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Show THE PAYSON CIIRO.NICI.K. PAYSON UTAH S5 Years Ago Occurred the Death nt Of "The President Nobody Knows" ' Cir Gay Print Good Spring Tonic For Any Woman's Wardrobe -- PB Spi By CHERIE NICHOLAS Drise Iccye!opeclias and Dictionaries of Biography Give Little Space to Millard Fillmore Yet He sen. Was One of the Most Interesting Characters Who Ever Occupied the White House and jch, Many Important Measures Were Passed During His Administration. f plc that country. Carrying out a strict policy of in the affairs of foreign nations, he used stern measures to suppress filibustering expeditions to the Latin American countries and with equal firmness exacted from other countries respect for our ELMO SCOTT WATSON t AHE President No-- 5 I body Knows! ' X That title could be o ven, and not inappropriate-tdied who an American years ago this month. He Millard Fillmore, 13th esident of the United States, t he has been the subject wy fewer biographies and less ace is devoted to him in the diction-ikete- s iaPs cyclopedias and has than of biography other with case any ;n the ma?our Chief Executives. So ng &;! average American knows umptiy little, if anything, about But so unpopular did he make y elehimself with the ment in the North by his signing the bill which admitted California, thus virtually abrogating the Missouri Compromise, and more especially by his signing the Fugitive Slave law and his attempts to have it enforced, that the Whigs denied him a renomina-tio- n anti-slaver- in 1852. , During most occupied the White use and during his Presi-an- d Whenr tones MILLARD FILLMORE acyoccurredseveralevents built for her with his own hands and began their struggle to espeoustan ding importance in live they on the meager of halierican history, r 'illmore was born in a log cab-livron a farm in Cayuga county, wing v York, a few miles southeast Emt the little city of Moravia, on of s yruary 7, 1800. Opportunities color hat an education were limited in rep. primitive schools which ex-you i in that region and which i'.'IXG ng Fillmore attended less than Order ;e months of each year. There cents e no newspapers or magazines v Fjlable and his fathers or g consisted of only two R.ry ce. Tks the Bible and a collection ay seiymns. In fact, it is said that his-posing Fillmore never saw a 2ICr of the United States nor a 111. j of his country until he was 19 rs old! tlten Fillmore was 15, he was ffirenticed to a wool carder and hier and with his first wages chased a small English he studied while machine. finding the hecarding was 19 he had the time to become a lawyer. His ii iplved rn of apprenticeship had two lent years to run but he made n they y arrangement with his he agreed to his wages for the last jr anytteg services and also prom-l- e boot,! to pay $30 for his time. oyster e3ct he made an arrangement Judge Wood of Moravia, a red It red country lawyer, by which "pes are was t receive his board in s, , ' dic-hic- v..-- h e employ-whereb- relin-listicatH- jh -- e for working in the began reading law" judges direction, and, kbone r51, .. .supplement his income, he school a part of the time. t re jht 1823 he had learned enough : fosi to be admitted as an attorney he court of common pleas of county, even though he had completed the course of study of-H- inp0t;..ment Laws d ) wit atus of N Y. illy required. The influence veral leading Buffalo law-who- confidence he had was ruamly responsible for iDmores father was then Aurora and he went there le an Hjegia practice. He won his il BodyH case and for doing so was liv-i- n yarded with a fee of $4! But than that to his important ,nfinti're . mtemkpre career was an event which andVl PIace in 1826. his term as an appren-h- e ,e ntsrJUr1 had met and fallen m Wms"1 ,a young schoolteacher a of fp Bed Abigail Powers. They be- - engaged before Fillmore ved to Erie county but he wa3 0,31 for three yars he wP?r r t nan not afford to travel the 150 jhx-r- W t see her. In February, I. he journeyed i and they wfere married his career as a in home of her brother, Judge vers. Then Fillmore took has e back to the home he had the wings by which her husband soared so high. Finding the White House destitute of books when she became the First Lady of the Land, Mrs. Fillmore prevailed upon her husband to obtain an appropriation from congress for a library in the executive mansion. So the famous collection of books in the White House today is a perpetual memorial to Abigail Fillmore. Mrs. Fillmore died soon after the inauguration of her husbands earnings the young lawyer. To help her husband continue his studies, Abigail Fillmore went back to school teaching. In 1827 Fillmore was admitted to the bar as a attorney-at-laand the next year he was elected to the state legislature. At that time the excitement was at its height and Fillmore successor on March 30, 1853. A was sent to Albany as the repre- year later their only daughter sentative from Erie county of that also died and in 1855 the lonely wing of the Whig party. In 1829 took a trip to Enghe was granted the right to plead land where he received numerous before the state Supreme court attentions from Queen Victoria and the next year he was re- and her cabinet ministers. Reelected to the legislature. turning to the United States the Fillmore distinguished himself next year he became a third by drafting the bill, passed in party candidate for the Presi1831, which abolished imprisondency when he was nominated ment for debt in New York. The by the American or Know Nothnext year he was elected to con- ing party. In the election he gress and after serving one term, received the electoral vote of only retired until 1836, when he was He was again returned to Washington in 1838 and 1840 but declined a renommation full-fledg- anti-Maso- n in 1842. In 1847 he was elected comptroller of the state of New York and m his annual report for 1848 suggested the establishment of a national bank, with the stocks of the United States as the sole basis upon which to issue its currency. Out of this suggestion grew eventually our present system of national banks. Durmg this same year Fillmore again entered the arena of national politics. Conspicuous for his antislavery views, he was chosen by the Whigs as their candidate for vice president and running mate for Gen. Zachary Taylor in the campaign of 1848. By virtue of his election to that office Fillmore presided over the United States senate during the heated debate in the session of 1849-5over the slavery question. Angered by the bitter language used by the senators, Fillmoie made a forcible speech announcing his determination to maintain order and declaring that he would rescind the rule, established by Vice President Calhoun in 1826, which deprived the vice president of authority to call senators to order. Instead of resenting this encroachment upon their procedure by an executive order, the senators cheered Fillmore at the conclusion of his speech and directed that his remarks be entered in full on the pages of the senate journal. Fillmore presided with equal firmness during the exciting debate over Henry Clay's omnibus bill which dragged on for Then the controversy weeks. ended abruptly when President Taylor died on July 9, 1850, and Millard Fillmore left the senate to take up his new duties as President at the other end of Pennsylvania avenue. In accordance with his wishes, the severest simplicity marked his inauguration. Fillmore faced one of the most difficult tasks ever undertaken by a President. Already the United States was a house divided against itself over the issue of slavery and his conciliatory policies won him the condemnation of both sides and the wholehearted approval of neither. Due to the fact that his party was in the minority in both houses of congress, many wise measures which he recommended failed to pass. However, the United States is indebted to him for cheap postage, for the extension of the national capitol, the cornerstone of which he laid on July 4, 1851; and for extension of contemporary knowledge of the West through expeditions various exploring 0 s all statesman in Washington, his light hand had been his wife, who has been described as perhaps the most temarkable of the and wlves of our Presidents louget he was one of the who characters long sresting which he authorized. Even more notable than domestic affairs were the international relations developed during the Fillmore administration. He sent Perry on the famous expedition which opened the ports of Japan to the world and estab- lished diplomatic relations with (1397-1468- The Gorgons s-- 7 - flag. masamanorasaPresident. ), Johann Gutenberg the inventor of printing from mov. able metal types, never imprinteJ his name on any of his works, says Colliers Weekly. The first book to bear a complete imprint name of the printer, place and date was ths celebrated Latin Psalter of 1457, which was published by a firm con. sisting of Gutenberg's Teter Schoeffer, and his former partner, Johann ust son-in-la- Western Newspaper Union. s.'fCr ing s Gutenberg Did Not Imprint Name ABIGAIL FILLMORE state, Maryland, and after that retired from public life to his law practice in Buffalo. In 1858 he married again, this time a widow, Mrs. Caroline C. McIntosh. As the first citizen of Buffalo, he was frequently called upon to welcome distinguished visitors to his city, including Abraham Lincoln when he was on his way to Washington in 1861 to become President. He helped establish the Buffalo Historical society and, although he took no active part in the Civil war, he gave his support to the cause of preserving the Union. Fillmore died in Buffalo on March 8, 1874, and was buried in Forest Hill cemetery in that city. His fame somewhat eclipsed by that of another President whom Buffalo had given to the nation one Grover Cleveland , it was not until recent years that its citizens honored him by erecting a statue of him within its boundaries. But it is different in the little city of Moravia. It is prouder of the fact that it can call Millard Fillmore its own than of the fact that it was the childhood home of John D. Rockefeller. Old timers there will tell you the tradition of how the ambitious young lawyer, not yet 21, first attracted attention by his delivery of a Fourth of July oration which caused some of his hearers to prophesy that he would make his mark and perhaps become a Apparently, though, no judge. one was so brash as to predict that he would become President of the United States! They will show you the home on Smith street, marked by a tablet erected by the D. A. R., which tells you that "In this house the thirteenth President, Millard Fillmore, and Abigail Powers were married on February 5, 1826. And they will take you outside the town to a scenic spot which bears the name of Fillmore Glen, now a state park, uheie rushing stieams that come tumbling down flower-studdeforest clad slopes and flow across meadows keep flesh the memory of Millard Fillmoie. For in Cayuga county, at least, he is not the President Nobody Knows! d green-carpete- d Falls in Fillmore Glen state park, near Moravia, N. Y. A few years ago there came to light in the musty files of the state department at Washington a document which was an interesting echo of the foreign policy of President Fillmore. It was a letter which he sent in 1851 to Seyed Syeed Bin, sultan of Musin protest cat, at Zanzibar against the Sultans closing the harbors of his country to American commerce. Written in the flowery style of the Orient, the letter pictured the United States with all the extravaganza of an Arabian Nights Tale. The letter opens with Pi esident Fillmore explaining that he is Chief Executive of the 31 United States of America, and enumerating each of the states. The message, the President says, he is sending by an officer of high rank in the United States navy, on the steam ship Susquehanna, one of the many hundreds of ships belonging to this great nation, which now float over all seas, bearing to all nations offers of peace and good will and serving also as means of defense and national power. Of the size of his country the President tells the Sultan: From the region of ice which bounds the United States on the north to the flowery land of the orange on the south is a journey of 100 days, and from the eastern shores, which receive the first beams of the rising sun, to those on the west, where rest his setting rays, is 150 days journey, and this immense country is net a sandy waste, but filled with cities, traversed populous by mighty rivers and crowned with lofty mountains. By railroads or in steamboats the citizens of this immense country pass from one place to another with inconceivable rapidity. From the seat of government at Washington I send my commands in a few minutes by the Lightning Telegraph, to all parts of the United States; and they are obeyed. I speak of these things not for the sake of boasting; but in the Spirit of Friendship and Peace, and that you may know that all parts of this country are open to you and your Ships and your people for the purposes of Commerce and Trade. I shall welcome in all our ports the Ships which bear your flag. Having thus extended full hospitality to the Sultans ships the President then chides his Great and Good Friend for not being so generous. How can you think to be just, the President writes, that while we open so many hundred ports to you, you should wish to confine us to a single port, or prevent our ships from going to all parts of your dominions. Great and Good Friend, this cannot be. Free trade everywhere is desirable, for so can the various productions of different countries best be distributed throughout the world. I hope the traffic of our country with yours is mutually beneficial. I hope it will continue and increase. The flag of this country, he says, was treated by you and your people with disrespect, therefore. Consul Charles Ward left your court. In this matter he acted rightly and I approve his course. He has shown me your letters in which you promise to listen to my wishes. If I send another Consul to Zanzibar, I expect that he shall be treated with equal honor as the consuls of other nations, and that the flag which he hoists, and which is his protection, shall have the same honors paid to it, as the flags of d In the nations. these respects I ask for no superiority over other nations, on the part of United States, neither can I admit any inferiority. With these business matters out of the way, the President returns again to pleasanter affairs. He commends and congratulates the Sultan on his enlightened suppression of the slave trade, elaborately extends his best wishes and promises to write him frequently. The letter ends thus: I have caused the great seal of these United States, the signal of truth and stamp of honor to be placed on this letter by the officer who is entrusted to hold it, and to use it on great and solemn I f. stripe effects in multicolor against dark grounds. Trim spring details A GOOD spring tonic for any woman's wardrobe is a daytime dress m a fresh spring print. This season even the most modest shopping budget can take care of this need without difficulty for stores throughout the country are showing a tempting array of frocks in a bewildering variety of intriguing prints, and at prices. Utility dresses that are equally at home on resort boardwalks, country club terraces, smart shopping avenues or your own home and garden path are designed in both tailored spectator types and softly styled dressmaker models that afford ample range of choice for all tastes and figures. Whether you wear misses', womens, little womens, or larger sizes, there are many styles planned for your type, in appropriate prints. These glorified budget frocks not only have style and quality and charming looks to recommend them but they are modernized to the nth degree with such practical virtues as built-idress shields made without rubber so that they go along with the frock safely and repeatedly into the tub, or to the dry cleaner. Their styling takes into account the factor of making the dresses easy to iron, a detail appreciated and sought for by every woman who buys carefully. Shirtwaist frocks which are again this season high in favor with women for wear in town or country run to neat tailored prints in geometric patternings and in novelties such as embroidered y n dawn-to-dus- k Wears the Latest Your good friend, MILLARD FILLMORE." By the President Daniel Webster, Secretary of State. wide-space- d e front-buttone- d n d full-lengt- h i I The short skirts that swirl arrf flare at their widened hemlines carry a "little girl" air about them that makes you feel sure that Dame Fashion surely must have partaken of the fountain of youth. The pro-- ' gram of dress planned looks just that way. Of course if you are not of the type to wear school girlish clothes then you can find models that bring fullness to the front in unpressed pleats. Speaking of fullness, you see the new movement toward fullness and drapes reflected in coats with full blouse tops and full wnstlength sleeves. The new lingerie blouses have long bishop sleeves a la Gibson girL Swish of Taffeta Welcomes Spring Taffeta is a favorite silk this spring. The biggest swibh taffeta is making is In the cunning little girl petticoats that every move of the new stylish swing skirts will be making when the pageantry of spring fashions takes place. The taffetas employed range from monotones in any of the new high colors to candy-stripeor polka dot effects. Taffeta for the daytime dress, too, if you please and very smart street suits tailored of taffeta are shown. For your bouffant party dress choose taffeta and flounce it in tiers if you wish to follow the last word in fashion. d As smartly attired as her mother is this young miss, wearing one of the new fashions presented at a preview style clinic recently held in the Merchandise Mart of Chicago. This intriguing little ensemble is in green plaid wool with a soft green cape and matching hat. The cape will serve as a practical and goodlooking wrap to wear with the wee lady's dresses the entire spring and summer through. Chief Producer of Mira The United Stall a is the worlds chief producer of mica. HOTELS HOTEL 1LAMIOME. SALT I AKK 4th Ho. H Stale SI. Hale. SI 110. 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Dressmaker styling and soft draping are Important in the somewhat more dressy types, done in colorful spaced floral prints in formal vine and wreath motifs, and in close allover prints of tiny flowers such as forgetmenots or diminutive buttercups. Softly draped necklines, gored or pleated skirts, gracefully tied or draped or shirred sleeves are all dressmaker details of definite flattery. In the new collections, one charming slenderline frock for little women is especially smart in black with red and white poppy print of great distinction (pictured to left at top in group). The fresh white accent is carried out in a row of white buttons at the blouse front below a nicely draped neck and the simple buckled belt is of self fabric to retain the unbroken line which adds inches to stature. The smart little frock as shown in foreground to the left for slender young misses has borrowed from its peasant cousin shirred-ithe close-fittewaistband and the softly bloused bodice although the flared skirt is not a dirndl. In smooth rayon crepe with a distinctive clustered dot patterning done in stripes, this attractive frock is nicely adaptable to any daytime occasion. The gown to the right Is especially planned in women's sizes. Although you would not guess from its appearance. it is really among the moderately priced daytime frocks. The fine rayon crepe that fashions it presents one of the new Chinese porcelain print patternings with largewhite chrysanthemums against a soft luggage tan background. A buttoned front closing banded in matched solid color, softly draped sleeves and action-pleateskirt front are important details. The scarf draped hat worn is 4 leader in the millinery realm. 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