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Patrick Henry
By REV. THOMAS n. GKRGORi,
Copyright, l'-H. I,y star Company )
It was on the rih day of M.,y, 1T. that
ratrirk Henry sounde.t thp first tesl
tocsin of war against King Oeorge III
In the speech made by him that dav we
have thp first Im
pulse or the great
revolution that was
to end In American
Independence.
Of that speech
thp celebrated Lord
Brougham later on
declared that It wa
"the most Imrortant
vent In the history
of thp human race.'"
Edmund Randolph,
T'aklnj of the
wonderful effort,
said: "Un Mav
Henry plucked thr oil from the shrine
of parliamentary omnipotence'; and a
great American historian, writing of
Henry's resolutions said: "They were
the first words of the resolution, and no
man ever thought the same aftrr he had
read them."
When the Inspiring words of the elo
quent Virginian were published and their
Tire had touched men's hearts
where the people began singing:
every-
' ith the beasts of the wood
tVe will ramble for food.
And lodge In wild deserts and caves;
We' will live poor as Job,
On the skirts of the globe
Before we'll submit to be slaves."
Lord Brougham's words may seem to
be monstrously extrivagant, and yet,
when all things are duly considered, It
msy not b too much td say that no
other speech ever delivered was followed
ity such tremendous consequences.
If owe can even approximately estimate
the political and moial significance
among men of the fnlted States of
America what the Influence of the great
republic lias already been, what It Is to
day, and what It Is destined to be, In a
steadily enlarging way, throughout the
ages and generations to come he can
for some sort of Idea of tlie importance
of Patrick Henry's speech before the Vir
ginia assembly on that famous May day
one hundred and forty-nine years ago.
Quite aside from the Inconceivably
great speech itself, taken In connection
with Its whole setting, It will ever re
main one of the most remarkable pictures
In the gallery of hlsto-y.
Tall, spare, raw-boned, stooping In the
shoulders, sallow In complexion, nnd
attired In his plain sot of Virginia home
spun, the orator riset '.n the midst of I lie
old aristocratic members' who are still
Intensely "loyal" to the king.
Presently the drooping head of the
orator Is lifted and thrown back In proud
defiance, the eyes rash 'fire, the calm
voice becomes iJte unto the blast of a
trumret. The storm Is now fairly on,
and It carries everything before It! There
Is no resisting It! Thej resolutions are
put and carried, and the members, rush
ing out of doors, ask one another In
amazement, "What did he Bay?- They1
rjad been completely taken iff their feet
by Henrji'ir preternatural eloquence v and
borne along as the tempest sweeps away I
the leaves that He In Its path.
This crowning achievement came with
out any premonition. At the age of
eighteen Henry hnd married and Bettled
down to farming, but proved to be a
failure In that ancient and honorable oc
cupation. '
From agriculture ho turned to the mer
cantile business, but again It turned out
that he was the round peg in the square
hole and at the end of his three years
trial at selling salt, sugar, and calco, he
found himself a bankrupt.
Then he ' tried doing nothing,' "loafing
and: Inviting his soul." but he was a
failure even as a loafer.
One day the thought struck Jlenry that
he would study law, and, borrow lug a
copy of "Coke t'pon Littleton," he began
preparing himself for admission to the
bar. There Is a conflict of opinion about
his success as a lawyer, but It la fairly
well established that the success was fur
frorn being a "howling" one up to the
celebrated "Parsons' Case" in the full of
1763. ' In that noted cause the ministers
had on their aide the law and the right,
but 1 the vestries, with "unadorned
rasealty," deeded to fight the parsons,
and employed as their champion the
young lawyer from Hanover.
It was a desperate case almost a for
lorn hope but the psjvhologicul moment
In the struggling young lawyer's life was
at hand, the hour and the man were about
to meet, and Henry's fame was close at
hand. With that wonderful voice of Ills,
which "could make love In a corner or
call a hound a mile off," he pitched Into
rarllamcnt, privy counc'l and king, and
gave the young democracy of they west
its first war cry against "British oppres
sion." .
From the parsons' cafe and the little
brick court house in Williamsburg It was
but a step to Hlrhmoiitl, to'St. John's
church, and to the- speech . that every
"I know not what others may do, but as
school boy was soon to know by heart,
for me, give me liberty or give me death."
Titles and Tases la Spain.
In Spain titles of nobility are taxed In
the same way as t.ouafa or land. More
over, each separate title Is taxed, and for
this reason oertatn members of ancient
families in which a number of titles
have accumulated drop some in older to
.ave money. Owing to the system long
prevalent in Srain oy which women of
noble blrtn transmit their, title not only
to their children hut .to-their husbands
So that a plebeian marrying u duchess be
comes a duke, Spauibh t lie rare.y be
come extinct unless I He holuers deliber
ately discard them. Pall Mall Uacelle,
A Horn t Recipe for
Removing Wrinkles
Who will blajne the modern woman
live as she reasonably can? Why should '
lie be placed at a otlsaJvaiilage in nu-
nerous ways ny - wearing wrinsies, ir
4iie can avoia . inesn naieiui iiiuras oi
.dvsnrine kfr K. w women, however
know what to do to effectually rid them-
selves of wrinkles or saggtntsa. Most of '
ftoVVand
simple and harmless home remedy, widen '
my woman can niaae, will work wonders ;
A'heru all the patent (reparations fail.
Buy an ounce of powdered saxolite al
jny drug store. Dissolve the whole ounce
in a half pint of witch haxel and use as
t wash lotion. The results are practically
instantaneous. Msrked Improvement Is
notice! Immediately after the very first
tria'. Wrinkles and sagging are correct
ed and the face feels ao refreshed and
. i-Xlkt. Aiivurtissoiuu.
"
Here's the "Afternoon Barefoot"
A (!own (to the Left) Actually Worn nt Hit Longcltamps Kates, Showing That
tht' Frenchwoman 1 AMe to Too the Mark of Fahio:i.
This frork la of "bleu-passe" silk-clolb with a
skirt suit and drawn up at tlie center. The bodice
is a wide kimono with long:, fitted sleo'vofi, eroa;trd at
the elbow by two silk braids. A square collar of lavender-blue
velvet trims the back.
lly WILLIAM I". KIKK. J uniy. I , found out that he thought ev ry-
: ' thing he wrote was better ami nobler
"I waa reading something last .night thun anything any other gent ever wrote,
that waa wrote by a gent named Kmer- ! Tr.it was the only reason I tied a ran
son." said the Manicure Lady. "1 think j ' ''"'. but I have often thought of them
It was simply grand, too. I don't know j wors which he said to me, and felt kind
who this Emerson is. but' whether he of satisfied to think that I could be like
was a Swede or not he sure writes grand ' rare wine to anybody. Most girls would
English, lie had a tunny name, some- j triad chough to have a playwright
thing like Kalph Walnut." I tell them they waa like Imported beer
"You mean Ralph Waldo Emerson," j i'. but w I en it comes to rare wines
said the Head Harber. "My dad used ' 11 "t show thut I have some tra
to be all the time talking about him 1 l"'1 'sonallt.v ."
when I was a kid at home." j "' suppose the playwrite loved you."
"Well, anyhow," went on the Maul- suld the lleuj liurber. "Any girl that la
cure I.ady, "this pie e be wrote said'loyed by a fellow Is like wine to him.
that there was some women which! ,Ie can see all her good points and over
came Into a man's life that w,is Lkejbok her faults."
rare wine and beautiful blonsotns,' cliang-1 : .- , zrrr
Ing him over Into- a sunny poet and mak
ing his life sparkle, or something like
that. Ho you see, (leorge, us girl's ain't
to be sneesed at none." ;
"I never met very many wumen that
seemed much like rare wine to me."
said the Head I'.aibcr. "but I never cianL
much rare wine, either, so I suppose I
don't know what I have misted. f
course, I know there Is some women in
the world that influences men s whole
lot and changes their lives, hut tl.e only
I
'one that ever had any Influence over me
! after 1 grew up was the wife, and tha
can't make me quit the only fun I get
downtown making a little bet on the
P"ni now and then."
"It's too bad she can't
suld tlie Manl
cl;re I.ady.
"It must hurt any woman
no loving ant lona oi ner mo.ui.ic.
to think that he Is a booh and a meal ,
ticket for some bookmaker. Hut as I j
" I lhl,U. this Mr. K.ncr.un j
hit the nail on His hea 1 when he said 1
,hat beautiful thing about us girls
"Of course. George, I don't mean to
imitate thut he meant me, or any one
particular girl, but I know that the play
wright I used to go wit': told me Ihal
I was like wine to him. He said 1 was
Ilia aspiration to w rite b -Iter and nobler
things, and 1 ml)jht h.tw married him
And here is a simple linen frock for a young Kirl
In a Chinese blue foulard printed with yellow narcis
sus. The bodice Is round-shaped at the neck with a
bias of p'ain blue Chinese foulard. A band of same
material gives p. draped girdle.
...'-.!
The Manicure Lady
Advice to Lovelorn
T SEATBICB TAIK7AX
U
Do Not Dlopr.
! Dear .Miss Kalrf: I am a vt rl of
si ihiiiihi. have been going with a boy
ten years my senior. m account m uo-
liereiue or our ae. my folks have caused
lot to (ease going with him. II. has
goou pos.iion at tlie present nine aim
wants ine to go back to him. In you
th.iik II my folks oiictil I,. ou- mar
iiute It would be right tor i.s to elope.
HKOWN I.YKS
uiir parents ate locking only N your
fcood. and it would be very wrong for
)ou to get married without tlielr ( on.ient.
" nutever you do. do rot eluj e. Your
... v.. !l pa. cow
objections by reasonable means, and not
h-c k to turn you again,, your father and
mother,
uthlug.
M- lear Miss Kalrflux: I am a young 1
woman of S, years of age. and have b,in
married thl"e times in the last .seven i
years, and am living with mv third bus- I
band. Me Is very harth with ine, but 1
hive I :n d.arly. i lid do not know w hat I
to du. lie does not let mi: gs any pia'e !
o.- , i till any mom v unless I ask liiin I
l;i:t. li 1 4h bun )oi any moi.y be J
1 1
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"I don't think net .1 have mv faults
thrown up to me like that," feclured the'
Manicure I.ady. coldly. "I ain't like'1
SOtne lieotjle. that liiwh thr.meli lil'n ll.lnL-.l
lug they are 'without n-j flaws. Goodness
knows von ain't no model, (leou;e. from
what I huve seen of you. I don't sup
pose I seem like rare wine to you. or
even a soft drink, but that ami no sign;
that I couldn't have a great Influenco j
over some greut man. Wilfred said once'
that a girl like me ought to be the wife :
of a poet, and I believe I would like it i
If I ould rind Home poet that madu i
enough dough to keep things running
mnootli. If a noet hud us lunch monev '
us a brewer, iorge. what a grand hus
band he would muke."
wants to know what I want to do with it.
W hat fclutll I do, no he will not be so clobu
and b:usli? U. r. u.
Vim can do nothing to caange bis na
ture; If be provides for you. It Is not un- '
reasonable for him to wunl to know how
yuu s end your money, or what you do
for pleasure.
.lve llliu I he I'rrnrlil,
I ieai" M Is Kuirfan: I urn u vuunu el.l
alwlio livts in a small town ami hue Um
e'iinp:.n with a young man who lives i
several miles from nei e, two sears mv
senior. Would It be proper lor me to
Klvtj lii in u gin o, any kind for his birth
day, which is aoor.'f I'KKI'I.KXKI).
It would not be improper to glv him i
Mini little. Inexpensive trinket. Just as '
an evidence of friendly Interest, and to
remind him that you congratulate hi m
on a birthday unnKersery.
.eiiliia a ' oiupa uoon."
Iiear Miss I'airlav: l want a compan
ion, u gill (oinj. union, one who will ap
preciate a gift. 1 am a Loy. Just past 17
vesrs old. I can't dance, but would like
to learn. l'U'sse tell me what you think
It would cost, and bow long It would be,
before I could ti" to dunces. JOCK KV.
Dancing tiliool If a good place to get
acquainted with niie girls. Ij-arn to
dunce, behave voumclf, pnd you ought to
loive lilt!" lioub'e in finding an agreeable
( oi.ipanlon of the opp(sit sex
We Are Safe While the Earth Spins
If It Slioul.l Sii.M.'iily Str;, tlit Atmosplit'iv Wtnild Turn liit a Tlionsniil-Mile-jin
Hour Ilun iciiui', nml 1li Atlnntir ( '. -;in Would Pour Over Kurojio
II) (lAltltKT'l I. Sl',lt .S.
! i lulit. lull. Snr CuiipHny.
It Is un established fnet th.it theearl'i
ireolvis on Its nl once eer. twenty-
four beurs Now. nu-u:nhi; tlni, the nt
iv..spheie tt ixels .ilonu. u t" a eeit.iln
ilWlnnce front lie
earth, nt what it's
tunee does It begin
to lee Its veliicHy'.'
Ill to what heiKhi
would an Melon!. me
I l,,,.., .. i . .
enable It M nit iln
dosiend In a ertl
ul line and find it
self nt a different
ptirt of the globe
than the starting
point ?"
This question, ft m
a succesj 'u' ,,w
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I yP 1
1 " '., 'W 5il
i
s - -
' oiisitiess man,
shows the persistence of popular erro.s
concerning many of the phenomena o
nature that ale corilliniHllv before us
No matter how high an aviator or hl.
loonls: might ascend, he would still find
.... x.Mu.noi ere ievi. inH leidlly with the
earth
eneath It. Kxeent for the e'fe.i.
of local
winds, or air currents. I lowlnit
now one way and now aiculier I.. ....i.i
remain veitlcallv nhove ih ...,i. r
----- ... ,..., , i, .in
which he started.
The whole nlmosphere revolves with
the solid earth, bcesus It is In contsct
with It and subject to Its attraction. If
we could Imagine a time when the. earth
was standing still with the atmosphere
surrounding It like a gaseous shell, and
then suppose the globe suddenly to legln
to rotate on Its axis, a terrific wind
would Instantly arise, blowing In a direc
tion opposite to that of the rotation. This
would be due to o, Inertia of the air,
which could not limned lately take up the
motion Imparted to it by the friction of
the spinning globe. A similar law affects
the
water of the oeeuna.
But niter a while the particles of air
in contact with the globe would heuni tn
revolve In step with It; they would t;rad-
ually Impart the same motion to tl:e pin-
I tides above then); these to others still
higher, anil so on until the entire atnios-
I pherlc shell nliarcd the common motion.
Kx'-ept its own Inertia, there would le
nothing to oppose this tendency of the
atmosphere t i assume the same ungiihir
rate of rotation as that of the globe on
whirl. It rests, because the apace outside
the atinnsphere Is empty, anil conse
quently offers no reslstunce through
friction.
There Is one clrcuiueta nee, however,
which sets a limit to the help lit to which
an atmosphere turning colncldentally
with the eur'h could extend, vis., cen
trifugal force. At the 'earth's present
rate of rotation, amounting to an equa
! torial speed of about 1.0 HI miles an hour,
j the centrifugal force, at the equator. Is
equal to one-2NIUh of the force of gravity
j Now, since centrifugal force Increases
as the square of the velocity. If the rota-
( tlon were seventeen tlnii-s faster than It
actually Is, bodies on the em til's equator
i would cease to have any weight, or. In
I other words, would ceuae to be bound to
the earth by gravity. This follows from
the fact that the square of seventeen Is
2S?I. The sllghest further Increase of
efHid would send tlem flying away Into
space
Then. If the atmosphere were so high
that tho top of It, In order to keep up
i with the angular rotati in, had to move
' seventeen times as fast ns the surface of
jthe earth, the particles of air at that
j beUtit would, be freed, by their centrlfu-
i gal force, from the eurth's attraction, and
would begin to escape Into spuce. Other
partiiles would rise to take their place,
o
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t
1 1
ii ysxry v
ii -y k xr wim
Wi, i S4r-
-3 ;
) nnd would a'so esi ipe. ami thus tlv nl -
' niiMpIn re n.nil l be gisdnsUv dr.-lned
ii.,v .,niil it, i,.i-i,. .. ..n
. , .. , rlt, ., . ...
'
enlnvce. This crltl. nl height l.s I eet,
arluisl ciileiilntrd nl from :ini t
i''1 miles
But I, Is iloiibtfi l IT the enrt . put luid
an ntii'ipl.ero npproachlii): nnv s.ich ex-
lien.e height. At the present tune .be
at mnsphfi e appears to evleii.l upward
only t i oi thiee hundred miles nt the
most. and. there Is not eno mil sir a.
",r!' e eed.ng fortv tnl'es to prud
"nv r"cc it. ble effets up m t r smll
a
oilie
ill! I ttt 1)1
passing llnoiq.li it Pilot balloons hive
ascended ten miles" or mote, but human
life could rot be maintained without arti
ficial aids at an elevation must exceed-
.fjj I in! five or six inlle. mill then only n
"4'ithe most favi'iable elrcutvsta nce.
uniler
nce. At
I about I'ortv mill's above the enith the ex-
' eexsivcly tliln air reflects enough light
i l i l rodui e fnlnt tw IliRht effn ts. and in--
! terns are nometlmea seen flashing out at
a helgl t of from eighty to lufl miles. Iiu'l
catlng that there Is stilt, at such eleva
tions, sufficient air to set fire by friction
t a solid bodv rusblnit through It al a
sieed of twenty to thlity miles par sec-
ond Bui It en be shown that these
Little Marys
II) IMHIOTIIY lIX.
Wives Is what men get wlsht on thm
when they get married, fnmetltnes the
man looks like my eat did when I e et
my canary, but miatly he looks like he
Just wlsht lie knew
w ho done It to Mm.
A man speaks
nice and polite to
n ludy, and he
I "rm'
helps her ncross
the street, hut lie
snaps up a wife
when she speaks
to him, and when
they walk on the
streets t o g et h e r
she tugs along be
hind Mm.
A man calls a
voting lady "angel
face" and "sweet
heart'' before they
are married, but n
man culls bis wife
"say." Also a man k'vses a young lady'ii
mouth when he tells her goodbye befare
they are married, but when he aaya good
byo to his wife he pecks at her back
hull'. I know that Is true, I eeause I
watched inv Aunt Susie and her beau,
I '"u my mamma and my papa.
' A wife la one of the most useful of all
of our I'omestic animals. Khe cooks and
sews, and minds the baby, and does tho
shopping nnd the marketing, and enter-
Do You Know That
A few drops of hot vinegar will remove
the most obstlnaln of whitewash or d's
temper splashes.
A Mocking nieniiiiig hint: Before darn
lug stockings, liubl, the rard or skein of
! wool over the spout of a kettle full of
' bulling waler. The steam shrinks the
j wool, and when the stockings are again
I washed the mended portion will not
sin ink and tear the other parts.
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Captwatninig Clhairinni
Of especial interest during this, our opening week,'
lire tlie very clever millinery conceits ijow on display in '
this department.
The lil.ick velvet model illustrated at the left is
most effectively trimmed with one of the new feathers;
the other, in rich purple color, is very artistically relieved
liy an 'inlroidered chiff. n crown. Xumevous others arc
also specially priced at
$8.00 and
uhif Medrainni Priced'
) For the women
their own hats we ure offering the most attrac
tive and complete assortment of the new larg)
and medium silk velvet sailors. It will be 0 '
pleasure to fit you.
The SflLiloirs 9L98
Y u will find every new and exclusive
trimming in the flower ami feather sections.
Second Floor.
orgess-Wasm
omelany:-
cvtRYBODVS STORE
effrcts would be produced by an atmos-
I M''p rarer than ti nt In an esihuusted air
I puiiet ice-'ver
I et. while t' e ni i.ioiphrr. ns a whole
share. i Hie r'tatlnu -f the earth, the lat-
. ,nr ,,,.r. , rialn i.etlnl movements
M,ieh bne vast Impoilamo In human
ja'f.ilt ' Ainonc thse nicvpmenti of thfi
i n lr roulling froei the earth's rotation
ure tlie tnnie winds, whlc' on both slds
of the equator, line a eitiMan. westward
In nd, be. nose ;hn ai- In Iheni is nmvlpg
from the poles toward tb eq ist'C and
the ".itw.ir. o-illin of the aurfaes be
ne.ith t'lem In. reases In actual, though
net In innular. speed as t'-e eqtintir Is
ti ppren !:ed
Tlie inertia of the lie prevents It from
t.ikinc. up t'l's lii Teai-e Immediatelv, and
tb"s the wind seems to come from the
pint beast. In the northern hemisphere,
nnd Irani Ml c i nitheast In fie southern.
T ire are inane i.ther Interesting ef-
' ferts i f the oaMh's rotntlon m the winds,
' sm. h a the ilrcnlatoi y motion of cy-
!i tunes, which aiwnvs turn fiom right t
left In the northern hemisphere find from
left to riKlit In the southern. P"t this
I does not change the fi.et that, taken aa a
! whole, the atmosphere revolves ns If It
i were a pa it of the plobe to which It Is
' nttncl.ed.
Essays Wiv
tyli-a thn company, but st e does not have
In be paid any money like a cook or a
housemaid or n nurse.
'.Vomen who are not wives have to
work fur a living Oh. how thankful a,
wife shcidd be that she does not have to
work !
A wife Is also useful to lay things on.
That Is why men get them." When a man
doesn't want to do anything he always
rsvs that his wlf" won't let him do It.
am4 when a mini plays poker and loess
h!a m iney le blames his wife's txtrav
n la nee because he Is not rich.
There are many different kinds of
w ives. There Is t l u First WITe. who
works, and plnohi s. and pinches,- and
scrlnches to help I er husband get on,
and who never tui any nice clothes, and
who ililrs on the street cars; and there's
the Second Wife, who has diamonds and
Paris dresses and a limousine that tha
good First Wife saved up to buy for her.
And there's Thin Wives and Fat Wives,
but 1 gueis wlve Is like automobiles.
F.very time you get a new one you try a,
new :r.skr :
Wives have many curious peculiarities.
Ore of them Is that they have got noses
that con smell things aa far aa a hound
itoa. When my papa has hud a drink my
mamma ran smell It before he gets within
a block of the house. Also wives la like
rats, ami they never sleep, and no mat-
ter how easy you tiptoe In. you always
i wake them up.
Wives Is very noble creatures, and they
feel It their sacred duty to tell their
I hiisbandB about tlielr faults. Men would
not know bow mum fault Ihev have and
what poor, miserable worms of the dust
they ere If they did not have wives.
Wives save their husbands a great deal
! of trouble by spending their money for
them. A man who has a wife never has
to worry about the danger of banka
break'ng.
I When a man's wife dies he has nobody
to quarrel with and this makes him so
lonesome that lie runs right off and gets
married aga'n,
This Is all I know at present about
wives.
who delight in trimming