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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN VI 5F 7 ..K.tVv ;f 4 The General" . l. jrt. v . TheFliaht of Andrew's Men nMO ICOTT WATSON T WAS Just 70 yean ago this I minmer that the tiro states of J Ohio nd Indiana were having j .'A bad case of the Jitters. The rason for their state of nerves , ! contained In these lines from a mem ("Kentucky Belle remember It In the old Fourth Reader?) that told about Morgan, Morgan, the Raider, "and Morgannr "terrible v men knife and pistols are galloping i by Oen. John Hunt Morgan (In . g jcaralry regiment In Gen. Vi Confederate army his briga-s briga-s cooing later) was one of the J4hi daring enterprises In the 'ijy conceived and skillfully exe-if exe-if Med To hil innoonced-pni'-iH all horses In Lake Erie" but 4 d reaching the point farthest 1 ky any Southern troops on active the war, and the expedition Just 2 tarried to a triumphant conclu- M fault of Morgan's, but because Unexpected rise of the Ohio river i reaching safety at the last mo-u mo-u ballad later composed by one Hdbg troopers and sung .by his sur- ides, had It f 1 "L - J Fort Johnson on Johnson' I Sanduskjj 5aq , Lak Erie Islam Where Morgan Surrendered I Xorgan crossed the river, U I went across with him ii captured In Ohio at becanse I couldn't swim P jbm 11 Morgan and approximately ea crossed the Cumberland river l tad started north, his secret destl (lila. After a number of skirmishes troops stationed as garrisons of As Una of march, he reached the tfrntburg, July 7, captured two iwe off 300 Federal militia and I ftnboats, and then crossed the i'ut He was now In the heart of TT, hi little force pursued by thou-tab thou-tab from the Kentucky camps, and "e mTltla, populace and soldiery f aatght turn. Descending on Cory- 4000 militia drawn np to bar his 7wd them and moved on without saUabury and Palmyra to Salem, a he proceeded on up the Ohio, de- taning as he went. In effort to ;oiportatlon system and deprive the ttelr stores. At Versailles he en- I nrong force of enemy troops sent !a bat AlnHoii i mivui UIH WVUUUUVU L After threatening Cincinnati, he ana reach Camp Shady. There 1 1 large number of Federal army tongs and other supplies. Con- aytog waste to rail Unet, he fla-A fla-A ttroogh Ohio at Pomeroy. At that Uated 25,000 Federal troops were Jt the daring raiders. I argan might have made his escape iw an unexpected rise In the ifJM the command and prevented It L ! riTer "wwdat.. While they CTk reder,t traoP "d gun-W gun-W raider nnaKA htf... w v. r "d. Here many crossed before W '?er,1,. the remainder of the qjwui small groups some escap-fjV"1- Genertl Uor nd (m i .S10"" e,cDed' doubIe(, "W and headed toward Athens and if!? nt np- MaJ- Geor R liS7 Cmlry hd tnrown across the path of the fleeing "new Lisbon and there on July ft. r1 10 hlj fellow-Ken- I (aula. V! .tW0 yeut Morgan out of Ken- ,Jhd Beaver Creek road today r lllem...!i W,ter hli hor 1 ?'SrS,,,.thongb br,ef v :UoIo hearts as had the bold CeorjJ0,, Macon Guard, cp;5ilS Er, ,rom which hl way to Toronto, i?RSt n? ,ntertor la elSUlnow Wntfor am tA ... . 1 " wmasor tc report to Capt John Testes Beall, another Confederate agent, who had a plan which bad been turning over In his mind for some time. It was to raise a crew of refugee Confederates In Canada, take possession of the Philo Parsons, one of the lake steamers plying between Detroit snd Sandusky, Ohio, and with It capture the war steamer, Michigan, Mich-igan, a slde-wbeeler armed with 14 guns, and use it to attack Fort Johnson on Johnson Island In Sandusky bay, where more than 1,000 Confederates, Con-federates, most of them officers, were held as prisoners of war. If the plot were successful the Confederates would have control of the Great Lakes and could cause Incalculable dam age to Union shipping and the Union cause be fore they could be suppressed. The Intelligence department of the Union forces In Michigan learned of the plot but allowed al-lowed It to go forward In the hope of capturing the ringleaders before any serious damage could be done. So on the morning of September 19, 1864, when the Phllo Parsons left Detroit with 40 passengers on board, among them were sev eral of Beall's conspirators. One of these ssked the boat's clerk, Walter O. Ashley, who was also part owner of the boat, to stop at Sand wich, Ont, to take on a party of men desiring to go down the river. Accordingly this was done. The new passengers were well dressed and gave every appearance of being prosperous travelers. At Maiden, about twenty miles below Detroit, twenty more came on board. These had a trunk with them as their only piece of bag' gage, .The Phllo Parsons continued on her way, stopping at North Bass, Middle Bass and South Bass Islands and finally reached Kelly's Island, where four more men Joined the passengers. Then, soon after the Phllo Parsons left Kelly's Island, on Its way to Sandusky, the officers, crew and the rest of the passengers found themselves looking Into the barrels of pistols flourished by the newcomers. The trunk had yielded Its stock of firearms, hatchets and other formidable wea pons. The captain of the boat was persuaded to relinquish command and the crew and the male passengers were given temporary lodgment In the vessel's hold. Beall took command of the boat as captain and Ross was first mate. With true southern chivalry, Beall and Ross ordered a banquet to be spread and the Con federates entertained the women passengers as befitting southern gentlemen. While these festivities were going on the Island Queen, with 170 Federal soldiers on board, pulled up alongside the Phllo Parsons. This was Just what Captain Beall wanted. It was all very well to Impress noncombatants with his prowess, but the enemy In uniform and fully accoutered promised more excitement - It never will be known, perhaps, why the Un ion soldiers did not make short work of this handful of Confederates. At any rate, Beall and Ross, leaving a few men to guard the Phllo Parsons, took the rest of their command and, after firing a few shots Into the Island Queen, sprang on board and captured the crew, who were too astonished at this unexpected sally even to fire a shot In return. With the Island Queen and the 170 Union In tow the Phllo Parsons set her prow toward Sandusky to capture Fort Johnson there and seise the Michigan, at that time the fastest steamer on the lakes. The commander of the Michigan had, however, been warned that a daredevil band was making things uncomfortably warm for lake shipping. The commander, therefore, carefully laid his plans and got his men ready for the "pirates." He had the fort at bis back to help him In the event matters threatened to get out of hand. Beall and his men had scuttled the Island Queen and taken their prisoners aboard ine Phllo Parsons preparatory to attacking the Michigan. Mich-igan. When the commander of the latter vessel sighted the enemy he set out In chase and the Phllo Parsons turned about and fled. "The Michigan," Mich-igan," as Ross explained years later, "had twelve - . . . . M rt - la, f Al guns. We bad only our pisiois. ao i -dent that the Confederates took the only wise course In heading for safety. Despite the Michigan's superior speed, the Phllo Parsons gained the shelter of the Detroit river. There the prisoners were landed. Many of4 the , "pirates" also went ashore and disappeared. disap-peared. Then Beall and Ross, with only a handful hand-ful of men left, steered the Phllo Parsons out Into deep water and scuttled her. ' After that It was every man for himself. Most of them escaped, but Captain Beall waa captured, cap-tured, tried by court martial, found guilty of "piracy," and was hanged on Governor's Island, N. on February 24, 1805. , Ross went to Hamilton, Ont, where he was given refuge by a family whose relatives were In the Confederate armies. In spite of the placards pla-cards and bills posted everywhere offering rewards re-wards for his capture, Ross got to Halifax and was even bold enough to have his picture taken while there. A blockade runner took him to Wilmington, N. OL The Confederate authorities recognized his services by making him a captain In the "secret service. He was, however. Impatient to get back into the fray, and rejoined his old company In time to participate In the battles around Richmond. He remained on duty until Lee surrendered at Appomattox, and was again wounded shortly before be-fore the cessation of hostilities. Grant, In his second administration, Issued a special pardon relieving Captain Ross of the charges of piracy. For more than 40 years he lived at Grand Haven In the state which he and his fellow "pirates" had once thrown Into an uproar and he finally moved to Minneapolis, Minn., where he died tn 1927 at the age of elghty-thre. Thousands of visitors to A Century of prog ress In Chicago this year have seen a relic of another famous Civil war raid the locomotive The General" which stands across from the Travel and Transport building. This was the engine used by the "Andrews Raiders," named for their leader, James J. Andrews, who like Gen. John H. Morgan, waa a Keutucklan. Only In this case a Kentncklan was leading a Union raid through Confederate territory and instead of being mounted on the kind of thoroughbred horses (or which Kentucky is famous, as Mor gan was, their steed was an "Iron horse." It was on the morning of April 12, 1802, that the train drawn by The General," en route from Atlanta, GaH to Chattanooga, TeoJL, stopped at Marietta, Ga. Here a considerable party of strangers, stran-gers, dressed In civilian clothes and claiming to be refugees from within the Yankee lines who were desirous of Joining the Confederate forces, boarded the train and paid their fares. Capt W. A. Fuller, who was In charge of the train, did not have the slightest inkling that these strangers were Union soldiers who were plan ning to capture his train and use It to paralyse traffic on the Western and Atlantic railroad, one of the vital arteries of transport for the Con federacy, by burning the 15 bridges which lay between Chattanooga and Big Shanty. Their opportunity came when the train stopped at Big Shanty for breakfast While they were thus occupied the strangers, whose leader was Jsmes J. Andrews, a citizen of Flemmgsburg, Ky., who had volunteered to perform this dangerous dan-gerous task, cut away all but three cars in the train, climbed Into the engine cab and steamed away. Captain Fuller believed that those who hsd taken his train were deserters from Damp McDonald, Mc-Donald, a recruit camp at Big Shanty. At once he dashed tothe telegraph office to send a warning to stations farther up the line, only to discover that the telegraph wires had been cut Accompanied by two or three others, he ran to Moon's Station, two miles away, snd obtained ob-tained a handcar on which they set out tn pursuit pur-suit of the raiders. Then followed the race which has become a classic In American history Andrews and his party leading the way with "The General," setting set-ting fire to bridges, tearing op the tracks in places and putting obstructions on it In others, snd behind them Fuller and his men, first on the hand car, then on tha engine Tonah" and finally on The Texas," racing after them and gaining on them until at last the fugitives tn a dements effort to shake off their pursuers set fire to the last freight car and cut It loose on a bridge. But before tha bridge could catch Are, Fuller had run up to the car, coupled on and pulled It away. By this time the fugitives had deserted the engine snd escaped into the woods. But mounted militia were soon hot on their trail and within a short time all of the Andrews party, 22 In number, were captured. They were taken back to Atlanta and tried before a military court Eight among them Andrews, the leader, were found guilty and executed as spies, six were paroled pa-roled and eight later escaped from prison at Atlanta. On March 25, 18C3, medals of honor were presented by Secretary of War Stanton to the six who were paroled and later the eight who escaped from prison wera also given med als. Of those who had been executed medals were delivered to the mothers of one of them and to the widows of two others. Pure Seed Needed for Better Wheat Growers Should Test Va-to Va-to (mmtyrr '""" Br Dr. O. K. MWJdUton, ad SlttcUllat. North Carolina stata Oolltca. WNU Swvlo. Inspection of whest for certifies Uon, ,of ,se- endopU' rcralaUonjJ or the North Carolina Crop Im provement association has revealed the fact that seed wheat la this state is badly mixed. We need some careful standardisa tion done by communities, counties and even districts! It Is entirely Hjthin the possibility of the grow ers of a community to test the adapted varieties of wheat, secure the one best suited to their commu nity and to adopt this variety as the one for all to grow. This will pre vent mixing to a great extent and assure the community of having wheat which will find ready favor among the millers. It Is only by growing pure varieties of wheat with good milling qualities that the best grades of flour can be made. Fifty fields of wheat were select ed at random in the important wheat growing counties of the state the past spring and Inspected for va rietal mixtures. Out of the fifty there were twelve fields having over 20 per cent of mixture and the counts In one field showed 06 per cent of bearded wheat and 44 per cent of smooth-beaded wheat Only two fields could be classed as pure and of the total, 78 per cent con tained sufficient mixture to mske the whest objectionable for seed pur poses. In contrsst to this. Inspection wss made of 19 other fields where the owners were seeking to have their wheat certified, and It was satis factory. This proves that wheat seed can be kept practically pure. Most of the mixing occurs because thresh ing machinery and recleanjng ma chlnery are not properly cleaned. ROADSIDE MARKETING By T: X DeloIieiyr SALESMANSHIP Ohio Wheat Now Safer From Black Stem Rust Eradication of more than two million common barberry bushes In Ohio In the past decade has ren dered wheat growing safe from alack stem rust disease In practi cally all of the Important wheat producing sections of the state. A surrey of the Ohio wheat crop by W. G. Stover, plant pathologist for the Ohio State university, shows that rust epidemics are local and few this year. Only In one locality was the wheat crop ruined by black stem rust Ten years ago fields lost from Infections of the disease were com mon, Stover declares. The common barberry Is the host to the organism that causes wheat rust In early spring. Eradication of the bushes greatly reduces pos sibility of rust epidemics. Wherever In Ohio severe local outbreaks of wheat rust occur, s search will discover common bar berry nearby. Funds for the destruction de-struction of the bushes are pro vided by the state and federal governments. Soybeans' and Pork The principal objection to the use of soybeans in their natural state as a fattening feed for hogs has been that they produce soft pork. As yet no methods bsve been evolved that will entirely avoid this result although there seems to be evidence that when the beans are fed merely for growth and the fattening process carried out with corn and tankage the on desirable effects of the beans may be avoided, Soft hogs mean lower prices. One packing firm ststes that six times ss many soft hogs came Into the slaughter houses this year than three - years- ago, , presumably:-be cause of the growing practice of feeding raw soybeans. The results of experiments with soybeans as a hog feed are being watched with Interest by farmers and packers alike. Indiana' Farmer's Guide, Millet for Hay Like sudan, millet makes a hay relatively low In protein content and baa about the same adaptation. For best quality hay It ahould be cut early before the heads get too plentiful and before they mature. The Japanese varieties yield heaviest, heavi-est, but the foxtail types, like the German and Hungarian, make a finer stemmed and more leafy hay. From 25 to SO pounds of seed are required Seed should be planted from one-half to three-quarters of sn inch deep. Hoard's Dairyman. Breeding Mares Breeding mares at the proper stsga greatly increases the likelihood likeli-hood of fertility. This la one very practical fact emphasized by recent agricultural research at Cambridge university. England. These studies show that the best time for breeding breed-ing moat mares Is the third or second sec-ond day preceding the end of a period of heat. The significance of this discovery Is apparent from the fart that ordinarily, about half of the wares bred each year fail to reproduce. Success Farming. SALESMANSHIP Is ss Important In operatlag a successful roadside market as It la In any Other business. Use old Idea that consumer wt b " fresh, quality farm products because of the products alone Is fallacy. And the lf-you-doa't-boy-lt-some-one-else-wlU" attitude has ruined many an otherwise good opportunity to sell direct A Michigan fruit grower "learned this to his sorrow. In three years of hard work he built up his roadside market business to where It aver aged 1400 a month for the 00-day season. sea-son. Illness compelled him to hire a salesman and when the income waa totaled, he found his business had fallen to $320. He learned the reason the following year from old customers who stopped at the market when they saw him behind be-hind the counter. Poor salesmanship. His representative never attempted to explain anything to customers if they questioned values; never anticipated their wants nor made suggestions, all of which have a tendency to sell both the "house" and Its products. Competition Is so keen nowadays that the roadside salesman mast do-more do-more than ''wait on people." He must know the varieties of fruits, vegetables vegeta-bles and other products, quality, and to what uses they are best suite! This Is especially true of applea and other fruits. Free Randan, apple grower of Ames, Iowa took over an old fruit nursery that had a large variety of apples, but until his wife cooked sn apple of each variety to - find which was best for cooking and eating. Randan, Ran-dan, who majored In live stock at college, col-lege, made all sorts of mistakes and had quite a time with housewives who purchased booking for eating apples on his recommendation. Service at a roadside or farm mar ket differs considerably from that rendered in city shops, where deliveries deliv-eries are made and orders can be" given by phone. About 42 per cent of the wayside customers, so a survey sur-vey Indicates, make purchases without with-out getting out of their car. This practice might be taken as an Indication Indica-tion of laziness, but even so, tha smart roadside and farm market owner will cater to the whims of the prospective buyer. It likewise has been found that courtesy pays at all times. The 10-cent purchaser o today may bay a dollar's worth tomorrow. Moreover, It Is the steady customer that makes direct marketing profitable, transient trade being tourists or shoppers' looking look-ing for low prices, A line of customers custom-ers coming to the market dally or several sev-eral times a week, will buy a lot of produce over the season. Several years ago I witnessed what I thought was s very good example ex-ample of salesmanship. And. to make It more Interesting, the farmer was a redhead. r A costly automobile screeched to a stop In a cloud of dust and flying gravel before the market The door of the car flipped open and a bushel of ripe tomatoes spilled over the ground, most of them mashing and squirting Juice over the white road way. Plainly the tomatoes were dumped, but the farmer, apparently unmindful of the Impending "light" hastily assured the woman that "ac cidents will happen" and that heS would replace the tomatoes without cost " " "" " Caught "off balance," the woman subsided. The fire left her eyes; In fact she muttered an apology after admitting it was her fsolt She wss returning the tomstoes because they were not the right kind for making chill nance. "Perhaps." she added, 1 should have told you what I wanted them for." The offer of a new basket was re fused. Instead, the woman bought two bushels and several other vegetables. Here iy quick tblnklpgv i scene was avoided, and a customer made Instead of lost The farmer, a good salesman. really made a friend and a profit An Important part of salesmanship is winning the confidence of the customer. cus-tomer. Very often suggestions will mean additional sales. I've seen It happen many times during the years I have been Investigating and studying study-ing farm markets; In fact the same thing has happened to you and me when we are shopping. Large department stores have a ruling that the customer Is always right I doubt the truth of this policy, but It pays to let the customer believe It The tomato Incident referred to above Is a good example of how this policy can be twisted to the advantage advan-tage of the seller. Similar opportu nities will arise out of making good on guarantees, and everything sold should be guaranteed. It Is a good selling point and when a refund or replacement Is necessary even though the fault may lie with the customer. It makes for confidence and future business. It Is not a sin to admit the quality of the current supply of any kind of produce la not as good ss a previous offering. Probably the last picking. Perhaps a different variety. Maybe weather conditions. The explanation should be logical and honest When something special Is aaked for and not In stock a good salesman will make every effort to accommodate accommo-date his customer, even without profit l Hit. Waster Nvipapr Unloa. Woman's Right .to Actrthe Gallant'V Really Should Be Factor la-- la-- - Adjusting Marital - Keiationship. . . "Gallant ladles seldom lose a man's-attention, man's-attention, or, what la more Important, his admiration." ' f TW;'Wesi'';wvolted" Ur this"" tenttt ment, really something new, brought : forth these comments from an no-! usually acute observer of the world and Its ways; . '"Gallant tadW-thafs the first time mosfof us have heard that ex pression, uaiiantry teems to have beea reserved, hitherto, to men, women's wom-en's fate la the man-woman relation-, ship being attributed usually to her beauty, her sex-appeal, her lntelll-, gene or-..clev;emess.,w r. IIILJ;L "la all the talk about what men want of women, about getting a Jubk. band or holding him, nothing hat been aaJd, to my knowledge, about gallantry. "And yet, when you stop tor think about it. It Is one thing to attract, another to hold. Men and husbands, whatever their Individual Qualities or weaknesses, are first of all human beings, motivated most In the long run by their hearts and their minds. With human beings, as a rule, krva begets love. We are likely t eara for those who care for us, t feel a bond with those who are good to as. And gallantry, which la sportsmanship sportsman-ship and generosity, are appreciated,; "So, with the exceptions of special weaknesses or aberrations, men art not different from women In appreciating appreci-ating and responding to the qualities of those they live with. . Beauty, per-; tonality, sex-appeal, all the qualities that go for attraction, count of course. But once on haa made the attractive person one's own, the question ques-tion la one of human relationships. Husbands like their wives, as wives their husbands, for their fin qualities, quali-ties, for their attitude toward them; selves. That Is why I am glad torn on has mentioned gallantry on tha' part of the woman at an Important element in tne relations oi men ana women." e tits. Bn Srn4Uu. wnu Banrtae, Tree Hell of Feeae The latest addition to the Han of Fam for Trees which now numbers more than 800 of America's most fa? mous tree, according to tha Path finder, la the giant holly planted by Nellie Custls, adopted daughter of George Washington, only a few weeks before her death la 1S46. The tree stands on the Costla aetata at And. ley, Ya 73 miles southwest of taa Capital. Washington haa tlx f the HaA of Fam tree within tha city limit. 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