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FT. FISHER’S HEROES
NAMED IN THE OFFICIAL BATTLE RE
PORTS WRITTEN IN 1865.
The Truth About Ames, Curtis and Other
Leaders Told In the “War Records”—A
Conspicuous and Lamentable Error Dis
covered—History Falsified Thereby.
[Copyright, 1897, by American Press Associa
tion. Book rights reserved.!
N A volume of the
^ “Official War Rec
H ords” relating to
9 the attack on Fort
i\ Fisher, Jan. 15,
J I 1865, one of the
latest issued from
the war depart
ment, tnero are
abundant data for
settling the ques
tion as to who is
the hero of Fort
Fisher. There is
also to be found
therein a key to
the misapprehen
sion which has
caused the Ames
Gurns dispute. -Notwithstanding the fact
that the records were written while all was
fresh in the minds of the authors of the re
ports and are official, they contain some
errors, and ono conspicuous error found
there is at the bottom of the whole trou
ble. I will separate the statements into
two classes—the true and the false—and
the reader will be able to form his own
conclusions as to the merits of the chief
actors in the affairs of the battle and as to
the merits of the cases presented at this
date by both Ames and Curtis.
Erroneous Battle Report.
tinder date of Jan. 17, 1865, two days
after the battle, Secretary of War Stanton,
who went to the scene as soon as the vic
tory was announced, wrote a letter from
Fortress Monroe to President Lincoln at
Washington in which were the following
statements. After describing the general
battle and the futile assault by a naval col
umn upon the sea front of the fort his re
port continues:
The assault on the other and most difficult
side of the fort was made by a column of 3,000
troops of the old Tenth corps, led by Colonel
Curtis, under the immediate supervision of
General Terry.
In a dispatch to General Grant dated the
same day Secretary Stanton said that he
got the particulars of the fight from Ad
miral Porter and General Terry. In view
of the fact that General Terry immediately
wrote to Washington recommending Ames
for promotion for his gallantry at Fort
Fisher and in his preliminary official re
port, sent forward the night of the battle,
said that the assault was made by Ames’
division and mentioned Curtis’ brigade,
naming each specifically as Ames’ division
and Curtis’ brigade, it is not probable that
Stanton received from him directly oi
through others anything to warrant the
statement that Curtis led the storming
column. Hence the secretary must have
received that erroneous information from
Admiral Porter, who was on board the
flagship throughout the battle and unable
to know the facts at first hand. The error
published by Secretary Stanton evidently
became the basis for all accounts of the
affair given by writers at the time and by
historians. The error was never corrected
at Washington and appears in the official
records without any explanation whatever,
a suggestive circumstance in view of the
faot that official reports are edited, correct
ed and annotated by the compilers of the
work in most cases. This is all the more
noteworthy since the official reports fol
lowing the war secretary’s clearly contra
dict that in this important particular.
Here follow extracts from the correct bat
tle reports.
Correct Battle Reports.
General Terry’s first dispatch, sent the
night of Jan. 15, after- the surrender of
Fort Fisher, to General Grant’s headquar
ters :
Fort Fisher was carried by assault this after
noon and evening by General Ames’ division
and the Second brigade of the First division of
the Twenty-fourth corps, gallantly aided by a
battalion of marines and seamen from the
navy., The assault was preceded by a heavy
bombardment from the Federal fleet and was
made at 3:30p. in., when the first brigade (Cur
tis’) of Ames’ division effected a lodgment
upon the parapet, but possession of the work
was not obtained until 10 p. m.
In his formal report, dated Jan. 25, Gen
eral Terry says:
At 3:25 p. m. all the preparations were com
pleted and tho order given to move forward.
* * * Curtis’ (First) brigade at once sprang
from the trenches and dashed forward into
line. * * * When Curtis moved forward, Ames
directed Pennypacker to move his Second bri- |
gade up to the rear of the sharpshooters and i
brought Bell (Third brigade) up to Pennypack- j
er’s last position, and as soon as Curtis got a
foothold on the parapet sent Pennypacker to his |
support. He advanced, overlapping Curtis’ I
right, and drove the enemy from the heavy pal
isading which extended from the land face to
the river, capturing a considerable number of
prisoners. Then pushing forward to their left
the two brigades together drove the enemy
from about one-quarter of the land face. Ames
then brought up Bell's brigade and moved it
between the work and the river. On this side
GENERAL TERRY.
GENERAL AMES.
tnere was no regular parapet, but there was
abundance of cover afforded the enemy by cav
ities from which sand had been taken from the
parapet, the ruins of barracks and storehouses,
the large magazines and by traverses behind
which they stubbornly resisted our advance.
Hand to hand fighting of the most desperate
character ensued, the huge traverses of the
land face being used successively by the enemy
as breastworks, over the tops of which the
contending parties fired into each other’s faces.
Nine of these were carried one after the other
by our mem. * * * I have no words to do jus
tice to the behavior of both officers and men on
this occasion. All that men could do they did.
Better soldiers never fought. Of General Ames
I have already spoken in a letter recommend
ing his promotion. He commanded all the
troops engaged and was constantly under fire.
His great coolness, good judgment and skill
were never more conspicuous than in this as
sault. Brigadier General Curtis and Colonels
Pennypacker, Bell and Abbott, the brigade
commanders, led them with the utmost gal
lantry. Curtis was wounded after fighting in
the front rank, rifle in hand; Pennypacker
while carrying the standard of one of his regi
ments, the first man in a charge over a trav
erse; Bell was mortally wounded near the
palisades.
The dispatch next in date and impor
tance is that of General Grant’s represent
ative on the ground, Colonel C. B. Com
stock, chief of engineers. Colonel Com
stock wrote on the 17th as follows:
After a careful reconnoissance on the 14th
it was decided to risk an assault on Fort Fish
er, Paine’s division, with Colonel Abbott’s
brigade, to hold our line already strong across
the peninsula and facing Wilmington against
Hoke, while Ames’ division should assault on
the front, 400 marines and 1,666 sailors on the
cast end. After three hours of heavy navy fire
the assault was made at 3 p. m. on the loth.
Curtis’ brigade led, and as soon as it got on
the west end of the land front was followed
by Penny packer’s and later by Bell’s. After
desperate fighting, gaining foot by foot and se
vere loss, at 5 p. m. we had possession of about
half the land front.
General Joseph C. Abbott., commander
of the brigade sent from Paine’s division
to the support of Ames’ division at an ad
vanced stage of the fight, says:
Reaching the fort about dark, I reported to
General Ames, whose division had already as
saulted and carried a portion of the work and
was occupying it. About 9 o’clock, by order
of General Ames, I then proceeded to dislodge
the enemy from the remainder of the fort.
All the important statements from su
periors and outsiders are given above.
Here follows the reports of General Ames
and his subordinates. General Ames says
under date of Jan. 16, the day after the
fight:
At 3 p. m. on the 15th we stormed Fort Fish
er. Brevet Brigadier General N. M. Curtis’
brigade (the First) made a lodgment on the
northwest angle of the fort. 4 immediately
ordered up Colonel Penny packer’s brigade
(the Second). The enemy was at once driven
from the palisading extending from the fort to
the river, and about one-third of the work, its
northwest angle, was occupied by us.
I then ordered up Colonel Bell’s brigade and
moved it forward against and in rear of the
sea face of the work, the ground being much
obstructed by the ruins of barracks, lumber
and other rubbish. The enemy, being protect
ed by traverses and taking advantage of the
cover afforded by magazines, etc., checked our
advance. Fighting of a most desperate char
acter continued until after dark, during which
time we made considerable advancement on
the left and captured 400 prisoners. About 8
p. m. Colonel Abbott with his brigade (from
Paine’s division in the rear) completed the oc
cupation of the face of the work extending
from the ocean to the river. A general ad
vance was now made and the fort occupied
without opposition. * * *
Brevet Brigadier General N. M. Curtis, com
manding the First brigade, was prominent
throughout the day for his bravery, coolness
and judgment. His services cannot be over
estimated. He fell a short time before dark,
seriously wounded in the head by a canister
shot.
Colonel G. Pennypacker, commanding the
Second brigade, was seriously wounded while
planting his colors on the third traverse of the
work. This officer was surpassed by none, and
his absence during the day was most deeply
felt and seriously regretted.
Colonel L. Bell, commanding the Third bri
gade, was mortally wounded while crossing
the bridge in advance of the palisading. He
was an able and efficient officer; one not easily
replaced.
Colonel Rufus Daggett, who succeeded
Curtis in command of the First brigade,
says in his report:
At about 3 p. m., General Curtis having re
ceived orders to that effect from General
COLONEL BELL.
GENERAL CURTIS. COLONEL PENNYPACKER.
Ames through Captain Lawrence, the brigade
advanced to the charge * * * and after a des
perate struggle the advance of the brigade
reached the parapet of the fort and scaled it to
the first traverse. * * * General Curtis was
seriously wounded about 4:30 p. m., while gal
lantly fighting at the head of his command.
Major O. P. Harding, who succeeded
Colonel Pennypacker in command of the
Second brigade, says in his report:
In compliance with instructions from Gener
al Ames the brigade was formed in line in rear
of the First brigade, the right resting on Cape
Fear river and the left about 300 yards from
the seabeach. The brigade was formed in this
position about 2 p. m. and at about 3 p. m. was
ordered to assault the fort—which was done in
a gallant manner and under a heavy fire of
grape and musketry—and entered the fort
through the sally port near the river. Colonel
Pennypacker was seriously wounded while
planting his colors on the third traverse, wav
ing his colors and commanding the men to fol
low.
Lieutenant Colonel N. J. Johnson, suc
cessor to Colonel Bell in command of the
First brigade, .reported as follows:
The brigade * * * under command of Colo
nel Alonzo Alden, Colonel Bell having been or
dered by General Ames to remain near him for
the purpose of receiving orders, at 2:15 p. m.
received orders to advance, which it did. * * *
The brigade entered the fort at 2:45 p. m. con
jointly with a portion of the First brigade
(Curtis’) at the left bastion, a portion moving
along the terreplein and a portion on the ram
parts, parapets and slopes, some of the officers
and men in the advance, with officers and men
of other brigades, all vying with each other in
the noble emulation of who should be first in
the grand achievements of that memorable
day. The brigade continued the contest, ad
vancing along the works until they were taken
and Fort Fisher passed into Union bands.
In the conflict Curtis’ brigade lost 223
men; Pennypacker’s lost 278 and Bell’s
113. Abbott’s brigade, which came to the
support of Ames’ after his division had
conquered the main part of the fort, lost
27 men in all. Curtis’ brigade comprised
four regiments, Pennypacker’s five and
Bell’s four. George L. Kilmer.
To Properly Address the President.
Ex-President Harrison, who details “A
Day With the President at His Desk” in
The Ladies' Home Journal, relates some
of the amusing solutions of the perplexing
problem as to the proper way to address
the president: ‘1 Sometimes he is addressed
by letter writers as plain ‘mister,’some
times as ‘his majesty,’ or ‘his lordship,’
and very often as ‘his excellency.’ ‘The
high government at Washington’ was
thought to be an appropriate address by
one writing from Austria, and a letter ad
dressed to the‘White Office’was rightly
assigned by the intelligent mail clerk to
the White House. The official title of the
head of the executive department is ‘the
president. ’ All propositions to add adorn
ing but superfluous titles wore rejected in
Washington's time. The correct letter ad
dress is, therefore, ‘to the president,’ and
the oral address, ‘ Mr. President. ’ ’ ’
Plrst English Book.
The first book written in the English
language—that is, after the Saxon had as
sumed a form we now call English—was
the “Travels of Sir John Mandeville.”
This book is remarkable from the fuct that
it shows a clear and correct idea of .the
shape of the earth, and that it is possible
to travel round it and return to the stort
ing point from the opposite directUm, thus
anticipating the discovery of Columbus by
uearly a century and a half.
SCOUT SHAVE HEAD.
AN INDIAN DUEL AT THE STANDING
ROCK AGENCY.
It Grew Out of a Quarrel Over a Quarter
of Beef—Crooked Neck Made a Bluff and
Was Called Down—Rifles at Thirty Yards
and Fight to a Finish.
“A duel which I witnessed in 1876 at
Standing Rock agency, Dakota,” said
an old' scout, “between Scout Shave
Head and Chief Crooked Neck of the
Hunkpapa Sioux was a performance that
would have called for applause from the
most critical audience that ever wit
nessed a Spanish bull fight. Shave Head,
it will be remembered, was one of the
Indian police who was killed while at
tempting the arrest of Sitting Bull in
the fall of 1890. In 1876 I was inter
preter and chief of scouts at Fort Yates,
neat Standing Rock agency, where I
had 30 Sioux Indian scouts under my
command, who were selected from the
friendly bands and quartered at the
military post with their families. The
military authorities issued rations only
to the scouts, while their families drew
from the Indian agent. The beef was
slaughtered on the east bank of the
river, the Indians crossing in boats.
“I usually accompanied the scouts
when they went for their beef. About
150 Texas steers were killed every two
weeks. These were parceled out to the
several bands, beginning with the lar
ger, whowould receive 12 or 15 head as
their share, the next 10 or 12, and so on
to the smaller bands, who would get
two or three, according to their num
ber. Lastly, single families, not mem
bers of bands, were given beef by them
selves, one steer to four families, or a
quarter to each. The scouts, half breeds
and squaw men were among this num
ber. The trouble which terminated in
the duel between Shave Head and
Crooked Neck began over the issue of
beef.
Shave Head, Crooked Neck, Charley
Pappan, a half breed, and the Widow
McCarty, a squaw who had been mar
ried to a white man, were given a quar
ter each in the last beef issued. Shave
Head, Pappan and the widow immedi
ately began skinning the beef, when
Crooked Neck approached the scout, and
placing his hand on his shoulder pushed
him violently aside, saying: ‘You be
long to the soldiers. You have no right
here. Go to the fort for your beef. ’
“I stood not more than 50 feet away.
Shave Head cast one look of defiance at
his assailant and then came to me and
said, pointing at Crooked Neck: ‘That
man has driven me away from my beef.
If I was not under your command, I
would know what to do, but now I
await your orders. If you leave me free
to act, he is not man enough to keep me
away from my beef. ’
“I answered that since the agent had
given him a quarter of that beef it was
therefore his, and he had a perfect right
to take it.
“ ‘Then,’ said he, ‘tell that man to
keep away from me. ’ I answered that
Crooked Neck did not belong to my
company, and I had no authority over
him.
“ ‘Very well, ’ said the scout. ‘I shall
take my beef, ’ and rejoining the others
he again offered to assist in dressing the
beef, only to be again thrust away by
Crooked Neok. This time he gave utter
ance to that savage growl which, onoe
heard, can never be forgotten, and
climbing out of the slaughter pen on
the north side, and taking his rifle from
his wife, he turned to the left, coming
out on that side of the corral facing the
river. Crooked Neck, seizing his rifle,
went out of the corral on the south side,
and turning to the right the two com
batants met face to face on the west
side of the corral. Between them was
the agency wagon, which was backed
up to the fence to receive the beef. The
first shot was fired by Chief Crooked
Neck over the rear end of the wagon.
The driver, supposing that he was the
object of attack, frantically whipped up
his mules, leaving a clear field between
the two enraged 'warriors, who were not
more than ten yards apart. Talk about
an Indian war dance! Here was execut
ed a dance that surpassed anything of
the kind I ever saw. Shave Head was
the more agile of the two, jumping
from side to side, rearing high in the
air and again bending low down to the
ground, all the time keeping his eye
fixed on his foe and his gun ready
for use. The corral had been surround
ed by not less than 1,000 Indians, men,
women and children, but when the fir
ing began they had surged to one side,
leaving the space in tho rear of each
combatant clear.
“The second shot was again fired by
Crooked Neck, but he again missed bis
mark, and during the instant required
by him to throw another cartridge into
his piece Shave Hfead, who was still as
a statue, took aim and fired. The ball
struck Crooked Neck in the hip, which
crippled him so that he had but one leg
to dance on. As soon as Shave Head
fired he resumed his dancing, keeping it
up until his antagonist fired again, when
he repeated his former tactics, pausing
in his dance while he took aim and fired.
This time he brought Crooked Neck
down with a bullet through his breast.
He fell forward on his face, his gun un
der him. His friends pressed forward,
holding up their hands and calling upon
tho scout to desist. He had killed his
man.
“But Shave Head was determined to
make it a sure thing. First pointing his
gun toward the crowd to warn them
back, he advanced to the prostrate In
dian, and holding the muzzle of his gun
within two feet of his victim fired three
shots into his head. Ho then resumed
his dancing, and facing the crowd he
moved backward to the river, and leap
ing into a boat was rowed to the west
side, where I found him later away out
on the prairie performing the Indian
rite for purification after shedding
blood.”—Cincinnati Enquirer.
The average wheat yield in England
| is said to be 36 bushels to the acre.
GENERAL CRAIGHILL.
Record of the Recently Retired Chief of
Engineer*.
General William Price Cralghill, who
held the j>ost of chief of engineers of the
army, and who was recently retired at his
own request, is a veteran worthy of the
name. He had been in active service for
43 years, and during that long period had
not taken over six months’ leavo of absence.
General Craighill will be 64 years of age
next July, when he would have been com
pelled to retire, but as he is still vigorous
and sound physically as well as mentally
he did not wish to be classed among those
retired on account of ago.
General Craighill was born at Charles
town, W. Va., and at the age of 16 entered
West Point. In 1853 he was graduated,
being second on the list in a class of 53.
Among his classmates was Phil Sheridan
and other men who became generals on
either side dur ing the civil war. He be
gan his career in the regular army as a
second lieutenant of the corps of engi
neers and passed through all the inter
GENERAL CRAIGHILL.
mediate grades until he attained the rank
of brigadier general and chief of engineers.
During the war he was twice brevetted for
meritorious conduct, and at various times
he had charge of the fortifications of Wash
ington, Baltimore, Savannah, Charleston
and other places. He was also a member
of the special board to arrange defenses
for San Francisco when the French were
in Mexico and threatened to invade Cali
fornia. Immediately after the war he served
on a board which was appointed to revise
all the fortifications of the United States.
For four years he was assistant professor
of military and civil engineering at West
Point, and for seven years he was on
duty in the engineer bureau at Washing
ton. In connection with river and harbor
duty General Craighill has had active
charge of many important public improve
ments in various parts of the country and
has planned many others. On two occa
sions he has been sent to Europe on im
portant engineering missions for the gov
ernment, and he has five times been sent
to the Pacific coast on similar missions.
Several times he has been asked to act as
superintendent of the Military academy
at West Point, but he has declined.
For many years General Craighill has
been a member of the American &>ciety of
Civil Engineers and was elected president
of that organization in 1894, being the only
army officer who has ever attained that dis
tinction. During active service his pay as
brigadier general was $6,500, and he goes
on the retired list with an annual salary of
$4,135. He has not only been an efficient
officer, but stands at the head of his pro
fession in this country as a military and
civil engineer.
OUR CONSUL IN SIAM.
The Man Whom a Warship Has Been
Sent to Protect.
Not every American citizen attains such
distinction while abroad as did Edward
Vernon Kellett of Springfield, Mo. Mr.
Kellett was assaulted by soldiers in Siam
and called for redress. The United States
government replied by sending a warship
to Bangkok.
Mr. Kellett happens to be the United
States vice consul to Siam. A vice consul
ship is only an honorary position and car
ries with it no salary, but Mr. Kellett is a
wealthy man, and besides this he engaged
in business at Clmngmai, which is about
500 miles inland from Bangkok. It was
there that he got into difficulties with the
native soldiers and was roughly handled.
Perhaps if he had held no official position
but little notice would have been taken of
the matter, but United States Minister
Barrett thought that this government had.
suffered an indignity for which some repa
ration should be made. So he sent word to
the state department and put the incident
I EDWARD VERNON KELLETT.
in such a light that the gunboat Machlas
was ordered to Bangkok as a little object
lesson to the Siamese.
Mr. Kellett is 30 years old. He was born
in Kansas, but when he was 8 years old
his parents removed to Springfield. Ho
was sent to New York, where he graduated
at the Columbia Lo.w school. Then he re
turned to Springfield and was admitted to
the bar at the age of 22. He devoted very
little time to his profession, however, his
father being wealthy.
When the late S. H. Boyd of Springfield
was appointed minister to Siam, Mr. Kel
lett thought he would like to accompany
him to his faroff i>ost, and so obtained the
appointment of vice consul. Soon after ar
riving there he found a good business open
ing, and there he has been located ever
since. Mr. Kellett’s father died several
years ago, leaving a large estate, but his
mother still resides in Springfield. She
has been advised that her son was not seri
ously injured, and she does not care how
I big a diplomatic fuss is stirred up.
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FARMER’S FISH POND.
Affords Food For ttie Family and Fun For
the Children.
The fish that are most suitable for
culture on farms are the speckled or
brook tront and the blaok bass. A
swiftly flowing stream that will supply
not less than 10 or 20 cubic feet of wa
ter per minute may be dammed and sup
ply a tront pond that will produce an
abundance of trout or black bass for e
family and furnish considerable sport to
the farm boys in procuring this agree
able provision, leaving a surplus for
sale. For bass a less supply of water
will suffice, and it is no injury to these
fish if the water should become stag
nant for a month or two in midsummer.
Water is difficult to hold by a dam,
because the pressure of a few feet is
sufficient to force
it through sev
eral feet of any
jj-soil but a hard
~clay that has
been puddled.
■ana tne craw
CROSS SECTION OF DAM. flshi maskrats
and worms that soon gather in a pond
will quickly burrow into the dam and
start a small stream that will break
through a large earth dam in a few
hours. To avoid these dangers the dam
must have a central core that will be
impervious to these animals. This is
made in this way:
After leveling the line of the dam to
get the best place for it, which is the
shortest line across the stream, the earth
is dug out and a trench made the whole
length down to the hardpan or solid
olay. A row of posts as for a fence is
then driven as deeply as possible along
the middle of the trench. These should
be six feet apart. Boards are then nailed
to these posts closely as for a fence, but
leaving no spaces between the boards.
It will be safest to double these boards,
so as to prevent any leakage through
the crevices. Earth is then filled into
the trench on each side of the boards
and well puddled with water and trod
den or beaten down until the trenoh is
filled level.
The waste gate is then put in. This
is made by laying down a platform
of boards or planks on the ground
on each side of the center of the
dam of sufficient width to permit
the stream to flow at the highest
stage of the water. Framing is then
made on each side of this platform and
boarded up the full size of the dam.
This should be made of a slope of 18
inches to each foot in height and with
a width on top of at least two or three
feet, as shown in the illustration. The
boarding on the frame should be on both
sides, and the space between the boards
must te filled with clay well puddled
and rammed. The waste gate is provid
ed with movable flash boards to raise
the water when desired.
The first diagram shows the shape of
this frame, and equally of the dam as it
will appear when it is finished. The
waste gate is shown by the seoond illus
tration. The center boarding is made as
much below the level of the rest of it in
this gate as will afford ample room for
the highest water to flow over and thus
avoid washing away the top of the dam.
This is a matter for calculation in each
case. It is better to use two inch plank
on both sides of the center of this gate
than boards. This will give more
strength to it if the dam is over five feet
high. The joining of this central board
ing of the dam to this frame of the gate
should be tight, so that water may not
escape through it and injure the earth
work.
The earth may now be thrown into
the dam and thoroughly packed down
by ramming and puddling. Kothing but
clean earth must go into it, no sods or
top soil or stones can be admitted. Oth
erwise the water will soak through,
finding channels along any stones or
roots or rubbish, and any little stream
will cut its way quickly into a washout.
It is well to take the earth for the dam
from the inside, as it will deepen the
pond, and deep holes are very desirable
as hiding places for the fish. Large
stones, too, are beneficial as affording
rubbing places for the fish and shelter
in which to conceal themselves. All
kinds of fish are bothered with vermin
as much as other animals, and some
times lioe will destroy the whole stock,
or a sort of fungus will grow on the
skin, and unless there are rubbing
places provided the fish cannot free
themselves from these parasites. Old
stumps, logs and roots, too, are useful
in the pond, making places for the
growth of several kinds of organisms as
diatoms and other infusorial animalcu
WASTE GATE.
lee, upon which fish feed largely. But
anything that will float should be firm
ly staked down or weighted with stones.
If trout are kept, the stream above
the pond should be cleared and gravel
thrown in in places to make spawning
beds for the fish.
Stock a trout or bass pond with some
small fish, as minnows or chub, whose
eggs, as well as those of frogs, afford
muoh food for this fish. Chopped liver
is excellent food for trout. But if any
artificial methods are to be adopted, some
manual on fish oulture should be studied.
Trout and black bass are carnivorous,
and are thus very well suited with a
pond or stream in which dean, fresh
water plants grow—as water lilies, eel
grass, wild rioe—but not to suoh an ex
oess as to cause the water to become
stagnant, for these plants harbor a large
number of animalcules and small aquatio
animals, and thus supply muoh food.—
Montreal Herald.
Experience
has proven conclusively that
better grapes and peaches,
and more of them, are produced
when Potash is liberally ap
plied. To insure a full crop of
choicest quality use a fertilizer
containing not less than 10%
Actual Potash.
Orchards and vineyards treat
ed with Potash are compara
tively free from insects and
plant disease.
All about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex
periment on the best farms in the United States—is
told in a little book which we publish and will gladly
mail free to any farmer in America who will write for it.
GERMAN KALI WORKS, '
93 Nassau St., New York.
1112 «in
DIETZ \
No. 3 Street Lamp
HAS A SHINING RECORD
OF 20 YEARS.
It is offered as an effectual
antidote for "outer
darkness," and is thor
oughly well made on
scientific principles.
It will give more light
* than any gas-burning
lamp, do it cheaper and
do it with kerosenefcoal
oil).
It can be lit and regu
lated from the outside;
can continue in business
despite the wind; can
and will give you entire
satisfaction, by reason
of its absolute relia
bility. _ \
It In but one member’of
an enormous family of
" light goods " that we
build, and to whom we
would be glad to intro
duce you by means of
our catalogue, wmcn we man tree upon application.
If you insist upon having the very best goods
made, your dealer will give you “ Diets.” \
If you jannot obtain this Lamp of your dealer, we
will deliver it, freight prepaid, to any part of the U.S.
or Canada, upon receipt of its price, viz., $6.00. j
R. E. DIETZ CO.,
60 Laight Street, New York.
Established In 1840. j
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PEHISTLfmiH
RAILROAD COMPANY.
Personally • Condacted Tonrs, ■
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CALIFORNIA
Tour to CALIFORNIA and the PACIFIC
COAST will leave New York and Philadelphia
March 27th, returning on regular trains within nine
months. Round trip tickets, including all tour
features going and transportation only returning,
wi 1 be sold at rate of $23.00 trom New York, and,
$203.00 from Philadelphia . one-way tickets, mclud
ing all tour features going, $141.75 from New York,
$140.25 from Philadelphia. Proportionate rates
trom other points.
WASHINGTON
Tonrs, each covering a period of three davs, will
eave New York and Philadelphia March 11th,
April 1st and 22nd, and May 13th, 1S97. Rates in
cluding transportation and two davs' accommo
dation at the best Washington Hotels, $14.50 from
New York, and $11.50 from Philadelphiaa.
OLD POINT COMFORT TOURS
RETURNING DIRECT, OK VIA
Richmond and Washington
Will leave New York and Philadelphia March 18th
and April 15th, 1897.
For detailed itineraries and other information.,
apply at the ticket agencies, or address Geo. W.
Boyd, Asst. Gen’l Pass. Agent, Broad Street,
Station, Phila. 11 io til Mar. 1
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Reliable Goods
Latest Styles
Best Quality.
Eye examined free by a Graduate Optician.
Ofcculists’ prescriptions tilled. 40 years’ experience..
IML LEWIS
JEWELER AND OPTICIAN.
7 South Laurel St., Bridgeton, N.J,.
When You’re B)ind
You’ll Se9
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of your eyes when, you had them. If they
pain you call on me: I will examine them
without charge and tell you to correct the
trouble with the least expense and the great
est certainty.
C. A. LONGSTRETH,
228 Market St.. PHILADELPHIA.
PARKER’S CDNCER TONIC
Debilltj\dlstrci.!ng stomach and
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treatment fails. Even* mother and invalid should have it.
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Cleanset and beautifies the Tn^r,
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Never Fails to Restore Gray
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flOc.and $1.00 at Druggists
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Corns. Stops all pain. Makes walking easy. 15c. at Druggist*
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safe, always reliable, ladies, ask
(Druggist for Chicheater a English Dia-mpV\
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no other. Be/use dangerous substitu* t
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