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Show V j PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW i ELMO SCOTT WATSON , OT the least interesting of all tne celebrations held during wis, ine Washington bi-centennlal year, was the dedication .last month ' of a rtockaded fort in a mountain meadow mead-ow near Uniontown, Pa., as a national na-tional shrine to the Father of His Country. For this little fort,- con-astuw con-astuw only of a log cabin circled stockade, was Fort Necessity, where 1754. George Washington began the kreer which was to place, his name m of the great captains of all time k is the famous Voltaire expressed ed the "cannon shot in the woods or Men set all Europe ablaze." llr at Fort Necessity had Its origins ih between the British and the French ontrol of the Interior of the North continent To nl'ake good her claim to and Ohio valleys and to check ard expansion of English settlement le illeghenies, the French had erected Presque Isle, now Erie, Pa., had built :of oil French creek and had also British trading post of Venango. Got. Robert Dinwiddle of Virginia eofge Washington, then only twenty- old, for the difficult task of demand- Ithe French cease- their encroachments 'ash soil." When Washington returned Information that the French had no of giving up their forts, Dinwiddle m more drastic action. Late In ( party of men under Captain a fort at the Forks of the Ohio, Jttsbnrgh now stands, and to hold It njr attacks which the French might forth Carolina and the home govern- promised aid to the expedition, but troops had arrived by the last day 1 1754, Dinwiddle ordered Washington 'irgmiana to proceed to the Ohio, Captain Trent build forts and the possessions of" his majesty against vim ana host i t oa r,t tv. ir..,K h 1 . . v .J JL mg x 1 CUV-li. P Trent's little company of 33 men F'nwa a stockade at the Forks. But Iorce f French and Indiana arrived pne and made them nrisoners. Thev FPtly released and niionroi ntnm pat harm. Washington, com In? to f met the returning fort ruillilarfl nt M, near the present city of Cumber- Ruins of Tort Frederick Gen. Braddock "me the French had extended Trent's fashed It to a rapid completioncall-tronghold completioncall-tronghold Fort Dnmiosno ttw Yua r wnslderable force of Canadians, l, ana Indian allies a detach- f Which, led hv fnnlnn Tnmnn. fJW Washington's advance. On May Mf a scouting party, Washington ry- u,e gmaIi French scouting party, immediately fired upon the foL one wnded and 21 . Among the French dead was Qj tnis encounter was carried to t j and "8 commander Immediately I - uusr uion ae vilUers, a amonviiie, to attack the English, withdrew to Great Meadows. R faT7 a fort Aluiougb the place L ,., ,fense' being surrounded on teed ... 6'uuuu, wnicn was neavi- fiBm ""ruea good sheHer from KttTi0111? fire down ODOn the de" l.?1- "asnington's force was so ft k "juuiuon ana ower sup-K sup-K Wered It Impracticable to L """Stive of h a. ,ccunt of what followed has pob-tlj ta 'the Charleston n.. nBrarT la a eon nt iha Knnth w V- July i9.Oa Wednesday L lWn, Cot Henrita Washlnfrtnn r Mart,, -v: Ut . fc. uw gave me ioiiow- tm v.. -'-nonor the lonmor. nf the ttn!!en and the French, at k uow n the rV enforced with 700 remilts, had f te tfk Were lD march with Hioir. . Pn "la. s our num- ceedlng 300), "e prepared for our defense In the best manner we could, by throwing up a small entrenchment, which we had not time to perfect before our sentinel gave notice, about 11 o'clock, of their approach, by firing his piece, which he did, at the enemy, and, as we learned afterward, killed three of their men, on which they began to fire upon us, at about 600 yards distance, but without effect; we immediately called all our men to their arms and drew up In order before our trenches, but as we looked upon this distant fire of the enemy only as an artifice to intimidate, or draw our fire from us, we waited their hearer approach before we returned re-turned their salute. - "Thev then advanced in a very Irregular man ner to another point of woods, about 60 yards nff and from thence made a second discnarge, upon which, finding they had no Intention of attacklne us In the open field, we retired Into our trenches and still reserved our fire, as we exacted from their , great superiority or num bers that ey would endeavor, Jo force our trenches, but, finding they did not seem w in tend this either, the colonel gave oraers io ure, which 'was done with 'great alacrity and un-dnnntedness. wmtinned this unequal nght, witn an nnimw Dtlfl rOrPH I1H111I1U LUC VAlil-K", " " .n,.jfehonor n trenches full of water, la a setUed rain, and the enemy galling us on all sides Incessantly from the woods till 8 o clock at night, when the French called to parley. From the great improbability tnai bucu a ly superior force and possessed of such an advantage ad-vantage would otter parley first, we suspected deceit and therefore retusea w they should come among us, desired us to send an omcer w gage their parole for his safety. We then sent Captain Van Braam and Mr. Peyronee to receive their proposals, which they did, and I about bJ night we agreed-thatacn-siue s--without molestation, they , back to their fort at Monongabela, and we to Wills Creek; that we should march away with all the honors of war and with all our stores, effects and baggage. Accordingly, the nest morning, wim bS and our colors flying, we began or march In good order, with our Btores. rtc, ta ra intPrrnDted by the arrival S reinforcement of 100 Indians among the French, who were Lardly restrained from at-f at-f . . ' a-.a n ..nnslderable damage by lacKing us uu uiu niiforine our bagtgage. nAoA hllf BOOH I0UI1U 11 uc. -we uien ti- ----- thB rpt sarr to leave our baggage anu - - ,,r nrovlsions obllgea us iu ens nor hors,es to transpon " . . r n our creatures, by killing. cattle and every uving ine yery uuB. v f killed on out -me nnnu, fnm was Ueu- and 70 wounded; amou. d. tenant Mercier, w ril mmtry worth, ent company, . "-JflSf 2 and wbtoT-JSTi, . second tire, though aangervu r- end t0 hu rhnt disabled him and a third pui life, as he was be! koliavul wit determinea not dearl, as lated to Washington by Captain Van Braam, a Dutchman who seems to have had only a sketchy knowledge of the French language. He translated trans-lated that passage as "the killing" or "death" of Jumonville, whereas the French Interpretation Interpreta-tion of It was "assassination." Immediately the French raised the cry of treachery on the part of the young Virginian, asserting, that Jumon ville had been ap ambassador bearing a peace ful message to the English in regard to the dispute over the western country, Just as Wash ington had been a similar ambassador to the French posts in 1753, and that by Washington s own admission in the articles of capitulation he had "assassinated" this peaceful messenger. As for Washington he was most decidedly "in bad" both at home and in England because his unfortunate expedition had apparently put the English In a very bad light The result of this fiasco and other indignities which he suf fered led him finally to resign his commission and it seemed that the military career of this future great leader was ended almost at its beginning. nowever. fiis defeat did resultin the resolu tlon of the British ministry to force matters to n rrisis. so there came about the arrival or den. Edward Braddock In America to command the combined British and Colonial forces whichwere to eject the French from the Ohio valley. The result of that expedition "the bloody business of Braddock" It has been aptly called is too uroii tnnwn to be dwelt upon extensively, nen though It did result in disaster on the banks f tho Mononrahela that July day a year later, it was Braddock who made Washington an aide-de-camp on his staff and who gave him his h0nna to win enduring fame while Braddock was winning only defeat and death. Not far from the reconstructed Fort Necessity Is the nlace where Braddock was ounea ami a im.i h Uftion ceremonies fieia at vvasa- ineton's little fort last month was the visit of a military attache to the British ambassy in the National Capital w there to lay a wreath' in honor of the general h whnm history has aeau w " ' 1 " - ' A hn constructed Fort necessity u uoi the-only4)ost connected with the stirring events in those faroff times which the America. , of today can visit Near iiagerswu. u.,.-SLZ-i Mrh 1s also In process of recon- truction through the efforts of the Hagerstown 1. , rmnr and associated with It "r rTf ""t : Braddock and Washing- are iuc --- f Wooh. ton It was In FredericK iowii. tr.Pt Rraddock on May A noo. " . rnved with him at Winchester, two w ----- . . Vnrt rnmhpr- Va whence they set oui lw tw", iid (Wills Creek). Md., on the beginning of hi. pmedltlon. After the defeat of Braaaoci the fronUer or renua,. ----- The Pacific ocean . resembles great pond, while the Atlantic ocean resembles a great river. IJlils Is one of the Interesting pieces of evidence brought forward to support the Wegener Weg-ener hypothesis the theory that all the continents were once united into in-to a single continent Dr. Harlow Shapley, famous Har vard astronomer, has suggested sink ing a three-mile shaft Into the earth as a means of testing the Wegener hypothesis. ' The evidence for the theory is summed up by Edwin Tenny Brew ster In his interesting book, "This Puzzling Planet" "Contrast the Atlantic ocean with the Pacific." he writes. "There are marked and curious differences between be-tween the two, though these are a good deal obscured "by our ordinary maps and are best to be looked for on a globe. "The Pacific is a round basin, a sort of gigantic pond, but the Atlantic Atlan-tic is a sort of gigantic river that winds from the top of the earth to the bottom, always of about the same width. "In fact," Brewster continues, "if one went by the shape of the coast on the two sides of the AtlantloVone might 'well say that South America has cracked off from Africa, the eastern extension of Brazil once occupying occu-pying the gulf of Guinea, the western west-ern end of the Sahara belonging to the Caribbean region, Greenland ammed up against the west coast of Norway and Newfoundland one of the British isles. "If one could push the two Ameri cas eastward and a little north, so that Greenland lay against Canada on one side and Norway on the other, with Newfoundland and the "British Isles pushed into the North sea, the Pit would be surprising. There really is not a little reason for thinking that the uniform width of the Atlantic and the remarkable fit between its two sides is something more than accident there is a good deal of evidence to show that during most of geologic time, and up to what for a geologist is rather a re cent date, North and South Am.er lea actually were parts of Europe- Asln-Africa but cracked loose and floated off." - The horse and the elephant are two good examples which support the theory of land bridges orjin orig inal united continent, Bavfa Diets comments, in the New York Worla Telegram. Fossil remains or tn horse are found In certain roc layers lay-ers Slightly older in Europe. The fossil elephant appears nrst In Africa and later in North America. Brewster believes the evidence is better for the Wegener hypothesis. "The coal points very much to this theory he writes. "The coal of Pennsylvania, New England and Nova Scotia Is of the same ago as that of the British Isles, France, Germany Ger-many and Spain, and la altogether very like It "Moreover, throughout these two coal districts, through the -entire length of the Appalachian mountains on our side of the ocean and In Scandinavia Scan-dinavia on the other, the mountain ridges rnn northeast and southwest, as if they were all parts of the same system, and in various 9ways the rocks match surprisingly. fort necessity pi'ssssu ICrnLC T rNy Continents United, 1$ fort jnreaericK, &r" p z r R econsrurtedort Necessity I. George Washington. . I I ytff - c3 --wllf ,.Ti-7-1 v: mi a mm. V I r.1crcolizcrJVax Keeps Skin Young CM M M WM M (XUMtM. ns l at la m1 aiU cJl eWea task won. la imI Imkiea Jt-ppiar. ftki awl ntWr. Vur tmm loohs nam Was brtaca eel h kkidm Urty Hmm wnailueM mm m i Bkla la tfcaa mI A4 Here's Really New Idea for Christmas Present Here Is an advertisement which appeared ap-peared recently In one of the largest of Berlin's dallies, as transcribed in the magazine Lu, Paris: ''" . , fA German writer of world-wide reputation will write the story of the life of anyone who may desire It, in a manner guaranteed to be artistic, based on personal notes of those who wish to order. "It is the nicest sort of present for Christmas. Such a story would bring Joy to the entire family. Before this, one could not have offered the story of one's life to one's friends or acquaintances. ac-quaintances. . The price depends on the number of pages." The world-wide' reputation of this writer is questionable," remarks the Paris magazine, "but be did not speculate unwisely. Many persons might like to have a true history or their own lives, and pay handsomely for it if It were interesting (from their point of view). To see oneself the hero of a novel I The Idea is at tractive." Parliamentary RoU When a motion is laid on the table, -the expression is figurative. A record rec-ord is made of this motion in the minutes and simply means that the matter has been laid aside for the present. Its consideration to be resumed re-sumed when a motion la made to that effect or opportunity offers. im ,DU . -r Our UA, a. he wa, beinJ j - we benavea wiui - - -,.D onr UJ1I LCI , a. ..mi Mir lives bayonets nxea - nnmbers of the en- possibly we cou . ru- - t bope for emy. and our "Z we had Tictory, ana iron. bot on l-A to encounter, we i-- notto sub- '.t; ;;nded of the terms that we LtfrLAJSf taa4a. . . mItto.The number killed and w. enemy is uncertain. mhm,tted by Minini mi uu. " In the arucies . wa3 0ne De VUliers whicn iDi0matic dy- ch was to - r n teken br namite." It reiemw - S!eur de Ja- word which was to prove Washington -cans '"- UoQ were trans- The terms of capituiaum WheiV. the Iaterpralar? From Washington diplomatic cir cles there floats to my big and ready ears a delightful little episode of Sir Esme Howard and the bell boy. Sir Esme quite enjoys telling, so I hear, how h walked briskly into the foyer of the magnificent Maynower noiei, and stopped for a moment to speak with one of - the bright-buttoned servitors in the lobby. After he walked on, an assistant manager who had noted the incident, went over to the boy and said: "What did the ambassador want? "I don't know," answered the bell hop. "He couldn't speak English." New York Morning Telegraph. Lightning Fraak A perfect picture of a tree, showing branches and leaves, was imprinted on the chest of Jack Walsh, one of two men killed by a lightning bolt near Philadelphia. Walsh was stand Ing under a tree when it was hit by the bolt and the electricity was ais-chareed ais-chareed In equal density from all parts of the tree to the spot on Walsh's chest so that a small Image of the tree was thus burned on the body. Altosether Out of It "Does his wife sMll play second fiddle to that other woman?" "She's not even in the orchestra." Salt Lake City's Vfyrcst Hotel .Ta 1 1 1 r, i 1 1 HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection fat every0 loom. RATES FROM 1 JO Jm$tppeult Jtfonwa Tr th ERNEST C ROSSITER, Up. Yon Know lb Kind Explorer From the Chinese fron tier we pushed into Tibet Sympathetic Lady We naa a car like that Tiy Lrfli E. PlnUiam't VurtaMe Cowpowid . - -- Had bad dizzy spells Afraid to leave ioute . . . fcared awful aw-ful diztinei would make her keel over. She needi Lydis B. Pinkhtm'i Vegettble Compound in tablet form. WANTED NUM ' "d wom d-lrlnc d-lrlnc poltlon u mwii llnerl. Bipr.t datftlla. Dpt. D, Box 7I.Lon Bach,Cll'. W. N. U, 8alt take City, No.3-l32. Evanad Up " Diner Hey, waiter, there's no turtle In this soup. Waiter No, and there's no horse -in the horseradish, soles for primitive types of shoes worn by natives of many foreign lands. Apocryphal The Epistle of Jeremy is one of the apocryphal books of the Old Testament While purporting to have been written by Jeremiah, the author is presumed to have been an Alexandrian Jew. The book consists con-sists chiefly of a bitter attack on the idols of Egypt and Babylon. Washington Star. - . Record Silver "Lomp" A Mexican Indian, in Sonora, is credited with finding the - largest lump of puTe silver, when that district dis-trict was still possessed by Spain. It weighed 1,750 pounds. Because there was a fight over the owner ship of it Spain appropriated It for herself., ' - - He'i In AH In The difference between .a woman's wom-an's evening gown and.her bus-band's bus-band's evening clothes is that when be has finally struggled into his, he's absolutely In .'em. Cincinnati Enquirer. . ' "M alarming that Got. Hor- IZ S oVMarVland asked the colonial atio .Sharpest m for a 8trong Cg to be erected in tie western part of Fred-fort Fred-fort to be erectea in ..ui n granted. ?S SSgTh' gra'nt .rdlng to the co, UPn Z of Governor Sharpe. "I am prepar-respondence prepar-respondence of Governor Svlncet - Z" ?1 province m u lt M and construct a .nr blocTonses for the protection strong fort and Dioca p rf lTeaer. wl, also raising a and informed me that M strong fort at ch,.erport Frederick under 200 men near and abort Frt Colonel John ?J oount on each and curtains with stone and saau bastion a six PW -' ' nntfl tte flM, During te Frederick w. a base for military sun wb. red the to'ttdaring the French terror swept down opontt" and l"Xc t t. drive th. conspiracy of p.on" The fort also New Arithmetic in Politic Jud Tunkins says time was when readln' and wrltin' was all you needed need-ed to understand in politics. Now the arithmetic has got to be some thin' terrible Washington Star, bated. EngUj Into QjQ olayed a part in the e tan(J h u war andnow wvl ,lt 8bria wtnre it sou , . Cleaning Old Coin To clean and brighten coins apply powdered whiting with a dampened cloth. To return the original luster lus-ter of copper and gold coins place them In a raw potato overnight Scots in Poland English, Irish and Scottish people peo-ple frequently emigrated to Poland hundreds of years ago ; .In one case. In the early Sixteenth century, 80,-000 80,-000 Scots went in a body. Grecian Art Lot No Grecian paintings done in the time that Greek culture was at Its heteht are known to be In exist ence, but there are records of artists and their works. Ancient Settlement On the heights of cLeobnlts-Nen ostra, a suburb of Dresden, a Stone age settlement believed to be more than five thousand, years old has been discovered. There are an average of 60 total solar eclipses in a century, but fully half of these are unfavorable to observe ob-serve . because their tracks are in high northern or southern latitudes or lie across oceans. Macaroni in 100 Shape In Italy macaroni comes in more than 100 different shapes. Sup-dried macaroni is said by Italians to be of better strength and appearance than that dried artificially. Trace, of Ancient City Found A survey for. an airport service from Berlin to China revealed the ancient city of Hachentse, or Black City, Built 2,000 years ago and now half-burled in sand. Muic' Function "Music," said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, "may be only the cosmetic cos-metic of sound Imparting superficial superfi-cial beauty to a commonplace subject." sub-ject." Washington Star. : ConfruiionaJ Segar Congressional appropriations are bqsed on the Vermont woman's rhubarb rhu-barb pie recipe: "Put in all the sugar, su-gar, you dare, and then double it" Boston Transcript "Dad" Claimed by Welsh The word "dad" Is Welsh, and is an interesting survival of the ancient an-cient British language. The beginning begin-ning of the Lord's Prayer In Welsh is "Ein Dad." - Battery Ron Watch. A: tiny battery is used to run a watch made by a Swiss rn 12 years. Driven by a fly-power motor, It needs no connection with outside wires. Way of tli World Instead of trying to see how much we can do for each other, we try to see how much we can do each other for. Los Angeles Times. Fly' Vital Organ In the true sense flies do not have lungs. They have an apparatus which enables them to breathe and they have digestive organs. Tire Baraed to Kill Insect Old automobile tires are burned to kill destructive insects In market gardens in Cavilkm, France. Tn the Middle ages, St. John's eve was the great night of the year for bonfires, which, according to some authorities, should be written "bone- fires." It was the custom on this particular night to build three separate sep-arate fires one of dean wood, one of boxes and one of wood and bones mixed. The .last was called SV John's Are. - Historic Ticoaderoga Vermont h famed for its beauti ful tree-covered mountains. The vis itor to Tlconderoga can tread the same path followed "fey Allen and his men on that memorable night tn 1775 when the British commander awoke to hear himself called on to surrender "In the name of the Great Jehovah and the Continental con gress." Silver In Chnalt The largest lump of sliver mined In the United States was at the Smuggler mine, Aspen,' Colo., . in 1804. It "weighed 1,840 pounds. A lump of sllver was found in Peru -weighing 800 pounds. Unci Eben "Ton kin learn to read an' write, said Uncle Eben, "but you gotta decide de-cide for yohse'f whether de com-pllshments com-pllshments is goln' to git' you com. fort or trouble." Washington Star. Leads In River Mileag Nebraska has more river mileage than any other state, but Kentucky has more miles of navigable rivers. Within the latter's borders are ten streams with 1,503 navigable miles1 Herring Artifically Hatched English breakfast tables soon may have herring that has never been to sea. Experts at the Brighton Bright-on aquarium are trying to hatch herring' from artificially fertilized ! Other Words, "Allefed" One of the boundary marks on an old-time Connecticut farm, as shown by a land paper, Is described as: "The tree at which BUI Jones is said to have killed the bear." Natare'l Gift to Salmon During the mating season the male' salmon -develops fierce canine teeth with which to defend its mate and prevent other species of Ash from 'dining on ber spawn. ! 1 i M 1 . - lour Whol forc sot e |