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•', ". <; H *<T? •???•' a1* tiw •m*» our blazing torch athwart the gl Lights up our noble dead, ^JpTour record snatches from the tomb The live* o«r heroes led. * 3 - . . « • • - , . • » ^Toa show lis Jackson, crude andbd^ i 'impetuous, quick to fight Sworn foe of caste and graft and ^fifews "Npggets From Illinois Sy JOHN DICKINSON 8HEftMAN ^ BOBGE WASHINGTON was the Father of His Country. And don'tyou forget it!' If you do, you will feel lonesome. For the American people haven't forgotten it and are not forgetting it. On the contrary the American people are getting ta think more and more of George Washington with every succeeding year. They are trying to get . % clearer mental vision of George. For a time George was too great and good and perfect to be true. Now the people are trying to visualize George as a regular fellow. For example, William Roscoe Thayer has just brought out "George Washington," Intended to be the definite one-volume biography of Washington. Mr. Thayer's purpose as expressed in his preface has been to give a sketch of George'Washington's life and acts, which should disclose "the human residue" which he felt sure must persist In Washington's character. "No other great man in history," he says, "has had to live down soch a mats of absurdities and deliberate false inventions," including the picture of an imaginary Father of Hte Country amusing himself with a fictitious cherry tree and hatchet In short, the author has written his book to help those who complain that they cannot find a flesh and blood man in the George Washington of historians. He expresses the confident hope that those who read this biography will no longer consider George Washington tfc£i most illusive of historic personages. Here's the way "Campion" In the Chicago une's "Line a' Type or Two" ppts It: - w Clio! Muse of burled tlme^ fen What trick is this you play, < •' 3who sing to us in prose The hero born today? "Resolved, etc.. That the secretary of state be, ^ and he Is hereby, authorized to transfer the said, '/?,r"You show us Grant in gain and loss** * ^relics to the custody of the secretary of the Smlth- * His early waning star, . •„ * , soman institution for safe-keeping and exhibition '-•» . MThe gold that gleamed amid the dros|k 4;, y\£in the National museum." ^7. » Purged by the fires of war. ,. The resolution accepting the Washington sword and Franklin staff was passed by both houses on' / ' , "Yew show us Lincoln, calm la strife^ the same day. The proceedings in the house were , With homely mien and Jest* ':§i.^ ^ e s p e c i a l l y i m p r e s s i v e , m a n y s e n a t o r s a n d d l p l o - \ *. * The shambling gait, the kindly itffc '%.-*^mats being present. The speech of presentation / The freedom of the West. , ?rx-- \y- . "But when we Mek on history's scroll ^ The Father of the free, ' The name that leads our muster-roll,;- 7 We ask, "Can this be her r; "We see a demigod of old, Grixn, faultless and Olympian grandeur stern and cotd. A god from the machine. |was delivered by Representative George W. Sumr; mers of Virginia. The part of his address referjrlng to the Washington sword contains the following Interesting lnfonnatlon concerning the weapon ^carried so long by the Father of His Country: j}-' tj-.Mr. Summers--Mr. Speaker, I rise for the purs'"* pose of discharging an office not connected with ordinary business of a legislative assembly. ^ y ;^\.*j^Yet, in asking permission to interrupt, for a mo- •^H^A'^sment, the regular order of parliamentary proceed- Irigs, I cannot doubt that the proposition which * I have to submit \flll prove as gratifying as It may "Oh lead him down from heights ab®(Hik«s^'«|v|be unusual. ' - And set his feet on earth, v lie man they 1<MT« > in worth." "l Mr. Samuel T. Washington, 4 citizen of Kanawha county, in the commonwealth of Virginia, and ^ s one of my constituents, has honored me with the commission of presenting, in his name and on his ^ behalf, to the congress of the United States, and through that body to the people of the United States, two most Interesting and valuable relics connected with the past history of our country and with men whose achievements, both in the field and in the cabinet, best illustrate and adorn our annals. One Is the sword worn by George Washington. first as a colonel In the colonial service of Virginia in Forbes' campaign against the French and Indl " ans, and afterwards during the whole period of ir, la weakness and „ . • -• i- ' Fhotographs reproduced herewltJT Dawson, official portrait painter at the United States Military academy at West Point, and the original Gilbert Stuart bust portrait of George Washington, which he discovered by accident In an unnoticed corner of the Washington and bee university, Lee Memorial chapel at Lexington, Vs., last summer. The portrait is painted on the f*' culiar "twilled" wood panel used by Stuart and was discovered by Mr. Da vwm while looking over the paintings in the chapel. It is estimated by art ex- , the War t>fv independence as commander In chief perts to be worth from {75)000 to $100,000 and of the American anny. ;i<' pronounced the finest Stuart In Aiperica at the , jt ^ a pjahi cutieau, or hanger, with a green hilt present time. It has been lb the Washington and . * silve^ guard. On the upper ward of the scab- Lee university for many years, but until Mr. Da^pr- - bard is engraven "J. Bailey; Fishkill." It Is ac-*- son's discovery, its true value was unknown. R^rV, rompanied by a buckskin belt, which Is. sectired' fall to show where the picture came froth. a silver buckle and clasp, whereon are engraven panel measures 23 by SO Inches. . the letters. "G. W." and the figures "1757." These Congress has passed a Joint reaolutloh as «M- are an of the nlainest workmanshii f£, lows': , ' ••Whereas, by a joint resolution of the senate nnd hoase of representatives, approved March 4, 1844, •he sword of George Washington and the staff of Benjamin Franklin were accepted In the name ef the nation as gifts from Samuel T. Washington and deposited tor safe-keeping in the Department Of State; and "Whereas, by a Joint resolution of the sent&fc. and house of representatives, approved February 28, 1855, the sword of Andrew Jackson was accepted in the name of the nation as a gift from the family of Gen. Robert Armstrong and deposited for safe-keeping in the Department of $t4t#;~ and "Whereas It is represented by the secretary Of State that he has no appropriate place for the exhibition of these relics: Therefore be it are all plainest workmanship, but substan- • tial and In keeping with the man,and with the. times to which they belonged. v The history of this sword is perfectly authentic, and leaves no shadow of doubt as to Its identity. The last will and testament of George Washing- - ton, bearing date on the ninth day of February,'! * 1790, contains, among a great variety of bequests. „the following clause: "To each of my nephews, William Augustine Washington. George Lewis, George Steploe Washington, Bushrod Washington, and Samuel Washington, I give one of the swords or eutleaux of which I may die possessed; and they are to choose in the order they are named. These swortls are accompanied with an Injunction not to unsheathe them for the purpose of sheddinn - blood, except It be for self-defense or in defense of their country and Its rights: and, In the latter case, to keep them unsheathed and prefer falling with j0&<MO7Yis'ftxrAT JZRZBO&txrr |jj£m in their hands to the relinquishment thereof." In the distribution of the swords, hereby devised, among the five nephews therein enumerated, the floe now presented fell to the lot of Samuel Washington, the devisee last named in the clause of the Will which I have just read. , This gentleman, who died a few years since, in the county of Kanawha, and who was the father of Samuel T. Washington, the donor, I knew well. I have often seen this sword in his possession, and received from him the following account of the masner In which it became his property, In the division made among the devisees: , He said that he knew it to have been the side arm of General Washington during the Revolutionary war--not that used on occasions of parade aod review, but the constant service sword of the great chief--that he had himself seen General Washington wear this Identical sword--he pre- Stuned for the last time--when, in 17i>4, he reviewed the Virginia and Maryland forces, then concentrated at Cumberland, under the command of Gen. Lee, and destined to co-operate with the Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops, then assembled at jfedford, in suppressing what has been called "the Wfeisky insurrection." General Washington was st that time president of the United States, and, as such, twos commander la chief of the army, it is known that it was his "Intention to lead the army In person on that occasion. bad he found it necessary; and he went to Bedford and Cumberland prepared for that event. k The condition of things did not require It, and he returned to his civil duties at Philadelphia. fdr. Samuel Washington held the commission of |l raptaln at that time himself, and served in that Campaign. He was anxious to obtain this particular sword, and preferred it to all others, among which was the ornamented and costly present from the great Frederick. . At the time of the division among the nephews, Without intimating what his preference was, he Jocosely remarked, "that, inasmuch as he was the only one of them who had participated in military service, they ought* to permit him to take choice." •mis suggestion was met in the same spirit in which It was made; and the choice being awarded hijn, he chose this, the plainest and Intrinsically the 'least valuable of any, simply because it was "the battle sword." :1 am also in possession of the most satisfactory evidence, furnished by Col. George Washington of Georgetown, tl^e qearest male relative of General Washington now •living, as to the identity of this sword. His information was derived from his Yather, William Augustine, Washington, the devisee first named in tlie clause of the will which I have read, from his uncle the late Judge Bushrod Washington, of the Supreme court, and Maj. Lawrence Lewis, the acting executor of General Washington's will; all of whom concurred in the statement that the true service sword was that selected by Oapt. Samuel Washington. GROWTH OF OUR STEEL INDUSTRY Upmatic Rise of Giant Corporation Has Been the Wonder of Woft- | derful Industrial Age. The story of the steel Industry of l4nerka Is dramatic. In 1845 the first blast furnace was built in this country and in 1881 there were only 13 steel plants in America. Realizing this, we can appreciate the growth 0l the great United States Steel corporation, which had a total output of over 14,000,000 tons of finished steel products In 1920. ^ It was after 18D0 that the industry began Its tremendous expansion. In 1901 two of the largest companies, the Illinois Steel and the Carnegie, combined and took in a number of other companljbe to form the United States S'^ef corporation. / i t t h e p r e s e n t t k i a t l i e & l t i d States Steel corporation operates 142 plants that produce steel products and cement 16 subsidiary companies, 65 coke plants, 60 separate cool mines. 96 ore properties. 123 steamships and 330 other vessels, 8 railroads with almost 1,000 miles of main line, besides docks, water supply systems, gas and oil properties. . r In T-Bone Land. Helot was visiting her grand mether wad a friend remarked she preferred to have people say "passed on," Instead of "died." One day. not Tong a*- terward, stroe one said at dinner, when the apple dumplings were passed that they would taste better If they had cream on them. "Well," eald Helen, "we would have had cream 11 our cow bad not dl--passed on." "the Root of All love of money," sjild Unci/ "Is de root of all evil. . d» we keeps roottn' harder fi»T. dan we does nh "De El ten, same. money Washington Evening Star. footbath"( Rock Island.--Forty-five girU presented themselves for the' oratorical team of the Rock Island high school, when a call was issued for girl orators. Sterling.--Organization of the "East and West, North and South State Road "club" has been effected, the object being to work for the improve-1 ment of'highways connecting Sterling with Rock Falls, Prophetstown, Tajnpico. Deer Grove, Walnut, Ohio, La Moille, New Bedford, Mendota, York* town. Rock Island and Princeton. Urbana.--Little Wallace Franklin, a pupil in the first grade at the Lincoln school here, will go through life on one foot as a result of childish bravado. A freight train was passing the Lincoln avenue crossing as school let out at noon and Wallace was endeavoring to show other children how close he could stand to It without being stmck. Either he slipped or some projection struck him and he was knocked down and the wheels passed over one of his feet. Springfield.--One cat and sis dogs were among the 47,734 animals shipped from Illinois to ether states which l>assed under the supervision of the state division of animal Industry In the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922. In the annual report of John Juneman, superintendent of the division, it is shown that the division inspected 3,774 individual Interstate shipments, Including cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, mules, goats, dogs and cats. Springfield.--The average savings bank account of Illinois for last month Increased 3.2 per cent over the average of the preceding month, according to the statement of the federal reserve bank for this district. The average account for the same period »lso showed an Increase of 1.4 per cent for the same period last year and an . Increase of two-tenths of one per cent ^t>ver the savings account average of ,1920. Bourbon.--Mrs. Emma Slpp Murray •f this city has been adjudged a spendthrift and her cousin, C. A. Sipp, has keen appointed h£r conservator with bond of $10,900. Some months ago when Mrs. Murray, then Emma Sipp, married Cecil Murray, there was much excitement over the disappearance' of the bride, and it was feared that she had been kidnaped. Instead, she went to the home of her sister in Ohio. Decatur.--Decatur's fire-hose bill has been greatly Increased by autolsts driving over the hose while it was (Inflated with water, according to city firemen. Despite many warnings and arrests automobile drivers continue to disobey the ordinance In this regard and the fire department has seat forth an appeal asking autolsts .to be more careful. Rock Island.--Five hundred volunteer workers started a house-to-house canvass of Rock Island, to enlist cooperation in fighting vice in this city. Iians provided for a thorough canvass" of the population in 240 designated districts. The workers traveled in pairs, distributed literature and obtained pledges of moral support and financial aid. Galva.--Suit for $40,000 damages has been filed in Circuit court against the Galva Electric Light company by Orval Freed, father of Charles Freed, twelve years old. who incurred serious Injuries by coming In contact with an electric wire while playing In a tree. One of the boy's arms was amputated as a result of the electric shock. Danville.--Father Daniel M. Buckley, for the post four years assistant pastor of St. Patrick's church, the largest Catholic parish In eastern Illinois, has been named by Bishop Edmund F. Dunne of Peoria as the new pastor of the St. Anthony's church and congregation at Hoop Pole, Henry county. Springfield.--Miss Emms C. Nelson of Geneva Is the first woman to have custody of Illinois millions. She was appointed assistant state treasurer by her brother, Oscar Nelson, treasurer of Illinois. Miss Nelson has had ten years' experience In banking and was cashier of the Kane county treasurer's office under her brother. Beardstown.--Improvements suthor- Ized here by the Burlington railroad will cost about $200,000. Plans for a new roundhouse, machine shop and tank shop, designed for locomotive repairs, have been approved. The double- tracking of the road between Sorrento and Ayers also has been authorized. Galesburg.--Edward 8. Vaught of Oklahoma City, International president of the Lions club, has notified local members that he will visit here soon. Special features will be presented at a meeting that will be held while he Is here, It has been announced by Prof. J. A. Campbell, president of tfce local club. Mount Carroll.--A movement to bring about the consolidation of the Mount Carroll Mutual Telephone company and the Carroll County Independent Telephone company Is under way. Dixon.--Sherwood Dixon, a greatgreat- grandson of Father Jorfn Dixon, who founded the city of Dixon and operated the first ferry scross Rock river, has been elected commander of Dixon post, No. 12, American Legion. Mr. Dixon served In Italy during the World war. Ottawa.--Rev. W. <X McCleland of Chariton, la., has arrived arrived here to take the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church. He succeeds Reverend Vonckx, who has taken charge of the House of Hope Presbyterian church of Chicago. Springfield.--Wholesale revocations of physicians' and pharmacists' certificates irregularly Issued during the regime of W. H. H. Miller as head of the department of registration and education, will be made soon. A. N. Shelton, Miller's successor as director, announced. Urbana.--After deliberating only n few minutes the Jury returned a rerdlct finding Harry White, alleged "ripper." guilty of an attempted criminal assault upon Miss Sudle Glad I •> Why Farmers areTurning to -r; 1 ytr Ksw ^ ,v, ^ Cfesvtolet jumped from seveiitii place in sales of all cars, and to first place in gales?/' of fully equipped modern cars. Purchases by farmers were die chief factor in ttrib§ remarkable development. | Farmers want automobiles not only of low find price, but also of low later cost for operation and ^ maintenance. * 1 They want room, comfort, and die ability to stand up under hard conditions. They find that Chevrolet, fully equipped as sold, best value per dollar in the low-priced field, tell them it costs less per mile to operated Prices P. O, B. Flint, Michigan SUPERIOR Two PuKiiitr Rualtftr • • $510 SUPERIOR Five P»*»en*er TOORIBG - • • SIS SUPERIOR Two PasM-nger U<UfcrCo--« «SO SUPERIOR FOOT PM*eoger SadaaMtt • • SSO SUPERIOR FivePMaenser Sadha . ->* '•' «SO SUPERIOR UafctDaftverr • • • • >S10 Chevrolet Motor Company OpfatM «f General Mohan C*rpormtic+ > t j Detroit, Michigan punishment will be from one t« 4rtW to the p.dtffitia^ .? ! Saves Weed Buying a Hew Skirt Putnan FuMm Dyn-dyes or tints as A Tooter. "A man dat brags about hisself^ said Uncle Eben, "Is generally like a flivver wlier' nuffln' aln' workin' but As horn."--Washington Star. It Is the lie that I* never ufteied, only expressed, that sometimes does the most harm. tf.m! Au * • * ):M Decidedly Net. Mr. Howell--"Health Is better than wealth." Mrs. Powell--"Not for your prospective heirs." '• i. . Not Guilty. ; ; Conductor--Shamokin I gframotl Irish Passenger--No, playing canhL --Penn State Froth. Don't Be Fooled ;I Low Price and High Quality Don't Go Together, Stick to CALVMET Eoonomy BAKING POWDER Never accept "Just as Good" Brands; it Will only mean disappointments and failures on bake-day, wnicl GatmMt Is a Gradte BsUag Powder, MMmti la When you use it| you never spoil any ^ such as flour, sugar, eggs and milk. THE WORLD'S GREATEST BAtONG POWMHBtl CAME! V «KMIN» % The sale <Jf Calumet is 2H times as much ' T as that of any other ^ brand. m One doesn't care, so much hew a au amuses himself It he doeant one with It. A first-class bookkeeper Is one ins can keep the books away from creditors. Never judge what •be thinks what she saya. His satanlc majesty Sound'sdvlce doesn't alwsys has* a# until he gats his due. pleasing sound Mr.Ihrmer There are no frills about t .. the Bankable dgar. It's just good, clear tobacco straight through without ^§: the added cost of a faaqr •MM Cigars an Good Cigars In Plunkvllla. "Why don't you people pave yeur streets?" "You motorists would only flash through them without viewing our bustling town." "* The blindness of pups and kittens ends In nine days. Men and women are very different.