Show HAS HA S 1913 3 I Y i. i r 1 C 1 1 ai tl r F Y I n S TORE T OP L 9 i l J Jd r d 5 l j r 4 i N r 1 ji Lucky or Unlucky Who 1 t Kows F the For th or- or ore e Thirteen een iY ears s Ha nave e Witnessed w Great American en Victories and Great Victories or Mankind in General il rk k EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY IN TH THE E THIRTEEN YEARS 1513 Ponce 1513 Ponce de Leon sails from Porto Rico to Florida in search of the fo fountain of perpetual youth Nunez de Balboa leads an expedition of men across the Isthmus of Panama and discovers ers the Pacific ocean 1 Spain l claims Florida b by reason of Ponce de dc Leons Leon's disco discovery and England claims the whole continent because of Cabot's discover discovery Captain 1613 Captain Argall Argau of Jamestown pillages pillage and ancl burns the French settlement a aMount ai ait i it Mo Mount nt De Desert ert Captain c. Smith destroys the French colony at the mouth of the St. St CrOIx river mer urns tj ti Llo e deserted village of Port Royal in Acadia Nova Noa Scotia and destroys destros the cabins of the he Dutch on Manhattan island compelling them to acknowledge the sovereignty so of King J James ames I. I Pocahontas is stolen for ransom by the the colonists and later marries John Rolfe a young joung oun Eng Eng- lishman t The Dutch establish a trading post on Manhattan island Colonel 1113 1713 Colonel Colonel James Moore of South Carolina defeats the fortified at Snow Sno II Hill ill in v 1 North Carolina and the tribe then mo moves mo es north joining the Iroquois confederation as the f sixth nation i t The treaty of Utrecht ends hostilities between France and England and gives dyes Canada to ther the it r latter alon along with with the thc suzerainty o of the Iroquois oiB confederation of Indians Indian About families of Lutherans settle In in Schoharie N. N Y Man Many Irish Presbyterians are driven to America by the tho Test Act t The English establish a trading post at Oswego N. N Y Y and a treat treaty with the five nations nation I l di diverts veils the Indian trade from the French to the British settlers 1813 Military Militar Military operations against Great Britain are arc conducted by General William illiam Henry Harrison f r commanding the thc arm army of the west nest General Dearborn at the head of the arm army of the center near the thc Niagara I river ri and General Hampton leading the tho arm army of the north near Lake Champlain One of the principal operations operations' is the siege of Fort Meigs where General Harrison Harrison Har Ilar rison with 2000 men is reinforced b by 1200 men under General Henry Cia Clay of I Kentucky The British are beaten off orr and are repulsed also b by other American armies at Sacketts Sackett's s 's Harbor and Fort George fi Admiral Cockburn at the head of a British fleet burns Havre de Grace Md The rise British frigate Shannon defeats and captures the frigate Chesapeake eastward of Cape Ann in an action lasting only fifteen minutes Captain Lawrence the American commander commander comman cornman der dies with the words Dont give up the ship During the year jear ear American privateers burn more than British vessels The first stereotyping which paved the way for the modern newspapers is done The following famous men were born during the year ear Henry Ward Vard Beecher James Dwi Dwight ht Dana Stephen A A. A Douglas General John C. C Fremont Admiral David Dixon Porter Allen 11 G. G Thurman Lyman Trumbull and supposedly Tecumseh the famous chief of the Shaw- Shaw nees pees First issue of the Albany Argus and the Boston Daily Advertiser the latter being the first firsti i successful t daily caily aily newspaper in Its city A steam ferry first connects Brooklyn and New York In emulation of the one e established t the he year previous bet between Philadelphia and Camden c C. C THE THIRTEEN YEARS IN EARLY HISTORY The The The feast of is instituted in Greece In it sacrifices were offered to sobriety using r mead instead of wine Macedonia Macedonia 13 is conquered by the Persians 1413 fhe The Athenians storm Syracuse but are arc repulsed even when reinforced by Demosthenes The s latter with Nicias f is executed when the Greek retreat is cut off i Archelaus the natural son eon of II murders the heirs and seizes the throne of Mace Mace- donia The US-The The Romans are at t war with invaders from the northern tribes including Gaul Gault and nd k f The consular army is annihilated near 13 Claudius 13 Nero begins to extend the Roman rule in German Germany D. D Constantine Constantine and Licinius top stop the persecution of Christians and their faith is favored as an a a state religion unsuccessfully invades Rome from Carthage The settle on the Saone Bardanca who reigns at Constantinople is assassinated so 80 that may be bet t enthroned The The feast of Epiphany is established to celebrate the appearance of the e star of Bethlehem 1013 The The Danes Dance under tinder Sweyn become masters of England Ethelred flees to Normandy and on ou the death of Sweyn returns to England and is is received b by part of the people leople as their kin king First First writ is issued summoning representatives of counties to form the English parliament that is the ancestor of the American congress and many of or the others of tho the worlds world's governing governing governing gov gov- bodies At the same time Kin King g John yields to the pope and becomes his Ids vas vassal aJ John lohn also cedes Ireland to the pope R c 0 r 4 t i-t lot n V 9 V 11 I 4 4 i I Iy 0 1 t o y Ir Irr r p. p 1 rl It A r 1 al f a l c- c rl j ti t T 1 r r j y r.-y 1 Ii HERE ERE are arc str strange rr g e mysteries in numbers stranger mysteries m tn years jears T The lire Theao two o together have made mall many y marvelous dates dales ill in in history as P though T Time were ere shaking dice f from r o m a pcr perennial box and mankind's fate ale war answerable to so some wondrous unknown m law o of f chance cc The Tire umber number 9 Q among mathematicians I is held nId to be startling in ill its recur recur- Alices The indivisible isible 57 37 presents unaccountable phases in hz 11 multiplications 1 The number 7 j 7 has ha the hoar 1101 hoary superstitions o of the lite ages clinging to Its lister history it 1 And zd nd the umber number 1 13 13 Who docs does not ot know larow and give secret consideration to that rrt mystic fateful figure most of f us abhorring its menacing spell others d distinguishing dis dis- s- s n it from its harmless neighbors rs by defying Its malignity From the o of the new century Time is casting at once more snore for the only time in ill the twentieth century th the number t 1 j. 3 Yet who shall sa say but that the year jear 1913 stay may be instead d o of an au ill omen one otle of the most fortunate in the Century's s a whole role round There i is an au answer in ill ur the near neat future a week a month and ald the s significance of this Illis fateful year fo for or all who are alive aliver r may become a apparent Yet again the entire attire twelvemonth may maj go before rite Ilia great the epochal happening 1 ertin Is disclosed r ti i Until it tt COniC comes s the world orld can call only t guess But Hitt there Is allot her alls tl c cr- cr cra r- r ar a hundred of them to to be bc found not in n the future but bait in irl 11 the lire past The Tile eais verl's that have numbered J 75 t 3 throughout the ilia centuries have been be t fraught 1 tt tt with t i th errs crises es and if till rill of them be weighed In ill the thc balance their bull bulks of good has far outweighed the harm r they the bore to man mall r HIS country as a n nation has hns but a single THIS one of the thc fateful years 13 to hark back 11 jJ to the new year of 1913 for us carries cairies but few precedents We Ve must soil sail our sen sea seno r o of luck w with ith only I y the tho barest hints in Times Time's throws dice t c to guide or warn v u 3 The Tho best augury au nu S gury Bury we own is tho the national byword that the theman t man who bets against ng the United States is bound 1 to lose But we need not forc forego o the promise o of luck that belongs to us from the tho year ear 1818 when v not a day clay passed that was wag not crowded with I thrilling haps laps of our oui history in its making 1 It t was waR tho the grea great t f silting i year of tho the var nr 01 of ol 1812 Five o oI r I nl Mi nl duels had hat been 4 ar- ar 5 ought Bought durin during in in which the An American rican frigates had either cither 11 G N t N Nr r oK J M sr Ar p r U N r S Sr Sk k r Sl A 0 r rJ l O J. J V rl g-c g r 1 11 ti 1 C t I O. o O T n f a 1 I ill r R V Vs V's c l J r f 3 0 s 's L r 1 r J u 0 I cX r J I P e Y tt 1 li pF 1 y a k Y f. f i r M I 4 r 4 j J n. n 1 captured or sunk their British adversaries and I more than British vessels had been taken by American privateers Early Eaily in 1813 Captain Lawrences Lawrence's sloop-of- sloop war var th tho Hornet attacked the British man man o o war Peacock and defeated her within fifteen minutes minutes min min- utes the enemy sinking at nt the close dose of tho the en- en But tho the British Admiral Cockburn laid waste Chesapeake bay a n little later lator and on Juno uno 1 eastward of Cape Capo Ann Captain Lawrence Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- rence died on tho the frigate Chesapeake calling to his men the words that became historic Dont give gir-e up the ship a as the tho British frigate Shannon poured in on the doomed vessel a storm of shot and shell that lasted no longer than the Hornets Hornet's on the tIle Peacock and wrought to the American cause an injury more disheartening than tho the Hornets Hornet's victory had been inspiring The difference was only in iii in the tho memorable words v of tho the dying American commander which for or a hundred years have been a n priceless heritage heritage heri hen tage of the navy and have in the end wrought far more of good than was needed to recompense the nation for the losses of the tho whole harsh year So much for tho the fortunes of war in 1813 1813 little enough to cheer over save in tho the spirit in which they were faced But in that year one little noted achievement of peace came about which during the century that has elapsed has hM had tho the most profoundly beneficial effect upon the American people It was was then that the first stereotyping ping was done in New York York York-an an advance 1 in In the most influential of the tho mechanical arts uta to which this nations nation's present supremacy in he the vol vol- r of its periodical literature and the instantly universal duplication of its news are most largely to be he attributed Go back another century to the early years of the colonies when they and Canada were pawns in n the chronic war game waged between England and France It was waa in 1713 that tho the treaty of Utrecht was nae Signed In which the tho two hn important signatory powers felt themselves vital vitally concerned con- con A- A corned over the spoils and not very much mUM co con con- J corned over OTer the mere details of f the settlement Y That was when England won Tron possession of Hudson Hudon bay and Hudson ita of Nova Scotia r rand and Newfoundland and of St. St Christopher in tho west Indies Indic with sovereignty over the five nations of oi Indians who were wore now definitely robbed of their independence as well as of their lands bude To look back it seems as though either cither En England Eng land or France Prance might have worried along without ruin or bankruptcy and let the loot go negligently negligently negligently gently one way or the other France at least seems to have a little more of honest peace pence and prosperity for her people than belong nowadays to her flushed engorged rival But there there- was in in that Utrecht treaty one ona feature ture which was destined to wreak an infinity of harm to the hapless pawns in the game they pla played e to the finish of territorial rapine By tho the twelfth article of the 1 agreement an English company company com corn pany pony gained the exclusive right to earI carry African slaves cs into American ports barely barely a n year after N New cw York convicted and executed nineteen negroes negroes negroes ne ne- groes for tho the plot to burn tho the town and on the tho very eve e of the tho action by the tho province of Pennsylvania Penn Penn- PennSylvania sylvania jInia jI nia prohibiting the tIle introduction on of negroes rind and slaves as exciting the suspicions suspicious and dissatisfaction dissatisfaction dissatisfaction dis dis- satisfaction of the Indians It was thet that article 12 of tho treaty of Utrecht which in contemptuous disregard of the anxious endeavors being being- made by bJ the colonial legislatures legislatures' to ri rid their communities of the curse curso of human slavery ery sad saddled led on this country tho the terrible lcm leai of its existence The greed for blood money put on OH the tho American people the horrors of the civil war war var and left the problem of the negro in the tho midst of the white civilization cir to b be solved by some generation as yet unborn The 5 year car of tho the number 18 13 that preceded the only one ono wo we have ha known as a n nation was oven even more ruthless to Americans than that that- which saw the gallant Chesapeake strike her colors to the foe Shall we be grateful for Now York Ne 7 York needn't answer That is a question for tho the rest of the country the decision may whether 1013 1613 treated Amer America well or badly That Dutch established their w was S the dato late when the modest trading post on Manhattan island and arid CONTINUED CO D OX os I INSIDE SIDE PAGE AGE 1 l ft f K l 1 v t r tP s I I jI G s 4 r P n M i G t Q Qt 1 ti C L LG G r i ors J J WHAT WHA T. T HAS YEAR w STORE CO CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE SECTION opened up shop or tho business which has grown to tho the overpowering proportions proportions pro pro- proportions portions it displays s toda today But the they didn't t do o It without Interruption The En English lIsh turned UJ up a about bou t as promptly as they usually did when thero was anything in sight that appeared worth having burned burne tho the Dutchmen's Dutchman's trading cabins down to the tho mud and made tho the traders acknowledge humbly the sovereignty sov sov- er of ot his hll majesty Kin King James I I. I It was a n year of somo some excitement In n tho the new land among both the old and new settlers for the Dutch straightway built themselves a fort rort at the lower Jower end of or their chosen Island although they had to wait a year ear to got get the Job finished while whilo down in iii Virginia the tho indefatigable British moved by Intense gratitude g for the mercy shown hown their champion Capt John Smith Pocahontas and u held hor her for tor h ransom his mis manner mannor or 01 snowing gratitude was regarded as ono one of ot the bc best beat t Jokes of ot the season of ot 1613 although it was little appreciated by Pocahontas Pocahontas' rela rela- tives So a good deal doal of trouble for tor forthe the tho grateful colonists ensued being raised b by unappreciative Indians wieldIng wielding wield wield- ing small but well managed toma toma- ha hawks haw ks An interesting Interesting- sequel to the stealing g of Pocahontas and nd her marriage to John I Rolfe so Rolfo-so so celebrated in song and stol story was was that King Kind James Jamea in whose august aug- aug name these deeds of ot heroism Q and nd gratitude were ere performed was profoundly profoundly profoundly pro- pro shocked at tho the lose lese committed by his his' faithful colonists colonials in marrying an ordinary human man to an nn InrI Indian an princess In whose veins flowed the blood o of tho the royal abor aborigines It may have been heen just luck and It t may have been fancy tancy English lIsh management manage manage- ment but the Indian wars that Wenton went wenton |