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The Appeal., 1911-08-26

Grants lronton Headquarters.
officer had less confidence and had re.
treated before Grant and his men ar
rived. Grant said that the memory of
that Incident always gave him cour-
age when preparing to make an attack
or when in the thick of the fighting.
August 8 Grant arrived with his reg
iment at Ironton, to relieve COL. B.
Gcatz Brown, who later became gov
ernor of Missouri and who was a vice
presidential candidate in 1872.
August 9, President Lincoln signed
the commission of Brigadier General
Grant, and this fact was telegraphed
from Washington to Ironton. Grant
"'as encamped near a spring on the
James Lindsay property, not far from
the Iron County courthouse. = When
Lindsay learned that Grant had be-
come a general, he moved Mrs. Lind
say and their babies to his farm near
Pilot Knob and rendered his mud
ch1nked log home to Gen. Grant for
his headquarters. The offer was ac-
cepted and the Lindsay cabin became
the first headquarters of Gen Grant
although he spent large part of his
time sitting at an old pine table in the
shade OF an oak tree in the yard work
ing out plans for a campaign. It was
while sitting in the shade of the now
historic Grant oak that he received
by mail, August IA, the commission Of
which he had been notified by tele-
graph. August 80, Grant took leave
of his regiment on the river campaign,
which won his promotion to major
general of volunteers in February,
1862. His later achievements are his
tory.
/. The Grant headquarter premises
have been known for many years as
Emerson Park, . the late Judge j. w.
Emerson having acquired the property
and erected a fine brick residence on
the site of the log house In 1886 the
surviving members of Gen. Grants
regiment erected statue of "a fed
eral soldier to mark the spot where he
received his commission.
The property is now owned by j. H.
York, who maintains it az his resi-
dence, but a movement has been start
ed to have the government purchase
this property and the battlefield at
Fort Davidson, mile away, as nation
al parks.
Mrs. Lindsay, whose humble home
was Gen. Grants first headquarters,
lives in st. Louis, but visits the thrill
ing scenes of her young motherhood
each summer.
Lindsay, who died several years ago.
was a union supporter and active in
the Ironton Home Guards. He init
mately knew all the surrounding coun,
try and did some valuable scouting
for Gen. Grant, who rode over to the
farm several times to see that all was
we'll with Mrs. Lindsay and her babies
during Lindsay's absence. y.
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
A TYPICAL AMERICAN BEAUTY
mrs. r. \. Carey. Whose Charm Ia
Especially Appreciated In Lon
don and Paris.

New York.-Here, at home, we rec
ognize the fact that the typical
American beauty" is a myth. pure and
simple. that there is no particular
type OF face and figure which stands
as an exclusive example of American
feminine loveliness. The rounded
grace OF the brown eyed southern
belle. the athletic spareness of the
York state girl and the splendid,
.llthesome height associated with the
daughters of the west-each is beau
tl1ul In its own way, but surely typi-
cal OF a section rather than of the
land of the free as a whole.
One needs to go abroad to meet
the typical American beauty" She
The Appeal., 1911-08-26

oioeSt Frame House IN Kansas City.
has been foundation under 1t. To-
day 1t rests on posts. Despite its
age, says Miss Agatha Waller, the
house is snug in the winter time.
Almost half a century has passed
since John Waller bought the house
and several adjacent lots. His first
purchase in that neighborhood was OF
II half lots and the house For this
he paid $3.50. Today any one Of these
lots would be worth several times that
amount.
when my father bought the
house" said Miss Agatha Waller, 1T
set several lots east of its present po-
sition and faced on Fifth street. The
porch which runs along the side Of
the house in its present position was
then said to be on the front of the
house. It was a neat house. We
were proud Of it and its fame of hav-
ing been brought here from far or
Cincinnati. OF course in these days
of fast travel Cincinnati does not
seem far away, but it seemed a long
distance then."
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
Scene OF SUCCESS
Where Grant Received His Com
mission as General.
Old Lindsay Cabin Headquarters
Where He Planned the Campaign
Which Won Promotion and
Started Great Career.

Ironton, Mo.-Of all the events OF
the Civil war that are being recalled
in the half-century anniversary revi.
val Of interest, few are of more gen.
eral interest than the story of Gen.
U. S. Grants receiving his commission
as Brigadier-General on Missouri soil.
movement has been started to pur-
chase the site at Ironton Of the deliv-
cry of this commission for a national
park.
The campaign which Gen. Grant
planned at the cabin which was his
hrst headquarters as general brought
him advancement from Brigadier Gen.
eral to- Major General and was the
real beginning Of his career as a VIC
torious commander
A graduate Of West Point, who had
seen service in the Mexican war,
Grant had left the army because he
could not support his family on his
salary. He tried farming near ST..
Louis, became real estate agent
without much financial success, and
in 1860 moved his family to Galena,
ILL.,, where he became a clerk in his
fathers leather store. -"
At the outbreak of the Civil war he
drilled a company organized at Ga
lena and accompanied them to Spring
field, when it was sworn in and in
corporated into a regiment.
Gov. Yates obtained Grants serv-
ices as inspector Of state troops to re-
port to the government, and when
President Lincoln issued the second
call for volunteers Grant was sent to
Mattoon to muster in the regiment, Of
which he became colonel.
He has confessed that he was not
confident Of the outcome of his first
skirmish. but he found his opposing
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
Message DrIfted for Years.

Middletewn, N. Y. While fishing in
the Waikiki river near Montgomery,
Charles Smith of that village found a
sealed bottle in the mud. The bottle
contained a piece Of paper on which
was written Joseph NJ Leeper and
John P. Sears. The war is over, July
4. 1866" The two men. now dead.
were lawyers, and are supposed to
have been fishing in the river IS
years ago, when they cast the bottle
adrift.
The Appeal., 1911-08-26

tables will grow with very little atten,
tion and consequently they are en-
abled to devote most of their energy
to finding market for natures
bounty.
Although, as noted above, the motor
truck has made place for itself in
the transportation of farm produce.
the major portion of this responsible
ity yet rests with the good old-fash-
ioned farm wagon drawn by one or
two horses. Strength rather than
style is a requisite of a produce-car-
rying vehicle and this same may be
said of the horses employed and the
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
IS EVANGELISM PROFITABLE?
"6illy" Sunday Says It Is, and He
Produces $7o,5o7 He Earned
During the Season.

Pittsburg, Pa.-William A. Sunday,
auondam professional baseball player,
now professional revivalist, has closed
the evangelistic season of 1901 and
Is $7O,507.77 to the good as the result.
This return for about ten months
work, more than the president of tho
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
Penalty for Stealing Paners

Washington, d. G Seven years in
the reformatory for stealing four
newspapers from porch in Washing
ton was the sentence imposed by
Judge de Lacy on Harrison Ward.
aged II years.
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
But one Cat to = Households.

Wilkesbarre, PaOnly one cat win
be allowed in a household. according
to a decision Of the health officers OF
this city, when they ordered that Mrs.
William Church dispense with II Of
her 12 cats.
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
Two SQUADS From one Eoo.

Lititz, PaThis great poultry CEN
ter is always producing some odd
stun" in that line. and the latest is
two SQUADS from one egg.
The Appeal., 1911-08-26

" pIOVo SUUuGluluS OIL q
problem. To the outsider it might ap-
pear simple enough if he does not take
into consideration the numerous fac.
tors that have bearing In the matter
For one thing, there is the weather,
which must always be taken into ac-
count in planning a trip to market
with produce, even though the journey
is to be made over good roads. Then
again, the product to be transported
may be fragile, such as eggs, or per-
1shable, as, for instance, some forms
OF berries and fresh fruits, And final
ly there is the necessity Of taking into
account probable market conditions at
the prospective destination, for pre.
sumably produce will sell more readi-
ly on market days" than on "off
days"
Despite the complications that seem,
inevitable there are surprising mum:
Der OF American farmers who still
persist in the practice OF marketing
thelr products direct to the consumer.
indeed, In some localities the number
9, seems to actually be increasing rather
than diminishing. This is all the more
remarkable when we pause to reflect
upon the facilities that are now being
offered the farmer for marketing his
produce at his own door. Agents Of
commission merchants and runners"
Tor dealers in the large cities traverse
rural routes, regularly, buying for spot
cash eggs, vegetables, etc., and to
such point have things progressed
that the farmer who prefers may sell
MS Derry crop on the vines and his
peaches or pears or apples on the
trees leaving to the "other fellow" not
only all the worries of transportation,
put the bother of picking and packing
and, incidentally, the loss from waste.
AT the same time there is no GER
talnty that the farmer who elacts To
The Appeal., 1911-08-26
ksAS-=------ nv ZzE Al7Y
10 MAhhEz IN D/ClIF

HE marketing Of his
produce is obviously one
Of the chief responsible
ties Of the American
farmer and in the pres
ent age, scarcely less
than in the days Of our
grandfathers, is the prob
lem OF transporting the
produce to market liable
to prove something of a
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
THE COST OF PLEASURE.

of hardships the Negro HAS
more fun pleasure of people on earth lie ~
have the same hyee cnveninees ana
iges them substitutes soes
for them and passes off laugh and ready lot
certain point ou ~
limitations beyond which 1t becomes " e
a easygoing and eflnduseht ~
spri Of the age the welfare oil all pp
within the woldadius of and ndcminatng influence anu
its seeming ncosru
must nav the day. no matter now lar
ment so his essinesed and ocuhd oO
living too much for pleasure anu
hard patient ana sooe
dayor Many institutions devoted professionally anu
fundamentally side of welfare and oeg ueen
provide the public for an important
financial usenance Many
and aggegatons make their Vg oy
roce toward Measurable pastme waseuness
of the incubation OF serious IDEAS anu a
the OF the future;
must
to the spirit the age
The dependence OF the Negro as
institutions is becoming more ana
sefsunance is becoming more
business
uos his commercial industrial and grur
reach these serious through the sacrifice his
unlimited all
the must to teach these facts
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
THE TESTERS.

institutions European mon
his
Jester but seldom oo
many are the the annals the early courts
for living is not always
being MS
c of the royal testers and the day
life changes to the serious
solemn people still ringing in their
testers to that other
echong all the rbady OF hene
comedian must
He laughs best
taking
o in
mentality attending him the
tuberculosis And
limited allowances
fund friends and fellow actors
George although the thousands who had seen
doubtless imagined that mental
most careless of tamps managed all the business
the highest Somehhe more I
the ailment
the tragic Less than
mental
ongwre and vaude
mental strain
undergo The life of the comedian De
originator OF
of And was not
exhusess startling Innovations ana
and
mountains In Northern Ne"
would be III
to return probably realized that the Grim
small creek on August
probably He the third of three
star fmakers All asped to the achieve
OF
ter tragedy.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Defense of
SCrappy
Little
English
Sparrow
By Is. J. GUSTIN
Aurora. ILL.,

and stay of old.
sparrow number rapidly and likes the
En One mile south west of the hos
pita you hardly find a sparrow.
all bird knd and should
young vegetables just sproung being picked to pieces
your last button that the insects rather than the plant
the sparrow is after.
think how industrious this little fellow is Like bantam, he
of life in himself Stop talking abou
sparrow him both and out of the and will find h
is energetic than those who condemn him.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Highest
WAGES for
Greatest
Amount of
Work
BY g. A. CROSBY
Terre Hnute, Ind

little for your meals he
harvesting Nebraska There worked only ten
eleven day food the best could
farm to another staying the
The farms being SMALL only took
about two days finish place You were not expected to WORK so nara
but the pay only day. whereas Kansas
a high as 81 a day.
full weeks of in the vicinity of Wymore Neb
the and then could hall
machine being moved to the next place
mustn't think that they strong enough to get out and
work day in weeks in the hot broiing
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

1t has been my experience in the wheat
fields that where the highest wages are
paid there also the greatest amount of
work is demanded Where the hours of
labor are from 4 so in the morning until
8 80 at night city chap can stand the
strain for only one or two days at the
most. Kansas pays high wages, but the
hours are long and the board is not always
SO extra. For there the farmer does not
feed you, as the harvest hands generally
work for the owners of the thrashing ma
chine and naturally he wants to get as
much work out of you as he can and pay
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

Those who hate the English sparrow
l advise to take trip to Elgin, and visit
the grounds of the Illinois State hospital.
There they will see sparrows, robins, blue
JAYS, blackbirds, wrens, swallows of all
descriptions, song and night birds, living
in perfect harmony. Each kind is there
by the thousands. Why? Because they
have trees to nest in, particularly the pines.
In the city we have no trees to speak of
outside of the parks, and if the park COM
missioners would plant some pine trees you
would find that the robin, the thrush, the
blueiay, the lark and others would return
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

The bright star in the southern sky is
the planet Jupiter and the one in the west
is Venus. Jupiter is in Libra and Venus
is in Leo, while Saturn is in Aries and can
be seen early in the morning. Mars, in
Aquarius, now rises about midnight and
is beautiful sight just before daylight.
No man will regret the loss of a few
winks if he gets up to see him. Jupiter's
moons could be seen through good pair
of opera glasses three weeks ago and
probably can be now under favorable at
mospheric conditions.
As one writer says, all planets travel
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

Defects of clothing, though most signal about
the chest and shoulders, are not confined to the
upper part of the body The feet require warmth
which fashion denies They cannot be compressed
except at the cost of suffering some distortion and
the infcton of positive disease Fashion also per-
mts the legs to be covered with only the thinnest
materials The circulation of blood to the feet be
further mpeded by the pressure of tight shoes
and the debilitating effects of cold. The crippled
state too, thus occasoned is obstacle to efficient
exercise and so adds to the general debility.
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Little
Facts
About
Jupiter
and Venus
BY w. SCHARDT
Williams Bay. Wis.

from the but owing the fact that
Jupiter approximately 4ooO0ooo0 miles farther from the than
e earth he appareny travels while reality being
and leave him behind Jupters
1882 days, approximately twelve years
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26
Girl S
Clothing
Dress Has Great
Influence on
Physical Health
BY WELLS ANDREWS. NJ. d.

RESS has great influence the physical health of girls
The two cardinal points to be here borne in mind with ref
their clothing first that the material should be
such retain the necessary warmth and second
that its form be arranged to occasion neither undue
abdominal compression any interference with muscular
action Hence the physician should try to induce his girl
patients to adopt underclothng of merino well to per-
suade them to eschew COMPRISING core elastic garers and
tightly fitting highheeed Shoes This advice should
The Colorado statesman., 1911-08-26

whenever the occasion Offers seldom counsel may followed" or
such fashion the modste will probably continue to the
end of the chapter and the doctor
The that inflicted by the absurd modes prevalent
girls effects of tight ang the breath
this kind
period young lady exchanges the easy g ghood for
imposed by the requirements of fashionable life
Were young to be laced mperfey exercised so made
exposed their bodily would
The Washington herald., 1911-10-11
Georgetown Confident
OF Beating the Indians

the play and sent the men in the other
direction.
All rumors to the effect that the Hill
top students are in a rather pessimlstic
state of mind concerning the outcome
of the Indian game could easily be re-
futed if the sentiments in circulation
at the college yesterday could be taken
as criterion. The collegians across
the creek can see nothing but victory
confronting their representatives. and
last night. when the players arrived at
the dining hall after leaving the gym
they were greeted with a spontaneous
burst of applause by the student body,
which has not taken place in the
Georgetown refectory since the West
End eleven was preparing for the Vir-
ginia battle last fall. Songs were sung
and cheers given for the team. which is
not only a signal of confidence, but also
a most substantial manifestation that
the Georgetown spirit is by no means
on the wane.
Manager Walsh has completed all ar
rangements for handling the large
crowd The west side of the field con-
tains new sets of bleaChers which will
add greatly to the former seating ca
pacity. The erection Of boxes is one of
the wisest moves the Georgetown boys
have made in many moons.
The Washington herald., 1911-10-11
FALL TOURNEY STARTS.
Tennis Starts at Georgetown for
Championship Title.

Georgetown Jniversitys annual fall
tennis tournament started Monday on
the Hilltop courts. The tournament is
TOR the championship OF the university
in singles and doubles
The singles tournament began ycstcr-
DAY, but furnished little fast tennis. as
the preliminary matches were wholly
one-sidcd. Sensational playing is not eX
peXted to appear until tn" second round,
when the real aspirants for the title will
meet. The summaries:
McNuIlrn and Duffy ~ defeated Carroll ana
Lynch. II. 6+. -; Brus-sau and MUlligsU. p
defeated MCQuiIlen and Graham. Is 90. "a
First roundMcNIuller and Duffy. "A. defeated
PHILIPS and shannon. Is. IS. g. 6-l: Devn and
Sill. IA. defeated Dwyr "a. and CrUnin. l3. 63
IS 60: O BOYLE and Hutton. Is. defeated KirWin
and Hamilton. Is. 81. IS.
Semi finals Boyle End Hutton. Is. defeated Nc
Mullen and Duffy II. % -: BrosseaU and Mul-
Hgau. II played Deviin and Sill. II. 81; second
set called at SIS account Of darkne+.
Singles-Devlin Il. defeated Carroll. u. 6-2
4-6. 60: Dwyer "A. defca,ed McQuillen. T. -
"a. So Graham. 'l3 defeated Hamilton, Is -.
and 81
The Washington herald., 1911-10-11

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Mrs. w. T.. Stack. 1908 24th st. NV.
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+ MIR. J. II. Ruth, 1900 OVan pl. NV.
! Miss Nan Sheehy, 2O14 = st. NV.
/ Miss Mary Marshall, 11O5 18th st. NV.
DIR. Thomas J. W. Brown, 1887 Rhode
Island ave. NV.
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The Washington herald., 1911-10-11
HARD PRACTICE AT YALE.
Thirty Minutes of Rapid-fire
ScrimmaRe Held.

New Haven, Conn. Oct. 1O.-Springer
Brooks, one of the Yale resident football
squad, has gone to Minneapolis to re-
main two weeks, studing the new plays
invented by Harry Williams, the Uni
versity of Minnesota strategist.
II was Williams tackle shift play last
season that permitted Yale to win from
Princeton and tie Harvard, after being
beaten by Brown and West Point, and
twice scored On by Syracuse. 1t was
Williams, who. eight years ago. invented
the tackles back play, which revolu-
tionized foOtabll.
Yale's football was fast and furious
to-day. but there was no scoring. Con-
trary to general opinion, the coaches
did not order the gates OF Yale field
closed and a gOod-sized crowd saw
thirty minutes Of rapid fire scrimmag-
ing. Foss. who was used as varsity
quarter back in place of Capt Howe, dis
located his nose, and Francis bruised
his shoulder, but both will be ready for
play by Saturday.
The first squad of a big delegation Of
coaches appeared. including Howard
Jones. George Ade, Ned Glass, Joe
Swan, and Ted Lilley.