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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- ’mW*HVtions of history have not slain one tithe of the men that have ’ been killed by that dread assas sin—consumption. One-sixth of all the deaths in the world are due to it. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures 98 per cent, of all cases of consump tion. It cures by going to the very root of the evil—imperfect and improper nu trition. It corrects all disorders of the digestion, makes the appetite keen and 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 this great remedy. Druggists sell it. 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 have been for five years. Whenever I see any of my friends suffering I tell them of your medicine and advise them to write to you.” Th* * Uis better to do Dr Pierce >^n‘ jin ff whiie the Ml . rici VC a damage is slight, than wait until the whole structure is ready tb fall. Constipation is the one, all-embrac ing disorder that is responsible for many other dis- r-». . eases. Doc- tor Pierce’s PleaSclfit Pleasant Pellets cure * ■*'**o**«i«. R Dru g. gists sell them. They never gripe. One little “Pellet” is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. They are tiny, sugar - coated granules. Nothing else is “just as Mpllpfc .good.” A permanent cure. * viiviot 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. BUCKLEN’B ARNICA SALVE. The best salve in the world for outs or bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum fever sores, tetter, ohapped hands, ohilblain corns and all skin eruptions and posi •rvely cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satis-.action or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Ourty-Arrington Co., 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 Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has beep found to be peculiarly-adapted to the re lief and cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipa tion, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Mel ancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are guar anteed by its use. Fifty cents and SI.OO at Curry-Arrington Co. ’s drug store. 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 store. 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 United States interested in the opium end whisky habits to have one of my books of these diseases. Address B. M. Woolly, Atlanta, Ga., Box 362, and one will be sent you free. CA.STOIIIA.. The fro- linlle Z/Czt . e’en- Grin and bear it. That’s what you’ll have to do, if your xz $ housework tires you out and you won’t \l/ ta^e awa y t^ie hardest part of it with Pearline. That’s what women have h a d to f° r I°> these thousands of years. Pearline has done, and is doing, more to lighten and brighten / & w \ 1 woman’s work than any other ’ I v/ w * ’one thing. It saves her time, her money, her health and strength, in hundreds of ways. Do every bit of your washing and cleaning with Pearline. 535 TAYLOR & NORTON, Tile Druggists MENTION A FEW TOILET REQUISITES. Kogers & Gallett’s Extracts, Violette de Parme, White Rise, Heliotrope, Rogers & Gallett’s Soaps, Bois De Santai and Violette de Parme, Murray & Lanham’s Florida Water, Lan tier’s Extracts, Quentessence of Violets and Rose de Cashmere, Crown Extracts, Crab Apple and Violette de Parme, Lubin’s Extracts Rose and Violet, Con iray’s Soap, Violette Des Bois and Rose Tine. These goods are selected from the products of the world’s best perfumes, TAYLOR & NORTON, THE DRUGGISTS. JOHN H. REYNOLDS, President. B. I. HUGHES,[Cashier P. H. HARDIN, Vice President. FIRST NATIONAL BANK ROME, GEORGIA. Capital and Surplus $300,000. All Accommodations Consistent With Sa's Banking Ex tended to Our Customers. fefeeeeeefcseestseesices’sfe <«««= ! 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Box 2078, San Francisco. CaL For Sale bv FOR SALE BY TAYLOR & NORTON AND C. A. TREVITT. The Ghattsnooga Buggy and Wagon Manufactory, ALL KINDS OF TOP AND NO TOP BUGGIES. Merchants’ Delivery Wagons, Bread and Milk Wagons. PLEASURE AND FARM TRUCK WAGONS. The cheapest place in the South for first-class Vehicles, all kinds- We carry a full line of Springs, Axles, Wagon and Buggy Supplies. In our repair department we do first-class work. Employ competent mechanics and the best painters and trimmers. Best Oils, Paints and Varnishes used. T. I. WILSON. Proprietor.