-<~ ia SS Mrs. T heo. Alice Ruggles Kitson, Sculptress. THE MINUTEMAN MONUMENT, Framingham, Massachusetts. Peder avd His Lide.. n y Poetry and Prose of this IReVolutionary on ‘April 19, 1775, that the patri- otic citizens of Con- cord and Lexington fought the first fight and burned the first powder in the strug- gle for liberty and freedom from tyr- anny. In those two towns once a year those stirring events are celebrated with all the en- thusiasm accorded to the celebration of the King’s Birthday by the Brit- ons, the bitter foes of these same towns 132 years ago. But April 18, or the night of the 18th, is just as much included in this annual observance as Patriots’ Day itself. “Lantern Night” it is called, from the fact that on the night of April 18, 1775, a lantern was hung in the belfryof the North Church to warn the country around that Brit- ish soldiers were-on their way. At that time, although the country about Boston and Charlestown was thickly settled, there were no tall buildings, smokestacks and grain elevators intervening to hide the light from view, and the lantern served its purpose well. In these days the feeble rays of a lantern in the old North Church could hardly be distinguished from the neighboring housetops. But “Lantern Night” has more than the mere hanging of a warning incident ¢ light to commend it to history. At midnight on the 18th of April, 1775, Paul Revere, the daring patriot, made his famous ride on horseback to arouse the sleeping = farmers and townspeople with the warning that the British soldiers were on the way to seize the powder and stores hidden away in Concord. However much the facts and de- tails of this ride may be disputed— and there have arisen a legion of | critics and carping historians who deny the authenticity of much of the story—the youth of the land will be more than willing to accept it as given to the world in the lines of Longfellow, which thrill and stir every one who reads them. But since denials have arisen, it may be well to state the facts as plain, unvarnished history gives them. As a matter of fact, while it is popularly believed that the lantern was hung in the belfry of the North Church to signal the direction taken by the British to Paul Revere, who was waiting across the river for the signal, Paul Revere had no need of such a signal. He had accurate in- formation regarding the route to be traversed by the British. The lan- tern was placed there to warn others, that they might spread the alarm also, especially if Revere was taken prisoner. Paul Revereperformed a great and lasting service to his country when DA { V8 1 SR REZ LUTON CHRIST CHURCH, J BOSTON he took that famous efde., “Yt was a dificult service; Tie was likely at Ally moniént 14 yun into a detach- ment of Iritish soldiers. His horse might stumble on the dark, rough roads and throw its rider with: a broken neck. To the surefootedness of the steed and the luck and daring of the horseman this country may be said to owe its existence as a free and independent nation. Revere’s own story of his ride per- haps best explains the events that occurred that night. He says: “On Tuesday evening a number of soldiers were observed marching to- ward the bottom of the Common. About 10 o'clock Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me, and begged. that I would immediately set out for Lex- ington, where Hancock and Adams were, and acquaint them of the move- ment, and that it was thought they were the objects. When I got to Dr. Warren's house, I found that he had sent an express by land to Lexing- ton—a Mr. William Dawes. The Sunday before, by desire of Dr. War- ren, I had been to Lexington,- to Hancock and Adams, who were at the Rev. Mr. Clark's. I returned at night to Charlestown. There I agreed with a Celonel Conant and some other gentlemen that if the British went out by water, we should show two lanthorns in the North Church steeple, and if by land one as a sig- nal; for we were apprehensive it would be difficult to cross the Charles River or to get over Boston Neck. 1 left: Dr. Warren, called upon a friend and desired him to make the signals. “I then went home, took my boots and surtout, went to the north part of the town, where I kept a boat. Two friends rowed me across Charles River, a little to the east of where the Somerset man-of-war lay. It was then young flood, the ship was wind- ing and the moon was rising. They landed me on the Charlestown side. When I got into town I met Colonel | They | Conant and several others. said they had seen our signals. I told them what was acting, and we went to get -a horse of Deacon Larkin.” “With the horse speeding him along, | reached Lexing- | Paul Revere soon ton, where he aroused Hancock and Adams. On his way to Concord, he was captured by four British officers. While their prisoner, a volley fired by Colonial militiamen frightened them, and they abandoned their cap- | tive, after taking his horse. Revere then footed it to Woburn, back to Lexington and on to Concord, where he saw the memorable conflict. Some years ago, during one of the Patriots’ Day celebrations, it was de- PAUL REVERE, BOO cided to have the whole program of that night gone over again, midnight ride and all. A rider was found who consented to make the trip, and he started out as though the British were really at his heels. He fell off his horse in Medford Square, how- ever, and when he picked himself up concluded to talze things more sedate- ly. Since then the committee has been content with the hanging of the two lanterns in a belfry by the old sexton. The match was white, The flame was blue, The giant cracker red, And Tommy saw the stars, when he Came down upon his head —Pauline Frances Camp. Schoolhouse, New London, Conn. Where Nathan Hale was teaching in 1776 when he received his commis- sion as eaptain in the Continental Army. iow owned by the Kather- ine Gaylord Chapter of the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution. Memorable Utterances. The Declaration of Independence has been in all subsequent history designated as ‘‘a dodument immor- tal,” and the story of the struggles for American independence comprise the most thrilling incidents related to the revolutionary movement to plant freedom in the New World. History gives honorable place to the utterances of the heroes whose names are linked with the achievements of the Continental Congress. We quote: WORDS OF THOMAS JEFFERSON: “The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.” : “We hold these truths to be self- evident, that all men are created equal; that theyare endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” “We mutually pledge to each other | our lives, our fortunes and our sa- i cred honor.” “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with an- other, and to assume among the pow- ers of the earth the separate and | equal station to which the laws of | nature and of nature's God entitle | them, a decent respect to the opinion | of mankind requires that they should | declare the causes that impel them to | the separation.” —From the Declara- | tion of Independence. | JOHN ADAMS. I WORDS : OF “Yesterday the greatest question TED: AND SPURRED. was decided which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps never . was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independ- ent States.”—From a Letter to His Wife. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. Go fling the Starry Banner out, The Emblem of the Free; Go turn the Eagle loose to Scream For Us and Liberty! Oh, say Ain't this the Day Of Days? And don’t we go the strenuous ways To tell the world Our Banner is unfurled? Sure, Mike, And Giuseppe and Bill and Fritz And Ali and Ivan and Wing Lee and Sambo And —- But what’s in a name? We're all Fourthofjulyers And we get there just the same. We are a band of brothers United here to make This land our land—one land, And give the rest the shake. (Gee, whiz! And sizz and fizz! : What a Country ours is! Ain't it? : Lampton, in the -—W. J. New York p World. GEVTONE STATE GULLINGS HAD TOO MUCH FAITH Puts Blame on Architect and Contrzctor Canitol Job. Auditor General Snyder Admifting extravagance and charees in the building of tI new capitol, former Auditor Goneral Wm. P. Snyder defended himself before the probers by throwing all the tlame for the enormous expenditures on shoulders of Architect Huston, tractor Sanderson and Superintendent of Grounds and Buildings Jaries .J1 Shumaker. Snyder is a member of the capitol building - commission. and as auditor general he was a member of the board of public grounds and build ings. ——a Snyder admitted that implicit fidence was reposed in Huston explanations of the many ci a suspicious transactions were accepted without question, and that, instead of the auditor general's department aud- iing the bills of the “trimmers,” the clerks there merely footed up the to- tals and marked them correct. over 16 aon whos: 1S qd INCREASES FOR TEACHERS Boards Will Be Requred to Furnish Reports to State. A circular is being prepared by the Department of Public Instruction, which wil be sent to the school dis- tricts of the State, outlining th meth- od whereby the Snyder act, providing for increased salaries to school teach- ers. is to he put into effect. This is the measure signed by Ge Stuart, making $40 the monthly mini- mum to be paid teachers heiding ypro- visionai certificates, and $50 for teach- ers having professional, permanent and normal school certificates. The $15,000,000 appropriation . for schoolg contains $275.000 for township high schools and the same FOr borough high schools, and the increas- ed pay of teachers is also to come out of .it. : As under appropriation for schools. i paid until the school year is comp The partment has decided require that, 1 showing that districts e-aeeepted the } law: in 1¢ eet. to salary, filed at the Capitol by Oct. 1 and annually thereafter. While the minimum take effect June 1, 1907, 1 can receive State money aid in payment increased until June 1. 1968, and then only in case it files the required report by Oct. 1. amennt-for the State law the ng ed. de ports district of salaries FISH WILL BE PLENTIFUL Commissioner Meehan Making Ar- rangements to Double the Yield of the State Hatcheries. When. the work planned by State Fish Commissioner Meehan at the state hatcheries for this summer is completed, they will be better equip- ped for immense outputs of fish than any vther state hatcheries and will only be exceeded by those of the Tmited States government. This vear the output of fish was 652,000,000 -to June 1. frem the hatching houses and ponds now in operation. With the compietion of the new buildings and ponds, the output, Mr. Meehan says, will be more than 1,000,000,000 a year. ’ At Crawford lake, among the be a bass pond, covering five At Spruce creek, Huntingdon county, there will be a hatchery house for brook trout with a capacity of 3,000.- 000. fry, a jar house, a bass pond of four acres and seven trout ponds. At Bellefonte there will be 12 or 15 trout ponds. At the Wayne hatchery the trout house is to be doubled in capac- {ty and a jar battery house built. At Union City a bass pond of over five acres is to be started, and the same Kind of work will be done at the Wayne hatchery. A large sunfish pond is to be built at the Torresdale hatchery and a number of fry ponds are to be con- structed at Crawford, Spruce creek, Wayne and Torresdale. Six Divorces in One Hour. It took. Jas.. M. Galbreath of Dut- ler a little over an hour to hear the testimony and grant six divorce de- crees. for desertion. Ellen Miller charges desertion against her . .hus- band, Ardrew Miller. The husband says his wife speculated in bucket shops and wasted money. [He alleges she went through his pockets almost every night. One night he che threw his trousers out of the up- stairs window, money and all. hatchery, Conneaut improvements will acres. alleges Machine Plant Is Sold. The plant of the Robinson Machine Co. at Monongahela, was sold at re- ceiver's sale for $32,060 to S. R. Wil- son of Pittsburg. It is rumored that the buyer acted for the Monongahela River Consolidated Coal & Coke Co. The plant has been idle for some time. but it is said that it soon will be started in full. It will employ more than 100 men. Waynesburg College Gets Offer. Josiah V. Thompson, the wealthy Uniontown coal operator, has made an offer to Waynesburg College, which will probably be accepted. If “the college agrees to take $30,000 of the bonds of the Pittsburg & Westmore- jand Coal Co., he will give $10,000 in cash to the institution. Thieves Cet $400. Mrs. John DBrigger was choked in- to unconsciousness by two robbers who broke into her home at New Cas- tle. Her hushand works at night and the only others in the house were four little children. The robbers found $490 in bills hidden in a bureau drawer. : Fire own origin destroyed the Westmoreland Coal Eleven mules were $5,660. : of ul the stables Co. at cremated WYERS EXCELSIOR BRAND Qiled Clothing and Slickers Make you comfor weather. Our lixc Police Coat is. a gt one of our special for general us everywhere “Sawyer? Slickers—if vours, write for catalo and prices. le in uncomfortable Proof Braad H. M. SAWYER & SON, East Cambridge, Mass. In Guatemala [ creased. and finally. after using . of Time to Repent. The prophet up in York county who declares that the world will come to an end in 1914 is evidently not entire- ly without compassion. He is willing to the inhabitants easonably long time to mend their and get their affairs. in order. Iadelphia Bulletin. 27 give Ways to Raise Funds. whenever: money badly needed one or milli are sentenced to death, and th tates confiscated, This. is le mane than the Wall: str though no more effective. TWO NO RELIEF FOR 15 YEARS. All Sorts of Remedies Jrailer. «0 Cure ezema—Sufferer Tried Cuticura and is Entirely Cured. “1 have had fore fifteen years, and. hive tried ait sorts of remedies to relieve me, but wail. | stated my to friends and he recommended Cuticura Remedies: bought them thought th would be unsuccessin | ut after them noticed to and peeling cezema over thout case one of my the with fhe using Fst ne hye boxes of 1 Cuta entirely. | and 1 would gladly remedies to all who are aflicted with skin diseases. David Bium. Box A; ford “Station, N.Y Nov.:6, 1905.” Cutienra Soap and two lisappearaed cura Ointment 1t feel now like. a--new. man, reconunen: these Women Chesen Lawmakers. AT 1 wome tion. this quarter of the is a fact, although reason why they These women have al honors and assumed the lawmakers, in: Finland. At tion held: in that country couple of weeks ago the developed surprising consistent with their p they nominated a number of for Congressional seats. This the other parties do the thing. When the cd it was found heen eleciad, They have taken th promise to make To fally. appreciate tue of this, it must be borne in mind that never before have women a wb man been elected to the national law- making body of any country.—We- man’s National Daily. Lh: there should not WON cCongre Socialists Stret and, retensions, women forced same count- women had them Socialists. jr and zood lawmakers importance 10 hallots that 12 of were nine sents or How Marbles Are Made. Most of the stene marbles usad bovs are made in Germany. The r fuse only of the murble and gi quarries is employed, and treated in such a way that practically no waste. Men and are employed to break the stone into small cubes. and their hammers they acquire a velous dexterity. The - little cubes are then thrown into a mill consist ing of a grooved bedstone and a re volving runner. Water is fed to the mill and the runner rapidly : re volved, while the friction does the rest. In half an hour the mill” is stopped and a bushel or so of per fectly rounded marbles are taken out The whole process costs the meres: trifie.— Philadelphia Record. mar- is COFFEE COMPLEXION Many Ladies Have Poor Complex- ions From Coffee. “Coffee caused dark colored blotches on my face and body. I had been drinking it for a long while and these blotches gradually ap- peared, until finally they became per- manent and were about as dark as coffee itself. > “I formerly had as fine a complex- ion as one could ask for. “When I became convinced that coffee was the cause of my. trouble, I changed and took to using Postum Food Coffee, and as I made it well, according to directions, 1 -iked it very much, and have since that time used it in place of coffee. “1 am thankful to say I am not nervous any more, as I was when I was drinking coffee, and my com- plexion is now as fair and good as it was years ago. It is very plain that coffee caused the trouble.” Most bad complexions are caused by some disturbance of the stomach and coffee is the greatest disturber of digestion known. Almost any wo- man can have a fair complexion if she will leave off coffee and use Pos- tum Food Coffee and nutritious, healthy food in proper quantity. Postum furnishes certain elements from the natural grains from the field that Nature uses to rchuild the nervous system and when that is in good condition, one can depend upon a good complexion as well as a good healthy body. “There's a Reason.” “The to Wellville,” in Read Road pkgs.
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