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“OH, YES!
BECOME A PIANIST, I'LL OWE IT TO YOU!”
MY TERMS ARE IN ADVANCE!®
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SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
| By F A. WALKER
LAYING A FOUNDATION
F YOU are a close observer and
given to winnowing the golden
grain from the sheaves that are fall-
fng all about you, you are laying a
solid foundation on which to build
your structure of success.
You have noticed how carefully
masons select stones which are to
bear the weight of skyscrapers, with
what precision these stones are placed
side by side, kept level and plumb,
and imbedded in cement.
Every layer, mark you, must be
level and plumb. And mark again
that no building can be stronger than
the base upon which it rests.
What is true of stone structure is
likewise true of mental and moral
formation.
If the groundwork Is weak, the
fundamentals slatternly, the corniced
and capitaled summit is in danger of
falling.
The reason why so many men and
women fail In their efforts to reach
the apex of their dreams is because
they failed to construct substantial
supports in early life,
There has been much newspaper
discussion anent the value of college
education, and whether it really tits
young men and women for the prac-
tical duties In professional and indus-
trial pursuits. In a series of ques-
tions, Edison some time ago tested
numbers of university graduates.
The result, it is alleged, was oot sat-
isfactory.
Schools and colleges should not be
censured for these shortcomings. but
xather the students themselves. who
had overlooked the vital fmportance
of laying In their early days a solid
Foundation on which to build.
t Whatever you attempt, begin at the
base and build solidly.
Test the strength of this base at
every stage of your progress,
Don't be afraid of hard work
fong hours.
In music you must first master the
elementary principles, embodied in
the active: in surgery you must ac-
quaint yourself with the location of
the 263 bones in the human body
And so In all branches of art, science
and industry, you must dig deeply and
erect an enduring foundation
Work. work, work nnd have faith.
Dig through the difficulties and if you
falter not in your endeavors your
building will survive the storms and
stand unshaken while the world tum
b'as all around you
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and
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% What Does Your Child
Want to Know oy
Answie d by
4 BARBARA BOURJAILY ® oy
WHERE DOES OUR BREATH GO?
Our breath goes up, for it is warm,
And warm things always rise.
High up, the wind can make it pure,
All nature's laws are wise,
(Copyright)
Or
Whale meat is sold as chicken feed
.
“Are you awfully tired of play, little
girl,
Weary, discouraged and sick?
I'll tell you the loveliest game In the
world—
Do something for somebody quick.”
EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS
EAS are one of our valuable pro-
tein foods and when served will
take the place of ment.
Green Pea Soup.
Rub a can of green peas through
a sieve; a pint will be sufficient for
an ordinary family. Season to taste
with salt and pepper and add a table
spoonful of scraped onion, or cook a
small onion minced in a little fat; add
fo this one tablespoonful of flour and
a pint of stock or water; use the
stock on the peas with water. Cook
five minutes, add the puree of peas,
heat all together and serve with
croutons or fingers of toasted bread.
Sour Cream Slaw.
Shred cabbage very fine, plunge
into cold water until crisp, drain and
cover with a cupful of thick sour
cream heated and added to two well-
beaten eggs. Add two tablespoonfuls
of vinegar, two tablespoonfuls of but-
ter, a teaspoonful of salt and a few
dashes of cayenne. Cover the drained
cabbage with the hot sauce and serve.
Cabbage Salad.
Shred very fine one small firm head
of cabbage, add one-half cupful of
chopped almonds which have been
blanched and four or five ripe bana-
nas finely cut; mix with one cupful
of sour cream; If cream Is not very
sour add a dash of vinegar. Serve
with crackers and cheese.
Different Dried Beef.
Take dried beef, cut into strips
with scissors and fry in a tablespoon-
ful of butter. Place on a hot platter
and surround with halved and quar
tered bananas also fried. tong enough
to become thoroughly hot.
Unusual Dessert.
Take a pint can of condensed milk
and put into a deep dish, cover with
boiling water and keep boiling for
two and one-half hoars lemove,
cool and slip out the contents by cut-
ting the can carefully. Slice and
serve well chilled with a cherry on
top. Several cans may be cooked at
once and opened when needed. This
will serve four to six persons and has
a flavor much like maple,
Sour Cream Icing.
I'nke two-thirds of a cupful of sour
cream, add two cupfuls of granulated
sugar. and boil gently until it threads.
(Cool until tepid. add a teaspoonful of
extract and boat until
Spread on the cake, or use
orange
crenmy
as filling,
Nereie Mopwer
(©). 1987, by Wes
arn Newspaper Unlon,)
sf Jones:
Sunstorms
How can one, who is bewildered and
appalled by the fury of our plunet’s
cyclones and volcanic eruptions, form
a conception of the terrible energy
of natural operations on the suu?
Newcomb suggested that if we call the
solar chromwsphere an ocean of fire
we must remember that it is an ocean
indefinitely hotter thar the ficrcesifur-
naee and as deep as the Atluntic is
broad. If we call its movements hur-
ricanes we must remember that our
hurricanes blow only about 100 miies
an hour, while those of the chromo-
sphere blow as far in a single second.
There are such hurricanes as, com-
ing down. from the North, would, in 30
seconds after they had crossed the St.
Lawrenee river, be in the gulf of Mex-
ico, carrying with them the whole sur-
face of the continent in a mass not
COMPLETE IT!
By EVELYN GAGE BROWNE
’ [S what we finish-——not what we
begin,
By which we rise;
To try is good, but not enough where-
by
To gain the prize.
We win by what we do—not by the
thing
We meant to do;
'Tis where we stand—not where we
ought to be,
That makes our view.
For power is given every one to be
The man he would;
A mere Intent will count for naught,
though it
Be fine and good;
But effort must be followed up by
work
Accomplished, done;
For only by completed tasks Is life's
Great victory won.
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WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
BY JOSEPH KAYE
At 21—Ex-Senator Sherman Was a
Detective Force Unto Himself.
Ar THE age of twenty-one I was
a college student, Not long after
I began practicing as a country law-
yer in Illinois. I remember I had no
detective force to help me in my cases.
I had to be my own detective. I had
to go after my own witnesses. I had
to penetrate the mask of delinquent
character in the interest of public
morals by examining, divining, an-
alyzing human motive. In this way,
the habit of tracing the personal ele-
ments of private ambition, of revenge
or power in the minds of others be-
came a legal asset.—Lawrence Y.
Sherman.
TODAY—Mr. Sherman has retired
from official politics and bas resumed
his-taw practice. He has had a dis-
tinguished political career, At the age
of twenty-eight he was made county
judge and some years later elected to
the Illinois house of representatives,
becoming speaker >f that body. The
lieutenant governorship followed and
then he was elected to the United
States senate.
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SAWS
By Viola Brothers Shore
FOR THE GOOSE—
OME women'll walk up the front
stairs and down the back to get
from the vestibule into the kitchen.
As long as you draw your breath
you're alive. But that don't say
you're livin’,
You can’t be cookin’ the supper and
sittin’ In the parlor entertainin’ the
guests, >
FOR THE GANDER—
They say easy come, easy go. But
you'll find the girls that’s the easiest
to get, is the hardest to get rid of.
The way to a man's heart {s through
his stomach. But people don't seem
to realize how much women is built
like men.
A feller oughta know a coupla good
eatin’ places. Nothin’ so completely
rubs the bloom off an evening for a
woman as havin’ to decide where she
wants to eat and what she wants to
do after that.
(Copyright.)
0
HE YOUNG LADY
ACROSS THE WAY
—
The young lady across the way says
she'd take more stock in a gnod Amer
ican doctor's opinfon any day than
an eminent alienist’s.
simply of ruin, but of glowing vapor. |
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THE PATTON COURIER
Jo /fonor a Gre
AN
SRD
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
F PRESENT - plans are
carried out, the state
of Missouri will sson
pay long-neglected hon-
or to one of her great-
est -citizens, Gen, Wil-
liar Henry Ashley, For
nearly a hundred years
Ashley's body has lain
in an unmarked grave
in an Indian mound near
the confluence of the
Lamine and Missouri rivers in Cooper
county, his name and fame almeost for-
gotten. Now, thanks to the initiative
of a Missour! country editor, Edgar
Nelson of the Boonville (Mo.) Adver-
tiser, whose suggestion has been
taken up by the Boonville D. A. R.
chapter, a movement has been started
to locate his grave and place there
a memorial in keeping with the im-
portance of his services, not only to
the state, but to the whole country
as well.
For there was a time when Ashley
was a national figure even though it
was then little suspected, perhaps, by
his fellow-Missourians and even though
his significance in the annals of the
American frontier has been unappre-
clated until comparatively recent years.
Virginians can claim with Missourians
an equal pride in his achievements
for he was born in Powhattan county
in that state in 1785. At the age of
eighteen he came to Missouri territory,
or upper Louisiana, as it was then
called, and settled first at Cape Gi-
rardeau. He was even then a man of
considerable education and property
and added to the latter by acquiring
a large land grant which included
| what is now Jackson, the county seat
of Cape Girardeau county. Ashley
next moved to Potosl where he én-
gaged in the manufacture of gun-
powder, and later to St. Louis, where
he was one of the promoters of the
old Bank of St. Louis.
During the War of 1812 Ashley,
whose forceful personality had appar-
ently impressed itself upon the com-
munity, was made a brigadier general
of the state militia. Later when Mis-
sourl entered the sisterhood of states
he was to become her first lieutenant-
governor and was barely beaten in the
race for governor by Frederick Bates,
In 1831 he was elected as a Whig to
the T'wenty-second congress, to fill out
the unexpired term of Spencer Pettis,
who was killed in a duel with Ma).
Thomas Biddle, and he was re-elected
to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth
congresses, But it is Ashley the pio-
neer, the fur trader, the explorer, and
the patron of other explorers, rather
than Ashley, the holder of state po-
litical office, whose importance extends
far beyond state boundary lines, makes
him a national figure and gives to the
proposed memorial nation-wide inter-
est,
From the earliest days the fur trade
has been an important factor in Amer-
Ican history. During the long series
of Colonial wars England and France
wrestled for the control of the interior
of the North American continent be-
| cause it was a vast reservoir of valu-
able furs. The fur trade was one of
the contributing factors which brought
about the American Revolution and
later the owatest between British and
Americans to determine who would
control the fur trade, was again a
factor in embroiling the {wo countries
in the troubles which resulted in the
War of 1812. In the period of na-
tional expansion which followed this
war men still thought in terms of
beaver, but by this time their eyes
were turned to the vast expanse of
the trans-Mississippl west. Especially
was this true in St, Louis which stood
at the gateway to this virgin wilder-
ness and which had been the jumping
off place for the Lewis and Clark
expedition and for several fur-trading
expeditions, such as these headed by
Manuel Lisa and Maj. Andrew Henry,
who as early as 1809 had trapped the
northern Rocky Mountain streams. Fur
packs valued at from ten thousand
dollars to fifteen thousand dollars had
been brought back to St. Louls by
various individual trappers and trad-
ers and it was plain to see that great
opportunities awalted-those who went
into the business on a large scale,
So with the time ripe, the man with
the Imagination and business acumen
to seize the opportunity was on the
scene. On March 20, 1822, the follow-
ing history-making notice appeared in
the Missouri Republican, a St. Louis
newspaper :
To enterprising young men: the sub-
scriber wishes to engage one hundred
young men to ascend the Missouri river
to its source, there to be employed for
one, two or three years. For particu-
lars enquire of Major Andrew Henry,
near the lead mines in the county of
Washington, who will ascend with and
commar the party; or of the subscrib-
er near St. Louis.
Signed, WILLIAM H. ASHLEY.
So the Ashley-Henry company or
the Rocky Mountain Fur company, as
the organization was later to be called,
came into existence and brought into
the limelight among its 100 “enterpris-
ing young men” such names as James
Bridger, Etienne Provot, Thomas IMitz-
patrick, Milton Sublette, William L.
Sublette, James Beckwourth, Edward
Rose, Louis Vasquez, Jedediah 8.
Smith, David KE. Jackson and Hugh
Glass. There you have a veritable
Who's Who of the Missouri fair-trade
notables, the “long-haired mountain
men immortalized by the brush of
Frederic Remington and the pen of
John G. Neihardt!
On April 15, 1822, the expedition
embarked at St. Louls on keel boats
which were to ascend the Missouri
to the three forks In Montana, trap
the streams on both sides of
Rockies, perhaps penetrate to the
mouth of the Columbia river, and re-
turn before the expiration of the
three-year contract with the men. The
expedition was commanded by Major
Heary but the adventurous Ashley ac-
companied it. After a serles of ad-
ventures with treacherous and thiev-
ing Indians and with the even more
treacherous river whose floating snags
wrecked one hoat and caused a loss
of $10.000 worth of merchandise, the
expedition reached the mouth of the
Yellowstone river and decided to halt
there for the season. Leaving Henry
in charge, Ashley returned by canoe to
St. Louis to recruit another trapping
party and obtain supplies for the trad-
Ing activities of the next three years,
E==
So important was this company that
to write a history of the fur trade
without mentioning it would be an-
other example of playing Hamlet with-
out the melancholy Dane. It was Ash-
ley who established the now famous
institution of the trapper's summer
rendezvous as a means of conducting
the fur trade. The summer rendezvous
was an annual gathering of trappers
and Indians where took place not only
those affairs of barter but also Homeric
scenes of drinking, carousing, fighting
and primitive love-making between
white men and red maldens—the saga
stuff of which Nelhardt has made such
good use. The personality of Ashley
was so Indelibly stamped upon the
fur trade of that period that after a
time “Ashley Beaver” hecame a trade
mark of the best brand of beaver fur,
It Is Ashley, the explorer and patron
of other explorers, however, rather
than Ashley, the fur trader, who Is
most entitled to a national memorial.
This Is because he was the leader of
the first overland expedition to the
Pacific coast by a different route to
that followed in general by Lewis and
Clark, According to Harrison Clifford
Dale of the University of Wyoming
in his book “The Ashley-Smith Ex-
plorations and Discovery of a Central
Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829":
“The expedition of William Henry
Ashley in 1824-1825 up to the South
Platte across what is now northern
Colorado, in the dead of winter, over
the continental divide, and through
the perilous canyons of Green river in
rudely constructed boats, and finally
still further westward to the vicinity
of the Great Salt lake, forms the first
stage In the discovery and ufilization
of the famous overland route to Call-
fornia. From the Interior Basin in
1826, Jedediah Strong Smith pushed
on across the deserts of Utah and
Nevada and over the Slerras to San
Gabriel and San Diego—the first Amer-
fean to reach California by land,
Journeying north to the Stanislaus
river, he recrossed the Sierras and re-
traversed the deserts of Utah and
Nevada to the Great Salt lake. These
two expeditions together form a single
enterprise—the discovery of the cen-
tral and southwestern route to the
Pacific.”
Ashley decided to sell out his Inter-
est in the Rocky Mountain Fur com-
pany in 1826. The purchasers were
his associates, William L. Sublette,
Jedediah Smith and David E. Jackson.
The articles of agreement were signed
on July 26, 1826, near ‘the Great Salt
lake im Utah. Although he retired
from active connection with the com-
pany, he retained his Interest in the
tho fur trade In that he decided to fur-
nish the cannon which is sald to have
been the first ever taken into the
Rocky mountains. This was in 1827
and it was hauled twelve hundred
miles by ox-team to be set up on the
walls of one of the compdny’s forts.
But to return to Ashley's withdrawal
from the fur company which he had
made famous—it must have been ga
dramatic scene when the general stood
before the trappers at the rendezvous
and bade them good-by in these words:
Mountaineers and friends: When I
first came to the mountains, I came a
poor man. You, by your indefatigable
exertions, tolls, and privations have
procured me an independent fortune.
With ordinary prudence in the man-
agement of what I have accumulated,
I shall never want for anything. Fes
————
TRAPEERS
this, my friends, I feel myself under
great obligations to you. Many of you
have served with me personally, and
1 shall always be proud to testify to
the fidelity with which you have stood
by me through all danger, and the
friendly and brotherly feeling which
you have ever, one and all, evinced
toward me. For these faithful and de-
voted services I wish you to accept
my thanks; the gratitude that I ex-
press to you springs from my heart
and will ever retain a lively hold on
my feelings.
My friends! I am now about to leave
you, to take up my abode in St. L uf
Whenever any of you retari™thither,
your first duty must be to c4ll at my
house, to talk over the scenes of paril
we have encountered, and partake of
the best cheer my table can afford.
I now wash my hands of the tolls of
the Rocky mountains. Farewell moun-
taineers and friends! May God bless
you all!"
On September 26, 1826 there ap-
peared in the Missouri Republican the
following news item: “General Ash-
ley and his party have arrived at
St. Louis from the Rocky mountains
with 125 packs of beaver valued at
$60,000.” This was the valedictory of
Ashley, the adventurer and fur trader,
At Wis point his career as one of
Missouri’s most distinguished citizens
hegan. He became a large land owner
by the purchase of a tract of 30,000
arpens (an old French land measure
which varied widely, according to the
locality), an area ten miles long and
six miles wide. This was the famous
“Chouteau-Lamine” claim, given orig-
inally by the Osage Indlans In 1792
to Maj. Pierre Chouteau, a brother of
Auguste Chouteau, one of the founders
of St. Louis. Chouteau's title was
confirmed by the Spanish lieutenant-
governor of Upper Louisiana, Charles
DeHaulte Delassus, in 1799, but when
this country came under the flag of
the United States by the Louisiana
purchase there was some dispute as
to whether or not the new rulers
would recognize the title. Ashley was
then a member of congress and through
his efforts the title was confirmed by
an act of congress on July 4, 1836.
Chouteau later sold the entire tract
to Ashley for $1.25 an acre.
Ashley made his home on thls grant
on a high bluff overlooking the Mis-
sourl and Lamine rivers, surrounded
by a number of Indian mounds. He
was married three times but at the
time of his death in 1838 he left no
descendants. According to tradition,
when he felt that death was near, he
walked along the river bluffs looking
for a site for his last resting place.
His selectlon was the top of one of
the Indian mounds in a bend of the
river, overlooking the wide sweep of
the Missouri, against whose muddy
stream he had set forth upon his
“magnificent adventure” and down
which had come the boatloads of furs
to bring him his vast fortune. There
he was buried.
Although the school histories have
neglected him, Ashley's deeds have
been recorded in Capt. Hiram Ohitten-
den’s monumental “History of the
American Fur Trade of the Far
West,” in Professor Dale's scholarly
study, In J. Cecil Alter’s fine biog-
raphy, “James Bridger,” in Neihardt's
sagas and in the writings of that
appreciative historian ofthe Old West,
Emerson Hough, Missouri now pro-
poses to erect in his honor a more
enduring memorial than the printed
page and It Is a project in which all
Americans can have a sympathetic
interest.
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CITIZENS OF
CAROLINA |
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Proclamation «
Made at Me
More Tha
Years /
In spite of doubtin;
son and the reluctanc
interested Virginians
anything good ever c¢
Carolina, no sufficle
exists for questioning
that the citizens «
county, in the latter
deflance in the face
in the form of a dec
pendence just thirte
fifteen days before
congress in Philadel
make the same dec:
date was May 20, 177
Charlotte, N. C., and
provocation of precip!
the arrival of the e
news of the shooting
John Parker's Minute
regulars under Major
ington common,
It was in 1819 that
print of what was s
declaration {tself—a
taining several of the
own famous paper—w
attention of Thomas J«
Adams. Writing to Ac
ticello, Jefferson said
spurious, because up
he had never heard c
lived In the adjoinin;
ginia. He called atten
circumstance that the
pealed to were, most o
Jefferson’s Min
However, Jefferson
add that he based his
ative evidence which p
was perfectly competer
One of the most valia
this evidence has been
derson, who is otherwis
American familiar of
Another—furiously as:
first collected the
George Washington Gr
written a whole book
The controversy was h
monious,
On the affirmative s
to the insinuation that
ginia champions of Jef
had used his position a
this country to the Cou
to abstract from the |
archives a copy of tl
Mercury, which was mi
hecause it contained t
Mecklenburg declaratio
in the month after it
was known that such
fact, been sent to Lord
Josiah Martin, the roy
North Carolina at the
described it as “the lat
able publication of a cc
county of Mecklenburg
nouncing obedience to
government” and adde
passed all horrid and tr
lications that the infla
vf the country has proc
negative side there we
forgery and mendacit
facture of history out «
Events Leading t
Assuming the evidenc
the story of what hap
a part of a well-conne
events in the province !
between two ostentat
cratic neighbors has so
said, deprived her of
tion. In March, 1774, Go
had dissolved an unruly
August of that year a c
met under the governor’
Berne and sent delegate
tinental congress, For
that year the separate
been busy with meetings
tions, and in April, 1775,
which met by the aut
erown—the last one—wa