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Show THE PAYSOX CHRONICLE. PAYSON f Me Jlnolher A General Quiz the name Em-,4'state of New York? , B The Indian on the buffalo nickel is not the only symbolical figure on our coins which had a prototype in real life. The earliest was in I860 when the Indian e beeing: head signed. piece was deIf you happen to have one of those pennies in your pocket take a look at it. You dont have to know much about the physiognomy of the red man to realize that the model for the head on the coin wasn't an Indian. The was a little original twelve-year-ol- d girl named Sarah Longacre, whose father was the chief engraver at the Philadelphia mint. When a competition for the design of a new copper cent was announced. Long-acr- e decided to enter it. One day, while his daughter was in his office, a delegation of Indians from the West visited the mint. The friendly manner of the little girl pleased one cf the Indian chiefs so much that he took off his war bonnet and placed it on her head. The effect was so striking that Long-acr- e immediately made a sketch of his daughter wearing the barbaric headdress, submitted it in the competition and won the 3 traits two what United been used on te Eff'da.e fi,.val ht gov does year begin? do he Four Horsren represent? I iTsecretary takes Presidents cabinet? translucent sul Lt transparent substance? UtT, Lflue substance? has this country E stamps. finouming L all is- - Alca- - at the prisoners 'ork? The Answers to George jj attributed who mentioned it in l Lton, delivered in of em- - seat at present the as 1784 student at Oxford award-scholarsh- ! ii les from a 'shed by Washington Pocahontas. fhe government fiscal i- to July in Place of: ip award. year . - famine, pestilence, (S'ar, On Your Nickels, uni- fund which was the will of Cecil Ee of Martha and secretary of state. translucent substance per-th- e passage of light rays h it, but objects cannot be "he le c!ii it. Objects fctly seen through Je seen distinctly through a parent object. An opaque not reflect or give out ob-lo- es i M!a if Os is?;. eaasi iof light. Lincoln stamp in stamp in 1868, Mc-- g- Harding 1923 and Wilson stamp fJ5.in Garfield received postal p within a year after his but the color of the stamp J rown. Jlvery prisoner on Alcatraz for eight hours a day, six It week. The industries con-- f the clothing factory, mat and i, By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 1922, laundry. Western Newspaper Union. HE buffalo and the Indian are about to do another Vanishing American act. Theyre going to disappear from our coinage. By law the design of a coin may not be changed oftener than once in 25 years and on February 21 of this year the familiar buffalo and Indian nickel, which replaced the Liberty nickel in 1913, reached the retirement age. So Henry A. Morgenthau, secof retary the treasury, announced a contest for the design of its successor, a new five-cecoin to be known as the Jefferson nickel since it will have a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on one side and a replica of his home, Monticello, & on the other. Whether or not the retire- ized portrait, not of just one red ment of the buffalo nickels man but several. No less a perwill mean a retirement of son than the sculptor who dethe coin is the authority all the jokes that have teen signed for that assertion. nt ) As You Can hll the good you can, by all Jeans you can, in all the you can, in all the places bn, to all the Vs people you as you can. John long ff- - MS L TIRED? WEAK, Lincoln, Nebr. Mrs. Rose Rossi, 2240 R St., ays: My mother was and miserable before she used Dr. Pterces Golden Medical Discovery and it stimul- ated her appetite and helped to strengthen her id of J wonderfully. 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Two Guns certainly was the counterpart of the Indian on the buffalo So has come to pass a contronickel.' versy over a nickel and an Indian which created much argument for nearly the last quarter of a century. Well, Even though Frasers state- ment robbed many Americans of their belief that they had seen the original in Glacier park, the chances are that many of them did see one of the originals many times that is, if they ever attended a Wild West show. For Chief Iron Tail, who as a young warrior had fought with his tribesmen in the Custer battle and other engagements in the Sioux war of was among He is James Earl Fraser and the Indians who traveled with in 1931 he issued a statement Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West in which should have set at rest for this country and abroad, was all time but didnt! the ques- later with the Combined Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill Wild West tion as to the identity of the original. Mr. Fraser said he had shows and still later with the used the profiles of three Indians Miller Brothers 101 Ranch show. for his design Chief Iron Tail of During this time the Oglala was the Ogalala Sioux, Chief Two widely publicized as the true Moons of the Northern Cheyennes original of the Indian on the bufand a third whose name he had falo nickel, but most people disMany who thought missed that claim as just anforgotten. they had seen the buffalo nickel other circus press agents yarn, Indian original when they visit- even though there was some eleed Glacier park chose to believe ment of truth in it. Iron Tail died that Two Guns White Calf might in 1916 while on a Chicago and be the third Indian whose name Northwestern railroad train en Mr. Fraser had forgotten, despite route to Chicago. the fact that the sculptor also More notable in frontier history said that he had never seen than Iron Tail was the other Og-la- la 1876-7- Two Moons of the Two Guns White Calf. original As a youth he disSo the legend persisted and Cheyennes. when the Blackfoot died in 1934, tinguished himsef by his feats the familiar story (with pictures, as a warrior against such tribal of course) blossomed out in full enemies as the Crows, the Pawflower again, thus proving that nees, the Shoshones and the Gros The opening of the war error, as well as truth, when Ventres. crushed to earth will rise of 1876 found him the chief of a How did the yarn ever band of Cheyennes in the Powder again. when the Cheystarted anyway? Its as dif- river country and get ficult to trace this legend down to ennes joined their allies, the conits source as it is to arrive at Sioux, Two Moons had a of Battle in the the part folk spicuous tale. of the beginning any where Chief Crazy CHIEF IRON TAIL Perhaps as authentic a version as Rosebud, any is this one, furnished by made about it remains to be Hoke Smith, Western developalso a question ment agent of the Great Northern seen. this arwhether certain legends that railroad, to the author of He wrote: several ago. ticle years clustered around this have made her rnh, young, beautiful kssn 1 4 Silver Dollar Girl The next girl to be immortalized In our coinage was Anna Willess Williams of Philadelphia whose profile was used as the model for the Goddess of Liberty on the old silver dollars. Back in 1876 George Morgan, an expert designer and engraver, was commissioned to prepare the design for a new silver dollar that was to be minted at Philadelphia. When he asked Thomas Eakins, a Philadelphia artist, to suggest some one who would act as a model for the head on of years ago). Two Guns held the disthis coin, Eakins recommended tinction of being the most statuesque Indian figure In the country. And. even a young girl named Anna Wilto thla day. he is still regarded as the whom he had known while Indian on the nickel, notwithstanding the liams, artist's disclaimer that no Individual In- she was an art student, as havdian ever posed for hla nickel design. ing the most nearly perfect proOut on the reservation, all they'll say file that could be found at that la: Its t magnesia one-ce- old-styl- e scholar? Rhodes of ba From Now On You'll ITAH coin will be dispelled or become more firmly fixed in now American folklore that no more examples of this popular bit of money will be coming from the mint. these among Outstanding myths is the one that Chief Two Guns White Calf of the Blackfoot tribe was the original buffalo That legend was nickel Indian. industriously propagated by frequent reproduction of his picture in newspapers and magazines under some such caption as Face You Recognize on the Buffalo Nickel or Youve Got His Portrait in Your Pocket or You Carry His Portrait Perhaps! or His Face Is Worth a Fortune in Nickels. (Look at the portrait of Two Guns White Calf, shown with the buffalo at the head of this article, and you will notice the resemblance.) Innumerable tourists, who visited Glacier National park and saw the Blackfoot chieftain there, helped spread the legend, and he during the many trips which took to various parts of the counphototry he was invariably graphed, interviewed, advertised and written up as the Indian whose likeness appears on every All of which was buffalo nickel. true if only it didn t interesting true. happen to be As a matter of fact, the Indian face on the buffalo nickel is a ideal composite and somewhat You asked for It. I consulted the aages of the tribe, and here is the real story of the Indian face upon the nickel, as near as I can translate it from the Blackfoot spoken and sign language: his Many moons ago, when he was in Two Guns early thirties, theoflate Chief National Glacier chief the White Calf, Park Blackfoot tribe, got his first nickel from one of the earlier spendthrift tourists that came to his tepee, kodak It was one of the builalo pieces. series of five-cen- t Two Guns was delighted with the picture of the Buffalo, which side happened to be "tails up" when the generous tour-A ist put it in the palm of his hand. moment later, when he turned the coin over and beheld his own likeness standhim. it was ing in bold reiief before as lookin' into a mirror to Two Guns. "Me!" he exclaimed. "Big White Chiefit when put w arrior on penny. Is But big enough. come to nickel only chief "liberal-handedtourist It happened the news Two Guns was talking to was a feaphotographer "grabbing some photo the park. ture" stuff while visiting seized Straightaway he went out andand gavethe it feature Indian nickel buffalo wide circulation. While Two Guns White Calf lived (for hailed by twenty years alter), he was the United States every school child in face on whose appeared as the Indian was much the buffalo nickel. And there land throughout the controversy InThe artist Fraser who drew this when dian head for the buffalo nickel, wall to decide put with his back to the replied: the controversy, When I drew the Indian face for the Indian buflalo nickel I had no particular nickel is a in mind. The face on the of composite of a mental photograph all American Indians l" the Ups whewl That was right Into twas of the defenders of thes idea that after all. Calf face, White Two Guns Indian since he was the most traveled in the United States, and consequently during his missionary journeys beauties of the ploiting the marvelous he Rockies cf Glacier National park,than Impression must have left s greaterIndian of recent any other individual fa couple died he yThus. up to the time time. Miss Williams was then principal of the girls school at the House of Refuge in Philadelphia and it was only after much persuasion and the promise that her identity would not be made known that she consented to pose for Morgan in Eakins home. She is said to have been a very beautiful girl, with fair complexion, blue eyes, and a Grecian nose. But her crowning glory was an abundance of golden hair, worn in a becoming soft coil. This was the most striking feature of the first design which Morgan made but later it was partially concealed by the Liberty cap with its sheath and stars. For two years the identity of Miss Liberty on the new silver dollars was kept secret by the artist and officials of the mint. Then a Philadelphia newspaper man revealed the fact that Miss Williams was the silver dollar girl. Immediately she received many offers to go on the stage. But she declined all of them, preferring to continue teaching for $60 a month at the House of Refuge until 1891 when she accepted the position of teacher of kindergarten philosophy in the Girls Normal school in her native city. Among the romantic legends that became associated with the was one silver dollar girl which declared that the designer of the new silver dollar fell in love with his beautiful model and later married her. But the fact is that Miss Williams never married but devoted her life to teaching until she retired in 1924 and died a year or so later at the age of sixty-eigh- t. In later years she was often asked to tell the story of how she came to be the model but she alfor Miss Liberty ways smilingly referred to it as "an incident of my youth and preferred to talk of her work in the kindergarten schools of American Coin Girl One other woman who gained fame because of a coin portrait was Miss Doris Doscher who became known as the American Coin Girl after she had modeled for the figure on the quarter-dollwhich was designed by the famous sculptor, Herman A. Mac-Nei- l. She is the girl you see walking down the stairs on the silver piece, carrying an olive branch, signifying peace, in her right hand and grasping with her left hand the shield which symbolizes strength. On the other side of the quarter is the figure of a flying eagle which, incidentally, caused considerable discussion when this MacNeil new coin appeared. showed the eagle with its legs trailing behind it, as did Augustus Saint Gaudens, designer of the eagle on the new $20 gold pieces, which appeared at the ar 25-ce- nt CHIEF TWO MOONS Horse defeated Ceneral Crook, and in the Battle of the Little Big same time. Immediately cerHorn, where Custer was killed, nature tain naturalists cried Two Moons was in another faand declared that when fake! mous battle General Mackenan eagle is in flight its legs are zies attack on the village of Chief tucked up neatly under its breast Dull Knife of the Cheyennes that instead of trailing out behind like bitter winter night in 1876 when a storks legs, though not quite the power of his tribe was so far behind. But the Philadelbroken for all time. The next phia Academy of Natural Scispring Two Moons led his people ences and the National Art Jury, to Fort Keogh, Mont., where he which passes on the designs of surrendered to Gen. Nelson A. all American coins, said that Saint Miles. After the close of the In- Gaudens and MacNeil were not dian wars Two Moons was looked only great artists but close stuof the Chey- dents of natural history and that upon as head chief of his days the end the to and ennes legs on their eagles were he was zealous in leading his peo- correctly placed. So they (the legs) continue to trail. ple in the white mans road. M Jlerf (urn Affection lie a Good Substitute for Love? MISS DENE: pEAR think o t affection HOTELS La What do you as a substi- tute for love, as far as setting married Is concerned? I want to marry hut can feel nothing but affection for my future husband. Is there any hope for happiness? A. W. ANSWER Everything depend on your age, A. W. No one can make hard and fast rule about affectionate marriage in general but a good many point must be considered before undertaking such a relationship. Young people should marry for love, and no nonsense about It. For while were young our hope of romance is high and If It Is denied us, we yearn for It all our lives and Imagine ourselves cheated of lifes dearest gift even though we may be admirably suited to the mates we chose. No matter how much the modem writers attempt to analyze love Into shreds, It must still be for the young, a vital spark, a feeling for which there Is no accounting. It absolutely right that young people should ask themselves practical questions about the mates they have chosen, but before they begin their self they should 1 n first have experienced something deeper than affection, something beyond reason. Young people cannot afford to do without lha vital spark. They cannot hope to substitute for it, financial security or good solid affection or a satisfactory companionship. They must know something of the first careless rapture before they can decide to get along without it forever. Hut men and women of riper years may uell marry for reasons other than sheer heartburning love. A man or e woman who has known love, and the bitterness of renunciation or disillusionment, may find peace and happiness with tolerant, understanding, sympathetic mate. Spinsters and bachelors who have been lonely for years find peace and contentment In marriage, even though the tender passion be denied HOTEL PLANPOME. SALT LAKE 4th Bo. RatM II. to S2.t CLEAN qilIKT KKBPONBIHl.E THE WILSON HOTEL In tho fconrt of tl city. Kntoo TS no. E. Snd Bo. 8t Bolt loko RAYMOND BALT LAKE 2 So. Main. tt Tempi. (j blk. to D D. 8. When in HFNO. 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I hate (he feeling that everybody is whispering about me. I feel that this quarrel may have coot me dear In more waya than one. V. D. ANSWER Cast a veil of secrecy over your life, shroud yourself In mystery and at once you set the whole world whispering. And the chances are that the world being what it Is, some of the whispers will have a distinctly unpleasant flavor. If you are going to make a mystery of where you live and why, the more conventional of our friends will begin to shy away like frightened horses. Knowing nothing of the true state of affairs, their imaginations run riot in the attempt to discover why youve suddenly become secretive. It is better always to tell the truth however ugly it may sound for the truth at its worst can never compare with the stories your neighbors have already concocted about you. 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I believe this is the first time shes ever deceived you and 1 also believe that if you took her back now, youd be doing the one thing which would save you both from misery. But you must make up your mind to put away the sleuth's outfit when you marry her. To live e with a is enough to put any woman into the frame of mind where she feels impelled to go out and do some of the things her charming husband has suggested. C BeU SyndlcaU. W.NU Servlc. house-detectiv- BABY CHICKS President Married in London John Quincy Adams, president of the United States, was married in the Church of All Hallows, London, in 1797. William Penn was baptized there In 1G44. Laugh Must De Genuine "A laugh has got to be genuine to be any good, said Uncle Eben, a false face wear a grin so big dat it overdoes it. 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