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MRS. JOHN C. FREMONT
THE PATHFINDER’S WIDOW IN HER
HOME AT LOS ANGELES.
Still Physically Vigorous and Intellectu
ally Keen at Seventy-three Year* of Age.
Relic* of the Famous Pioneer —Hi* Trail*
Throughout California.
[Special Correspondence.]
Los Angeles, Oct. 20.—1 n a charm
ing cottage on West Twenty-eighth
street, this city, resides the widow of
General Fremont. Furnished with a
letter of introduction by a writer of na
tional reputation, we passed the portal,
■which is securely guarded, and were fa
vored with many reminiscences of the
brave soldier who 50 years ago opened
through the wilderness the trails that
have since become highways of travel
to California and the Pacific coast.
The cottage, which was presented to
Mrs. Fremont by appreciative friends,
is half hidden in vines and shrubbery.
Roses clamber over roof and veranda,
and the fragrance of orange blossoms
pervades the adjacent garden. Within
the house is as attractive as its exterior
promises. It is an ideal home which
Jessie Benton Fremont and her daugh
ter have created here and in which
they have decided to pass the remainder
of their days.
Since Mrs. Fremont is a national
character, who long ago was the heroine
of many a romance, as well as an active
participant in scenes that have gone to
the making of history it will be betray
ing no secret to state that she is now 73
years of age, having been born in 1824.
Fremont, then a young and dashing
lieutenant who had already won his
spurs, met her in Washington in 1840,
when she was but 16, and married her
the following year.
The futile attempt of the great west
ern senator, her father, to separate the
young lovers by causing Lieutenant Fre
mont to be sent on a perilous expedition
had only resulted in cementing the
more closely their affections.
Perhaps it was this taste of frontier
life that shaped the soldier’s future
MRS. FREMONT’S HOME.
career, for the very next year, in 1842,
he led that famous expedition to the
Rockies the report of which, when laid
before congress, gave him a worldwide
reputation.
In 1843 he made a third exploration,
in’which he brought to notice the Great
Salt lake and the vast and fertile valley
in which the Mormons later established
their hierarchy, basing their plans upon
the information he had furnished.
It was on this expedition that he
finally reached Sutter’s fort on the
Sacramento (in March, 1844) and paved
the way to the Californian conquest.
Not satisfied with this, he started out
the very next year, crossed the Sierras
in the dead of winter, and, leaving his
party in the San Joaquin valley, has
tened to Monterey, then the capital of
Spanish California, for permission to
continue his explorations. This was at
first granted, then revoked, and Spanish
soldiers were sent to drive him from the
country. A few days ago I saw the
mountain, 30 miles from Monterey,
called Hawk’s peak, where he fortified
himself, and, with his little command,
awaited the attack of the Californian,
General Castro. Extricating himself
from the perils of being surrounded by
an overwhelming force. Fremont r®-
Tl> e jungles of
_ Africa are not the
only places in
the world where
a man courts
A U death from an
i unseetl f° e - All
Iwy? ->’ * t^le sava g es
ffljßKjkff/ | jar barous na-
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of the evil—imperfect and improper nu
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assimilation perfect. It drives out the
impurities from the blood and fills it with
the life-giving elements that build up the
body. It is the greatest blood-maker and
purifier. When you pump rich, red, healthy
blood into an organ it cannot long remain
diseased. This is true of the lungs. New
healthy tissue is built up in them and the
germs of consumption are driven out.
Thousands have testified to their cure by
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Ralph Green, Esq., of Williamsburg, Callaway
Co., Mo., writes: “Before I commenced your
treatment I could not take a drink of water with
out great suffering in my stomach. I could not
eat. I was fast sinking and did not weigh more
than 135 pounds. To-day I weigh 157. I had
five different doctors examine me, and each one
treated me without doing me any good, At last
I took four or five bottles of your ‘ Golden Medical
Discovery,’ and to-day am in better health than I
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and advise them to write to you.”
Th* * Uis better to do
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two a mild cathartic. They are tiny,
sugar - coated granules.
Nothing else is “just as Mpllpfc
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MRS. BSTERSON’S STORY.
I have suffered with womb trouble
over fifteen years. I had inflammation,
enlargement and displacement of the
womb.
The doctor wanted me to take treat
ments, but I had just begun taking
Mrs. Pinkham’s
Compound, and |MBB
my husband. jUHSSH Rffc ?
Baid I had
better wait
and see
how much A®
good that I
would do 9
me. I was
so sick when I ■ -..aga
began with her B
medicine, I could I ■ 1 V-mSS
hardly be on my B ■ / V •TH
feet. I had the '] ■ / '\ \vß
backache con- ■ / vvi
stantly, also headache, and V’
was so dizzy. I had heart trouble, it
seemed as though my heart was in my
throat at times choking me. I could
not walk around and I could not lie
down, for then my heart would beat so
fast I would feel as though I was
smothering. I had to sit up in bed
nights in order to breathe. I was se
weak I could not do anything.
I have now taken several bottles of
Lydia E. Pinkham's
pound, and used three
Sanative Wash, and can say
perfectly cured. I do not tHWfc I
could have lived long if Mrs. Pink
ham’s medicine had not helped me. —
Mrs. Joseph Petebson, 513 East Sk.
Warren, Pa.
treated Anally to Oregon, where ne met
a messenger with dispatches ordering
him to proceed to the aid of American
settlers. This he lost no time in doing,
was elected the first American governor
of California, July 4, 1846, and on the
19th entered Monterey with 160 mount
ed riflemen. In Monterey today is shown
one of his cannon, and the remains of
his fort are pointed out on a bluff over
looking the beautiful bay. In 1847 was
concluded the treaty with Mexico by
which California became part of the
United States. That year also Fremont
was arrested by order of General
Kearny, tried on the charge of dis
obedience of order and dismissed the
service.
Nothing daunted, the intrepid explor
er, now 35 years old, led a fourth expe
dition across the continent, during
which, in crossing the Sierra Nevadas
in winter, one-third of his men and all
of his pack animals perished of cold and
hunger. Reaching Sacramento in the
spring of 1849, he then determined to
settle in the territory he had been so
influential in bringing into the Union,
and tried to enforce a claim to the cele
brated Mariposa tract, containing rich
gold mines ahd of vast area, but he did
not secure a title to it till 1855.
Meanwhile, in 1850, he was elected
one of California’s first senators, taking
his seat the day after her admission as
a state. After the expiration of his term
he visited Europe, where he was enter
tained everywhere by distinguished peo
ple and universally hailed as the
“Pathfinder. ”
In 1853 he crossed the continent
again for the fifth time, and the next
year made his fight for the presidency
pgainst Buchanan, who, as we know to
our sorrow, was elected. In 1858 he was
again in California, but revisited Eu
rope in 1860. His course during the
civil war we are all acquainted with.
In 1878-81 he was governor of Arizona,
and his death occurred in 1890.
This in brief is a life sketch of one
who probably accomplished more for
California than any other man, and
Who was instrumental in opening to
our acquisition that vast area knowr
as the Pacific slope.
It was of the exciting events of his
adventurous life that we chatted with
his widow, who had lived with him
through them all and who had sustain
ed him in defeat and survived to share
his triumphs.
Still vigorous and intellectually keen
despite her burden of 73 years, Jessie
Benton Fremont yet retains possession
of the rare faculties that impressed the
Pathfinder and drew to her side one of
the most noted figures in American his
tory.
The friend who called with me could
remember, the exciting events during
the presidential campaign, for he march
ed in the procession and shouted for
“Fremont and Jessie,” and itmay have
been this reminiscence that evoked her
memories of that period and caused us
to protract our stay.
But before we went she and her
daughter showed us every room in their
delightful dwelling and the precious
mementos of the past. We saw the gen
eral’s first daguerreotype, the revolver,
companion of his travels, letters from
famous men and women, and a portrait
of the beautiful woman who had fasci
nated him when known as Jessie Ben
ton. When we went, our hostess accom
panied us to our carriage and bestowed
upon us souvenirs of the visit in the
shape of fragrant roses from their gar
den.
Thus we bade adieu to the general’s
widow, standing in the pathway lead
ing to her house, surrounded by evi
dences of love and regard and amid the
blossoming vines and trees.
Fred A. Ober.
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druggists, Borne Ga.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1897
LOUISIANA BAYOUS.
■ •
Cur lon* Bodie* of Water That Supply Flab,
Fowl and Alligators.
[Special Correspondence.)
Benton, North Louisiana, Oct. 25.
The Louisiana bayou is neither a river
nor a creek, but is a cross between a
lake and a pond. ' Bayou is a French
term for a body of water that has very
little or no current and will run either
way, up or down stream, according to
the wind. The Louisiana bayou runs up
stream, if its source may be so consid
ered, about as often as it runs toward
its mouth. The bayou is a sluggish body
of water, whether it is deep or shallow,
but the absence of current is noticeable.
Though the outlet of a lake, strictly
speaking, it frequently empties into an
other, which it, in turn, serves as an
outlet, emptying into the other. This
is one of the peculiarities of the Louisi
ana bayou which perhaps does not exist
elsewhere in the United States.
Bayous in the northern part of the
state are uniformly narrow, with steep
banks, and also have sluggish currents.
The banks are so thickly lined with live
oak and other trees of heavy foliage as
to almost completely shade the stream
and make it more inviting to the hunt
er and the fisherman. These bayous al
so are alive with ducks and fish; also
alligators, as the saurian is locally styl
ed. Many farmers get their “meat sup
ply” from the bayous, and when the
cotton crop is short or the price very
low the colored people rely solely upon
the fish and fowl of the bayous, includ
ing an occasional opossum, and, of
course, corn bread. The greatest dis
couragement to the colored man’s sport
‘ A ifo'''
A LOUISIANA BAYOU.
is the alligator, which seems to take
more delight in flopping a colored man
into the bayou than it does a white
man. Yet the white sportsman is by no
means secure if he ventures within
striking distance. Almost as soon as a
darky casts his line he goes to sleep
while waiting for a bite. The alligator,
who is basking in the sun upon a rotten
log in the stream, will noiselessly roll
off into the water and glide up to the
canoe with only a portion of his black
head out of the water.
As he nears the frail canoe he opens
his blinking eyes, and after taking in
the situation squares round and with
his tail upsets the canoe or perhaps
gives a downward flap and sweeps the
darky into the water. , But if the darky
sees the alligator first a stroke or two
with the oar will take him to the shore.
The alligator seldom pursues except the
object of attack is in the water.
Cutting timber for shipment to the
northern factories is a growing industry
in the northern part of this state, and
the waste lands on the bayous are be
coming more valuable in proportion to
the exhaustion of the northwestern tim
ber belts. The trees on these bayous are
heavily fringed with a beautiful variety
of Spanish moss, which is gathered and
cured and shipped north for the man
ufacture of mattresses, chairs, buggy
cushions, etc. The bayous in the south
ern portion of the state are more heavi
ly fringed with moss, an 4 the industry
THE NEW WAY.
XJUOMEN used
P ¥ to think “ fe-
L,% ma le diseases ”
sf could only be
s. treated after “lo
c a 1 examina
tions” by physi
< cians. Dread of
such treatment
) kept thousands of
modest worsen
silent about their
suffering. The in
troduction of
Wine of Cardui hhs now demon
strated that nine-tenths of all the
cases of menstrual disorders do
not require a physician's attention
at all. The simple, pure
taken In the privacy of a woman’s
own home insures quick relief and
speedy cure. Women need not
hesitate now. Wine of Cardui re
quires no humiliating examina
tions for its adoption. It cures any
disease that comes under the head
of “female troubles” —disordered
menses, falling of the womb,
“whites,” change of life. It makes
women beautiful by making them
well. It keeps them young by
keeping them healthy. SI.OO at
the drug store.
For advice In cases requiring special
directions, address, giving symptoms,
the “ Ladies’ Advisory Department,”
The Chatmooga Medicine Co., Chatta
nooga. Tenn.
W. I. ADDISON, M.D., Cary, Miss., says:
“I use Wine of Cardui extensively in
my practice and find it a most excellent
preparation for remain trouble*.”
is more lucrative there than it is m this
section.
Many of the moss gatherers do not
cultivate farms, but divide their time
in hunting and fishing for the markets.
So it will be seen that these strange
Louisiana streams, the bayous, are not
without their .uses, and are sources of
revenue to thousands of people.
J. M. Scanland.
CONSUMPTION IS CURABLE.
Doctor Claim* 'h.i <>xr*ub«rouline Will
atlicitlo (lie Dise»’ 6.
San Francisco, Oot. 26.—Official no
tice has been received by the Belgian
consul, Leon Guus'in, that minister of
foreign affairs has transmitted docu
ments concerning Dr. Joseph O. Hirsch
felder’s consumptive cure to the Royal
Academy of Medicine of Belgium, and
that the academy has commissioned Dr.
Van Lair, one of its members, to make
an examination. The formula for rank
iug oxytuberculine, which it is claimed
makes consumption curable, is briefly
stared as follows;
Veal is soaked in water and its juice
is then boiled and filtered. Glycerine,
peptone ami salt are put in the liquid,
which is made slightly alkaline with
carbonate of soda. In this liquid the
germs of tuberculosis is grown. When
they are fully developed the liquid, with
the germs, is boiled and filtered. The
resultant liquid is tuberculine.
This tuberculine is the basis of Mr.
Hirschfeider’s preparation. Peroxide of
hydrogen is adued to it and the mixture
is heated for 13 hours, at the end ot
which time it ts oxytuberculine. This
is clarified by a caustic soda solution,
and a portion of boraxac acid is put in
to keep it from decomposing.
~ Did You Ever
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exerting a wonderful direct influence in
giving strength and tone to the organs.
If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa
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Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Mel
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Electric Bitters is the medicine you
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REDUCED RATES VIA SOUTHERN RY.
Special Excursion To] Nashville, Account
Tennessee Centennial. Oct 20.
On October 20th, the Southern rail
way will sell special excursion tickets
to Nashville, Tenn., and return at
the following very low rates for the
round trip:
Plainvill, $3.25; North Rome, $3.45;
Rome, $3 45; Lindale, $3.55; Silver
Creek, $3.55; Chambers. $3.55; Seney,
$3.70; Rockmart, $3.75; Braswell,
$3.75; Dallas, $3.75; Hiram, $3.75;
Powder Springs, $3.75; Austell, $3.75;
Mableton, $3.75; Nickajack. $3 75;
Chattahoochee, $3.75.
Tickets will be sold on October 20th
only, limited to return five days from
date of sale.
This will be the last opportunity
parties will have to visit the centen
nial at this very low rate, and as the
attractions will be grander this month
than at any previous time, everyone
should endeavor to attend.
Call on any ticket agent of the
Southern Railway for further infor
mation.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
Thefao- - ,
Another Claimant Turns Up.
San Francisco, Oct. 26.—Another
woman has come forward to claim a
portion of the $25,000,000 estate left by
Imblay Clarke, who died in Australia
in J 876. She is Ellen Clarke Liuforth,
widow of the late Edward Liuforth,
and she resides at 1237 Leavenworth
street. Mrs. Liuforth claims to be a
granddaughter of a brother of Imblay
Clarke, bearing to the dead millionaire
the relation of grandniece, the same re
lation as is claimed by Miss Grace
Clarke Cornell, and Miss Lane Clarke
Squire, two New Jersey claimants.
Condensed Testimony
Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manu
facturer’s Agent, Columbus, Ohio,
certifies that Dr. King’s New Discovery
has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. D.
Brown, Prop. St James Hotel, st.
Wayne, Ind.,, testifies th't he was cured
of a Cough of two years standing, caused
by La Grippe, by Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. B F Merrill, Baldwinsvlile,
Mass., says that he has used and recom
mended it and never knew it to fail and
would rather have it than any doctor,
because it al ways cures. Mrs. Hemming,
222 E. 25th St. Chicago, always keeps it
at hand and has no fear of Croup, be
cause it instantly relieves. Free Trials
Bottles at Curry-Arrington Co. ’s drug
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The l>ead *lan Is Identified.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 26. The
man who was found dead near the
Washington ferry road has been identi
fied as Timothy Lynch, an employe of
the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa aud Mem
phis railroad. Justice of the Peace
Powell, the only justice of the peace to
be found in the city, summoned a jury
aud went out into the country and after
careful searching found the body. The
jury’s verdict was that the man came to
his death from natural causes.
Notice.
I want every man and woman in the
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will be sent you free.
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