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.\ » - v , ' * t n , ** . • » » * . ' > ' *• x * , . ; THE MrlTENRY PtAINDEALEB, McHENRY, ifci* ' f i - T - V i i • r i " f - nji it pa*. H V\ -r1 1 « G&YE/ZAJ. P£/?v5ft//YG pwypipjim^ THE Fourth of July--how will ft 1* celebrated In the future? What effect will the winning of the greatest "* war of all history have on its observance as a national holiday? The past gives no hint, for the Fourth has had many ups and downs in popularity and has seen radical change* In Its observance. But whatever the manner of Its observance in the years to cotoe, the Fourth of July will presumably have much •< France in it, now that the ties between the nations formed In the Revolution have been strengthened and cemented anew. And as the personification of France stands Lafayette. "Lafayette. we have come:" said Pershing at the Great Frenchman's tomb. And in a sentence he told the whole story of our debt to France and gave our promise of its payment What was that debt to France that we have paid? TJ*e •lory of Lafayette is the answer. Marie Jean Paul Roch Yves^ Gilbert Motler. Marquis de Lafayette, was born September 6, 1757, to the chateau of Chavanlac, Auvergne, France. He married in 1774 atid entered the French army. In 1776, In Metz, he heard the duke of Gloucester, brother of George III, tell the story of the Declaration of Independence and, the struggle of the Americans. Then and there he determined to go to the assistance of the Americans in their fight for freedom. To Lafayette there was every enticement to remain in his native France. He was the pos- - •essor of high rank. He had wealth. No military or civic post within the gift of the French throne was beyond his reasonable ambition. And all the pleasures and the delights of a polished, witty and luxurious court were at his feet. On the other hand were the certainty of hardskip, the risk of death and the prospect of no reward save perhaps the grateful memory of a people who had nothing but gratitude to bestow. In America there was nothing to beckon him but a people whose ill-fed and ill-supplied troops had sustained defeat, whose chief cities were in the possession of the enemy, whose treasury was bankrupt and whose prospects were that their" leaden would ascend the scaffold and their masse* be subjected to the brutal control of a king who knew little of and sympathized less with those conceptions of freedom and those imawatorial rights which the colonists had Inherited from their English ancestors. • But there was in the heart of this young and high-born French nobleman a sentiment which had ruled him from his earliest boyhood--a sincere, profound and inspiring love of liberty, a deep respect for the rights of men, a compelling admiration for a people who, in spite of the most formidable odds, possessed the hardihood and the valor to take up arms in defense of their freedom. The voices of ease and of luxury and of ambition that tempted Lafayette to remain In his own native land were drowned in his ears by the votcc of Liberty, calling from a far-off shore. So ho voluntarily left all the delights and the honors of the most luxurious and the most polished capital in the civilized world to cast In his lot with the handful of merchants, fanners, hunters and fisher-folk who were waging war for the rights and the liberties which had been guaranteed to their forefathers and to them by the Great Charter, and which had been denied to them by the German king who then sat on the throne of Great Britain. He offered his services to America. His king forbade his going and the American commissionsera were not able to furnish him transportation. Evading the officers sent to arrest him, he escaped In disguise, and in company with De Kalb a^jd a number of French officers embarked from av Spanish port on a vessel which he had pur; chased, and after a stormy voyage landed on the ehores of South Carolina. A journey of 900 miles oa horseback, occupying a month, brought th$ young crusader to the city of Philadelphia, wherfr, ho presented his request to ttye, American congress there assembled. At first he met With a cool reception. In consideration, however, of the importance of his rank and family connections, and because of his modest offer to serve as a volunteer at his own charges, he was looked upon with more favor, and by a resolution of congress he was granted the complimentary rank ' of major general in the army. Washington received him with the greatest kindness, gave him a place on his staff, and from that time forth treated him as a son. The friendship then began was treasured by the young Frenchman as the most precious memory of his public life. There were giants in those day's; examples: Washington, Hamilton, Franklin. Bat of Laftyette his friend De Val said: "There is the most wonderful man of this or my other age. He graduated from college, has , Ta. sr •wved his country in three different capacities, 14: Is a married man, the father of twins and om other child, Is a major general In the After!CftD'. . army and is not yet twenty years old." ; Lafayette soon had an opportunity to show his - • mettle. The English general. Lord Howe, wit* ' approaching Philadelphia with a superior force. Washington marched out to meet him, and in the skirmish at Brandywlne Lafayette was wounded while urging his men to stand firm. Lafayette wrote to his wife: "Be entirely free from anxiety as to my wound, for all the doctors , In America are aroused In my behalf. I have a friend who has spoken for me in a way to Insure my being well taken care of, and that Is General Washington. That estimable man, whom I venerate the more now that I learn to know him, -. has become my Intimate friend. His tender interest In my welfare quickly won my heart. When he sent his surgeon In chief to me he -told him to care for me as if I were his son, because he loved me so much; and, having learned that I wanted to join the army too soon again, he wrote me a . letter full of tenderness, In which he admonished me to wait until I should be entirely well." Washington's exact words In writing to the surgeon were: "Take care of him as if he were . my son, for I love him the same." On November 25, 1777, Lafayette was sent with General Greene to test the strength of the British advance on Philadelphia. Having disclosed their position near Gloucester, he attacked the Hessians with such fury that the latter were routed and Cornwallis, thinking that he was surrounded by the entire American army, retreated •With his 5,000 men In hot haste. This pleased Washington so much that he wrote to congress asking for a regular command for Lafayette. A few days later Lafayette, to his freat delight, was assigned to the, command of the Virginia division of the army. As time went on relations between Washington and Lafayette became steadily closer, the latter sometimes referring to himself in their correspondence as Washington's "young soldier." The Intimacy between the two men was like that of father and son, the Frenchman being twenty-five years younger than the general he so greatly admired. Having made a voyage to France on furlough he returned In May, 1780, joining Washington at the army headquarters in Morristown and telling him what nobody on this side of the Atlantic yet knew, of the coming of the military and naval expedition sent by the king of France to help the •' Americnns. It was Lafayette himself who had --been largely instrumental In persuading the king to send the fleet, together with <5,000 picked fighting irfen under Rochambeau and the young marquis was dispatched in advance to carry the good news. ' - V i " : In due time Rochambeau arrived with the army of 6,000 men and Admiral de Grasse with a fleet manned by 4,000 sailors and marines. Lafayette was put in caiMfluud of 2,000 men and directed to march to Virginia and meet Cornwallis, the British commander. The troopr . were so destitute that something had to be done. Lafayette after expending his own available cash . borrowed on his personal account $10,000 from the merchants of Baltimore. De Grasse's fleet headed for Wjrktown, and Washington, with Rochambeau, started to unite with Lafayette In the struggle with Cornwallis. How Washington made forced marches to the South In order the more completely to hem In Lord Cornwalls; how the Count de Grasse. with his great fleet arrived off Yorktown before the .arrival of General Washington, and how Lafayette persuaded the French admiral to delay the attack until Washington could take command, •o that by winning th'at fight Washington could Overthrow the enemies in congress that were trying to have some one else made commander in chief of the American armies; and how, when Washington did arrive, Lafayette was one of the very first to lead a storming party; how Admiral de Grasse's fleet did air and more than could be expected of It, until Lord Cornwallis and his army had surrendered and been disarmed, are facts that every good American knows. In this final struggle the whole force of the colonies consisted of 7,000 men of Washington's army, 6,000 under Rochambeau and 3,000 of De Grasse's French marines and sailors Would it have been possible for us to win without the aid of France? Washington and Franklin believed not. Fifty years afterward when the question was asked of Charles Carroll ot Carrollton, then the only man alive who had signed the Declaration of Independence, \hat venerable Christian and statesman replied: "It,was God's will," It will always be a much-vexed question how much financial aid France rendered America. It seems impossible to straighten out the account Professor Marion of the College of France has expressed the opinion that the total expenditures were fully 2,000,000,000 livres. Much Information will be found In his "Histoire Financiere de la France depuls 1715." Flske in his "Critical Period" puts the expenditure of France at 1,400,« 000,000 lrancs. Trevelyan states the following in a note to his "American Revolution"It was calculated that between the years 1778 and 1783 the war with England cost the French treasury £43*000.000. It was the main cause of those financial difficulties which led immediately up to the Revolution of 1789." This would be equivalent to 1,200.000,000 livres (francs), or $240,000,000, at a time when the purchasing power of money was nearly three times what It is in our day. When victory was ours Lafayette went home to France, fae came back for a short time in' 1784. Then came the French revolution. Lafayette from first to last consistently advocated a limited constitutional monarchy for France. His experiences were many, including five years in an Austrian prison, from which he was released by Napoleon In 1797. In 1824, when Lafayette was sixty-seven, he was invited by President Monroe to visit the United States. He came as the guest of the nation in pursuance of an unanimous resolution passed by congress. The occasion was the dedication of Bunker Hill monument. He made a triumphal tour of the twenty-four states of the Union. Every possible honor was showered upon him. Probably the most moving event in the whole tour was his visit to the tomb of Washington. The climax was the ceremony at Bunker Hill. Lafayette lived ten years longer. When President Andrew Jackson heard the news of his death in 1834, he ordered on behalf of the whole American people "that the same honors be rendered upon this occasion at the different military and naval stations as were observed upon the decease of Washington, the Father of His Country, and his contemporary In arms." Lafayette has been dead 85 yeara. His clay is dust But his soul still lives. It has breathed courage Into the breasts of war-worn French soldiers. It has wept over the deported, enslaved and outraged women of his native land--over the slaughter of the Innocents. And who may doubt that his soul called across the ocean: p "Help us, America! Help us as I helped you!" At first we did not hear, or if hearing, dl9 not answer. But at last we heard and heeded and went. The fighting men of France, staggering with wounds, dizzy with fatigue, and the women of France, white with horror over an impending fate worse than death, saw the Star-Spangled Banner afar and cried In thankfulness: "The Americans are coming!" We arrived--young, husky, smiling, larking fighting men. The French loved us for our looks and our ways. But could we fight? Then came June and Chateau-Thierry, when we stopped the flower of the German shock troops In their tracks^ attacked in turn, put the Hun on the run and kept him running! No wonder all France went delirious with Joy. ,, That was what we promised through "Black Jack" Pershing, when he saluted at the tomb l(r the little cemetery of Plcpus in Paris and said: ' "Lafayette, we are here." And we made the promise good. He and his young, husky, smiling, larking, fighting men struck the finishing blow which guaranteed that Frenchmen may pursue their honest toll in peace and that French women, with babe at breast, may sleep at night without fear of the Beast. Such was Lafayette--a grfe'at soul, a gallant soul, the living embodiment of the noblest ideal for which men can generously live and gloriously die. "The liberty we hold secure, The soil on which we tread, That air of freedom that we breathe, The flag that floats o'erhead; That nation on whose history The sun shall never set-- All that we have and hold we < To France--and Lafayette." MpSHT GET IT RIGHT $00N Vouthful Sunday School Teacher by No Moans Disconcerted by First Rather Wild Statement i She is fifteen and teache* a Sunday school class of ten little girls. That they might "learn to keep and do them," she bade them commit the twelve commandments. The day for the utterance of the "twelve" statutes arrived. The little girl on the end seat was called on first. Glibly she repeated the ten. There was i. pause. She was waiting tok the approval of her teacher. "Give the other two," firmly commanded the teacher. "My mother said there were only ten, and that was more than anyone could keep, and she knows," retorted the assured little end-seat girl. Nonchalantly the teacher began turning the pages of Revelation. She was working to Deuteronomy. "Certainly there are but ten commandments. How stupid. I was thinking of Proverbs. You know, my dears, there are twelve of those." WOMEN NEED SWAMP-ROOT ^Thousands of women have kidney and bladder trouble and never suspect it. Womens' complaints often prove to be nothing else but kidney trouble, or the result of kidney or bladder disease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the pther organs to become diseased.^ Pain in the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness, are often times symptoms of kidney trouble. Don't delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmers Swamp-Root, a physician's prescription, obtained at any drug store, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Get & medium or large size bottle immediately from any drug store. However, if you wish first to test this ffreat preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.--Adv. Not for Charlotte.: - I Charlotte Is the three-year-old daughter of a College avenue resident One of the recent warm evenings she removed her shoes and stockings and went over to the front porch of a neighbor to show her that she was barefooted. The neighbor said: "You had better get on your shoes or you will catch your death of dampness." Charlotte Immediately replied, "Oh, no. I have had It"--Indianapolis News. Economies. "If wmnen gain political control--" "Yes, go on." "Do you think they would allow the government to persist in collecting taxes <on |ce cream soda?" A Precision. "Too object to the term, Demon Rum? " "I do. Demons are not supposed to have any real natural existence. But there Is nothing mythological about hard liquor." The Teat. "So you bought a parrot yesterday?" "Yes; I want to see if they live a hundred years, as people say." * The Farther the Better. "I have here some fugitive verse," said the poet "All right, let It fly," said the editor, wearily. 8peed. , Morebanks--"Does your stenograph, about two packages of gum a day." 7 We winder If the Lord loves a cheerful giver as much as the cheerful giver loves himself. If you would criticize your boss get fully a mile away from everybody, then whisper to yourself. Hard luck is a machine for testing your friends;/it separates the wheat from the chaff. y'.:•, > Use every man after his desert and who would escape a ' whipping?-- Shakespeare. It Is in the narrowest part of the defile that the valleys begin to open.-- Persian Proverb. You can't tell what a boy learns at college by the amount It costs his father. A kiss on the lips is worth 3,000,000 on paper. ERMETICALLV sealed In Its wax%, wrapped package, air* fteht Impurity proof-- WRIGLEYS Is hygienic and whole* some. The goody thafs good for young and old. The Flavor Lasts A* sore •• aaf WftlGUVS Preparedness. Mr. Homestopper--Trlflerl If you don't love me, why did you throw yourself on my breast and put your arms around my neck and kiss me? Miss Peachblow--Oh, that was only a training stunt. The best ever Is on his way home from France and I want to give him the right kind of welcome. First Land 8alc. We Should say the first land sale on record was the purchase of the field of Machpelah by Abraham, who paid *400 shekels of silver for the field in which he burled his Just 80. "The fellow across the street looks like, a wooden tmage." "Maybe that Is why he is lumbering along." Mutual Position. "The men coming back Were lift transports." "So were the folks on the shore." While some men practice what they preach, the majority would be ashamed to preach half they practice. No man Is a thousand descents Adam.--Hooker. That Might Help. Gwendoline de Vere gazed out of (Hi window at the drizzling rain and ttt^ sloppy streets and sighed dismally, *0 she pondered on the misery of things in general. "Aye, I am heart hungry," she mur» mured in thrilling accents to herself; "What, I wonder, can alleviate theM terrible pangs of heart hunger?" 1 Just then a voice came from the kitchen: , "Come on, GwenI ' Dinner's ready. Got liver and bacon today!" • The Occasion. "They have begun to work till the new ship's sleeping quarters." "Oh, then, it 'Is the ship's berth day." 8ometimes It Would Seem Uncle Timothy used to say: - "Lots o' people gits divorced so's they kin git married." Don't offer odds to the elevator boy or he'll take you up. When the pantry Is left unlocked tlMD' small boy gets his desserts. W. N. 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