Show T I IT T The he Friend of o the People I To receive attention every question must bear the nanie nathe I I and address of the person sending it This does not necessarily necessarily i mean that the name will be published when the question f is answered only the initials will be used if the questioner so desires No attention will be paid to queries to which the name and address of the sender are not appended IJ of the People i Cid d' d dany any of the states that left the union during the civil war come back before the War T ended 2 Please give a sketch of Winfield Scotts Scott's con- con with United States history F SUBSCRIBER It i 1 No 2 He was bom born in inS S j studied law and was admitted to tobar bar entered the United States nir as captain in 1808 served with J in the war of 1812 was wasi i i brigadier general in 1814 comi cornIn com com- I i ded in South Carolina during the troubles of 1832 became general and commander in chief I. I it army in 1841 was appointed to jl hief command in Mexico in 1847 S S several battles and captured the theof UY of Mexico September 14 1847 ft S p S the Whig candidate for president If 1852 and defeated retired from va service in 1861 died May 29 29 1 W. W of tho the Peoples People S I now flow Is la Uranus accented 2 How nebula buJa accented 3 How is museum museumS S l f 4 4 How is Rigel Rise pronounced 4 ow w can we know which to use t r C o farther betwixt or between I t widower with one child owning ft C teal teaI estate and farm property marries a t. t second time his second wife having I. I money mone property household goods Rr children If he ho should die diG without U ii r ing a wm will how would the property E gallY divided between the widow iL ad d lier stepdaughter VJ LITERARY i 11 S' S I Ver s 1 On the B first syllable J On n the first syllable 3 S. On the s see sec nonA 4 Ree-jel Ree accent on the then n syllable 5 Many writers prefer further for reference to time quantity or degree and farther for spatial dis dis- Betwixt and between mean the same thing betwixt being an old form of between 6 The widow would re receive re re- widows widow's preferred claim S one half of the remaining personal property after the payment of debts Q and d a life estate in third one-third of th the theS l real al estate S r Friend fend of the Pe People What is the significance of or the term J Dixie Dixie- or Dixie's Land as applied to d the o. o South When was it first used READER t ri The term has no ni particular and Its origin is unknown though it can be traced to a negro melody melody melody mel mel- I ody which was popular during the civil civilI war One account says The Th origInal original I inal of Dixie was a negro melody of the time when slavery existed in NewYork New NewYork NewYork York where a Mr Dixie owned many slaves and his estate state was known among among- them as Dixie's land There is no corroborative evidence of ot this Slavery existed in New York during the colonial period and the revolutionary revolution revolution- ary war Its abolition began in 1794 and was completed in 1827 more than thirty years before the Dixie negro minstrel song was heard The Tho Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Encyclopedia Ency Ency- Americ Americana na mentions one Dixie a large holding holding- and amI kind hearted slave owner on Manhattan Island Inthe in inthe inthe the latter part of the eighteenth century century cen cen- tury whose treatment of his n negroes groes caused them to regard his plantation or Dixie's as little short of an earthly paradise and when any of the slaves were taken away from home they ther al always always always al- al ways pined for Dixie's while singing and talking of its Joys This kind hearted slave owner is a mythical personage personage per per- and there is no mention of him himIn himin himin in any local history of the period The song that popularized the name of Dixie was composed by Dan Emmet of Ohio a negro minstrel of the old school and began to b be sung in the late The air with words to suit i was used by tho the Republicans as a campaign campaign cam cam- song in 1860 Friend of ot the People Is Melba th the real name of the tho celebrated celebrated cele cele- singer er who uses it J J. J H. H Answer No Her maiden name was Helen Mitchell and by marriage she is Mrs Armstrong Melba is a stage name name from Melbourne Australia her native city Friend of the People Has this government made any loans to any foreign power engaged in war If not by whom have loans been made G. G M. M Answer The government has bas not made loans to a n. foreign power and could not do so but some powers have placed loans in this country by selling bonds to banks or to individual capi capi- Some of the tho warring powers have havo obtained very large amounts in way but this government has had nothing to do with the transactions Of the large amounts thus obtained in inthis inthis inthis this country a considerable proportion n has haR been expended here for oi w war wai l' l munitions muni and supplies |