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OREGON
CITY
MAGAZINE SECTION.
OREGON CITY. OREGON FRIDAY,
JUNE 29, 1906.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
NELLIE GRANT SARTORIS.
SKETCH OF THE LOVELY WHITE
HOUSE BRIDE OF THE DAYS
OF GENERAL GRANT.
She Met Algernon Sartoris, Her
Future Husband, on Shipboard on
Return turopean Trip-la Mother
of Three thilaren.
No American girl, not even President
Roosevelt's daughter, ever had a more
brilliant wedding than Nellie Grant,
the beloved child of the great Civil
War hero; yet of late years the public,
which has always taken a kindly inter
est in Gen. Grant's family, has heard
comparatively little of his only daugh
ter. When Mrs. Julia Dent Grant, -widow
of the President, was living, her
daughter spent much time with her
mother at the latter's home in the city
of Washington, but since the death of
her mother Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris
can scarcely be said to have had a fixed
residence in any American city. How
ever, she has always been very fond
of St. Louis, and she made her 'home in
the Missouri metropolis during most of
the time the recent World's Fair was
in progress there.
Possibly the liking of Mrs. Sartoris
for St. Louis is to be attributed to the
fact that her birth, in August, 1855,
occurred at her Grandfather Dent's
country home near St. Louis, the birth
place of 'her mother. When General
Grant was elected President, and in
deed during the first three years that
he and his wife lived at the White
House, the daughter was at school
Toward the close of President Grant's
first term, however, Miss Nellie made
her social debut at the Presidential
mansion, and her cadet brother, home
from West Point, was iher escort and
companion.
MET riUNCE CHARMING.
General Grant's daughter made a
tour of Europe soon after she formally
entered society, Rnd everywhere re
ceived the most distinguished atten
tions from the royal families of Great
Britain and the Continent. On the
. way home on the steamer Russia she
met Mr. Sartoris, the Prince Charming
who was later to win her heart and
hand. From the moment that the en
gagement of Miss Grant was an
nounced the whole American people
manifested an interest in the bride-to-be
which never found a parallel save
' in the enthusiasm for .Alice Roosevelt.
The fact that the lucky man was an
Englishman and not a citizen of the
republic, while It was a matter of deep
regret to many persons, including
President Grant himself, was not al
lowed to cast a damper upon the joyous
occasion. Mr. Algernon Sartoris was
but twenty-three years of age and Miss
Grant was only nineteen when, on
Thursday, May 21, 1874, they were
III i1 'if JvlH l f F " i 1
MRS. NELLIE GliAXT SARTORIS.
Joined in wedlock in the East Room of
the White House in the presence of
more than two hundred distinguished
persons, including the representatives
of the foreign governments, officers of
the army and navy, etc.
Mr. Sartoris had been educated In
England and Germany and was the
son of Mr. Edward Sartoris, of Hamp
shire, England, and his wife, Adelaide
Kemble, daughter of Charles and sister
Of Fanny Kemble, well known to the
Etage. Prior to the marriage the
groom assured General Grant of lift
entire willingness to reside with his
bride in the United States, but soon
Efter the wedding his brother in Eng
land died most unexpectedly and he
was virtually obliged to return to his
native land to assume the management
of the family estates. President and
Mrs. Grant accompanied the young
couple to New York, whence they
sailed for England.
BLESSED WITH CHILDREN.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris had three
children, two daughters and a son.
The eon, who bears his father's name,
Algernon, was for a time an officer in
the United States army and saw some
service in the Philippines, but his
health compelled the abandonment of
a military career. During the past
few years he has traveled extensively,
and some months ago was married to
a very beautiful young woman in
Paris. The eldest daughter, Vivian,
was married a year or two 6ince, but
the younger daughter, Rosemary, the
beauty of the family, is still unmarried.
Some months since much discussion
was precipitated when it was rumored
that she was engaged to the son of
one of the Confederate generals who
fought against General Grant in the
campaigns of the Civil War.
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris Is a
woman who has always been held in
high esteem by a large circle of fem
inine friends. From her school days
she has seemed to inspire the regard
of members of her own sex, and some
idea of her popularity may be formed
from the fact that on the occasion of
her wedding she was attended by
eighteen bridesmaids, all gowned alike.
Mrs. Sartoris is several years younger
than her famous brother, Gen. Fred
D. Grant, of the United States Army
but her birthday was three years ear
lier than that of Jesse Grant, the
youngest member of this famous fan
ily.
A LUXURIOUS AUTO.
Capt. Lars Anderson's Wonderful
Machine of French Manufacture.
Of all Ihc automobiles ever turned
out by French or other manufacturers,
the one lately made for Capt. Lars
Anderson, of Boston, seems to be en
titled to the prize for originality. It
is a huge machine fitted up for long
journeys and in point of speed equals
any or the present-day touring cars,
The Anderson cur is fitted out with
reversible furniture. There is a com
bination' bod and bureau that is cer
tainly a work of art, nnd then there
is a cook stove and dining table ar
rangement that can be hauled out at
a moment's notice. The whole ma
chine, in fact, is a kind of miniature
hotel on wheels with accommodations
for eating, sleeping, working or idling.
according to the fancy of the owner
or his guests.
A Family AH'air.
"Once upon a time there lived a
good man of New York, who was
soliciting contributions for the erection
of an orphan asylum," said the story
teller. "He had been to many rich
people and received liberal contri-
buttons, which were entered In a book
he had for that purpose. AMong these
many names there appeared. 'Mrs.
Russell Sage, $25.' The good man
went to Mr. Sage's office, nnd, showing
him the contribution entered in the
book by Mrs. Sage, anted if he could
not give a like sum. And what do von
suppose he did?"
"Well, I suppose he at least doubled
it," remarked a listener.
"Doubled it! Not Russell!" ex
claimed the teller of the story. "Why,
be simply took his pen and wrote
Mr. and' before his wife's name, and
handed the book back to the good
man." Harpers Weekly.
The railway ton mtleape of the
South in 18S2 was one-eighteenth of
the whole and In 1905 was one-seventh
BEET-SUGAR GROWING.
GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS
HEALTHY GROWTH IN NEW
AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
Colorado Leads-Industry Every
where Proving a Powerful Aid to
Agricultural, Industrial and Social
Development.
In spite of apparent efforts to crip
ple or kill it off, the beet-sugar in
dustry of the United States is making
steady progress.
Congress has just received the an
nual report of Special Agent Charles
F. Saylor of the Department of Agri
culture on the status of the beet-sugar
industry for last year. Fifty-two
beet-sugar factories were in operation,
5 were standing idle, and 12 were be
ing constructed for operation this J
UNLOADING
SUGAR
BEETS ON
TO THE
FACTORY
CARS.
year. The factories last year bad a
total capacity for slicing 40,O!0 tons
or beets daily.
In the acieuge planted and the
sugar manufactured from boots Colo-
rado leads, h.iving h vested 85,000
acres nnd manufactured 01,000 tons
of sugar. Michigan came second in
acreage with 77,(MI() acres, but third
in sugar with 00,000 tons. California
grew 51,000 acres and produced 73,
000 tons of sugar. The next states in
order were respectively Utah, Idaho,
Nebraska and Wisconsin with a total
of 71,000 acres and 01,000 tons of
sugar. Other states grew 17,000 acres
of beets, producing about 17,000 tons
of sugar, or a total for the United
States of 307.;IG4 acres with a proauo
tion of 312,020 tons of sugar. ,..
RAPID GKOWTII LOOKED FOR,
Indications are favorable, the report
states, to the further growth of this
pursuit both in irrigation and rain
fall districts. "The Industry is prov
ing to be a powerful aid to comnier.
cial, agricultural and industrial devel
opment. It promotes irrigation, immi
gration, land settlement, the building
of railroads and trolley lines, the
making of other Improvements, and
the upbuilding of various industrial
enterprises. Such results rnn only be
appreciated by those who have visited
the factory districts in Colorado,
Utah and Idaho, or in other newly
settled and Improved areas throughout
the West. The beneficial effect of the
industry is also shown in the better
settled, moie highly developed agri
cultural districts of the East, where,
after beets have been given a proper
trial iu competition with established
crops, they are demonstrating their
staying qualitites ami potency in in
dustrial development."
GROWS MORE THAN IT EATS.
One feature of this report is a series
of tables accompanied with outline
maps designed to show graphically the
magnitude of simar production in that
part of the country lying west of the
Mississippi River. These indicate that
the estimated production of sugar
west of the Mississippi In 1900 will ex
ceed by 24,000 tons the amount or
sugar consumed in the same area in
1000 (the latest year for which we
have reliable census figures). The
estimate of production for 1000 Is
made by assuming that all the ueet-
sugar factories, including 10 new
ones, will run at their full capacity for
campaigns of 100 days, and that the
enne sugar product for 1900 will be tha
same as that of last year."
TARLK 87TOWTXI" PROnrfTTON
AND CONSUMPTION OF SUGAR IN
STATES WEST OF THE MISSISS
IPPI RIVER.
Pnnnda
RxtliDBted ontifi fmenr, 1!W . flw.Bin.rinn
Estimated beet Bugar, 1906. . 7hS,-i)0,onO
Estimated total snenr prn-
dnned. lOOfi 1 42.nw).ftnn
Total sugar consumed MOO. . litis, !)2n,50.r,
Exppsr of production over con-
Klimpiloll 4S .).V7i
The amount of beet-suear which
will be produced In factories east of
the Mississippi during this vear. if
rnn at their .full capacity, will also
equal about 17 per cent of the con
sumption of sugar in the trans-Miss-isslppl
area. ,
11 fesf It
This showing of the Department of
Agriculture, while It makes a com-
parativcly small inroad upon the vast
consumption of sugar in the more
densely populated re.-tion east of the
Mississippi, yet Indicates that the
young beet-sugar industry is making
suDsiantiai progress, and that con
sidering the uncertainty of legislation
and the great cost of beet-sugar fac
tory investments, very satisfactory ad
vances are being made iu this new
American enterprise.
TEN ACRE FARMS.
Pending Bill Allows Government to
Cut up Homesteads into Small
Tracts.
The tendency of the times is to en
courage better farmiug and iu smaller
ureas. It is coming to be recognized
thui the proportion is small of farms
which are thoroughly tilled ami wade
TWELFTH
CHOP
AT LE1I1,
UTAH.
to produce the maximum yield of
which the land Is capable. A few
years ago the man who would have
said that 10 acres of farm land was a
sullicieut area for a man to make a
good living from would have been
looked upon as a crank. Now there
are thousands of little 10 acre and even
0 acre farms from -.vhich men are
making more money than many
others are from attempting to till 20
times that amount. That 10 ncres,
under favorable conditions, will pro
duce a living is recognized In a bill
which lias just been passed by the
House of Representatives and which
will likely be passed by the Senate at
this session. It is an amendment to
the National Irrigation Law. Under
that law the homestead entry upon
public land irrigated by the govern
ment ranges from 40 to 100 acres, to
be determined by the Secretary of the
Interior, according to the conditions of
the reclamation. It was recognized,
at the time of the passage of the law
in "02, that In some sections of the
country 40 acres was nn nmple area
for a farm. It Is now seen, nnd ad
mitted iu the bill above mentioned
that 10 acres Is not too small a sub
division under favorable conditions.
Another amendment was recently
made to the irrigation law allowing
the government to establish town-sites
and divide the land thereunder up
into various sized tracts ranging
from town-lots to 10 acre allotments.
When this bill whicli is now before the
Somite becomes a law it will there
fore be possible for the government,
In any of its Irrigation projects to di
vide and sub-divide its laud into
town and farm units ranging all the
way from lots up to 100 acre farms.
310D1X, RURAL SliTTLLTIENTS.
Tills nlan will doubtless develop
some of the finest examples of pros
perous rural communities to be found
anywhere in the world. Many of the
best developed sections of some of
the western states include great
numbers of little farms nnd fruit
ranches of 5. 10 nnd 20 acres each,
where the appearance Is almost like
the outskirts of a village. With such
a dense rural population there is an
ideal combination of practically all
the advantages to be found in city
life and the splendid results of country
work nnd living. Houses, in such a
community, are almost within a stone-
throw of each other, the population Is
sufficiently large to support splendid
roads, good school and churches, water
and lighting Improvements, goon
sewerage, etc. Thus the lonesome-
noss. the isolation ami me many un
attractive features of the big farm dis
appear while yet the joys and the
wholesomeness of country life are all
present.
The report accompanying tins inn
states that since the passage of the
irrication net. It has developed that
on some of the lands to be Irrigated,
particularly those in fruit and truck
farming districts, less than 40 acres
is needed for the support of the family,
end in fact experience has demon
strated that the average farmer is
more prosperous on a small than on a
large irrigated farm. In view of this
condition of affairs it has been deemed
wise to reduce to 10 acres the mini
mum entry which may be allowed.
CHAPTER i.
The great bell of Beaulieu was ring
ing. Far away through the forest
might be heard Its musical clangor
and swell. Teat cutters on Blackdown
and fishers upon the Exe heard the
distant throbbing and falling upon the
sultry summer air. It was a common
sound in those parts as common a
the chatter of the jays and t.ie boom
ing of the bittern. Yet the fishers and
the peasants raised tl.cir heads and
looked questions at each other, for the
Angelus had already gone and Vespers
was still far off. Why should the
great bell of Reuulieu toll when the
shadows were neither . iort nor long?
All round the Abbey t..e monks
were trooping in. Under the long,
green-paved avenues of gnarled oaks
and of lichened beeches the wliit"
robed brothers gathered 1o the sound.
It had been no sudden call. A swin
messenger had the night '. efore sped
round to the outlying dependencies of
the Abbey, nnd had left the summons
for every monk to be back in the
cloisters by the third hour after noon
tide. So urgent a message had not
been issued within the nx-nory of old
Lay-Brother Athanasius. who had
cleaned the knocker since the year
after the Battle of Bannackbui n.
Meanwhile, in the" broad an lofty
chamber sot apart for occasions of
import, the Abbot himself was pacing
impatiently backward and forward,
with his long, white, nervous hands
clasped in front of hi.-. His thin,
thoughtworn features and sunken,
haggard checks bespoke one who had
Indeed beaten down that Inner foe
whom every man must face, but had
none the less suffered sorely In the
contest. In crushing hi passions he
had well-nigh crushed himself. Yet,
frail as was his person, there gleamed
out ever and anon from under his
drooping brows a Hash of fierce energy
which recalled to men's minds that he
came of n lighting stock, and that even
now his twin brother, Sir Bartholomew
Bergliersh, was one of the most fa
mous of those stern warriors who had
planted the Cross of St George before
the gates ol Paris. With lips com
pressed and clouded brow, he strode
up nnd down the oaken lloor, the very
impersonation of asceticism, while
the great bell still thundered and
clanged above his head. At last the
uproar died away in three last meas
ured throbs, ami ere their echo had
ceased the Abbot struck a small gong
which summoned a lay-brother to his
presence.
"Where is the master of the nov
ices?" "He if without, most holv father."
"Send him hither."
The sandalled foot clattered over the
wooden floor, and the Iron-bound
door creaked upon its hinges. In a
few moments it opened again to ad
mit a short, square monk with a
heavy, composed face and autlioi
itativc manner.
"You have sent for me, holy
father?"
"Yes, Brother .Jerome, 1 wisli that
this matter be disposed of with as
little scandal as mav be; and yet it Is
needful that the example should be a
public one."
It would perchance be best that the
novices be not admitted," Miggesled the
master. "This mention of a woman
may turn their minds from their pious
meditations to worldly and evil
thoughts."
Woman! woman! groaned tlio
Abbot. "Well has the holy Chrys-
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ostom termed them radix malorum.
From Eve downward.what good hath
come from any of them? W'ho brings
the plaint?"
"It is Brother Ambrose."
"A holy nnd devout young man."
"A light and a pattern to every nov
ice." "Let the matter be brought to an
issue, then, occordlng to our old-time
monastic habit. Bid the chancellor
and the sub-cliancellor lead In the
brothers according to age, together
with Brother John the accused and
Brother Ambrose the accuser."
"And the novices?"
"Let them bide in the north alley
of the cloister. Stay! Bid the sub
chancellor send out to them Thomas
the lector to read unto them from the
'Gesta beat! Benedictl.' It may save
them from foolish and pernicious
bubbling."
The Abbot was left to himself once
more, nnd bent his thin gray face over
his illuminated breviary. So he re
mained while the senior monks filed
slowly and sedately Into the chamber,
seating themselves upon the long
oakeii benches which lined the wall
on either side. At the further end, in
two high chairs as large as that of the
Abbot, though hardly so elaborately
carved, sat the master of the novices
and the chancellor, the latter a broad
and portly priest, with dark, mirth
ful eyes and a thick outgrowth of
crisp black hair all round his tonsured
bead. Between them stood a lean,
white-faced brother who appeared to
be ill at ease, shifting his feet from
side 1o side and tapping his chin with
the long parchment roll which lie held
in his band. The Abbot, from his
point of vantage, looked down on the
two long lines of faces, placid and sun
browned for the most part, with the
large bovine eyes and unllnod fen hires
IMJUDLW JOHN.
which told
of their easy, unchanging
existence.
Then lie turned his eager
gii.e upon
the pale-faced monk who
faced liim.
"This plaint: is thine, as I learn.
Brother Ambrose," said lie. "Bring
in Brother John, and let him hear the)
plaints urged against him."
At this order a lay-brother swung
open the door, and two other lay
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I hem a young novice of the order,
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eyed and red-headed, with a peculiar
half humorous, half defiant expression
upon his bold, well-marked features.
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