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He followed Montgomery and Arnold to Quebec And he starved and froze amid the snows of Canada that dreadful winter. He was one of the tattered remnants of that tragic expedition which finally staggered back homeward from Its heroic but futile adventure. Then, wearing the Continental Buff and Blue, he fffught under Washington at Trenton and at Princeton, and In the summer of 1777" he was one of . the picked men-who went with Dan'l Morgan, "the Old Wagoner," to help repel Bur- goyne's invasion of New York. At Saratoga the bayonet thrust of a Hessian grenadier struck mm down. s. What If the historians of Ihe future were to call this conflict," whose din was now sounding faintly In his ears, one of "the fifteen decisive battles of the world"? What comfort was It to jum to Know it ne coma nave known that he had been one of the pawns in the" ilfe-anoV- dealh game of nation-making? For he was cofr clous only of the torture of thirst as his life- blood ebbed swiftly away until death - came at last to stUl. hls pleading cry of "Water ! Water I" and to ease his pain-racked body. A great monument now stands on this spot which once witnessed Jhe"pomp and circum stance of war" the surrender of a British army. But, nearby, the smooth, green sod gives ho sigh that the soil beneath holds the dust of a youne Pennsylvania backwoodsman . who had died In defense of American liberty. Who was he? Just an Unknown Revolution 1 Soldier of the American in T" EFORK the Ink was scarcely dry on the D enlistment papers which made him t private In the First Infantry of the Unit ed States regular army, another boy, who had never before been beyond the confines of the rock-strewn acres of his New England birth place, was on his way to the western frontier, .there to serve In a lonely outpost called Fort Dearborn. Here, U was as though he were on another planet, so far as communication with the world be had known was concerned. But somehow ' he managed to survive through the cold, desolate winters and the hot, fever-breeding summers amid the swamps along the Chicago river, The summer of 1312 came and with It th news that we must fight Old England again. More alarming still, there was the threat "of an Indian outbreak; for the oratory of Tecumseh, the great Shawnee, had been heard among the wild tribesmen throughout the Mississippi valley. val-ley. Then a courier, speeding along the wilder ness trail from Detroit, brought orders to evacuate Fort Dearborn. One hot August day the retreat began. South ward along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan, Capt Nathan Heald led his .little army, all too few Injumbera for Its precarious task of safe convoy for the wagons where rode the women and children of the garrison. From out of the sandhills swooned the firece Pottawatomles. A shorty desperate fight and the Fort Dearborn massacre was history, That night there was a hellish orgy In the Indian camp and the pitying stars looked down upon a writhing figure at the stake. What If this was one of the acts In the mighty drama called "the Winning of the West"? What If the " future was to see one of the world's greatest cities rise oh these randy shores? Could that knowledge have been recompense for the fiery' agony of this New England lad above whose unmarked grave the hurrying feet cf Chicago's millions beat an endless requiem tod fry T Who was he? An Unknown Soldier of the War ef 1S12I THOUGII some of his neighbors denounced It as "an unholy war" Into which President Presi-dent James K. Polk was leading the nation, na-tion, a boy on a middle western farm was one of the first to respond when, on May 13, "1S45, the President called for W.00O volunteers to drive the Mexican forces back across the. Rio Grande. So he was among those who landed with "Old Fuss and 'Feathers" Scott at Vera Cms and started, toward the City of Mexico. To his parents back In Ohio came cheerful letters from the boy, telling of the rapid succession of victories won by the American army, assuring assur-ing them that the war wai almost over and that he would soon be home. fcs:W..1K wstpSii -v I - - f -i ' Mi 3 Monument to the Uhkncjwt-V Uhkncjwt-V Civil. V7AR. Pead . ne wrote such a letter the night before Scott's men stormed Chapultepec. After that his mother watched eagerly , for the return of his father from the daily trip to the village store where he went' to get the mail. But every time the father shook his head sadly. Today in the environs of the City of Mexico there Is a little cemetery in which Stands a small granke shaft bearing these words: "To the memory of the American soldiers who per ished In this valley in 1847, whose bones, col lected by the country's orders, are here buried 750." " -"-" And so this Unknown Soldier of (he Mexican war sleeps among, .the seven huiidred and fifty, far from his native land where flows "the Beau- tlful Ohio," ' - fca a to TY)UT SUMTER, had been fired upon. In the YA North a- mighty chorus was swelling from thousands of young American throats: "We Are Coming, Father Abraham-" In the South the rollicking strains of "Dixie" were firing thousands of other young Americans to an almost al-most religious ecstasy. In the Upper Shenandoah valley of Virginia, a father was bidding goodby to his two sons. "Pray Cod, you two never meet In battle I" he said. For one rode north to wear the Federal Blue under General Patterson. And the other rode south to become a member of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson's "Stonewall Brigade." Whether or not nia prayer was answered, the father never knew. He never saw them again. Perhaps In some Valhalla two warrior spirits reminisce of .Chancellorsvllle and Antletam, of Manassas and of Malvern HilL But there Is no bitterness now In their tones as they call each other "Tank" and "Johnny, Reb." ;JJC-fflBlfag duat which once housed thesr spirits rests under a great monument of rough- hewn granite and polished marble In Arlington Arling-ton cemetery near Washington. On this monument monu-ment is an inscription which reads; , "Beneath this stone repose the bones of 2,111 unknown soldiers gathered after the war from the fields of Bull Run and the route to the Rap pahannock. Their remains could not be Identi Bed but their names and deaths are recorded in the- archives of thejr country and its grateful citizens honor them as of their noble army of martyrs. May they rest In peace." ia T WAS the spring of 1S08. A Colorado miner, coming off the night shift. Joined a group of his fellow gathered, about one who held in his hands a Denver newspaper. One look at the screaming headlines told the story: "War With Spain." I A month later he was on an army transport that steamed through the Golden Gate into the broad raclflc. The next year he was one of a detachment which set out from a little Philippine Philip-pine village In pursuit of a party of Moro raiders. "There was a deathlike" hush as they pushed on through the steaming heaTof the jungle. A moment later Its stillness was shattered by the sounds of men engaged In furious hand-to-hand combat bayonet against bolo a swarm of little brown fnen clawing at a group of swearing, desperately-struggling khaki-clad figures and at last ..bearing, them down to earth by sheer force of numbers. - A few months later, back In the Colorado mining camp which clung precariously to the rocky slope of the mountain, a band was playing play-ing incessantly "There'll Be a Hot Time In the Old Town Tonight." For the troop of "our boys" was home from the wars. " But out in the province of Sulu a rusted Krag Jorgensen rifle and a webbed cartridge belt, already al-ready nearly hidden by the lush jungle vegetation, vegeta-tion, marked the last resting place of one who didn't come home an Unknown Soldier of '98-!9. '98-!9. - . W a fit OVE51BER 11. 1D22. In Arlington tery a great throng stood with bared heads as a bugler blew "Taps" over a new white marble tomb in which had been placed the body of a -dead warrior, Who was he? No one can say. For his is the eternal mystery. mys-tery. - - r . N' ranxRV- YEARLING HEN NOT ALWAYS POOR "BET" Many Can Qualify as Profitable Profit-able Layers. One way farmers and poultry-mnn poultry-mnn nnn save this vear Is to keep MUCH OF INTEREST IN MEXICAN FINDS Among Them Reconstruction of America's Past. that ilsed, The lettering on his tomb betrays no word of his identity. It says, simply: "Here rests In honored glory an American soldier nown but :o God." He Is "The Unknown Soldier of the World war. He is the man "whom we have exalted out of humanity Into.. sainthood." ' Since that day ten years ago when thev en shrined his dust In marble at Arlington and his spirit In the heart of America, men and women of every station in life have bowed their heads reverently in the presence, of his last resting place. To it have come the great of other countrle-the queen of a European royal house, princes,' field marshals, lord admirals, states men, r. one has been too great to pay him hom age. Orators and poets have tried in alPtoo-inade- quate words to pay fitting tribute to his memory. mem-ory. But the only real tribute to him la the no- voiced one in the hearts of his feUow-Amer-Icana. To them he has given Memorial day a new meaning. For on that day their thoughts turn to his tomb a.3 the Bhrine upon whteh 1 offered America's tribute to her soldier dead, and more especially to the Unknown Soldiers of all her wars. ' We cannot decorate their graves in accord ance with the Memorial day custom, for they are scattered far and wide over 'the face of the globe. Some of them fell before Indian bullet bul-let and lance on the wind-swept plains of the Great West. Some of them died in China. In Cuba, Inthe rhilipfSneslnMexico. Some of mem went wesr on the battlefields of Fran and Belgium. - 1 So In alien soli they keep their lonelv ib!'von- i ac of the dead," and while we cannot pay them ! mc-ame uonors on Memorial day that we do to the others who gave their lives for their coon-try, coon-try, we can offer up to them our tribnt. f gratitude by remembering on that day what they did even though we do not know who they were. (9Mtt9!!niHICiln.) nmcr nt Inst VPlir'S OUlletS SO f ,.,,i,.ko niii hnve to be ra i V 1 1 V. I V 111 ' 'J .J it... - says H. H. AliV.poultry exieusiu . cnoMniior nt the rnlTece of agri culture. University of Illinois. "In some Instances it is good tn boon most of last year's pullets. For one thing, Jhey have pone inrougn uieir uiuoi depreciation. Last ium lets sold for $1 to $1;25 apiece, ... i .. i, i ... pul but these same birds probably would iv KA n 7?1 nnt coll fnr more than 50 to cents this spring.. This heavy ... A I V 75 de- ItJULfl wo cfcw.0.. nreciation. is all because they have . .. ' . .1 ti tha the do" nahoA Vha lion rliiss. and in icavni.u -" - ,tr,Ao f tha hiii-fritr niibllc they milium v in, wu.. ---a i not represent the potential value of a pullet "However, many of these yearling hens, if well bred, are far from being be-ing through as profitable layers. It is true that they may not make 'as high aa' annual production record, rec-ord, but they can be quite as profitable profit-able as many pullets. One big advantage ad-vantage of the production from yearling birds Is that tirere should be no discount for smau eggs. HWftK f tna nrnoonf - UnftwledfTft tiiiu nit i" -- - 1 pnipnt meth ICCUillQ "V vm. wUC3 ods, it Is not hard to have yearling birds laying . well" early in the fall and winter." of Chicks' Growth Helped by "All-Mash" System Where dried buttermilk or skinl- mllk Is mixed in with the maslit enables the chickens "to -get their source of milk much more evenly than in any other way. This also Is a wonderful source of vitamins for young chicks and helps to give the succulence which would not be obtained If only scratch grains were fed. To sum up the advantages of an all-mash system : '.It ' keeps the chicks busier throughout the day; It supplies the chicks with many sources-of protein; It enables a better distribution to the chicks of milk and the vitamins it contains and, furthermore, it Insures a better bet-ter distribution to the chicks of the minerals which are so essential for uniform growth. Exchange. Early Birds Best From a net profit standpoint it would seem best to hatch chicks this year early rather than late In the season, -states Paul G. Riley, commercial . poultryman. In most years the price for broilers -Is better bet-ter from the early hat cited birds than the later hatched chicks. A difference of two or three cents in the' original cost of the chick may be made up many times in the better bet-ter price to be had from the finished fin-ished birds. The pullets from early hatched chicks are the ones that produce egS when eggs are high In price , Poultry profits for the good poultryman ate always good in the last four months of the year because they have layers at "work helping cash in on the good egg prices. Prairie Farmer. Diarrhea This aliment Is common to chicks that have been chilled, overheated, crowded or fed spoiled. Sour or moldy feed. The external indications indi-cations are a white or liquid discharge dis-charge which adheres In a sticky or pasty mass to the vent and abdomen ab-domen "of the chick. Thlsdiarrhea' ls not a contagious or infectious disease dis-ease and is checked by removing the cause and giving the chicks a dose, of epsoni salts. Two large tea-spoonful tea-spoonful of epsom salts put in one quart of drinking water, will physic the chicks arid aid in cleaning the intestines so the good feed supplemented supple-mented with clean milk can put the chicks in good condition, Okhv homa Farmer-Stockman. Benefits of All-Mash Ah all-mash poultry ration that has given good" success at Iowa state college is composed of fJ50 pounds of ground yellow corn, 350 pounds of ground heavy oats, 100 pounds of ground wheat, 80 pounds of meat scrap or 60 per cent protein tankage, 20 pounds of dried milk and four pounds of fine salt- In addition to this ration thg flock should have a good supply of calcium cal-cium grit and gravel. The all-mash ration saves labor and special care in balancing. Prattle Farmer. The discovery of an extraordinarily extraordi-narily rich Mixtecan tomb at Oaxaca should be an exciting event for Americans. Amer-icans. In recent years a considerable consider-able amount of research has been done in Mexico and has resulted in extensive 'additions to our knowledge of the various preconquest civilizations. civiliza-tions. These researches have Impressed Im-pressed both Mexicans and Ameri cans with the dignity of the purely American tradition. Mayan, Toltec and Aztec art has come to possess a 'greater appeal than that of "the primitive" and with the new and lively live-ly appreciation of modern Mexico (whose modernity, indeed, has its ropts fixed so deeply in the rich and ancient soil) has awakened a more than merely archeologlcal interest In all "finds" south of the. Rio Grande, The more that Is unearthed about these early peoples the more imposing impos-ing does their history appear. For they seem to have been greatly gifted gift-ed not only in such arts and crafts as metal working, stone carving, pottery; pot-tery; textiles, etc., but in architecture architec-ture and even in rather savage forms of. political organization and social life. Even the religion of the Aztecs, Az-tecs, while spoken of by some writers writ-ers as revolting, has seemed to others oth-ers to be sinsularly Impressive. The Mixtecan Indians are ranked as a member of the Zapoteo group and the Mixtecan ruins at Monte Alban have attracted the attention , of students stu-dents for some time. This latest discovery, dis-covery, the result of labors made possible by private contributions, and especially by funds given by the late Dwight Morrow, when fully, studied may take place among the most Important In late times. "The objects found in the tomb arepf a late date the Fifteenth century, just before the Spanish conquest, but in that respect they perhaps , reprc--j?ent the summation of a number of cultural strains and exhibit the successive suc-cessive contributions of the various masters of ancient Mexico. While their" primary appeal will be to specialists they-will unquestionably unquestion-ably have some meaning for laymen. As time passes the reconstruction of the American past and the reclaiming reclaim-ing of the American heritage become more any more a significant work. The secrets of both of these things are to be found, If anywhere, In the relics of the Indians of Mexico and Central America The mpre that comes to light about them and Is prfr sented for scholarly scrutiny and synthesis the greater the opportunity of eventually piecing together the full meaning of one of the most important im-portant aspects of our heritage. Baltimore Sun. Respomibilities -;v-- "A man in your position," said the lady with a notebook, "Has to be both a politician and a statesman." "Frequently," assented Senator Sorghum. "And there are times when he. must forget that he Is either, and proceed to be a plain patriot." . If love is blind how can there be love at first sipiit. " The mh called so byttV " re than Btone, the "Gem i be tha oM... 1 1 bestow health, happiness.. ' The practice JM speakers with nent oueati.T speech, and the flat.; of record. The first used in ..?.X lleved. in .T?; Punch, in mTT hatch of 400 dozea cjl the batter-mlxerputd take for sugar. Thar, ti around to lielt the W muul8 apuons.-Cteeimj "in"' RomPi,, The Applan way hexagonal blocks of k. fitted to one another, J tsuusixucture of consider There may still be i remains which prove h. worKmansnip. Not an Actual I ; Wild rice is not t tm grains are longer asj J ea man tnose of trw & husk is somewhat flaits Wild rice is usually vegetaDie, especially fewest Holt it 1 HOTE TEMPI SQUAF,' 2C0 Rooms 200K Radio connection is iw! i RATES FROM M Jutt oppoiitt Hem wJ ERNEST C ROSSITE Breakers AW Office Boy What's l boss? Stenographer He Just i hla enn will he allowed S from college this year, Being a good shot, Os good speller. It's a gin Whek you lose your appetite not only for food . . . but f oi work and play don't merely go on worrying. Do something about it! One of the most famous tonics for weakness, weak-ness, "nerves," and "run down condition," is Fellows' Syrup. It stimulates appetite. Lifts the eutire bodily tone to higher levels of vigor and energy.. The first few doses will prove that "Fellows" is the medicine for "building up.' That is why o many doctors prescribed. Ask your druggist for genuine FELLOWS' SYRH Just the Thing , "How shall we bind these lame duck reports?" "In limp leather." If you are going to feed the children chil-dren on chocolate candy, give each one of them a wet sponge. Modem Cool mowV'tlie rie W'J "She's a rair uic" electrician." ' r, tha KeW ' so by reading of the Old West. Cutticnra Preparation .. . . ULiUUIUUlU I an A M household for the of aU the family; JJ to protect the sJonn deanse it, the tifi toreliereandhealfr) rashes, irriuuoni uu urn Pmmieto- PotterlW" I UlfllMrjll "Sc2 IB Cleanliness Comes First In general, the best Insurance against diseases of chickens we know of Is absolute cleanliness, not only in the brooder house, but In all equipment and" every place with which the growing chicken comes In contact. Clean the DfooBer house every four or five days so that infection in-fection will not be spread through droppings. Sterilize drinking fountains foun-tains frequently. Rotate ranges) every three years at least and see that some cultivated crop Is sown,1 is the advIceof the American Agri- i eulturlst I 3- . .1 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISE Have ydu anything arountl the house you won -j trade or sell? Try a classified zd. The cost is c; few cents and there are probably.a lot of loVss for just whatever it is you np longer have & CLASSIFED ADS GET RESULT f at w kPTE -10 restir x a ! teak ;aj r if wo olone ! Th' a sn i a able, nt so appei an4 oofl lown istlit red Id fo fiion cur eei pen wan Brow! God torec Est o irney lonld an nee( Jeellt to mea revi lane igr- bi.. Iniflc fcyo mi alo te sa but rn said little com klnc ! a; lour A. 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