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Show BRISBANE Tlie GRAPHIC; BIJ5LE " "thisaveev IS irnJ ( No Perfecl Crltti A Heavenly 400 Fighting Ore flirsf By ELMO SCOTT VVATSQN CEN.TLYprtsj REpatches chronicled" '.dis- 'tiie k'L ! news that Johtr DRockefeilc?, , . Jr., who has alreadyspent $14, 000, (XX) for. the restoration .pf Williamsburg, Va.; to its .original --appearanco as'.a' Cplqnial American town, had made an- -' other magnificent torifribulion toward its becoming a Rvin'g rtruff. WT Vv' j , , .a collection' youth t : that time the restoration ol tbt (V lonral capital of Virginia was In tts early stages, and Mr, Rockefellers purchase of the collection was made with .this work In InlrtJ. It will augment' the historical resources AV.SW. m ancient French This drswing, mads from ttsfotaUon is ;tomplt. for map, shows how the city of Williamsburg wiU look whcik tft ' . . tion resulted In the houye of tiese. ry Welherhurn's biggest bowl of k . gasses.. being officially dissolved. punch. e Then the. legislators wcent down ' Kalelgh tavern wai ttfk'e fined as the street to the Apollo room In , an assembly" place for the house of th Rafelgh tavern. governor the .when burgesses, Besides the capital and the 'dissolved the assembly for discuss-Jn- g the most Important building In disloyal, petitions aijd resoluColonial times whs the governors tions, Including the declsloR to set palace' whlcli stood at the head of aside a day.for fasting and prayer the Tala.ee Green;" a broad avenue In 1774 when pew of the blockade of Boston harbor was received, ThU rurfnlng north from Duke to Gloucester street It wns begun In 4705 tavern Is also ;c.redlt(J with being and completed during the governor- the blrMiplnce of Phi .Beta Kam, ship of Col, Alexander. Spntswood, the first chapter of Ihe wel known founder of the romantic "Order of scholastic fraternity being estate the Golden Horseshoe," About 1751 Hshdr there on December. 5, 1T7(h ft wttk reconstructed on a more spa- might, tjcell he called romance of IdealMur In an era of eonimerchlly minded materialism." tlu? story of the vision Rack of It of tao tnene minister ami a The minister If Rev. philanthropist. .William A. k.. Goodwin, rector of the I.rutan Parish church In who originated the Idea The more than thirty years ago. philanthropist Is John D. Rockefeller, Jr whosq response te .the challenge that "a land without a bur-- 1 col-.leg- e, I cious scale. This was during 'thp governorship of Robert Dinwiddle the plnwlddle who sent a certain young MaJ. George Washington on thd mlRRlon to the French on the Ohio river wtlch led .to his taking part In the ltraddock tragedy and the Vert Necessity- adventure. The next occupnnt 0 thd pnlace after Dinwiddle wns Francis .of whom Thomas Jefferson, t then a at the college, was 'a not only with the governor but wltl th belles of Anoi-he.Williamsburg. fs well. fesIn doelnl the gay participant tivities .at the palace was- - Oeorge Washington, who took bis bride, Martha Dandrldge CustlR,"on a . honeymoon trip to WllllnniRhuY-gWashington also dined' there .wft-Lord Dunnmro, die last Brltlsl) governor of Virginia,. before the break camei betyveeq the colonies and the mother country.. When that break came "My Lord Punmore" collected his men, went to the lowdcr Horn (built' by Colonel Spotsvrod In the Rquare. and still standing), took tlfe colonys supply if powder and muskets and silently stole on board. ship under pover 'of night. Whereupon .a certain Patrick Henry from Hanled. a pnrty WHJIninf, Nc.y Kent and over, King Charles City couhtles- to demand the arms hack again, lie didnt get them, but he did force from the govefnor a pnymenf of 320 pounds munitions, which he 'took with him to' Philadelphia- later and deposited Ip the treasury of the Cobtlnobtnl congress. Aud after ijunjnore had finally fied the colony It wns Patrick Henry who occupied '. the- pnlace ns governor. Firu-qul- . Plan Yorktown Campaign jimuj jT er . wf y ij,i w ,' "vv p ' A - Raicigh Tav.ern. memory ts a land without a hope" was to otter tlu munry for the fes tnrutlon and to give "Doctor Good-- , win a freehand In bringing It about. As' a result, ovot an nmi of Rome-IhlA- g like a in lie .square, all Is new hits bo.en, or Is being! removed iirifl all that Is old put hack ,as nearly ns possible ns It wns mord than s centnry luul a .half .ago. M'fe . than- - 4 ID . modern buildings Iinw beqn vazisl, 'f,7. old pirns restored ami ST volujlit m idj foundations. , , Ma-rKe- - Although Y11llnmhnrg Is- a .small cliy l)s population- - probably tjever exceeded tin. present figure of some It Is doubtful if tlrcre'ls 17SH town- - In America with which There are a Qreat' many mil. .there have been associated historic .names. . have Itary reports of. Gen. George Wash. known stjeh notables as Washing, Ihgton ..written "by his aljdes and signed by him In regard .to ex. ton, J.e(TeVson Monroo,' John 'Maf. . change of prisoner and other shall, Hat rick Henry, Benjamin matters, Including the capture of Frnnkll.n; Geftrge Rogers Clark, Rocha mjien'u,' Ufnyette, Goorge MaMaJ, John Andre at a British spy. son,.' George Wythe, the Randolphs. The Wav Ends! and. a host of others whose cables .are a part of our Colonial letter of. George Washingtons and. ltevolutlon'ar'y war' history. , Got-to addressed 17S3, 21, April 'Ihe site of Williamsburg was ernor Clinton, a mistake for Sir Guy Carleton, one of the. British originally known .' as the Middle commanders, notes the cessation of Plantations, in 1 fill!- - Sir. Francis NWliolsoft, at various times governor of Virginia, Maryland and Acadia, laid put r town Jhpjre end nh'med it in honor of King William. Ills firt lntenllim wijs fo honor his roverijlgn by laying out tbe Streets lfi the form uf a monogram qf IV and Nl, but twp ravines Interfered Vlth'hls purpose. Sd.the (dwn was built aloflg n main street which Ko named Duke f Gloucester street, honoring the short Ijved prince, .QtiMv Anne's blJest son. Two par-allktn'ets he na.ioed.' Francis and Nlcludson, honoring Mmself I Cross streets were lunged Nassau, King, lfllace and Queen streets, and the y the-Lfe- r parallelism bMiildud slreets mqyks the restorathm. jttie prfs-en- j . A Famous Architect In these .by atvaof ' ! a 1C13 Uicre.was built ai. the enj of Duke of Gloucester Btrjvt the College 'ot William and .Mary which was chartered by the Joint sovereign of England after whom Itwas named. At that time a building deslgped by the famous Sir Christopher Wreh was .already standing,' as was the Rruton Tarish church. In li9 the government of the colony of Virginia was moved from Jamestown to Williamsburg and the day of Williamsburg's glory .wes'f Elm Arched Nicholson Street hostilities and provided for the re. lease of prisoners. The letter Is noteworthy for Its courtesy of An excerpt follows: "Re-speeting the other subjects contained In the Inclosed resolution of Congress, as they may be discussed with more precision and dispatch by a personal conference than by writing, I have to propose a per- began:' sonal Interview between Tour ExAt the other end of Duke of Gloucester etreet wae erected the cellency and myself at some convenient time and Intermediate place first building In the United Statee sneb as may be agreed upon by officially designated Capitol." It I would only waa the seat of the council and the Tour Excellency. in of that time nggest point burgesses of the colony from 1701 the earliest date that Yonr Ex- - until the opening of the Revolu 1 ... ' . ' MARTHA CUSTrS Yorktown' there,. Jt- was bull? !n 1753 and Its owner twenty years later, George Wythe was a- Signer, of Ihe Declasatlon.of Independence. Jlijssott hall, one of the finest buildings In tbe town, Btnnds at the end bfi a long hike of trees. It was theproporty of B.urwe-1- an-cle- at whosd uode, George Haa-set- t, Wushlng-tpn- , Baa--se- g Wilson-.Mile- ''" - - half-savag- river-land- e s - mnlnfid, Its architectural - . vat-le'- - . design U render at Vincennes, was sent to Williamsburg as a prisoner of war and wns confined In the old Jail there which still stands, having done Its duty as a prison for more than 200 years. In this prison, too, had been confined some of the associates of the notorious pirate, Black Beard, who were executed In 1718. Incidentally these pirates were contributors (unwillingly to the cause of higher learn. on the account books of for Ing, the College of William and Mary almost as It was originally. In this building George Washington studied and received his eertlfl-- . cate ad a surveyor, and It also' housed three other Presidents, Jefferson, Monroe and Tylett and the great first chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall.. In their student days, 'The foundations o'f th4 first thear ter In America, built in 1718, are being used again for erecting a new' building as a replica of the original The theater contributed to, the gaiety and fashionable life for was known which Williamsburg when It was the Old Dominion cap Williamsburg, which already has been restored. Is the Raleigh tavern. The ordinary" In this tavern was operated In Colonial times by Henry Wetherbnrn, whose wares were so favorably known that William Randolph sold 200 acres of land to Thomas Jeffersons father for Hen house of burgesses, in which the momentous legislative acts of the prerevolutionary period were engrossed. It was a familiar working place for many of the orators and statesmen whose names are forever linked with American Independence. stands the fact that 300 pound Ital of the original subscriptions for At the other end of the Duke of credited ere founding the college Gloucester street, facing the college to certain pirates." a mile away, stands the orignearly One of the famous buildings of inal little ofilce of the clerk of the Wtrn Nr wspapor Tiiloa, - 1 y tea-tim- - - - ,- . - one--sixt- buO-eeed- prob-abl- . - postponed . : - . s y T - tt feridg TUB beginning God cre. tweett th Continents sted the heaves and earth." ABRAHAM the chief physical . t With Shaf event the Bible attraction .may have been its . etorj' opens, and with that fertility; but later the veglon was event, too,- this atlns of the Bible found to posses quite knother amt shoqld commence. But bow Is one wn iltuated to draw s map showing Just where greater virtue. ?l as- t become la later years the lji space the heaves and. earth were the ancient world,' . formed? Indeed, how Is one td draw very center ef TJi f eldeh time empires greal maps showing where ahy ef the sp cither la Africa ea the . eretftiMn the first chapters ef Gen- grew bank of the Nile, ef In Asia oq esis occurred? Where, for Instance, '' ' of th Tlgrl and the bank the was the Garden ef Eden situated, . In or a the . Europe or the Lajid of Nod, er the Tower Euphrates,of Babel?- That Is why this atlas Mediterrapena coast; and the only fifm and open highway between begins eot with the first but with these three region ran. through rat . the eleventh chaptef of Genesis, estlne. wherein ire recorded the firgl wanThe tittle land fay TIke'a .brldgo . ., . dering of Abram. . between the continents, for a one Abram Tatef tamed Abraham side of It wae the Great Sea, and was the father ef the Chosen on the other side stretched the , Ieople. He came of on ef the Great Desert1 Therefore Palestine, f bedouin many tribe conld hot help but become the most who enc roved n the rringe of rltal hit of '. territory In the ancient the fertile which stretch world. Every trading prince and like huge crescent acros th conquering king had te pas. nor.th of the Arabian desert Ills . through tt at some time of another, original home seems to have- been and the country never ceased to . Ur of 'the Chaldees, which lay at ring with the tramp of caravan the extreme eastern end of this and armies. And thus is explained : "Fertile GrescenF; but when a good deal that the descendants of grown to manhood he trekked with Abrahnnt were destined te learn the rest of til tribe hundreds of and suffer in 'Palestine. ' miles np 4htf River Euphrates 0 ' Settled on the bill overlooking' .. which to- the highway from Egypt to Mesopo llaran, .In Fadap-Aran- j day I tn the region of Aleppo). tamia, they could watch the pageThere-- ' Abraham and bis tribe setant-of the Gentile nations as it tled down and lived In the manner streamed by incessantly, for' the . t folk of world was forever In (heir tnldst, ' . pf all the other pastoral ' the time. ; . But that had tt grave' dlsndvnn Gut aftef few., years, Abram, tagps, for tt meant that the' chll ' ' at the command of God, atruck off drert or Israel were never left alone,' . ' With Ms own household and settled It was a Impossible for' them to' far south in Canaan For God had live, tn peace in. Palestine as It . " told- him that 'Canaan would be the would he to a picnic .in the ' homeland of id descendant. middle of Broadway, - Ron-o- f - QEORGE WASHINGTON Canaaft Wai th N Bishop St.ewart, Episcopalian, of Chicago, thinks immortality may be limited,Only those who have definite relationship to God through thr Spiritual life may be eligible for immortality, end . other souls cease to exist upon death." This- Important suggestion of Si , celestial "four hundred" will appeal ' to 'many that .might oot care to1 meet,-- ' lu .heaven, the cave man Now Canaan, w hich IS the scene , with low. forehead, protruding Jaw, Of almost 'all our ctaFy, wus a tiny a vocpbClary of the bilshman with ' country. Indeed, ,lt was Util more 15(7, words, of ell. the repentant tlihn- a ytTlp of .grassland e the thieves, murJereyS and trust magedge, of tire desert. Even wheji we antes. think of tt a. PaleRilne; or the U l conceivable, that selection, Holy 'Land, anU add to It the hill-- ' of the celestial few might be east of the River J!rdar, country e few million years, until the whole area ts still not even real civilization shall, have. Vegua tlyt of England' and Walqs. This the poison, gas age... ' IqaAnierlcfl lW entjre land cuuU be'tmflied pway 4n th little shite ' Rivers bare plajred-aImposta'nt of Vermunt.- From notth to south part 1b the world'' history and 1b It measures rilttle more thair 150 wars. The Tigris and Euphrates, miles, and from the Modlterfannaji creating fertile Mesopotamia, and on the west tp the desert across the ancliMif Nile, with ft rich "Jordan on thetfist It is never the regularly coated- with Nile mint, mrfre 100 miles wide, in a made the first civilizations possible. motor-ca- rthan you can conveniently travMen .fought through th 'nes el from end tfi end of tlie country about those two rivets, end '.today e .between breakfast and today ' rivers-- ' p till cause war. ia Europq I . the. Rhine border may cause .repeVet though small, Canaan. Was tition of.thp big wan. in Africa, tbe coveted bqcnuse It was Bljfe Nile, fed by Ethiopia's Lake greatly moist and frulifut Comyrnred with, T'ana, breeds' bitter hatred between the desert dn the least and .soath.lt ' England and Italy,' , ,, seencd Indeed "a land flowlpg- - wlth milk and honey. Even today, when Charles Lamb tplls of a Chinese In climate and Idng neglect change gpptlemnn whose house burned and fiave madeIaleslJpe not Nearly so of a pig so marvelously ronsled that a It must .have bedn' fmr fertile tWenfter ydgs wrrfi locked In thousand years 'ago, It still seem a houses, the houses burned fei- the blessod 8po"t to one coming In from sake of the roust-piHie desert. Vineyards and oliVe That It recalled by, lady qpder clamber up Its hillsides, and ' groves arrest lh Ie.nsacola, Fla, Sheriff In Its valleys. Evrich grows grain Gandy charges she tried twlce to and goats find .wTeck a passenger train' to kill her erywhere the, sheep and at least a lit-- , to nibble, husband, the cnglheer. It is alleged grass W drlnfc and thrive xmritee water (le that the plat failed because the . wrong spikes wwre putted from thb fart' Twb longapd fertile valleys run rails. Sheriff Gandy thinks the lady wanted to collect :!,(H).fs Uf in. iorth and south, one along the . coast and the other along the, RivturancK ' . er Joriten. Between them rlsds a An Afrlcn.ii' savage nho gay all range of bills which Is broken-Ihis iyory iusks for a gun was found the north by several shorter but no later lh the bush, on his knees, pray- less, fertile valleys. Abundant crops ing to tha.gsn .mot' tg. shoot him. Jle can be raised in all these valleys, did not-- khpw how' to. use H, and a fairly large population can This country is equally Ignorant be supported. A.Qd In. the hills, too, about tfslng youjh end Itk enthusimen cnn thrive, for though there ' asm. the streams run In' sharp gullies and extensive agriculture la ImposA Frenchqiail Say truly Amerisible, the limestone knolls provide can digestion would Improve. If excellent pasturage for sheep. To Americans made mqre and better us, who dwell In broad lands filled sauces. with plenty, Falhstlne may seem no Voltaire, another Frenchman, said larger than a county, and of but tne same thlpg of England little allure. long He found that Ehgland bad ago We must remember, however, that many religions and only one sauce, where- human standards have altered treas France bad. many sauces and mendously during the past four only one religion, and be preferred thousand years, especially here to France. the western part of the world. Life in the ancient Orient was far hardTbe tew Zeppelin; in spite of en- er than It Is among us. Men went gines out of order on her return delirious at the sight of clear -- water from Brazil to Germany, on kept to drink. When Abram came to her way at 50 miles an hour, fight- Canaan be was no magnificent raing winds over the Mediterranean. jah traveling In the luxury of 1 That ts.one advantage of a dirigible conducted tour. To him that stretch she stays tp. The r of green Twlxt the Jordan and the plane with engine trouble comes Great Sea must hare seemed Imdown. mensely desirable, and more than C Kms rtur,, lao, torvic "Ml worthy of being bis seeds PromI ised Land. - - - el . Abraham Comes to Canaan . was frequen'tly if visitor. The great grilndfatUer tif 4Inrtha Washington Is buried Id the Bruton par In 1841 Vice Pren-- . Ish clumhyiml. 'at. blent John Tylerwus-llvliihAll .when the Secretary of State Daniel Webster ' galloped down the long lane of trees to bring him news of the death oC Willi inn llenry Harrison and of tils luccea ' slon to the Presidency. , ,' . . . Tbl. home jof Cut. 'Cary, .a delegate to the 'Virginia Prisoner a uHair Buyer, convention In 1776, was frequent. 1773 came another ly, vlsltedby Washington' when he . Td' hjtn In Wll- young Virginian, George Rogert .was- studying surveying at ! a.' Ilam and short Mary college, his daring Clark, to lay before him walk .away. It Is said that the scheme for conquering the vast reparents of Mary Cafy discouraged' gion of the. Old Northwest. History the Inconspicuous engineer. woo- - , tins recorded h.ow well Clark of their daughter, and that, so known not fog well Is It but Mary fainted on the porch of this that his vanquished enemy, house some years later when she Hamilton, the Hair Buyer was the wife ef Edward Ambler surthe after General of Detroit," and General Washington., rode past on hit' triumphal return from his victory over Cornwallis at Yolktown. Marys lister was the wife of Lord Fajrfax. Besides ttue wealth of Colonial residences, .Williamsburg still pns sesses many other old public, buildings. In William and" Mary .college 'stand three excellent examples'. The. hall,. designed by sir. Christopher .Wren, Is the oldest college building In America, antedating Massachusetts hall, at llarvafd. The Wren building was ravaged threb times by fire but its. thick walls-re-- , Gev-Henr- e - fob-th- e - .Rr-street- s inal. - - any-othe- t tud, b a p P F might tie a good en-th- r Restored- eixfy-flv- a! least, exercise, ' In the' murder of an unfortunate young woman, New York detectives think they see, at last, the perfect rlme," one tm which the perpetrator cannot be Identified. Fortunately, there te ue perfect crime, exdppt' 4a the Imagination of the criminal ev the detective atory writer, because criminal are dull, eahnot keep their mouths ehnt, art rain, boast and th electric chajr getaf them. Also, they Jump when hand is tald shoulder; that belpt ' detectives, and crlm- -' Inals are betrayed by fellow crim- Tbe fine Colonial brick home of George Wythe orr.the east side of the pplace green, boHldd the Bruton parikh churchyard, renmlns as It stood when Washington and. Lafayette tagethcV planned the battle of young-studen- ... . x prime-favorite- , of the restoration, and will also mark a further stop In the plan tor makq Williamsburg a center ivn.i repository, of Colonial American historical record, works-rfart and other collections Identified with this period. ,' The collection connMIsen .the rcS . .ords of the Brjtfsh headquarters (hiding flie entire' Kevolulibnaiy war. The earlier yours .of this period .nre' represented by ofUclitl copies of of lien., Thomas Gntfe, Sir. William Howe and Sir. Henry Clin-- , ton, successively commanders 'in chief. The. body of original- pnpdrs falls in tbe yenrs from 1770 to the. evacuation of New York In Npvtfs-her- , . $Igbt-ee- d aec-on- - ah HWWWWWW,WW'WWWWWW' eg I age fo atop dull routine work for tai wgges, but no man would want except until death, stop reol work that els months Id look around this side of the grave might be acd ceptable. Goethe finished the was he when Faust" part ef and one of the pagt seventy-two- ; ablest French writers, starting new pros style,, wrote nothing unbe wrote the Life til at eighty-siof St.. Louie at the request of the cenkings widow. Within half to added been tnry 25 years have the average lives of old men; nobody would want thbae years wasted, . if-rnr- ro-.va- MWAVUV Interior of sixty-five- years, y, This collectlop, knows as the Brit ' Ish Headquarters Pnper, earns to Mr. Rockefeller's attention nearly slir years ago, .after tt hat! been bofight In England .by Dr. A. 8. w! .Rosenbach, the famous collector. At , . WNU Service. Touth should have Its first 13 c'llcney could imma will tie must sources of colonial military . ngtmihle fn me. , .the like of which could a not be' duplicated anywhere in Tti restoration of eolonlnt ' , and . "old stop worli age' scripts, comprising one ol the .largest and f most important tht world. ft at work of T0,404. tnann- -' his-tor- Lewis bro.wn 'auggbsb-tha- t iliould it. ?,,, By McClure Newipaper Syndicate. h . adCampaign dressing 20,000 Young Demo ersta ot BaJtN more kn4 th h natlojs on radio, hiuseum of tlie glaoibrous past. This' time it was noia gift of was some mon?y. Instead had premore he thing priceless sented ttf Cofoniat Williams- byrg, Ind., 6ne,of.the organiza-tion- s directing Ihp restoration, : . nrter Iresldenl Roosevelt la onenlBa-- ' J. l n hearier-than-ai- h e Canaan,' because of tts fertility, '. Vas already a well . settled land when Abraham eurne Ihpr. Many of Its c alley 'Were. tilled, and not ; . k few of its hilltops with walled villages. We do not . ' . know for certain whence Its earlier 'Inhabitants came, but In all proba- - ', . blljty- tt was froth tbe great Am., blan tfesert. . The mfnies of 'some . of tbe tribes for Inktdncei the Em ' . lm,'- wth.lch .mpaqV 'Terrible Ones," or the Annklrn, Clants.V-te- ll us V ahoiit the appearance uf the tribe- men, not their origin. We are fair- however, whon we say that .' most qf the native trllres were of the 'same' racial stack to w hich the. Hebrews- belonged the Semltlp stack which .had .been 'cradled la, y the destrL '. , .Yqt though the trlbed were- - thii related, they wqrred od each oth- er. Incessantly. Tljere wn contin ' . uaj etrlfd between tliem Over the possession .of the well. watered meadows and-- . fortified hills; there . iv.aA continued tnaraudlhg and loot jng and cavnagel- - So 'when Abra--- . ham tgme Into their coflnt.ry he ' Vas dbje to enjoy vecy llttlp pegee." lleanJ his herdsmen had to fight' for wClls and pasturage. as fierce- -' t ly 'as did the.momheys of air tbe otlter clans more desperatejy, In deed, for he and hlar followers were aliens. Tp ttte natives they were,. after, all, only bo .many wild luva- - ' desdrL ders. fzom. Tbe land 'watf already. too small to support ' evemthdse vyho dwelt' Jn It by right . of birth; there semed le' be. no. . room for. jnew'comers-- . , But this did not halt the He-brews.. They wete doughty wftrrl- ors, and Abraham, their cltleftaln, ' knew he. .was; the chosen of the Lord. This little, land,1 he .believed, war, his by right of divine election. . So, room or no room, he would not budge. Once he was driven by fafii- ; ' Ine to take refuge In Egypt, where the River Nile gave water to thousands of miles of meadowland. .But he did not remain for long In' Egypt No, as soon as condition . . made It possible! he trekked bnek to. Canaan and there he remained ' all the rest of his days, were-crowne- - - ,. i.. e -- Sugar-Can- e Culture The cultivation of the sugar cane was Introduced into the region now embraced In the United States by some Jesuits In 1731. They planted It near New Orleans and In 1753 a sugar mill was built The first sugar was mad In 1764, but the Industry never could be brought to complete luccess. When Louisiana was banded over to Spain In1789 sugar making ceased. It was revived In 1795 through the efforts of Etienne de Bore, and from that time It has grown steadily Into vast proportions. ' . j y !. . I . |