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Show V.AST R ATT T.AKF TIMES It ! not tlie purpose of this article to try to twist tlie British Huns tall. All this la ancient British statesmen history. nowadays are publicly admitting that its cnurse with Its American colonics was a mistake The two na Hons are now probably closer together than ever before. Possibly on the cohesion of the English-speakinpeoples depends the safety of the world. Nevertheless, this "If" la Intensely Interesting. Was Jack-so- n right In his Interpretation? And If he was right and If lie had been defeated, would Britain have held on to New Or leans or let go? Figure out the answer for yourself. In any event the Battle of New Orleans was an extraordinary affair. Word of the reached British expedition Washington early In December of 1914. President Madison or dered the nilllla of Kentucky and Tennessee to Join Jnck-aoat New Orleans. Jackson arrived there December 12. He organised a force of about composed of about 1,000 regulars, local volunteers, free men of color and Bnrataria Plrutea under Jeun Laflite. The British entered Luke Borgne, nine miles from New Orleans, December 23. They were 10,000 strong, largely mnde np of veterans of European wars and were considered Invincible. Preliminary skirmishes took place, Jackson killing time In anxious waiting for the Kentucky nnd Tennessee riflemen. They arrived at Have a complexi on that everyone admires NP j tiful cannot bo truly attractive with YORK. Mr. nnd Mrs. WIIII berg celebrated their wedding anniversary at their huuic, 67 Riverside drive, with u reception In the afternoon and a dinner fur their immediate relatives ut flight. Mr. Kplegellierg. who was eighty years old October 21 lust, went to Santa Fe, N. Mcx., as a young man, crossing the prairies and iiiiiuniains in a covered wagon. In the early 00s he was nn exjiert lariut-throuand could rope u sleer ami simp out a candle llunie with one crack of u hlncksruke whip. Mrs. Spiegellierg, who traveled to Suntu Fe alone in un overland eiaich, as a young bride, to join her husband, American-borwaa the thirteenth woman in Kauiu Fe at the time, and iu the days of rvcoiisiruciiou following the Civil war she entertained Gen. Ulysses S. Gram, and often danced with Gen. William T. Sherman and lien. Philip II. Sheridan, who came Iu Nuu:u Fe to inspect the nillliary department of New Mexico. At u dance given In honor of General Sherman, ull the young women stood III line nulling their tarn to kiss him. Hut my hushiind would nut allow me to kiss the general," .Mrs. Spiegel-hursaid hi reviving memories. Kite said that General Sherman NEW n g KiKLVN, Nine years of Idyllic n period unexpectedly by the dentil of her husband left Mrs. Florence Dunstnu nothing to lire for, und she died the world was loo lonely. Memories tugged iluy after day, bringing a grief that nothing here euuld nnd though Ihe medical report at St. John's hospltul, Brooklyn, attributed her death to her doctor and family admitted the real agent of deuth was sorrow. Mrs. Dunstan, thirty-siyears old, liud always been eager for the new experiences that each day brought, but these characteristic left her the day her husband died, Imcemher 22, 1023. Christ nius a day that had always meant so much to the adventurous. care-fre- e couple came while the pain of desolation wus still acute, and added to the depression which Mrs. Dunstan could not throw off. It was living through that first Christmas In nine that she had passed without the luippy comradeship of her husband, Eugene, that began the gruduul decline tliut ended in BUI 'Dectsi'de Hattie of the World By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN AKUARY 8, 1815, one hundred and ten yean ago, Americana under Gen. An- drew Jackson defeated British under General Pakenham at the Battle of New Orleans. It waa one of the moat extraordinary victories In all military history. From one viewpoint It waa a Decisive Battle for Amerlcu and fur all the world. Old Hickory so regarded It. If the British had won la one of the fascinating Ifs of our history. Following la a chronology of events having s more or less direct beuring on the Buttle of New Orleans: 1761 Victory of Wolfe over Montcalm at Quo-be- e cloeea century struggle between Frencb and British for possession of America. 1761 France bilks Britain by secretly ceding to Spain Louisiana west of Mississippi Hlver and Island of Mew Orleans 1761 Treaty of Parts giving French America to Britain. Colonies by 1761 Gaorga III btlka American counQuebae Act, making Allsghanles-Mlaalialptry crown lands 1776 Fighting begins In Revolution. 1776 George Rogers Clark capturas Illinois Country and Virginia takes possession. 1781 Treaty of Versailles, making tha Mississippi Western boundary of new nation. 1716 Constitution takes effect. United States la born, Washington Inaugurated first President. 1800 Treaty of St. lldefonao; Spain cedes Louisiana to Franca 1801 Louisiana Purchase by America from pl Franca 1106 American Flag replace! Spanish and Franch flags and Clark Expedition to Padfla 1611 War against Britain; Louisiana admitted to Union. 1614, Ooa 14 Peace Treaty of Ghent. 1616, Jan. I Battle of New Orleans Comment on chronology: At the end of the Franco-Brltlastruggle for America Spain was stronger than France, so Louis XV secretly ceded the territory west of tlie Mississippi to hla ally. In 1800 Spain was decadent and France waa tlie France of Napoleon, who apparently had the world at hla feet. Moreover, Napoleon was planning t new French empire ulong the Mississippi lo take the place of the one lost on the Plains of Abraham. So Napoleon look back from Spain the territory ceded In 1702. The United States found the mouth of the Mississippi dosed to Ha shipInterests Thereupon Jefping by French-Spnnla- h ferson sent Livings! un end Munroe to Napoleon with $2,000,000 with which to buy the uioutli. Napoleon kept them twiddling their thumbs while be went on with hla preparations. Confronted In 1803 with the necessity of choosing between colonising and fighting Britain, he chose to tight, lie then literally forced upon the American envoys the Louisiana Purchase fur $15,000,000. Jefferson was aghast. The East stormed In protest There was bnt about $25,000,000 In circulation In the whole country. But the West was pleased. Congress ratified the purchase. In the War of 1812. while the peace negotiations which led up to the Treaty of Ghent were under way, the secret expedition against New Orleans was crossing the Atlantic. The Treaty of Ghent was signed December 24, 1814, both pnrtlea being uninformed of course as to the success or fullure of the expedition ngalnat New Orleans. The treaty contained a provision for the restoration of all ler ritory tuken by either nation during the war. Presumably the Americans assumed that this provision covered the possible taking of New Orleans. What had the Uritlali In mind? Representative James O'Connor of the first congressional district of Louisiana, In which lies the battlefield, read Into the Congressional Record Junuary 8, 1923, an excerpt from the writings of William Allen (180(1-79)- , representative and senator from Ohio and lutcr governor of Ohio. In It Allen tells of a conversation with President Jack-soIn the White House, shortly after the admission In 1836 of Arkansas, the second of the 13 states to be made In whole or In part from the Louisiana Purchase. The first thing of course was a drink. The toast proponed by Jackson was The new star In our Hug Arkansas." Thereupon Jackson said to Allen: Do yon know, Mr. Allen, that this new state which has Jnst become part of our vast Republic Is one of the first substantially Urge fruits of mj victory at New Orleans?" h n gastro-enterlil- s. x Allen was surprised and aald so, remarking that the Treaty of Client was signed 15 days before the battle waa fought and adding: general, I am fumillar with that treaty and it provided for tlie restoration of all territory, places and imssesalon taken by either nation during the war, with certain unimportant exceptions." Following are the high points of the ensuing conversation, Jackson doing moat of the talking: Technically you are cults correct, replied General Jackson, and hla smile was more triumphant and proud than before. "Bui, my dear Allen,'' aid the old hero, "thoee very worde would have been used to defeat the purpose of the American commissioners at Ghent, because the Rattle of New Orleans was fousht after the war; 16 days alter the war technically ceased by treaty. If General Pakenham with hie 10,600 veterans could have annihilated my little army and captured New Orleans tnd all tha contiguous territory, technically after the war. Great Britain would have held that territory, abrogated that treaty, and utterly Ignored Thomne Jeifernon'e great deal In real estate with Napoleon. Moreover," he continued. Great Rrltaln had other cards up her sleeve. Here are the transcripts from the Oepartment of State concerning the fainoua treaty of Ghent. Mere ere the minutes of the conference which were kept by Mr. Gallatin, who records: The British commissioners emphatically We do not admit Bonaparte's construction of tho In we of the nations Wo cannot accept it in relation to any matter before us." ' At that moment not ono of our American commissioners comprehended the awfully deep significance of thoee fuw words. But every one of tho commissioners of Great Britain knew that General Pakenham was on the way to Now Orleane with upward of 10,1100 veteran soldiers la their Judgment and It was a wise ludgment, too 10,000 British soldiers should, and would, clean up and wipe out an army which America could muster, for tho Pakenham Invasion was to bo a triumphant and surprlss military coup Now, 1 ran tell you, Mr. Allen, that 1 did not nnd my know, boys behind thoee bales did not know, what a prlie the British were alter nor what a service we were rendering our country. Wo were imply typical American soldiers fighting for our country ne American soldiers always do; ready and do and 41s willing to dare, "But elnco 1 hsvo been President 1 have ascertained from diplomatic sources of unquestionable authority that ths British ministry did not Intend to permit the treaty of Ghent to apply to tho Louisiana Purchase at alL The whole body. Lord Liverpool, the Luke of Portland. Greenville, Percl-vand Caetlereagh, all of them, utterly and emphatically denied Ihe right of Napoleon to sell Louisians Therefore, their commissioners declared, We cannot accopt Napoleon's Interprets-tlon- s of lrtsrnntlonal law In relation to any matter before ut' Now, you ses Mr. Allen, ssld the proud old hero, tho British ministry In London held most vehemently that this country had no right to that Immense territory no right at all. They Intruded to hold that It was entirely extraneous to the terms of tho treaty of Ghent And, If General Pakenham had been successful at New Orleans as, under nil of the ordinary rules of war he ought to havo been, with hie tremendously overwhelming force of veterans If he had defeated my little, thin line of riflemen. If he had killed or captured me, If he had won that battle ae Great Britain had every reason lo expect of him, he would have held hie ground. Moreover, he would have fortified hie positions! end Great Britain would have sent other veterans enough to forever hold that great prise, the Louisiana Purchase But. my dear elr, British diplomacy and British military power combined knew nothing of my Tennessee and Kentucky riflemen. Tha will of the enemy was strong and Intelligent; but ths will of God was far above It all. Providence willed that this Nation should live, grow, and bs ths cradle of the liberty of the world. Then General Jackson n quoted a In a hymn: "God moves His wuudera to perform. ' and cun mysterious way. eluded his narration: The astute diplomats, the trained commissioners of Great Britain, cheerfully found It easy to throw and Into the eyes of our honest commissioners at Ghent; but. Allen, they could not ward off the cold lead which my rough and ready riflemen sprinkled Into the faces of their veterans at New Orleana All of the tangled web that British diplomacy and Kngllsh cunning could weave about our inexperienced commissioners warn torn to pieces and oaked in blood in half, an hour by the g rifles of my equirrel-shootjn- g pioneers of the mountains as they carefully took their aim from behiad thoee Invulnerable bales of cotton. al well-know- red-coat- never-mle-In- J&MZXAZ.&UCBYKAJr' jrmita&fziBERV Gw . the lust moment, Jackson then entrenched on tha I'lulna of Chalmette, about four miles south of the city, using cotton bales for breastworks. January 8 the British veterans marched In solid ranks directly upon the breastworks, scorning tha tew little cannun that barked ut them. At 200 yards they were still marching as If on dress parade. Then the Kentucky and Tennessee riflemen opened up. They stood three deep. The first line fired nnd moved hack to give place to the second rank. By the time the third line had fired the first line mas ready. Always they fired at the officers and file leaders. The veterans broke, came again nnd broke the second lime. In less than half an hour the riflemen killed und wounded 2,600 British, General Pukenliimi was mortally wounded. General Gibbs, second In command, shared Ida fate. General Keane, upon whom command devolved, wna allot down. General Lambert then withdrew the British forces anil soon sailed away to Mobile, where word of the signing of the peace treaty was received. The veterans went home to whip Nnixileon at Waterloo. The Amerlcun loss was 8 killed and 13 wounded. Wliut remarkable battle! And feature of It la the contrast between the opimslng forces The British veterans, aupiiosedly Invincible, supremely disdaining tactics, marching in solid ranks In direct frontal attack upon the breast work of cotton hales. Behind the hrenstwork a motley array French and Spanish creoles (local white residents); free men of color; Lafitte and Ms convicts nnd the Kentucky and Tern essee mountaineers who had come by river In flatixiatiL A second feature Is that It waa the Kentucky rifle vi. the British musket. Both aides wltMicId their Are until about junta. At that dlstan.-Brown Bess the British smooth-bor- e musket, In the hand of a veteran, was usually able to put a bullet somewhere In the ranks of nn opposing army. The American rifle In a frontiersmans hands would put Its bullet In the head of nny specified Individual In tlie front ranks of the enemy. European aoldlers fired by volleys In the gencn.l direction of the enemy. American riflemen picked their target and mode every shot count Looking at the engagement now, the British were simply led np to slaughter. And there was Lnflfte arid his pirates! At war with the constituted authorities, they were yet Americans when It came to resistance against ail Invader. Captain Lockyer of the British navy, offered Lnfltte a pardon, s captnln's commission and $.'10,000 to Join the British cx,Mdltlen. And as to the American lender surely no more picturesque figure ever enlivened the pages of American history than (Mil Hickory. As to the plrturcs: The portrait of Jackson represents him In Inter life ns a civilian; as fighting man In uniform he was a different figure altogether The stniue In the famous Rocking Morse Statue. which n replies stands In Washington nnd New Orleans. President Coolldge In shown placing a wreath on the Washington statue. The New Orleans Maine stands In Jackson nquare, where Jackson drilled his troop. Facing the park Is the famous old rahlldo (1795) In which the Louisiana Iurchnu whs consummated. In the other pin are Is shown Admiral Sir William Christopher Pakenliam of the British nnvj placing a wreath on the grave In New Orleans of l Gen. Sir Edward Pakenham. killed In the Bnltle of New Orleans Admiral Pakenham, retired from roiinnnnd of the Brlltah fleet In North Atlantic and West Indian waters, lie la a grand nephew of General Pakenham. The Plains rimimi-tttoday are beantlful with great live onlX, Hills have been Introduced In congress to make the New Orleans battlefield ths center iff n national park. f e gray mid her once while they were dancing that War was hell! and she bus 101 since wondered, the expression became famous. If this waa the first time he said It. The Indians were on the wurpnth when Mr. Spiegellierg went West to join Ills older brother, 8. J. Splegel-herwho hud established a store In Suniu Fe in 1S46, selling everything from a pin to a pinna Later lie wui ndmiited us a imrlner In llie firm with Ills six brothers. Arrivlug In New York In 1859 on the steamer Vanderbilt as a hoy of sixteen, Mr. Spiegellierg traveled by rail to St. Louis, 1 lienee by steamboat up the Missouri to Kansas City, which Here he had only 1,500 inhabitants. mule train prulrle joined rt-to schooners conveying his hrolhers store. After 40 days on looking Oint-,- .. tte ap. together with the oothing. heeling qualiti. rf the ointment; make the nol product. idel rJ. fo,. nyiU. All drugguu nil Reeinol end, Ointment. Uaa themVea. ularly for a few dayi and watch your complexion improve. Resinol t iiim-tndl8- -- Reainol g. e Why Foreat Firea Of the 550 forest fire tnok the trail, with thousand of buffaloes liluce In the Adirondack un-- ult Cuutai. und Indians on every side, nnd heavlust 172 were due p currh--j yeur ily armed oul riders to protect the smokers, 88 to ki p, I rain, lie arrived In Snnln Fe. men, 70 to cumpers, 29 p, laiiiu-rn, In istil he made number trip along to IS Ihe old trail from Kansas City which to berry pickers, . to Hghi,,;, and cuiim-sdm- - of u,e had the terminus of tt-- rail- of Ineendliiry the lot and one of Uu, aorit urit road, with u friend. In a buggy drawn In the history or the Caiskin region by two government mules, line dark took place in July In the Sl.uwungunk night they lost their way and camped. mountains uml was siaru-by tha When they awoke, to their surprise the famous .Slunaainiok of pickers had found anil horror lliey they blueberries. eninped on the site of a recent lin-mn- e Poiaoned Grief for Loved Husband Kills Widow a u t. blotchy) Golden Wedding of Santa Fe Pioneers old-tim- e "Victory Was your few. t ii res Are. you g Why " Old HicKoryV Her beau- deuth. Her sister, Mrs. John I Bar ker. Insisted Hint the bereaved woiu-u- n live wlili her at Hollis, (Jina-ns- . A new environment, she believed, could eventually teniier Ihe widow's sorrow. Tlie change wns Ilia (It, tint It brought not even a flickering ,of Joy to Mrs. Dunstiin. Everything hot relHilves dreamed might buoy tier up wns used, hut everything wus futile. From the dawn of that Chrlsliniis day alone she refused to eat anything. Finally, Mrs. Marker sent for a doctor. hut ull he could do was treat Sirs. Imnstun for the emuelution that by Radio Mental patients held In tip luma liitve recently made a wide vurlety of complaints to the rojul coiiiniluloa Into lunacy, which has been lureitlggf. Ing the uaylutna and (he ladli-nt- i Intrusted to their cure, one of tha p. tlents complained that lie whi lelo poisoned by radio, while uiinilier laid that communism was Injected Into him by psychoanalysis. Boscheet Syrup Allays irritation, soothes and heals throat und lung Inlhininiatlon. Thi constant Irritation of a cough keep tlie delicate mucus membrane of ths throat and lunga in a congi-stccondition, which BOSCIl EE'S KYUDP gently and quickly lieuls. Fur this fasting had brought. Mrs. Dunstan waa taken m St reason It hua been a fuvorlte houia-holremedy for rolda, coughs, bronJohn's hospital In the lio that some one In the Institution could Induce chitis and especially for lung troubles her to eut. But none could. She still In nilllluna of homes all over tha yearn smiled a refusal at the arguments and world for the last fifty-eigprayers of doctors nnd friends. Iler enabling the patient to obtain a rood mind and lieurt were held fust to the night's rest, free from coughing with easy expectoration In tlie morning. longing for her husband. Yon can buy BOSCUEES STfiCP She died, smiling at her friends as she closed her eyes, hopeful for the wherever medicines are sold. Adv. gratification of the only desire she Traced to Fourth Century knew fur 11 months. Archbishop Trench Buys the proverb that one should not look a gift bont In the mouth Is as old as Jerome of the Fourth century, who, when tom under the direction of Mias Katherine one found fault with certain writNathan und under the persona! ings of Ills, replied that they were of the pustnr. Each Friday free-wil- l offerings, und that It did not evening, while the regular choir prac- behoove one to look a gift hurst la tice nnd the gospel services nre be- the mouth. ing conducted In the church, the familiar dance rhythm. One, two, three, The Unapoiled Prince four, Is being counled by Mlsa NaTlie various stories about tlie princ than to younger nieiuliers of the pur-lacoming hack with a strong Yankee acIn tlie church basement, I In speaking of this changed atti- cent are of course nil nonsense. tude of the church toward the dunce. didn't risk a watery grave by going te the cloning solemnity at Wembley, bat Rev. M r. Fouse aald. I llstened-Ifrom the depths of a comWit h no discrimination and with fortable chair to the prince's ann blind prejudice, the religionists quite didn't emit even a sound he speech generally and consistently have de- litary Gee." London Opinion. nounced the dunce and every form of Its organization. In the face of this Your Skin, opposition, it remains today with more Watch Cutlcura Improve On rising end retiring gently smear devotees than ever Ointment 'There Is no defense to he offered tlie face with Cutlcura minute for the grossly sensual forms It lias Wash off Ointment In fivewater. R hot aud with Cutlcura Soap taken nor of the leprous vice comla wonderful what Cutlcura will d panions which It has ullHchcd to ItItching self. When, however, we unite In a tor poor complexions, dandruff Advertisement. hands. and red, rough sympathetic scrutiny of the dunce, we shall discover it to he a pure and holy Golf Ball a Speed gift of God, which seeks normal exWhen the rhun-l- i becomes When a golfer drives from Ihe tea pression. the agency by which this good Im- he probably little realizes the terrific pulse of nuin Is led Into full nnd free speed at which he has scut the on Its travels. He would ma' bu iiiunifcslnlion. It becomes a suvlor to millions.'' astonished to learn that he probably he has Imparted to It a Sliced more than twice as great ns un express Ibsn train, and considerably greater that of any bird Hint files. are always a lot of professional bondsmen hanging amund the court Where Ignorance la BUaa lo fix you up. But If yon don't wnnl The nuin who elnlnis to umleratsnd to go lo Hint expense I'"' ' you can get women always arouses In them some friend to put up a 'Hlraw' hull. Mn Mni.-Ij- on on over one Sire to put In the Tribune. you are out until York quia In the New the grand Jury meets. Sonietlmea this Is four or five months later. The grand Jury Is nlwayv overloaded with eases ami unless somelasly pushes your euse the chance Mre Hint you d ht Who Said Friday Was an Unlucky Day? Duncing Is a pure gift of God which normal expression. It sooner or later uniat be atud-le- DENVER. d the church. Strongly entrenched In this theory ami in ihe belief that "There Is good In dancing," Iter. David 11. Foitse, pastor of the Seventeenth Avenue Community church. East Seventeenth avenue and Emerson street, that classes of Instruction In by modern ballroom conducted In Ida evening. dancing would be every Friday clnm-- Certain denominations have permitted dancing In the church building, hut It Is believed this Is the first cliiss of instruction In mislern dance steps to l.e Inaugurated In Denver. Despite the fact that It a far cry from the hereditary stand of the church In regi-rto dancing. Rev. Mr. Foil sc, however, declared lie did not see Ids action anything of a nature, hut that It wus. merely Ihe a i ill cal Inn of the principles of that recognized Chrls-lia- n philosopher who ssld, He not overcome of evil, hut overcome evil with good.'" In conseqiiem-of this belief. Hip dancing classes have been Instituted : n Chicagoan Finds Milwaukee Is Different Milwaukee.1 sta away town. They more of giving you life than a Gldcago Judge would of shipping on ii $5 line.'' This whs the me sge Edward "chisel burglar," sent out to hla I liirugo brethren while he walled in Jail to he transferred to Wuupun to begin serving a sentence of eight years Imposed by Municipal an- - not Indicted. Judge George A. Shuiighnessy. Eight years Is an awful Jolt when 'Rut, even If you nn. Indicted, your you figure Hint In Chicago you would lawyer can always keep having the get about five Hnd costs for the Mime ease nail inm-from week to week, thing," Kadetz commented sorrowful- and finally the caw Is either thrown ly. "I didn't know Milwaukee was so out of court or dismissed with niiiull tough, or 1 would Iihvc stayed In Chi- fine. In Milwaukee If H different. cago. There's It's a 'plo' to heat a ease In Chi- no grand jury here und trial ymir have to All is you iii cago. get a 'ines a,, a f,.w ,ays after your good lawyer, und after he gets rest. All you can do Is pleiiil guilty adjournments you cun get away with ami lake your medicine." u unmll line or a illsiiiis-:i- l. 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