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Show THE SPANISH FOItK Pl( ESS. SPANISH FORK. UTAH o News Notes t ally la It a Prlciltgt to Livt In ftaryGraJu UTAH 'A QUEER MOTHER 1 bear you bavo a fine son," said Mr. Rooster to Billy Dost "But I also bear that Mrs. Hilly I bsve Goat la aufortuustely lost beard that she wandered off In search of oome special food ahe wanted, and that she has nH com back." "IVar me. dear me," said Billy Goat. i'in sure I didn't know that I bad a son. "You didn't know Ilf crowed Mr. Rooster. "What ao unnatural father you are." "Mrs. Billy Goat la just as unnatI ural mother father," said Billy. "Now you are puzzling me," said Booster. "Why should she bother about her child!" asked Billy Goat "Can't ah take a walk If she wants to do ! am sura. Sho "She Is not lost. hit lost taken a little stroll and will ing oo Its bind legs, slmUsr to tho Jackson statu, come back again." whereupon Its rider slid off bastlly and continued "The kid would have died." said oo bis way afoot I Tbo statu was unveiled on Mr. Rooster, "if It hadn't been for the January 8, 1833, and Senator Stephen A. (touglss farmer.' of Bllnols wan tb orator for tbo occasion. A little post Is always called a kid. For all tho rldicul that baa been heaped upon ss Mr, Hen's small children are just Jackson and bla rocking horse," the statue Is a called chickens. remarkable one In many respect. It Is mounted always -That' It," said Billy OonL "Why kind. of without pivots, rivets or damps any ahe should have worried about Juulor, Among many people there Is an idea that tb tan and bind legs of tho bore were cast solid to tb rest of tbo figure. But this Idea la erroneous. The statue Is balanced perfectly on the bind legs of tb bora and, despite the fact It has not shifted a fraction of an Inch In tha T3 years that It has stood oo tha aama aoL From tha original model Mills made a replica for New Orleans and It stands today In Jackson square (originally called the rise d Armes, but changed to honor tb savior of tb city after tha blatorle battle In 1813) In that city. Another replica tanda on tha grounds of tbo statehouoe In Nashville, Tenn. Mills' statue of Jackson brought him fame and he was commissioned to do others. The first was the equestrian statue of Washington which stands In tb circle of that name In the National Capital. Another was the statue of "Armed Liberty" which stands on the dome of the Capitol In Washington. "Now You Are Puzzling Ms." If Jackson's life waa a disputatious one. It la dison It have should that also begun appropriate as I stipNse I will call hint now. when puted ground and that the dispute over the arena she knew the farmer would look after of hts birth should continue long after Ida death. hltnr At the time of Ids birth. March 13, 1TC7, the The very name he Is called," said boundary line between the two provinces of Mr. Rooster. "Every creature In the North and South Carolina was not clearly defined. burnyard has been calling him Billy That boundary line ran north and south less than Gnat Junior. In which a quarter of a mile from the log cabin "Doesn't that make yoo proud?" Andrew Jackson first saw the light of day. But "I am not conceited." said Billy was the cabin east of the boundury line, L e., In Coat. South Carolina, or west of It, hence In North "That would not be conceit," said Carolina! That la a point over which his biog- Mr. Rooster. never been historians have and other raphers "Why notr asked Billy. able to agree. would simply be a parents nat"It And so the two states of North Carolina &nd ural pride." South Carolina have had a part In another "Jack-so- n I haven't got It sorry " suld Bilcontroversy" as to which one belongs the ly Goat, as be started to walk off. honor of being his native state. Apparently South You are very heartless," said Mr. Carolina baa had the last word In the contro- Rooster. versy, for tn November, 1928. there was erected But he saw that It wns useless to a marker on the James Crawford plantation, 10 he wandered back miles from Lancaster, S. CL, bearing on the front talk to Billy, so to tell the hens all about bis talk. these words, "Birthplace of Andrew Jackson, Mrs. White Hen had Just returned brave, truculent, noble, able, honest" On the rear Is an Inscription from a letter, said to have from a chatwhoshe bad had with Mrs. had come back to the been written by Jackson to a Lancaster citizen, Billy Goat, which reads "I waa born In South Carolina, as barnyard and who hadnt been able I have been told, at the plantation wbereon to recognize her own child. "What do you suppose she said to James Crawford lived about crossing of the Wax-haMrs. White Hen. Creek" and beneath that la this Inscription, me?" asked The bens, roosters and chickens "This stone stands upon the plantation whereon James Crawford lived near the site of the dwell- standing about clucked and crowed. "We haven't the slightest idea. ing bouse according to the Mills mop of 1S20. The year 1928 saw tbe erection of another me- What did she say to you?"' "She said." continued Mrs. White morial to Andrew Jackson. That was on April 15 when the statue of Jackson was unveiled in Sta- Hen, In an excited tone, "that she tuary hall In the Capitol. It was presented to the didnt care whether she had left federal government by tbe state of Tennessee In Junior or not. honor of the centennial year of his Inauguration She said that she knew some one as President and was accepted on belmlf of the would look after him most likely the nation by President Coolidge. The statue, which farmer." shows Jackson In the full dress uniform of a 'Just what Billy Goat told me, said Mr. Rooster. major general of the regular army of his time g cocked hat But I asked her If she was not military dress coat and breeches, long cloak and high boots. Is tbe work afraid that aucb a thing would not of Belle Kinney Scholz. formerly of Nashville, happen. Just imagine, I tried to exTenn. On that occasion President Coolidge paid plain to her. If the farmer should a tribute to Jackson as one who exemplified the decide to wander off, too. unlimited opportunities offered to men, regardShe didnt seem to think much of such nD Idea. She was too calm for less of seeming handicaps: "He gave to the nationalistic spirit, through words. loyalty to the Union, a new strength which was She Just thought everything would decisive for many years, President Coolidge turn out all right, somehow. And she said. Ilis management of our foreign affairs said she wasn't going to worry about was such as to secure a wholesome respect for anything. our government and the rights of our citizens. He cackled the "Dreadful, dreadful, left the treasury without obligations and with a others. surplus. "Fancy treating our turkey children "Coming up from the people, he demonstrated in such a way, said Mrs. Turkey. that there is sufficient substance In self governShe is a queer mother, a queer ment to solve Important public questions and to mother, they all agreed. rise superior to a perplexing crisis. Like a true pioneer, he broke through all restraints and ImRIDDLES pediments into which he was born, and leaving behind the provincialisms and prejudices of his What does a kettle suffer from day, pushed out towards a larger freedom and a sounder government, carrying the country with most? Bolls. hlin. , If at times he was high tempered and overWhy is the letter V like a mad bull? bearing there Is no fairer story of chivalrous Because It comes after U. devotion and affectionate consideration than that which he lavished upon his wife. Which is the largest room In the But If one would see the memorial which best world? The room for improvement. exemplifies the tender side of Andrew Jackson, How can you make a cat talk? By It Is onlj necessary to go to Nashville, Tenn., and there visit the Hermitage where he lived the adding an H to It. That makes It happiest days of his life with his beloved Rachel, chat where the most crushing blow In his whole When Is the nook of nature most career, her death, was dealt him and where at last he died with a miniature of her next to his Interesting? When autumn turns the heart. In that fine old mansion, which has become leaves. a patriotic shrine of the sort that Washingtons Mount Vernon and Jeffersons Montlcello are, What Is the most us14 thing preserved as It was in the days when Jackson person can possess In tl ng run? lived there, one may come nearer understanding Breath. Andrew Jackson not Andrew Jackson, the Indian fighter or the general or the politician or tha What two birds can Wilier walk nor fly? The scarecr'v an(j nie President, but Andrew Jackson, the man. weathercock. Mr bal-nn- UnVcilmd Jackson Statue in SlatuanjHall By ELMO 8C0TT WATSON AXUAIIY day for recalling on of ths moat picturesque figures to till American history. Andrew Jackson was his name, but to bis countrymen he Is affectionately known as "Old Hickory." It Is not a date for special observance because It Is the anniversary of his birth, as Is the case with other great Americans. Rather we remember It because It Is the anniversary of n battle w hlcb be fought and won on that date. The Dattls of New Orleans on January 8, ISIS, Is unique In military history. It Is the only major engagement on record which was fought after a treaty of peace between the two nutlons Involved had been signed. But Its significance In American history Is more than that curious fact. The War Of 1812 was a conflict fought by a nation divided gainst Itself. It was one In which Americans of the time took little pride, at least, so far as the - record of Its military forces was concerned. Disaster after disaster and reverse after reverse had caused the country to believe tbut the breed of successful generals, such as It had known In the Revolution, was extinct Then Andrew Jackson and his frontiersmen at New Orleans faced the best troops that Great Britain could muster. They were Wellington's veterans who bad broken the power of Napoleon. But Jackson gave them odds of two to one and defeated them dlsae iI treusly. "To a country that bad almost completely Jlost faith In Itself, to a country that bad almost j learned to cringe, this news cams like a reprieve to a man upon the gallows, says Gerald W. Johnson In "Andrew Jackson, An Epic In Homespun." "It was literally crazed with Joy. and In Its dellrl-urIt flung the name of Andrew Jackson against the stars. If Jackson did not really save New Orleans, be saved something Infinitely more of the coun Important, namely: the n ... self-respe- try." In view of this, It would seem that January 8 Should be one of the days on the American calendar. The fact that It Is not. Is only red-lett- further proof that the old saying A republic forgets" is true. For January 8 is not a general holiday, nor even a state holiday. In that respect It cannot take rank with March 2 when Texas recalls the Battle of San Jacinto and honors the memory of Sam Houston, nor with April 19 when Massachusetts honors the patriots who fought at Concord and Lexington, nor with August 10 when Vermont remembers how old John Stark beat the Hessians at Bennington. The only observance of the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans as holiday is in New Orleans, which has good reason to remember the name of Andrew Jackson. In fact the only nation-wid- e notice of this anniversary Is a celebration which has only a meager connection with the battle and even this occurs Intermittently. That Is the Jackson Day dinner, held In Washington by the leaders of the Democratic party on January 8 and there tribute Is paid more to Andrew Jackson, the President and the founder of "Jacksonian Democracy" than to "Old Hickory" Jackson, the soldier and military victor. Even though America has not chosen to honor the memory of Andrew Jackson by making a holiday of the date on which he won his great victory and started on the path which led eventually to the White House, this does not mean that he Is forgotten or Is ever likely to be. For, as his biographer previously has pointed out, He is the hero of the people, not of the intelligentsia. The people still delight In the legends of his prowess, of his lurid language, of his Imperious and dictatorial temper. The tale of bis usurpations does not appall them, but delights them, for Americans have always loved a really masterful man. If Jackson's spiritual heir should appear now, there Is every reason to believe America of the Twentieth century would hall him as rapturously and follow him as blindly as it hailed and followed the hero of long ago." Another reason why he Is not likely to be forgotten lies In the fact that, with the exception of Washington and Lincoln, more monuments and markers have been erected to his memory than any other President Fascinating as Is the story of Jackson's career, a story which Is familiar to most Americans, equally Interesting Is the story of some of these memorials. Outstanding among them Is the famous "rocking burse" statue In Lafayette park, opposite the White House, In Washington. Terhaps It la particularly appropriate that this memorial to a man whose life was turbulent from beginning to end should be the subject for frequent controversy and should furnish material for an almost endless debate among politicians, sculptors and horsemen. The statue, which has the distinction of being the first equestrian statue In the United States, Is the work of Clark Mills, a New Yorker born In 1815, who drifted to South Carolina where he worked In a plaster and cement mill While doing stucco work there, he developed a method for taklDg a cast from a living face and, although be had no art education, he began working In marble. His first effort, a bust of John G. Calhoun, was purchased by the city of Charleston and he was given a gold medal hy the commonwealth of South Carolina Mills next went to Washington to make busts of Webster and Crittenden. On the way he stopped In Richmond and there saw statue of Washington, the first real piece of sculpture he had ever seen. Arriving In Washington, he found plans were under way for the erection of an equestrian statue of Jackson. Cave Johnson, then postmnster general and president of the Jackson monument committee, Invited him to submit a design. But Mills, never having seen an equestrian statue, felt obliged to refuse the offer. However, he was prevailed upon to make the attempt and, having, bought some land near Lnnham, Md., he set up a foundry and a studio and went to work. For nine months he worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that of bringing the hind legs of a horse directly heneuth the center of Its body, thus producing perfect balance. A race horse, named 'Olympus. was Ills model for Jackson's charger and he trained this horse to pose for the work. Finally, his design was finished and accepted by the commission and Mills set to work to make the bronze statue. Cannon, captured by Jackson at IVasacoIa. were to be melted down for the statue of the horse and Its rider, and other guns, captured from the British at New Orleans, was to be used for the base. But Just when Mills was ready to begin the inciting and recasting, a gale destroyed his studio. Before he could rebuild It, fire destroyed the foundry. Despite these handicaps, to which were added such misfortunes as the breaking of cranes, the bursting of furnaces and six failures In making the body of the horse, Stills persisted until his work wns completed. Just before the statue was dedicated Mills, as the head of a company of militia he had organat the head of the ized, tried to ride Olympus parade. The horse, perhaps feeling that occasion was an appropriate one, did some impromptu pos IIou-don'- s in t ro i tight-fittin- ALT LAKE Utah has 220 nllea of concret highway. 81 miles of bltumla concrete, 1301 miles of gravel surfaced roads and 111! miles of graded roade of tb total 8147.11 miles of atat highway, It la sbowa la a report of tb atat road commission released recently. MONTICELLO Record breaking balmy weather baa obtained In all portions of southeastern Utah durBees ara ing tha past month. bumming around tha blvea, birds lacing, tbe hollyhock leaves ara peeping forth and tha buds ara welling on tb trees. EPHRAIM Tha annual fish and game report for the Mantl National forest set forth tha following facts: Three hundred and two thousand two hundred fish were planted In the streama In the forest in 1)29 as compared with 185.000 In 1928, this Include 77.000 that were planted in the Scofield reservoir. Six hundred and fifty-fivdeer were killed In 929sas compared with 4C0 In 1928. FILLMORE Recently 88.000 trout were planted by tb Utah atate gume department from tba mouth of Copley's canyon to tho end of the canyon road. Members of tbe local Rod and Cun club were Instrumental In securing this planting and assisted In doing the work. Tbe fish were of good size and should be of legal size for the coming reason. VERNAL That tbo Indian the Uintah and attending youths Ouray Indian agency school at Wblterocks are competent stock raisers, is shown by the fact that the total weight, dressed, of six Duroc-Jerscslaughtered hogs there last week, was 25S5 pounds, an average of 430 pounds. Tbe Individual weights, dressed, were respectively, 390, 395, 405, 430, 435 and 530 pounds. Arsurance that Price PRICE will be the site for a sugar factory sad. In all probability, n canning factory, was given by otficlalg of sugar factho Maplcton-Sprlngvilltory to the board of directors of tbe Price chamber of commerce. Those who attended the meeting from the Utah county concern were C. R. Jones, president and manager; J. E. Bird, agricultural superintendent, and C. W. Jorgensen, field director. PANGUITCH There was a total of 3761 deer killed in the Kalbab forest on the north rim of the Grand canyon during the season that just closed, It was reported at tbe office of the Wasatch national forest. Approximately 2372 hunter from all sections of Arizona, California, Utah and other western states shoot on the forest. There were 2539 deer killed by 1396 hunters on the west section and 1222 deer killed by 976 hunters on the east slope of the forest. LEHI Beet farmers of Lehl this week participated In the distribution of 891,000, the final Installment paid by tbe Utah-IdahSugar company for the 1929 crop. Including the November payment, beet farmers In the Lehl district have received 8203,000. Jesse N. Smith, local representative of tbe sugar company, reports that a yield above normal was realized, the average per acre being between 12 and 13 tons. A number of farmers raised as much as 25 tons to tbe acre. LOGAN In bis 1929 annual report to the extension service authorities, David Sharp, agricultural agent for Summit county gives an interesting account of the county wool pool organization which was effected In 1925. The first years pool contained 1709 fleeces and the next year this figure was increased to 6000. The three succeeding years saw the pool grow steadily to 10,500 fleeces In 1987; 13,500 fleeces in 1928, and 25,000 o In 1929. COALVILLE Graveling of the Lincoln highway from Kimballs Junction to Wanship, where it will connect with the oil pavement completed last summer, is under way by forces of the state road commission and it is expected that the work will be finished early next month. It is anticipated that this portion of the road will be oiled next season and with the improvement of the road from Kimball's Junction to the summit of Parleys canyon will make a first class road of the Summit county portion of th's highway. SALT LAKE Classwork for the fall quarter at the University of Utah will end Friday. Examinations have been going on all week. Work in the winter quarter does not commence until January 6. The holiday is the longest Christmas vacation for several years. The opening date was fixed for almost a week after the new year to make the school year end on June 7. Registeration for the fall quarter has been ju.--t short of 3000 students. It Is expected that nearly 200 more stud.-nt- s w ill enroll lor the winter quarter. |