Show By Bythe the Wa Way I Why Jefferson Was Chosen for Declaration Copyright 1923 3 North American Newspaper Alliance John Adams In his biography of ot Thomas Jefferson gives tile the followIng following following follow follow- ing ing- reasons why was chosen to write tho Declaration of ot Independence Mr Jefferson had the reputation of ot a ft masterly pen He lie had been chosen a delegate to congress in Virginia in consequence consequence conse conse- quence of a a. very er handsome public publio taper paper which he he had written the house of ot burgesses which had bad given him the character of a no ro writer Another Alother reason was Yue that Mr Richard Rich Rich- ard aNi Lee was waB pot not beloved by most of ot his colleagues colleagues' Virginia C Cand and Mr Jefferson was sent up to rival and supplant him This could only be done by the tha pen for tor Mr Jefferson Jetterson could stand no competition competition tion With Lee or anyone else In elocution and public d debate bate Mr Jefferson had been about a year a member of c congress but had attended his duty In the house a aery avery ery very small part of ot tho time and when there had never spoken in public the whole time I sat with him It In 3 congre I never h heard ard him utter three sentences to- to gether Jefferson wrote the Declaration at al his lodgings In the hruse of ot a Mrs Clymer on the southwest corner corner cor cor- ner ncr of ot Seventh and High streets Philadelphia A hl has s to swallow a n. lot that isn't cake Wash Vash Wash Washington 1 ington IJo Post t. t Capital Pu By Drowning was long a a. method of ot capital punishment Tacitus says that tho the Germans h hanged their greater criminals but tJ th meaner and more Infamous offenders were plunged under hurdles In the lle bogs and fens tens Drowning was also a aRo Ro Roman ian punishment Th Tha Lex Cornelia Cor Cor- nelia rella decreed that should be sewn In a sack with a a. dog cock viper and ape and anI thrown irto tho the sea The Saxon codes code condemned ed d women tb eves to tobe tobe tobe be drowned N In Scotland In 1556 a man convicted convicted convicted con con- I. I of theft and sacrilege sacrilege- was sentenced to bo be drowned bv by the queens special grace grace As late as 1611 a man was drowned at Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh Edin Edin- burgh for stealing a lamb In 1623 eleven gypsy women were sentenced sen- sen senI I to b be drowned in the Edinburgh Edinburgh Edin Edin- burgh Nor Loch By that time I the punishment p of ot drowning had become become become be be- come obsolete In England It survived survived survived sur sur- In Scotland until 1685 V the year tar of the drowning of ot V Wig town 0 1 I martyrs and In France was as employed employed employed em em- as lat late as s 1793 I People Carried Muskets While at Their Work During tho the Revolution a band of marauding Torl Tories known as the Pub Pino Robbers Infested the large districts of pine woods In t the he- he lower part of Monmouth county New Jersey Thy They burrowed eaves caves in inthe inthe the sandhills for places of or shelter and retreat on the borders of swamps and covering th them m with moss and brush hrush effectually conceal concealed con con- ceal coaled d them From th these se dens th they y sallied forth at midnight to burn plunder and murder Nor were the people safe in the tho daytime daytime day day- time for the tho robbers would often issue from their hiding places and fall upon the farmer fanner In his field The people were obliged to carry muskets while work and their families wees kept in state a-state of continual terror The sufferIngs of ot the tho people from these marauders made mado such adeep a a. deep Impression lon that tho the lape lapse V of years could not efface It from the hearts harts of those thos who ho felt their scourge a and ami ll even the third gen gen- la of the families or of Tories w were objects of or hate to some of th the surviving St sufferers I If It we have hae this Cone Coue Idea right when rIght when things look bole dark clark one simply makes light of them Lincoln Star V Betty Zane a Her Heroine ine of Revolution n nOne nOne One of the heroines of ot the Revolutionary Revo- Revo war was Elizabeth Betty Zane She Immortalized herself during an attack by Indians en cn Fort Henry now Wheeling W. W I Va September 27 and and anel 28 28 1777 The powder In the fort had ad become exhausted but there was vas a a. keg of powder In a house sixty yards ards dIstant distant distant dis dIs- dis- dis tant from the fort The commander commander com com- corn com mander asked for a a volunteer t to go I after It The man who would at attempt attempt attempt at- at V tempt to go would be exposed to shots from the Indians Elizabeth Zano asked permission to go po on the hazardous errand giving as a rea- rea Colt fOn that her life was of less Value to the garrison than that of a no man So earnest were her solicitations t th that at consent convent was reluctantly given Betty Betty fearlessly and safely passed the open space the fort and the tho house but when she came out with the keg of pow powder In her hands and speeding with the fleetness of a fawn toward the tho fort the Indians sen sent t a volley olley of ot bullets after her But not one of them thorn touched her person and the noble girl entered the fort with her valuable prize A gr great at shout welcomed welcomed wel wel- corned her and every man inspired by her IH heroism resolved to repulse th the foe or die In trench The garrison was saved and ret not one of I the tho defenders was lost during the siege Betty Bet Zane was one of th the fa famous famous fa- fa irous family of borderers which gave the tho pame jiame to 0 O. and to o Zanea trail the wagon road that penetrated the Ohio country V A New Y York Tork woman an ha has le left her her fortune to found a f great V hospital but all country's coun- coun try's wealth 1 Is not gong t to the bow Kansas bow Kansas City Jour Jour- nal V Where Did the Mayas Maya Come Fro From Archaeologist Archaeologists have wr wrangled warmly I as to where the Mayas came from Some said the they must have reached Yucatan from the south some said from the north The resemblance of th their lr heiro- heiro glyphs and some of their heir architecture architecture archi archi- I and carving to those those- oT df AssyrIa Assyria Assyria As As- i syria and Egypt led to thet conjecture con con- jecture that the founders of or the nation wera Egyptians or lans ians But 1 If so how did they get getto getto getto to Central America On the other hand particular admirers of Maya art who d declare clare It superior to that of ot th Egyptians have ad advanced the bold theory that the civilization of or Yucatan was wag the parent of ot that of Egypt some Egypt some AmerIcan American Colum Columbus Colum Colum- bus having evidently sailed Railed over I ant and discovered Africa And then again the Atlantis fans who believe with Plato and others of ot the ancients that a great I continent was once overwhelmed gradually by what is now the tho Atlantic Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic ocean say that the Maya Mava and aid Toltec civilizations are ho no no mystery tt to them Inasmuch as they have esoteric Information to the effect that they were founded by cultured refugees from the te catastrophe catastrophe catastrophe catas catas- of ot Atlantis which th y Identify identify Iden Iden- with Noahs Noah's flood and anil other Inundations mentioned In the scrip scrip- tures of ot ancient religions |