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There Are Two — Ways By ELMO (Released Agree Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men’s power to be agreeable.—Swift. urally also, elected him ‘They Called Him ‘Father.’ When Washington finished his conference with Rochambeau and prepared to return to his headquarters near West Point, the COMPOUND WNU—W Past things speare. 7—40 The Present and to come seem best; present worst. — Shake- of His frequent urination and getting up at night; when you feel tired, nervous, all upset . . . use Doan’s Pills. Doan’s are especially for poorly working kidneys. Millions of boxes are used every year. They are recommended the country over. Ask your neighbor! LENS Count Country’’ as in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,’’ for it was not uttered until after his death, which occurred on December 14, 1799. Nearly two weeks later congress assembled to hold a memorial service for the country’s lost leader and to Henry Lee of Virginia was given the of pronouncing the funeral — Eulogy. On December 26, 1799, Lee delivered the oration in congress which, in part, follows: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen, he was second to none in the humble and endearing scenes of private life. Pious, just, humane, temperate and sincere; uniform, dignified, and commanding, his example was as edifying to all around him as were the effects of that example lasting. ; To his equals he was condescending, to his inferiors kind, and to the object of his affections exemplarily tender. Correct throughout, vice shuddered in his presence, and virtue always felt his fostering hand. The purity of his private character gave effulgence to his public virtues. His last scene comported with the whole tenor of his life. Although in extreme pain, not a sigh, not a groan escaped him; and with undisturbed serenity he closed his well-spent life. Such was the man America has lost! the man Methinks I hear, falling for whom these deéep-sinking “Cease, our nation see his august image, from his venerable Sons words: of America, and lips, lamenting our separation. Go on, and confirm by your wisdom the fruits of our joint councils, gers. joint efforts, Reverence and religion; common dan- diffuse knowl- edge throughout your land; patronize the arts and sciences; let liberty and order be inseparable companions; control party spirit, the bane of free government; observe good faith to, and peace with avenue rather to than all nations; foreign: extend shut up influence; national every contract connection; rely on yourselves only; be American in thought and deed. “Thus will you give immortality to that union, which was the constant ob- ject of my terrestrial labors; thus will taken the freedom Congress, together with the fame of your poem which these was inclosed lines: every plore! tongue Presumably busy with his British out of ter remained thy guardian aid im- the general was too task of driving the Boston, for her letunanswered for four months. Then on February 28, 1776, wrote her as follows: Miss he Phillis: I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me in the elegant lines “you inclosed, and however undeserving I may be of such panegyric, the style and manner exhibit striking proof of your poetical talents; in honor of whieh and as a tribute justly due you I would have published the poem had I not been apprehensive that, while I only meant to give the world this new instance of your genius, I might have incurred the imputation of vanity. This and nothing else determined me not to give it place in public prints. If you ever come to Cambridge or near headquarters, I shall be happy to see a person so favored by the muses and to whom nature has been so liberal and beneficent in her dispensations. I am, with great respect, your obedient, humble servant, Frontispiece of Francis Bailey’s Pennsylvania German almanac, printed in 1779, which made the first known reference to Washington as “The Father of His Country.”’ you preserve undisturbed to the latest posterity the felicity of a people to me most dear, and thus will you supply (if my happiness is now aught to you) the only vacancy in the round of pure bliss high heaven bestows.’’ Two Claims to Distinction. Even if Henry Lee had not been the first to words, utter “‘First in those historic war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen,’’ his name would be deserving of remembrance for two other reasons. He was the brilliant and dashing cavalryman of the Revolution whose fame perpetuated in the title of horse Harry’’ and he was ther of one of the greatest in history—Gen. Robert military leader of the Cause’’ from 1861 is ‘‘Lightthe fasoldiers E. Lee, ‘‘Lost to 1865. Born in Westmoreland county, Virginia, January 29, 1756, ‘‘Lighthorse Harry’’ was the son of another Henry Lee who had mar- ried Miss Lucy Grymes, the “Lowland Beauty’’ for whom young George Washington had “entertained an unrequited passion.”’ Young Henry Lee was sent to’ Princeton college in New Jersey for his education and after BIN ia a( Sy) SIN FAARY My wi) IWS) Aj} Ws iif 8 tured SS& horse his graduation there in 1774, he returned to Virginia to take charge of the private affairs of his father who, as a member of the house of burgesses, was engaged at the time in negotiating a treaty with the Indian tribes. Soon after the outbreak of the Revolution young Henry Lee received an appointment as captain of Virginia cavalry under Col. Theodoric Bland but it was not until September, 1777, that he joined the main _ Continental army. He soon attracted the notice of his fellow-Virginian, Gen. George Washington, by his skill as a leader of cavalry and he was promoted to the rank of major and placed in command of a separate cavalry corps which, when it was completed, included three companies of horsemen and was known as ‘‘Lee’s Legion.”’ As head of the legion, Lee more than justified Washington’s faith in-him. One of his most daring enterprises was a successful attempt to surprise the British garrison at Paulus Hook, where with the loss of only five men, he captured more than 150 prisoners. Congress promptly voted him a gold medal for this exploit. He was promoted to lieutenantcolonel and in the autumn of 1780 sent to South Carolina with his legion to join the army Fort Watson, Fort there which was being reorganized hy Gen. Nathanael Greene after the One day Mary saw the little African girl trying to form letters on the wall with a piece of chalk. So she began teaching her the alphabet and how to form werds. The girl’s progress was amazing. Sixteen months from that time the Solon HEN we want to say that a man is wise we call him a solon and we call lawmakers solons, too. This doesn’t mean that we ‘| think all lawmakers are wise men— heaven forbid! The reason is that the world’s original lawmaker on a big scale was a very wise man and his name was Solon. Harry,’’ who did a good job of it that the rebels were dispersed without bloodshed. Five years later he was a member of congress and upon him fell the sad duty of pronouncing the funeral oration of his old commander and friend. Meanwhile, his first wife, by whom he had a son and a daughter, had died and he had married Anne Carter. She bore him two daughters and three sons, one of whom was destined for future fame as the beloved ‘‘Marse Robert’’ of the men in Gray. In 1801 Colonel Lee retired to private life but his declining years were shadowed by financial difficulties which led eventually to his being imprisoned for debt in 1809. During the time he was in prison he wrote his famous ‘‘Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States.”’ In 1814 he happened to be ‘in Baltimore when a mob attacked the office of the Federalist Republican, which had been opposing the second war with England. In his. effort. to defend. the property of his friend, the editor, Lee received injuries from which he never recovered. He went to the West Indies hoping to find relief in the change of climate but when that failed he started for Virginia. He reached the home of Mrs. Shaw, friend, the daughter of his General Greene, near Mary’s, Ga., and there on March 25, 1818. he old St. died e That name isn’t just a last name— (it is all the name the man had and all he needed. He lived so long ago that the population was - small enough to let men get by with oneword names. Solon was one of the original Seven Wise Men of Greece and was born in Athens about 640 B. C. ; He wrote or rewrote practically all the laws that were in existence during his time and was the first lawmaker to devise a code that gave people rights instead of merely prohibiting them from doing this or saying that they must do that. Besides regulating private and public the. system of weights and ures, the monetary system. lieved the burdens of debtors out curtailing the rights of tors. (He could be elected on ticket today!) measIt rewithcredieither His laws were crudely written on wooden cylinders and set up in public places for everybody to read. This must have been just a matter of form, because in his day about the only ones who could read were the ones who wrote-the cylinders. * % Kelvin’s Law HE kelvin, a commercial unit of electricity; Kelvin’s law for measuring the most economical diameter of an electric wire; Kelvin, or absolute, temperature scale, which begins at 561 degrees below zero Fahrenheit; and the Kelvinator, the first electric refrigerator for household use, were named for Lord Kelvin of Largs, Scotland, one of the greatest and most practical scientists of all time. He invented flashing signals for lighthouses; designed an oilfloated self-ievel- is no heat stand still. PHYLLIS. WHEATLEY slave girl was reading the most difficult passages in the Bible and within six years this prodigy had become so proficient with the English language that she had written a poem. Her health failed when she was 20 years old, due to the long hours which she had spent in study. So when Nathaniel Wheatley went to England on business in 1773 he took Phyllis with him. London society ‘‘took her up.”’ A London publisher brought out a book of ‘‘Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, by Phyllis Wheatley, Negro Servant of Mr. John Wheatley of Boston in New England.” Finally arrangements were made for her to be presented to the king and queen of England. But before she could enjoy this honor, Phyllis learned that her mistress was ill and she hastened home to attend her. Soon after she reached Boston Mrs. Wheatley died. When Phyllis was 25 she married a man of her own race and bore him three children. But her life thereafter was an unhappy one. Her husband lost all of his property in the Revolution, was imprisoned for debt and and where % * as molecules %* Croesus’ HEN a man is so rich that he actually reeks with wealth, we ‘call him a Croesus. The word is pronounced like those things in a man’s trousers—and we don’t mean wrinkles, like in ours. But don’t misunderstand — we don’t call a rich man a Croesus because he is the only one who can afford them in his pants. Perhaps we never should . have brought the matter up. Croesus is a word for a rich man and goes "way back ‘to 560 B. C., when original Lydia, the king was honors.” had called place and = 5. Which President made the shortest inaugural address? 6. What animals change their fur or plumage to white in winter? The Answers 1. The boundary line is 3,898 miles. ote 2. ‘‘Confucius’’ is the Latinized form of K’ung Fu-tze, which means ‘‘the philosopher or master k’ung.”’ 3. Egyptian picture advertising over 4,000 years old have been dis= covered. The earliest newspaper advertising is said to have been in Germany in 1591. 8 4, About 35 gallons. 5. Washington. His second inaugural address consisted of but 134 words. 6. Ermine, ptarmigan, Arctie fox, and polar hare. — SPEEDS OKAY ] YIN FLYING. < > BUT FOR THE ». ‘EXTRAS’ IN CIGARETTE PLEASURE, GIVE ME | SLOW-BURNING |) CAMELS. 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Lydia, at the time Croesus was king, included practically all of Asia Minor, and his wealth was obLee is indisputably the author of tained mainly from the mines and the ‘First in war, first in peace dust of the river Pactolus. and first in the hearts of his coun- . gold trymen’”’ characterization of Proud of his treasures, he carried George Washington, he must his love of splendor to extravagance share some of the honor for the and thought he was the happiest of thought behind that historic men. phrase with an African slave gir] an //¢ of” was unable to support his family. Her three children were almost continuously ill and apparently she was unable to get any aid from the Wheatleys. She was working in an ordinary boarding house when she died on December 5, 1784, at the age of 31. Although ‘“‘Lighthorse Harry” who, 24 years earlier, Washington ‘‘first in = /peee Croesus, a Greek a magnetic His name was William Thomson and he was born in Belfast in 1824, the son of a professor of mathematics at the Royal Academical Institution of Belfast. As early as 1852 he foresaw the practicability of heating and cooling buildings by means of currents of air. When he built a mansion of his own in 1874 on the Scottish coast, he built in heating ducts and ventilating facilities. When he died in 1907, he had received every degree a scholar could obtain and had made a fortune of many millions of dollars. ‘Rich | 1. The United States-Canada boundary line is the longest unfortified boundary in the» world. How long is it?» 2. Is the name ‘‘Confucius’’ Chinese? 3. How long have advertising mediums been used? 4. How many gallons of maple sap have to be evaporated to produce one of sirup? life, his code reformed the calendar, % ww A General Quiz > an i a first name ing Motte such or eee The Questions compass which allowed this instrument to be used on steel ships; invented the ultracensitive detectLord Kelvin ing and recording apparatus that made the trans-Atlantie cable possible; reduced temperature to amathematical basis and announced absolute zero where there and Fort Granby and after a siege of 16 days forced the surrender of Augusta. Lee then rejoined Greene, aided in the siege of Ninety-six and played a very important part in the victory at Eutaw Springs. _ Marries His Cousin. At the close of the campaign ‘Lighthorse Harry’’ returned to Virginia where he married a cousin, - Matilda Lee, who owned. Stratford House where he lived thereafter. In 1786 he was appointed a delegate to congress from Virginia and he remained in that body until the Constitution was adopted. He was a member of the Virginia legislature from 1789 to 1791 when he succeeded Beverly Randolph as governor of Virginia, an office which he held for three years. In 1794 occurred the famous Whisky rebellion in western Pennsylvania and when President Washington sent Federal troops to suppress the uprising they were under the command of ‘‘Light- tf ce ce ay disastrous battle of Camden. During Greene’s famous retreat through North Carolina in February, 1781, it was Lee’s legion which covered the rear of the American army and engaged in some lively skirmishing with the dragoons of the hated and feared Col. Banastre Tarleton. When Greene crossed the Dan into Virginia, he left Lee south of the river to harass the enemy. Although he failed in his attempts to surprise Tarleton, he did defeat a body of 400 Loyalists under Colonel Pyle and at the desperate battle of Guilford Court House he routed Tarleton. Next he accompanied Greene to South Carolina to drive out the British commander, Lord Rawdon, and during this campaign ‘“‘Lighthorse Harry” proved his skill as a besieger of cities as well as a dashing cavalryman in the field. He cap- GEORGE WASHINGTON. Who was Phyllis Wheatley? She was one of the most remarkable characters in the early history of the United States. The date or place of her birth is unknown, but when she was seven or eight years old she was dragged more dead than alive from a slave ship in Boston one day in 1761. A Mrs. Susannah Wheatley took pity upon the girl, bought her, gave her the name of Phyllis and made her the special servant of her twins, Nathaniel and Mary. Ge Gn BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON . | OeVvewey @ eee more, Hear SOC Alsk Me Tota “The Na me Is Familiar— to address being appointed by the Grand. Continental The Thus Washington during his lifetime probably heard himself referred to as the ‘‘Father of His Country’? many times. But it is probable that he never heard that immortal phrase, ‘‘First in war, first I have eS your excellency in the inclosed poem and enfreat your acceptance, though I am not insensible to its inaccuracies. Your Shall I to Washington their praise recite? renee thou know’st them in the field oO Tek: Thee first in place and honors—we demand The grace and glory of thy martial land. Fam’d for thy valor, for thy virtues follows: which they can never conquer.’’ Such was mourns. WEEN kidneys function badly and you suffer a nagging backache, with dizziness, burning, scanty or too appointed We arrived there at night on March 13. The whole of the population had assembled from the suburbs, we were surrounded by a crowd of children carrying torches, reiterating the acclamations of the citizens; all were eager to approach the person of him whom they called their father, and’ pressed so closely around us that they hindered us from proceeding. General Washington was much affected, stopped a few moments and, pressing my hand, said: ‘‘We may be beaten by the English; it is the chance of war, but behold an army Lee’s E. PINKHAM’S m@ VEGETABLE general Dumas to escort the American leader from Newport to- Providence. In his memoirsys Count Dumas tells of the incident and records the use of the title ‘‘Fa- Sir: contained as its first President. But the fact remains that Washington was known by that title at least two years before the struggle for liberty had been won and at least 10 years before he was called to the highest executive office in the land. ‘But who first gave him that title? Historians are virtually unanimous in giving the honor to a certain Francis Bailey, publisher of a Pennsylvania German almanac in Lancaster, Pa. In 1779 Bailey issued his annual booklet with a frontispiece that was a crude woodcut of a scene in which appeared several symbolic figures. In the upper left hand corner of the drawing was shown Fame as an angel, bearing in one hand a medallion of ‘‘Washington’? with a laurel wreath upon his head and in the other a trumpet from which comes the words “Des Landes Vater’’—‘‘The Father of the Country.”’ Just how widespread became the use of that title as the result of the publication of this almanac is unknown. But in 1781 it was used again—this time by Count Dumas, an officer in Rochambeau’s army of French allies. In that year Washington had gone to Newport, R. I., to confer with General Rochambeau. oration. Thousands have gone smiling thru this “‘trying time’ by taking Pinkham’s— famous for helping female functional troubles. ry wl i Union.) The obvious answer to that question is, of course, that a new nation, grateful to the man who had led it safely through the dangers of a revolution against its former rulers, naturally looked upon him as its parent and, nat- honor MIDDLE AGE” WOMEN Newspaper ety the 22nd of February and we'll be hearing a great deal about the ‘Father of His Country”’ and ‘‘First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen.”’ For those words are almost as familiar to Americans as are the words ‘‘George Washington.” How did it happen that George Washington came to be known as the ‘Father of His Country’’? ther Yes, and only two ways—before and after it happens! Instead of enduring those dull, tired, headachy days and then having to take an emergencycathartic—why not KEEP regular with Kelloge’s ‘All-Bran? You can, if your constipation is the kind millions have —due to lack of “bulk” in the diet. For All-Bran goes right to the cause of this trouble by supplying the “bulk” you need. 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Wishing your excellence all possible success in the great cause you are so generously engaged in, I am, your excellency, your most obedient, humble servant, PHYLLIS WHEATLEY. & BZ hurry, remove Francis Bailey and Henry lee Were Authors of Historic Phrases About Washington Known to All Americans || Se To UTAH . /<, QUESTIONS \ 7 MOAB, Pe oaas . eo Ali of which number of pairs that makes you (Released by proves it isn’t of pants wealthy. Western you Newspaper the have Union.) FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR an PS |