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Show THE RICH COUNTV NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH He found it in Valparaiso t, Western Newspaper Union.) across the wide ING, coming stretch of field, saw her standing where the log fence divided the way. His first impression was of a scarlet K 1921, blur against the somber sky; later he discovered that the young woman wore a scarlet-line- d cape. The young woman continued to lean upon the fence, her arms crossed before her. King waited irresolute. He was so boyishly eager to make acso apprehensive of the quaintance, small creatures disdain. Again he summoned courage. In this part of the world, said King, cheerfully, "it is the custom to address strangers without Introduchis engaging smile pleadtion. And ed with her those of us from far away are mighty darned lonesome for home folks. The smile that' few could resist met the cold barrier of the girls blue eyes ; she merely drew the collar of her cape closer and continued to watch the blowing of the tall grass. King sighed audibly and passed on his way. Who is she? he asked of his Then he headed north and found it up near the No matter what part of the world you may find yourself in, few things make you feel more at home than to walk into a store and discover your favorite smoking tobacco for sale. You get a great thrill from seeing home in a strange Cur and annewspaper even greater thrill on meeting someone from the old home town. But tobacco certainly comes next in the order of importance in thrills. ' With your favorite tobacco in your favorite pipe, life is worth living in almost any corner of the globe. This thought was inspired by the following interesting letter from Mr. W. E. Bromley, an Edgeworth smoker from Fort Wayne, Ind.: away-from-ho- Larus & Brother Co. Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: In tome of your advertisements from time to time I have noticed letters from different users of Edgeworth Smoking Tobacco and I wondered if anyone eve had a more varied experience than I have as he sat at table for his He described the interesting stranger to Joe. Mean the girl with the black hair an the red cape? Joe asked, stopping at Brooks place? She came here to get the Western air to heal up her throat, so she can sing again. On the way to be a great singer, Brooks says, when something went wrong with her throat and queered it all. Brooks wife Is a cousin, and I guess shes glad enough, on the lonely ranch, to have woman company If the girl Is company; always seems to be mooning over her lost voice, or something, out in the fields by herself. First youve seen her today? The very first, answered the enevening meal. JnfertT&b'ottaf of the battle of New Orleans, the orator being Stephen A. Douglas, then senator from Illinois. Clark Mills, born In New York and early losiDg his parents, drifted to Charleston, S. C., where he obtained work in a plaster and cement mill. Art education he had none, but says Lorado Taft, in his History of American Sculpture, Mills Yankee wits were with him, and he soon discovered a new method of taking a cast from a living face. Then, resolved to try cutting in marble, he procured a block of Carolina stone, and commenced a bust of John C. Calhoun. Although unfamiliar with the professional methods, he Invented a system of his own, and succeeded in producing the best likeness ever taken of Calhoun. The bust was purchased by the city of Charleston, and Mills I was presented with a gold medal by the Common--' WASHINGTON VS. JACKSON IN BRONZE STIRS UP CAPITAL JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN IEUT. COL. CLARENCE O. SHF.R- U. S. A., Is the handy man, wizard or something like that Washington, D. C. He is the Presidents aid and is also in charge of the office of public buildings and grounds. So its his business to keep things tidy In the nations capital. Colonel Sherrill is certainly a busy man. His duties run the gamut from r Evto bridge-builde-r. ery day he Is called upon to act as engineer, architect, artist, interior and exterior decorator,, landscape gardener, tree doctor, florist, game keeper, fashion dictator, director of outdoor sports and censor of beauty, morals and safety. He in selecting sites for monuments, makes plans for their dedication and memorial, and keeps them cleaned and decorated. He causes public squares to bloom, fountains and bands to play, and sandplles to grow for the kiddies. He arranges patriotic parades and celebrations, issues permits and invitations, makes traffic regulations, erects pavilions, receives boy scouts, reviews high school cadets and serves on the floor committees of charity balls. Well, last spring some of Colonel Sherrills experts in metallurgy discovered that the bronze used in Mills statue of Washington in Washington circle, Pennsylvania' avenue and Twenty-secon- d street, was being badly corroded by the elements ; that the equestrian statue must come down-- , and have the moth holes plugged up, the horse being positively mangey. So derricks and tackle were employed in an attempt to get the general off his perch. George Washington was extremely sot in his ways. The statue refused to budge. So for days flares and torches, mallet and chisels, blazed and hacked away without result But at last the first president and his steed were slowly swung from their granite base and ignominiously rolled through the streets on a motor truck td a gondola freight car, bound for a repair shop In Brooklyn. Of course all this was watched by curious crowds. And no sooner had the statue been removed than this word went all over Washington -and the United States: Andrew Jacksons statue is to be removed from Lafayette square and replaced by that of George Washington in Washington circle! protest followed from A, roar of nation-wid- e Democrats. "Swap statues! Remove Andrew Jackson from his seventy-year-ol- d place of honor in Lafayette square overlooking the White House and replace him with George Washington Never, sir I Never I Its an outrage, nothing but the rankest sort of partisan politics. The storm broke when a story was printed that, in accordance with an expressed wish of the President,1 the office of public buildings and grounds, was seriously considering the change. One gloriously bright morning late last summer, ran the story of how the proposed idea was born, the President and two very high officials of the government were standing looking out of a north window in the east room. During a pause in the conversation the President is reported to have said, There is the finest view in WashingV ton. The fact that the statue of Jackson has for many years been the brunt of criticism and abuse e resiby visitors, and even some of the efhobby-hors- e of Its because dents, principally fect, was called to his attention, continued this He was asked If he did not think the .recital. view he admired so greatly could not be Improved by the removal of the Jackson statue and the erection in the center of the park of a more pleas-.inwork of art. When the suggestion was made to replace the .Jackson statue with the greatly admired Washington statue, which is so little known by the of the city and Is een by only a few of the visitors because of Its rather remote location, the president is said to have agreed most enthusiastically. He was familiar with the Washington statue. More than once he had paused to view it The office of public buildings and grounds was By LRILL, wealth. i weed-pulle- high-pow- 1 old-tim- g resi-.den- ts ever seen. At Washington, continues Lorado Taft, "Mills eagerly looked at the statue of Washington, by Greenough, and though he thought the anatomy perfect, he could not associate General Washington with the statue. The crowd of visitors, so far as he could learn, invariably condemned it for want of historical truth. He came to the conclusion while standing there thnt should he ever have an order for a statue the world should find fault for his giving too much truth and not for the want of it And It would seem that he carried out precisely this vow, when he created the very shortly afterward acquainted with this little conversation in the window of the east room and thus was planted the seed of an idea that will probably develop into an actual fact within the next twelve months. , This series of supposed events had been known in Washington only a few days when Senator Shields of Tennessee fired the opening howitzer. The lower house of the Tennessee legislature supported Senator Shields by passing a resolution opposing the deposition of the rugged old president. When Tennessee was being welded' into a state went to the Jackson, a young man of twenty-one- , new region as public prosecutor and was afterward always identified with Tennessee, dying at his famous place, The Hermitage, near Nashville. Have the American people forgotten that when the British in the War of 1812 burned the White House and tore down the American flag, it was Jackson who restored the White House and reerected the American flag? wrathfully asked S. , Fame followed quickly, and John Preston, a wealthy gentleman of Columbia, befriended the young artist. Mills started for Washington to see the statuary in the capitol, but stopped off long' enough Tn Richmond to view the Houflon statue of Washington. This was the first statue he had much-malign- ed Jackson statue. During Mills stay in Washington he was approached by the Hon. Cave Johnson, then postmaster general and president of the Jackson monument committee, with an invitation to furnish designs for a brpnze equestrian statue of the victor of New Orleans. Having never1 seen an equestrlat statue, the sculptor felt obliged to refuse the flattering offer. But, pondering over the subject. Mill finally resolved to produce a design, and the final result of his labors now stands in the center of the park opposite the White House. For nearly a year Clark Mills worked patiently on a small model on a new principle that of bringing the hind legs of a horse directly beneath tje center of its body, thus producing perfect balance. Mills bought land near Lanham, Md., and built a foundry and studio and as he was about to begin the melting and recasting of the bronze cannon from which the statue is made a gale destroyed his studio. Before he could rebuild it, the foundry was destroyed by fire. It was after all this, added to the breaking of cranes, the bursting of furnaces rnd six failures in the body of the horse that the first equestrian statue to be made by an American was completed. From his original designs he produced a replica for the city of New Orleans and directly afterward began work upon the Washington- statu" lately removed for repairs from Washington circle. And upon the completion of this work he cast the statue of Freedom, atop of the Capitol dome, from 1 designs by Crawford. of General, Jackson, statue Of Mills equestrian Lorado Taft has this comment to make: "Who today begrudges this brave pioneer his little meed of success? Let us hope he never became conscious of his defects. His grasp of his 0. Heiskell, president of the board of trustees in charge of The Hermitage. Another state with a claim to Jackson is South Carolina. There is still a controversy between North and South Carolina over which state "Old Hickory was born in. North Carolinians say that he first saw the light of day in Waxhaw, a settlement in Uniop county. North Carolina, but South Carolina says he was born on Waxhaw creek in Lancaster county, South Carolina. At any rate the South Carolina legislature passed a Joint resolution objecting to the removal of Jackson from the spot on which his war horse has been rearing these three-scor- e years and ten. Perhaps the legislature was stimulated by the editor of the Columbia Record, who three days before expressed the prevalent South Carolina idea v . on such a proposal, saying : The proposal to remove the Jackson equestrian statue is an outrage "on the patriotism of the men from whose midst Jackson came. He was the first of the great leaders and fighters to step from the log cabin to the top of political and military pedestals, and as such the republic honors him for it Of course the adherents of Jackson did not have the field to themselves. Many entered the controversy in favor of the change. There was every iprospect of a most interesting battle of opinions, to be carried on Into the next congress. And then think of the oratory pro and con . It seems a pity that President Harding had to go and spoil it all. But Senator McKellar of Tennessee wrote the President, asking his Intention. And of course the President had to tell, the truth that he had not the slightest intention of bringing about the swap in statues and never had. These two statues, many experts think, have many shortcomings from the viewpoint of art. Yet they are historic in more senses than one. The Jackson statue dates from 1853 and the Washington statue from 1860. The Jackson statue is the more famous of the two in fact is known the country over as Jack-so- n Much fun has been on his rocking-horsto poked at it. it is undeniably . say the least, as is also that of George Washington. Borglums statue of Sheridan is reproduced herewith for the sake of contrast and to show modem art in equestrian statues. In connection with these two statues of Jackson and Washington there is a most interesting story. The statue of Jackson'is the work of Clark Mills ), and is the first equestrian statue by an American. It was cast from cannon captured in the battle of New Orleans and was unveiled with great ceremony Jan. 8, 1853, the anniversary motif In subject is purely a mechanical one; his the statue, a problem in equilibrium. He had never seen an equestrian statue; there was none in this country to see. It seems at first thought strange that Americas initial performance in this line should be of surpassing audacity, but it is the of ignostory of all beginnings; the intrepidity roundrance; the inevitable approach In the most about way, and equally Important, the lack of genno notion or uinely artistic Inspiration. Having tr'eatmeni of a suspicion of dignified sculptural the theme, the clever carpenter felt nevertheless Perhaps he had heard of acneed of a feature. tion. At any rate, he built a colossal horse, adroitly balanced on the hind legs; and America gazed Nobody knows or cares with bated breath. like Jackson; the exlooks rider whether the attentraordinary pose of the charger absorbs all tion, all admiration. In comparison with the Jackson statue, the prothe digious congressional joke, Mills next effort, Washington statue, is tame. Instead of balancing the brazen steed on a single hoof, a logical sequence from previous effort, Mills, suggests Taft, gave his admirers a effect But whatever we think of Clark Mills the sculptor, w e owe a debt of gratitude to Clark Mills, our first professional founder o statuary. 1 e. Napoleon-crossing-the-Al- (1815-1883- I had. When in Valparaiso, South America, I could get it; and when I was as far north as a man could well go without going to the jumping-of- f I could get place Eigeworth I have an old briar that I have had for ten years and it never had a crumb of any Out Edgeworth m it. If that isnt going some, you tell me9 Yours truly, Ready-Rubbe- d. rain-soake- unbelieving. "It was any port in a storm, Paula said, her laughter music to hear. It was fate, King spoke solemnly. The storm drove you to me, oh, girl of my heart, because I wanted you so. Paula peered near in the darkness, to look into his eyes. she admitted, whimsically, Well, I did think you might be here. Ive watched you come other nights, and I had to go back to my career tomorrow. I have been determinedly trying to renounce anything that might make that career secondary. But there comes a time parting time, perhaps or in a storm, when one does not feel unto ones self. I had to know you before I could go away. Do you think, now', that I will let you go? questioned King. There Paula sighed contentedly. may be other storms in life, I suppose, she agreed. . (Signed) W. E. Bromley. If Mr. Bromley makes frequent skips from continent to continent, his record of keeping all tobacco but Edgeworth out of his briar is indeed noteworthy. Although Edgeworth does reach the far comers of the earth, there must be times when the supply runs low in Zanzibar and other remote districts. But as a rule Edgeworth smokers, wherever they are, generally manage to find a way to get Edgeworth, for they dont feel as if they are really smoking unless gineer. Supper hastily finished, he set out determinedly for the Brooks home. The ranch had been left to the young man by an eccentric but wealthy relative, upon condition that he make good there. Brooks wife had loyally accompanied her ambitious husband to She greeted King the mans land. gratefully. I am sorry, Mrs. Brooks regretted, when he frankly made his Paula will not meet errand known. anyone. She has been spoiled, I am afraid, by too many admiring friends or perhaps the disappointment about her lovely voice, after years of training, is wearing upon her. I hope, Brooks wife added, that you will not fall jin love with Paula, as men in general do. Shes as independent as she is charming and, heretofore, has cared for men only to lord 'it over them. Now, thats the truth. A low' laugh followed the warning and King looked up to see the one discussed standing, her cape across her arm, in the doorway. The blue eyes were twinkling now and she was entrancing when she smiled. Not as bad as all that, the girl amended. It is only that I am quite sufficient unto myself, so why bother? She was gone. In vain he tried to find her as he went his homeward way. During weeks which followed he saw her often in the fields lovely, always hopelessly aloof. The warning of his friends wife had not saved King; he was in love. At first he blamed the solitude for the constant haunting thought of her no other woman had so obsessed him. Then he realized that this was the miracle of love which must come to every man. His heart was heavy as he crossed, one evening, the stretch of barren land that led to the workmens cabin. At this hour they would have departed for the night and he might be alone with his overwhelming disappointment. Paula, the desired, Mrs. Brooks had told him, was leaving upon the following day, and she would thus pass out of his life with no word. He sat on a low stool at the back of the cabin and lit bis pipe. Absently he heard a downpour of rain upon the roof. Rain that swept in torrents across the empty spaces. d Into the shaking hut rushed a figure. Breathless, a woman's slender form dropped, as if in collapse, on the floor. King was there at once, raising the girl In his arms. I was crossing the fields, her voice panted, when I went out of my way, and when the storm came I found myself here. I was almost desperate when I found your cabin door and came in to be sheltered. Gently Kings arms closed about the tremhling figure. "Paula, he said, low and yet half place jumping-of- f i the tobacco comes from a tle blue can. lit- - If you are not an nity to ' Edgeworth.-Bmoke- r like an opportufind out if you want to be one, but would send your name and address to Larus & Brother Company, '74 South 21st , Street, Richmond, Va. You will receive almost immediately free samples of both Edgeworth Then Plug Slice and Ready-Rubbe- d. you can judge for yourself what you think about this tobacco that so many smokers claim gives complete : will include the name and address of your regular tobacco dealer with your request for the free samples, your courtesy will be appreciated, To Retail Tobacco Merchants: If If you your jobber cannot supply you with Edgeworth, Larus Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by parcel carton of any post a one-- or size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Ready-Rubbfor the same price you would pay the jobber. two-doz- en ed Old Truth Brought Home. What did you realize from the sale of your stock? I realized that there is one of us born every minute.--Judge- . There Is a vast difference between theoretical and practical religion. 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