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Show $ j Years Ago Occurred the Death Uf Of "The President Nobody Knows" 5: 1 .Z--Z T Gutenberg Did Not . Imprint Namo I r Johann Gutenberg ), the inventor of printing from tnov able metal types, never imprinted (1397-1468- 1 4 . Si do I fith -- jjflO that country. Carrying out a strict policy of in the affairs of foreign nations, he used stern measures to suppress filibustering, expeditions to the Latin American countries and with equal firmness exacted from other countries respect for our No- body Knows! That title could be nd not inappropriate-- L whodied ju American He month' this jji ago 13th j Hillard Fillmore, ' dent of the United States, rbe has been the subject biographies and less is devoted to him in the and diction-o- f biography than has the case with any other Chief Executives. So erage American knows (. little, if anything, about 'as a man or as a President. W was one of the most .opedias )Q i c af to ch, I luting characters who occupied the White at ith $ f r f Hy if loc ids by hi f ill for 7 I I h se i. m ed -- was born in a log cab-farin Cayuga county, a few miles southeast iTork, city of Moravia, on ary 7, 1800. Opportunities a education were limited in 'primitive schools which ex-- y in that 'region and which Fillmore attended less than t months of each year. There tao newspapers or magazines li- -. 'ile and his fathers consisted of only two e Bible and a collection In fact, it is said that Fillmore never saw a his-a- f the United States nor a i his country until he was 19 roc J Presi-Cjoccurr- ore it rii during his several events Standing importance in :rican history. it i and The Bomb in the Boxcar oldl ed He is sending by an officer of high rank in the United States navy, on the steam ship Susquehanna, one of the many hundreds of ships belonging to this great nation,, which now float over all seas bearing to all nations offers of peace and good will and serving also as means of defense and national power. Of the size of his country the I Mrs. Fillmore died soon after tne, Inauguration of her husbands successor on March 30, 1853. A year later their only daughter also died and in 1855 the lonely took a trip to England where he received numerous attentions from Queen Victoria and her cabinet ministers. Returning to the United States the next year he became a third by drafting the bill, passed in party candidate for the Presi1831, which abolished imprisondency when he was nominated ment for debt in New York. The by the American or Know Nothnext year he was elected to con- ing" party. In the election he gress and after serving one term, received the electoral vote of only retired until 1836, when he was He was again returned to Washington in 1838 and 1840 but declined a renomination in 1842. In 1847 he was elected comp troller of the state of New York and in his annual report for 1848 suggested the establishment of a national bank, with the stocks of the United States as the sole basis upon' which to issue its currency. Out of this suggestion grew eventually our present system of national banks. During this same year Fillmore again entered the arena of national politics. Conspicuous for his antislavery, views, he was chosen by the Whigs as their candidate for vice president and running mate FILLMORE for Gen. Zachary Taylor in the . ABIGAIL sentative from Erie county of that wing of the Whig party. In 1829 he was granted the right to plead before the state Supreme court and the next year he was reelected to the legislature. Fillmore distinguished himself e o ed - by to flower-stud-de- , green-carpet- ed d. seus wad sent to kill Medusa and bring back hei head. This he accomplished by watching her reflection in a mirror, thu avoiding the deadly glance, lie gave the head to Minerva, who wore it on her shield, turning to stone those she wished to destroy. - Chief Producer of Mica The United States is the world's chief producer of mica. bat-tallio- Fillmore was IS, he was deed to a wool carder and Jar and with his first wages ased a small English dic-ri- y which he studied while iing the carding machine. Je time he was 19 he had ntd to become a lawyer. His of apprenticeship had twe i years to run but he made rrangement with his employ thereby he agreed to relin- his wages for the last 'i services and also prom to pay $30 for his time. he made an arrangement Judge Wood of Moravia, a country lawyer, by which to to receive his board in ent for working in the of-began reading law tr the judges direction, and, supplement his .income, he Jrit school a part of the time. 123 he had learned enough to be admitted qs an attorney campaign of 1848. be court of common and after pleas of By virtue of his election to that one state, Maryland, life to his from retired even that county, public though he had office Fillmore presided over the completed the course of study United States senate during the law practice in Buffalo. In 1858 he married again, this heated debate in the session of 1849-5- 0 over the slavery question. time a widow, Mrs. Caroline C. Angered by the bitter language McIntosh. As the first citizen of used by the senators, Fillmore Buffalo, he was frequently called made a forcible speech announc- upon to welcome distinguished ing his determination to maintain visitors to his city, including order and declaring that he would Abraham Lincoln when he was on rescind the rule, established by hia way to Washington in 1861 to Vice President Calhoun in 1826, become President. He helped eswhich deprived the vice presi- tablish the Buffalo Historical sodent of authority to call senators ciety and, although he took no to order. Instead of resenting active part in the Civil war, he this encroachment upon their gave his support to the cause of procedure by an executive order, preserving the Union. the senators cheered Fillmore at Fillmore died in Buffalo on the conclusion of his speech and March 8, 1874, and was buried in directed that his remarks be en- Forest Hill cemetery in that city. tered in full on the pages of the His fame somewhat eclipsed by senate journal. that of another President whom Fillmore presided with equal Buffalo had given to the nation firmness during the exciting de- Grover Cleveland , it was not bate over Henry Clays omni- until recent years that its citibus bill which dragged on for zens honored him by erecting a weeks. -- Then -- the . controversy statue of .him within Its. bound a- ended - abruptly when- - President t ries. 9, 1850, and But it is different in. the little Taylor died on July senate city of Moravia. It is prouder of Millard Fillmore left-thto take up his new duties as Pres- the fact that it can call Millard ident at the other end of Penn- Fillmore its own than of the fact sylvania avenue. In accordance that it was the childhood home -1 with his wishes, the severest sim- of John D. Rockefeller. Old tim1 plicity marked his inauguration. ers there will tell you the traBufFillmore ia Fillmore faced one of the most dition of how the ambitious young difficult tasks ever undertaken by lawyer, not yet 21, first attracted a President. Already the United attention by his delivery of a which influence The required. States was a house divided Fourth of July oration Sroral to hearers of his some of caused Buffalo law against itself over the issue t whoseleading confidence he had slavery and his conciliatory poli- prophesy that he would make 1 was a mainly responsible for cies won him the condemnation his mark and perhaps become no though, wholejudge. Apparently, of both sides and the lnores"IatherwaJT thenHv-- i hearted approval cf neither. Due-tAurora and be went there the fact that his party was in that he would become President i?ein He won his the minority in both houses of of the United States! I cse practice. and for doing so was congress, many wise measures They will show you the rded with a fee of $41 But which he recommended failed to home on Smith street. atablet-erectcd....Portant thaa that pess- - lloweveiy the United States- marked for postA. to D. him R., which tells you career was an event which is indebted the cheap naof the house the thirteenth Place in 1826. extension this In the that for age, of President, Millard Fillmore, and cornerstone the tional capitol, h 'sing his term as an appren-be had met and fallen in which he laid on July 4, 1851 ; and Abigail Powers were married on with a young schoolteacher for extension of contemporary February 5, 1826. And they will of the West through take you outside the town to a be-fknowledge Abigail Powers. They exploring expeditions scenic spot which bears the name engaged before Fillmore varioushe authorized. of Fillmore Glen, now a state which to Erie county but he was donotable than park, where rushing streams that 7rnotthat for three, years he Even more were come internatumbling down the afford to travel the 150 mestic affairs clad slopes and flow forest to see her. In relations developed during j' February, tional meadows across He journeyed at last ta Mn- - the Fillmore administration. the fresh memory' of Milkeep tond they were married in sent Perry on the famous expedi-of lard Fillmore. For in Cayuga of her brother. Judge tion which opened the ports estabcounty, at least, he is not the Then Fillmore took his Japan to the world and President Nobody Knows! with relations ok to the home he had lished diplomatic i In classical mythology the Gor-go-ns were three sisters, Stheno, Euryaie, and Medusa, the last named alone being mortal Each hair was a serpent, their bodies were scaly, their hands of brass, their teeth like tusks, and their glance would turn a mortal to atone. Per- HOTELS h more. anti-Mas- on The Gorgons theres Falls in Fillmore Glen state park, near Moravia, N. Y. A few years ago there came to light in the musty files of the state department at Washington a document which wasaninter-estin- g echo of the foreign policy of President Fillmore. It was a letter which he sent m 1851 to medal. Thats what John thinks about it. He swears that w'hat Seyed Syeed Bin, sultan of Muscat, at Zanzibar in protest he did wasnt heroism at all. Well you can decide that for against the Sultans closing the But theres one thing Im certain of. lit may or it harbors of his country to Ameri- yourself. not been heroism but it sure was adventure! have can commerce. Written in the may Now lets take this yarn to Siberia and tag along with that little flowery style of the Orient, the bunch of American soldier who stayed over there after Uie war to letter pictured the United States with all the extravaganza of an clean up some of the tag ends of the Dig Unpleasantness. Two of the Twenty-seventInfantry were quartered at Dcrosovka, Arabian Nights Tale. to keep a bit of order In a land where both law and order had trying The letter opens with President broken down. The bandit leader, SemlnofT, with a large band of CosFillmore explaining that he is was plundering and looting and murdering in the region, using sacks, Chief Executive of the 31 United armored railroad train as a bast of operations. And on January 5, States of America, and enumer- an 1020, word came that he was headed toward Berosovka. ating each of the- - states. The message, the President says, he As lie Leaned Forward, There Was a Sharp, Ominous Click. w and the next year he was elected to the state legislature. At that timd the excitement was at its height and Fillmore Was sent to Albany as the repre- Hello, know, sometimes a lot of difference between what people may think of a man and what he thinks of himself. In the case of John Feen of Miami, Okla.,,for instance, there are people who think he is a hero. During the war, his officers were all for recommending John for decoration, because they thought a .certain brave act of Johns deserved a medal if any act of heroism ever did. But thats what the other folks think of it. Just between us, John doesnt share their views at all. In Johns own estimation hes just a doggone careless sap, and whatever happened was his own fault in the first place. Arid he deserved to be shot a heck of a lot more than he deserved a flag. But so unpopular did he make himself with the element in the North by his signing the bill which admitted California, thus virtually abrogating the Missouri Compromise, and more especially by his signing the Fugitive Slave law and his attempts to have it enforced, that the Whigs denied him a renomination in 1852. a During all his career-a- s statesman in Washington, his right hand had been his wife, who has been described as perhaps the most remarkable of the wives of our Presidents" and the wings by which her husMILLARD FILLMORE band soared so high. Finding the White House destitute of built for her with his own hands books when she became the and they began their struggle to of the Land," Mrs. First live on the meager earnings of FillmoreLady upon her husprevailed the young lawyer. band to obtain an appropriation To help her husband continue from Congress for a library in his studies, Abigail Fillmore went the executive mansion. So the back to school teaching. In 1827 famous collection of books in the Fillmore was admitted to the bar White House today is a perpetas a ual memorial to Abigail Fillattomey-at-lafull-fledg- everybody.-- FT anti-slave- ry rer hia name on1 any of hia works, eaya Collier Weekly, The first book to bear a complete imprint name ofi the printer, place and date waa tha celebrated Latin Psalter of 1457, which was published by a firm consisting of Gutenberg's Peter Sehoeffer, and his former partner, Johana ust. son-in-la- w, SCOTT WATSON President CLUB ADVENTURERS HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES O EOPLELIKE YOURSELFI C Weatera Newspaper Union. ii 6 . J&h nd Dictionaries of Biography Give Little Space to Millard Kllmore Yet He Most the of Interesting Characters Who Ever Occupied the White House and tfu One -Measures Were Passed During His Administrate ' T Kany Important ftj IjopedkM dr . President tells the Sultan: From the region of ice which bounds the United States on the north to the flowery land of the orange on the south is a journey of 100 days, and from the eastern shores, which receive the first beams of the rising sun, to those on the west, where rest his setting rays, is 150 days journey, and this immense country is not a sandy waste, but filled with populous cities, traversed by mighty rivers and crowned with lofty mountains. By railroads or in steamboats the citizens of this immense country pass from one place to another with inconceivable rapidity. From the seat of government at Washington I send my commands in a few minutes by the Lightning Telegraph, to all parts of the United States; and they are obeyed. I speak of these things not for the sake of boasting; but in the Spirit of Friendship and Peace, and that you may know that all parts of this country are open to you and your Ships and your people for the purposes of Commerce and Trade. I shall welcome in all, our ports the Ships which bear your flag. Having thus extended full hospitality to the Sultan's ships the President then chides his Great and Good Friend for not being so generous. How can you think to be just," the President writes, that while we open so many hundred ports to you, you should wish to confine us to a single port, or prevent our ships from going to all parts of your dominions. Great and Good Friend, this cannot be. Free trade everywhere is desirable, for so can the various productions of different countries best be distributed throughout the world. I hope the traffic of our country with yours Is mutually beneficial. I hope it will continue and increase." The flag of this country," he says, was treated by you and your people with disrespect, therefore. Consul Charles Ward left your court In this matter he acted rightly and I approve his course. He has shown me your letters in which you promise to listen to my wishes. If I send another Consul to Zanzibar, I expect that he shall be treated with equal honor as the consuls of other nations, and that the flag which he hoists, end which is his protection, shall have the same honors paid to it, as the flags of In nations. the these respects I esk for no superiority over other nations, on the part ef United States, neither can I admit any inferiority. were ordered to the field, and John Feen was in that gang, carrying a rifle and a knapsack full of hand grenades. Id like to tell you more about that scrap with SemlnofTs Cossacks, but thats an adventure story all In itself. All I can tell you hers Is that the Yanks waited for SemlnofTs armored train, blew up the track In front of It, and bombed and fought their way Into the cars. On the last charge John took what few grenades ha had left out of his knapsack Both battalions trap-Baati- FARM SEEDS JCO. KELLY-WESTEK- P. O. Bn 14i Salt Lata Malt aa paar brakaa Maaaa. Sarvtoa. pries. Eatiafarti a paarsatsad. OPTICAL SHOP. Baataa Bld- t- Salt Laka. W halaaala HOT CEREAL Par a Drlteloas Brrakfaat CKA1NS OP COLO with a That Taaatsd Ptarar. at all Crasma Nat-Llh- TRUSSES lartraawata. Sarftaal Haapltal Sappily Wanafaetarsrr af Akdoatlani Sap-Elas- tit Btookinpa. Tha Physic laaa Sapptp Campaap 41 W tn4 South St Salt Ulic Citr. Utah Be leaped forward and dropped ea the pile af coats. ICE CREAM FREEZERS Then the fighting was over and the Americans wera climbing Into the tiny box cars of a troop train that SODA POTTWT AINS ICE CKEAM COUM- TEE PEEEZEkfl and lea Craaia aahia had come out from Berosovka to get them. Staala. Cnrhanatara, Stsaca Ilf Ptaturaa, Tablaa. Bra waa Alaa raasadlttanad ayalpmant lernfc bail! tla a la the la the car John stove, la, the bays CO. Manafactarara peeled off their sheepakla eeata and threw them ta a pile ea the It Paat Offtca Plaaa - . Salt Laka dtp floor. Thea they flopped ea the floor aad tried to get a little sleep. The fire biased up, aad the little oar became an bearably bat. OFFICE EQUIPMENT The coats were close to the stove, and Jo ha waa afraid they'd be NEW AND USED daaha sad ahatn. Sla scorched. Do got ap to move them. As he leased aver aad typwrhrc, addlar acch'a. aafaa, hh mm S. L. DESK EX. U W. Draadwap. Salt Laka slipped his arm nmler the pile there waa a sharp, ominous orach, and instantly, every one of thooo tired men leaped to his feet. PHOTOGRAPHY They knew aQ too well what that ooaad wae a grenade, getUng PHOTO-KRAF- T ready to explode. Someone had left that grenade la hia coat ECONOMY FILM SEIVICE ; pocket, and John, la ploklng ap those casts, had accidentally Any Roll Developed with dislodged the pin! Z5e I Qsality Prints as men asked themselves Faces, says John, became wax-llk- e 3 - Prints Estta whoss coat It was, and how far down in the pile the bomb lay. We Wrap coia. and film carshilly were til praying It was on tha bottom whsra the whole pile of coats would SCHRAMM-JOHNSODRUGS cover 1L Then maybe some of us might havo a chance. If it wasn't Bos 749 e and handsoma in the crowded quarters of that If it blew up Salt Laka Clip. Utah '" little car the slaughter would be appalling. MINERAL WOOL Tba swaying boxcar seemed to creak the fatal words, Tea seconds to live . . . tea seconds to live Tea seconds more Iaazp-BjiSan thea nine then eight. The deep nimble af the wheels aa tha fsaL lafarmaliaa ? t a a. tracks below sounded like malfled drama and the wind outside Daalaaa waa tad. howled a mournful Litany of tba Dead. The tlay candle that ' 111 tba car flickered spasmodically for a moment and died. The gloom closed la and atill wo waited." Up to that time everyone bad been too stunned to move. A crowd 64 EJ So. Wes.3474 of doughboys stood motionless, waiting for death. John SJtUhG Feen was tha first one to reoover bis senses. Ue screamed to that A dozen broka and the at lie down bunch that men to heavy spell. . Baby bodies thudded to the floor. One man swore aloud. Another sobbed A Appr-rTmuA U. fillHia and a third muttered a womans name. But John was still on his feet ' II wpikini Lifhmi B4i He was standing right over that bomb, and for a brief second bis lips aad Pradaetkia UrL Maun tala Brad moved. He was praying. and Asallmalad and stuffed them In his pockets. MOSEE-HASTMA- N y- N PHOTO-KRAF- T high-wid- -- ya. ana-thir- d -- imb&eo: 11 tight-lippe- d Chicks Mi Johns Body Protects Others From Grenade Blast. prayer. Hatch-- 4 Produo-- 4 Eicht andr uiOT-YUi- Chick U rood-r-c. L-.J- elah-oratel- Copyright salt-wate- r eno-cell- IMiv-r-- 4 rnm--at Pandora, Fraih and State Vr aUrora. Eta. and priaaa. Cooperating ia THE NATIONAL POULTRY IMPROVEMENT PLAN" dollars ahead whoa Xou'ro tharo kamahav hied RAMSHAVTHATCHER1ES' Star Booth State Street Salt Laka City. Utah SALT LAKES Most Distinguished Apartment Hotel The BELVEDERE 29 Ui Stats Street -.- WNU torvico. Greek Soldiers Sponges Were Originally Used by tbe at- Strange though It sounds, sponges live and grow and die Just like say other animals. And because theyre animals, the fresh water waa their finish, observes the Washington Post. Actually, sponges as we know them arent sponges but The the skeletons 'of : sponges. of collection is a tiny sponge creatures who get together and build the skeleton. These cu O for Tour SUrERIOl TUEKIT POULTS Wrlt oall or olio lor froo otreateas -m- and promises to write him frequently. The letter ends thus: I have caused the great seal of these United States, the signal of truth and stamp of honor to be placed on this letter by the officer who is entrusted to hold it, and to use it on great and solemn occasions. Your good friend, MILLARD FILLMORE. By the President , Daniel Webster, Secretary of State. dtp. Utah EYE GLASSES REPAIRED ed these-businett- -m CHICKS BABY Jtul.'a Hanaon Chirk, ara br4 tor production. b, with earctul auparvialoa and manasem-n- L Cuatomara raport Ptoat ainney Biaktnv ehicka with laaa mortality and hu.ky Kula quality ehioka at laaa Trap neat Dr,id money. Galdaa tnp Farm. Kraano, California. GOLDEN Alfalfa aad Craaa Scads Writs for hamplaa and Prieaa. But It was only for a moment There was hardly any time for Three or four seconds mors and that bomb would be going And he bad a job to do before that happened. The prayer had hardly off. on that plla of coats his left hia lips when be leaped forward-drop- ped arms bugging them to him like a hen mothering her brood. That deadly sngine of destruction burled somewhera In that pils of coats might blow him to bits, but the other fellows in the car would hava a chance. One second twe seconds and tbea Utera waa a roar that . Mtsltd to Jobs os If It hod wme Irens the be we Is ef Hell Itself, Bright scarlet flashes streaked the taterlor at the ear. He felt the pile ef oeate heave beaeath Mm aad thea Jeha Just doesnt remember any mere. The first thing be remembers after that was that someone was lifting ftim. He beard someone else talking, and the words sounded faint, and far away, and hollow as If the maa who waa speaking them was talking Into a barrel. Slowly, consciousness came back to him. He opened his eyes. 'He remembered new that bomb I Anxiously be counted the white faces that were bent over him. They were all there, those buddies of his. He sighed in relief end fainted. joha woke up In the hospital at Berooovka a bit surprised bo was stm alive. He probably wouldnt have teen to find bomb hadnt been down at the bottom of the pile If that alive of eeato thick sheepskin eeata that stopped the flying bite ef steeL As It waa, hie arm wae shattered and full ef bits ef corrugated etal-eBdJt would. have toeome eff. alters from thc amputation was he while recuperating few A later, redays out of the way, the President be waa going turns again to pleasanter affairs. of that arm an officer came to hia bedside and told him to lay off. officer told that John but decoratloo for recommended to be He commends and congratulates AH he deserved he think He any. medals. didnt want didnt Ho any the Sultan on his enlightened supwas dqv hls.duty.tft y had. done was what .hf knew darnel wfffjt. the slave , trade, pression! You see, he says, It was my coat pocket that held that grenade! extends his best wishes most-favor- HOTKL PLANDOMK. SALT LAKB 4th H. Rataa II.M, HAS Slat HI. qilIKT KLSPP.rTABl.K CI.KAN WhMi ta KKNtl, N XV AO A. atap at tha HOTEL GOLDEN Haaa'a lar,aat aa4 Mt popular Mlrl. rious animals first attracted the tention ef the Greeks many years ago. Grecian soldiers wore metal helmets and ghln guards and cursed at the blisters they raised. Then someone dove Into the Mediterranean. came up with a sponge and discovered It would make a good pad. Sponges were used for bathing then, too, and also as floor mops and brushes. ATTRACTIVE RATES IV DAY, OR WEEK MONTH Cshria O. Jack YCJR . t |