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THE SANDERSVILLE HERALD
Led By The Qoddtss of Liberty; Qulded By The Star of Bethlehem.
NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS.
SKETCH of thb lovely white
HOUSE HKIDE of tub days
of general grant.
the Met Algernon Sartoris, Her
5 J c Husband, on Shipboard an
Heturn European Trip-Is Mother
0 I Three Children.
No American girl, not even President
Roosevelt’s daughter, ever had a more
brilliant wedding than Nellie Grant,
the beloved child of the great Civil
War hero; yet of late years the public,
which has always taken a kindly inter
est In Gen. Grant’s family, has heard
comparatively little of hie only daugh
ter.
When Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow
of tho President, was living, her
daughter spent much time with her
mother at the latter’s home in the city
of Washington, but since the death of
her mother Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
can scarcely be said to have had a fixed
residence in any American city. How
ever, she has always been very fond
of St. Louis, and she made her home in
the Missouri metropolis during most of
the time the recent World’s Fair was
in progress there.
Possibly the liking of Mrs. Sartoris
for St. Louis is to bo attributed to the
fact that her birth, in August, 1865,
occurred at her Grandfather Dent’s
country home near St. Louis, the birth
place of her mother. When General
Grant was elected President, and in
deed during the first three years that
he and his wife lived at the White
House, the daughter was at school.
Toward the close of President Grant’s
first term, however, Miss Nellie made
her social debut at the Presidential
mansion, and her cadet brother, home
from West Point, was her escort and
companion.
MET PRINCE CHARMING.
General Grant's daughter made a
tour of Europe soon after she formally
entered society, and everywhere re
ceived the most distinguished atten
tions from the royal families of Great
Iirltaln and the Continent. On the
way home on the steamer Russia she
met Mr. Sartoris, the Prince Charming
who was later to win her heart and
hand. From the moment that the en
gagement of Miss Grant was an
nounced the whole American people
manifested an interest In the bride-to-
be which never found a parallel save
in the enthusiasm for Alice Roosevelt.
Tho fact that the lucky man was aa
Englishman and not a citizen of the
republic, while it was a matter of deep
regret to many persons, including
President Grant himself, was not al
lowed to cast a damper upon the joyous
occasion. Mr. Algernon Sartoris was
but twenty-three years of age and Miss
Grant was only nineteen when, on
Thursday, May 21, 1874, they were
Mrs. Grant accompanied the young
couple to New York, whence they
sailed for England.
BLESSED WITH CHILDREN.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris had three
Children, two daughters and a son.
The eon, who bears his father’s name,
Algernon, was for a time an officer in
the United States army and saw some
service in the Philippines, but his
health compelled the abandonment of
a military career. During the past
few years he has traveled extensively,
and Borne months ago was married to
a very beautiful young woman In
PariB. The eldest daughter, Vivian,
was married a year or two since, but
the younger daughter, Rosemary, the
beauty of the family, Is still unmarried.
Some months since much discussion
was precipitated when it was rumored
that she was engaged to the son of
one of the Confederate generals who
fought against General Grant in the
campaigns of the Civil War.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is a
woman who has always been held In
high esteem by a large circle of fem
inine friends. From her Bchool days
she has seemed to inspire the regard
of members of her own sex, and some
Idea of her popularity may he formed
from the fact that on the occasion of
her wedding she was attended by
eighteen bridesmaids, all gowned alike.
Mrs. Sartoris is several years younger
than her famous brother, Gen. Fred
D. Grant, of the United States Army,
but her birthday was three years ear
lier than that of Jesse Grant, the
youngest member of this famous fam
ily.
A LUXURIOUS AUTO.
Cspt. Lars Anderson's Wonderful
Machine of French Manufacture.
Of all the automobiles ever turned
out by French or other manufacturers,
the one lately made for Capt. Lars
Anderson, of Boston, seems to be en
titled to the prize for originality. It
is a huge machine fitted up for long
journeys and in point of speed equals
any of the present-day touring cars.
The Anderson car is fitted out with
reversible furniture. There Is a com
bination bed and bureau that Is cer
tainly a work of art, and then there
is a cook stove and dining table ar
rangement that can be hauled out at
a moment’s notice. The whole ma
chine, in fact, Is a kind of miniature
hotel ou wheels with accommodations
for eutlng, sleeping, working or Idling,
according to the fancy of the owner
or his guests.
A Family Amir.
“Once upon a time there lived a
good man of New York, who was
soliciting contributions for the erection
of an orphan asylum,” said the story
teller. “He had been to many rich
people aud received liberal contri*
MRS. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS.
BEET-SUGAR GROWING.
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
HEALTHY GROWTH IN NBW
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
Colorado Leads—Industry every
where Proving a Powerful Aid to
Agricultural. Industrial end Social
Development.
In spite of apparent efforts to crip
ple or kill It off, the beet-sugar in
dustry of the United 8tates Is making
steady progress.
Congress has just received the an
nual report of Special Agent Charles
F. Saylor of the Department of Agri
culture on the status of the beet-sugar
Industry for last year. Fifty-two
beet-sugar factories were in operation,
5 were standing idle, aud 12 were be
ing constructed for operation dials J
This showing of the Department of
Agriculture, while It makes a com
paratively small Inroad upon tho vast
consumption of sugar in the more
densely populated region east of the
Mississippi, yet indicates that the
young beet-sugar industry Is making
substantial progroBs, aud that con
sidering the uncertainty of legislation
and the great cost of beet-sugar fac
tory investments, very satisfactory ad
vances are being made Id this new
American enterprise.
TEN ACRE FARMS.
Pending Bill Allows Government to
tut up Homesteads Into Small
Tracts.
The tendency of the times is to en
courage better farming and in smaller
ureas. It is-coming to be recognised
that the proportion 1b stuull of farms
which are thoroughly tilled and made
J h ‘ n ^in wedlock In the East Room of
® white House in the presence of
°re than two hundred distinguished
n/ti 0118 ’ inc l U( ling the representatives
i the foreign governments, officers of
army and navy, etc.
Mr. Sartoris had been educated In
3'and and Germany and was the
son of Mr. Edward Sartoris, of Hamp-
^■England, and his wife, Adelaide
nf » e * daughter of Charles and sister
nny Kemble, well known to the
a se. Prior to the marriage the
*™om assured General Grant of hft
wUUngnees to reside with hte
. ride i n the United States, but soon
ii~. r V le wedding his brother in Eng-
ua died most unexpectedly and he
virtually obliged to return to his
Jr;7 e lan d to assume the management
1 family estates. President and
buttons, which' were eutered In a book
he had for that purpose. Among these
many names there appeared. ‘Mrs.
Russell Sage, $25.' The good man
went* to Mr. Sage’s office, and, showing
him the contribution entered in the
book by Mrs. Sage, asked if he could
not. give a like sum. And what do you
suppose he did?”
“Well, I suppose he at least doubled
it,” remarked a listener.
“Doubled it! Not Russell!” ex
claimed the teller of the story. “Why,
he simply took bis pen and wrote
‘Mr. and’ before his wife’s name, and
handed the book back to the good
man.”—Harpers Weekly.
The railway ton mileage of the
South In 1882 wag one-eighteenth of
the whole and In 1806 was one-seventh.
UNLOADING
SUGAR
UEETS ON
TO THE
FACTORY
CARS.
TWELFTH
CONSECU
TIVE CROP
AT LEHI,
UTAH.
year. The factories last year had a
total capacity for slicing 40,050 tons
of beets daily.
In the acreage planted and the
sugar manufactured from beets Colo
rado leads, h.ivlng b ■ -vested 85,000
acres and manufactured 91,000 tons
of sugar. Michigan came second In
acreage with 77,000 acres, but third
in sugar with 06,000 tons. California
grew 51,000 acres and produced 73,-
000 tons of sugar. The next states In
order were respectively Utah, Idaho,
Nebraska and Wisconsin with a total
of 71,000 acres and 04,000 tons of
sugar. Other states grew 17,000 acres
of beets, producing about 17,000 tons
of sugnr, or a total for the United
States of 307,364 acres with a produc
tion of 312,920 tons of sugar.
RAPID GROWTH LOOKED FOR.
Indications are favorable, the report
states, to the further growth of this
pursuit both in irrigation and rain
fall districts. “The Industry Is prov
ing to be a powerful aid to commer
cial, agricultural and Industrial devel
opment. It promotes Irrigation, Immi
gration, land settlement, the building
of railroads and trolley lines, the
making of other Improvements, and
the upbuilding of various industrial
enterprises. Such results enn only be
appreciated by those who have visited
the factory districts In Colorado,
Utah and Idaho, or In other newly
settled and improved areas throughout
the West. The beneficial effect of the
industry is also shown In the better
settled, more highly developed agri
cultural districts of the East, where,
after beets have been given a proper
trial In competition with established
crops, they are demonstrating their
staying qualities and potency in in
dustrial development.”
GROWS MORE TITAN IT EATS.
One feature of this report Is a series
of tables accompanied with outline
maps designed to show graphically the
magnitude of sugar production in that
part of the country lying west of the
Mississippi River. These Indicate that
the estimated production of sugar
west of the Mississippi in 1906 will ex
ceed by 24,000 tons the amount of
sugar consumed in the same area in
1900 (the latest year for which we
have reliable census figures). The
estimate of production for 1900 is
made by assuming that all the beet-
sugar factories, including 10 new
ones, will run at tbeir full capacity for
campaigns of 100 days, and that the
cane sugar product for 1906 will be the
same as that of last year.”
TABLE SHOWING PRODUCTION
AND CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN
STATES WEST OF THE MISSISS
IPPI RIVER.
_ . . Pounds.
Estimated cane sugar. 1906.. 898,880,000
Estimated beet aagar, 1906.. 783,200,000
Estimated total sugar pro
duced, 1906 1,482,080,000
Total sugar consumed, 1900.. 1,433,929,505
Excess of production over con
sumption 48,150.495
The amount of beet-sugar which
will be produced In factories east of
the Mississippi during this year, If
run at their full capacity, will also
equal about IT per cent, of the con
sumption of sugar Id the trans-Mlss-
lsslppl area.
to produce the maximum yield of
which the land Is capable. A few
years ago the man who would have
said that 10 acres of farm land was a
sufficient area for a man to make a
good living from would have been
looked upon as a crank. Now there
are thousands of little 10. acre and even
5 acre farms from which men are
making more money than many
others are from attempting to till 20
times that amount. That 10 acres,
under favorable conditions, will pro
duce a living is recognized in a bill
which has just been passed by the
House of Representatives and which
will likely be passed by tho Senate at
this session. It is an amendment to
the National Irrigation Law. Under
that law tho homestead entry upon
public land irrigated by tho govern
ment ranges from 40 to 160 acres, to
be determined by the Secretary of tho
Interior, according to the conditions of
the reclamation. It was recognized,
at the time of the passage of the law
in “02, Hint In some sections of the
country 40 acres was an ample area
for a farm. It is now seen, and ad
mitted in the bill above mentioned
that 10 acres is not too small a sub
division under favorable conditions.
Another amendment was recently
made to the irrigation law allowing
the government to establish town-sites
and divide the land thereunder up
into various sized tracts ranging
from town-lots to 10 acre allotments.
When this bill which is now before the
Senate becomes a law It will there
fore be possible for the government,
in any of Its Irrigation projects to di
vide and sub-divide Its land Into
town and farm units ranging all the
way from lots up to 160 acre farms.
MODCJKj RURAL SETTLEMENTS.
This plan will doubtless develop
some of the finest examples of pros
perous rural communities to be found
anywhere In the world. Many of the
best developed sections of some of
the western states Include great
numbers of little farms and fruit
ranches of ’ 5, 10 and 20 acres each,
where the appearance Is almost like
the outskirts of a village. With such
a dense rural population there Is an
ideal combination of practically all
the advantages to be found In city
life and the splendid results of country
work and living. Houses, In such a
community, are almost within a stone-
throw of each other, the population is
sufficiently large to support splendid
roads, good school and churches, water
and lighting Improvements, good
sewerage, etc. Thus the lonesome
ness, the Isolation and the many un
attractive features of the big farm dis
appear while yet the joys and the
wbolesomeness of country life are all
present.
The report accompanying this bill
states that since the passage of the
irrigation act, it has developed that
on some of the lands to be Irrigated,
particularly those in fruit and truck
farming districts, less than 40 acres
Is needed for the support of the family,
and In fact experience has demon
strated that the average farmer Is
more prosperous on a small than on a
large Irrigated farm. In view of this
condition of eftalrg it has been deemed
wise to reduce to IQ acres the mini*
mom entry which may be allowed.
■ t .nr>«; gathufe..
CHAPTER I.
The great bell of Beaulieu was ring
ing. Far away through the forest
might be heard Its musical clangor
and swell. Peat cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exe heard tho
distant throbbing and falling upon the
sultry summer air. It was a common
sound In those parts—as common as
the chatter of the jays and the boom
ing of the bittern. Yet the fishers and
the peasants raised their heads and
looked questions at each other, for the
Angelas had already gone and Vespers
was still far off. Why should the
great bell of Beaulieu toll when tho
shadows were neither . tort nor long?
All round the Abbey ti.e monks
were trooping In. Under the long,
green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks
and of llchencd beeches the wh I to-
robed brothers gathored to the sound.
It had been no sudden cnll. A swift
messenger bad tho night before sped
round to the outlying dependencies of
the Abbey, and had left the summons
for every monk to be back In the
cloisters by the third hour after noon
tide. So urgent a message had not
heen Issued within the memory of old
Lay-Brother Athanasius, who had
cleaned the knocker since the year
after the Battle of Bannackburn.
Meanwhile, In the broad an’, lofty
chamber set apart for occasions of
Import, the Abbot himself was pacing
Impatiently backward and forward,
with bis long, white, nervous hands
clasped In front of him. His thin,
thoughtworn features and sunken,
haggard cheeks bespoke one who had
Indeed beaten down that Inner foe
whom every man must face, but had
none the less suffered sorely In the
contest. In crushing hi- passions he
had well-nigh crushed himself. Yet,
frail as was his person, there gleamed
out ever and anon from under bis
drooping brows a flash of fierce energy
which recalled to men’s minds that be
came of a fighting stock, and that even
now his twin brother, Sir Bartholomew
Berghersb, was one of the most fa
mous of those stern warriors who bad
planted the Gross of St George before
the gates of Paris. With lips com
pressed and clouded brow, he strode
up and down the oaken floor, the very
impersonation of asceticism, while
the great bell still thundered and
clatoged above his head. At last the
uproar died away In three last meas
ured throbs, and ere tbeir echo had
ceased the Abbot struck a small gong
which summoned a lay-brother to bis
presence.
“Where Is the master of the nov
ices?”
“He Is without, most holy father.”
“8end him hither.”
The sandalled feet clattered over the
wooden floor, and the Iron-bound
door creaked upon Its binges. In a
few moments it opened again to ad
mit a short, square monk with a
heavy, composed face and authoi-
Itatlve manner.
"You have sent for me, holy
father?”
“Yes, Brother Jerome, I wish that
this matter be disposed of with as
little scandal as may be; and yet It Is
needful that the example should be a
public one.”
“It would perchance be best that the
novices be not admitted,” suggested the
master. “This mention of u woman
ihay turn tbeir minds from their pious
meditations to worldly and evil
thoughts.”
“Woman! woman!” . groaned the
Abbot “Weil baa the holy Chrys
ostom termed them radix malorum.
From Eve downward,what good hath
come from any of them? Who brings
the plaint?”
“It Is Brother Ambrose.”
“A holy and devout young mao.”
“A light and a pattern to every nov
ice.”
‘Let the matter be brought to an
Issue, then, according to our old-time
monastic habit. Bid the chancellor
and the sub-chancellor lead in the
brothers according to age, together
with Brother John the accused and
Brother Ambrose the accuser.”
“And the novices?”
“Let them bide in the north alley
of the cloister. Stay! Bid the sub
chancellor send out to them Thomas
the lector to read unto them from the
Gesta beatl Benedict!.' It may save
them from foolish and pernicious
babbling.”
The Abbot was left to himself once
more, and bent bis tbln gray face over
his illuminated breviary. So he re
mained while the senior monks filed
slowly and sedately into the chamber,
seating themselves upon the long
oaken benches which lined the wall
on either side. At the further end, In
two high chairs as large as that of the
Abbot, though hardly so elaborately
carved, sat the master of the novice*
and the chancellor, the latter a broad
and portly priest, with dark, mirth
ful eyes and a thick outgrowth of
crisp black hair all Mmpd his tonsured
head. Between ttiHJi stood a lean,
white-faced brother Kwo appeared to
be 111 at ease, sblftHEbls feet from
side to side and tail
the long parchment
In his hand. The J
point of vantage, lod
two long lines of face
browned for the mo
large bovine eyes
hla chin with
which he held
t, from hi*
down oh the
cld and sun-
with tho
lned features
an<
HORDLE JOHN.
which told of their easy, unchanging
existence. Then he turned bis eager
guze upon the pale-faced monk who
faced him.
“This plaint Is thine, as I learn.
Brother Ambrose,” said he. “Bring
in Brother John, and let him hear the
plaints urged against him.”
At this order a lay-brother swung
open the door, and two other lay-
brothers entered, leading between
them a young novice of the order.
He was a man of huge stature, dark
eyed and red-beaded, with a peculiar
half humorous, half defiant expresslOD
upon bis bold, well-marked feature*.
His cowl was thrown back upon hi*
shoulders, and bis gown, unfastened
f.Ji
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