OCR Text |
Show CACHE AMERICAN, LOGAN, UTAH .5 Most Famous A merican Moth er The i v f Bugs Checks Loss S& rh, Af k 1' A ,V - Starving Chinch ts ' 7 Reconstructed fort Dearborn Legume Crop Diet Good Plan to Minimize the Threatened Raid. f P Flint, Fntotnolof Ut, Collet meat-eatin- By ELMO SCOTT WATSON IEN the speciul Mother's day stumps were placed on anlc re- a. cently, there was added another chapter to the romantic story of a woman who g undoubtedly Americas most famous mother. For the stumps hear the reproduction of James Al.lmtt McNeill Whistler's famous painting which is called Arrangement In Gray nnd Illack," hut which Is more familiar to his fellow Americans as Whistlers Iorlralt of Ilia Mother,' or, more slmplj still, "The Mother. Although Anna Mathilda McNeill Whhtler needs nothing more than this palming to guarantee her Immortality, yet the choice of her jmrtrnlt for reproduction on a special comrnemor.il stamp Issue this year nnd named Cnpt. John WliMler ns mmuiend-int(the lirst time. Incidentally, that such notice has Accordingly the fort was built In the summer heen tal.cn of Mother's daj) Is an additional of is El, given the name of Fort Dearborn, In honor conferred upon her. In all of our history, honor of Gen. Henry Dearborn, then seen t ary only three other women have had that distincof war. nnd thus Cnpt. John Whistler became tion. They were I'oriilionlas, the Indian The original draft prin the nail father of Chicago. cess; Isabella, the Spanish queen; and Martha for the plans of the fort, drawn hy Captain Washington, wife of our first President. I'.ut Whistler. Is still In the archives of the War deBust of Whistler in Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler is not the only Hall of Fame, New York University partment at Washington a good soldierly Job, one who is honored In (Ids year's Mother's day It Is. but revealing none of the artistic qualities stamp. It was Issued ulso to coimnemoratp the which were later to make the name of Whistler eldest of a family of live children. ono hundredth anniversary of the event which so famous. It would he pleasant to be able to record the took place In I.ovvell, Mass., on July 10, lS.1t For the next nine years John Whistler, as fact that It was a case of love at first sight for the hlrth of the son who was to achieve such builder of the fort and Its commandant, dnm Cadet Whistler and Anna McNeill. But that Is worldwide fame himself and to hrlng a similar inated the little community In this lonely out- doubtful, for soon after he was graduated from world-widfame to her hy Ills portrait of her. post of civilization which was to become the West Point he was married, hut not to Anna It Is doubtful If any other painting ever put second largest city In the United States. But the McNeill. Shortly afterwards young Whistler was on canvas is so well known to so many people. building ami the commanding were not the only left a widower nnd early In the '30s lie again Iteprod net Ions of It, running up Into the millions contributions he made to the history of Fort met the motherly older sister of his classmate, In numbers, have heen printed nnd these prints Dearborn nnd the beginnings of Chicago. He William Gibbs McNeill, and married her. In 1813 have gone to every corner of the earth. Paring brought with him a growing family, some of the last year and a half, while it was In this whose members were destined for renown even Whistler resigned from the nrmy nnd the next year to George Washington Whistler and Anna country under a loan agreement from the French greater than his. Mathilda Whistler was born a son to whom was government. It was exhibited In 12 leading cities His eldest son, WRilam Whistler, accompanied throughout the Fnited States nnd It Is estimated him to Chicago as a second lieutenant and given the name James Abbott McNeill Whistler, that during Its triumphal tour more than 2,000,-On- served there throughout the elder Whistler's thus perpetuating the name of his uncle, Janies persons viewed It. Several hundred thou- term of service. His eldest daughter, Sarah, was Abbott, tile Detroit trader at Fort Dearborn, as well as tils paternal and maternal families, the sands more will have heen added to that number married In November, ISO), to James Abbott, before It Is sent hack to I'nris late this month trailer of Detroit, thus becoming Chicago's first McNeills and the Whistlers. After George Washington Whistler's resigna(for the agreement with the French government bride. Another daughter married I.letit. Joseph calls for Its return by June 1) to resume Its Hamilton, who was also a subaltern under tion from the army he rose to eminence ns an engineer and in 1842 he went to Russia to enter honored place In the I.ouvre. Whistler at Fort Dearborn. the czar In the construction of the For the months of the time that the painting But our chief Interest Is in a toddling child the service of was on a lour of the country It was exhibited of three who came with Ills father to Chicago In railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow, winning at the Chicago Art Institute In connection with 1801. His name was George Washington Whist- for himself from Czar Nicholas the decoration of the Order of St. Anne. To Russia with lilin A Century of Progress, lint nmong the thou ler. Thus did the soldier honor the sands who saw It there Rnd who also saw the great commander of the "rebels against whom went his wife and their two sons, one of them a slender, weak lad, affectionately known to his replies of Fort Dearborn on the exposition he had fought under Hurgoyne. Young George mother 'as Jamie. And "Jamie he was to her grounds It Is doubtful If one In a thousand Washington Whistler grew up into sturdy boyrealized that there was a historical, if not a hood along the marshy banks of the Chicago to the end of her days, even when he became a painter. For the close tie becultural, link between the paint- river and on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan. tween the mother and the son who was to Iming, t he highest exemplification of a man's skill He was only ten years old when, as the result mortalize her on canvas began during this RusIn the line of fine arts, nnd the crude architecof a garrison feud, the War department thought ture of a building which had only the very utili- it advisable to scatter the officers at Fort Dear- sian experience. She nursed him during those bitter yeHrs and tarian purpose of preserving the lives of Its In born to various posts In the Middle West and habitants from savage hatred. That link Is the the boy accompanied bis father back to Detroit. when they were ended In the death of Major Whistler and when the widow and her two sons theme of this story. And there, two years later, young George Wash The story has its beginning in Ireland more ington Whistler probably witnessed the scene were reduced to poverty, she brought them out than 17.) years ago. In the year 17.TS there was which made his father unique In American nnd of the land of snows back to her sunny North Carolina. When "Jamie grew up he decided to born to an English family named Whistler, llv perhaps in any other history. follow the profession of Ills father and become For Cnpt. John Whistler and his elder son, lug there, a son to whom was given the name n soldier. He secured an appointment to West of John. Long before lip had reached his majori- I.ient. William Whistler, were officers in General Point In 1812, hut his career there was a short ty young John Whistler ran away from home Hull's army when that flustered American comone. In fact, it lasted only two years. and joined the British army. In 1777 he came to mander surrendered the fort at Detroit to the But the loss to the military world. If indeed America as a soldier In the expedition with British at the outbreak of the War of 1812, and It was a loss, was the gain of the world of art. which (lentleman Johnny" Hurgoyne Intended tradition says that th'e captain was so enraged to deal a crushing blow to the American colo- over the capitulation that he broke his sword After leaving West Point, Whistler went to Paris, resolved to become a painter, and liis career In nies. Hut the rapier thrusts of Daniel Morgan over Ills knee rather than surrender it to the is too well known to need further and Benedict Arnold warded off that blow at enemy. Perhaps It was only the shnme of a that role comment. During the years he was rising to a saw surrender without him of shot John the that caused Saratoga, and the end firing year fame his mother was In Europe, also, not with Whistler a prisoner of war along with the rest to do It. Dr perhaps It might have been his him always, hut nearby In case he should have of "Gentleman Johnny's army. Mark that fact realization that he was destined to go down In need of her. For somehow her little Jamie well, for it has a curious nfterinath I history ns the only British officer who, having never seemed to grow up enough to be without Before the end of the Revolution, Whistler, as once surrendered to a victorious American army, his mother. In 1800 Whistler left London for a paroled nr exchanged prisoner, was hack In became in turn an American officer who surrenthree years more of study In Paris and his Knglaml where he soon afterwards was dis- dered to a victorious British army. mother returned to America for a last visit with In due time John Whistler was exchanged for charged from the army. Then he fell in love her relatives In North Carolina. For Whistler with the daughter of one of his father's friends, a British prisoner, and the choleric old captain had decided never to return to his native land eloped with her, came to America a second time remained in the American army only until the to live. So his mother was going to wind up nnd settled at Hagerstown, Md. In 1791 this sol- close of the war when lie was honorably diswhat few affairs she had there and then return dier who had worn the scarlet uniform of Old charged. He died September 3, 1829, hut he to London, where they would live on the scant England put on the nondescript uniform of a lived long enough to see his son, William, win means which the son could provide. lieutenant adjutant in the levies which made up some renown as an officer in the Indian and While she was visiting In Cumberland and a part of the army of the new republic. From Mexican wars. Bladen counties In North Carolina, the storm of Old Cnpt. John Whistler also lived long enough that time on lie served continuously on the the Civil war broke and her return to Europe Northwestern frontier under St. Clair, Wayne to see Ills youngest son, George Washington was indefinitely. Finally early In 1804 and others who were trying to break the power Whistler, graduate from West Point at the age camepostponed word from her son that he had returned to the westof the savage tribes that were resisting the of nineteen and assigned artillery branch. to London and established himself there. So But he was not to have the satisfaction of knowward push of the American frontiersmen. she announced her Intention of Joining him. In 1797 it was Captain John Whistler nnd ing to what heights his son would rise In another But no matter how much her relatives told In 1801 lie was stationed at Detroit. The Louisiprofession, nor to what greater heights tills son's Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler that It would ana Purchase had flung our frontier from the son would rise In still another. be Impossible for her to go to Europe now, her While George Washington Whistler was still a Mississippi back to the Itocky mountains, but If only reply was the calm statement that her once he on we hoped to make good our possession of this cadet at West Point visited, while Mamie needed her and she was going. And go vast empire there must Ire garrisons in the heart leave, the home of a classmate, William Gibbs she did. Somehow she arranged to take passage of the Indian country. One of the strategic McNeill. It was a great brick mansion which on a Confederate blockade runner and on it on a near been built the of had foot was the plantation for at a Cape such places garrison arrived safely In England. Lake Michigan at a place variously called Fear river In North Carolina before the RevoluThere she lived to the end of her days, the Insimition by one Donald McNeill, scion of a Scotch Clnkngo. Cliekakou and a of the man who came to be separable to America from the hailed as companion lar spellings. So, early In 1803, the Inspector family that had emigrated one of the greatest painters in ths general of the army stationed at Cumberland, isle of Skye In 1719. There Cadet Whistler made world. Md., gave orders for the building of a post there the acquaintance of Anna Mathilda McNeill, the C by Western Newspaper Union. ie . e o world-famou- world-famou- s half-doze- n s Washington powvss the tomb of a Roman cnqioror. The slrunge box like stone airuc-luron the lawn of the Arts and Industries building of the National museum, which visitors usually pass without noticing, was the occasion of a dramatic Incident tal jenrs ago when It was first brought to Washington. The tomb was secured by Commodore Jesse It. KIHott, commander of the frigate Conatltu'.ion, which was tha flagship of the I'nited Stale squadron In tthe Mediterranean In 1S39, from a hillside behind the city of Beirut, Syria. Although the evidence was auh a would satisfy an archeologist, Elliott lad loved It was the tomb of the Itomnu emHe Alexander Severn. peror, brought It back to Washington wllh him. A few years luler Andrew Jack-sowas reported dying at the Hermitage, near Nashville. Elliott had the happy, or unhappy, Inaplrntlon to offer the tomb to Old Hickory as a last resting place. Jaekaon'a reply la one of the dassle of American literature: Although laboring under great debility and afflietlon from a severe attack from which I may not recover, the dying man wrote the navy officer, "I raise my pen nnd endeavor to reply. The steadiness of my nerves may erhnps lend you to conclude my strength I not as great as here expressed. Strange as It may appear, my nerves are as steady as they were 40 years gone by, whilst from debility and affliction I am gasping for breath. "I cannot consent that my mortal body shall he laid In a depository prepared for an emp. ror or a king. My republican feeing nnd principles forbid It. The simplicity of our system of government forbids It. Every monument creeled to porpet-nl- e the memory of our heroes and statesmen ought to hear evidence of the economy nnd simplicity of our and the Institutions, republican plainness of our republican citizens, who nre the sovereigns of our glorious union, and whose virtue Is to perpetuate It. Trap virtue cannot exist where pomp and parade are the governing passions. It can only dwell with the people, the great laboring nnd producing classes, the form, the bone and sinew of our confederacy. "I cannot permit my remains to he the first In these United States to he deposited In a sarcophagus made for an emperor or king. I have prepared a humble depository for my mortal body beside thnt wherein lies my beloved wife, where, without any pomp or parade I have requested, when God calls me to sleep with my fathers, to be laid, for both e W Agriiuituf. 1nUtnity of iUlooi. WNU tftrvlc What threaten to ha one of the most destructive Invasion of chinch hugs can be headed off and widespread damage prevented or at least minimized If farmers will etarre the bugs by limiting them to a "diet" of legume crops. Unless the weather during May and June la wetter than usual, so ae to drown out the bug, they threaten to cause more damage than they have caused In any year during the past 90. Farmer that are known to he tn the heavily Infested chinch bug area are being warned to Include all the legumes possible In the Held crops they grow during the coming onon. Tide Is one of the most effective and at the ame time one of the least expensive method that farmer can use In fighting the bugs. If chinch bug could be confined only to legumes during the coming season, they would not live any aulmal longer than a would live on this same diet Chinch hugs will not feed on any of the legumes, (Deluding alfalfa, soy beans, compeas, field peas, red clover, sweet clover, wetch or Neither will they feed on such other common field crops a rape, buckwheat, flax, sunflower or stock heets. The crops thnt are meat for chinch hugs and the only ones on which they feed are the grasses, and these grasses must be green with the sap flowing In them, as the chinch bug Is a sucking Insect and takes its food mil by biting off and chewing up a hit of the leaf surface, but by Inserting Its beak In the grass plants and sucking out the sap. They feed on all the small grains. Including barley, spring wheat, winter wheat, oats, rye, rainier and spelt. They will also feed on sorghum, broom corn, field corn, sweet corn, Sudan grass and millet If corn and soy beans are planted together and a good growth of soy beans Is obtained so thnt the beans slinde the lower parts of the such shaded stnlks cornstalks, will have fewer bugs than corn without soy beans. A heavy stand of sudan grass and soy beans will suffer only slightly from chinch bug damage, wherpas sudan grass alone would be killed. Urge Sanitary Measures for Control of Garget No one can estimate the economic loss caused by mastitis, commonly known as garget, say Prof. D. II. Cdall and S. D. Johnson of the New York State Veterinary college. In some dairy cattle herds the loss Is slight, they say, and In others severe. Each herd, however, pays an unnecessary toll, and the totnl loss Is enormous. Because of the hidden nature of the disease It may often go unnoticed. When an owner says that a certain cow made a high record but was "burned out" by high feeding and never produced well ngaln. the usual cause Is mastitis. The disease Is marked by repeated attacks that tend to appear when the cow Is drying off, or shortly after she freshens, or when she is fed on a high protein diet, or when exposed to unusual strain. If the disease Is active the milk may become watery or contain flakes. The best evidence shows thnt Infection occurs during milking, and at milking Is extra precaution urged. Garget spreads less readily in herds milked by hand than In herds milked by a machine. It Is nt Playtime Fashions for d Tot the Well-Dresse- In the good old summertime, young fashion plates become And for the fastidious two to eight-year-ol- who wishes to devote all attention to boating, bathing, and basking, rather than to seams and buttons, here are the newest creations In playtime fashion. Not following, hut leading the vogue of the elders, the youngster these days who would be really in the swim, must have a two piece bath When lard Is rendered at home, It should be graded and as much Codling Moth Control Orehardists are advised by the Department of Agriculture to give their orchards and premises a genfor the purpose of reeral clean-uducing the codling moth. They are advised also to scrape loose bark from the trunks and larger branches of trees, thus crushing of the worms In their cocoons. many The worms that produce the moth are under loose flakes of hark. In crevices tn the trunk. In dried stems of larger weeds and In partly wood. p d of us there to remain until Hie last trumpet hounds to call Hie dead to Judgment, when we, I hope, shall rise together, clothed with the heavenly body promised to all who believe In our glorious Redeemer, who died for us that we might live, and t I luqie for a hy whoe Immor'nlity." I'erh.ip Alexander Severn Is Just as well satisfied that the School children of a dvmocrntlc Innd troop paid his empty tomb without noticing It. Emperor of Rome front 222 to 237 A. D., successor to the degenerate Hidlogahalns, who had himself officially created a god, be might have appreciated Andrew Jackson's emotional outburst. He apjieara to have lieen somewhat of a skeptic regardand ing the rtlvlnlljr of emperor an oun minded hoy despite his environment of degeneracy. His brief reign Is chiefly distinr guished for his feeble efforts to the hard lot of the common people. He established government loan office where they could burrow at low Interest to get them out of the clutches of the "hankers." He did much to Improve the status of the common soldier of the Roman legions. Christianity was making headway In Rome. The emperor was not a convert, hut he neglected no dinners He to Improve his fate hereafter. kept a private chapel with statues of Orpheus. Abraham, Apollo and Jesus, and paid equal homage to all of them. Washington Star. atom-men- tdcK-ic- d bet-le- It was a pleasing illusion and flattering to rmi sen line vanity that the women choose their clothe to please (he tnen. Ilut In Ida heart every man has known it isn't so. So the N'ew York authority who says women dre to please themselves and other women Is littering merely an obvioua truth. In the first place, the average man pa vs little attention to hla wife's costume the brute! and In the second pture his Meal of color sthemee Is primitive. How many households have been lorn hy the failure of an unobservant husband to notice that hi wife had a new dress! And how many have been promptly put In their place when they have Ignorantly remarked that a more Bomber color would be more becoming! 8o It la with due diffidence that we suggest anyway, If the men had their say, their wives would not be wearing these little saucepan hats pulled down over one ear. And having ventured thus far we hare our breast to the N'ew York stylist for a barbed reply. Kansas City Ftar. Ferry's Heeds are sold only In fresh dated package. When yon buy Ferry's Seeds you are sure of the finest quality available. Adv. The Wrong Tim He (on the dance floor) 1 wish 1 were In your shoes. Fhe Ierhaps, but I wish you would refrain from attempting to get Into them now. MWmiiE, roR.i SOME NEW FACTS IN THE HISTORY OF GOLD MONEY uifE?ES Few Drops Every Night and Morning Will Promote a Clean, A Is quite a comedown for gold to ho used for money or the basis for It currency. It would require a combination of historian, philosopher, hanker, poll th dun ami mystic to write the history of the precious mel.il. Dr. Frederick 0. Howe, consumers counsel of the Agricultural Adjustment ndmlnlstra tion, told the Cosmos club the other fight. Among the ancient Hindus It was revered as sacerdotal. "He who tampers with It, said the law, "dies on a dunghill and rots In hell to the end of time. Only princes could bo much ns touch It. Gold was first demoted to the profane status of "money," Doctor Howe said, by the Lydians, who put the king's stamp upon It and used it as a medium of exchange. Interest immediately arose to 30 per cent, fanners lost their laud and sold themselves and their fumilles Into slavery In order to live. This 30 per cent, Doctor IIowc said, was the first money interest and arose naturally out of the former Lydian system of doing business. Trade had been primarily In cattle. When cows were sold on credit It was assumed they would have calves. So the seller demanded the price of a calf as additional payment. This was calculated at about the value of a cow. When you pay interest to the bunk today you are paying, genetically considered, the price of the calf of the cow yon borrowed. Other notes on gold from Doctor Howe's studies: All the gold on earth is worth about $11,000,090,000. It could be stored In a room of 30 cubic feet. The workers of the United States could earn it all by working GO days at $3 a day. They could earn all the gold in their own country In 20 days. The total of gold In the United States has about the same Intrinsic value as to total of diamonds. Washington Siar. one-thir- Healthy Condition! At All Drui Stores Write M oris Co.. Dp. W .Chicago .for Fr kniting suit in the newest ted weave, gay in white, red, or navy. Felt tabs attaching top piece to shorts add the jauntiest of fashion touches. And what more fitting fashion for the fastidious than a seersucker as gayly striped as a stick of candy. Red, green, or blue striped suits with fitted waistline and a catch-al- l pocket which is perfectly indispensable for precious stones gathered along the beach, will be worn this year wherever two to s ore gathered for a quiet game of leap frog Carolyn T. Radnor Lewis in Child Life sun-su- Some years ago so many orchards were planted that there was an overabundance, but this condition promises to be greatly changed In the future. Many orchards have been allowed to die out and the time is coming when fruit will be in much better demand. As it is too late to start an orchard after the demand has come, it Is a wise plan to invest a little In this form of land improvement. The trees cost so litle that this does not have to prevent anybody from having an orchard, or at least a few select trees. The United States Is especially blessed because fruit of some sort can be grown in every state. We should appreciate this fact all the more when we remember that in many countries fruit Is such a luxury that it Is beyond the reach of average people. rathlinder OLD ACE FLNMON INFORMATION h. nd stamp LEHMAN Humboldt, Kai. Tin Oulu Makfl Wonderful PrwIwV1. (no to S2u0 weekly Plan I!. tov, - Ikllroy, Oilio. HI ( HK) fi KF.KtK E Flyer Matrimonial "So Mnutl is entering the matrimonial market and with a young aviator? "Yes, she's taking a flyer, bo to speak. WHEN SHES UPSET HE SUFFER W7 .1 Drove Constipation her fed II 1 A! I made m. errest head- 1 1 Cl Now ha CI achy, has a lovable disposition, new pep and vitality. Heed Nature's warning: Sluggtsh Dowels invariably resul t in poisonous wastes ravagi ngvoor y tern often the direct cause of headaches, dialings, colds, complexion troubles. NATURE'S REMEDY the mild, laxative safety stimulates the eititri eliminative tract strengthens, regulates the bowels for normal natural functioning Get a 25c box ll if today at your I druggist's. "ti imc Salt Lake Citys fewest Hotel tliilf HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 5 A PACKET IS ALL YOU FERRYS AT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD STORE 200 Tile Baths in every loom. RATES FROM 1.50 Radio connection Jutl oppoutt Mormon TabtmocU ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. WNU CENTS Book JIIM.E Fruit Tree, a Good Bet Home Lard Production neutral lard as possible produced, says Miss Flora Carl of the MisNeusouri College of Agriculture. tral lard Is the lard rendered from Internal fats at such low temperatures that it Is almost, If not entirely, free of taste and odor. Neutral lard is of high quality but It Is seldom that It can be purchased for conking purposes, since most of tt goes into the manufacture of oleomargarine. More lard can be extracted at a lower temperature If the fat Is run through Jhe sausage mill Instead of chopping before rendering. The fat from the rinds Is more difficult to extract and gives a softer and a cheaper grade of lard. The rinds can be rendered by roasting In the oven. Daring Man Ventures Criticism of Fashion Burial in Royal Tomb Not for Old Hickory W PAY PUREBRED VEGETABLE SEEDS Every packet dated 1834 |