Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 2, 1920, Page 8

FAMOUS WAR MESSAGE ‘Man Who Wigwagged “Hold the Fort” . ‘for General S8herman During Civil Conflict, Is Dead. Alfred Nye, member of the Federal Bignal corps during the Civil war, who died recently at Lexington, Neb., is credited with - having sent General ‘Sherman’s famous message, “Hold- the fort,” to General Corse at Allatoona Pass, Ga, in 1864, During General Sherman’s march to Atlanta, the Con- federates under General Hood, with- drew snd marched around Generdl Sherman, heading back toward Ten- - nessee, planning thereby to cut the Union line of communication. The point chosen by the Confed- erates was Allatoona Pass, guarded . by two little forts on elther side of the rallroad, the garrison being formed of a small brigade under Lieut. Col. J. B. Tourtellotte.. When the Confederate army began 1its attack Colonel Tour- tellotte asked for help. General Corse,: with the nearest troops available, at Rome, Ga.,, was ordered to relnforce the pass. He was able to move only & few hundred men, The battle raged through the night and the following day, the Union men refusing to surrender the fort. Meanwhile Sherman was exchanging signals with the men whenever the smoke of battle drifted aside, until he was able to have Alfred Nye wigwag to them: “Hold the fort.” The Con- federates retreated and continued thelr march to Tennessee. FAMOUS OLD ENGLISH “PUBS” Housés of Entertainment That Have Been Popular In the Little Isle for Centuries. If the prohibitionists get their way, and close all the pubs in town and country, some long histories will reach a sudden close, remarks a writer io London Answers. It is a toss-up which 1s the oldest public house in England. The Trip to Jerusalem, at Nottingham, claims to be. It has perhaps survived, because it 18 hewn -out of the rock be- low the castle. If a name is any gulde, 1t apparently commemorates the Cru- sades, and Richard the Lion Heart Is sald to have drank ale there in 1189, 2 eems old enough for anything. , there is The Fighting Cocks, at St. Albans, which can assuredly point back to 1250, Prior to that, it was the Monk’s Fishing House. It is octagonal in shape, and its cellings are not six feet high. - Altogether a notable old pub. Nobody ought to go to Gloucester . without seeing the Cathedral first and the New Inn secopd. The New Inn is one of the oldest inns in the country, and one of the }most pleturesque and best preserved. - The Seven Stars, at Manchester, Is another old .place, and so Is the Rose and Crown:at Bainbridge, in Wensley- dale. Probably.this was the first Rose and Crown, which refers to the Tudor Rose,-and It has been very extensively copled, for in the neighborhood of Lon- don alone, there must be a dozen of that name. Running True to Form. Debs—He's got a wonderful collec- tion of old curios. It's worth while to see them. Gebs—Yes, I know it is. 1 met his wife at the dance the other night and 1 think she must be about the oldest curio he has. His Opinion Not Fixed. Lawyer (examining prospective ju- ror In criminal case)—Mr. Juror, have you any fixed opinion as to the guilt or innocence of the accused? ) Juror (emphatically)—Naw, I ain'l got no doubt but the guy’s gullty, but they ain’t nobody fixed me. ; Steel Want General. All around the globe there is a de- mand for American steel. Portuguese st Africa has extensive railroad plans, and In Siam there Is a’ call for 82,000 tons of ralls. A New York firm has: contracts .for $5,000,000 for office bufldings and other structures In Tokyo and other Japanese citles. In Rome there is a bullding program for housing government employees. South American requirements are extensive. TURN HAIR DARK WITH SAGE TEA If Mixed With Sulphur It Darkens So Naturally Nobody Can Tell ‘The old-time mixture of Sage Tea and’ Sulphur for darkening gray, streaked and faded hair is grand- mqther’n recipe, and folks are again using it to keep their hair a good, even color, which is quite, sensible, as we. are living in an age when a youthful appearance is of the great- est advantage. . Nowadays, though, we don’t have the troublesome task of gathering the sage and the mussy mixing at home. All drug stores sell the ready-to-use product, improved by the addition of other ingredients, called “Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound.” It is very poqular because nobody can - discover it has been applied. Simply moisten your comb or a soft brush with it and draw this through your iir, taking one small strand at a time; by morning ‘the gray hair dis- pears, but what delights the ladies with Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Com- pound, is thaf, besides beautifully darkening ‘the hair after a few ap-| olu‘,l it also ‘produces that s SPRING SUIT OF PARIS TYPE' : | THE BEMIDJI DAILY PIONEER . POULTRY IN PUREBRED CLASS Entry of’ Peafowls Recelved From South Dakota Farmer— Also Turkeys, Ducks and Geese. The first peafowls have been en- tered in the . “Better Sires—Better Stock” crusade of the agricultural colleges, the United States depart-. ment of agriculture, and co-operating agencles. The entry. comes from Butte county,” 8. D, ‘and tbe owner is J. L. Jones. He is using purebred sires in breeding horses, cattle, swine and poultry. . Among his poultry he records a peacock and two peahens, also a liberal number of turkeys; geese and ducks. The campaign al- ready is giving valuable facts and'fig; ures regarding the classes of live stock most commonly’ kept ' together on farms, - , 4 One Better. ° Manager~This magnet will draw three pounds of iron from a distance of ten feet. - Rube—That’s _not much.: ''I know something that draws me every Sun- day over three miles of plowed fields, and I weigh 125 pounds. Following Instructions. Father—And when . you quarreled with the boy did you follow your.Sun- day: school principle and give him & A conservative spring sult of tricol serge, until the coat Is opened, then the dashing, many colored silk blouse with sash and deep fringed ends, gives a Parisian note. ' Sixteen inch mixed hard and soft Not a Bite of * Breakfast Until You Drink Water Says 2 glass of hot water and pkosphate prevents iliness and keeps. us fit. Just as coal, when it burns, leaves behind }incombus le ashes, so the food and, drink taken-day after day leaves in the alimentary canal indi- gestible material, which if not com- pletely eliminated from the system each day, becomes food for the mil- lions of bacteria’ which infest the bowels. - From this mass of left-over waste, toxins and ptomaine-like pois- ons ‘are formed and sucked into the blood. Men and women who can’t get feeling right must begin to take in- side baths. Before breakfast each morning drink a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phos- phate in it to wash out of the bowels the previous day’s poisons and toxins, and to keep the entire alimentary canal clean, pure and fresh. Those who are subject to sick soft answer? Babble—No, not exactly; I made an old toft tomato do the answering. 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