AVY day (October 27) this
year finds an interesting
memorial nearing comple-
tion, for when the Perry
homestead at Wakefield,
R. I, is thrown
visitors as a patriotic
shrine, it will be not only
a monument to two of our
greatest naval heroes but
open to
in our paval
unique. For that family
was rich in “a naval heritage,” If ever
any American family was, and it is
not to be wondered at, perhaps, that
Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew
Calbraith Perry should distinguish
themselves aboard ship.
ther of the two naval heroes, was only
thirteen years old at the outbreak of
the Revolution, he immediately en-
listed in the Kingston Reds and served
in the Continental army. He next
served on a privateer, then on board
the Mifflin, was captured by the Brit.
ish and for three moaths endured the
horrors of the British prison ship,
Jersey. Escaping from the Jersey,
Perry enlisted on the Trumbull under
Capt. James Nicholson and had a
-r
Jritish privateer, Watt, in 17
he was captured again and sent to
Newry, Ireland, as a prisoner of war,
There he became acquainted with
Sarah Alexander, a pretty Scotch girl,
whose grandfather had fled from Scot-
land to Ireland and who had been left
an orphan in her childhood, At
the
for America.
passenger on the
her arrival at the home of Dr. Benja-
min Rush in Philadelphia, Christopher
sought her out and they were mar-
ried. He took his bride to the Perry
homestead in Rhode Island, a house
that looked out toward the sea and
from which her husband and her sons
were to “go down to the sea in ships”
and become officers in the navy.
There were five of them-—Oliver
Hazard, Raymond H. J., Matthew
Calbraith, James Alexander and Na-
thaneal Hazard. As if this contribu
tion to her adopted country's
forces was not enough, two of her
three daughters married naval officers,
Capt. George W. Rodgers and Dr, Wil.
liam Butler! The Influence of this
mother on her sons had much to do
with their later fame, BShe told them
stories of her warrior ancestors in
Scotland ; she closely supervised their
education, she “fitted them to com-
mand by teaching them to obey” and
when, still in their teens, they an-
swered the call of the sea, she sent
them forth cheerfully. She lived to
see all of them make honorable rec.
ords in the service of their country
and two of them win fame and one of
them receive the highest honors which
his countrymen could pay him.
He was Oliver Hazard Perry, born
August 23, 1785 In the home which is
soon to be opened as the Commodore
Perry Memorial. He entered the navy
as a midshipman at the age of four
teen when war with France seemed
inevitable. But It was not until Com-
modore Preble was sent to subdue the
Barbary pirates that he saw his first
active service in the war with Tripoll,
In 1810 he was commissioned a lieu-
tenant and placed in command of the
schooner Revenge, The Revenge was
sea
wrecked off Watch Hill, near his |
home, but a naval board of Inquiry
not only cleared him of all blame for
By the time of the second war with
England, Perry was known as one of |
the best ordnance officers in the navy |
and early in 1812 he was placed in
command of a flotilla
Harbor, Then
for him to win fame. The
War was badly for the Ameri.
The British had captured De
troit and were threatening to conquer |
had been won
for us by George Rogers Clark during i
the To check them, it
Was obtain mastery of
Lake Erie and there Perry was or-
dered to go, build a squadron of
ships, defeat the British fleet on Lake
Erie, which was manned by some of
Nelson's veterans, and co-operate with
General Harrison and his land forces.
It seemed like a hopeless task, but
Making his way
through the wilderness in a sleigh in
February, 1813, he arrived at Presque
Isle (now Erie, Pa.) and with the aid
Master Daniel Dobbins
built five ships, despite a dishearten.
ing shortage of money, shipwrights,
arms and sailors to man them after
they were done. His green timbered
squadron was joined later by four |
ships from Buffalo and with these he
was expected to fight six well-manned
British ships,
On September 10, 1813, the two
fleets met off Put-in-Bay on the Ohio
shore of Lake Erie. In less than two
hours and a half, the Americans were
victorious, They had inflicted a loss
on the British of 200 killed and 600
made prisoners, Perry's loss was 27
killed and 96 wounded. Before the
smoke of battle had cleared away he
sat down and, resting his cap on his
knee, used this impromptu desk for
penning his immortal dispatch to Gen.
eral Harrison: “We have met the
enemy and they are ours. Two ships,
two brigs, one schooner and one
sloop.”
Perry's victory bad saved the North-
west again to America. The news of
it thrilled the country. Congress gave
him a vote of thanks and awarded
him a gold medal. He was promoted
from master commander to captain,
At the close of the war he was placed
in command of the Java, a first-class
frigate, and salled with Decatur for
the Mediterranean. In 1810 he was
made a commodore and placed in com-
mand of a squadron which was sent to
the West Indies to suppress piracy.
There he fell ill of the yellow fever and
on August 23, 1819, Lhe died In Port
Spain, Trinidad. He was buried there,
but in 18206 the American government
gent a sloop of war to bring his body
back to his native state. He was
buried nt Newport with all the hon-
ors due him and today a tall granite
of gunboats In
Newport came the
chance
cans,
ne or
the Northwest
) which
Revolution,
necessary to
of Salling
LD, RL,
marks
“hero of Lake Erie”
Perry was
monument the Inst
place of the
Matthew
years younger than his
Hazard, and served ns
under him on Revenge
attained
Calbraith
brot!
an
the
never
one
brotl
action. It
biographer as
“He convoved the fis
f
groes from this country
ship regulations for use on
long
the navy: he fought pls
West Indies, ged
tected commerce from
in the Mediterranean,
firgt United States -rava
system, commanded
lina, the warshi
took John Randolph as envos
American
1 were a model
yoya
finest
czar in the first
enter Russian waters, was
by the founder of the Khedival dyn:
jn Egypt, made a brilliant r
demonstration in the harbor of Naples
gerved ten years shore duty at Brook
Iyn navy yard where his work caused
the chie jucator
3
ni
him to be called
of the navy,
lumination and went to E
of the first regular steamships, en
forced the Webster-Ashbtirton
in Africa, had oversight of the
navy in the Mexican war and breached
the walls of Vera Cruz with
guns when Scott's light
failed, and visited the wate
foundland to settle
pute.”
3ut the thing for which he ig most
famous Is the fact that he organized
and commanded an expedition in 154
which wag to have world-wide signi
cance. For centuries Japan had cu!
herself off from contact with the na
tions of the Western world and had
steadfastly refused to have either
trade or diplomatic relations
“foreigners,” Under the excuse of
making arrangements for protecting
American sailors, engaged in the Pa.
cific whaling Industry, who might be
shipwrecked on the coasts of Japan,
Perry proceeded there with four war.
ships. Despite the suspicion and
thinly-veiled hostility of the Japanese
the American commander conducted
his negotiations so diplomatically,
combining firmness with the polite
ness, so dear to the heart of the
Oriental, that on March 31, 18M,
Japan signed a treaty of peace, amity
and commerce with the United States.
From that day dates the end of the
“hermit nation” and the rise of mod.
ern Japan to a position among the
world powers, It was brought about
by a Commodore Perry, whose diplo-
matic victory was no less brilliant
than the victory In warfare won by
another Commodore Perry 31 years
earlier.
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with
Yiddish Kot Hebrew
Yiddish is spoken by a large num-
of Jews of German or Polish an-
costry, and is not the natural language
of the Jewish people, who speak mod-
ern Hebrew. The Jews who left Ger-
many in the Middle ages for the Slavie
lands of Bohemia, Poland, Galicia and
Lithuania spoke, besides Hebrew, the
middle high German. In course of time
Hebrew and Aramale and Slavie words
became customary, and a certain modi.
fication of the sound of the German
words nlso took place, and by the
Rixteenth century a world-defined
dialect, or language, known as Yid-
dish had become common, It was not
adopted as na literary language until
the Nineteenth century.
Half Way
A family of small children spent
this summer on a farm, thelr first
experience, The country life charmed
them especially because of the multi
tude of new things to learn, Their
mother quite enjoyed the following
conversation which she overheard:
“No, it's not a cow. It's n jersey.
The man sald so when he was talking
to Daddy.”
“No, no, Bessie, you're wrong. Dad:
dy told we, It's a halfer. That means,
it's half way between a cow and a
cult.”
Nearly 00,000 Orangemen took part
in the West of Scotinnd celebrations
in connection with the anniversary
of the battle of the Doyne recently,
WHY WE BEHAVE
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS
By GEORGE DORSEY, Ph. D,, LL. D,
3 n
How and Why Bodies Fossilize
NLESS well protected, or in rain-
less Peru or Egypt, or in dry
cuves, or the cold storage of Arctic
fee, or In oll, wax, or amber, the body
soon yields to the bacterin of decay
or to the teeth of wolves and hyenas
For bone or other tissue to be replaced
by mineral whereby It
“fossilizes,”
likelihood of its being caught In quick.
silt of
little
buried
floods. Primitive
enamored as we
alive,
man
are
Fossil
Magnon
remuing of the famous Cro-
man have been
Wales, and especially in France. Possi-
bly earth never saw finer bullt human
beings. His brain was 15 per
larger than ours , his stature taller than
any living race by two inches
clean-limhed, lithe, and swift,
had a good chin, thick and
Jaws. His head was long.
broad. He buried his dead.
artist and an artisan. He lived about
25000 yenrs ago, Did he become an
ordinary European, or did he disap
peur? No one knows,
cent
He was an
Beyond Cro-Magnon, our forebears
rather run to brutish casts. Grimaldi
man wags of the Negrold type. Nean-
derthal man had a huge head, chipped
flint, and buried his dead.
down at MOO B. C and
known heirs, He is the first
cave-man
The jaw of
gorilla, but the teeth
400,000 years
possibly a
der
He Is set
known
fits a
He is
Plitdown
thousand
think he wus un
the first Eng
Hishinan, We have reached un point in
time
The champion
thropus erectus
Heldelberg man
Hre ours,
possibly old.
mun is hundred
years Some
ape. Some say he was
fossil is Pithecan-
(ape-man erect), dis
Java In 18041, He
Iy a half million
! a million, He is more pithe-
cid than any
more anthiropoid than
He was and
as the average European
covered hy Dubols in
is cert
son
known
any
almost as
He
uted ar
Was a
known ape.
ns erect tall
left the "well-venti
He fow-
i¥ be reg
whether he
resent.
is i | {0
of ine a ended
is not
normously sig
nan,
with
yet definitely known
is « hat, after
un debate more than a
the biologists of
decide wl Pithe
lasting
of a century, the
world cannot ether
canthropus erectus belongs to the first
or the second of the
That
that is no
First
prefty
earth's
Families makes him a
good link
To import monkeys for
glands is ghastiy ht
the lowest that hns engaged the cupld-
ity and lust of man, but to shoot down
siminang as we do mad dogs or boys in
longer missing.
their sex
isiness,
uniform Is a crime.
pold apes our
they should be respected as
and not exterminated as
Indians,
are
OC, Bn orang. or a No biol
ogist ever made such Wheth-
er these apes could “ave developed
into humah beings is a different story.
Trey have the makings—all the paris,
If we knew how heredity works and
could control variation, we might
breed from an ape a belag that could
dig a ditch, play the plano, talk Eng-
igh, and ging the “Messiah™
gibbon,
a
Claim
tobacco, drink beer, wear clothes, and
eat with a knife and fork. We do not
to learn human wars.
Why do zoologists put
our diseases? Because they
thropoid. Nothing has yet
hem in the race to become
Their anatomy, embryology,
morphology, paleontology,
nnd psychology entitle them to second
place in the Ancient
Order of Firsts,
are An
histology,
one is in all ways closest to man, The
orang looks like an Irishman; the
gorilla is built like Jack Dempsey;
the chimpanzee is the most angelic;
the delicate gibhon has a lady-ike
skull =1d an upright carriage. The first
three—the Great Apes—are the ex
tremes of variation from a generalized
ancestor. T' gibbon varies least, and
to that extent is nearest the tree man
climbed down when he decided to
stand up and talk,
Except in teeth, the young female
gorilla Is the most human. Her fa-
ther is a brute in size and appear
ance. Only five feet high, he may
weigh over 400 pounds: mostly neck,
chest, and arms. If his legs were of
human proportions, he would stand
over seven feet high,
The chimpanzee, like the gorilla,
lives In jungle Africa. Like the goril-
In, he has a shufMe-along galt, swing.
ing his body between his long crutch.
like arms, He has the gorilla's propor
tions, but never ‘the great bulk of
chest, And so is more st home in the
trees, where he builds his nest, as
does the orang. The chimpanzee's
skull is not unlike the one ape-man
erect tried on when turning into man
«and gave up because it had too
much jaw for the teeth required and
not enough brain box for ideas.
AR) by George A. Darsev.)
w
The Mark of
Genuine
Aspirin..
true.
Love and Humanity
Love is Lut for
Inserutable presence by which the soul
Is connected
unother name
with humanity. —Siinms
If there is
opportunity
his
sooner or later,
anything In a man
will come
Baby ills and ailments seem
twice as serious at might. A sud-
den cry may mean colic.- Or a
sudden attack of diarrhea—a con-
dition it is always important to
check quickly. How would you
meet this emergency—tonight?
fave you a bottle of Castoria
ready? There is nothing that can
take the place of this harmless
but effective remedy for children;
nothing that acts quite the same,
or has quite the same comforting
effect on them.
For the protection of your wee
one—for your own peace of mind
~keep this old, reliable prepara-
Aspirin is the trade mark of
Bayer Manufactures of Mono
aceticacidoster of Ballcylicacid
Starting a Fire Safely
Fill a and
Put
the
the dry
bucket with Hine ashes
them wilh Kerosene
three tablespoonfuis of
mixture in the
wood
Farm and
grate, iny on
fire is
Fireside,
and the ready 10 go.
tion always on hand. But don't
keep it just for emergencies; let
it be an everyday aid. Its gentle
ence will case and soothe the
infant who cannot sleep. Its mild
regulation will help an older child
whose tongue is coated 1 15¢ of
sluggish bowels 1
have Castoria; the genuine
Chas
dd
ears
H. Fletcher's signature on
the wrapper.
“Goes Army”
Perhaps he doesn’t
learn a few things!
ON'T envy a man who “only
has to work a typewriter.”
So we were told by Mr. Solon S.
Bloom of 3503 Woodbrook Avenue,
Baltimore, Md., whose health began
to give way because his work gave
him no bodily exercise,
#1 decided to get away to a military
training camp,” says Mr. Bloom,
“thinking the rough and tumble
with the army would do me good
for a month, I asked the doctor
what to do about my condition.
“I've seen men, I've known men,’ he
said, ‘I know what they eat, drink,
and how they live, I know cathartics,
physics, and all the ways men try
£0 keep themselves regular—and the
only two that go together well are
men and Nujol. Nujol soothes and
neals the membranes and expels
bodily poisons normally, naturally,
easily, so that you are regular as
clock-work.’ 2
That was what Mr. Bloom learned
when he left his typewriter and went
into the army. If you are like most
other people, you too will find that
Nujol will make all the difference in
the world in the way you feel.
Remember Nujol is not a medi-
cane, for it contains no drugs of
any kind. It is simply bodily lubrica-
tion that everybody needs.
Tou can get a bottle of Nujol st
any good drug store, in a sealed pack-
age, for the price of a couple of good
cigars, If you will start today and
try it for two weeks you will agree
that Nujol is the easy normal way
to keep well and make a success out
of your life. You will be astonished
at the results!
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