Henr By ELMO SCOTT WATSON 'HE historians continue to mal f ol < ir = hit and looming researches which clima red and o it gi fi 11 Hut 0 more and i Ss a 1d “ some of the | in conflict coming Is Mig up us of fmpaortance in the outs for liberty. Henry (ireene one of Gen. thanael whose has for by the all-important name of Wa So It is gratify st last deserved, tho are being paid to both men, so long been hadowed shiong Lon, thn ng to Know ugh tardy, honors | A short time ago guished military and gathered before the equestrian statue | of General Greene erected in Washing ton, and there on the one eighty-third anniversary paid homage to his comes word that a memorial eral Knox assured to a fund which the purpose of erecting a re of Montpellier, the a group of distin men civilians hundred and of his birth | memory. Now to Gen- is by recent gifis hus raised f Yseortd HOC Deen or ' Knox fa: n Thomaston, Mal: structed repositary mansion for the istic treasures in the Knox for Revolutio wil w hie home ary relics, re not only a symbol of Maine in of her a patriotic national The Revolutionary careers of Henry Knox and Nathanael present one of those curious paradoxes of fate which calls a man from a civilian pursuit and brings out sO ti one distin ished but sons shrine, as well, {ireone 5 Simple in him Un an, an unsuspected military genius, ke Washington, Putnam, Mor ark and prominent leaders, ther Knox nor Greene had had pre- experience in war. But struggie for liberty opened two New Englanders, Knox, the book seller in Cornhill, Boston, and Greene, Rhode nd blacksmith, plunged it at once and their natural ability i brought tik Nt other nif vious when the theses 3 the isla into SOON them into prominence. No had Washin taken command of the Continental army aud the British army in than he appointed Knox commander of the artillery. Knox Immediately went Ticonderoga, where there were many cannon, and a little later the army saw him ride into camp at the lead of 42 sleds, drawn by oxen, loaded with cannon, powder and balls with which to batter down the walls of Boston around the ears of the red coats. He became one of Washing ton's most beloved officers and as chief | of artillery was his right hand man | through all his campaigns. He went | on that Christmas night mareh to Trenton and his cannon roared tri- | uwmphantly at the surprise attack on | the Hessians In salute to one of Wash- | ington's greatest victories, At the battle of Princeton it was Kopox's cannon that swept the bridge over which Cornwallis sought in vain te hurl his against the Continental forces and | sent them reeling back in defeat He was at Brandywine and at Ger mantown, and in the darkest days of Valley Forge it was Knox's cannon wich stood guard over the camp of ort SOON sion ’r besieged Boston f to soldiers | Shipping Gold by Air The Ingenuity of foreign exchange bankers in finding methods of increas. ing the margin of profit on gold ship- ments has been demonstrated in more than one Instance during the present increased International gold flow. The jatest and the most novel example was the chartering of four commer cial alrplanes By a British bank to carry gold to Switzerland, The four planes transported about $6,000,000 THE 0 4 1 i NOT J wring. surprise starving attack important part, it was their ceaseless battering of the British the to ins played men His a too, at pres ent & His Yorktown, fori ' brought abet the defenses that surrender of Cornwallis end of the war, and When Washington became President Knox was given the dual pertfolie of secretary of war and navy and when his cabinet to Thom services ended, Me., Montpelier in which to spend his de He died 3 on the hi Le retired 18ion, where he bull: clining years, ISG and in Was buried ands over! For the he zh Ok Georges river ing ithe Montpelier served as sme of i i it soon became but a family Then iuto other of was 3 passed hands and its rr torn down wlieril it oceupied it is Malo was parchased by the General Knox chapter of the D. A R. and a recent gift of $50,000 by Cyrus H Curtis, a forme foriner glory ind bulldings. On a Eventually its site Now on by business restored byes sireet to pot which K. the Philadeiphia publisher and | resident of Thomaston, guar. ¢ completion of the the new Montpelier memorial to Washington's hand and America’s first of war, i i Tr antees th make project | a per-| man retary 1 career of Nathanael Greene is | en more remarkabie that of | His campaign in the Carolinas been compared not unfa to Washlugton's Treaton and Princeton campaign, and he has been | called “after Washington-—and not fur fter him-—the ablest tactician, the | most brilliant strategist and the great. est fighter of the Revolution, the man who could lose a battle and win a! campaign.” ey than Knox hie hns and vorably Greene was the son of a Quaker | preacher and he scandalized his! brethren of that falth by being among ! the first to advocate forcible resist- | ance to the Dritish king. Although be | was self-educuted, he was clected a member of the Rhode Island assembly | in 1770 at the age of twenty-eight. At | the outbreak of the war he enlisted as | a private in the Rhode Island troops | but his rise was so rapid that he soon | i was never out of the service until the | end of the war, i Greene fought in every battle, ex- in which Washington com- until he was sent South in 1780. Although he performed bril- | tlantly as a subordinate under the great commander in many of these en- gagements, It was not until he took churge of the Continental forces in South Carolina that he had an bppor- tunity to display the military genius one, FO eb . rae AY GA YA > 20 = ALLE body rn oy a ppd IU GIT GEREN» titles him 10 rank not only with the great Revolution b with 1 Lie he real captains of all time, situation faced when he teek charge in the South was one which well have daunted The British had over and Seuth Carolina Lord €or that Greene might any comin nder run wil Georgia and h nm the previnees south command, it seemed as though had Wn. in back acked sufficient and been OBnally we {yreene of Vieginia + ot ter the ore n, he lacked ail other war. But pnand than money vasities for carrying og ind no sooner taken coin an aggressive had § vent cCampailn SO0L wnwnilis worried 11 on the Briten found A about Yoiume Toes written this campaign and the way in ally lmpetuous and Imcarnation resourcefulness using forces 1 the best ad outmarched, outmaney sed and ontwitied repeatedly, which Greene, n becaine sud dashing, of caution in $s tv £F Pde HS meager o He out gues vantage, veered, the He lost bat is true, but the final result was counted aod In that final result was victerious Cornwallis, failing corner was to retreat to Yorktown, There lay while Washington prepared to thunderbolt from the north and Washington's deception of Sir Henry Clinton, the British com mander in New Yerk, and his rapid march seuth te crush Cornwallis was a fitting climax te the of Greene's campaign, Just important was the con- tribution of this Lhede Islander to the winuing of American independence has revealed within the past year through researches into his papers and letters which have been acquired by the William L. Clements library at the University of Michigan. “These pa pers place Greene in his proper posi itish leader ties, it what {sew eT te Greene, foreed he bur! his army like a events how . Revolution,” says Randolph GG. Adams, custodian of the library, "Without his services the catise of liberty might not have survived.” At the close of the war Greene re turned to Rhode Island, where he was given many honors, in 1785 he retired to a large es tate granted to him by the legisia- ture of Georgia and there he died the following year. But Rhode Island. which gave him to the nat.on, claimed back from Georgia and \ reinterred in his native soll. Island also bought the Greene home stend at Coventry and keeps it as a memorial to her greatest warrior. worth of metal, weighing around 5,720 pounds, with speed and safety, con- siderably reducing the loss of interest which Is nlways a heavy item of ex- pense in shipping precious metal, Tiny Circular Saw The smallest circular saw In the world now In actual use Is a tiny disk less than a fourth of an inch In dl ameter used In the Tiffany Jewelry establishment for slitting gold pens, It i about the thickness of a sheet of of 4000 revolutions a minute. The high velocity keeps the saw rigid, not. withstanding its thinness. v8 Resuit of Loss of Eye An eye hospital Informs us that the loss of one eye will affect a person in discerning the roundness of an ob. Ject for a while following the opera. ation, As time goes on the eye will accommodate itself to the new condi. tion and the patient will be able to discern the roundness of an object, — writing paper and revolves at the rate Washington Star, Decrease Seen in Bovine TB. t Million “Reactors” Have Been Eliminated in Va- rious Sections. The Department through the try, has just Inspections raft nnd gen - “it According to the report, since 1017 more than to the bovine been of Agriculture, bureau of anlmal Indus announced that federal show tuberculosis has les swine decreased erally, million “reactors tuberculosis tests cattle i removed United poultry the now from of the Nites, Because have been Infecting fowl swine, report suyvs, tuberculosis Is receiving special study Text of Announcement, The full of the ! follows : Acvording to charts of animal industry, States Department of Agriculture, bo vine eral culosis 192 on text announcenient prepared in the bureau shown 1016, tnberecnlosis has decline of The charts, records of federal! meat sufficiently fo fi since and tuber swine hax decreased since which are inspection Ver a large number animals be tive of EWine considered roearesenta the cattle eonditions in neust riex Thougle the Improve: berculosis tion situation Is cattle and ss nspected pa tit rather fiscal per fhe 4 taberegiosis Yeu! cent fo of a ¢ ot seiion of SOT ONS Were fionre or the same [yer cent of ri fent nor 12 [rer hoot pes oent inspected were diseased wiyrl ers f te nt of frill partly oreling eeeivie of n Tipe rate from tu wi Hy oo recent re bhereglosis is xho port of the Department af Commerce of children unde: Hite? Im part Li] ry for test i oo 4 Reming the wow nna when ry campaigy {ITT rene from tle eat I’'nited] Sintes Better Soil Fertility by Using Rotation Plan ) Wf riment statien bas YOR VETRD ore vies on ong Prof. F. E of that a rots siutirgs cist Ing rennet ony he faith fully onrriedd i net in such yields, 1 it nes must he done | spressed’ in the fol mst her 1! rotati in and a gone other ft once third year all minst hay grain not leak. Hot He CVOTY fied foul Ionut must Lie or enongl Crops trates tie to cvmnmpen The Haguids | of the sold An fermentation stored Acid | used regulars Limestone must be applied as required. | Then hh vields are guaranteed.” or nyard must ' We saved the manure must phosphate must be hig Straw Contains Much of Phosphorus and Potash | Straw contains a great deal of phos- phorus and potash as well as organic These are all essential ma terials for plant grewth. Their con- tinual destruction er loss through burning siraw stacks will finally ne matter mercial fertilizers—and commercial fertilizers are expensive, The only time a straw stack should be burned is when it is full of weeds In such cases more damage is often done by returning the weed seeds te the land than the benefit derived from the straw as a fertilizer. Extension Service, Colorado Agricultural College ARM.N If we plan ahead, we should never - - - Sudan grass is the best nonlegume to use for hay pasture, - - - The formalin treatment for oat smut is well known to farmers and scarcely needs to be restated. - . . Crop rotation can be practiced usu. ally with no outlay of money, whereas the use of commercial fertilizers re. quires an expenditure of money. - - . Cyanide gas reduces rat population in corn cribs, barns, ete, as quickly and effectively as anything yet dis covered, recent trials in many lowa counties indicate, rl Striving for Large Of Importance to Recognize Three Factors. (Prepared by the Unlied States Deparime of Agriculture.) It Is frequently bureau of soils | Department of | nation pointed out by he Unlted Agriculture that upon about of Mia have to of the sd ) combined will cultivation third of ix 1 and outs produced ; upon crop rotation for upon the of and commercial fertilizers for third, It Is both rotation rotation aids in more effe and that increase the value experiments In Illinois, the fact that fertilizers, lepend the { { i { 1 w hie i ' (5H i One another third, and Use | munure i the other tis { zation, that oie: hint on ation alds id fertili- rendering fer. rotation | fertilizers tive tilizers of Hecent how ever, bring out and the tieed together, n EER rotation uge of when prac the ex- interact to tent that their conjoin effects, us meas {ured terms of CHNeR. NAY than in crop inc be not only equal te but the sum of their The withent renter separate effects, vield of corn fertilizers und rota average obtained tion th in 71.4 bushels 1s | particular experine i I The {| tilizers and per pere to using fer hushels per nere, 0 rotation husiels, or practiealls d from the fer increase 1 and the Ten Good Commandments w ¥ - for Successful Farmer fret og Manure Should: Be Taken Directly-to the Fiel is where 1 ale one Dis 5 Oniy one pace ni eX Pose its: value If tt wa en very pla tributed direct fiel no ready benefit + pasture. While ng ma field puts 1! food rives the spots that the pile covers, the major portion: 1 saw one field where bad been used and the wheat at the spots was much higher and a dieper green, says a writer in an, exchange. Every farm should have a mansge spreader ready te receive all the manure as taken out, and it should be under a shedi sy. slant ie: pliant this method wheat Forest Trees Will Grow Readily From Good Seed Tree raising is not a oag-time prop osition as many peeple believe, ac- cording to Chester A. Lee, Extension Forester, Coloradis Agricultural col: lege. “One can grow bis own trees from Seed of the ash, hackberry, box elder, honey locust, Russian olive, and the evergreens are now ripe. Before gathering a quantity of seeds, cut a few of them, ila two and see that they are full Hf ‘meat.’ Where a good per centage of the seed is sound, pick as many as desired and plant in accord ance to the suggestions outlined for each species in “The Farm Nursery for Forest Trees" weed, Cornstalks for Horses The feeding of cornstalks to horses that are idle during the winter will probably not cause them definite in- jury although there is very little feed valpe to them. If you have a consid- erable amount of this product on hand feed one-half as much oat straw as usual, making up the balance with the cornstalks, When spring time comes and you are ready to put your horses in condition for their season's work, the cornstalks and the straw should both be dropped and a good quality hay substituted for them, Sure Relief re 9) 3 BeELLANS | Hot water WC. | Sure Relief iy &, ELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION 25¢ and 75¢ Pkgs. Sold Everywhere ALE’ At the first sneeze, banish every symp- tom of ih chills, etc. with HALE’S. Felice gt once Ereaie up cold posiviecly, ONEY 30 cen oe oli droggiers, of OREHOUND & TAR CHERRY-GLYCERINE COMPOUND FoR COUGHS. COLDS wy 54 (wl 4 SHE £5 Took It Quietly Mabel} broken enn farie Mat fz rie nea pe firocer If your eyes pms Paisarm mig 1 her Lieve You feel it hea so powerful, penetra- ting and soothing is this quick relieving Bniement. Checks threat. ening coughs and colds. Read the directions with every bottle now. Use it today Thaler WB Burdie Ca Pog, aio be Garfield Tea Was Your Grandmether's Remedy For h and fil This good old-fash- ned herb home remedy for consti- pation, stomach ills and other derange- ments of the tem so prevshent these days is in even greater fawer as a family medicine than i yemr grandmother's day. uticura Talc Is Soothing For Baby’s Skin Soap, Ghtenesi, Talcum sold everyw FOR OVER 200 YEARS haarlem oil has been a world- wide remedy for kidney, liver and biadder disorders, rheumatism, hambago and uric acid conditions. every stomad intestinal sys HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES correct internal troubles, stimulatawital organs. Three sizes, All druggists. Theist Lisoan {hes Fie Pals N oases, ete, stops all pain, ensures ovmfert 10 the feel, makes walking easy. Iie by mall or st Droge gists. Hiscox Chembesl Works, Pasclages, N. 1.
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