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1800—Jan, 7, Millard Fillmore,
porn in Cayuga county,
New York,
1829-31—Member of New York
assembly,
1833.35, 1837.43 Member
congress.
1848-—E lected vice president.
1850--July 9, sworn in as thir.
teenth president, aged
fifty. Sent Commodore
“Perry to Japan.
1850— Defeated for nomination.
1856—Nominated for president
by Knownothings and
Whigs, and defeated.
1874—March 8, died at Buffalo,
aged seventy-four.
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ILLARD FILLMORE, the second
vice president to be promoted by
death, was the most commonplace
president even in a twenty-year period
when the presidency remaloed at low-
water mark. Tall and with magisterial
front, but cold and hollow, he looked
the part which he played—the dummy
of northern trimmers in politics and
of southern traffickers In slaves.
A fable of the day hit off the truth.
The new president must have a car
riage. and “Old Edward” Moran, a
White House attendant in many ad-
ministrations, took him to see a hand-
some outfit, whose owner was leaving
Washington and would sell it at 8
$argain, !
“This is all very well, Edward”
Fillmore mused, according to the pop- |
Millard Fillmore. i
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mlar ye “hut sow would it do for
the president of the United States |
to ride around in a second-hand car
riage?”
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“But. sure,” argued “Old Edward,” |
“Your Ixellency is only a second-hand |
prisident |” i
fn Fillmore we have another fron- |
tier president. For western New York
was an when he was bom
there of New England parents, After
gecaiving about the same kind of
gchodling as our other log-cabin pr
outpost
dents, he was bound out to learn the
trade of wool carder,
The one enduring act of the Fill |
more administration was taken when
it sent Commodore Perry to knock at
the long-closed gate of Japan, and, |
with the gift of a toy raliroad and a
toy telegraph, to tempt the Japanese |
to come out of their hermit seclusion, |
The rest is poliiics,
As American men struggled to rise |
from the bottom in the more primitive |
days of the country, their women of- |
ten falled to keep up with them. By |
the time half of Fllimore's predeces- |
gors gained the presidency, thelr
wives were either dead, worn out or
tagging behind.
Mrs. Fillmore, finding herself with-
out strength or ambition to reign with |
fier husband, her place was taken by
sn daughter. This girl of eighteen,
Miss Mary Abigail, was enough of a
new woman to have insisted on fitting
herself by a course in a normal school |
to earn an independent living, Being |
time after graduating, she went on
teaching school even after her father
became vice president. She kept at it
until her mother summoned her to
preside over the White House, where
she promptly induced congress to in
tall a library, the mansion having
been until then a bookless desert.
A month after the end of her hus
band's term Mrs. Fillmore was dead.
Next Miss Mary died of cholera, and
then, after a tour of Europe, the
pathetic loneliness of a retired presi
dent was relieved by a marriage with
a wealthy widow,
Fillmore had tried to avert this re
tirement by nn unsuccessful effort to
be nominated to succeed himself.
Four years afterward he attempted
to break the retirement and return
¢o the presidency. Although he had
both the Knownothing and Whig nome
fnations, he ran third in the election,
He lived on In his Buffalo home until
the very year when another Buffalo
nian, Grover Cleveland, started for
the White House by way of the
ghrievalty of Erie county,
180%—November 23, Franklin
Plerce born at Hillsboro.
N. H.
1829.33—Member of New Hamp-
shire legislature.
1833.37—Member of congress.
1837-42—United States senator.
1847-48—Brigadier general in the
Mexican war,
1852—June, nominated by the
Democrats.
1853—March 4, Inaugurated
fourteenth president, aged
sixty-four,
1854—-The Missouri compromise
repealed,
1856—Pierce defeated
nomination,
1869—October 8, died, aged six.
ty-four,
tor re
the seco
JF EARELIN PIERCE was
ond dark horse and the third
New Englander to enter the White
house, He was chosen not as a rep
resentative of New England, but rath-
er as an agent of the south, and New
Humpshire debated half a century be
of the capital at Concord a statue of
her only president,
A member of the legislature at
thirty-three. Resigning when
The Mexican war tempted Plerce
general, he served with Seott In the
advance on the city of Mexico.
Concord, General
practice at
that any further public distinction
awaited him.
Plerce was elected In a more sweep-
ing victory than
date and the opportunity to be presi.
dent of the Union. With all
his good qualities of head and heart,
he was not broad enough to be more
than the servant section, “of
those who placed me here,” as he ex-
pressed it.
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whole
of a
Jefferson I
set with the
south,
only surrendered to the ambitions
the power for expansion
the north and west, but
expansion into foreign lands.
Slavery was in its last
erywhere, Great Britain had abolished
slave aver
also
had abolished it next door to our own
slave states, Even Spain was tend
Great Britain, France and Spain met
in Belgium and issued the
manifesto.”
ish government should refuse to sell
force,
At the same time congress at home
was repealing the Missouri
mise and wiping out the dead line
against slavery, which had been drawn
‘ Franklin Pierce,
a quarter of a century before. This
threw open Kansas to a wild scramble
between settlers who wished the new
territory to be free and those who
wished it to be slave.
Then and there the Civil war began.
“Border ruffans,” as the north called
the settlers, who rushed In from Mis.
sourl and other slave states, and set.
tlers no less rough ‘in their fighting
who poured in from the free states,
quickly turned that primeval into
“Hieeding Kansas” Rival territorial
governments were set up by the two
factions, and Plerce threw the weight
of the federal power on the side of
those who were desperately striving to
create another slave state,
whole country was drawn into
the struggle, and the Republican party
into life. At the election In the
middle of his term, Plerce saw the
Democratic representation in the house
cut down one-half and the opposition
(Sweep in: wis 8 lig ndouity.
(Copyright, 1920, by James Morgan.)
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Motion Pictures a Si'ent Partner
of Uncle Sam in His
Export Trade.
Latin People Disposed to Pattern Aft.
er What They See on Screen That
Pleases Them—Alds Live
Stock Introduction,
Washington. —Unecle Sam hos as a
ellent partner in his export trade the
motion pletures.
How the “movies” developing
trade and spreading in
American goods and American meth.
are
confidence
which should prove the
manency of trade In South America,
is told by Dr, Julius Klein, commer-
division, bu
domestic
of the Latin American
reau of forelgn and
merce,
The Latin people, he points out, are
disposed to pattern after what they
gee In the motion pletures that appeals
to them. Thus the fllns have made
what
cre
American automobiles and of
they can do. The movies have
ated a demand for American-made of-
of a business magnate's office, which
South American merchants in
thelr prosperity are eager to copy.
As regards ready-made
have gotten into the
ordering a suit of clothes like their fa
yorite hero wore a certain Alm.
Thus the merchants have
up good lines
clothing, which are
The movies have had a lke
in
come
with of
very
emphasizes
and has
All this, Doctor Klein
has happened
been forced as trac )
Boom to U. 8,
The more
natural
Isa
films introducing indus
indus
tries
mining--the benefits
American commerce
films can and should carry a romantic
scenario. such as appeals most strong
1y to the Latin temperament, with cut
ins on our methods In i
more
"1
will result,
industries simi
As we show them
A the!
A Dew
in
rndustrios
lar to theirs
and better meth
us and the
r confidence
tput of our
outpu i us
\ wirnnintively
grows cumulativels
Germans
particularly
¥ ¥ ex v - ple» Sp
have hoen ndeavoring
ate themselves in Sot
I
of the Itallane in
markets from an eo
4£1
and the
the South
ctor Klein says
influe
nomic
viewpoln”
commercial must
of farm
with
manufacturers
are now co-opermting
American
ture and natural resources, in an en-
arouse
the possibilities by using such ma-
chinery. Motion pictures are
prepared to show the most approved
methods of eultivation, preparation of
seed, use of farm machinery, harvest.
tng and storing crops, and methods of
packing and handling where these
processes are Involved.
Aids Live Stock introduction.
Introduction of American breeds of
live stock and poultry Into South
America, particularly Argentina, is to
be alded by the use of motion picture
films, prepared for this purpose by the
United States department of agricul
ture. These films also will show
American methods of breeding live
| s10ck and handling it in It§ many
phages from the farm to the home
| table, The Argentine government hns
{ shown special interest in the introduc.
| tion of American methods of handling
| tive stock, as dt has indeed in the agri-
| cultural practices of the northern half
of the continent genernlly.
As evidence of
embassy In has
purchased ten films on these subjects
for educational use In Argentina and
has frequently had United States de
partment bulletins transiated into
Spanish for home consumption,
The Buenos Alres & Pacific rallway
this,
Washington
cently negatiating with the
fils showing the swine Industry
the United States, And
rangements for the introduction
American swine In Argentina,
It is planned to show
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“Cut Pay, I'm Not Earning
It,” Says City Employee
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earning the money I am getting
and 1 want my salary reduced.”
This is the request sent to City
officials by Gottileb Pfahl. He
is sixty-seven.
He worked for the city for fif-
teen years, When he made the
request he was foreman of a
bridge repair gang.
Last March his right arm was
affected by paralysis, He cannot
se it now,
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‘Airman Describes Romantic
Charm of Mosques and
Gardened Homes.
QEDADENCE OF CITY GOES OW
Strangers Treated Kindly in an AL
mosphere of Friendship—City En.
dures Its Shabby Gentility
With Pride and Calm,
Thrace ~The decadence
cal and
with-
have
ineffable
Adrianople
: § ons . 1:
of two centuries, present poi
economic disintegration, Wars
$
ont end. futy
¢rtain future,
and an nnd
| heen unable to destroy the
Turks originally gave
this city of eighty odd thousand souls,
Adrianople is still a holy city in faith
and in appearance, Romance
abides here,
“The Orient is the only place left
to Europe where cities seen at close
range are beautiful” remarked Jules
charm the to
iting the most beautiful of all mosques,
R|inan's masterpiece here the mosque
of a thousand windows but one, erect-
od at the order of Sultan Selim IL. In
the sixteenth century.
been one of infinite beauty.
from across the lofty Balkans in an
a rush, a place of spires, and slate
Intersection of three rivers. It had
been a welcome sight.
National Anthem Turned
| 4 Policemen Into Statues
Mass, — Dy
“The Star Syungled Banner”
over and over an Italian Land
kept two policeinen, who ordered
them to stop, standing at salute
in the Fells nenr
here, until their arms dropped
numb and helpless, A few lial
fun women and children, who
were nlong for an outing cheered
and applanded In great glee,
Then the bandsmen fled,
Soon tumulinous
Poston, playing
reserviution,
the
begun
woods
after
strains had
through the Polleeinen
Jordan Frost and Roberts
peared and informed then they
must stop, as they were In the
state reservation. The lender at
once ordered “The Star Spangled
Janner” played.
resounding
ap
swine breeding farms, the work in the
biz Chiengo packing houses and the
preparation of the product for
table, will he made of the
| various types of American
an effort =»
made to go
| {dea of the vastness of the
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the
Pletures
snd
Ve Bone
hogs
{11 be i
industry 0
{ this country,
| CATTLE RUSTLERS USE AUTOS
| Cattle Are Now Taken Across the In.
ternational Boundary by New
Method,
—The mot
BN
Regina, SBnsk
| seems, achieved
thy wih
| tle rustling
i known
when they
=
! herds befcre
b
nine
advent
nse
them,
| the pr Ans
¢
! wore stol
tt. A few
en ir
and spirited international
Three of
this side
Mon-
iarder hy
the rustlers were arrested on
i of the line and two ot? irs
i tana at
Is a
was the Journey's end
tor,
to a tired avl
er Afoot.
City.
Charming Aloft
from ajoft
Inrae nt
the surround
its outer rim, Its
nix within the city showing
and its
flowers, outlying
of Mar.
Diarbekr bs
Turkish
beauty,
srotesd memories
wntains the
hosts of other
sleeping In
by sunshine or moon
stay
y city 1}
tone friendship
not unlike
The cente
husine
unty sent of the
£ 3
e agricultural exc ge
) as of Fastern and Western
Thrace, It Is frequented by peasants
traders of Turkish, Bal
{ garian, Jewish and Armenian nation-
alitles There of
i American ever having dene husiness in
and
Greek
is record but one
and bought up all the brooms,
{ day may bring forth In the
| political strife and crime,
| eity preserves this tone of friendship
| and order.
i the streets or visit
treated with kindly
| Turkish officers salute courteously
and there is no glint of hostility
of
the
WARY
todny
the shops
concern.
are
rying their new rifles, recently
| Bey.
| at a dignified pace.
| and nolse and poverty of Constant
nople. There i= none of the
of Constantinople’s street cars
automohlles.
Pride in Shabby Gentility.
There are a few ragged begear
and
enlm. Here there are none of
of Asia Minor.
bacaars do a slender business in sell
Ing American and European calicoes
and homespun cloths and Turkish
giver mounted pipes and cigarette
holders, rugs, junk, to passing peasant
customers: or else when these are
| lacking they swap with each other, af
ter the happy manper of all the Ori
ent.
| Decadence seems to have heightened
the beauty of the majestic old mosque
of Sultadd Bayzid, The windows are
broken In, the locks are rusted in the
doors, the grass is growing up between
the flagstones, the fountain In the
court no longer splashes its water in
the sunshine, and the interior of the
mosque Itself is slowly deteriorat
ing.
Few worshipers come here, but on
the drowsy Friday afternoons, the
Mussulman's day of worship, come a
devoted band of musicians and sing-
ers. The avitor stumbled upon this
group and one of the red-fezed band
| apluted with the simplicity of the Turk
and sald, “Allah esmarladik.”—"May
(God ablde with you." .
WOMEN NEED _SWAMP-ROOT
Fiousands of women have kid
bladder trouble and never suspect
wir
vi
and
t.
omens’ cuiplkints often prove to be
nothing else Lu: kidpey trouble, or the
restit of kidney or bladder diseave.
If the kidneys are not in s healthy
condition, they may cause the other or
gens to become diseased.
Pain in the back, headache, loss of am
bition, nervousness, sre often times symp
Don’t delay starting treatment, Dr.
Kilmer's Bwamp Root, a physician's pre
scription, obtained at any drug store, may
such conditions
Get a medium or large size bottle im
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparstion send ten cents to Dr
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,, for «
When writing be sure and
mention this paper.—Adv.
Like a New Car,
seems proud of her hus
“Yes, She's had him only
weeks.”
“She very
band.”
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Cuticuras Soothes Baby Rashes
That hi and burn thiathe
of Cuticura gentie
Lint
Lot
it with
Soap followed
of O
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n A . t
Talcum is dusted on
hy
anointings sticura Ointment
sWeeler,
nt Cut
the fin
espe
fran ore
irngra
» each everywhere —Adv,
Main Thing.
fiily)—*1 cannot woo
#oft words 1 an
She (eagerly)
A — | Hot water
~~ =" Sure Relief
BELL-ANS
FOR INDIGESTION
Harvest 20 to 45
Bushel to Acre Wheat
in Western Canada
lars with
rheat at high prices. N
in Western Canada have
weir land from a single crop
®n puccess may still ye yours for
3 Or CAEY
Farm Land at $I6 to
$30 an Acre .
jocated near thriviag tow
Kets, raliways—ia
the great Ce-
mar-
which
to the
Good grazing lands ct low prices
grain farm enable
you to reap the prefits from stock rais-
ing and deirying.
Learn the Facts About
Western Canada
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~jow taxation
healthfu
churches
8 Prospero
For illustrate
tion of far
Saskatchewan
railway
of Immigration, Can
f. A. BARRISON
210 5. Third Sti., Harrisburg, Pa.
ernment Arent
ranadian
The next time
you buy calomel
ask for
(ocd
The purified and refined
calomel tablets that are
pausealess, safe and sure.
Medicinal virtues retain.
ed and improved. Sold
only in id packages,
Price 35¢.
Cuticura Soap 1
The Velvet Touch
For the Skin
Soap 25¢, Ointment 25 and 50¢, Taleum 25c.
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Known as
“that good kind"
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