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MOUNT JOY, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1906.
“NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS.
SKETCH OF THE LOVELY WHITE
HOUSE BRIDE OF THE DAYS
OF GENERAL GRANT.
She Met Algernon Sartoris, Her
future Husband, on Shipboard on
Return European [rip—Is Mother
of 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 his only daugh-
ter.
‘When Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, widow
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
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 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, Miss Nellie made
her social debut at the Presidential
mansion, and her cadet brother, home
from West Point, was her escort and
sompanion,
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
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
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 son, 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 ast
few years he has traveled extensively,
and some months ago was married to
a very beautiful young woman in
Paris. 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 Ciyil War.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris is »
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
Joungss; member of this famous fam-
ily.
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Capt. Lars Anderson’s Wonderful
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Of all the automobiles ever turned
out by French or other manufacturers,
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any of the present-day touring cars.
» The Anderson car is fitted out with
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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
(Thursday, May 21, 1874, they were
people and received liberal contri-
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, ineluding 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
gon of Mr. Edward Sartoris, of Hamp-
shire, Engiand, and his wife, Adelaide
Kemble, daughter of Charles and sister
of Fanny Kemble, well known to the
stage. Prior to the marriage the
oom assured General Grant of his
entire willingness to reside with his
bridged” S(nited States, but soon
aft: "wedding his brother in Eng-
lund died most unexpectedly and he
wad virtually obliged to return to his
‘native land to assume the management
of the family estates. President and
butions, which were eatered 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!”
claimed the teller of the story. “Why,
he simply took his pen and wrote
‘Mr, and’ beforé his wife's name, and
handed the book back to the good
man,”—Harpers Weekly,
ex-
lees
The rallway ton mileage of the
South in 1882 was one-elghteenth of
the whole and in 1905 was one-seventh.
BEET-SUGAR GROWING.
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
HEALTHY GROWTH IN NEW
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
Colorado Leads—Industry Every-
Where Proving a Powerful Aid to
Agricultural, Industrial and Social
Beveiopment.
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
This showing of the Department of
Agriculture, while it makes a com-
paratively small inroad upon the vast
consumption of sugar iu the more
densely populated reion east of the
Mississippi, yet indicates that the
young beet-sugar industry is making
ksubstantial progress, and that cone
sidering the uncertainty of legislation
and the great cost of beet-sugar fac-
tory investments, very satistaciory ad-
vances are being made in this new
American enterprise.
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TEN ACRE FARMS.
Pending Bill Allows Government to
Cut up Homesteads into Small
Tracts.
The tendency of the times is to en-
courage better farming and in smaller
areas. It is coming to be recognized
that the proportion is small of farms
which are thoroughly tilled and made
UNLOADING
SUGAR
BEETS ON-
TO THE
FACTORY
CARS.
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.ving } 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 66,000 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 64,000 tons of
sugar. Other states grew 17,000 acres
of beets, producing about 17,000 tons
of sugar, or a total for the United
States of 307,364 acres with a produec-
tion of 312,920 tons of sugar.
RAPID GROWTH LOOKED FOR.
Indications are favorable, tle 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 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, 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 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
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 1906 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 1906 will be the
same as that of last year.”
TABLE SHOWING PRODUCTION
AND CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN
STATES WEST OF THE o
IPPI RIVER. Muses
Pounds,
698,880,000
788,200,000
Estimated cane sugar, 1906
Estimated beet sugar, 1906. .
Bstimated
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 17 per cent. of the con-
sumption of sugar in the trans-Miss-
issippl area.
TWELFTH
CONSECU-
TIVE CROP
AT LEHI,
UTAH.
to produee 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 -vhich 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
this session. It is an amendment to
the National Irrigation Law. Under
that law the homestead entry upon
public land irrigated by the govern-
ment ranges from 40 to 160 acres, to
be determined by the Secretary of the
Interior, according to the conditions of
the reclamation. It was recognized,
at the time of the passage of the law
in 702, {hat in some sections of the
counfry 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,
MODEX, RURAL SETTLIRIENTS.
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, ete. Thus the lonesome-
ness, the isolation and the many un-
attractive features of the big farm dis-
appear while yet the joys and the
wholesomeness 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 affairs it has been deemed
wise to reduce to 10 acres the mini-
mum entry which may be allowed,
,| tide.
Lay-Brother
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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 the
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 tie boom-
ing of the bittern. Yet the fishers ana
the peasants raised tleir heads and
looked questions at each other, for the
Angelus had already gone and Vespers
was still far off. Why should the
great bell of Beaulieu toll when the
shadows were neither . ort nor long?
All round the Abbey tie monks
vere trooping in. Under the long,
green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks
and of lichened beeches the white
robed brothers gathered to the sound.
It had been no sudden call. A swift
messenger had the night lLefore 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- |
So urgent a message had not |
been issued within the m~mory of old |
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 his long, white, nervous hands
clasped in front of bii.. His thin,
thoughtworn features and sunken,
haggard cheeks bespoke one who haa
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 his
drooping brows a flash of fierce energy
which recalled to men’s minds that he
came of a fighting stock, and that even
now his twin brother, Sir Bartholomew
Berghersh, was one of the most fa-
mous of those stern warriors who had
planted the Cross 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
clanged above his head. At last the
uproar died away in three last meas-
ured throbs, and ere their echo had
ceased the Abbot struck a small gong
which summoned a lay-brother to his
presence.
“Where is the master of the nov-
ices?”
“He ig without, most holy father.”
“Send him hither.”
The sandalled feet clattered over the
wooden floor, and the iron-bound
door creaked upon its hinges. In a
few moments it opened again to ad-
mit a short, square monk with a
heavy, composed face and author-
itative manner.
“You have
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 a woman
may turn their minds from their pious
meditations to worldly and evil
thoughts.”
“Woman!
Abbot.
sent for me, holy
woman!” groaned the
“Well has the holy Chrys-
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ostom termed them radix malornm.
From Eve downward,what good hath
come from any of them? Who brings
the plaint?”
“It is Brother Ambrose.”
“A holy and devout young man.”
“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 beati Benedicti’ It may save
them from foolish and ° pernicious
babbling.”
The Abbot was left to himself once
more, and bent his thin 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 novices
and the chancellor, the latter a broad
and portly priest, with dark, mirth-
ful eyes and a thick outgrowth of
crisp black hair all round his tonsured
head. Between them stood a lean,
white-faced brother who appeared to
be ill at ease, shifting his feet from
side to side and tapping his chin with
the 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 unlined features
HORDLE JOHN.
which told of their easy, unchanging
existence. Then he turned his eager
gaze 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
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-headed, with a peculiar
half humorous, half defiant expression
upon his bold, well-marked features.
His cowl was thrown back upon his
shoulders, and his gown, unfastened
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