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Newspaper Page Text6 ft /■ J TIMELY v •i^Bft O M E top ics BY .FIRS. XT. H-TTEXTOrt < EXCESSIVE HEAT. B ' This present summer reminds me of the 1 1 summer of 1876, the year of the Centen- ' nisi exposition in Philadelphia, because of the torrid temperature of June and | f July. 1 Congress was in session and the people r of Washington City we’-e accustomed to hear of numerous prostrations from heat, Ji * sunstroke, the doctors called It. Thousands of people were traveling to the Centennial and taking advantage of cheap rates to go to places that they * had not been able to visit after the war . because of poverty and consequent scarc- E | tty of money. This was especially true - in the southern states. We saw hundreds ' of southerners that year who were sight * seeing in Washington City for the first ? time. . It so happened that I could chaperone ’ many Georgian*, especially through the United States treasury. Everybody wanted to se how money was made and the rules were very strict as to crowds of visitors. I remember one day there were a larger number of Georgians than usual, quite enough to fill a street car. and I went with them as a sort of guide to them. The weather was steaming hot, and when Bwe reached the long cool corridors In the treasury we liked to linger. Naturally they an wanted to see the vault contain ing the gold and to see the presses turn Off thousands of greenbacks. We were held back for want of a permit, but •omebodv In the treasury knew me and " I wa» asked if I would sign for their J good behavior, etc. There were rich At-1 lantians along, who had more money in k 1 a minute than I had in a lifetime, but I « signed all right, and then we went In. ’ the doors teing locked behind us I re- I member how the burning heat outside felt • to me. when we at last got out of doors, and the asphalt pavements were so slm ’ me ring hot that it felt like walking over hot embers. We had a delicate child of 6 years, and one day he came near fainting in the ho : tel dining room. The doctor told us we I must get away, and we went to the country that evening, and remained for six weeks until congress adjourned. The • deaths from sunstroke were many, the , head waiter of the hotel fainted on the sidewalk. • Very few amateurs practice trim* • saing tomato vines, but if this is done we, s it? Singls—Stem Training. ZABT TO XXU GOPDBB. Whenever you discover a sheep limping along, catch him and examine his feet for rot. If you want to raise a good crop of mice and insects that will damage the orchard trees, let the weeds and grass lie thick on the.ground. It is a man s duty to think up ways of making hie wife's work easier. Running the mower along the sides of the ditches will make it easier keep ing them clear of weeds. Fence corners full of dead weeds make fine h|be ran ting places for all kinds of SHE GOT WHAT SHE I WANTED This Woman Had to Insist Strongly, but it Paid Chicago. HL—“ I suffered from a fe male weakness and stomach trouble, fm- 1 ' gagk and I went to the store to get a tottle KpT 1 of Lydia E. Pink- Xjs j ham's Vegetable | w 'S* Xr Compound, but the IMb 7- clerk did not want bUn* fjj&, to let me have it— - A he said it was no r good and wanted me to try something ' el 9e * wffikJL ' ! all about it I in 7ul/'' listed and finally FvYy'*' 1 1 got it, and I am so glad I did, for it has cured me. “I know of so many cases where wo men have been cured by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound that I can gay to every suffering woman if that medicine does not help her, there is nothing that will”—Mrs. Janetzki, Wb3 Arch St., Chicago, HL This is the age of substitution, and women who want a cure should insist Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound just as this woman did, and \ not accept something else on which the 1 druggist can make a little more profit, gl Women who are passing through this ■ critical period or who are suffering M from any of those distressing ills pe- M culiar to their sex should not lose sight n of the fact that for thirty years Lydia Bl E- Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, ■ which is made from roots and herbs, V has been the standard remedy for fe- B male ills. In almost every community ■ you will find women who have been B restored to health by Lydia E. Ihnk. 9 ham's Vegetable Compound. It seems now that Chicago la undergo ing the torrid heat, as 200 prostrations were reported tn tonight’s Journal. Yet Chicago Is on cool Lake Michigan, where the winds sweep with strength and often times with fury. I have seen the thermometer up to 90 and 100 at noon, and the nights so cool tn Chicago you needed a shawl to be comfortable at nightfall. I guess we are more comfortable In Georgia than are the people tn New York or Chicago. Our heat is more evenly dis tributed In the south and we find many people seeking cooler weather, and in vigorating breezes down at Cumberland and St. Simon's island Let us be thankful that ft Is as well with us as it is. If the good Lord will give uk rain In season, we will bless Him for locating us on the old red hills of Georgia. If people will take it-quietly, drees as thinly as possible, do their domestic work before the sun rises high in the heavens, eat light, but nourish food, keep cool in sleeping rooms, keep premises clean and not jaunt about too much in the hot sunshine, we will find Georgia as cool or a little cooler than the moot of the states of the union. STRANGE DKKBB FASHIONS. I notice where a preacher is giving the women, “fits” for copying after the Parle fashions, especially the divided skirts. They tell us that these women are so eager to wear breeches that the dresses are made In open lengths and I then gathered around the ankles. The preacher said it was actually sinful. Now, I expect we will reach a time when we may be thankful that these women will wear as covering clothes as these—wear anything like dress skirts— | and since their necks are bare now and their arms naked, we may return thanks that they wear even pantaloons. Mother Eve wore fig leaves, and gen erally the savages wear breech cloths, so we may rest satisfied that Paris women will wear something similar be fore they are done with the fashions for dress. I am too old to follow ex treme fasn.ons, but I do want to look like I think a well-dressed qld lady should look, so I never expect to wear divided skirts or Paris pantaloons. In mid-summer the yield of the fruit is very greatly increased. Extensive experiments at various ex periment stations have developed the fact that the increase due to trimming is great. At the Maine station this increase reached as high as 50 per cent, and the gain in weight was very marked, in one instance reaching 58 per cent The plants were grown under ordin ary field culture and they were start ed in the greenhouse, April 1, planted in the field June Ist and headed back July 24, August Sth and September 5. Os course In milder climates this work should be done earlier. At each trimming the leading branch es were shortened about six inches and most of tWe side shoots below the first clusters were removed, the others be ing shortened, and the sunlight was thus freely admitted. Training tomatoes on wires to run from five to ten feet high, is becom ing common practice. This method in creases the yield. as the sunlignt. reaches all the fruit and makes picking much easier. It Is not difficult to train vines in this way. and It can be done in any ordinary garden by means of wires. bugs which will get bus/ with your crop next spring. Tbs man who used brains to save his legs is not laxy—he is just wise. Unless the chrysanthemum are shaded during the hot months of July and Au gust they will be Injured by the sun. Roses of all kinds should be thoroughly manured with well rotted cow manure and mulched with lawn cuttings and leaves. OFFICER IS EJECTED FOR CURSING GOVERNOR MONTGOMERY Ala., July B. George H. Todd, of Montgomery, cap tain of Battery B„ Second regiment, was ejected from the camp at Picket Springs last night by Colonel Brlcken, and a company of infantry for cursing the governor, the adjutant general his fellow officers. A courtmartial will be ordered in his case. Todd was thrown from hie horse in the afternoon when a salute was being fired in honor of the visit of Governor O'Neal to the camp. It made him very angry. >nd because the men at the gun laughed at him, he swore they should not complete the firing nor should they lower the flag. Captain Lewis, of the Tuskegee company, offi cer of the day, ordered the salute to go on,.and when Todd attempted to in terfere, placed him under arrest. While in the guard house Todd be came very abusive, using foul oaths addressed to the governor and others, it is said, in the presence of a large number of ladles. Captain Lewis, in order to silence him, threw away his eword and lunged at Todd, who put up his hands. GORED TO DEATH BY MADDENED BULL DOVER, N. H-, July B.—Gored by a maddened bull owned by B|amon Gup till, Horace Luce, a farmhand. Is dead at a local hospital. Mr. Guptill himself bad an encounter with the animal Thurs day and was seriously Injured. Luce had led the bull down to a brook on the farm for a drink when the ani mal turned upon him, knocked him down and sank its horns into his body again •nd again. Luce managed to crawl through a nearby fence, where he was found by another farm hand. He died a short time after he was taken to a hospital. MEXICAN SOLDIERS IN FACTIONAL FIGHT MEXICO CITY, July B.—Wire re ports received today of the clash in Iguala yesterday afternoon between the forces of General Figueroa, chier of the rurales and General Salgado in dicate that the encounter followed an effort to arrest Salgado. His follow ers learning of the order for his ar rest attacked Figueroa's men. formerly their companions in the revolution. The fighting lasted three hours, tet ininating with the surrender of the greater part of Salgado’s men. Not more than ten men were killed, but many were wounded. • THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1911 Her Influence May Save Angelina Napolitano COUNTESS GREY, Wife of the governor general of Can ada. who may exert her Influence to se cure a pardon for Angelino Napolitano. FfflWl IMSONS MEET ID MUELISIILLE J - , .—. Annual Convention Will Be Biggest and Best Ever Been Held (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) DOUGLASVILLE, Ga., July B.—The Fifth Distict Masonic convention will be held in Douglasville Wednesday, Au gust 9, at which time Masons from the 4C> blue lodges in this jurisdiction will assemble in annual session to transact the business of the convention, elect an nual officers and witness the exemplifica tion of the three degrees by Masons of high rank. The lodges throughout the district are now electing delegates to the Douglas ville meeting, and while official repre sentatives will be chosen In accordance with law and custom, it is believed that practically every Mason in the district will be therq who can possibly attend The progrim announced Is as follows: Convention called to order Wednesday morning, August 9, under the auspices qf Douglasville lodge. Conferring of the entered apprenticed degree by Royal Daniel, district deputy grand master Fifth district. Public address by Hon. George M. Napier, most worshipful grand master of Masons of Georgia. Adjournment for dinner. Fellowcraft degree conferred by Hon. A. R. Mobley, worshipful master of Fifth district. Business of the convention. Election of annual officers. Presentation of jewels. Conferring first section of the Master Mason’s degree by Hon. R. E. Edwards, worshipful master of Douglasville lodge. Adjournment for supper. Concluding sections of master’s degree and lecture by Dr. C. E. Hall, past dis trict deputy grand master. Adjournment. The Masons will leave Atlanta on Au gust 9 on the Southern train at 6:20 o’clock, to which wHI be attached a number of extra coaches. The Southern will hold this train in Atlanta until 6:50 o’clock to accommodate those arriving up to that hour. The visitors will return, leaving Doug lasville at 9:50 and arriving in Atlanta In time to catch trolley cars and mid night trains for their homes. The convention promises to be the most interesting in the history of Ma sonry in this jurisdiction and will per haps be **e roost largely attended. ATLANTA MAY GET POSTAL BANK SOON WASHINGTON, D. C~ July 8.-Post master General Hitchcock had expected to establish postal savings banks at a number of postoffices of the first class by July 1, but he had to abandon the idea, and it will be some days before he completes his plans for the establish ment of postal savings institutions at Atlanta and the larger cities. All the banks that have been estab lished so far have been at the smaller towns that rank as second class in the postoffice department. Mr. Hitchcock took up the matter of inaugurating the postal banks in the larger citjes on his return to Washington this week. It is impossible to say whether or not Atlanta will be among the first of the larger cities that will be favored with the establishment of the new gov ernment depository that is proving so popular with the public. MANY STATES LIKE YORKTOWN DAY IDEA NEW YORK, July 8.-The movement of the George Washington Memorial as sociation to have Yorktown Day, October 19, observed throughout the country by a series of peace demonstrations in honor of Washington, has already found adher ents in 20 different states. Among these are Utah, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Indiana and Florida. The association purposes to erect a last ing memorial to George Washington In the form of a magnficent building at Washington, D. C., and it expects that Yorktown day will be declared a half holiday throughout the country in order to permit school children and others to take part in the peace observances. Ggouroj' p g Old Spedaclcs free Sm< he Ont Cent. When you answer this announcement. M I am going to distribute at lease one-husdred-tbousand sets of the Dr. Haux wonderful “Perfect Vision” Spec tacles to genuine, bona-fide spectacle wearers in the next tew weeks—on one easy, simple condition. I want you to thoroughly try them on Snr own eyes, no matter now weak ey may be; read the finest prink thread the smallest eyed needle and put them to any test you like in your ovm home in any way you please. Then after you have become absolutely and positively convinced that they are really and truly the softest, clearest and best-fitting glasses you have ever had on your eyes, you can keep the pair forever without one cent of cost, and Ju9l tiff A (iood Dim by showing them around to your neigh bors and friends, and speak a good word for them everywhere at every opportu nity. If you want to do me this favor write me at once for my free Home Bye Tester and Spectacle offer. Address:— DR. HAUX, "oux Building. St. Loo/t. Mo. I»TY YEARS MOW May 15, 1861-New York’s “Fire Zouaves,” Led by the Dashing Young Col Elmer E. Ellsworth, Were the Most Popular Regiment of the Hour in Washington Fifty years ago today the regiment that most held the fancy of the public in Washington, among the thousands of volunteers who had responded to Lin coln’s call for 75.U00 militia, was the New York "fire xouaves,” or. as they were afterward known In the records the Eleventh New York. Its popularity arose from a variety of causes. A majority of its members were formerly firemen in New York city. Their uniform was one of the most picturesque in all the gay medley of costumes worn by the citizen soldiery at the beginning of the war. It included “a array jack et, red cap with a blue band and regu lation overcoat.” Their arms consisted of “Sharp’s breech-loading rifles, worth 167 apiece, and huge bowie knives, which could be attached to the muzzles of their rifles, to answer the purpose of bayonets. Their knapsacks were made of rubber cloth.” The rank and file embraced as fine a lot of young men as could be seen under any flag—intelligent, aiert, well-set-up, trained by their former calling to rapid and strenuous movements, and filled with a bubbling enthusiasm for war, the hor rors and Borrows of which had not yet been revealed to them. COL. ELLSWORTH POPULAR. The personality of its colonel, Elmer E. Ellsworth .also marked ths regiment for distinction. He was a friend and former law student of Lincoln’s. He had left his budding career as a lawyer in Chicago to follow the profession of arms, had been one of the president's personal party on Lincoln's memorable journey from his home in Springfield to Wash ington in February, and had joined his regiment in New York, his "native state —he was born in Saratoga county—by the direct permission of the president. Colonel Ellsworth's regiment was not the first he had drilled and uniformed In 1860 he gratified a strong taste for military pursuits by joining a militia company in Chicago, of which he soon became captain. He adopted the dress, drill and methods of French zouaves, as illustrated by that arm of service in the Crimean war. The company was known as the Chi cago zouave cadets. They were sworn to abstain from liquor, tobacco and pro fanity. The company gave, on invitation, exhi bition drills in eastern cities, including New York. Thus when the recruiting of a regiment of zouaves was begun in New York for the war, the zouave uniform and drill were already known there, and connected with his name. Lincoln took a warm interest in the ca reer of young Ellsworth, whose sincerity, loftiness of character, purity of life and great personal magnetism made him a pattern of a youhg volunteer soldier. HOLIDAY SOLDIERING. As yet there was a good deal of the spirit of holiday soldiering in the army gathering at ; Washington. Each regi ment had its own standard of discipline, and the best was none too high. As yet there was no general consolidation of the various regiments into brigades. The material of the army was there, but the army was not formed. This gave the men in the ranks a chance to show the individuality of their regiments. The regiment making the best show on parade could with just cause throw out Its chest most proudly. . The volunteers were quartered In va rious parts of the city, those arriving first having been assigned to the capltol, the pension office, the great shed-like structure used for the Inauguration ball, and so on. r. The first zouaves, who arrived in the city, May <2. Were quartered at the cap ltol, and being near the center of things in Washington, were very much in evi dence. While a sober Jot of youths, as a whole, their spirits sometimes rose to a skylarking point and they indulged in not a few pranks, none of which, how ever, came under a more serious head than ipischiet. These things, however, were not al lowed to pass by the censorious, and some dispatches sent out by correspon dents desribed the zouaves as rowdies and disturbers of the peAce. This 1 arous ed the ire of the friends of the zouaves, but the onarge being too severe, did not lessen the popularity of the gayly clad firemen soldiers. “Many of the journals have been pa rading the somewhat free and easy con duct of our firemen zouaves at Washing ton,” said one New York journal. “It could hardly be expected that men so singularly constituted by their associa tions and so unrestrained by their posi tions should at once fall into the routine of discipline. Colonel Elsworth has done his best, and had produced some order out of chaos. A few weeks’ active serv ice will convert the New York firemen zouaves into one of the best disciplined May 16, 1861 —The U. S. Navy Department Took First Steps Toward the Construction of a Gunboat Fleet on the Mississippi—The Blockade at Cairo and Its Significance Fifty years ago today orders were is sued by the U. S. navy department to Commander Rodgers, then at Washing ton, to go to Cincinnati and there con fer with Gen. George B. McClellan, com manding the department of the Ohio, “in regard to the expediency of establishing a naval armament on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.” This armament, with which It was proposed to “blockade or interdict com munication and interchanges with the states that are in insurrection,” was to be the gunboat fleet which should play so important a part in the war in the Mississippi valley. The importance of commanding the Mississippi, called by Lincoln “the backbone of the war—the key to the whole situation,” was readily apparent From Cairo, where the Ohio joined it, the great river wound its way fer more than 1,000 miles through territory al most wholly confederate, to New Or leans and the gulf. Up and down it could most easily move confederate troops and supplies; across it must come from the plains of the southwest the bulk of the food supply for the sea board states. If the north could.possess themselves of this river, they could cut the confed eracy in two and by the aid of the coast blockade, overcome the eastern half by cutting off its food supply. The south realized this, and from the first had begun to fortify the river, erecting batteries and making a begin ning on the future strongholds of Vicks burg and Port Hudson. To win the river, then, would be as difficult as it was important; with land and most effective regiments in the' serv ice.” CALLED ON - OR HELP. About the time the "free and easy” manners of the zouaves were being criti cised, the men of the regiment perform ed a service that established them firm ly In the esteem of Washington, and won them the gratitude of the entire pop ulation of the city. A fire, of incendiary origin, started in a builuing on Pennsylvania avenue, near Willard’s hotel, on the night of May 9. It was sudued by the city fire depart ment, but toward morning broke out again and rapidly gained headway. The character of the buildings In the neighborhood—the heart of Washington —and the proximity of the fire to the chief hotel of the city, then crowded with people from all parts of the north —made the fire a source of danger to both property and life. The fire department now proved inad equate, and it devolved on the Frie Zouaves to subdue the conflagration. The scenes of the night were thus de scribed in Washington dispatches: "At 2 o’clock this morning, Thursday, May 9, most unearthly and long-contin ued yells announced to the startled cit izens that' the fire was at its mischief, and had attacked the liquor establish ment next door but one to Willard’s hotel. Immediately Gen. Mansfield (com manding the district), Col. McDowell of Scott’s staff) and others were in attend ance, while the guests of thet hotel, In varied wardrobes, filled the corriTlors and avenues thereof. In a short time all was extinguished and all was pro nounced safe. “About 4 o’clock anothor fire announce ment vas made, and this time fierce flames were seen rushing from the low er part of the same building. The bells rang for aid, and meanwhile the flames spread with fearful rapidity toward the hotel, which was filled with denese vol umes of smoke. After seemingly inter minable delay, one or two Inefficient fire companies arrived, against whose feeble efforts the flames made continual prog ress. j "At this juncture Gen. Mansfield be thought him of our gallant fire laddies, and dispatched an aid to Col. Ellsworth, asking for a detachment. “ ‘Fire! Fire'.’ rang through the quar ters, and in the twinkling of an eye 10 men fmm each company were running swiftly and in order down the avenue, headed by their colonel. Reaching the engine house they found it barricaded, and, evidently with Intention, so fast ened as for a long time to defy their en trance; but they broke In the door and rushed the engine to the fire. ZOUAVES FIGHT FIRE. “Here they were joined by several h.un dred of their companions who could not brook the idea of confinement or ;d)s slumber while their enemy was in the field. With, trumpet in hand they cam*, and they accomplished wonders, -oine ot which were frightful to behold, such es this: Two of them held each a leg of the third, they standing on the roof en veloped in flames, while he, head down ward, was suspended over the ourning building until he succeeded in reacning a hose pipe which was extended from the end of a short ladder. “After two hours’ hard and perfect work they subdued the fire, confining it to the original building and the one next to it. In complete order they were mar snaled, when Colonel Ellsworth led them up the hill, where General Mansfield, bareheaded, addressed them, thanking them and praising them, repeating sev eral times, ’I am proud of you, very proud of you.’ “After a short congratulatory speech Colonel Ellsworth, accepting the invita tion of Mr. Willard to breakfast, they gavß three immense cheers, sang ‘Dixie,’ and contentedly marched to their quar ters.” PRESENTED WITH COLORS. The crime of setting the fire, as a matter of course, was charged by ths excited Washington folks to “the seces sionists.” “It is needless to expatiate on the ex citement caused here.” said the writer, “or upon the pride felt by the New Yorkers in their fellow-citizens. Among others Simeon Draper, F. B. Cutting, Abraham Wakeman, Thurlow Weed and Farmer Abel congratulated the boys, who were delirious with joy, and stood metaphorically on their heads with de light. “A fine stand of colors is to be pre sented to the regiment as a testimonial of the respect and gratitude of the (Wil lard) house, for which the Willards sub scribe SIOO. Today the zouaves have been all the rage. Nothing Is too good for them and they are the admiration of everybody.” In a little less than three weeks the young colonel of the zouaves was des tined to die, In the advance into Vir ginia, the first officer to fall in the war. (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) forces alone it would be Impossible. A river flotilla must be created for the purpose, and, before ever a northern soldier was sent across the Potomac or the Ohio orders looking to the construc tion of such a flotilla were Issued. SCOTT’S MISSISSIPPI PLAN The first definite suggestions for the construction of such a flotilla or fleet came not from the navy department, but from the army, the idea of General Scott and part of his plan to'conquer the south with a minimum of blood shed. “We propose a powerful movement down the Mississippi to the ocean," he had written to McClellan May 3. “the object being to clear out and keep open the great line of communication in con nection with the strict blockade of the seaboard, so as to envelop the insur gent states. ... I suppose there will be needed from 12 to 20 steam gunboats and a sufficient number of steam trans ports.” McClellan fully agreed with the com manding general, and considered tne gunboats “an indispensable element in any system, of operations, whether of fensive or defensive. He wrote to Scott that he was “more and more convinced that it is necessa ry for us to have without a day’s delay a few efficient gunboats to operate from Cairo as a base. If they are ren dered shot-proof we can by means of them at least seriously annoy the camps on the Mississippi and interfere with their river communication, which is ther main dependence.” For, in addition to the Mississippi and its southern tributaries, such as the Red and the Arkansas, there was the ''A ' fife V/ I-' F ° r i I Your I lAb E °j oyment II I Cr m <_ Vp J i | Here’s an individual among drinks —i?J| J .ii. a— a beverage that fairly snaps with cious goodness and refreshing I'm somcness. I BB' Iz h as more to th an mere wetness and A sweetness —it’s vigorous, full of life. K 2 Y° U ’H enjoy it from the first sip to JW | IB mlsVwß the last drop and afterwards. Delicious—Refreshing | g Thirst-Quenching THE COCA-COLA CO.- Atlanta, Ga. Send for . '■* our interest- / Whenever i. | ing booklet, if IK I “The Truth ' Arrow think j About Coca-Cola” of Coca-Cola | Ohio to guard, a,nd the Tennessee and Cumberland, which into it ran through Kentucky and Tennessee from deep in the Confederate territory. And, most immediately, there was the blockade al Cairo. BLOCKADE BEGUN AT CAIRO. The opening of hostilities had found the south with a supply both of pro visions and of munitions of war con siderably smaher’ than was desirable, and effort had accordingly been made to secure both from the northwest. ’’’Consult as to the feasibility of ob taining bacon from Ohio or Kentucky. ‘ wrote General Lee from Richmond, April 24, and the same day the Confederate secretary of war stated that “an agent has been sent to St. Louis and Louisville tc make purchases for the army." The day that Col. Benjamin M. Pren tiss, the Federal commander at Cairo, arrived at his post, he received from the governor of Illinois a dispatch an nouncing that two steamers, the C. E. Hillman and John D. Perry, were about to leave St Louis with a cargo of arms and munitions for the south, and or dering him to stop the boats and seize their cargo. The seizure was promptly made, and the prospects which it and the occupa tion of Cairo by Illinois troops evoked were little heeded either locally or in Washington. To a Kentucky legislator who com plained of the presence of the troops across the river, Lincoln gave the ironi cal assurance that “he would never hgve ordered the movement of troops complained of had he Khown that Cairo was in your senatorial district.” Gov ernor Magoffin, of Kentucky, likewise appearing to the governors of Ohio and Indiana, got small consolation from their advice to send the troops asked for oy Lincoln. PROVISIONS FOR SOUTH STOPPED. How far to carry such blockade was a question not at first decided. have directed the officer at Cairo,” wrote Governor Yates, of Illinois, to Washington, “to seize munitions of war passing ♦hat point, but we have not y«t assumed the responsibility of prevent ing commercial intercourse.” William T. Sherman, at St. Louis, heard April 25 that orders had been is sued at the custom house to refuse clear ance to steamboats to seceding states. “All the heavy trade with groceries and provisions is with the south,” he wrote, “and the order at once takes all life from St. Louis." To interfere with the trade of friendly or neutral states, and thereby to gain their ill will was not at all to be desired, and on May 2 General Scott accordingly telegraphed: “It Is deemed inexpedient, because irritating to Kentucky and other states bordering on the Ohio, to detain cargoes of provisions descending the riv ers from those states.” Immediately came objections to the or der. Governor Morton, of Indiana, point ed out that a brisk trade in provisions, hay, etc.,, was being carried on between his state and Kentucky, from where the goods were sent south, and inquired, “Will it not be well to cut off all traffic “Pure as the Drifting Snow” Snowdrift Hogless Lard marked the firrt Sold great advance in purity of shorteningand . << gj relief from hog lard and other unwhole- <*>» some ingredients. It has many imitators leading fighting for your patronage, FIGHT dealefS SHY OF THEM ALL! Snowdrift is one- < • • • third less expensive than hog lard and goes IV/ZO JT.VOJ one-third further and produces much Substitution finer results in cooking. ALWAYS use Trade. Snowdrift Buy it in tins only. Avoid snow-FAKE labels. y ade The Southern Cotton Oil Co., with the states which refuse to fill you» call for volunteers?*’ General McClellan, whose department extended all along the Ohio river to Penn sylvania, asked, "Are provisions destined to seceded states to be allowed to pass Cairo? Are shipments of provisions from Cincinnati to be permitted wit tout ref erence to destination, even if for the southern army?” Persuaded finally that the need of cut ting off supplies to the south was greater than the danger of offending Ohio valley* traders, Scott on May 8 sent tho positive orders of the secretary of war to stop provisions at Cairo. FIRST APPEARANCE OF 'ADS. The part which gunboats m.ght taka in such a blockade was the t aggestlon' first made by James B. Eads, later the builder of the gunboat fleet, a r sident oB St. Louis and head of the Missouri wreck ing company. Three days after the fall of Sumter the postmaster general, Edward Bates, a native of Missouri, had written to Eads: "Be not surprised if you are call ed here suddenly by telegraph. In a cer tain contingency it will be necessary tol have the aid of the most thorough knowledge of the western river;: and thel use of steam on them, and in tlxat event 1 advised that you should be consulted.”' The summons had come, and on the 20th of April Eads had submitted to the navy department a proposition for the construction of .floating b.i.teries tot co-operate with the land batteries at Cairo and “effectually control the pas sage of vessels bound up or down the Mississippi.” For the purpose he recommi nded the twin-hulled snag boat as "exceedingly effective for offense or defence.” With it. he promised, the erection of Confed erate batteries could be prevented, steamers overhauled and points on the river attacked. “I know of n. boat or vessel on the Mississippi winch could finally resist her.” This converted snag boat later was to win fame. Eads' proposition met with a favorable reception from both the navy and the army departments, and resulted in its submission to McClellan by the lattet*, and the sending of Commander Rodger* by the former. (Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary Press.) BOSTWICK RAILROAD WILL BE EXTENDED GREENSBORO, Ga.. July ?.—Mr. Fletcher Mobley, of Monroe, receiver for the Bostwick railroad, ha; been in the city several days. He says there is no doubt about the Bostwici; railroad being extended northward to the Sea board Air Line, and the work will be done in a reasonable time. When the Seaboard Air Line has been tapped work will be begun on the Greene county end, coming to Greens boro, via Grayswood and Gr< ghamville. From here It will be extended to Sparta and Sandersville, to connect with the John Skelton lines.