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salaries or other needs, and received
paper money worth only about one-naii
Of it's face value, they entered protest,
which Is plaintively set out in these OLD
records, and asked President Jefferson
Davis to compel Memmtnger, secretary
Of the treasury to payy all requ1sltions
made by the post office department In
the same kind Of money the postal au-
thorities turned in. that is. coin worth
par Thus does the pinch of dire poverty
make sordid the most patriotic!
This brought on quite a spirited night
between Reagan and Memminger, for the
receipts from the post offices were pretty
much all the money worth it's face value
that came into the Confederate treasury,
and Memminger did not want to return It
all to the post office department. Presi-
dent Davis decided in favor OF Reagan
and instructed Memminger to pay all
postal reqnisitions In coin. Memminger
heard-and continued to pay such requist-
tions in the constantly depreciating paper
money.
Wherefore, some months later is found
in the records a crisp communication
from Reagan to Memminger, in which
the former, deeming 1t useless to bother
the already much harassed President
with these internal squabbles of his gov
ernment, tartly advises Memminger that.
If that sort Of thing keeps up a day
longer, there will not be any more
payments in coin made to the treasury
by the post office department. until aft
from such coin-money to be paid sufi-
cient to pay salaries and all other ex-
penses Of the post Office department
after which he, Reagan will turn over
the balance.
This matter Of turning over a balance
ing that the post office department ran
10y
lars every month.
This appeal made Memminger reason
able; he paid post office bills in coin. and
no more complaints are found under this
head.
AS the war progressed the law pro-
hibiting any one who was liable to mill
tary duty from acting as postmaster
was more and more strictly enforced.
Also, as the currency deprecated, and
the receipts of the post office depart
ment were far below their disburse-
ments. there came more and more thick
ly, requests, growing more and more
urgent. for raises In salaries; for, since
the salaries remained the same. this de-
probation was equivalent 10 6oOuI CUT
ting them In two.
At first the records show, Reagan
merely answered these complaining fell
lows that, in the desperate state Of Con-
federate finances, increases OF salaries
were impossible: but, as the requests
grew more importunate, the shifty Irish
man adopted a most convincing form of
letter. After expressing regret at his in
ability to comply with the request for
raise Of salary. the crafty son Of Erin
goes on to say. in effect: 'Oh. by the
way, you, Mr. Postmaster. It looks might
lily like our patriotic Confederate con-
gress is going to extend the age and
other limitations in the matter Of ex-
emption from military service. Let me
see how old are you, anyway? Don't
postage doesn't cost you anything!'
Upon receipt Of which the poor fell
low. who. doubtless. hates the smell Of
gunpowder like the birthstone Of the
enough to play postmaster At nothing a
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rich grasses to fatten them. Take the
province of Chiriqui in the northern part
of the republic. There is region there
known as the Divila country, which has
many square miles Of plains covered with
grass which is dotted here and there
with groves.
THE country is we'll watered, but there
are no swamps, although 1t rains almost
daily for about eight months of the year.
Still the rains are short and for the most
of the time the weather is clear. That
land is splendid for cattle, and it has
more stock than all the rest Of the re-
public 1t has already a number of large
ranches, and there is room for many more.
l doubt whether we have more than fifty
a hundred thousand head of stock in
Panama now, whereas l have seen 1t esti-
mated thaA our lands would sustain 5,O0O-
OO0 head. When the canal is completed
there will be a great demand for meat
from the ships passing through, and it
ought to be supplied by the isthmus. 1t
seems to me there should be a great deal
lean cattle may be purchased at from
S15 to $40 head. After they have been
grazed for six months they will bring
$50 and upward
What opportunities have you outside
of farming?
There is a great deal Of money to be
made in real estate said the president.
With the completion of the canal there
is sure to be a demand for farm lands
and plantations of various kinds. There
is a steady rise in real estate values also
both at Panama and Colon. 1 have prop
erty here which is worth ten times what
l paid for it a few years ago, and
have put up building al Colon which cost
me only $1,000 and which has been net
ting me S7oO per month in rents. That
property is now paying for the building
every year. I know of buildings here
in Panama which are doing as well.
Rents are exceedingly high and we have
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HERD are now re-
posing peacefully
upon the shelves in
I h e manuscript
room Of the Lii
brary of Congress
some half score OF
dilapidated o ] d
! e a !. h e + b o und
b 90 k s of t h e
ledger type. They
are as unrOmantlc
looking as the day
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book of a grocery store TO which they
bear a most striking resemblance. with
their pages filled with faded entries of
tie appointment of some crossroads post
masters or a drearilv formal letter to
such postmasters asking for an account
ing. and such-like commonplace notations.
To the cursory eye they appear about as
exciting as patent office report.
But when one examines these faded old
manuscript books in the light Of their
history, they become full of interest The
entries in faded ink transferring some
group of mail clerks from postal route
in northern Tennessee to a like position
In western Virginia becomes something
more than a dull business detail Of the
postal service: one sees behind those or
ders the marching columns of Blue and
Gray and hears the roar OF cannon and
The scream OF shell, for the moving cause
OF these entries was battles wherein north
and south grappled in the deadly conflict
of the war against the Union.
In the light OF history these dead pages
OF yellow script become instinct with life,
with the hopes and fears and joys and
tears of the dead southern Confederacy
marking here and there, as they do. the
victory or defeat OF the southern arms,
as told dryly in those short formal state
ments, by the pushing forward OF the
postal service into territory lately wrested
from the enemy by the withdraw wal OF
postmasters and clerks from districts late
Iy overrun by the northern forces.
These old volumes are the original rec
ords of the Post Office Department of
the southern Confederacy. for many years
scattered to the four winds, but lately
collected and filed for preservation in the
Congress oual Library. In all, they con-
sist OF ten OF these old ledger volumes,
with supplementary lot of papers .Aade
UP in half a dozen packets, which latter
are mostly contracts for carrying the
mails, printing blank forms and such
other matters OF outside dealing.
The ten volumes do not comprise all of
these records as may be gathered from
the contents of the volumes themselves
There were probably half a dozen more
of them originally, but where the others
are, il, indeed, they are now in existence,
Is not known.
More ordinary and commonplace look
ing tones never excited the interest of
the student or rewarded searcher after
the curious The first volume starts off
IN the most matter-of-fact manner with
the statement, embraced in line and a
half. to the effect that, March Is, 1861
John II. Reagan of Texas was appointed
postmaster general of the Confederate
States Of America at Montgomery, Ala
hama, their capital. There is no other
entry for fortnight. when is recorded
the appointment OF about u dozen sub
ordinate officials.
As matter OF fact. there were not any
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himself, the constitution providing that
no man can be candidate for the presi-
dency who has been president within six
months of the presidential election. DR..
Arosemena tried to avoid this provision
by taking a six-month leave of absence
last spring and allowing his henchmen
to- run the administration in his stead.
However after Secretary Knox's visit, this
was found not popular with the United
States, and the president gave up the
hope of a second term and came back
into office The country is now in the
throes of a presidential campaign, al
though the new president will not be
elected or inaugurated for some time to
come.
| met President Arosemena in the 18TH
mian White House, or as it is known here,
the Government Palace This is big,
white, two-story building of Spanish ar
chitecture. 1t surrounds a patio filled
with palm trees, in the center Of which
Is pond where huge turtles roll over
and over and splash about in the water
| found soldiers on guard as / entered
the palace with the American minister,
Mr.. II. Percival Dodge. and we saw more
soldiers at the wide stone stairway to
the second floor. At the top of the stair
way we waited until our cards were sent
in, and moment later were ushered into
the long narrow parlor which forms the
audience room of the mansion. This par
Tor is furnished strangely for this land
of the tropics The floor is covered with
a warm velvet carpet, the windows are
veiled in hot-looking curtains, and the
gold-plated furniture is upholstered and
hot. At each end Of the room is a great
mirror in a frame of gold and over the
windows hang laInbreQuinS from gold
frames
We waited but few minutes. when the
president entered. He is a lean, dark
faced. black-eyed man of medium height.
and he weighs, I should judge, about $50
pounds, light He is seyenty-four years
old. but is still in his prime. When the
minister introduced me l was surprised
to hear the president address me in
English. He speaks that tongue fluent
ly and it was in English that our con-
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master general without a single post
office or postmaster under him, without
even an office. except a small room in
the temporary capitol building in Mont
gomery. Not only were there no stamps,
nor other medium of conveniently sending
mail; there was not even blank form in
the paper department.. Indeed. 1t was
not even a paper department., for it
did not have even a blank sheet of wrap
ping paper.
But where there is a will. means can
be found. Chapters could be written"
says the postmaster general in his me-
moirs, ION the expedients to which we
were driven to resort in order that we
might get our postal department into
some semblance of form and substance"
Indeed, the position of postmaster gen.
eral was one that had been "sidestepped'
by several prominent southerners to
whom 1t was previously offered-and was
twice offered to Reagan before he was
prevailed upon by pressure Of friends to
undertake the task. He hesitated, as the
others before him had done, because he
saw that, no matter how hard he worked,
his efforts We're bound to appear failures
in the eyes of the public, who were used
from birth TO the regular service of the
United States mail service. and would not
be apt to make allowances for the difficult
ties under which he labored.
This embryo postmaster general, how
ever, was a self-made man, reared in the
school of the early Texas frontier, where,
oftentimes, when two and two could not
be had to make the necessary four. one
and one had to accomplish the task He
had made good in that new country
and at the time of the breaking out of
the war was United States senator from
that state.
Having accepted the job, Reagan lost
M IL hoA No a MI rnrv
TO guide him by-not even a single letter
head. Yet casting about he thought of
the Washington Office, and. following the
example of Ktplings omer." he deter
mined to '.go and take what he wanted.
Being we'll acquainted by reason of his
late position in the United States Senate
with several southern men who held i'm
portanr positions in the Post Office De-
dispatched trusted friend to the federal
capital to offer to these mep positions in
his new department.
Without exception they accepted and
went south to him-not, however, be-
fore they had, under the direction of Rea-
gan. collected, for his benefit, copies Of
every form and blank used in the federal
officei He thus was provided with tried
models
They Furthermore made for him before
leaving the Federal service copies Of all
the records of the southern post offices.
the names of the postmasters, the class
of their offices and amount OF business
done. the railway and stage postal routes,
together with compensations paid every
manner of employes-in word, they
carried south with them from the United
States Post ONCE Department pretty
much everything necessary to the fnau-
guration of q new southern postal sys-
tenn.
The next entry after Reagan's appoint
ment and his oath OF ONCE is that of a.
postmaster in Alabama. Then for more
than two months there are but half
dozen sparse entries. This was due to
the fact that. although most of the
southern states had seeded, the United
States stil continued to run the postal
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A man OF many parts should be pretty
we'll put together.
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Editors and breach Of promise defend
ants generally pay on publication.
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HAVE just had an
interview with the
president of the
republic Of Pan
anna. His name is
Pa bio Arosemena,
and he has now
been in Office al
most four years.
According to the
Panama conStitu-
ton, the president
serves for only four
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Some people spend all their lives just
what will happen next.
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There is almost as much difference be-
tween tweedledum and tweedIedee as
there is between shopgirl and a sales
lady
Evening star., 1912-07-07

We always rejoice in the good fortune
Of our friends if it doesn't exceed our
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here. Mrs. C. M. Peddicord, Miss
Marie Everett and others.
Among other things being demon
STRAIT I'd will be found. The Chase
piano. through Vickers & Mann, in
charge of Miss Marie Hopkins and
Mrs. C. H. Leavy, incubators through
Butts ubberly, Miss Lulu Colesberry
and N H. Ballard; ranges, through
McGarvey, il charge or Miss Helen
Baumgartner and Miss Polly Wood.
Miss Addie Baines is visiting rela-
tives in Jacksonville.
Mrs. E. l.. Stevens has recovered
from Ter recent illness.
Mrs. f. E. Shearer is very i'll, to
the regret of her many friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ M. Riley have re-
turned from short trip to Jackson
vile.
Mrs. C. S. Wyley leaves Wednes-
day for Savannah to visit relatives.
Mrs. H. M. Branham has returned
from a visit to relatives at Fancy
Bluff.
Mrs. J. G. L. Googe and children
returned from Marlborough, S. c.,
where they have been visiting.
Mrs. Hill of Sumter, S. e., Mrs
Earle Columbia, S. c., and Mrs. Nc
Nair Of Jacksonville, are the guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Lacy McKinnon.
o o o
Mr.. and Mrs. S. C. Peters and SON
Ross, and Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. Riggs
who have been spending the winter
in st. Petersburg, Fla, are in the
city enroute to their home at Wat
ertown, N. Y.
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those times, and said that l ought to
have an operation. would not listen to
that, and when friend of my husbands
told him about Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and what it had done
for his wife, was willing to take it.
Now look the picture of health and feel
like it, too. l can do all my own house
work, work in the garden and entertain
company and enjoy them, and can walk
as far as any ordinary woman, any day
in the week. Iwish could talk to every
suffering woman and girl, and tell them
what Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has done for me. Mrs.
DEMA BETHUNE, Sikeston, Mo.
Remember, the remedy which did this
was Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
It has helped thousands of women who
have been troubled with displacements,
Inflammation, liberation, tumors, irreg-
ularities, periodic pains, backache, that
bearing down feeling, indigestion, and
nervous prostration, after all other means
have failed. Why don't you try it?
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Causes Sickness
Good Health Impossible with a Disor-
i dered Stomach,

Good Health Impossible with Disor-
. dered Stomach.
There is nothing that will create
sickness or cause more trouble than
disordered stomach, and many peo-
pie daily contract serious &aladies
simply through disregard or abuse of
the stomach. VI Al
We urge every one suffering from
any stomach arrangement, indiges-
ton, or dyspepsia, whether acute or
chronic, to try ReXall Dyspepsia Tab
let's, with the distinct understanding
that we will refund their money with
out Question or formality, if after rea-
sonaole use OF this medicine they are
not satisfied with the results. We
recommend them to our customers
every day, and have yet to hear of
any enc who has not been benefited
by hem. Three sizes, 25c, SOC and
81 90 a box. Sold in Brunswick only
at our store-TLe Rexall Store-An-
Ldrews. 81
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Acute Indigestion
Successfully Treated

Many cures Have Been Reported.
A little tablet called 'Digestit" has
been found to be certain quick relief
for acute Indigestion. Many cases
have been reported where instant re-
lief resulted from its use. Browns Di-
gestit is the successful treatment for
all stomach disorders. 1t relieves in
digestion instantly and cures dyspep-
STA. Sold on positive guarantee. soc.
Ask at Roberts Pharmacy.
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they teach you how to cook in paper
bags, which is quite interesting. Mrs.
H. NJ. Branham, Mrs. r. E. Boykin,
and Mrs. N. D. Russell.
Eighth-Maxwell House Blend Cot
fee. At this booth the idea of blend
ing is carried out in the arrangement
of he colors. Several shades of yell
low being used. Mrs. Frank Mallard,
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Reilly and Misses Nelson
and Ralston.
Ninth-Aunt Roses Self Raising
-four This is very attractive booth
and occupies the center back. Red
and white is draped around and all
kind OF good things to eat and being
demonstrated there. Miss Lottie
Baumgartner and others.
Tenth-Snowdrift Shortening and
Wesson Snowdrift Oil. The Misses
Newman, who are professionals, are
demonstrating the various uses o.
these products.
Observation-Disclosures Baking Powder
Mrs. H. c. 9eeks, expert, is demon,
strating the uses of this old-fash'
ion product. Mrs. Miller Nightingale
Twelfth-Rob Roy flour Everything
made with flour is found at this par
ticuIar booth. Mrs. F. D. Aiken, Mrs
j. X Nightingale and Mrs. R. H
Everett.
Fourteenth-Je clio. All the deliciou
dainties made from this product wi
be found at this booth. Mrs. A. {
Wood, Miss Hanson and others.
Fifteenth-The Libby products
SOUPS and other good things are roun
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THE PICTURE.

"There's a pool in the ancient forest" -
The painterpo poet said,
That is violet-blue and emerald
From the face of the sky o'erhead."
So, far in the ancient forest,
To the heart OF the wood went |,
But found no pool of emerald,
No Violetblue for sky.
There's a pool in the ancient forest,
Said the painterpoet still,
That is violet-blue and emerald
Near the breast of a rose green hill.
And the heart of the ancient forest
The painter poet drew,
And painted pool of emerald
That thrilled me through and through
Then back to the ancient forest,
| vent with a strange, wild thrill,
And | found the pool of emerald,
Near tn breast of teh rose green hill
Frederick Q. Sylvester.
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seven YEARS
OF MISERY
How Mrs. Bethune was Re-
stored to Health by Lydia
E. Pinkharn's Vegesa-
bic Compound.
Sikeston, Mo. "For seven years 1
suffered everything. l was in bed for

four or FIVE days at a
time every month,
and so weak l could
hardly walk. l had
cramps, b a ok a ch e
and headache, an d
was so nervous and
weak that L dreaded
to see anyone or
have anyone move in
the room. The doc
tors gave me medi-
cine tn ease me at
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DEMONSTRATION, FAIR
OPENED YESTERDAY.


The demonstration fair, which the
ladies of St, Marks church, have been
working on 50 faithfully finally open
ed its doors ut 2.30 o'clock yesterday
afternoon. To say that the scene pre-
sented was thing of beauty would
scarce do credit to the feminine
hands that have so faithfully toiled
in fashioning it. The first afternoon
attendance was unusually large and
each booth in its turn was inspected
carefully by throngs of visitors who
admired both the originality and the
nature Of the affair.
Each afternoon during the week
the doors will open promptly at 2.3(
o'clock and will remain open until Z
The public is cordially invited anC
the ledies in charge will be delighted
to extend a cordial welcome to al
visitors. sssi 81
The booths are arranged most at
tractively in the following order:
First - Mems and boys clothin
through Wood-Bailey Clothing com
pany. Mrs. w p. Brown and Mis-
Helen Montgomery.
Second-Shoes and collars throug
B. II. Levy Bros. & Co. Miss Kate Dill
Ion and others.
Third-Malted milk and grapejuiC
artistically draped in purple an
white. Miss Marie Nightingale ar
the Misses Conoly.
Fourth-Ferris Hams. Tue colC
scheme here is rose and white. Mr.
]. H. Pace and Miss Maude Elliott.
Fifth-Dove Brand Tea and Spice
Here Japanese lanterns are use
which takes one to far-away Japs
while slipping their tea.
Sixth-EaSle Brand Coudens'
Milk and Peerless Evaporated Creal
Mrs. N. e. Chilean, Mrs. ]. H. Mo
gan and Mrs. ]. H. Parker.
Seventh-Union paper bags. He
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Walk in an1 see B. A. LEWIS's new
goods in mis- new store, Reynolds and
1 streets, phone 5S7.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1912-04-05
MARTIAL TROUBLES
BRING INSANITY
MAUD TRENT, FORMERLY MRS
CHARLES CARTER, INSANE.
Marriage to Sewing Machine Agent Is
Followed by Desertion and Divorce
and Reason Is Dethroned.

Maud Trent. of Smithheld, was on
wednesday adjudged insane and or
derAd committed to the state asylum
at salem. following an examination
before County Judge Ed F. Coad'
DIR. B. H. McCaIon gave testimony
establishing the insanity OF the wo-
man. Later in the day two female
attendants arrived from the asylum
and conveyed the woman TO Salem
AFsud Trent was formerly Mrs.
charles Garter. to whom she was
married three years ago in this
county. Carter was said TO have been
an itinerant sewing machine agent
and soon after their marriage he dis
appeared and has never since beer
heard OF. About six OF sever
months ago. Mrs. Carter applied foi
and secured a divorce in the Poll
county circuit court on the ground o.
assertion and. at her request wal
afveu her maiden naue- She mas
1fttIe daughter about two years o
age. and has long been a respecte'
rssiaeut OF smithheld, where ne
rsist5ves reside. Her marital rouo
Les preyed upon her continually an'
q i thought to have been instru
mental in unseating her reason