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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER, HYRUM, UTAH in his per n ration, picturing an assemblage 100 years later which would recount the nation's advancement: On the morning of that day, although it will not disturb us in our repose, the voice of acclamation and gratitude commencing on the Hock of Plymouth be shall transmitted through millions of the sons of the Pilgrims until it loses itself in the murmurs of the Pacific seas. WOMEN CAN DYE ANY GARMENT, or Tint Worn, Dye New for 15 DRAPERY Faded Cents. Things After X Every Meal V Have a packet in your pocket for refreshment. Dont wonder whether you can dye or tint successfully, because perfect Now, Senator Lodge, in his tercentenary oration home dyeing is guaranteed with Diaquoted this fine passage. mond Dyes even if you have never And as he spoke the words dyed before. Druggists have all colors. President Calvin Coolidge, Directions in each package. then governor of Massachusetts, sitting in the anchair cient, of Carver, the Pilgrim governor, talked by telephone across the continent with Governor Stephens of California at Sacramento. Thus was Websters prophecy of rush-bottome- d 1820 fulfilled in 1920. As to the meaning of the landing of the Pilgrims, it can be no more fittingly put than it was put by Cal- - ever-read- y Aids digestion. Allays thirst. : Soothes the throat. S USE RADIO IN RESCUE WORK Series of Experiments Are Being ried on at Colliery in England. Car- In the near future radio telephony will probably play an important part in the work of colliery rescue parties. As the rescuers carry out their duties, constant communication will be kept up with those directing operations from a base. That is the object underlying a series of experiments being conducted at Ashington colliery in England. A considerable measure of success has already attended their efforts, and quite recently speech and music were successfully received underground. A party equipped with a three-tubreceiving set descended the shaft of the Carl pit and fixed a aerial on the baulks supporting tlie roof. Only one head phone was used, but so clear was the reception that the five men composing the party all heard distinctly. Experiments have already been carried out to depths of 300 yards, and it is expected to test reception at depths of 1,000 yards. Scientific American. ' W. N. U., Salt Lake City, No. 47-19- 23. 0D D S ET mON ST E R IS FOUND It Is Eight Feet Long and Resembles an Elephant Without a Trunk and a Whale. e There has been exhibited in Buenos Aires what South American scientists believe to be a hitherto unknown sea monster, captured some twenty-fivmiles from the coast near Mar del Plata. It was at first supposed to be a sliell-les- s sea turtle, but expert examination shows this is not the case. It resembles rather an elephant without a trunk, or more properly, an enormous elephants head with ears almost perfectly Identical with those of that animal. It also has some features similar to those of a whale. Its color is brown, the mouth is large and spherical. It is nearly eighty feet long and approximately four and a half feet in diameter. It has two vertical fins behind, one above and one below remotely suggesting the screws of a propeller. The flesh is almost as elastic as rubber. Living Age. 20-fo- ot e Record Mountain Climbing. A record of climbing 36 mountains at the rate of one every day has been made by a California schoolmaster. trip in Glacier National park, Norman Clyde of Weaverville, Cal., set out to teach the tops of as many peaks as possible in the shortest space of time, and, according to the bureau of national parks, his total of 36 is unique. The last peak climbed by Clyde was Mount Wilbur, the summit of which is almost 10,000 feet. Clyde, who is thirty-eighhas Shifting Values. had long experience in mountain It takes an expert accountant to climbing as a member of the Sierra know how much German marks are club of San. Francisco!' He claims worth. that evidence shows him to have been It takes more than that. It takes the first to attain the summit of 11 a lightning calculator. mountains. Nothing is better calculated to give man a jolt than a Everyone ought to measure himself a in French. by his own proper standard. On a camping DICKINSON SHERMAN N OR ABOUT the last By JOHN Thursday in November the thoughts of all good Americans turn, if only to briefly, Plymouth Rock. The nation-widForefaobservance of thers Day celebrates' the anniversary of the actual on landing Plymouth Rock, but Thanksgiving Day, in one of its aspects, is a sort of preliminary celebration. In fact, we Americans, In our subconscious minds, link up Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims - of Plymouth, just as we do Christmas with the jolly Dutch burghers of Niew t, e Amsterdam. It would be fascinating to have the Pilgrims back again at Plymouth at Thanksgiving or Forefathers Day and watch their faces and view their astonishment. The present looks of the place Would require much explaining. B'or example, there is the new canopy over the Rock which has replaced the sturdy but decidedly unloved granite structure that long did duty. And the fact that It was erected by the Society of the Colonial Dames of America would complicate the story. They might not recognize the statue of Massasoit, erected by the Independent Order of Red Men, until they had read the inscription Anyway, Massasoit is entitled to a statue as a good friend of the Pilgrims. He was head chief of the Wampanoags whose lands extended from Cape Cod to bay. He made, In 1621, an offensive and defensive treaty with the - Nar-ragans- Pilgrims,- which he never broke. Ed- ward Winslows description in Good News From New. England (1624) of Massasoits illness and how he cured the chief Is one of the most picturesque passages In American literature. It was King Philip, youngest son of Massasoit, who was head and front of King Philips war (1674-76- ) that the English colonies. Tradition has It that the Pilgrims were sour of visage, but probably they would smile at features of the Pilgrims Progress as depicted in the accompanying photograph ; possibly they would also be amused at the modem Idea of the Pilgrims themselves, as shown in the other picture, approved by the art critics. The general observance of Forefathers Day, like that of Thanksgiving Bay, has been a matter of evolution from small beginnings. The hundredth anniversary of the landing came and went quite unnoticed and unmarked. The g aspirations of the beginners had gone, the backward, penetrating glance of history of the seekers of the burled treasures of the past had not yet come, according to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, a speaker at the Tercentenary celebration. Half a century nearly wiped out far-flun- self-mad- e more was to elapse before the fact vin Coolidge at that same tercentenary that in Plymouth something had once celebration, though his forbears were happened which merited celebration and made such demand for the outward signs of remembrance as to insist upon a visible manifestation. In January, 1769, a club was started by 12 young men of Plymouth, and in the following December they decided to have a dinner on December 22 in commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims. Accordingly, upon that day there was a procession, and then a dinner was eaten, and toasts were given in honor of the leaders among the founders of the settlement. The following year, on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary, the people here again held a celebration, and this time they had an oration described in the record as words spoken with modesty and firmness, by Edward Winslow, and there was also a poem by Alexander Scammell. These commemorations went on through the years of the Revolution until 1780, and then came an unexplained gap of 12 years until 1793, when the celebration of the anniversary was again renewed, and continued thereafter with the omission only of 1799. The ceremonies expanded with the years, and a discourse by the clergyman and an address by some outsider of distinction became recognized accompaniments of the proceedings. In Boston the commemorations of the Pilgrims began with a formal and public celebration in 1798. There was an elaborate dinner, a very long list of toasts, Including many which were both contemporary and political, much speech making, and an Elegant and Patriotic Ode, by Mr. Thomas Paine, was duly sung, doubtless with ardent enthusiasm. From these modest beginnings in Plymouth and Boston the celebrations of what came to be called "Forefathers Day multiplied beyond enumeration, following the migrations of the Mayflower descendants and of the children of New England across the continent, untll now, fn numbers, the anniversary of the landing In 1620 Is marked and celebrated with each recurring year from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was In 1820, at the two hundredth anniversary, that Daniel Webster delivered his famous Plymouth OraAnd heres an Interesting tion. A prophecy made by Webster thing: In that Immortal oration was fulfilled a hundred years later. WebBter said , ever-increasi- Puritans and not Pilgrims. He said, in part: There was among them small traces of the vanities of life. They came undecked with orders of nobility. They were not children of fortune, but of tribulation. Persecution, not preference, brought them hither, but it was a persecution in which they found a stem satisfaction. They cared little for titles, still less for the goods of this earth, but for an Idea they would die. Measured by the standard of men of their time, they were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. Plymouth Rock does not mark a beginning or an end. It marks a revelation of that which Is without beginning and without end, a purpose shining through eternity with a resplendent light, undimmed, even by the imperfections of men, and a response, an anobswering purpose, from those who, of all sailed disdainful else, livious, hither, seeking only for an avenue for the Immortal soul. The colonists of the Mayflower were Englishmen of the period of 1608, while the Puritans of Massachusetts bay colony (Salem, Watertown and Boston) were Englishmen of the period of 1628. The name Pilgrims was given to the Plymouth colonists by Gov. William Bradford, who was a passenger on the Mayflower. The name Puritans was applied to reformers of all classes In England by the supporters of the court and king. One fundamental difference between the Puritans and the Pilgrims was their attitude toward the church of England. The Puritan steadfastly refused to leave the established church. His attitude was that the church could be reformed more quickly from within than from without. The Pilgrim first separated himself from the established church and then, rather than worship contrary to his conscience, was compelled to leave his native land. The Pilgrims held that church and state should be separate. The Puritans held church and state to be one. The Pilgrims had a liberal form of government. The Puritans developed a despotic theocracy. The Pilgrims were simple country folk and poor. The Puritans Included many of the gentry? their first fleet (1630) had ten vessels with cargoes worth more than a million dollars. , bill-of-fa- re Test This Out for Yourself who drink coflee regularly are MANY people with insomnia; or they feel nervous, headachy, or suffer from indigestion. It may be hard for such men and women to believe that coffee is responsible for the way they feel. Because they have always drunk coffee, it hardly seems possible that this old habit could cause trouble. But there is one sure way to find out whether cof- fee is harming you. Just stop its use for a week or so, and drink Postum. . Postum is a pure cereal beverage absolutely free from caffeine, the drug in coffee, which disturbs the health and comfort of many. 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