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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAt MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1920. 15 Utahn Visits Lincolns Home, Scene of Early Courtship 3 S5 Civil War Veteran, 80 Years of Age, Baby of Family xroanJ .whom Is woven story of n Portuguese family that Is stranger thg fiction. Top, left to right Manuel Alrso, W yssn of 80 years of age, and Joseph J. Alves, 83 years of age. Center, left to right Mrs. J. rignerla, 87 years of age, and Mrs. Mary Smith, 108 years of age. Below, left to right Mrs. Marla Joaquin Alvei, mother of the family; Dr. Robert R. Ralley, who saved her from death hy execution, snd Mary DcFratcs, who served as a governess In Abraham Lincoln's homo. The insert picture was taken of John Alves when he was 21 years old, at which time he courted Miss DePrates. CHARACTERS Am tmetpa desafeai ' s no dental office in tha intermountain country can give you the SERVICE that theaa offices do, bceause none is so well equipped to give it. In these large, modern office all are graduate dentists, who have practiced in this city for many years. They ara graduatea of the worlds oldest' and beat known dental colleges they are prepared by education and PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE covering mhny years to give you the VERY BEST. la our offieeo you will find tko lightest, whitest, most spotless dental operating rooms . . and equipment you have over soon. hero you will find tho largest, eoalost sad most comfortable reception rooma in Utah. All these things may not teem very important to tho averse person, but they merely EMPHASIZE the fact that in thia office NOTHINO 18 TOO GOOD IX)B A PATIENT. hired tlo, these are positively the only large dental offices in Utah with no dentists. Each dentist is equally iater'rated in work and you get instant and peraonal attention and know who ia working on you. , further, these are positively tho only largo dental office in Utah that alway have, alwaya do and alway will publicly guarantee to ns only olid gold in bridgcwork. Whenever we have to resort to using copper or german silver as substitute for gold or go out of busiaess why, well quit business! Patients pay for aolid gold in bridgework, and they get it berel because wo have given each patient all th time and attention necessary to insure perfect results; beeauso nothing but the very finest of materials have been uaed; because every piece of work done baa been unconditionally and unlimitedly guaranteed and this guarantee backed np by real service, wo have won thousands of friends and aatisfied patients, until today wo have tho largest private practice in Utah. the high character of work performed hero must not be compared or confused with that hurriedly turned out by at companies cheap prices. Remember that cheap dentistry Is like a cheap shoo it soon fall to pieces. if yoor teeth require attention and you want tho VERY BE8T at a modest charge, call examination and aa estimate on what the work you aoed will cost. Betoday for a frethree-macause we do a practice at a one man expense, prices are very moderate, yet wa make no claim to being tho eheapeat dental office in town. Anyone can quot prices, but it take a real dentist to do superior work. d d . examination ia free. lady, nurse attendants office open evenings Sunday to 2 p. m. t 1 Balt Lakai Leading Dentiat 113 South Main St. also believed as she did, afraid by hold- horse.' In those days the wild horses at Memorial hall. Later I went to the were curly sometimes ing' her up as an example. they got wet home of Lincoln, where I bad known and They put her in the village Jail and and as a real curly horse could not be courted Mary. 1 found for Fremont, they made one by "The old house looked much th same kept her there for eeveral months. Pre-Civ- il stajed I with her most of the time be- putting some sheepskins over the horse. a when I saw It Afty years, a go when cause was ao little. Then they took A long train of Indians rode single file the Lincolns were living there. I could her to prison at Funchal. This was a behind In the parade. shut my eyes and see the family a they Lincoln gave a fine speech that night sat around the fireplace. As I stood horribly dirty place, and she was put first In a room with twenty others, some in the town hall. The next time I saw thinking of old times I overheard some men and some women. At length she him was In 1858, when he came to Jackmen talking about the fireplace and how was given a room by herself, but there sonville again In a debating tour of the the house had been heated. They state with Stephen Douglas. I remember standing near a radiator below the manjears old and the baby of a was no door to protect her. that there was a great deal of feeling tel piece where there had been a fireplace of five, all of whom are about the debates and, o( course, we all the last time 1 had entered that room. Bible Burned. ,is tin? unusual position in to win. We thought he wanted to read the Bible a great had thejAbraham -John .Al'rs. 402 South First. dealSheof used right Idea about the slavery Meets John Drinkwater. the time, and I remember one question. V stockman and day two men came and found her with It, ist street, retired The house lit the care of Mrs. Mary 'j rh war eeran, finds himself. He at-- " and, before she had time to hide It, they Courts Girl Lincolns Home. Edwards Brown, a grandniece of Mr tended the O A I!, convention held In took it from her and burned it. The more faith she bad the more .Octubir at Columbus, Ohio, and while "I next saw him In Springfield When he Lincoln. She contended that tho room feast (sited lus fnmilv, some of whom angry became the officers and they Anal- was a candidate for president himself In had been heated by a stove with a chlm- he md not seen for sixty years ly charged her with 'apostasy, heresy and 1860, At that time I was about 21 years Into the fireplace. Now I The Alves family Is probably the oldest blasphemy.' She was tried on the charge of age and was courting a young girl ney going remembered that Mr. Lincoln used of blasphemy and condemned to die. She named Mary DeFrates, who was a govfamily In the I nited S'ltes The eldest sister. Mre. larv Smith. 214 North thought that the sentence would be as erness and seamstress In, the Lincoln that fireplace and burned wood In It. All Fourteenth stieet, Springfield. 111. Is 108 unchangeable as the laws of the Medes home Mr. Lincoln was very democratic the rest of the house he had heated with years of ase, the next is .Manuel Alveg, and Persians, and she did iot ask the and Mary entertained me In the living stoves. I spoke up and told them ao, an active farmer living about five mtlea court to reverse it, and she did not plead room. The house had four rooms and a and found out that one of th strangers kitchen on the ground Aoor and some was a famous English poet by the name from Jacksonville. 11', who is 96 Mrs J. for mercy. bedrooms upstairs. Mary took care of of Jqhn Drink water, and the author of Fiffuerla. 1010 Green avenue. Hrooklvn, the play called Abraham Lincoln," and the two little boys, Todd and Robert N. Y, 87 i the next siMer, then comes Doctor Intercedes. to talk to Lincoln sometimes when that the ftreplac had played an imporJ J. Alves 83 years of uge, of Farming Tho Flnglish people on the island were Iused to went the house he was and Ill The average ago of the family deeply Interested In her fate and dale. always tant place In the setting of the play. after pleasant. I was pretty bashful then Mr, Drlnawater took my arm and w and Is ninety years a time a young physician from Scotland, did not try to get much acquainted with made a tour of the other rooms together, Robert It. KaJley, who had come to the Mrs. Lincoln. I pictured them far him as they seen had I and knew her and Aged Woman Misses Wine. Island aa a missionary, took the matter her before she was married to Lincoln, were In tho davs of Lincoln. H seemed up with Queen Victoria of England and when she wss Mary Todd. Mr Smith, who lives with her dauch to enjov It quite a little and when the ter, Mrs Kate F ranks, has five children she in turn pleaded with Queen Donna hour came for his departure he asked me The last time I saw the great-heaHiving, the oldest of whom is 81 years Maria of Portugal and the sentence was ed man was when he was lying on his to write my name on the visitors' book She had no money death bed in state at the of age and the vouncest 64 years of age. commuted to a fine beside his. I was so filled with emotion capltol. In to pay the fine and they would not let 1365. 8he has also twentv-seveat the thoughts of the early da) a that I grandchildren so friends It her she was pay in kept flftv and five great lived In Springfield that I was unable to months for a 56 fine. Enlists in Union great-gran- d hildren. Mrs Fmlth Is the prison, twenty-thre- e hold the pen. and h wrote my name for Army. lonlv one of the Alves family who Is not In all, she wag in prison about two and a and there they stood on the book to- me. Six days after the first shot w'as fired years. active, and she has been confined to ber halfWe John Drtnkwater. Birmingham, fled to the Island of Trinidad as on Fort Sumter I enlisted In the Union gather, bed for about two years She misses her soon England, and John Alves, Salt Lake, in was freed and we stayed army in A company. Fourteenth Illinois his He then wrote In parenwine, since prohibition went Into ef- there as she writing. for two years, but the climate was Infantry. That was April 2(1, 1861. On thesis. fect. according to her brother. She by me at Mr. Alves's unhealthy and my mother was not well, May 25, 1861, we were mustered Into the request (Written thinks old people ought to liavo a little so aged 10 ) we came to New York with some other service and saw our Arst fighting when he said TIUs story Is corroborated by a clipping stimulant. the mis we went after General Price of the con- from a Springfield newspaper. Mr. Drink-watprotection of When I went emt the baby of the exiles underWethelived in a double-stor- y federate army In Mississippi. In FebIs to be know In famllv said, I did not tell anv of my sionaries. United Stales house at corner the of T avenue ruary. 1862,-Seventh was at Fort Donelson on by other plays than histhimmensely was coming famllv that Mv niece, sucstreet. This was then the Cumberland river, under Grant. This cessful Mrs. M Knlffing, daughter of mv sister and Twenty-fift- h "4brahm Lincoln," a reigning who lives in Brooklyn, went with me. We a suburb of New York. We had a large was the first great victory of the Union success In New York at this tlm. He Is went to the convention and then on To garden and there was plenty of space for army. We raptured 17,000 prisoners dramatizing th career of Robert E. Lee. I was hit five times in the battle of New York. W'e went to the home of mv breathing I can not sav there Is much Shiloh, but not one of the bullets drew sister snd they d'd not know us. I guess breathing space now at that corner. Your Ideal Tiro. blood. One was stopped by the buckle they thought we w'ere peddlers because Travels in Canal Boat. on my bel, another by a shield I wore No punctures, no cuts, no chains. we had our suitcases snd thev would on my chest, another bv a copy of the 20.000 miles or mors. Lancaster Wire-grip- s. hardlv let us In, until I grahhed mv niece We staved In New York for four testament which I carried In my vest nd kissed her snd then the niece who months and then went on the first Try one. Call Was. J and I and one Just grazed the ekin on will send on over. Childers. 20T South was with me said this is Uncle Why, I hsd ever seen to Rochester. pocket, steamship John. Tht was soma West Temple. (Advertisement.) N. Y. We had come from the lsiand on the top of my head. a sailing vessel. We then went in canal fight. I next took part In the siege at CoSees Sister After Fifty Years. boats as far aa Buffalo, N. Y. We went rinth on the Mississippi river. It took us 'We stayed th Chimn a little while from Buffalo on a lake steamer to Chi- twenty-fiv- e miles, which was a town of about eight as we wero days to goontwenty-fiv- e cago, I how different the city and thought the town, and We when we got moving ooked from the lime I saw It In 1841 or nine thousand, I think, then. we found that the there on went a to canal boat then tVhen I went to the bedside of mv sister Lookport birds had flown. None of the Inhabitants down th Illinois river to Naples. Mary, she raised her eyes full of tears andWe took the train there end went to or soldiers was there. Thank God, mv pravers are snd said Pome of the partv went to snswered and I see mv hahy brother once Jacksonville Vicksburg. which was the capital. This Wounded gain before I die ' I had not seen her Springfield, was HI was with General Grant when th the first and only railroad In Illinois e ror sixty years snd it wss at time was that and the was base of seen ears since I had anv of the others the supply raided at Hollis beginning and when we had to eat corn out Springs I have nieces snd nephews, grand-lece- s Wabash railroad. the Herea instant relief! No pala, It was a funny little train. Ws rode field for a number of days At theof batand great grandnieces and on cars fiat and on sat open tle our of was I did not Vicksburg that I know I had baggage. wounded slightly stiffness soreness, rubafter bv ! again. After three years of my enlistnd that I had not even heard of- - I did The tracks wero wooden beams St. with mt And many people thnt I knew In the inches with strips of iron nailed along ment were up I was discharged and musJacobs bing the mid He of them, and these beams tered out at Springfield, on June 24, 1864. srlr davs of Springfield." Liniment. were laid on the ti.ee aa the steel tracks In the fall of 1865 I came west to NeThe Alves fsm'lv who nre of Portti-ues- e are now la'd The train did not go very braska City and went up Into of Madeira descent, left the Montana. I thick about eight or ten miles I came to Utah In 1866. Ab! Pain is gone! several urlng the exile of the Portuguese who fast. The cowcatcher, I remember, months I traded In and aroundFbr onk up the Presbyterian rePglon 4n 1847. an hour Salt Lake Yea! Almost instant looked like a rake turned with Mor-tioup side horses, harness and different things HerQuirklyf This was the same rear that the from soreness, stiffness, lameness I camped down on the site of the nd if anv cows had been caught down, were forced to leave Nauvoo. IH., their oily and pain follows a gentle rubbing with stuck with the and county hullding and lived with some aid Mr Alves, as he was telling of his ribs would have been i St. Jacobs Liniment. points. friends on First South street. rly history. The line ran fronT Naples to Spring-fielApply this soothing, penetrating oil The only two hotels at thattlme wers a distance of shout flftv-slfother Jailed for Religion. miles the Townsend house and the Salt lake directly upon the ache, and, like magic and for quite a while that was the only house. In Januarv. 1S7, I went to Fill- relief cornea. Ft. Jacobs Liniment1 I was a bov of three when my mother, It struck me more and I stayed there trading In lum-hsystem they bad conquers paia. It is a harmless bach. I fra Maria Joaqulna Alves was thrown railroad as I rode that on funny through and stock until 1882. country when I earn ache, lumbago and aciatica relief, which ito Jail because rtf her re'lglous mnv Ic- fins steam trains, so well when back to Salt I eke, and I have been ons. We lived In the vil'age of Santa I thought of the last time Iequipped, never cannot injure and had gone over ever since. I never went east after here rus about twenty-fiv- e miles from FTin-vthat doesnt disappoints, burn or discolor the earn. Illinois in that flat car train. time until last fall. We had a pleasant home, Straighten up! Stop those tertnrena furnished Somehow the Bible stitches. Visits Lincolns Home. In n moment yon will for-- 1 vme Into her hand and she read it and Curly Horse Made for Fremont. that von ever had a back, because in had been und that she "The Arst time I saw Abraham Lincoln tgnoisnee of "When 1 returned to Springfield and petwon anv thin?. She went about telling her Was when he came to Jar ksonville in saw all the old places I had 't hurt or be atiff or lame. Dont it frequented suffer! ighbora her new Pleas and the officers 1856 stumping for John C. Ftemont, who my heart was filled with emotion. Get n small trial bottle or I saw i the lsiand who did not Wlieve as sh as running for president on the Repub. ths Bag we had at the battle of Shiloh St. Jacobs Liniment from your drug ( 1 heard of th's anl snt for her They Mean ticket There was a pa --arte and ri Iden with bullets, and the new Aag we gist now and get thia lasting relief. ought they cou.d make the otners, who Fremont rode at th head on a curly got, which are preeened in the museum (Advertisement.) 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