and plants.
for they are scarce In many parts OF
Okla homa and generally accomplishing
those useful things which are ensasinS
thoughtful women from one end CT the
nation to the other.
Senator ard Mrs. Gore are among the
Young people of the senatorial set. Mrs.
Gore strikes one as almost absurdly girl
isn when her achievements are taken into
account. As ii is she has not long
crossed the third decade of life. and her
amia Bile temperament and her phiiosoph-
ical calm have taken even that admitted
score from her SO far as appearances CO.
She has the unruff1ed countenance of
very young girl and the quiet. candid
methods OF little child. She was married
Just nine years ago. and of her two chill
dren a small girl, now six Years or age.
survives. Mrs. Gore received her education
in the public schools and during part
of her primary training she was taught
by her brother. She afterward took q
normal course. but she gives much credit
to her mother for private teaching at
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automobile in front of where he lived.
an he tipped his hat to us when he
passed. He look at me kind of funny.
and | expect Mr. Taft has been telling
him about his going to appoint me post
master of Posey county. Indiana. It's
queer how news about a thing like that
gets out. isn't il?
I'VE saw an awful lot Of statues, and l
cant remember half of them. but I think
II would be awful nice to have a statue
of me near the old town pump, alongside
Smiths livery stable at home That Is,
after | get to be postmaster. of course.
Expect they cost all kinds Of money.
while we were going down Connecti-
cut avenue the Fellow With the Mega
phone whispered to us 70 turn our heads
an We would see Mrs. Taft. Sure enough
there she was sitting in an automobile.
suppose /. was her because We didn't
know the difference. She didn't speak to
me. but / guess her husband has talked
to her about my appointment just the
same. She went on down the street, an
we waited for the next thriller.
'One of the biggest things We saw was
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have; an just to think. he had seen me
only once. when he was at Cross Roads
during the campaign. l was standn'
just in front of the platform where he
spoke, with Silas Trapp who. by the
way raises the most watermelons In the
country. Silas said he would bet half
of his crop that Mr.. Taft wouldn't rec
osnize me, but he did all right. all right.
an when I get back home and am run
min the post office viii tell them all
about it.
Il guess l didn't see much during the
rest of the trip an didn't know any more
until the Guy From Kentucky punched
me in the ribs and pointed toward bar
The Giddr Girl climbed down from her
seat and headed toward ice cream
parlor the Tired Woman With The Chill
dren Jumped a car marked Alexan-
dria', the people from ST Louis started
toward a boarding house. the Guy From
Kentucky and / sauntered toward the
family entrance. an we sneered when
the Fellow With The Megaphone yelled:
'All aboard for the next trip. See
the city an the homes of the dead ones.
Seem IS believin'. so get move on
gents. for we start in only few min
utes now.
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being the first to enter the city and raise
the American flag. but Shields. impatient
of DELAY rushed the Belem gate and
raised the Stars and Stripes in adv-rce Of
the generals program.
a victorious people are forgiving of
brave mpetuous man. and when Shields
returned to the United States he was
greeted as one of the great heroes of the
war. What did few infractions of mill
tary order signify? Illinois. ,lger TO do
him honor elected him a member of the
United States Senate. and in 1S4S he went
to Washington to take his seat His col
league was Douglas, In the senate at
that time were Webster. Clay, 4Calhoun
and other great statesmen.
1t Is not OF record that Shields won re-
nown in that august body. but some ol
the speeches he made show a homely
wisdom and a grasp of the leading ques-
tions of the day that are highly creditable
to his intellectual capacity
When his term as senator closed Presi-
dent Pierce appointed him territorial gov
ernor of Oregon. He did not remain in
Oregon long, but came east and took mp
his residence in Minnesota. He estah-
lished the town of Shields. and in 1858 the
first legislature of Minnesota sent him 10
the United States Senate once more. He
got the short term of two years and
when his service ended in 1850 he went
to California.
There is pleasant story. probably
apocryphal, that he narrowly escaped
election by California To the United States
Senate. his determination to go east alone
preventing 1t. However that may be.
he was in New Mexico when Fort Sumter
was. fired on. With all haste he hurried
eastward ard offered his services to the
Federal government. He was commits
stoned brieadier general and sent to the
Shenandoah valley There he won and
there he lost whatever renown came to
him In the war of the rebellion. In April,
1862, he was In command at the battle
of Winchester and defeated StoneWal
jackson. 1t was the first and only defeat
the great soldier of the Confederacv sus-
tanned. Perhaps Shields received too
much credit for that victory.
Those We're trying days for the north
Defeats were many and successes few.
Shields loomed large in the public eye.
and the country rang with his name. In
fact. 1t is said that Secretary of War
Stanton seriously considered placing him
in command Of the Army Of the Potomac
and visited him at his headquarters with
that end in view. The Army of the Po-
tomac was in dire need of a vigorous
general at that time. But if Stanton or
the President had any such idea they
soon abandoned il. for in the battle of
Port Republic. where Shields was desper-
ately wounded by the bursting of shell.
and where he planned and fully expected
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to annihilate Jackson's force the Confed-
crates won a decisive victory. 50 decisive
that Shields mortified that his account
of how the defeat resulted-not from his
being wounded in the action but from the
failure of one OF his subordinates to obey
crders-was not accepted, resigned in dis
gust.
he sought retirement in California. but
the Wanderlust had possession of him.
and he drifted east again. In Missouri
he took up his home and served one term
in the legislature of that State IN 1875
he was elected representative in Con-
gress, but the election was contested and
the republican majority ousted him. And
now there came the drab. the bitter, the
snrrowful days of this mans life.
Never much of business man. never
provident. crippled by his many wounds.
old and failing, and suffering much in
body and spirit he was untitled for any
real work. he sought to support him
self by lecturing. Around the country he
went. from small town to small town.
addressing audiences. He was eloquent.
weary of war and stories of war. and
there was little of profit to the old, bat
tered campaisner, as shown through the
box Office. Many times his pockets were
Of profit TO himself, he was willing enough
to help others. If he could, and when the
south was stricken with yellow fever In
the summer of 1878 one did more with
In his power that did the broken down
old warrior.
Of the half dozen lectures he delivered
for the benefit of the sufferers the last
was in the Academy of Music Brooklyn.
September 26 1878. Many great audi
ences had assembled in that house. but
never one to equal that which greeted
Shields. From the time he arrived in
Jersey City until he departed the day
after the lecture a guard of honor from
the Irish Brigade attended him. and the
leading men of New York and Brooklyn
gathered round him on the stage And
while men applauded him wildly few knew
of his poverty and his needs.
At last. too weak physically to stand the
strain of travelling unable to earn a liv-
ing in private life. he went before. the
Congress of the United States and sought
the position of doorkeeper. The House
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thing / saw when | stepped from the
Union station was a 'rubberneck wagon
and | fell for it solid
Il amt ashamed 10 say that | come
from Posey county. Ind. and, moreover.
my purpose in the city is 10 see Mr..
Taf; regarding the pest Office appoint
ment in our city He just the same as
promised the job 10 me when he stop
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boasts of popula ton of 7,00. and il has
every comfort and elegance of existence
found in the east. Naturally, however,
social life is planned simple lines.
and though the functions are formal
and elegant. TO he a social leader is
not momentous undertaking. Mrs.
Gore is inclined to resent the least sug-
gestion that social customs in Oklahoma
differ one whit from social customs In
Washing ton, in which attitude she is sup
ported by a great majority of women who
come from what is generally known as
the west
In Washington there exists a disposition
to regard western and southwestern COM
munities as Grade and undeveloped, ana
lacking the subtle refinement of the east.
Such women as Mrs. Gore do much to
dissipate this idea. She admits that in
Okla homa IL is still the fashion for women
to regard housekeeping accomplishments
as among their best gifts. They are go ID
cooks; they show friendly rivalry In
'displa wing their culinary ability. and,
most Of ALL they work together for the
Improvement of their home communities.
Indifferent 10 party lines. Oklahoma
came into the Union without having been
declared in favor of wonlan's suffrage.
ard the issue remains much as 1t is in
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YBE il was be-
cause | looked sort
O seedy, carried a
suit case. an ga zed
In a beWildered
fashion wnen /
reached Washing
ton the other day.
or ma ybe il was
because | am a
descendant of a line
of great travellers
ANYWAY, the frs.
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load didn't either. for they didn't pay
any attention. I heard the Guy From
Kentucky say that Poe was raised on the
same farm with him down near Lex
ington.
An we saw Sunny Jim Sherman. He
was talking to the fellow that runs his
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good clip. When they passed our car
/ turned to the President and tipped my
lid. an YOU had ought to have seen him
smile He recognized me at once. for
he spoke. lifting his hat as he did so
Guess that wasn't a blow TO the fresh
ones in the machine. But the Guy From
Kentucky said the President spoke to
him, and not TO me. But l know. II s
wonderful what memories some people
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CHAPULTEPEC

begged permission to examine the wound.
Calling for a ramrod and silk handker-
chief, he bound the handkerchief about
the ramrod and forced the handkerchief
through the generals body. Then he
pulled the handkerchief through the
wound until he had cleared away all the
coagulated blood Then he dressed the
wound we'll az he could. In seventy
five days Shields was in the saddle again
and had resumed command of his brigade.
At the battle of Contreras. where he was
in charge of the right wing of the army.
he was shot in the arm. This was fifteen
days after he had returned to duty. The
wound was slight and did not interfere
with him taking part in the battle of
Cherubusco and he was one of the first
to climb the heights of Chapultepec and
drive the Mexicans into the City of Mex
iCo.
After Chapultepec he had charge of the
force at the Belem gate in the investment
of the city. Here he was guilty of an act
of folly which however much it merited
military censure served only to add to his
popularity with the public. Into his camp
there came one night an English boy who
lived in the city with his mother and sis
ter. The boy fell on his knees before the
general and begged him to save his moth
er from death and his sister from worse
than death. The boy said that one OF
Santa Annals chiefs. leader of band
of braves. infatuated with the English
girl planned to seize her. kill the mother
the girl.
To romantic minded. impulsive man
like Shields such a story made strong ap-
peal. Forgetting his duty to his COM
mand and his orders from the command
ing general. he called for volunteers to go
to the rescue of the girl and her mother.
Four hundred men responded. Into the
city where Santa Annals army lay in,
trenched Shields and his 400 went late at
night led by the English boy. They
reached the house. got the two women
out and started back for camp But they
had not proceeded far when an alarm was
raised Shots were fired and ii was by
the greatest good luck only that the band
of volunteers managed to escape capture
and death.
When Gen. Scott heard what had oc
Cured he was furious. He threatened
Shields with court martial, rebuked him
publicly and proba bly, would have relieved
him of command had not more important
matters claimed his attention within a
few hours. The more important matters
had to do with the crowning triumph of
the war-the capture Of the capital. Here,
again. Shields offended. Gen Scott plan
ned to give to Gen. Quitman the honor Of
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in al history there are few men VINO
were the peers of Shields in gallantry, in
valorous endeavor or in remarkable ex-
periences. He was fourteenth century
character in nineteenth century set
ting. who played we'll his part from the
DAY when. a lad of fifteen. he crossed the
hills of Tyrone to fight duel with one
Of Uelington's veterans until, war
worn, hattle-scarred. broken in body,
roor in purse. hut rich in honors and oc
Cupying the highest Office the land of his
adoption could give him. the curtain fell
and his wonderful career Closed.
Shields was born in Altmore Ireland.
MAY q. 1905 " was time Of strife and
struggle, All Europe WIS in the throes
of war Mighty battles were teing
fought. empires we're crurbling thrones
we're tottering and the whole world seem
ed 20 be in convulson. To tho homes Of
rho Shields family cana soldiers who
lad fought on the continent or in the
PENINSULA under the T"o1 Duke. or in
1tav. in Prussia. in Russia or on the
Danube under the great Corsican. BY the
freside a night the warriors talked Of
sieges and sorties. of deeds Of daring and
devotion. of camnagns and armies of
the Little Corporal WHO dazzled the world
with his military genius and of the man
loo
The boy who listened to these tales was
sinCularlv irnpressionahle and emotional
BEFORE he could read or write he PLAYED
the soldier. He drilled his little pay-
mates. built forts. charged the enemy's
intrenchments and fought as only a boy
enurred by the enthusiasm of youth. can
fcht. Whatever he got in the wav of
military preparation he obtained in those
days. Great soldier certainly he proved
himself. Great commander he certainly
vas not. He could handle brigade out
rot division. Perhaps that was due n
the fact that the veterans who watched
me bows in battle and taught them what
little they knew of tactics were soldiers
OF that old school that embraced I'm its
curriculum much of the paEeantrv and
Eeroics of war with little of the science
From one of WellnCton'S cartains
Shields took lessons in swordsnanshin
and so adept did he prove himself that he
became one of the best swordsmen of his
time
Ireland offered little to a youth who
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In 800 cases out Of thousand such a
grievous wound would result fatally. but
as Shields lay on the ground. bidding
farewell to his companions. French sur
geon, who had been serving in the Mex-
can army and had been taken prisoner,
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CHE Has Become a Deep
- Student of the Higher
Politics and of Economics
Through Reading to Her
Husbard-A Native of Pales-
tine, Tex, Mrs. Gore Is
Devoted to the State of Her
Adoption and Is Conversant
With Every Phase of Its His
tory and Development.
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NNE of the Most Remark
~ able Characters of the
Heroic Age of American His
tory-Was Born in Ireland
and Came to This Country
When Sixteen Years of Age
Once Challenged Abraham
Lincoln to a Duel, and
Swords Were Selected as
Weapons-De ely
Wounded in Battle of Port
Republic During the Civil
War.
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y THE same pro-
portion that the
general public is
interested in that
wonderful example
of intellectual worth
Joined 10 iron de-
termination a n d
unaitering purpose.
Senator Gore of
q kl a h o m a. the
feminine " or d
I a X e S unbounded
his wife. She
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y Statuary Hall at
" a ashington, the
Ialha'la Of the
great republic, YOU
will find a memoir
ial to James
Shields. Many of
those who stop be-
fore the bit OF
stone never heard
of Shields, or, If
they have heard.
remember him: Yet
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CONTINUED on Fifth Page.)
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At last. too weak physically to stand the
strain of travelling unable to earn liv-
ing in private life. he went before. the
Congress of the United States and sought
the position of doorkeeper. The House
The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1909-06-17
Poultry Profits.

The cost Of food required to produce
pound of beef, pork or chicken does
not differ greatly, although chicken
sells for IL to 20 cents a pound by
the carcass, while other meats sell at
from 4 to 8 cents. This difference is
further increased on the farm from
the fact that poultry picks up a good
deal of material that would otherwise
go to waste, as well as numerous in
sects that should be destroyed, so that
much of their food should not really
be figured as expense at all.
But there is a greater risk Of loss
in raising chickens and the cost of
labor per pound of finished product is
more than with sheep or hogs. Then
you must credit eggs produced, which
complexities the problem until you get
headache. The net returns, accord
ing to capital invested and cost of
maintenance, however, leaves a greater
profit from poultry than any other
farm live stock. If a farmer would
keep close account of the income from
his poultry, including the amount of
eegs and butter consumed at home. he
would be surprised at the returns
Agricultural Epitomist.