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comfortable farmhouses and villas OF
Fredericksburg citizens.
You follow this road for four miles
and then ascend hill that leads up to
Salem Church and you are then upon
the field where Sedgewick. after close
and hard fighting. gave up hope OF
reaching Hooker or taking Lee from the
rear and moved off to recross the Rap
pahannock at one of the fords above
Fredericksburg Salem Church is stand
ing and services are held there. 1t is
a Baptist church. Breaches were made
in the brick walls by artillery fire, but
the breaches were later bricked up and
you can see the patchwork. The older
bricks that remain in the walls are in
many places broken or pitted by fraS-
ments of shell, or grape, or musket
balls.
1t was not considered necessary to re
pair these injuries. and today the OLD
walls have a pockmarked appearance as
a result of the iron and leaden story that
ragged there. A stretch of open woodland
covers much of the land about the
church. Reaching to the right and lei.
OF the old building. through these woods
runs the remain of the trench the coh-
federates threw up. 1t is not a deep
trench. but if you visit there you VIII
not have any difficulty in tracing II
throughout its whole length.
When the Rambler first visited the
spot a number of years ago me
a noint on the roadside about a hundred
Yards eastward of the church in honor
of the I'D New Jersey Volunteers Ihat
monument is still standing and, thoueh
others have been erected SINCE us m
scription is especially worthy of repro
duction here One face of the monument
bears an inscription setting forth that
ii commentaries the services OF tne .Su
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry IN IN lne
battle of Salem Church. May . 1903.
that it was erected under authority OF
the New Jersey legislature and that me
commission having the work IN cnarse
II. Kirkbridge and Quartermaster ser
Seant Thomas J. Alcott.
On one side of the shaft near the base
is a bronze tablet bearing this gallant
sentiment:
To the Brave Alabama Boys,
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in huge size upon screen of white
cotton cloth.
BY this means the officers of the gen
eraI staff are enabled to view, as If with
their own eyes the scene upon which
the scout looked an hour or SO earlier.
But the picture is much better than that,
for the eye of the telephoto camera is
telescopic, and everything in the distance,
even though so far away as to be almost
indistinguishable to the scout. is brought
relatively near on the magic lantern
screen.
The practical usefulness of this kind
of telephoto scouting for military pur-
poses makes it of great Importance.
Hitherto in time of war the general in
command of an army has been Obliged
to rely for information in regard to the
enemy's whereabouts etc. upon verbal
descriptions brought in by scouts. sup
plemented by such pencil sketches as
they were able to furnish.
By taking a series of views with his
new military camera, the telephoto
scout, If he happens TO be able to secure
a sufficiently elevated point Of outlook,
can present to view an immense extent
Of territory. The pictures he takes.
when suitably enlarged. can even be put
together panorama fashion so as to
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to civil war battles. But Chancellor--
vile is not and never was a village.
When that section was swept with shot
and shell Charlottesville consisted OF
one big house. with the usual outbuild-
ings grouped behind it and at its sides,
1t WAS a big inn run by man named
Chancellor. and was patronized By frsv-
elers over the Orange turnpike, the Plank
road and other roads that run from
the Rappahannock fords and then on
in the direction of Spottsylvania Court
House.
II was shot to pieces during the fight
ing around it. Hooker used ii as his
headquarters and was standing by one
of the stone pillars Of the porfico when
a Confederate cannon shot struck the
column, shattering il, the shock knock
ing Hooker down, and. according TO some
narratives. rendering him unconscious
After the war a smaller house was built
on part OF the foundation and was
used for number of Years as sum-
mer boarding place and as 4 school.
Along one of the roads through the Chan
cellor fields is line of very old-looking
stake-and- rider fencing of chestnut rails
and which. the Rambler was told. had
been there before the fighting.
Passing through the Chancellor clear
ing. YOUR road re-enters the woods and
tangles OF the wilderness. and. about
mile west of the Chancellor house and on
the right-hand side of the road. passe.'
the spot where Jackson fell. The ground
big, rough native bowlder stands by the
wayside and this the only marker
of the spot till the monument shown
in the picture was erected. On the road
side face of the monument at the base
is the single word Jackson cut deep in
the stone.
The second layer or course of stone
above the base is dressed. and on the
four sides are recorded the facts that
Jackson fell mortally wounded at that
spot: that his last words were We Will
cross the river and rest in the shade
of the trees" and that Lee said that the
Confederate service could better have lost
him than Jackson.
On the monument are also chiseled
the words Gen. Bee spoke on the Henry
hill during the first battle of Bull Run.
There stand Jackson's men like a stone
wall.
The Wilderness Church and the Wilder
ness Tavern are further along the road.
but that is another story.
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vance was stopped at Salem Church.
about four and half miles west of
Fredericksburg. After fighting during
May /. = and the Union army re-
crossed the Rappahannock May 4. after
a loss of 1000 men and large stores.
The Rambler began his walk at
Fredericksburg travelling over what
was the Plank road. and which is still
called BY that name. 1t is dirt road
now. rough. rutty and hilly. The coun-
try is clay yellow and red. and the
road is extremely sticky in winter and
early spring. and sitting dusty when
II dries ont. The main travel over this
road as the Rambler observed it. is by
wagons-or wagons that haul rail
ness. Not vestiSe of the wartime
plankinS of this road may be seen on
any part of its length.
Before the war this road because it
was great thoroushfare. was plank
ed with timbers two inches thick
Timber was plentiful and cheap, and
the road was one of the most important
in Virginia, stage coaches and other
traffic running over it between the
lower Rappahannock country and the
west. 1t belonged to a private COM
pany and. of course, was a toll road.
out of Fredericksburg the road
climbs a steep hill about one mile to
the west of the Marye House of bloody
fame. and crosses the uplands over
which the southern camps were spread
in the winter of 1S62-63, and over
which Sedgewick swept in his efforts
to join Hooker at Chancellorsville.
This is all a rich and fruitful farming
country now and closely dotted with
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halrdINs.
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formed with such economy of time that
the photograph is ready for exhibition
within forty-tive minutes after the plate
has been delivered to the dark room by
the returned scout. 1t should be eX-
planned that the original plate Is in size
only AZ by 3l4 inches. Whence the neces-
sity for the enlargement.
This however, is not all Having de-
livered the enlarged print. the photog-
rapher goes to work and makes from
the newly developed negative contact
positive AS anybody familiar with
photography knows. this is accomplished
by putting the negatives in a plateholder
face to face with an unexposed plate,
making brief exposure to light. and
developing the fresh plate in the ordinary
way. The resulting positive Is a lantern
slide.
The lantern slide. rinsed and briefly
dried in the manner already described.
is handed over to waiting officer who
goes to the room where the members
of the general staff are in consultation,
pulls down the window shades, puts
the lantern slide into projector-an
improved magic lantern operated with
an electric highland throws the picture
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acres of cleared land. In this big clear
ing the Plank road, the Orange turnpike
and several smaller less important
roads converged. 1t was looked upon by
the military strategists great posi-
ton from which to conduct offensive
opera tions against Lee. but also most
unsatisfactory place for fighting on the
defensive.
Lee April ~ was cogniZant of Hook
ers design. and May l he was moving
out of the hills above and behind Fred
erickshurs to meet his enemy. leaving
behind a strong enough force to stop or
delay Sedgewick On the morning OF
May l Hooker sent forward the 9Th
Corps. II got free of the tangles of the
Wilderness and gained the high. clear.
rolling lands to the eastward Here
began
After a succession of orders to hold
their lines and to fall back, the 9TH
Corps ordered to retire upon the
army around Charlottesville. where
Hooker was intrenchins. Instead of
meeting Lee in the Open where the
greater Union strength might have
counted. Hooker decided to fight a de-
fensre battle in the tangled woods
around Charlottesville. The criticism
at this distance from the war.
Lee pressed Hookers left flank and
detached Stonewali Jackson with about
twenty-five thousand men to make wide
detour around the Union lines and at
tack Hooker on the right. 1t was one
of the great flank movements of the civil
war. or perhaps of any other war. In
all histories of the charlottesville cam
paisn it is written that during the after
noon of May Hooker was advised that
a large body of the enemy was march
ing across his front going westward
The movement misunderstood by
Hooker and he seems to have thought
that Lee was retreating in the direction
of GordonSville.
On the evening of May jackson
struck Hooker's right flank. which was
the 11th Corps. commanded by Gen. ..
o. Howard The surprise of the Fed
erals was complete and the rout was
checked only after severe losses 1t was
on this night that Jackson and his staff
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has made the pictures hands the plate
holders over TO the dark room operator
and the latter proceeds Immediately TO
develop the plates.
The saving of time is a prime object
in view. II takes, say. ten minutes to
develop plate five minutes more to
fix it in the hypo tank and another five
minutes to rinse 1t in water 1t is then
dipped into a solution of carbonate OF
potash. which has the effect of drying
all the water out of the plate while
rendering the emulsion so hard that it
can be rubbed with a cloth without in
juring 1t. A negative thus insuff1ciently
washed would soon go to pieces but
this does not matter because it is want
ed only for immediate use, to be after
ward thrown away.
With a turn of his hand the photog
rapher places an charging lens box in
the window OF the dark room and, ad-
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WITH A NEW DEVICE, TT

Mounted Signal
Corps Men Will Keep
General Staff Sup
piled With Pictures OF
Scenes of Operations.
Novel Camera Devised
for Our Army - Sev-
eral New Systems OF
Signals for Transmit
ting Intelligence.
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y Ia, FIRST three
dtvs "t Ma y the
Rambler WAS OBJ
sen wing one of
the greatest and
y loo d ST of
American anui-
.versariesst the am
nlysrsary Of the
BATH gf chan
cellorsville or it
might lie as ac-
ctlratc u SAY tue
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E TEHE AEPECT SCOUT APSEHOTS EENEMMYrS MOVEMENTS

distances a breech-loading. cartridge-fed
pistol is used which fires. instead of bull
lets. red, green and white projectiles re-
sembling the fiery balls discharged from
a roman candle.
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enable the officers Of the general staff TO
glance at once over the whole scene of
operations. AS the scouts mounted oi
t.,sos ~, ~ aada,artars .verr now move
of the enemy can be followed from hour
to hour
In connection with this scouting work
various new methods of transmitting in
telligence are being developed by the
Signal Corps One of these is the field
artillery semaphore. which consists Of
two electric flash lamps attached by
wires to a battery in a small portable
box. Each lamp-one of them is red
and the other GREEN'S small incan
descent bulb on the end of short rod,
through which the wire passes. The
operator conveys code signals by waving
ana nasnlns the nghts
y
The field buzzer. originally rather prinl-
;.; ~, ta,, 5.,.,n,.a ~ s,cb :. no,pt
~. !, :; - , .I,hon., .,,a t,ayr.,,b
'ha' = ~" -
cothpired, the Wh"ie appai Gus oei's
packed IN box which one couid almost
put into a pocket Ordinarily it is oper-
ated by two men. Under war conditions
+ha line NJ communication ranresented IL
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from ieei Sdi anu may pe 'atiieu ~
ylns aioiis 'ne siou,iu
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muntcate with Headquarters. giving infor-
nation or asking for orders. either BY
working the buzzer IN Morse code Or
ps ,i1l, laihss =, h;s aar s.rxirg as =
receiver
The second man is called the lineman
and carries pike-a long rod with
nook nm the end Of il His business is to
laen tba line in order and riding along
il With his horse at fun gallon, he can
n,,,sa for an instant and nick il up with
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These Mincopies themselves are queer
folk Reputed TO be cannbals and MUIR
derers they are it is contended by cer-
tain authorities. in reality a harmless
race of black dwarfs. The British of In
dia have given them a bad name. In
earlier times they We're sold into slavery.
AS they were raided and carried on
into captivity by Chinese and Malay pi-
rates for many years, it Is easy to under.
stand that they came at last to act most
inhoSpitahly toward sailors With pro-
lection against this traffic their true
character appeared. and they are now
known to be a tractable, non-narlihe
people.
The average height of the Andaman
men is four feet and eleven inches, and
of the women four feet and seven inches.
They are of symmetrical proportions. and
decorate themselves with tattooing and
red ochre. They are not of negro stock.
but have frizzled hair, which grows in
odd spiral tufts.
Most of them shave their heads, the
women leaving tWo narrow strips of hair
from the crown to the nape of the neck.
and the men a patch like a skull-cap on
the top Of the head.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
Necessary Care of Teeth

many proprietary articles that are ex-
|eellent, but there are just as many that
contain acids and gritty substances that
are ruinous to the enamel of the teeth.
The teeth can be kept perfectly clean
by the use Of little ,recipitated chalk
once a day, and warm limewater at
might. Hsterine and myrrh are harmless
and very effective lotions for the teeth,
and can be used in place of proprietary
articles whose ingredients are mys-
terry.
If your teeth are set rather far apart,
thus allowing particles of food to lodge
between them, then Use a quill tooth
|pick or dental floss. Needless to say,
this must be done in the privacy of
your room and not at the table. If
tartar is inclined to form at the root Of
|your teeth, you should at lemons and
lacid fruits, and occasionally use mag
nesia. Rinsing the mouth out with a
solution of c4mphor is also beneficial.
Il great many foreigners found in the
working class Of today have exceeding
|ly white teeth, well preserved, and
physicians say this is caused by the al
most universal use of salt for cleansing
teeth. This is not recommended for a
twice-a day method, but by using it two
or three times week great benefit will
result It destroys many deposits that
are injurious to the teeth, and gives
firmness to tho gums.
Let us impress upon you the great
necessity of visiting dentist once
every year. II your teeth are apt to de-
cay then go twice year. The major
Iity Of women wait until they have a
toothache, then rush to the dentist for
help. Many of these trips could be
avoided and large bills kept down to a
minimum by these semi-annual visits.
The dentist sees at once some little de-
lcaY that is just starting. and which. if
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
HOW GOSSIP BREAKS UP
WOMEN'S CLUBS.
N the current issue of Farm and Fire
side Hilda Richmond writes an

N the current issue of Farm and Fire
j side Hilda Richmond writes an
article urging the development of
clubs among farm women, but she
issues the following warning:
"Only one thing is fatal to the
happy social life of any country COM
munity, and that is gossip. If the ladies
cannot find in the wide field of house
keeping, chicken-ra raising, preserving,
care of children, public schools, music,
art, reading, public improvements, good
government, health, sewing, entertain
ing, and all other delightful household
tasks, enough material to lift the meet
ings above petty personalities, then the
little club, or whatever it is called, is
doomed Whenever gossip is allowed
to creep into any organization people
will begin to break up into little cliques
or circles OF groups, and the whole thing
fails -
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
In the Home Fashions = Household Hints Recipes

not treated, would mean the entire loss
of the tooth. Once your teeth begin to
decay, then nothing but the skill of an
expert will help you, but the thing to do
is to take good care of them, to prevent
the decay and keep your breath sweet
and fresh. The remedy of all remedies
is, of course, cleanliness, and night and
morning should see you with teeth well
brushed and mouth well rinsed by some
harmless lotion.
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Put pint of cream and two cupfuls
of powdered sugar in the chatting dish,
and stir gently to avoid scorching un-
til tho mixture begins to boil. Then
add one-quarter of pound Of un.
sweetened, grated chocolate. The mix.
ture should just bubble over very
moderate heat for about nine minutes.
When sufficiently cooked, add an inch
and half cube Of butter, stir vigor-
ously and beat steadily for eight min.
utes, adding half pound of fresh
marshmallows cut into shreds and
quarter of pound Of chopped pecan
meats. Turn into buttered pan, and
as it begins to harden mark into
souara
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06
Summer Hints

EOR bites apply vaseline and burnt
alum; lemon juice for bee stings;
common bluing for bits of any in
sect, or vaseline, lard and burnt alum
can be applied.
! For vaseline stain, soak in cold wa
ter for half an hour or longer. Then
apply warm water, and finally wash in
strong white soap and boiling water. If
white goods, put in the sun.
Cream of tartar will remove iron rust.
To take iodine stainis from linen, make
q thick paste of ordinary starch and
cover the stains, and then apply heat
either that of the sun or stove. For
carbolic acid burn apply vinegar, at
once, and then make poultce of stale
bread and vinegar. This holds good for
burn from lye.
For sore feet, three parts salieylic
acid powder, ten parts starch pulverized
and SO per cent Of pulyerized soapstone.
Sift into shoes and stockings For a
eanker in the mouth, two ounces honey
mixed with one-half dram of powdered
borax or boric acid powder.
The body requires some protein and
fat, and working men can use more than
other people; but that does not always
mean hot, heavy, meats and gravies.
Work in lot Of substitutes these
days-peas, beans, cheese and eggs, with
nuts, cream and oil in the salad combi-
nations There are so many ways.
Give the pansies and sweet peas plenty
Of water, but in the cool of the evening,
and be sure the soil is not washed from
their roots.
To revive house plants that are droop-
ing, put tablespoon of ammonia in
three quarts of water and sprinkle them
freely with the mixture, both plants
and soil.
Don't lie awake thinking about the
vexing things that happened today and
the work in store for tomorrow; sleep
will solve the problems better than any
amount of night thinking possibly can
Postage stamps that have stuck to-
gether can easily be separated by pass
ing a moderately hot iron over them.
If the night is sultry and the little
air stirring seems hot, wet thin cloth
and stretch it across the open window
and the air coming through will be
cooled.
Fill the house full Of cool night and
early morning air, then draw the shades
on the sunny sides and keep as much
>f lha hot DIV MT no pnauhIa
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-08-06

m ERHAPS You think that your teeth
are not a conspicuous part Of your
final make up. If you do, you are
very much mistaken. They are most
valuable adjunets to both your beauty
and your health. We have seen more than
one pretty girl smile, showing set Of
ill,kept, yellow teeth, and spoil the
whole effect secured by her facial
beauty. If your teeth are in bad con-
|dition, that means you will have bad
breath, and nothing can be more Of
fensive than this. We would not try to
compete with a dentist, but there are
lots Of things that girls can do at home
to prevent this dreaded visit to the den-
tist Like everything else important,
however, it takes a few moments Of
your time, now and then.
Mothers should begin with their chill.
dren when they have their first set Of
teeth. These should be kept in good
condition as long as possible. If the
teeth have tendency to be brittle, be
sure that is caused by some internal
|condition, and your physician should be
consulted. Limo water used frequently
is about as good preventive for the
breaking of young children 5 teeth as
anything, and can be compounded at
hcme. Put teacupful of clean, un-
Stacked lime in a pitcher, pouring about
two quarts of water over it. Stir this
u, until it has milky / ok, then let it
stand until it has settled and becomes
quite clear. Pour this water off and re-
fill the pitcher with pure water. Stir
thoroughly, let it stand until it has
settled again, then pour off that water
and use frequently. Give the child two
Oh three tablespoonful in milk or wa
ter during the day.
Much harm is done by the careless
use Of highly scented and injurious
tooth waters and powders. There are
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Recipes
Spinach.

SplnHCH
Clean thoroughly, cook for ten min
utes in boiling salted water Zone cup
water to one pound spinach). Drain,
chop very fine or run through the meat
grinder, add one onion which has been
chopped fine. Melt one tablespoon Of
butter, add one tablespoon flour and one
cup of soup stock. Cook until smooth,
add one tablespoon of grated cheese,
salt and pepper and pour over chopped
spinach. Serve with hard cooked eggs.