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Show THE SALINA SUN. SAUNA, UTAH May Be the Temporary White House christened her The Pilgrim. It more or less of an adventure, you Lnov something rarely done, sailing about all alone. So I thought The Pilgrim a good name for her. The Pilgrim boasts simple, homely There's nothing elabconveniences. orate about her, but she is furnished adequately. Two large bunks, a desk, and a little cook stove are her principal furnishings. A compendious log SCOTT WATSON By ELMO b'CK is nearly filled with names. in the summer and South the winter sails the captain, planning to keep Just ahead of the cold wentber and the gales. When the captain dropped anchor in Portland harbor a few weeks ago he was headed for the Southern coast, taking advantage of the mild skies of In-- North in NE of the favorite beliefs of the American, probably bepeople cause of the subtle flattery of their intelligence trGirit which it implies is that Girt Lincoln once said, You j can fool all the people sj some of the time, and T some of tiie people all the time, but you cant fool all the people all the timp. Although some persons confuse tills quotation with P. T. the people like to lie fooled, out of every hunprobably ninety-nin- e dred who have occasion to quote tills epigruin believe Implicitly that the words are Lincolns. But did Lincoln ever really Ray it? tev. W. E. Burton, probably the best- - 1 ! dian summer. "I have to see America first, he When cold weather sets explained. In Im going to point her nose to the West Indies, load up with curios, and take a trip back to the old country. From England Im going to drop down the French and Spanish coasts to the Mediterranean. It's a great sea, the Mediterranean, and I want to sail her again before I die. Captain Drake has never been married. The sea was his only bride early in his youth. It has been his companion through middle age. It will be his nurse in old age. 1 If Bnr-nut- New York. which is being piomiuenuy lucuUoued es temporary executive mansion while the White House is undergoing extensive repairs, starting March 5 next. It was in this hotel that President and Mrs. Coolldge made their home while Mr. Coolidge was vice president hu Wlllsu 1 liot el In Washington, late John Dickinson Sherman, feature writer for the Western Newspaper Union until his death in 1025, then Hyde Iark correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, and his friend, Clarence P. Dresser, Ilyde Iark correspondent of the City Press, succeeded in boarding the Vanderbilt special when It Louis llyman, leader of element In the union, has a new grievance. He was seated In his office drafting a denunciation of Morris SIgman, leader of the victorious right wings, when a motley group of Invaded his peace and announced they were ready to be fed and cloak-make- rs stopped at Michigan City, Ind for water. After tiie train was on Its way they were admitted to Mr. Vanderbilts private car and granted an interview. In the course of the Interview Mr. Sherman put this question to the railroad mngnate, Do your limited express trains pay or do you run them for the accommodation of the public? "Accommodation of the public! exthe public claimed Mr. Vanderbilt, be damned ! We run them because we down-and-oute- Sails All Seas in Small Schooner laws stripped him of his clothes and his few valuable possessions. For two weeks he was kept prisoner, locked up in a filthy cabin with little food. Arrival of federal troops delivered him when the bandits fled, leaving him behind. From Mexico 1 mode my way back to Frisco, the captain relates. It was a hard, long journey with a Job for a day or two here and there and finally a ship wltich landed me safe inside the Golden Gale. Builds the Pilgrim, After a few days In Frisco I got a ship to Seattle. Back home again, I worked for a time. I scraped a little money together and built this boat. It took me five months. Everything you see about her is hand made. When she was done and ready to sail I Lone Rover Hasnt Even Cat or Dog for Company on His Schooner. Portland, Maine. Fifteen years ago Capt. Thomas Drake of Seattle, Wash., rode out of the West at the wheel of a jaunty little schooner, made by his own hands. And ull these years bus the lone rover sailed the seas. Alone he stands the watches. Not even a oat or dog sails to keep him company. And Captain Drake Is happy and. carefree at sJxty-thre- e years. His will is the wind's will and his home a little schooner. rocking, In ports all up and down the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the Indies his ship is known as the best. Ue takes life as he finds it with each rising sun, picks up a few cents here and there selling shells, coral, beads and knick-knacksets his sail and travels on to the goideu port on the horizou.. Captain Drake Is a sturdy little man. standing exactly live feet In Ills sucII is face is brouzed tion sneakers. liy the salt spray ; his muscles, steely ; his eyes, clear. lie is slightly lame from an injury received years ago when lie fell fioin tl.e mast of an old coaster and broke a hip. But he still is sprightly. Born in England. The captain was burn at Gravesend, England, with the smell of salt in ills nostrils. The county of Kent has raised many great men of the sea and tales of tiieir exploits were the captain's heritage. His earliest memory is of the great white sails of the schooners slipping up the Thames toward London, their holds filled with merchandise lioin all parts of1 the world. The family moved to the United States when the captain was a small hoy, but the love and tradition of the sea were instilled in him and with his first long trousers he answered the call. But with the passing of the stately schooners and the achent of steam the captain became restless. The snap of a sheet in a good wind was life to him. It wits then lie built his own craft and put to sea as a sailor should Ills first craft was the, Sir Francis which met grief oil the coast of Mexico five years ago. A mighty gale picked tiie little ship up one black night and cast it against a reef. Tiie captain, clinging to wreckage, was washed ashore, only to fall into the hands of Mexican bandits. The out 35-fo- . nec-e-nr- shouted Mr. nymaa Goniffs! Chasirs ! Shroletzes ! Why didn't they say thered be free ham sandwlchesl You You came to the wrong place. better see Sigman. Hyman last night had not located the joker with certainty. Air Fatalities The total number of death! the British air force in eleven months was 73. The air ministry afc tributes most of them to errors ol judgment by pilots. London. In T. SHERMAN "War Is hell!" GEN. W. Informed man on the life of Lincoln today, whose investigations gave to the world last year tiie truth ubout Lincolns famous Bixb.v letter, recently set out to learn the truth about the fool the people quotation, which Is said to hnve'boen uttered at Clinton, 111., between tiie second and third Joint debates with Douglas. His conclusion in the matter, ns given in an article in a recent issue of the Dearborn Independent, is Incorporated In the following statement : To my mind the strongest negative argument Is not that so few people remember hearing Lincoln say those words, but that, if he really said them at Clinton when Douglas was not present, he did rot repeat so apt a phrase In one or more of the five remaining Joint debates. He missed five excellent opportunities to use effectively an undeniably pat expression. Nevertheless I Incline to the belief that Lincoln actually used those words ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY You may fire when ready, Gridieyl ment has been attributed to the editor of the Tribune erroneously. But so fully does he concur in the advice It gives that he Indorses most heartily tiie epigrammatic advice of the Terre Haute Express and Joins In saying, Go West, young man, go West ' Admiral Dewey,' standing on the bridge of the Olympia at the battle of Manila bay and watching the oncoming Spanish fleet, remarked quietly, You may fire when ready, tirld. ley. come So says history, and it has be- one of our favorite quotations. But In an interview published in the Chicago Evening Post of October 29, 1899, Dewey is quoted ns saying that tiie American policy toward Agulnaldo should he 'straight from the shoulder with plenty of force behind it, that he did not tell Gridiey to fire when ready, nnd that he does not wunt to he Presl dont ADMIRAL W. 8. SIMS We can 6tart at once. We preparations on the way. And it is now known that Per did not stand before the tomb,. made They do not pay. We have tried again and again to get the different roads to give them up ; but they will run them und, of course, as long as they run them, we must do the have to. j '.AlAVO- h k&V Ir - - same. tit J jjVv ta. id . .. - CORNELIUS VANDERBILT The public be damned! I lei man Ilieili. vvt-i-i know n ' ir venter of Germany, with the perpetual motion machine which he claims will run true to Its name. No fuel is ueessury and it can give three times as much power as a steam engine. LOCATIONS OF HEROES OF 76 Metropolis, 111. The Daughters of the American Revolution have begun campaign to determine the location of graves of veterans of the American Revolution In cemeteries and rural graveyards all over the country. The D. A. R. is asking that all graves be reported that they may be properly marked. It is believed that more than TOO veterans of the .American Revolution are buried in graves in southern Missouri, and that many could be located in southern Illinois end other y sections of this s'ate, should the vigilance and attention he given in searching for them. Following a line of careful inquiry ud investigation here the fact stands revealed that this county (Massac) is floor. Perpetual Motion Once Again D. A. R. IS SEEKING THE BURIAL Campaign to Mark Graves Leads to Search of Cemeteries In All Parts of Country. lodged. Why should I feed and lodge you? demanded he. Because you advertised, said oh, producing a handbill. Come all you children of the Lord, it commanded, to the greatest philanthropic institution of New York and vicinity. Free judging, at the building of the previous Joint board, cloak and dressmakers union. Coffee and cakes served free. See Mr. L. Hyman, building manager and philanthropist, on the sixth ABRAHAM LINCOLN can fool alt tho people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time. "You Joker Sends Hungry Mob to Strike Leader the left wing ernte Veterans camp of New York on January 20, 1903. It lias never been found in any of Shermans saying or writings. So there you arel Iiorace Greeley was not the first to say, Go West young man, go West! although history soys that lie did. The nmn who first said it was John L. IL Soule, editor of the Terre Haute (Ind.) In an editorial about the Express. Wests opportunities for young men he dec' a red that norace Greeley could never have given a young men better advice than contained in the words, Go West, young man. This wa stated merely as , Soules opinion ef what Greeley might hare said, but newspapers all over the country repeated tiie saying and credited It to Greeley. Finally the famous editor of tiie New York Tribune reprinted Soules editorial with this footnote: The expression of this sentV the honor roll as a. place that has two veterans of (he American Revolution buried within its boundaries; one of these being John Smith, the other Ned Both these men Henderson. served In the Iievolutlenary war In North Carolina nnd in Virginia, and following its close emigrated to Illinois and, with their wives and children, settled in this county, 15 miles north of here, near what Is now the town of New Columbia. Henderson lies burled in the old Henderson graveyard, two miles west of New Columbia, the cemetery taking its name from the Henderson family, and Is the oldest graveyard In this section. Henderson has three now living here; other relatives died long ago. Rmhh lies burled In what is known as the old Wilson graveyard, one and a half miles east of the present little tovvu of New Columbia, 15 miles north on of here. , A lone cedar is all that marks the spot. Postmaster U. E, Smith of Metropolis, 111,, Is a great of John Smith, American Revolution veteran of this county. Mack and Calvin Smith of this county are also and one Mrs. J. 11 Cagle, Is a resident of thii place. great-grandso- n Kentucky Has Prize Fat Boy; Is Still Growing Carlisle, Ky. America's prize fal for ids age was a visitor In Carlisle. The boy Is Meredith Taylor, four and one-hal- f years old and tipping the beam at 125 pounds. He n still growing. He is the son of Charles Taylor of the headquarters section of the county. Meredith wore a pair ol size 42 overalls which were a trifle small for him ; a size 17 shirt and a cap. He Is almost as broad as he Is tall. In, spite of his huge size he Is able to get around In play as will ns most other youngsters, and has a keen desire for active game boy 7i and at Clinton. The evld&nce is far from conclusive, but It la not lacking In probability. Jt sounds like Lincoln, and the occasion alleged is one In which the words might appropriately have been used. But If Lincoln never spoke this clever apothegm, then It would almost seem possible to fool all the people all the time, for all the people, virtually, believe these words to have been Lincoln's. If the people remember that Lincoln sold they couldn't be fooled all the time, because they like to believe that, then the public well rememliers that it was once damned by a Vanderbilt, probably because of popular prejudice against Wall Street and men of The public he damned money. phrase Is one over which there has been much dispute. It is usually, and erroneously, ascribed to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, and members of the Vanderbilt family have often denied that It was ever uttered by oue of their number. There has also been some dispute as to the circumstances under which it was uttered, but the facts in the case are these : In 1882 William II. Vanderbilt, son of the Commodore, was on his way to Chicago on a special train. The ever say, Did General Sherman War is hell !? Recording to one version, he made tills historic declaration at a reunion of his brothers brigade at Caldwell, Ohio. Another says that he uttered It at the graduating exercises of the Michigan Military academy at Orchard Lake, Mich., on June 19, 1879. The epigram, say some, Is only an abbreviated quotation, the full text of which Is, 1 am lired nnd sick of war. Its glory Is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded, who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desoOthers main- lation. War Is hell! gen. JOHN J. PERSHING "Lafayette, we are here I an appropriate gesture and say, Lafayette, we are here ! That yarn originated when Colonel Stanton of Pershings staff stood before the tomb and said, Lafayette, nous somme la I But It was soon tacked onto the commanding general, and even Bresident Wilson In a speech before tiie Frencli chamber credited it to Pershing. Tho general himself has denied that he ever said it, as he has denied that hot offer of American troops to General Foch was made in t lie form of the All that we have is yours. However, he did say in 1917, Ger many can be beaten, Germany must be beaten, Germany will be beaten." When a British admiral asked Admiral William S. Sims when thu first division of American destroyers could he ready for business, he replied, We can start at once. We made prepnra- F WaV the DeW' tloMS OI ,h HORACE GREELEY tl.e time. But at it reported papers Go West, young man, go Went ,etter t the New York Ttme,. tain that Fherman never said It hut dated February 21, 1919, from London, that the expression was first used by the ndrniral denied positively that the Charles Francis Adams at tiie thir-- 1 question was ever asked him or that teenth unuuul dinner of the Confed- - he ever made that reply. History and legend are vague in reciting the details of their personal history. Tiie lover's festival Is apparIt Is a jiopular error to assume that ently to be connected not with the February 14 is to he associated with birthday of these holy men but with a single saint. The day belongs to no an early pagan festival thnt was part in the fewer than seven of the Roman Lupercalia. The medieecclesiastical calendar, and val custom In England nnd on the tiie end of an eighth is venerated at continent was to put the names of tills time. They came from France, joung men and women in a Jar and Belgium, Spain end Africa, and tiie draw them out on Saint Valentines LeM known members of the group were eve. Those whose names were thus and a priest of linked had to make presents to each of Ur-bria Rome, hot!) of lie Tiiiid enitury, A. I). other and agree to be each other's his-torl- j for the ensuing year. P.y women were released from the obligation to make gifts and only the men sent presents or missives expressive of affectionate sentiment. valentines Saint Valentines Day tit-ho- nnd by the Famous English River Caesar says that at the time of Ids invasion of Britain the River Thame In lkigland was called Tnmesis. Other early writers call ft Tamesa. In early Saxon times the river was called a , Thaniis." The Thames above is called Isis." oxford often |