Show Way T Americas America's Greatest I Nature Writer Copyright 1923 North American Newspaper Alliance The whole country claims John Burroughs Burroughs Bur Bur- roughs as its own own but he was vas really born In New York and lived there among the Catskills on a a. farm until he was old enough to teach school Then he became a a. clerk In the United States treasury and might have re remaIned remained re- re there until his dying day aY hadnot had hadnot hadnot not Grover Cleveland discovered him Alter After he was made national bank examiner examiner ex ex- ex- ex and in this position began to travel from place to place and to meet all sort of or people and to view all kinds of ot scenery from the windows of or trains During these travels his hIs hIs' love for I nature grew so BO strong that the great poetic Imagination which he had Inherited in In- In from his Irish grandmother mad him rebel against the cold practical practical practical life lire he had chosen for br himself and casting financial records and en entrIes entries entries en- en tries to the winds he betook him to God s B great treat outdoors and became America AmerIcas AmerIca's Amer Amer- ica leas lea's s greatest nature writer Winters and summers he lie spent Inthe in inthe inthe the wilds and he could tell teU one as glibly as one could repeat the tales of the Arabian Nights why a fox tox tries to outwit hounds how bumble bees spend the winter what male birds help In building nests what sounds the squirrels make when a calf calr will play possum and all aU sorts of things dear to a nature-lover's nature heart Other Industries may have suffered suf sut- fared but the war gave great Impetus Im mi- petus to cabinet making Associated Editors r. r I Colossal Columned Tomb of Tinian Although the existence of the colossal cobs colos sal columned tombs of ot Tinian an Island of or the Marianne group grou north nor of ot Guam In the Pacific ocean has haa been known ever since 1746 when Lord George Anson An- An Anson son lion an English naval officer described them no effort was ever made maae accurately accurately accurately to measure excavate and photo- photo photograph graph raph them until a few tew months ago The pillars tS are monoliths of hard Island inland rock 15 f feet tet et high I 5 feet teet 4 inches square at the base and weighing oVer thirty tons being being- surmounted by a hemispherical hemispherical hemis hemle- top piece weighing weighIng- more than seven tons The pillars are arranged In two parallel rows fIve fhe In a a. row and study of these sites Indicates that they the were monumental religious tures Something of the significance of ot the size of the blocks may be gained by bv realizing that the Tinian stones are heavier by five tons than the largest of ot any of tho the single blocks used In the tIle Egyptian pyramids Mr Wilson Is now able to walk and some of ot his political adversarIes adversaries adversaries adver adver- saries are beginning to fear that by 1324 1924 hell he'll be able to run Roanoke Roanoke Times D Description of Famous Peacock Throne The The Peacock throne was a a. famous throne formerly standing in the diwan- diwan khas i-khas or audience hall hail of ot the citadel at Delhi India in the da day of or Shah- Shah Jehan 1627 1668 mid 1707 1658 Mogul emperors It measured meas meas- d six feet in length by four tour feet in width and was vas supported by hy si sK sIx feet df of solid gold encrusted with gems Ems Th The throne Itself also of ot gold was Inlaid with diamonds emeralds ana rubles rubes and surmounted by hy a canopy of the tho same saine metal It received its name from the figures figurE's of ot two peacocks with out outspread outspread spread pread wings blazing with precious stones placed behind it Between these was a figure of or a parrot life lite size said to have hav been cut from a single emerald emer emer- ald aid ald The cost of the Peacock Throne rone Is variously arl ush estimated at from to Each Amer American farmer save a a. farmers farmer's bureau will earn this year But will he get it New U-New New York Tribune Explorers Honored By Congress Captains Captains Lewis and Clark leaders tenders of ot the first expedition across the American Ameri Amert can continent went to Washington early In ln the year 1807 following their arrival in St St. Louis on their return from the Northwest Congress was then in session and andl agreeably to promises prom prom- iRes t th that t had been been Deen held beld out to the tho ex explorers ex- ex Secretary of War Dearborn for whom Fort Tort Dearborn Chicago was wag named secured from congress the passage passage pas pas- sage of ot an act granting granting- to each member mem mem- ber of the expedition a considerable tract of ot land from front the public domain To Tp each private and noncommissioned officer was vas given acres to Captain Clark 1000 acres and to Captain Lewis I 1500 acres In addition to this th the two officers were given double pay for tor theIr servIces during the time of their theil aJi euce tn ll Le Lewis LeIs Is r retired from the army Ma 2 2 1807 having ha been nominated nominate t i 7 I to be bo governor of ot Louisiana territory a a. few tew days before He was thus made tie the 18 governor of oZ all territory of ot the United States West of the Mississippi I river About the same time Captain i Clark was appointed a general of ot the territorial militia and Indian agent for tor that department In 1812 the upper part or Louisiana was named The Territory Ter- Ter of or Missouri l and Clark was appoInted appointed ap ap- appointed ap- ap pointed governor of that territory July 1 I 1813 Ve We may need a a. larger navy and anda a bigger army but we ive can cant can't t support support support sup sup- port them on tax-exempt tax securitieS securities tle ties and stock dividends Colum Colum Columbus I bus Dispatch I Failed to Reach Great Northwest Jonathan Carver Carvor one of ot a British of officer tIcer set out from Boston in 1766 to explore the wilderness north of ot Albany and lying along along- the southern shore of ot tho the Great Lakes He conceived conceived con con- the bold plan of ot then traveling con I up a branch of the MIssouri or Mes Ies- Ies sor sonic sorie e till having discovered disco the traditional tra tra- 1 I West lo on Oregon the g western t or n st side River l of thO bhe v he of la lands the that divide di the continent he would have sailed down the river to the place where It is said to empty itself near the Straits of ot Anian B B By the Straits of ot Anian it is supposed supposed sup sup- posed were meant some part of ot Behring's Straits separating Asia Asli from the American continent Carvers Carver's fertile fertile fer fer- fer- fer tile imagination stimulated by what he knew of ot the remote Northwest pictured pic pie that wild region where accordIng according accord accord- ing to a modern poet rolls the Oregon Oregon Ore Ore- gon and hears no sound save his own dashing But Carver died without the tho I thos those who should follow tollow his lead While their spirits are elated by their success perhaps they may bestow some commendations and blessings on the person who first pointed out to them the way Yes the goo good die young especial ly Iy the good resolutions Columbia Columbia Record I I Grav Tells Telis o of Hero of Revolution On a gravestone in Ne New London Conn appears the following f tion On October 6 1781 British troops fell on the town tox with fire and sword A line of ot powder was laid by them from the magazine of ot th the fort to the sea sen there to be lighted thus lighted thus to blow the fort into the tho air William Hotman who ho lay Wounded i not far distant dis dis- dia- dia tant beheld It and said to one of his companions Let us endeavor t to crawl to this line we will wet the powder I wIth our blo blood 3 Thus with the little S life that remains in us W we shall save the fort and magazine and perhaps a n. few of our comrades who are only I wounded He alone had strength to accomplish this noble design He died L 2 on the PJ powder he had Dampened with L i his blood HI Hit HIS friends and seven o ot ol his wounded companions by that means had their lives preserved After Atter this simple narrative are these thes I words In l large rge characters HERE WILLIAM WILLIAl HOTMAN I Mozart Sleeps in Unknown Grave 1 Mozart's body was buried burled in a common common com mon SUE mon grave In the plaInest manner mannel possIble with nobody present except the keepers ot of the cemetery Weeks Week after atter when the wife visited 3 the spot she found a a. new gra grave digger e who could not tell where her beloved ved hus husband hus- hus band was burled buried and to this day the th i author of ot fourteen Italian enteen operas seventeen seventeen sev- sev s symphonies and dozens of cantatas cantatas can can- in all sleeps In an unknown grave I Salzburg Austria waited tury before belore she z C halt half century century cen- cen erected a bronze statue her to world renowned square of St. St Michael and genius In the after hIs death seventy years Vienna built him a monument in the cemetery ot of St. St Mark MarIo scarcely furnishes life lite a more pathetic He filled the music yet died in want world with says ys a biographer He died and sorrow sorrowS 4 1 1791 December Dickens Describes Gordon Riots A graphic pl picture ture of ot the London during what knoS In was as known Gordon Riots in 1780 is as the B given Dicken in his Of by story ot of nudge Rudge An act passed paSSed for tor Barnaby Roman Catholics from relieving certain ties about the riots Associations Asso- Asso to secure the repeal of ot t the formed in act were Scotland metropolis A London L leader leade and ami w was In the in Lord George Gordon who found undertook to present a petition to the house commons common a. a or of The mob however soon hand nn andy 1 prison In the riots which got n ensued out ot of 1 burned Newgate besides other was orisons attacked ed ar and of and man many houses foreIgn I I judges 3 political and arid verson personages t the e an s. s who had bind ln In- in I pathy p of mob Ob L r 1 i. r P t j |