Show f tress CIVIL WAR FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS WEEK December 2 1862 Lieutenant Monroe Informing the people of districts that smuggling neighboring lines was goods into the Confederate that every person detected prohibited In the attempt would be put at hard labor In Fort Norfolk and the property seized and sold for the benefit of the poor and that In order that they might speedily return In form to the Union an election would be held in which "hey were called upon to choose a member of congress The schooner Medora of Baltimore Md laden with borax medical stores shoes blankets ammilitary uniforms munition ’etc supposed to be Intended for the Confederate armies was seized s of a while party by lying at anchor under Hackett's Point Hoffman and three men the First New Jersey cavalry were surprised on picket duty three miles from Dumfries Va and captured e General Averill sent a up the Rappahannoc$flver from Md Brooks Station and captured a numA force of Confederates made an u ber of Confederate pickets successful a Union forage Two companies of the Eight Penn- - train near attack on Tenn Lebanon being resylvania cavalry were cut off from pulsed by the Ninety-thirOhio which the main body of the command by a was acting as guard of large force Confederates and barely December 7 1862 escaped capture by precipitate Sight A portion of the Red river expedThe ynlted States mall steamer ition under General Banks sailed from Ariel waB captured off the eastern New York - Cuba by the Confederate Reverdy Johnson of Maryland In a coast letter to the National Intelligencer privateer Alabama but was released endeavored to refute the charge made after a brief detention on giving a bond of f228000 or acpayable by a New Orleans journal reflecting on hla conduct as commissioner by the Confederate of knowledgement government the United States In that city Gen returned to A P Hovey Halleck made a report of the operations of the United States Friar’s Point on the Mississippi In the armies since his appointment as morning The battle of Prairie Grove oi In July was fought between ths CoL J M Glover commanding at Fayetteville Rolla Mo learning that a large fores National forces under Generals Blunt un of Confederate irregulars was In camp and Herron and the Confederates Hindman Parsons In the Ozarks at the headwaters of der Marmaduke the Current river set out after them and Frost resulting In a defeat for the loss southerners with sufficient force hut found only with heavy one small detachment The Confederate cavalry leader Gen which he drove off His column marched 200 miles In John H Morgan captured a large force of Union troops under Col A B Moore seven days returning on this date A successful reconnoissance was oi the One Hundred and Fourth Illimade from Boliyar Heights Va to nois after a hard fight at Harts vllle Charlestown Berrysvllle etc by a Tenn Union force under General Geary December 8 1862 of a December 3 1862 A P Henry MaJ with a party of National troops belonging to the Indiana and the Fifteenth Kentucky cavalry entered and took posat eight session of Princeton Ky o'clock In the morning capturing a number of partisan fighters and other inimical to the government persons of the United States The schooners Emma Tuttle Brilllant and J P Boker were captured while attempting to run the blockade the first two at New Inlet and the third at Deep Inlet N C A series of skirmishes occured near Oxford Miss between a brigade of Union troops under Major Hatch and a considerable force of Confederates resulting In the capture of Confederates December 4 1862 ANOTHER MUCH TO THE WISCONSIN 1 n-v j nfl — i t 'C vv yv ? y f j ' :v i T y Hus is a Duke’s Mixture Umbrella f ' 4 Whether you smoke Duke's Mixture In pipe or cigarette it is delightfully satisfying Everywhere it U the of men who want real natural tobacco ' ' choice The llluetratlon Shows a t In writing of cost of roads and value an expert shows that if 20 per cent of the country’s highways were at least put in good condition would be saved In the moving of the crops of the year 1912 This amount would suffice to Improve 6000 miles of roads and thus in the course of five years 250000 miles of highway would be developed to meet the needs Stone Road Near La Crosse Wie of the farm so much In evidence When it is reflected that the aver age cost of hauling In the United States Is 25 cents per ton per mile as compared with only 2 cents per ton per mile In France and Germany and need the urgent economic England of highway and extenimprovement sion in this country becomes painfully evldenL tax And why not have It? Isn't it about time to quit pouring money into a mudhole? Most roads could have been nicely paved with the dollars they have cost since first laid out Where has that money gone? Don’t cry "graft” Of course there has been too much politics — ah politics there's the rub— but there has been no political graft to speak of In conectlon with country roads The trouble is the system is and has been wrong Road building Is for the public good Just as mall carryThe mall carriers are under ing is civil service out of politics entirely They are paid for knowing their business They must give a dollar's worth of service for a dojlar In pay W’hy not handle the road problem that In road Andrew Johnson military governor of Tennessee Issued a proclamation appointing and ordering elections to be held on the day ol December 1862 to fill the vacancies In of ths the congress United States Rumors of an Invasion of New Me Ico outlaws from Texas was received at Darcley’s Fort New Mexico and preparations were made to recelvs them steamer Shenandoah The COUNTRY ROAD WORK was launched at Philadelphia Pa At New Orleans La General Butler gave notice that all persons arriving in the city would be required to take the oath of allegiance to the United Yery Little Progress Has Been StateB Made in Building (Copyright 1912 by W O Chapman) VERY IN ROAD GOOD GOOD One Reason Is Lack of Business Methods 8ame as Employed In Many Other Enterprleee— Tax Money la Waated boss way?- Remove the road from politics and make him pass an examination showing hla efficiency Keep him Just &b long as he does his work well Then you' Oil see good dirt roads wherever there is nothing bet ter Enough money will soon be sav edin road tax to macadamize every mile of the main traveled country roads a In each 5c sack there are one Otld half ounces of choice Virginia and North Carolina tobacco — pure mild rich —best sort of grsnalated tobacco Enough to make many good satisfying cigarettes — the kind that makes rolling popular And with each sack you get a present coupon and a book of cigarette papers free £ y Get an Umbrella Free p i- The coupons can be exchanged for all sorts of valuable presents The list includes not only smokers articles —but many desirable presents for women and children— umbrellas cameras toilet articles tennis t catcher's rackets etc gloves and During December and January only we will send our illustrated catalogue of presents FREE to any address Ask for it on a postal today masks Coupons from Duke’s Mixture map be assorted wtth tags from HORSE SHOE J T TINSLEY'S N LEAF GRANGER TWIST ( coupons from FOUR ROSES PICK double coupon) CUT PIEDMONT CIGARETTES CUX CIGARETTES and tagt or coupons tssued bp us Premium Dept St Loula Mo I J ' heavy exchange of fire took place Diplomatist Quick to Taka Advantage of Oversight Committed by between six Union gunboats In front of Hie Friend Port Royal on the Rappahannock TREES ALONG THE HIGHWAYS river In Virginia and the ConfedGOOD PLAN Very Much So Dr Wekerle Hungarian minister ol erate batteries behind the town The The bad country road la a back When Mrs Jibbetts was asked why the Country It Is as much out Of place Every Drive Through gunboats withdrew at the end of an finance had a country seat at Pills number she neglected her friends so she gars Gives Evidence of Need of Prompt where he was in the and date as the grain cradle or flail hour with no harm done exceptlngg to near a bald and Effective Action Hla thresher some bouses that were in the line of habit of spending his Sundays They had bad roads way was It?” Are only piece of luggage on these ao back in grandfather's time— ever "The baby" "The civic committee of the AlaThe North Carolina house of com- castona consisted of a small hand since people began to travel to haul bama Federation of Women's clubs is mons unanimously stuff in modern wagons passed a series of bag which never contained anything DrPicrce’s Pleasant Pellets regulateand In' resolutions expressing their confidence but the regulation bottle four hand They had good roads way back In doing a good thing in starting a moveorate stomach liver and bowels l ment for the preservation of trees Re- Caesar’s time In the old world What in the patriotism and uprightness of kerchiefs and a traveling cap Adv tiny granules easy to take os candy Jefferson Davis president of the Co- turning one Monday to the capital progress have we made In road build- along our highways” said a prominent citizen of Alabama the minister' to according met a friend a gentle ing? Very little says the Western A small boy doesn’t find It very and approving the policy the nfederacy "Mrs AlAge Herald of all Birmingham of the war as set forth by General man named Von Fischer who was Farmer amusing to do the things his parents Over Is chairman are willing to let him do In the ston Fitts of Tuscaloosa Vance and declaring that the “separa- carrying a bag exactly the counter the miles of country roads and she has isvalise Herr northwest are still unimproved In of the civic committee tion was final and that North Carolina part of hla excellency’s In an sued circular form address which Fischer smile smiled von a cent thoughtful be would Hope Is a pneumatic tire that is frewould never consent to a moBt states 90 per at should Interest In stir work this as he noticed the similarity of the more nearly correct Of course every up ' quently punctured any time or under any terms” to the minister: A Confederate force was tumbled bags and whispered bit of road gets its annual tearing up After calling attention to the nation wide movement for ’shady ways’ and out of camp in a skirmish with Na- "My bag is filled with smuggled Turkby the road officials who draw a salFOLEY KIDNEY ish tobacco You will be good enough ary for calling It road "Improvement” an appeal for a general rally for their tional troops at Tuscumbia Ala Are Richest in Curative Qualities she says: Winchester Va surrendered again to shield me against the custom house There’s a reason why country roads preservation FOR BACKACHE RHEUMATISM The minister looked are bad Can’t lay It to the weather “'Every drive through the country to a reconnoltering force of Union spies I hope” KIDNEYS AND BLADDER "I will do nothing of ths or the road material either As one gives evidence of the need of prompt serious troopB under General Geary action are at the mercy said and when the two genfarmer says: “I have seen In 23 years of ever for the treesroad The Confederate General Hindman kind” hearrived —Do you say your prayThe and workers Parson at the Pesth tlemen changing depot of of of dollars hundreds thousands before making hla attack on the beckoned to a custom tax payers’ money expended on the are ruthlessly cut down These shady ers regularly? National forces In Arkansas issued an the minister are a great asset to our Rastus — Every night I sleeps in roads In town and country but aftor highways address "to his soldiers in which he house officer and said: "My offriend Turkish A Most Useful Present 7 to pay duty on a lot Increasing numbers of tourists a folding bed now sah all our roads are still as bad as ever” state told them what to do and what not to For You and Yours tobacco he has in his bag” “His ex- As bad as ever — what a comment to are motoring over them and are theredo In battle recellency Is Joking" cried the baron make upon the appearance of country by awakening to our wonderful RASH ON FACE FOR 2 YEARS sources own JJULi Our are meanwhile people had finding 1862 who changed bags 8 December homes had It been said that the farms these on the no I have "see highways with the minister playground had not been Improved in 23 years! Sioux Falls S D — "My trouble of A fight took place near Coffeeville contraband articles about me” and he But no the farms have Improved the needed for recreation and relaxation skin a as rash disease started merely Miss Foi The farmer finds comfort and pleasured between two thousand Union opened the bag In proof of what he towns have grown business and on my face and neck but It grew and under the command of Col- said for himself and his horses in cavalry the The minister looked perplexed places are better than they were 23 The superior materials need the exceponels Dickey and Lee and a body of for a moment then he resolutely grabwork to and from market field kept getting worse until large scabs years ago but the country roads are day’s and ths well would form fester and break tional ear in manufacture This five thousand Confederate home and Infantry in bed his friend's bag and said to ths "as bad as ever” after spending forwas Just on the one side of my face known end the suocewful Watermen which the Union force was severely official: “‘Let every woman’s club In Ala“Well assess for the to tunes upon them ol make this pen the standard but It soon scattered to the other patents defeated after an hour of fighting bacco but be quick about It I have world Is that road building is bama Join in the crusade without de- side reason the The everywhere writing I suffered deal a great especialleaving three hundred of their number no time to lose" The official acted Talk about it In your homes and lay Always ready end accurate not done in the same businesslike at night on account of its itching killed wounded and missing and the minister manner that other things are man- In your clubs and have your schools ly on the suggestion and burning I would scratch it and From' LE The Third Iowa and forest trees of course paid three florins and fifty pfennigs aged We have seen the creamery champion these much that Irritated It Waterman the Beat Wisconsin regiments arrived atHelena Into the treasury of his own depart- come into existence We have seen true friends alike to rich and poor This rash was on my facevery Stores 4 for about 173 Broadway Ark They were attacked while pitcht Then he Jumped into the carEvery school ment skilled butter maker turning out young and old Everywhere Y N two the sometimes breaking out association in Alabama is asked lots years ing camp by a' small force of Confedriage and drove off shouting out his cartloads of butter finer than that worse and forming larger sores erate cavalry that depended on sur- thanks to the baron for his present the to call a meeting and frame and sign It kept me from sleeping day or night The Pen That made by the farmers before Fits Every Hand” success but to tobacco It and counconfusion their of and for excellent prise of 20 pounds petition present creameries took the Job off their for a couple of months My face lookwithout avail The larger force of asking their authorbands Science and business methods ty commissioners ed disgraceful and I was almost the Nationals decided the day and the Missed ths Plate With Irving have made the change in butter mak ity to prevent roadworkers from cutashamed to be seen by my friends Let us all todown these trees ting attacking party was driven off with are "as But Winter’s as brief bad the roads emphatio William "A friend asked me to try Cuticura" ing such Interest a considerable loss in killed wounded and love arouse gether criticism of a certain actor’s Interpr- ever” because It is a farmer’s Job to Soap and Cuticura Ointment I would and captured for these trees that when a bill is prebe done when It suits his convenience etation of “Hamlet" is' one of the Imbathe my face with hot water and a Gen Winfield Scott through the Na- mortals in the line of American draIt is done by men who have never sented in the next legislature for their lot of Cuticura Soap then I would put Ws Want Ton Million Dollars’ Worth of Ysra tional Intelligencer replied to a letter matic criticisms legal preservation it may be passed on the Cuticura Mr Winter wrote: studied the science of road building Ointment In less aisser rrteel Ostler araSInsf most Messy ky unanimously’ ” Rsiur MUI 1 hose nre soma of tli tlvanUR from James Buchanan an echo of a “Kerosense Scads played ‘Hamlet’ at It is done in a method than two days’ time the soreness and tLutttre voortwheo yousondyoarfurstoFunattm Rroi A Co in tit Louis— tho Issnretl dispute between them concerning the the Herald Square theater laBt night devoid of business principles This inflammation had almost entirely disf Hour In the Largest Primary Fuf war Clean Up the Roadside is why hundreds of thousands of the early conduct of troops In the Market ia ths World He played It for hours” Our sales arg appeared and in four weeks’ time you Attended by ths greatest fur bajers of Laurence Irving son of Sir taxpayers! The fall of the year is a good time could not see any of the rash Now money has failed to make When this country Karope and Csnftdn Com 1862 December 6 And up petition among them Is fierce Henry paid his first visit to America the roads any better And again we to clean up the unsightly roadside my face is without a spot of any kind go ths prices! Dealing direct with oa saws do can't yon ses why ws can afford not is of of bad related anecdote weeds the this it because will The and weather a friend burn say issued dry I also use them for my scalp and hair grass The Union Gen A P Hovey to pay ou biggest prioesf j material Mr Irving didn’t or poor The and when destroyed cease to become an order to the officers and soldiers famous criticism They cured me completely" (Signed) In Trapping Big Money takes bad cream and an eyesore all the winter months Miss Pansy Hutchins Feb 6 1912 of his command thanking them for their smile nor did he show any signs of buttermaker Trap durlna pare time Mink Gone nkMoakrat Wolf Lyna White Wemt makes pretty good butter from it be- Any green bush can be cut and burn- sad otbsr fart srs yslusbl lout sad it’s scinch Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold cheerfulness and bravery during the collapse toestch them with fuostea Wswsat "Played It for four hours" repeated cause he knows how Of course he ed with the dried weeds and grass throughout the world Sample of each recent expedition into Mississippi Tea Wllioa Dollars' worth oi just such furs sad will pay cosh for then That’s could do an “Four better with cream hours Mr with little good fetbost rosults very encouragement and Irving Southern free Skin Book Ths Confederate schooners Address with aa Funsten Animal road builder can how it will improve the roadside to "Cuticura Dept L Boston" Merchant and Nanlope laden with extremely long duration as gauged by Likewise the skilled bail to iDtrstN yosr stth isirinlw (til of of Just plain coun- have this done now the make good roads dslmsls css I Mid it Ono at dollar bios $11M eloat Adf were captured in the present aotlng editions sugar and molasses aua prodt for Oororomont sad by He must have used the entire Of soeod trappors ovorywhors try dirt because he knows how World's pair Chicot Pass on the Mississippi by drama kind of Stow kind wuitod i deronhllfnrjch course he could do better with crushtext from the original" COST— toclodloc ths faaoas Vis ths United States gunBoat Diana Perspicuous Planting Apple Trees swUrsootdts for trappsrs at aavlnf prlcos rock and all that It Is not a f ed — Ah! best So The Percy to time (Just Introduced) General Vlele the military governor PR“Trappr GaidsGams plant apple trees CaUlor— Iwl— wltb Pur Markt Sopor Shippmf Supplysto of of or material but money Write scarcity Not an Actor makes Is as soon as most of the leaves have you’re the chap who mud P— stes RrooRO of Norfolk Va issued a proclamation la Pwostea Rldg St Lssto a lack of the right system that Is re- fallen The roots being then In an heads? "Is he much of an actor T’ and writ of election for a member of for bad roads active state and the ground still reSculptor— Not all of them “Not much They say he’s pretty sponsible congress from the Norfolk district Dollar for dollar Is a good plan but he can't do taining a certain amount of heat they Dlx commanding the fair in Shakespeare Bast Cough Syrup Tarta Good What we want to see Is a dollar’s will form new roots a sidewalk patter or clog dance worth In ttoia Bold by Dnuririste winter In Every woman should have an aim nt of Virginia Issued an Depy worth of good roads for a dollar spent Which is materia’ advente she can’t throw a stone " bis headquarters at For a cent? ne of accuracy A PIUS Ideal in iSEGES |