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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24

on him. because he was only a tanners
son. While at the Point he diStln-
guished himself chiefly by his horse
manShlp, and one leap that ne made on
horseback is said TO remain TO this
day an unequaIed record at the
academy
Married After Mexican War
Scarcely was young Grant graduated
from West Point when he fen in love
with a girl named Dent, the daughter
of a man who owned considerable
farming property on the GraTOlS road,
not far from St Louis Her father did
not approve of the match, but her
mother favored it, and the upshOt Of
il was that they became engaged
Then the Mexican war broke out IN
which Grant fought with credit, and
at the termination of the conflict he
went back to St Louis and married the
young woman.
Six years later, in 1854, he resigned
from the army, and with this Separa-
ton from the military service began
a long struggle against poverty he
was unable to hold on to any sort of
employment and finally, to help him
out his faLherInlaW offered TO give
him 40 acres Of the Dent farm, on the
condition that he would clear the tim
Der off of it This task he undertook,
incidentally building a log house of
four rooms, in which he lived with his
wife and children
1t was at this time that he made a
meager living by hauling wood, TO
Usually he was dressed in a WOrnOut
private soldiers uniform. But it is a
matter Of record that ne never lost ms
cheerfulneSs, though everything ne
tried seemed fOredOOmed to failure. He
was defeated in his candidacy for the
place of surveyor of St Louis county,
and his later application was turned
down with the simple Endorsement
Rejected"
Abandons HardseraBbIe Farm.
At length he decided to abanCOn his
little farm which he had called by the
appropriate name of HardSCra.bble. and
moved with his family to St Louis
There he tried the real estate bust
ness, but as usual failed at A. As
commonly happens when a man IS per-
siStently unsuccessful, friends grew
chilly At this juncture, when things
seemed about as hopeless as they could
be, Grants father offered him Job or
clerk in his leather and saddlery store
at Galena- the wages to be $50 a month
He was glad to accept it When he left
st. Louis for Galena he was far behind
with the rent of the humble quarters
he had occupied
The year 1860 found Grant keeping
the books in the saddlery store. Every
body looked upon him as a failure IN
life. and 1t is likely that he himself
Shared this opinion But soon after
ward, when the war broke out. he was
led to hope that it might offer him
some opportunity His first effort in
this direction was TO urge a relative TO
furnish the small amount of money
necessary for starting a business of
selling bread to the military camp near
St Louis Meeting with a refusal, he
went to Springfield, III, and asked
governor Yates TO give him employ
ment in some capacity, it mattered not
what The governor did not look upon
his application with much favor. but
finally directed that he be hired at
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24

ASHINGTON d. c., Nay "a
NJ Barely does it happen that
w man who earns recognition
as a total failure in life afterward
achieves exalted success This was eX-
actly what happened, however TO
ULYSSES s. Grant. who not only strug-
gIed through many years OF grlndln6
and almost hopeless poverty DLL
actually fell into such dlSeSleeIL7 On
account of his inaolllJy 70 nlaAe so 90.
at anything, that people generally were
disposed to look upon him as an IN
desirable person to employ
Once Sold Cord Wood.
There are people still living In st
Louis who remember Grant as a SHABBY
little man who brought loads Of CORD
wood into town and sold II from door
10 door He had been a captain IN the
army. but had resigned, and at the
DeriOd in question he lived on a farm
some distance out Of St Louis, on the
GraVOiS road
But. in order TO make It clear how
this state of affairs came about, one
must 20 back a few steps-ln fact TO
the bOyhOOd OF Grant VINO was uoL u
at Point Pleasant O., April -, 46z--
His name was Ulysses Hiram his
mother used jOkingly say to him. BE
sure YOU don't become -useless- Not
much is known about his early youth,
except that at years OF age ne coula
ride horseback standing on one 1OOL
He had remarkable skill with horses,
and a story is told of his volunteering
10 Desirable, at a circus, an unInan-
ageable pony which nobody else dared
tackle At the bidding Of the ring
master a large monkey Jumped up De
hind him on the horse, and thence up
on his shoulders, holding on TO MS mar
but he hung on like grim DEATH upper
another anecdote has to do with a
horse which his father sent him to buy
How much did your father tell you TO
paw for it2' asked the owner OF the
animal. fsEIe told me" replied the boy,
"to offer you $50, and If you would not
take that, to make it 500, or even sou
If necessary
Naturally. the man said that the price
Of the horse was $50. Whereupon the
lad added But I have made up my
mind not to pay you more than sou
and you can take that or nothing
He got the horse for $50.
Appointed to West Point.
It so happened that Gen Hamer- the
member Of congress from that district,
was a friend Of Grants father, and he
took the trouble to obtain for ulysses
an appointment at West Point. In send
ing in the requisite papers, ne mixed
up the name Of Ulysses with that OF
his brother Simpson, so that young
Grant found himself put down on the
roster Of cadets as u s Grant This
accident earned for him at the Point
the nickname Of Uncle Sam''-after-
ward abbreviated TO sam by which
title Of intimacy he was known for
many years after he left the Military
academy.
He is described at this period Of his
career as an understood, awkward
and very careless about his dress Many
of his fellow cadets. who prided them
selves upon birth and breeding. mani
Tested an inclination TO look down up
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24

is the with the vertebra IN Bghts disease 1t dead
ems the nerves to kidneys so they do drain the system.
Also in stomach and liver troubles and female troubles
and appendicitis the nerve deadened to the different
parts as in appendicitis by pressure 1t at spine 1t
causes stagnant blood to the part and decay 1t
and cause disease That is why they all easily cured
by Oseopathy the restored circulation carries out the
impurities and builds up the destroyed parts Just as 1t
did when the blood first made It. And If this st2gnant
blood had been sealed the system by healing up these
sore parts with drugs would have saturated the blood
and overaxed the lungs purify it. consumption would
be the result every time, for exhaustng the nerves with
drugs and stmuants and healing up sores which are needed
IN drain this staqnant blood of the system, which
Osteopah could prevent by freeing the nerve, causes all
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24

Mr. Filler. of the
well known real estate
firm of Anderson &
Filler, had been hurt
some time back in an
auto accident. II had
strained the Hgaments
in neck so verterbra
was held to one side,
choking the vein
which drains the brain
lust behind the ear.
DR.. Ira W. Collins
worked this back in
place when he was
suffering the agonies
of death and drained
it and he was re-
stored to health How
much dope would
have ever irritated up
circulation to have
drained this, when
the vertebra would
have remained in an
a b normal position,
still choking It. This
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24

pathic Infirnary POI West Missouri Street
Little Julia Ardon who has been critically i'll with
pneumonia is rapidly recovering under OsteOpathy and
Dr. Ira w Collins has pronounced her much improved at
present At least 100 cases Of pneumonia have been han
teOpathic Infirmary.
1900 CASES FEMALE DISEASES.
Mrs Wiley, who has been suffering with her eyes
and was almost blind at times and had suffered
many things of many doctors" says she can now
see as well as anybody since she had DR. Ira W. Collins
fix them up by Osteopathy Two hundred cases Of eye
troubles have been cured here by OsteOpathy at Dr. A T.
Still Osteopathic Infirmary Some blind-nOst of them
given up by other methods
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-24
Grant, Failure In Many Pursuits,
"Made Good" When Commanding Men
By
Rene Bache

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The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
SENSATION IN MISSISSIPPI
PRISON SCANDAL COMES
ON EVE or sEcRETARYS
SENTENCES.
5REWER ATTACHES 1928 BALES
OF BOYCE COTTON.
State Has Been 0utrageousN
SwIndIed In Weights" The
Governor Charges.

Jackson, Miss, June 26.-Law-
renee Yerger, former secretary of the
prison board of trustees, was arraign-
"a in the circuit court Monday after
room on the indictment charging him
With the embezzlement of S33, ,O0C
O The states money and pleaded
guilty thereto. He was sentenced
to ten years in the penitentiary and
' as sent to jail pending his further
investigation by the grand jury, and
ia order that he may be near at hand
il wanted to testify against other
faople. Mr.. Yerger had nothing
whatever to say except that he was
g lity. Judge Henry stated to him
tilat he regretted exceedingly having
Z pass sentence but that it BECAME
llS duty to do so. He reminded him
that his family had been prominent
It the affairs Of Mississippi for three
aua rters of a century and this was
TIE first time he had eyer heard of
1le Of them being mixed up in any
proceedings.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
M|LLSTONEs ON
THE INCREASE
Production Not Decreasing Since
the Introduction of Other
Modern Machinery.

It is generally supposed that the
use of millstones is becoming less ano
less each year because of the intro.
duction of other grinding machinery,
but on the contrary, according to
figures made public by the Uni,ed
States Geological Survey, the value
OF the production of milstones, burr
stones, chasers and drag stones in
tins country in 1912, amounting to
S71,414, was the largest since 1888,
when it amounted to S81 900, and
was an increase of S31 ,342 over the
figures for 1911. The replacement
Of the millstones, it was assumed,
would be gradual and the value of
millstones would therefore show a
steady falling off. This, however,
has not been the case. From maxi
mum value Of $500, 900 in 1880 The
.alue fell to 500, 900 in 1887; from
s81 600 in 1888 the value declined
rapidly to sl6,sa7 in 1891; in the
following year there was a rise in
value to S23,417, followed by a
marked decline until the lowest value
ever reported, S13,887, was reached
in 1894. Since that year the values
have risen and FALLEN. Millstones
were produced in 1912 in Alabama,
New York, North Carolina, Penn
sylvania and Virginia. The output
in New York was between two and
thtee times that Of 1911, and this
State reganed its lead in the mill
stone industry in the United States.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
Stops Cotton Shipment.

Governor Brewer sprung a new
sensation Monday in the penItentiaFy
S sandal when he announced that he
had instructed Attorney General
Ross Collins to sue out a writ OF
attachment to secure possession OF
! l3S bales of cotton held by boyce
a Id Company, Memphis cotton buy
f S, and which was recently pur-
CHASED from the Mississippi convict
firm at Parchman. This cotton had
been shipped from Parchman and
y as supposed to be on the Illinois
{ entral Railroad between there and
New Orleans. It is reported here
tonight however, that the cotton had
I, ached New Orleans, and would be
hauled back into the state Of Missis-
slppi, the railroad company being in
l. rested IN holding the cotton be-
cause of the fact that the Attorney
General has garnisheed that COM
plny to secRnre possession OF same.
Governor Brewer has employed
\ ayes & Mayes to assist the Attor-
Il ~ General in recovering possession
O the cotton. This Cotton has been
S I'D and paid for, but the Governor
t kes the position that the state
has been badly swindled," as will
be seen in his letter requesting the
:. ttorney General to bring the pro-
c eiings.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
RAz0R NOT A
DEADLY WEAPON
Is a Toilet Article In Mississippi,
According to Supreme
Courts Decision.

Jackson, Miss, June 26.-Ac-
G. riding to the Supreme Court, a
razor is not deadly weapon, but a
toilet article, and Juniqs Brown Of
! adams county was given a reversal
on the charge Of having useda dead
ly weapon, when he has simply used
a razor,
Justice Reed stated that Junius
was thirteen-year-old negro boy
who had defended himself with a
azor. He explained to the court
lat his grandmother had given him
4 e razor to have sharpened, so she
could trim her corns. The MlssiSs-
irri statue which defines what is a
deadly weapon does not list the
razor as one of them, and it is not
known or sold in the market as a
d .adly weapon. The court suggest
ed that it would be well for the
/ legislature to have razors inserted
IN this catalog, along with pistols,
bowie knives, dir!ss, etc, as it is
IT ally a very deadly weapon in the
hlnds of one skilled in its use.
A similar case was reported from
louisiana, and there the razor was
declared not a deadly weapon under
lie law, though some of the citizens
o. both States are prone to use it on
s ight provooation as something Other
tiian a toilet article as described in
the dictionaries.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
LOOKUP DOORS
NOW SWING OPEN

Waynesboro, Miss, June 20
The doors of the Wayne county Jail
are standing wide open without a
prisoner behind the bars, all the
prisoners having been released on
bond or transferred to the county
farm or road gangs.
The dockets for the July term of
the circuit court, which will con-
vene on the second Monday in July,
are being made up by the circuit
clerk and both the criminal and civil
dockets contain a much larger num-
Der of cases than for several years,
which means at least two weeks
term of court.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
HAS JAIL BRAND
WH|sKEY FLASKS

Pass Christian, Miss, June 20
George Cole, Of this place, was
Saturday fined SIS for having stolen
liquor TASKS in his home. 1t was
proven that Cole visited the jail
twice during the day where conflS-
Gated liquors were stored, and upon
Marshal Cronovich's visit to Coles
home he found several empty whIs-
key TASKS containing the same label
as that upon the intoxcants held at
the jail. Cole testified that a man
named White brought the liquor to
his (Cole's) home. White, learning
that Cole had been arrested, skip
ned out of town.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
DEPUTY TAKEN
BEFORE JUSTICE
iiut Officer Is Acquitted At Moss
Point On Charge of
Selling Liquor.

Moss Point, Miss, June 26.-An
Interesting case was tried before
Mayor Frank S. Mcnnis Friday. 1t
vas that Of the city vs.. julius Turn
er, deputy sheriff of Laine, who
was charged with the selling of in
t)Xicating liquor. The offense with
which he is charged with having
committed occurred during the month
Ct March of the year and before he
was appointed deputy sheriff.
Two Of the witnesses for the city
swore that they had purchased
hquor from the accused.
After the evidence had all been
submitted the city attorney, c. H..
Wood, asked that the case be dis
missed, as the offense had not been
committed within the corporate limits
Of the city. The mayor promptly
discharged Turner.
Later in the day Turner was again
placed under arrest on a warrant
sworn to by Constable Fl. E. Del
mas. The accused was released on
bond pending the trial of his case,
which was held before Justice J. j.
Cunningham Monday afternoon.
This case came up before a jury,
which in very short time after hear
'Tg the evidence acquitted him.
Turn er's explanation was that back
il March he and several others had
formed pool to send to Mobile for
liquor for themselves and that after
t; arrival, there being no other place
tC take it, the box was removed tol
MS home, from which place the con-
t hts were given out to those who
bad joined with him in the purchase. |
At the hearing it was intimated
i at the officer had brought the
charge against him for the alleged
March ofense because he had arrest
'd him a short time before for play
ng baseball on Sunday.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
SCHOOLS OF STATE
ARE BEING CHEATED
Land Commissioner Asks Super-
visors To Have Grand Jury
Investigate.

jackson, Miss, June 26.-M. A
Brown,..State land commissioner, has
discovered that the schools of Miss
lSslppl are being sWindled out of a
good deal of funds accruing from the
lease of sixteenth section lands, and
proposes to recover it at all costs.
He has consulted the Governor and
the Attorney-general and finds that
the laws give him ample authority to
prosecute and recover all such funds
and declares it his intention of going
right after al! parties who owe any
thing on this account. He has found
that in at least one county as much
as $4,000 of $4,000 is due the
schools on account Of sixteenth Sec
ton lands leased years ago, and will
see what can be done toward re-
covering it.
With this object in view Commits
sioner Brown has addressed the
following letter to Boards Of Super
visors, superlntendents Of education
and Others in all counties:
find from an investigation ex-
tending over a good portion of the
State, that in many counties the law
relative TO the sixteenth section
school fund is being fagrantly vio-
lated. In some instances, have
found, from a personal inspection,
that valuable timber has been stolen,
apparently without any serious pro-
test from members of the Boards of
Supervisors and other officials, whose
duty, under the law, would be to
oppose such practices.
. as land commissioner, am doing
everything in my power to save
these lands and timber for the child
rem of the State, but find | cannot
bear the burden alone. would, |
therefore, respectfully suggest that |
you charge your grand jury to make
an investigation as a body, or by
committee, into the status of these
lands and this fund in your county,
50 that if they find any timber de.
predations or mishandling Of funds,
the matter can be rectifed and this
sacred fund applied to its beneficent
purpose, "
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
CuLFP0RT AIMS TO
HAVE FREE BRIDGES

Gulfport, Miss, June 2e.-A COM
N ittee was appoi lted at meeting
Of the Gulfport Commercial Union
and authorized to take up at Qnco
with the county board of supervisors
the question of elimination of all
tolls from bridges in this county,
making all bridges free.
The Gulfrort and western bond
debenture committee reported the
sale of s83, 900 worth of the bonds.
The committee was asked to hold
itself in readiness for p,asecuring the
v ork further should their services be
needed.
A resolution was passed thanking
J. l.. Heiss, N. P, bouslog and
others for the very effective work in
helping to carry the municipal bond
election on May 81, when the city
voted $780, 900 worth of first mort
gage 5 per cent terminal bands IN
serDi9sl boads in the new roads
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
FARMERS INSTITUTE
ON AUGUST Is

1t is announced by the depart
nlent of education that there will ne
d general round up of those engaged
II farmers institute work at the A,
{ N. College at Starkville from
iugust Is to s9, inclusive, and that
a corps Of competent lecturers and
demonstrators will be on hand. Last
year there were about 900 farmers,
presenting nearly every county in
the state in attendance, and it is
teieved that great good was accom-
pushed by this round up meeting.
Everything possible will be done
this year to increase this attendance,
e zen beyond the 600 mark. Ar
IIngements have been made to take
cne Of women.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
THREAT FOUND
UNDER DOOR
An Anonymous Communication IS
Received by B. n. Ellis, Real
Estate Man.

Pascagoula is no white Cap
,lty and there is here no organized
1ang, but there is in the communit,
a person who would like to get uE
omething of the kind, if he is to b
Judged by threatening communi
alton which B. H. Ellis, the rea
state agent, found under the dool
Of his office as he entered it Satur.
cay morning. 1t was dramatically
correct, well worded and punctuated,
cut not signed. 1t was not in script.
The writer sought to initiate type.
writer type with his pencil, evident
" as disguise for his handwriting.
The communication follows:
We understand that you are
guilty Of the following:
"()-Writing to Governor Brew.
G. about Sunday baseball.
"(2) No. (a) Is a trick that only
4 -'---- scoundrel like yourself would
Do.
We refer to your effort to sell
ne yellow house halfway to the
aeach. We know that you tried to
sell said house to Maude and also to
some other threatening them
j they didn't buy the place you
would see that they would have to
lsave town.
I'm other words you were only
.liter the almighty dollar, even if you
had to use the methods of a ------
10 get them.
Nov man that would do the
5bove named trick and at the same
,lme pose as moral reformer and
5ious preacher should be given a
1abllc whipping and driven out Of
own.
You had better take our advice
md leave town. If you don't i'll
lay become necessary to advertise
'ome of your crooked deals and also
q escort you to the city limits. The
wer scoundrels like you a town
as the better off it is and no town.
as ever been or ever can be reform.
/. by a scoundrel and we've stood
live intend to from you; so beware"
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
START new BANK.

Pass Christian, Miss, June 26.-
This place is to have a new bank,
Alter examining several places for
temporary quarters, Charles Arthur
Williamson, late superintendent of
tie Culfport city schools, but now
in the banking business, pefected
9 rangements for having the charter
( the Bank of Pass Christian ap-
| owed by the governor and attorney
{. neral so as to enable the incorpor-
ators to begin business.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
BALL BEARING
SHEARS FREE
Democrat Star to Give New In
vention With Paid-in.Advanca
Subscriptions.

The Democrat Star has received, f0r
introduction purposes, a limited sup
ply OF GILMAN BALL BEARING
SHEARS, something entirely new.
These are offered, free'of cost, to all
paid In advance subscribers OF the
paper. They are shears that sell at
retail for the price Of years sub.
scription. They are made only in the
highest nickel-plate finish, are eight
inches long aud have no screws or
nuts to regulate or get lost, as In the
urdInary tension shear.
This free offer is for paidin advance
subscribers only. Persons can yet
them for 30 cents when paying up ar
rearages. The form will be found 9p
another page.
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
Cattle In The South.

Literature regarding methods Of
( eding cattle in tlie-South and eradi-
citing the cattle ticks may be obtain.
Il from the Bureau of Animal In
dustry, Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D.. C. Southern farm
g S are also advised 10 consult the
nepartment's county farm demon
s.ration agents,
The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1913-06-27
Entsfpfising PascagouIa.

Pascagoula is an enterprising little
city and it is ta be congratulated on
tie movement now under way to
raise 500, 900 in order to get the
to expend s3aa. 600 on
its haFbor. We hope the movement
will be successful.-Blo Daily
Herald.