Nebraska Newspapers

    Loop City Northwestern
J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher.
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LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA.
The hour-glass figure will be con
venient for a young man’s arm.
A cargo of yeast cakes might help
eome of those flying machines to rise.
Mr. Carnegie now announces that
"wealth is slavery.” Watch us kiss
our chains.
An Ohio man dropped dead while
eating a piece of pie. Lucky fellow!
He died happy.
Too often it is the cooks, rather
than the children, that are the “de
stroyers of home life.”
The telephone “hello!” in Japanese
is “moshi, moshi!” The busy signal
must be something jarring.
And now will Mr. Edward Atkinson
kindly tell us how much a man ought
to spend a year for clothes?
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Any married man who thinks that
the dressing-on-$65-a-year theory is all
right has onlv to consult his wife.
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An Ohio murderer spent his last
hours on earth playing a guitar. He
was probably anticipating his golden
harp.
Vermont declares her maple sugar
crop is short, but that is impossible
while the supply of granulated sugar
holds out.
“The School for Husbands” is the
name of a new comedy by Stanislaus
Stange. It probably means the break
fast table.
The Savannah Press says that ‘Lily j
Langtry as a grandmother sounds bet
ter.” But does the Jersey Lily look
any better?
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Ever since the first woman shook
the first rolling pin at her husband
woman’s clubs have been a menace to
married men.
Richmond. Va., has adopted an or
dinance prohibiting the exhibition of
artificial legs. How about the real ar
ises, though?
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\a statistician has found that “only
five of every business men succeed.”
But he hasn’t figured in the get-rich
quick contingent.
A continuous bath is said to produce
excellent results in insanity. To be
sure. Continuous submersion, if deep
enough, will cure any case of insan
ity.
Cassie Chadwick may have the con
solation of knowing that Sophia Beck,
her successor in the center of the
stage, is not nearly so bright a finan
cier.
The Rev. John Balcom Shaw advo- ;
rates admitting women to the priest
hood. The suggestion comes late.
Women always has been a ministering
angel.
Thank heaven, the Thaw-Xesbit
“romance” will now stay out of the
papers for a while. Here’s hoping
that it won’t show up next in the di
vorce court.
Andrew Carnegie says that the
wealthy man is a slave. So is the
married man, and yet men continue
to sigh, and always will, for wealth
and marriage.
“Every young married woman should
know how’ to make bread,” said a
writer on economics. Yes; and every
young man should know how to fur
nish the dough.
That Xew York physician who is
trying to start a crusade against long |
di esses may as well give it up. He
will have no better success than the
late Mrs. Bloomer had.
It is interesting to learn that no
present danger confronts the Canadi
an falls at Niagara. The worst that is
likely to happen soon is the stoppage
of the cataract on the American side.
That’s all.
A Sioux City, Iowa, man has applied
for an injunction to restrain a lady
who lives next door to him from cook
ing onions. Now, here is a case for
the champions of personal liberty tc
become aroused over.
“A rich, nice, young nobleman” ad
vertises in a New York “Personal”
that he would marry “a very beautiful,
honest lady.” And the doesn't say a
word about requiring a fortune! He
ought to get some mail.
A prominent New York business
man is going to build a $12,000 per
gola. If any ignorant person asks yon
what, a pergola is, tell him you don'*
know, but you rather think it is a
place to keep fine plants in.
A Mississippi postmaster is much
vexed because the government will not
permit him to resign. What will puz
zle other postmasters throughout the
country is that the man appears to
be entirely sane in ether respects.
A “child philosopher” has disap
peared from his home in Boston.
President Eliot of Harvard has taken
a great interest in him and Boston is
all wrought up. We can’t see why the
loss of one child philosopher
cause much of a commetion
town.
A young New York man was ar
rested on a charge of insanity.- He
wanted to get married, and the judge
discharged him. The young man *as
kindly left to his own vindication.
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A German province, which is de
scribed as “petty,” proposes to tax
pianos. People with that much sense
should never be described as small.
A Buffalo bishop advises young
preachers to beware of women. Can
It be possible that he doesn’t consider
the old preachers worth saving?
THE TEACHER’S FOE
A LITE ALWAYS THREATENED BY
NERVOUS PROSTRATION.
One Who Broke Down from Six Tears of
Overwork Tells How She Escaped
Misery of Enforced Idleness.
•*I had been teaching in the city
schools steadily for six years,’’said Miss
James, whose receut return to the work
from which she was driven by nervous
collapse has attracted attention. “They
were greatly overcrowded, especially in
the primary department of which I had
charge, and I had been doing the work
of two teachers. The strain was too
much for my nerves and two years ago
the crisis came.
“ I was prostrated mentally and phy
sically, sent in my resignation and never
expected to bo able to resume work. It
seemed to me then that I was the most
miserable woman on earth. I was tor
tured by nervous headaches, worn out by
inability to sleep, and had so little
blood that I was as white as chalk.
“After my active life, it was hard to
bear idleness? and terribly discouraging
to keep paying out the savings of years
for medicines which did mo no good.”
“How did you got back your healt h ?”
“A bare chance aud a lot of faith led
me to a cure. After I had suffered for
many months, aud when I was on the
very verge of despair, I happened to read
an account of some cures effected by
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills. The state
ments were so convincing that I some
how felt assured that these pills would
help me. Most people, I think, buy only
oue box for a trial, but I purchased six
boxes at once, and when I had used
them up, I was indeed well aud had no
need of more medicine.
“Dr. Williams’Pink Pills enriched my
thin blood, gave mo back my sleep, re
stored my appetite, gave me strength to
walk long distances without fatigue, in
fact- freed me from all my numerous ail
ments. I have already taught for several
mouths, aud I cannot say enough in
praise of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.”
Miss Margaret M. James is now living
at No. 1:23 Clay street, Dayton, Ohio.
Many of her fellow teachers have also
used Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills and are
enthusiastic about their merits. Sound
digestion, strength,ambition, and cheer
ful spirits quickly follow their use. They
are sold m every drug store in the
World,
The “marriage collar” so many hus
bands wear is, naturally, one of the
“turn down” variety.
ANOTHER RECORD IN LAND
HUNTING.
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Thi? Spring’s Exodus to Canada
Greater Than Ever.
It was thought in 1903, when over
forty-five thousand people went from
the United States to Canada, that the
limit of the yearly immigration to
the wheat zone of the Continent had
been reached. But when in 1904
about as large a number of Ameri
can citizens signified their intention
of becoming settlers on Canadian
lands, the general public were pre
pared for the announcement of large
numbers in 1905. No surprise there
fore will be caused when it is made
known that predictions of fully fifty
thousand more in 1903 are warranted
in the fact that the Spring movement
Canadaward is greater than it has
ever been. The special trains from
Omaha, Chicago. St. Paul, Detroit,
and other gateways has been crowd
ed. Many have gone to join friends
and relatives who have prepared
homes for them and others have gone
relying upon their own resources, sat
isfied that what others have done can
also be done by them. This year
much newr territory has been opened
up by the railroads which are extend
ing their main lines and throwing out
branches in their march across the
best grain and grazing lands on the
continent. This new territory has
attractions for those desiring to home
stead on the one hundred and sixty
acres granted each settler by the
Canadian Government. Many also
take advantage of the opportunity to
purchase lands at the low figures at
which they are now being offered.
It does not require much thought to
Convince one that if Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota and other lands, with a
value of from fifty to one hundred and
fifty dollars an acre will give a good
living by producing ten to thirteen
bushels of wheat to the acre and thir
ty to fifty bushels of corn to the acre,
the lands of Western Canada at seven
to ten dollars an acre, producing
from twenty to thirty bushels of a
superior wheat to the acre should
produce a competence to the ordinary
farmer in a very few years. These
are the facts as they confront tho
reader. There are millions of acres
of such land in Western Canada in
addition to the other millions that
are considered to he portion of the
biggest and best ranges that ever in
vited the cattle and horse producer
of the North American continent.
What is particularly evident in West
ern Canada is the fact that the wheat
lands, adjoining the grazing lands,
make farming particularly agreeable
and profitable. The agents of the
Canadian Government, who are al
ways willing to give information and
advice to intending settlers, say that
the acreage put under crop this sea
son is greatly in excess of last sea
son.
The less a man has to say, the
greater is his reputation for wisdom.
Important to Mothers.
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a safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
and see that it
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The Kind You Uave Always Bought
A floating debt is a poor thing to
keep a man’s head above water.
Mrs. Winiiow’s Soothing Syrup.
For children teething, softens the gums, reduces tl*
flanupatlon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c a bottle.
Religious persecution is the effect
of an exaggerated vanity rendered fe
rocious by the best intentions.
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III* urst day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Heston.
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Values »t commodities depend on
whether you want t« buy or «ell.
Our Pleasures Too Costly
A Frenchman complained the other
day about the unreasonably high
prices of American restaurants.
“You cater to the pleasure of only
the rich man here,” he said. “Don’t
you know that there are 99 average
men to eve^y rich one? Why, then,
don’t you draw the average man out
of his shell? Why don’t you make an
offer for his custom?
“In Paris—in fact, all over France—
you can get a good dinner for f.3, or
GO cents—a dinner served in a beauti
ful restaurant, to the music of a good
orchestra, among well dressed and re
fined people. This dinner comprises
a hors d’oeuvre, soup, fish, a roast
meat, a course of vegetables, chicken
and salad, dessert and a pint of good
red or white wine.
“There is in America an idea that
a man never leaves home for pleasure
without an enormous roll of bank
notes and a perfect indifference to ex
pense. To dine at a good restaurant
with his wife and to go to the theater
afterward costs an American—for din
ner, $5; for a carriage to and from the
play, $3; for a seat, $3 or $4—or $12
in all. That is too much.
“Such an evening in Ixmdon would
cost—for the dinner, $2.50; for a car
riage, 50 cents; for seats, $4—that is
to say, $7, or a saving of $5 over
America. And the dinner in London
would be a table d’hote at the Carlton
or the Savoy, with everybody In even
ing dress, and dukes and earls and
countesses on all sides—a spectacle
of splendor such as you couldn’t ob
tain with your dinner in America un
der a cost of $8 a plate.
“In Paris the same evening would
cost $5.
“No thought is taken for the aver
age man's pleasure in America. Cabs,
good dinners, good wines, all are put
at such exorbitant prices that the aver
age man must either do without them
or run in debt to get them once, say,
a month.
“In Europe and in England the aver
age man is catered to. He can take a
cab, he can eat a good dinner, he can
drink a glass of good wine, without
first mortgaging his house.
“I think it is a sign of the nation’s
youth and crudity that the average
man obtains no consideration in Amer
ica.’’—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Need of Farmers’Combines
Another protective influence exert
ed by the trade association is that of
educating its members against the
swindles by which the followers of al
most every occupation or calling are
victimized, writes Charles H. Clark,
in Success Magazine. It is a recog
nized fact that swindlers and confi
dence men ply their craft along rou
tine lines—in other words, they move
from place to place and “work” men
in the same general line of business.
Recently a grain buyer in a western
town was victimized in this manner:
Like all other local elevator men, he
followed the practice of advancing to
the farmers of his locality a reason
able sum of money against the grain
which they would soon market. One
day two farmers hailing from a rath
er remote locality with which he was
not particualrly familiar came to
him and asked for an advance upon
the crops they were cutting. The
men appeared to have met by acci
dent at the elevator, and claimed to
know each other only casually, saying
that their farms were some five or six
miles apart. As these men were
dressed in overalls and hickory shirts,
their faces and arms being well
browned by the sun, the grain buyer
naturally concluded that they were
genuine farmers, and, after asking
them a few questions as to their acre
age, gave them the cash advance on
their crops which they asked. Later
the elevator man learned to his sor
row that they were a pair of confi
dence men carefully “made up" in
farmer style. They had consistently
“worked” the grain buyers of that re
gion, being very careful, however, to
keep out of the territory covered by
the organization. This campaign of
swindling could not have been suc
cessly prosecuted among buyers who
belong to an association, as their first
swindle would have been promptly re
ported to every member of the organ
ization and efforts for the arrest and
prosecution of the confidence men
would have been made at once.
If Sun’s Color Changed
A German astronomer has recently
published some interesting observa
tions on the theoretical effects of a
change in the color of the sun. It is
amazing to consider the possibilities
if our sun were green, blue or red. in
stead of what it is. If it were blue
there would only be two colors in the
world—blue and black. If it were red,
then everything would be red or
black. If it were yellow everything
would be yellow or black. Every one
knows that the light of our sun con
sists of six colors, and the reason
things are different hues is that some
. swallow up five of the colors and re
flect only one. Thus we have prim
roses yellow, because they absorb all
but the yellow: roses, red, because
they absorb all but the red; violets
purple, because they absorb every
thing but red and blue, a mixture of
which two colors forms purple.
In the event of the sun being red,
roses, blood, red ink, and all other
things that are now red would reflect
it. So also would snow, the lily and
all things that are now white, but
these would, of course, be red. Every
thing else would swallow up the red
light and apear quite black. Grass,
for instance, would be black as ink,
and so would the blue of the sky, but
the white clouds would be red. The
same kind of things would happen if
the sun were blue. Everything now
blue or white would be blue and
everything else black. The whole sky,
clouds and all, would be blue. The
grass this time f would be blue, not
black, for it reflects both blue and
yellow. Hair would be all black, the
red of the lips would be black and
the rest of the face would be a cloudy
blue.
If the sun were green we would
have a little variety. Things that are
now yellow" would still be yellow,
things that are blue would be blue
and things that are green would still
be green, but there would be no reds,
purples, orange, pinks or any of those
cheery hues that make the world look
so bright.
At a Holland Wedding
In Holland two weeks before a mar- i
riage takes place cards are sent out
declaring that the banns have been
published. This is called an “under
marriage.” The card also announces
when the final marriage is to take
place. The wedding itself is a small
affair, and the civil marriage is the
only one recognized by law. A church
wedding is usually looked upon as a
concession to either fashion or senti
mentality, and is called a “consecra
tion of the marriage.” The couple en
ter the church behind the family
members, bridesmaids and other at
tendants. They are shown to seats
before the whole assembly, and the
clergyman comes in with two wit
nesses long after the others have
been seated. He first makes a prayer,
then delivers a sermon on a suitable
text, which usually brings the bride
to tears. After that the couple are mar
ried. Then a hymn is sung and the
blessing given. The whole occupies
yibout an hour and a quarter. Before
Heaving the church a huge Bible is
presented to the bridegroom. During
the two weeks of waiting between
the “under-marriage’’ and the real
marriage all the wedding festivities
take place. The happy couple are lit
erally surfeited with dinners, balls
and theater parties, and all manner
of practical jokes are played on the
pair. At the dinner toasts innumer
able are given, and at each the whole
company rises from the table to
sound and touch glasses with the
bride and groom, who never rise.
Among their friends the idea is not
to allow the couple a night of sleep, if
possible, before the wedding day. In
place of wedding cake candies are
presented.
The Difficulty of Lying
Senator N. A. Elsberg of New York
was talking in Albany about a notori
ously untruthful man.
“Like all great liars,” said Senator
Elsberg, “he is careless. He fails to
keep accurate note of the lies he tells
innumerable stories that won’t hold
Hence innumerable contradictions,
hold together.
“If. for instance, he takes a week’s
walking trip, he tells A he walked
seventy-five miles, B a hundred miles,
C a hundred and fifty miles, and then,
when he meets A again, he tells him
that he covered a full hundred and
seventy-five miles on that walk.
“It would require a large set of
books, a complicated system of book
keeping and a force of at least three
clerks to keep a chronic liar straight
in all his stories, to keep him from
contradicting himself or getting con
fused.”
Senator Elsberg smiled.
“The average chronic liar,” he
said, “has the luck of a boy I know
who enlisted and went to the Philip
pines. This boy, whenever he want
ed money, would write home from
Manila something like this:
“‘Dear Father: I have lest anoth
er leg in a stiff engagement, and am
in hospital without means. Kindly
send two hundred at once.”
“To the last letter of this sort that
the boy wrote home, he received the
following answer:
‘“Dear Son: As. according to your
letters, this is the fourth leg you have
lost, you ought to be accustomed to
it by this time. Try and hobble along
on any others you may have left.” ^
Patience
Be patient, O, be patient! Put your ear
against the earth;
Listen there how noiselessly the germ o’
the seed has birth;
How noiselessly and gently it upheaves
its little way
Till it parts the scarcely-broken ground,
and the blade stands up in the day.
Be patient, O be patient! the germs of
mighty thought
Must have their silent undergrowth, must
underground be wrought;
But, as sure as ever there’s a Power that
makes the grass appear.
Our land shall be green with Liberty, the
blade-time shall be here.
Be patient, O, be patient! go and watch
the wheat ears grow,
So imperceptibly that we can mark nor
change nor throe:
Day after day, day after day till the ear
is fully grown:
And then again day after day, till the
ripened field is brown.
Be patient, O, be patient! though yet
our hopes are green,
The harvest-field of Freedom shall be
crowned with the sunny sheen.
B« ripening, be ripening! mature your
silent way
Till the whole broad lam3 is tongued with
fire on Freedom’s 'liarvest day.
—William James Linton.
A Mother's Wish.
Oh, what would we wish for our girls and
boys
As we gaze at their Innocent faces
In the sweet, pure light of their childish
joys.
Where stern care has not yet left Its
traces.
What then Is the depth of our strong de
sires.
What the height of our fondest ambi
tion.
What the hopes and dreams to which love
aspires.
For their dear lives repu ted fruition?
Is It beauty, grace, or a sounding name,
Honors, riches, and affluent station.
Or a brow bedecked by the band of fame.
While the world sang her proud com
mendation?
All of these may be well, yet their glories
wane
If not crown’d by Life’s full, grander
meaning.
As the gold to the dross-chaff to ri
pened grain
They will stand in the great Harvest
gleaning.
—Liverpool (Eng.) Mercury.
Commanders Who Failed.
“I am glad," said the colonel, “that
Gen. Kouropatkin was sent back to
the Russian army In Manchuria. As
I read of the old general's reception
at the front 1 was reminded of a scene
in our own war that saddened me
when I saw it and that hurts me now
whenever it comes up in memory. 1
had been sent back from Fort Gregg
on the Petersburg front to our for
mer headquarters at Humphrey’s Sta
tion, when I came upon Gen. C. K.
Warren and three of his staff riding
from Five Forks to the rear.
"It was raining, and’ men end
horses were covered with mud. The
general's figure drooped and his face
expressed extreme fatigue and utter
dejection. lie had been relieved of
the command of his corps in the pres
ence of the enemy by Gen. Sheridan,
who, catching up the flag, led War
ren’s men in that impetuous final
charge at Five Forks which broke up
Pickett’s command and won a great
victory. I was in sympathy with Sher
idan. but I felt then that if Little
Phil had been patient. Warren, within
twenty minutes, would have led his
own command into battle and
achieved the same results.
“I had heard the talk at headquar
ters about Warren being slow in
crossing the Rapidan and dilatory on
other occasions, and felt that he de
served a reprimand, but after I saw
him on his way to the rear I felt
that so fine a soldier should have been
given another command by Sheridan
in that last charge. When I read of
Kouropatkln’s return to a subordinate
command I felt that in some things
the Russians are fairer in the treat
ment of officers who do their best and
fail than we were in the civil war.
And yet I am not sure that in such
cases as that cf Warren we were
wrong.”—Chicago Inter Ocean.
Wartime Incident Recalled.
They were talking on a recent
evening of coincidences. Finally after
the rehearsal of several more or less
strange happenings, a middle aged
man, who had been an attentive lis
tener, said:
"I had last autumn the strangest
coincidence of my life. When a boy,
and during the civil war I lived with
my parents on the south shore of
Staten Island. Just across the Nar
rows was Fort Lafayette, where many
irisoners were confined. One hot
July day. a short time after the bloody
battle of Antietam, I rowed in a boat
across the Narrows with two young
companions and approached the fort,
which, as you know, occupies a small
island a few hundred yards from Long
Island ^hore. It was always a tempta
tion to boys to see how near the sen
tries who patrolled the walk around
the island would let them approach.
On this day the two sentries on guard
happened to have both walked on
their respective rounds but out of
sight, so we were able to get close up
underneath the island and near the
fort.
“A prisoner thrust his head as far
as possible between the small bars of
a narrow' slit in the fort high up from
the ground and called out, ‘What news
of the war, boys?’ We called out the
the story in brief of the battle of An
tietam, of which our fathers had told
us that morning. Just then one of the
sentries appeared, leveled his musket
end shouted to us to keep off.
“Last autumn—I am now a man of
forty-eight—I was traveling on a beau
tiful moonlight night from Cincinnati
to Chattanooga. We were passing
through the Blue Grass country, and 1
stepped out on the platform of the
i ear Pullman to get the air and enjoy
the beauty of the peaceful scenery,
which I had never before viewed. A
tall, white-haired man stepped out and
stood beside me. We fell into con
versation and he began to tell me
cf incidents of the civil war in that
section.
“ 'I am myself from New Jersey
originally,’ he said, ‘but all my people
were Southerners, and so I fought on
the Confederate side in the struggle.
Unhappily, I was captured by the Fed
erals at the second Buil Run and spent
two years in a Northern prison.’
“Somehow, I know not why, I recall
ed and told the incident of my youth
above narrated. He listened attentive
ly. paused a moment, and replied,
‘You amaze me! Truth is, indeed
stranger than fiction. I am Col. Y—,
and I was that prisoner in Fort Lafay
ette. I recall the day and scene as
if it were yesterday. I lost a brother
at Antietam. and when the sentry or
dered you boys off I remember my
presentiment that you had uncon
sciously brought me sad tidings.’ ”
At Andersonville.
Speaking of Andersonville. Melvin
Grigsbf, a friend of Capt. Arch Moody,
said:
“It was about dark when we entered
the outer gate. On each side of what
seemed a street, leaving room for us
to pass in column, we saw a dense
mass of human beings. The line
each side was composed of livfr~ skel
etons, walking mummies, ragged,
many of them nearly nude, all skin
and bone, with complexions as black
as Indians. These men were starving.
There they stood, their great eye3
protruding beyond their gaunt and
bony cheeks; their limbs, half cover
ed, showing enlarged, swollen Joints,
bruised knees and elbows, and great
puffballs of feet.”
Andersonville is situated in a sparse
ly settled portion of Georgia. Along
the streams is a stretch of swampy
land, and the prison was made by en
closing sixteen acres of this swamp
within a stockade. A small stream
ran through the enclosed sixteen acres
and was used as a basis for water sup
ply and the sewage disposal. The
45,000 men confined in the prison at
ono time were given no tents, no
blankets. They broke the underbrush
from the marsh, and with the instinct
of savage men built coverings to pro
tect themselves from the rains and
the scorching sun. The men were
counted off in divisions of ninety each
and twelve such divisions was called
a detachment. Each detachment was
allotted a small portion of ground on
which to sleep. Each prisoner was
given a scant pint of meal, a quarter
of a pound of meat or its equivalent
in rice and beans, once a day, and a
teaspoonful of salt once a week. The
fare was never varied.—Milwaukee
Sentinel.
Seeks Civil War Heroes.
Walter Kimball of Kane county
has received a letter from John W.
Perry of North Alton, 111., seeking a
reunion of members of the Seventh
Illinois infantry in the civil war. Per
ry, when a boy of 17, was orderly to
Mr. Kimball, who was then post quar
termaster. At the time of the battle
of Pilot Knob, which began Sept. 28,
1804, and continued five days, Mr.
Kimball was directed to take a quan
tity of supplies to the Seventh regi
ment. He was accompanied by Lieut.
Tate, now’ a resident of Gainesville,
Mo., and there was an escort of twen
ty men, including Perry.
The party was attacked by the '
Confederates and the supplies cap
tured and confiscated. Mr. Kimball
fell, but was saved by his orderly,
who, with Lieut. Tate, escaped and
hid in the woods for ten days. After
much hardship the fugitives succeed
ed in reaching St. Louis in safety.
It has developed that there are
quite a number of survivors of that
little band. At the reunion of the
veterans of Pilot Knob held last Sep
tember Mr. Perry was present and
decided to institute a search for the
members of the party who were at
tacked by* the enemy while conveying
supplies. He ha3 unearthed a num
ber of the veterans, among them be
ing Mr. Kimball, who has been a
prominent citizen of Kane county for
years. It is desired to hold this year
at Mr. Kimball’s home a reunion of
all the survivors located of the band
who made the trip through the woods
of Missouri forty years ago.—Chica- '
go Chronicle.
Confederate Flags Sent Back.
Gen. Ainsworth, the military secre
tary, has shipped about 500 old cap
tured confederate flags to the govern
ors of former secession states. Let
ters to the governors were also sent,
explaining the provisions of the Lamb
law under which the captured banners
in the war department are to be turned
over to the states whose regiments
bore them during the war.
AH' of the flags were marked, so
that they could be displayed in state
houses or museums, if desired, with
histories attached.
The remainder of the 522 confeder
ate banners that have reposed in the
war department building for forty
years could not be identified, so worn
and torn are they. As there is^uo law
covering their distribution, they will
be placed in boxes and stored away
again, although there are a number of
historical societies and other organ
izations that would like to obtain pos
session of one or more of them.
The recaptured Union flags now at
the department have all been identi
fied and arranged, and they will be
shipped to the governors of northern
states, from New England to the far
West.
Praise for Seventeenth Illinois.
The Seventeenth Illinois captured
seven flags in one day. Writing from
Cairo" to Col. Marsh of the Twentieth
Illinois and referring to the work of
this organization and the Seven
teenth, Gen. Grant said after the right
at Frederickstown:
“The reports that have reached me
have filled me with the highest admi
ration of the valor and patriotism dis
played by you and your command in
this engagement. Amid the gloom of
the reverses of our arms at Leesburg,
athwart the clouds its bow of promise.
It was your privilege to be among the
foremost of that gallant band, who
raised our drooping banner and em
blazoned it with victory. The import
ance of this success cannot be meas
ured by any ordinary standard, it
has given new life to tens of thou
sands of our discouraged soldiers, it
has crushed out the rebellion in south
east Missouri, and has sustained the
prestige of victory to our flag. I ex
tend to you and your command a cor
dial welcome on your return from the
held of battle and victory.”
Passing of Civil War Veterans.
Grant was a general; so were Hayes
and Garfield and Harrison. McKinley
was a major. Since Andrew Johnson
all the presidents, except Arthur end
Cleveland, down to Roosevelt, were
soldiers of the civil war. McKinley
was the last. The civil war veteran
has passed from the president's office
to return no more. Senator Bate was
perhaps the last of the old confeder
ates in the senate from Tennessee.
He Is also the last of the old school
of southern gentlemen who link the
p-st with the present. Turney was
the last confederate to serve as gov
ernor. It is doubtful whether an
other old confederate will be o]eetP<?
governor, senator or representative
Nashville American.
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