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The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23
NOTICE

Mott q 10 hereby given that there will be :
moetin9 Of the landholders Of the Malta Bend
Lesee District ct residence OF 3. D. Allen Ia said
1914. for the purpose Of e~leetins . supervisor In
said district 10 serve for q term of Eve years In
place OF Frank Moore. whose term expires % The
Board OF Supervisors. -
c. Y. sHAFER, Chairman
D. D. ALLEN. Secretary
Jan. 2i.3t
The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23
ExEcuroR,s NOTICE.

Notice Is hereby ,siysa that issisrs tsstanssAr
airy on the estate u Philip lsininger. dsssassd
ad.g d Jsnu.ry isis. 81 the Probate Cart =
An psrsons having claims against sald sstsss
within six months after the date % said Is(1srr
or they may b ,precludsd frosa any bsas01 =
such estate; and II such clsims b not s1klbitsA
ton Of the publication Of this notice they shall
CHARLES NIEnEIER,
Il. D. ?. DENNIS. Exrss
The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23
Saturday, March eth, 1912.

the City Of Marshall. Saline County, Missouri
bctween the houis Of . O'Clock A. n. and 5 O'Clock
'; N. OF said day, sell at public arction 10 the
described. to pay said note and interest and the
cost Of executing this trust.
LEONARD w.. vANDYKE. Trustee.
The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23

We desirs to thank our neigh
bors and friends for their kindness
during the Illness and death Of
our mother and grandmother, Mira.
Sleeper.
Chndrnen and erands hiidr n
The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23
PHELAN
PRACTICE LIMITED TO
DISEASES OF STOMACH
AND NERVOUS SYSTEM

Office Over Marshall Book Store,
East Side Square, Marshall, Mo.
The Marshall republican., 1912-02-23

No. 215---You will find this coat
admirable for a cover.all' for the
motor ride. or over a thin dress
on a cool evening. Note the hand.
some revere and the attractive
collar and cuffs OF contrasting
materials. Looks best In Gray
mixtures. Price, $4,000.
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The Picket Fence

DUNNING south from the southeast
~ corner of the Treasury building is a
tall iron picket fence OF twenty panels
the division between panels being marked
not by granite posts in the south
fence of the Treasury. but by. iron posts
thicker and taller than the pickets These
posts are hollow. have "A diameter OF Sour
inches and each is surmounted by a
heavy Spearhead. marked with "A design
suggestive of Assyra. Three of these
spearheads have been broken OFF and one
has been bent almost TO the breaking
point
The Rambler addressed a letter TO th,.
supervising architect of the Treasury on
the important subject of these broken
spearheads and received the following let
ter in reply:
In reply to your communication of the
30th ultimo in which you request certain
information regarding the iron picket
fence on the south side of the Treasury
building. this city, you are advised that
there are no records available giving in
formation when this fence was built. nor
what design of fence the present one su-
perseded.
I'm reference to the three broken and
one bent spearheads. you are advised tina [
the injury was probably occasioned by
the erection and demolition of the inaugu-
ration stands. Steps will be taken to re-
pair the damaged portion.
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have remainedl and presented ii to the Congress
OF that date. Objections were made by Congress
to receiving a present from an ofhcer OF the
United States navy. and consequently the statue
removed from the Capitol and. 10y permission
OF President Polk. placed in the President =
grounds in the north front, where II remained
until quite recently.
The resolutions lately presented by the Hon.
Charles Sumner. United States senator. for the
preserya alton OF said statue suggests to me the
your committee. that as the statue has never
been properly received by Congress, you will
please have offered a resolution 10 that effect.
There cannot now he any objection to receiving
ii upon the grounds formerly made: besides.
desire to honor the name OF Jefferson and the
orous officer OF the United States Navy for
fifty years. and at his death the owner Of
Monticello, the same being now held by heirs.
II the statue Is not accepted by Congress
have to request Of the heirs TO the said
property and its recent owner. that the statue
possible and In as good condition as IL now
appears in. Besides, 1t being the only thing n.
the National Capital, except the Declaration OF
independence. which have to perpetuste the
memory of the great man Of our great and glo-
1t that 1T may bring to generations 10 come the
memory Of the great man of great and go-
rious Union.
The committee on the Library present.
ed a report in which 1t was resolved
That the bronze statue presented in 1884
by Lieut.. Uriah p. Levy of the United
States Navy of Thomas Jefferson be &C.
copied with grateful appreciation and
that the officer in charge of public build
ings and grounds be directed to properly
prepare and place the same in the Ma
tional Statuary Hall Of the Capitol
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Popularity of Galax.

<<TIOSE are galax leaves" said a
! florist to The Star man. Perhaps
the shrub that has made the greatest
gain in popularity during the last ten
years as a garnish and as base for
funeral wreaths is the galaN. / have
heard that i'm some parts of the country
it is used as a general Christmas decora-
ton, but We use it here only in making
up mortuary emblems. Only the leaves
of the bush are used. 1t is a small pc
rennial and is as hardy as the laurel Of
the uplands. 1t grows all through the
southern Appalachians, but I believe 1t
does not grow i'm any other part Of the
United States. or for that matter, In
any other part of the world.
"The wax-like leaves of this plant come
to market in green and bronze and are
sold in thick punches. leaf being packed
on top of leaf. The green leaves are
those that come to Us fresh from the
pickers The bronze leaves are those
that have been kept in cold storage and
the cold has turned them into a kind OF
autumn leaf. They are put in cold stor-
age just to produce that effect for there
is always a good market for bronze ga
lax Galax has largely taken the place
of ivy for mortuary designs, and an al
tempt has been made TO use galaX in
Christmas decorations by combining it
with holly, but the idea doesn't take
we'll with our trade.
"Ialax first found favor a COM
mercial plant fifteen or twenty years ago.
when some shipments Were made from
southwestern North Carolina The IN
dustry has become so extensive that the
galaX-gathering field now covers the
mountain country from Virginia To
Georgia and gives employment to thou
sands of mountain people Tons of the
leaves are shipped every season to Wash
ington and all the other cities of the
United States. Hundreds OF thousands OF
punches of the leaves are shipped TO
Europe and these are nearly all cold
storage leaves, first because the trip
from mountain picker to London or
Partisan flower buyer is too long for the
fresh leaf and second because the Euro
pean demand for bronze leaves rs strong.
Yes, is it a shiny and pretty leaf"
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sistant secretary OF the Treasury. 1T
was homesick for the green fields of old
Virginia" said Secretary MacNeagh. 1T
could not bear the parting from the
friends of its native woods and died OF
broken heart" said another official
Found the pace in Washington that
kills" said another. Didn't like it's job
IA the Treasury" said another man AS lie
gazed sadly at the circle of bare clay
where the tree once stood.
The tree on which many decorative
hopes We're hung stood in the middle or
the lawn at the southeast corner of the
nations treasure house Around the
tree was rectangle of gree grass. dry
and yellow now. but for irregular patches
that cling to their summer dress. Bor-
dering the grass plot are twenty-six box
bushes on the east. twenty-siX on the
west and fourteen each on the north and
south sides Then come the iron picket
fence on the east. the iron fence and
granite posts on the south and on the
west the granite balustrade on the south
approach to the Treasury. At the north
end are rose bushes. plants that bear the
favorite flower of Secretary MacNeagh
In the garden at the southwest corner
of the Treasury lone pine tree is grow
ing. green and thrifty. 1t was com
panion to this tree that the young pine.
now dead, was brought from Virginia To
Washington.
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ing the comradship and the simple pleas
ures that youth stands in need or
In this part of the work mucn neip IS
needed. especially from those who couio
help with music or reading. At the ltanan
settlement there is boys club NUMBER
ing sixty members, with equally interest
ing features Last but not least is the
fresh air home Of the society, wnlch LOT
several summers past has been located at
a farm near Silver Spring
Last summer seventy-nine chiidren
were each given two-week outing
there, and applications were received
from thirty more than the ORGANIZATION % on
was able to care for on account OF iach
of funds. 1t is the ambition of the So
ciety to some day establish a little coun-
try home for children, and small perma-
nent fund is already on hand toward the
project For a number of children medi-
cal aid has been secured and mothers are
visited and instructed in matters or DO
mestic and nursery hygiene.
One little girl. who had never had any
use of her legs and was unable to attend
school has been taught the rudiments.
and after a years treatment by a MEM
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section at the time of the civil war. Some
have been abandoned, others have had
their course changed. and. generally.
these old roads have been lost in the
large mileage of new roads that has been
built in the northern part Of the District
The Brookeville road, for thousand yards
from Reno, ran north with slight in
clination westward, and then turned
7th street road at Grace Church. A road
ran along the valley Of Broad branch
from above the Sonnemann place south
erly to the Pierce Mill road. Another
road ran northeasterly to the Milk House
Ford road, and the Milk House Ford road
ran generally west to east by a little
south to 7th street road, Piney branch
and beyond, passing 200 yards north OF
the rifle trenches on the north side OF
the hill on which Fort De Russy was
built.
Milk House Ford road took its name
from the fact that in Rock creek, al
the point crossed by this road, there was
fiat stone, resembling the roof of d
milkhOuse. A long stretch of this road
is now abandoned. it having been super
south from the Milk House Ford road
passing the west face of Battery Smeade
and joining the Broad Branch road zoe
yards farther south, passing down a
draw" or ravine into the valley of Broad
branch. Fort De Russy commanded all
these roads and overlooked the country
between Rock creek and the 7th Street
road northward to the limit Of artillery
range.
A rifle trench ran from a battery about
100 yards each of Broad branch. and
between two ravines. dropping down
from the north. This trench continued
in an irregular course UP the hill and
northeast to Battery Smeade, section of
the trench forming an arc at the south
west, and about fifty yards distant from
the battery. From the northeast side of
Smeade, 800 yards in a straight line a
little north Of east, this trench ran and
then skirted the west. north and east
faces of De Russy. and continued on to
Battery Kingsbury. 800 yards southeast
of Fort De Russy. Kingsbury was on a
hill that looked. directly north up the
valley Of Rock creek, and up another
valley that came down from the north
east.
At the beginning Of the civil war
nearly all the forts could be reached
by one or more Of the county roads
radiating from Washington, Georgetown
and Alexandria, but there was lacking
adequate ways for rapid communication
and transference of troops and supplies
along and inside the defense line. The
defense commission reported that 1.-THE
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conditions governing the location Of these
roads and their construction were that
they should not be seen from any ground
that an enemy might be able to occupy
in front; that they should be as direct
as practicable, consistently with easy
grades, and that they should have suffi-
cient width for the movement over them
of field batteries or army trains"
x x
The first of the military roads was built
in the fall Of 1851 from the works at the
Chain bridge-Ethan Allen, Marcy and
fianking batteries-to the right OF the
Arlington line at Fort Strong. This road
three miles long. was built by troops un-
der the direction Of Capt. B. s. Alex
ander, in two or three days.
the Arlington lines to the rear of the de-
lenses of Hunting creek on the hills
south of Alexandria Forts Lyon
ORorke. Willard, Weed and Farnswortt
was built.
In September. 1862, road was built
linking up the works west OF the receiy-
ing reservoir with those in the valley OF
Powder Mill run and with Forts Gaines
and Reno and then on eastward to Fort
Stevens This road was five and half
miles long, exclusive of branches into
forts and batteries. For much the great
er part of its length it ran through dense
ly wooded and broken country. This is
the road that still runs in the rear OF
Fort De Russy and Battery Smeade. and
is called the Military road. In all, thir-
ty-two miles Of military road were built
before the close Of the war, connecting
the defenses OF Washington.
When Early was approaching Washing
ton from Rockville after having defeated
Lew Wallace on the banks Of the Monoc-
acy the first movement for the defense
of Washington was to concentrate troops
to man the guns and rifle trenches from
Fort Kearny on the right to Fort Sim
mons on the left, Fort Reno being the
center The heavy guns Of Reno and
Summons and De RuSsy were engaged
July IL in the morning The signal Of
ficer at Fort Reno saw troop dust show
ing a movement from the Rockville road
toward Blair's farm on the 9TH Street
road, and Union troops were quickly con-
centrated in the rifle trenches in front or
and ON both sides of Fort De Russy. AS
the Confederates moved south they came
under the fire of the guns of Forts DE
Russy, Stevens and Slocum.
Fort De Russy was named Tor Brig.
Gen. G. A. De Russy. 1t is a tribe over
Ave and a half miles from the dome OF
the Capitol. and is 354 feet above the
mean tide of the Potomac.
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Broad branch), having a deep and wide
valley, bisects the interval. Fort Kearny,
large lunette with stockaded gorge, oc-
cupies. a position from which this valley
is well seen. The auxiliary batteries,
Rossell and Terrill, and third on a
spur overlooking the stream, add their
fire to that of the fort, sweep the slopes
of minor depressions and command por-
These works are supported by rifle
trenches almost continuous from Fort
Reno to Fort Kearny, and thence, in
terrupted by the valley of Broad branch,
to Fort De RusSy.
Fort De Russy occupies salient and
exposed point of the line. Originally a
small inclosed, unfianked, work, and en-
tirely isolated. it would have exerted
little influence in repelling an attack on
the city. and had, indeed, little power of
resisting assault upon itself. The posi-
ton Is very commanding, especially over
Rock Creek valley and the ground be-
tween it and Fort Stevens. AS subse-
quently modified and connected by para
pets with the auxiliary batteries, Smeade
and kingsbury Uhe first of which was
Enclosed by a stOckade gorge, it became
very strong position. The line of
trenches continued thence to Fort Ste
vens, including i'm them one or two small
control the bed and valley of a tribu-
larry lying between it and Fort Stevens -
The armament of Fort De Russy was,
in embrasure. three nty-fOur- FOUNDER
smooth-bore guns on seacoast carriages,
five thirty pound PARROT rifles and two
vacant platforms in embrasure either for
field or siege artillery. In barbette De
Russy mounted one 1OO-pounder rifle, one
ten-inch siege mortar and one twenty
four FOUNDER cOhorn mortar.
Battery Smeade was armed with four
twenty-pounder PARROT rifles and had five
emplacements for field guns and one for
siege or field piece. Battery kingsbury
was unarmed but had platforms for nine
field pieces in embraSure.
The armament of Fort Kearny was, in
embrasure, one eight-inch siege howitZer.
three twenty-four-po FOUNDER siege smooth
bores, three fOur-and- -half-inch rifles,
and, in barbette, three twenty-four-
FOUNDER guns on seacoast carriages. 1t
had one vacant platform for field Or siege
gun. The battery directly to the east of
Broad branch was unarmed, but had plat
forms for three guns. and a battery on
the west of Rock creek, south of Bat
terry Kingsbury, had platforms for six
field pieces in embrasure.
A good many roads ran through this
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contained therein, fastened in all SINGER
ity, to assure the visitor that she had not
asked for an outfit for twins. Besides
the clothing are sent soap. towels. wash
cloth and an antiseptic solution, with
typewriter directions for use for baby 8
eyes. These little garments are made by
80 sewing members, assisted by one or
two other organizations and sewing cir
Gle at Trinity College.
A blind member, whose aff1iction threat
ered to keep her from the practical help
that her heart prompted, has solved the
problem by knitting 100 bootees to keep
the little pink toes warm The Junior
Guild is composed OF 1i5 children, and
their work. besides the dressing of the
Christmas dolls, is the distributing among
friends of little fancy shoes-a sort of
catch-all for pennies-bearing this inscrip-
ton
"A cent or a dime. or whatever you
please,
For little bare feet which might other
wise freeze
This penny, collection last year amount
ed to SD. The annual meeting of the
guild is held December 8, when the dolls
are returned and the penny shoe collec-
ton turned into the treasury. In eight
different sections of this city Settlement
work is being carried on by. the Christ
Child Society. The poorer districts are
chosen for these Christ Child Centers,
as they are called. and they form well
come refuge for many children or the
neighborhood. There are. seven sewing
schools in operation, one school being re-
served for co!ored children
There was average weekly attend
ance of 437 girls during the year and $50
garments were made by these pupils.
The older girls learn to make dresses and
shirt waists, and a number trained in the
schools are now making good wages sew
ing for dressmakers, while the smaller
girls delightedly sew on doll clothes. In
two of the centers the society has estaD-
lished clubs for girls between the ages Of
fourteen and eighteen.
Features of the girls club are stereop-
ticun lectures and dances, properly chap
eroned. Many of these girls come from
homes where the grip OF poverty is only
too apparent, and the temptation to es-
cape sordid conditions by such recreations
as are open to them is full of danger. 1t
is to meet this condition that the COM
mittee tries to make the girls clubs gen
uine places OF mental refreshment. ofer-
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Der of the society. professional mas
seuse, has SO far improved that with the
wearing of a pair of braces she can now
walk on crutches.
And so the good work goes on. yis-
itor to the headquarters any Tuesday
from November to April Will be rewarded
by a spectacle which, though deeply
moving in itself, is not without the COM
forting element of a happy ending. Here
come boys and girls of all ages, OF all
faiths, of descent from all nationalities'
yet each sensitively sure Of his or her own
good Americanism.
These little citizens in the making. go
there to be made whole and self-respect-
ing and whatever the necessities, the So
ciety finds way, though often hampered
for want OF funds. to help them. Many or
the widely differing requests come
through other organizations whose more
restricted scope only permits certain lines
of assistance.
Meanwhile the gentle foundress OF the
society from her invalid couch directs
the growth OF the society thai is each
year expanding into new and larger fields
of usefulness.
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village of Hamburg eastward across the
city and over Goose creek Tor Tiber). TAX
ing in the White Lot, Monument grounds,
Smithsonian and Agricultural grounds,
ArmOry Square. Botanic Garden, Penn
sylvania avenue and apparently extend
ing over to about where Union station
now is.
X
Duddington Pasture extended through
South Washington along the river front
from somewhere about the bureau of en-
craving and printing to the point now Oc-
cupied by Washington barracks In low
er South Washington the Pasture extend
creek.
Abbey Manor extended from about
where the Capitol stands. southwark to
the Eastern branch and eastward of
James creek.
The Hop Yard covered much of East
Washington. Port Royal extended north
of Beale's Levels up where 14th and 18th
streets run now and to a point appa-
rently about Massachusetts avenue.
where 1t joined Jamaica, and the latter
continued to about where r street is now.
where 1t Joined the south line Of the
tract called Mount Pleasant.
Mexico lay along the east side of Rock
creek. Widows Mite was a narrow tract
burg to the boundary and beyond. Mill
Tract and Sherwood have been covered
by Northeast Washington. The farms
along the north side Of the Eastern
branch from about the navy yard to
Benning are shown as the lands Of the
Widow Young. the Widow Wheeler and
William Young.
Another old drawing Of the city farms
shows two parts Of Duddington Pasture
Mr.. Carrolls part of Duddington Pas
ture' and Mr.. Motley Young's part of
Duddington Pasture On this drawing
Abbey Manor Is divided into two parts
that on which Union station and the Cap
itol stand being called New Troy and
that part from about street south to
the Eastern branch, Duddington Manor.
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City Life.

DR. HARVEY w. WILEY, apropos OF
l. pure Christmas foods, said the other
day in Chicago:
II know a woman fresh from the coun-
try who complained to her cook during
the holidays:
Our cider is Watery, the turkey has
no flavor, ] can't find any meat in the
mince-meat and back home they'd hardly
give to the pigs such q mass Of adultera-
ton as that timed plum pudding We had
for yesterdays dinner
1.-THE cook smiled tolerantly.
You'll get over them rural notions
after a WHILE she said"