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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1906)
MAGAZINE SECTION. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS. SKETCH OF THE LOVELY WHITE HOUSE IlliWE OF THE DA VS OF GEX URAL GRANT. She- Met Algernon Sartoris, Her Future Husband, on Shipboai d on Return Lui opean l rip-is Mother of Three chduren. 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 j 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 his only daugh- j ter. When Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow j of the 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 j residence in any American city. How- i 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 be attributed to the fact that her birth, in August, 1855, 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, Mies Nellie made her social debut at the Presidential mansion, and her cadet brother, home from West Point, was 'her escort and companion. MET riUNCE 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 Britain 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. The fact that the lucky man was an 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. NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS. joined in -wedlock in the East Room of the White House in the presence of more than two hundred distinguished persons, including the representatives of the foreign governments, officers of the army and navy, etc. Mr. Sartoris had been educated in England and Germany and was the son of Mr. Edward Sartoris, of Hamp shire, England, and his wife, Adelaide Kemble, daughter of Charles and sister of Fanny Kemble, well known to the stage. Prior to the marriage the grroom assured General Grant, of hih entire willingness to reside with his bride in the United States, but soon after the wedding his brother in Eng land died most unexpectedly and he was virtually obliged to return to his native land to assume the management of the family estates. President and' m mmttxunnmj monitor* | Mrs. Grant accompanied the young I 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 i a military career. During the past I few years he has traveled extensively, | and some months ago was married to J a very beautiful young woman in I Paris. The eldest daughter, Vivian, ; was married a year or two since, but j the younger daughter, Rosemary, the j beauty of the family, is still unmarried, j Some months since much discussion was precipitated when it was rumored j that she was engaged to the son of ! one of the Confederate generals who fought against General Grant in the j 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 school days ; she has seemed to inspire the regard of members of her own sex, and some idea of her popularity may be 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. Capt, Lars Anderson’s Wonderful Machine of French Manufacture. Os 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 on wheels with accommodations for eating, sleeping, working or idling, according to the fancy of the owner or his guests. A Family Affair. “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 and received liberal contri- butiorts. which were entered in a book in- hail for that purpose. AMong these many names there appeared. ‘Mrs. j 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 supi»ose he did?” ‘‘Well. I suppose be at least doubled it.” remarked a listener. “Doubled it! Not Russell!” ex claimed the teller of the story. “Why, be simply took bis pen and wrote ‘Mr. and' Is-fore bis 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-elghteentb of, the whole and In 1906 was one-seventh j MOUNT VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1906. BEET-SUGAR GROWING. GOVERNMENT REVORT SHOWS HEALTHY GRO H TU IN NEW AMERICAN INDUSTRY. Colorado Leads—lndustry Every where Proving a Powerful Aid to Agricultural, Industrial and Social Dc vclopmen t. In spite of apparent efforts to crip ple or kill it off. the beet-sugar in dustry of the United States 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, and 12 were be ing constructed for operation this' fsdf year. The factories last year had a I total capacity for slicing 40,050 tons | of beets daily. In the acreage planted and the sugar manufactured from beets Colo rado leads, living h vested 85,000 acres and manufactured 91,000 tons of sugar. Michigan came second in acreage with 77,(*Oi* acres, but third in sugar with <IO,OOO 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 witli a total of 71,000 acres and (4,000 tons of sugar. Other states grew 17,<HM1 acres of beets, producing about 17,000 tons of sugar, or a total for the United Slates of 307,304 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, Un making of other improvements, and the upbuilding of various industrial enterprises. Such results can 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, rnoic highly developed agri cultural districts of the East, where, after beets have been given a proper j trial in competition with established crops, they are demonstrating their staying qualitites and potency in in dustrial development.” GROWS MORE THAN IT EATS. One feature of this report is a series of tables accompanied with outline i 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 190 ft will ex ceed by 24,000 tons the amount of sugar consumed in the same area in 19<*0 (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 their full capacity for campaigns of 100 days, and that the cane sugar product for 1900 will be the j same as that of last year.” TABLE STTOWTNO PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN STATES WEST OF THE MISSISS IPPI RIVER. Pounds Estimated earn- sugar, 1908 OOS.SXn.iKHi Estimated beet sugar, 1806. . 783,200,000 Estimated total sugar pro dueed. 1000 1,482,080, Of XI Total sugar consumed. 1 IKK). . 1,483,020,505 Exeess 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 j equal about 17 per cent, of the con- ; j sumption of sugar in the trans-Jliss- , | issippi area. - This showing of the Department of Agriculture, while it makes a com paratively small inroad upon the vast . consumption v.t sugar in tin* more densely populated re ;ton east of the Mississippi, yet indicates that the young beet sugar industry b making substantial progress, and that con sidering ihe uncertainty of legislation and the great cost of beet-sugar fac tory invest meats, very satisfactory ad vances are being made iu this new American enterprise. TEN ACRU FARMS. Pending Bill-Allows (juvcrnmvpJ to tut up Homesteads into Sutoll I rue is. The tendency of the times is to en courage better farming and in smaller areas, it is coming to be recognized that Lite proportion is small of farms which are thoroughly tilled aud made Ito produce the maximum yield of I which the hind is capable. A few I years ago the man who Mould have said that 10 acres of farm land was a sufficient area for a man to make a I 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 the Senate at tiiis session. It is an amendment to tile National Irrigation Law. Under that law the homestead entry upon public land Irrigated by the govern ment ranges from 40 to IGO acres, to be determined by the Secretary of tin interior, according to the conditions of the reclamation. It was recognized, at tin; time of the passage of the law in “02, that in some sections of the country 40 acres was an ample area for a farm. It is now seen, and ad mitted in tiie Dill 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 subdivide its land Into town and farm units ranging all the way from lots up to KiO acre farms. MOGUL RURAL t*ii’'JTLE&IISNTB. This plan will doubtless develop I some of the finest examples of pros- I 1 porous rural communities to be found anywhere In the world. Many of the j host 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 lik<* ! the outskirts of a village. With such n dense rural population there is an ideal combination of practically all tin* advantages to bo found in city life and the splendid results of country work and living. Houses. In such a community, are almost within a sfori--- I throw of each other, the population is l sufficiently large to support splendid roads, good school and churches, water j and lighting improvements, good i sewerage, etc. Thus the lonesome mss. tin* isoiatjon arid tin* many un attractive features of the big farm dls j appear while yet the joys and the ! wholesomeness of country life are all | present. The report accompanying tiiis Dill states that since the passage of the irrigation act. it has developed that on some of the lands to tie 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 j more prosperous on a small than on a ■ \ large irrigated farm. In view of this | j condition of affairs It has been deemed j j wise to reduce to 10 acres the mini- 1 (mum entry which may be allowed. | 8' jwftitt tr ? - wsr- Copyrighted 1894. 8 y Ma.pcr <•-grSjhco .' '< J V '* CHAPTER I , 1 The great bell of Tleaulleu was ring ing. Far away through the forest might lie heard its musical clangor and swell. Pent cutters on Blackdown and Ushers upon the Fxe heard tin* 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 t .e boom- ! ing of tin' bittern. Yet the fishers and the peasants raised Heir heads and: looked questions at each other, for the Angelas bad already gone and Vespers ; was still far off. Why should the great bell of Beuulieu toll when the shadows were neither »ort nor long? j All round tin* Abbey ti.o monks; ■were trooping in. tinder the long, I green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks | and of lichcned beeches the whits i robed brothers gathered to the sound, jlt had been no sudden call. A swift j messenger had the night 1 efore sped j round to the outlying dependencies of I the Abbey, and had left the summons for every monk to be back In tin* j cloisters by the third hour after noon- j tide. So urgent a message had not j been issued within tin* memory of old | Bay-Brother Athanasius, who had cleaned the knocker since the year after the Battle of Bannackburn. Meanwhile, in the broad an lofty j chamber set apart for occasions of import, the Abbot himself was pacing impatiently backward and forward,! with his long, white, nervous hands ! clasped in front of 1d,., ills thin, i thoughtwoVn features and sunken, j haggard checks bespoke one who had indeed beaten down that inner foe whom every man must face, Inti had none the loss suffered sorely in the contest. In crushing hi passions lie had well-nigh crushed himself. Yet, frail as was his person, there gleamed out ever and anon from under his drooping brows a Hash of tierce energy which recalled to men’s minds that lie came of a fighting stock, and that even now his twin brother, Sir Bartholomew Borghersh, was oik* of tin* most fa mous of those stern warriors who had planted the t'ross of St tleorge before the gates of Paris. Witlj 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 clanged above his bead. At last: the uproar died away in three last meas ured throbs, and ere their echo had (teased the Abbot struck a small gong which summoned a lay-brother to his presence. “Where Is the master of the nov ices ?” “lie is without, most holy father.’’ “Send 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 nuthoi- Itative manner. “You have sent for me, holy j father?” “Yes, Brother Jerome, I wish that I this matter be disposed of with as little scandal as may be; and yet It Is needful that the example should be a j public one.” “It would perchance bo best that the j novices be not admitted,” suggested the j master. “This mention of a woman j may turn their minds from their pious meditations to worldly and evil t houghts.” “Woman! woman!” groaned the Abbot. “Well lias the holy Chrya- THIS MAGNIFICENT COTTAGE DINNER SET FREE. Forty-t wo pieces of American China (semi•porcelain) given FREE for a small club of sub* ; m options. Six dinner plates, 0 pie plates, 0 curm and saucers, 0 fruits. 0 butters, a sugar bowl with lid, a < ream pitcher, a steak plate, a vegetable dish and an olive dish, a 11.of the best ware, decorated in five # dors and gold. 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Benedict!.’ It may save them from foolish and pernicious babbling.” The Abbot was left to himself once more, and bent bis tiilu gray face over Ids illuminated breviary. So lie re mained while tin 1 senior monks tiled j slowly and sedately into the chamber, I seating memselves 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 novices and the chancellor, the latter a broad and portly priest, with dark, mirth ful eyes and a thick outgrowth of j crisp black hair all round Ids tonsured j head. Between them stood a lean, | while-faced brother who appeared to I be ill at ease, shifting his feet from side* to side and tapping Ids chin with | tin* long parchment roll which he held in his hand. The Abbot, from his point of vantage, looked down on the two long lines of faces, placid and sun | browned for the most part, with the large bovine eyes and imliucd features J Moitiii.i; juiin. which fold of their easy, unchanging existence. Then be turned tils eager gaze upon the pnle-fueed monk who | faced him. "Thin plaint is thine, as I learn, Brother Ambrose,” said he. “Bring in Brother .Joint, and let him hear the plaints urged against him.” At this order a lay-brother swung open the door, and two other lay* i brothers entered, leading between : them a young novice of the ordep lie was a man of huge stature, dark eyed and red headed, with a peculiar * half humorous, half defiant expression upon Ids bold, well-marked features. Ills cowl was thrown back upon Ills shoulders, und his gown, unfastened PART TWO.
