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The Average Ada of Soldiers and Statesmen Was Forty-Aive HX sy JaMes a. EDGERTON S fiflfififififmwkflfi FB hew much In theso days of the young men who do things and of tho young mon. crowding the old out of the : Hotive walks of lifo, but It probably Mover ocourred to those who put for« vid theso claitue that leading mon wre fick oldest on the average now thar thoy wore in the time of the Wigerican Tovolution, Young men won that struggle. Taking twoutyfivo of : Xhe tuost prominent figures of the war og Indoepondonceo at tho fimg of the ia i 16 yon nn a 1 Aaprirnener | Loading Men of Today Older Than the Men of '76. sw Copyright, 1908, by James A, Edgerton Tooke dtc dick lns %M*M*kfl******flkfit = Attornoy (enorat Bonaparte fifty-sev- gn, Socrotary Cortelyou forty-six; Sec- retary Garfeld is forty-two, Secretary Wilson seventy-two; Secretary Metcalf is fifty-four, Secrotary Straus fifty-sev. en and Postmaster General Meyer fifty, Of the oppositon, party Willliam J. Bryan is forty-eight. bf the house Spenker Cannon is sev- Ignfug of the Deelaentton.of | gh nce, wo find they avorage slightly an« ar forty, Ing things in ous day, they nro discov- rad to nvorage & tolle over {ifty-soven. If It bo objected that the worl of the fevolutionasy leadors was searcoly be- tre In 1770, five years can be added, aerying the portod up to 1781, ov very early the ond of the war. BHvon then he avornge ago was only about forty« ve, om twolve yers undor that of to- | [f y. I6 It Io still fusthor objected that atiger mon would naturally be at the rout In war thin in perce, that may g gwiouted, and still 1t would not ac« intut for so gromt a discropaney as hat fere ahown.. The truth Is that govity of the rmee Is increasing n keop their powers to a Intor pertod € Ifo than over bofovo. fact has ven demonstrated and commonted ou 'by sctoutlite md statisticlans. i (Whe Amorican Toevolution was # \young man's war, dt lenst so fos as he colonists were concerned, On Jaly & 1776, the oldest of a celebrated group f twonuty-fige was BonJamin lot goventy. Nest wis Iotacl Put« ard, who bad distinguished himself ho your bofore at Bunker IIl. Heo vith difty-oight, Saruct Adams, the stunch friend of Hborty, and, Count de :Civasso, who was to command the Atrouch floot, wore each Afty-throe, (Count Ttocharmbogu, who was to com- [inand the land forcos, was Af [¢¥y.ous, Colonol Willem Prescott, the gullent loador at Banker HIll, was Af« tGenomit Tforatlo Cates, who was to put Nurgoyne Into a pocket, was forty-olglht. Richard Honry Leo, who ind fnfroduceod § it le resolution B # ox indopond» nee; IEranct (Mazion, who wis *% ¢ bucome fit P ous as tho p Bwamp Fox,\ R Abd CGcorgoe Aae Washington, al- log ready command P (ex In chief of [ (tho Continental a qwumics, | wore *S gache forty-four, Cul Hevors, avho hut made In bs colobrated e- h ride the year bo- Patt nEvins was tous, was forty» FORTY«ONK. one. Patrick Tfenry, who had cloctrl« Med tho colonics by his cloquont ap- peats for liberty, and dolhn Adams, who poke so offoctIvely for the adoption of tue Declaration, wore coach forty, Thora- its Piuing, who paved the way for sopa» ation by hits atthtring pamphlet, CGom« non Sonse,\ and who many now be- (eve was the roat author of the Dacia» ration of Independence; John Ifancock, tho prostdent of the Continental con« gross, ind Hthan Allon, who was soon o wit: fixing at wore conch Edety-nino. Benedict Araold, who in the carly part of the war dld vallant service for tho colonles, was thirty« ive, Nuthanaol who was to he one of the most trustworthy of Amoplcun gonorals, was thirty-four, Phis was also tho ago of Fosoph War- fem when ho folk at Bunker Hill the teas hofore. 'Fhomas fefforson, who ind boon deputed by congress to draw ip the Declaration, was thirty-thrae. olite E'aul Jones, who was to dofont ho British In ao many sou fights, was wonty-olglt. Nathan El«lo, who wis 0 react Immortality through belug ox- cuted by the was twenty-one, 'Light Horse IHarey\ Leo, who was o load \Leo's lfoglon\ was twonty, Jlexindor who was to bo Washington's ald and distloguish him- elf at Yorktown, was nineteen. The rqauls de Lafryotte, who a little er was to endear himself to alt true orican hourts, was the youngest of ho Hat=olghtoon. 'The average of this | et of twonty-lvo, as has been anld, ag i. vory little under forty years,. vory Interesting fact in connection fith this Immortal twonty-livo is that € the twonty-two tho month of whose Irth is known tet of thom, or nearly ne«talf, saw the Hight in fonuary, 'wo was the highost number born In uy othor month. The ton who wore onn Io anuary are as follows: Paul every, Jum. 1; fsract Patoato, Jun. T; thm Alton, Jan 106 ..' «ander Ham- ton, Jam. 11; Joln Hancock, Jan. 12; cnedfet Arnole <». 14) Benjamin yuullin, Jan. I1; Richard floney Los, ti. #0; \Licht fforse Farry\ Leo and | homax Paine, Jaw. #0, Compurtag the agos of the Revolu« ouiry group with those of a Ike unbest of conspietous Amorleans who ie iloing things today, wo fnd the fol- sviog results: Tho avorige ago of the president and x cabluet is fAfty-four, Whe prost« ink flmeolf Is forty-nino, Secretary oot Secretary Haft Afty, Tuking a Uke number of | he most conspicuous man who aro do« | < fare most famous Im that struggle. oun. enty«two. and Minority Leader WIL Uarog Is fity-three, Of the senate lead- ors Hupeue Bale, for the RepublMcans, Ig reveuty-two, and Joseph W. Balley, for the Democrats, is forty-four, Of ithe two most conspleuous labor lead» ors Samuel Gompers is fAfty-eight, and Thomas L, Leawls is forty-two. Among financiers J. Plerpont Morgan Is sev- 'enty-one, and H. H. Rogers is sixty- bight. Of furious Inventors Thomas 'A. Edison is sixty-one, and John P. Holland, the Inventor of the subma- rlno, Is forty-one. 'The two most con- Twaln, seventy-two, Among famous 'educators President Eliot of Harvard is seventy-four and President Hadley of Yale Afty-two, 'The average age of this group of twenty-five, as men- tioned above, ig a trifle over fifty-seven, These names have not been selected at ralidom or with the intention of bol- [storing up & theory, but with the pur- pose of finding the men who are most 'protlgent In the actual direction of affairs in their respective Hnes, In choosing the Revolutionary group the was to select those whose names A Slight Inspection: will courince any one ; | of tho fairness of the choice and of the truly representative chatacter of the mon. 'he result shows conclusively that this Is not especially the age of young men, but thit men are retain- Ing their grip to a greater age than over before. It is only fair to Bay, however, that {all revolutionary periods bring the young blood to the front, Ago is more congervative and clings more closely to old traditions, 'The time of hiuman upheaval is one of the intensest ac- tion, and the young man is in his clement. 'The French revolution is A conspleuous example of youthful 'The Puritan revolution in Bogland showed a somewhat greater ago In Its most . notable mon, but even then the Average was lower thin it Is tollay. But of 'all -the crucial | epochs in the | world's - history the - American war for inde- | pendence | prob» fibly showed the lowest average of ago in its M great mon. That e was the young man's ora. \Tho ages of the British, com» mandorsy in that PATRIOKJHENRY WAS gontogt ware much more advanced than those on our own slide. 'This was also true of the land who directed the war., This may Io the fight fop Hborty, THE BIG FIRECRACKER O uR mfgkmmcx. L am a cracker great and big, And on this day of flags and guna Jig ones. You heard yon cannon ag It rang And roaréd and p thundared - in - the sky, But listen till you bear me bang in redhot glory on the fly, aloft, when - breezy mall It sizzled for a time CZ and then didn't bang at all. her melee.im Of the leaders : splotious literary lights are Willlam | Dean Howells, seventy-one, and Mark | Dutbang a pack of little Ji. \Twas lit and tossed z an d \If fell tpon the t I ministry and prominent men in Eng- | be one reason why the colonists won| t oun, and in the time called | This woman says that after months of suffering Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound made her as well as ever. Maude E. Forgie, of Leesburg, Va., writes to Mrs. Pinkham: \I want other suffering women to know what Lydia E. Pinkhaim's Vege- table Compound has done for me. For months I suffered from feminine ills . so that I thought I could not live. I wrote you, and after taking Lydia E. 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Circular soup on 14 CARTERS In 1 to & days. (B i TGCKPORT JOURNAL am T mus st 93 Historic House Where Part of \The Star Spangled Banner\ Was Written, -A _ - _ - me 1 Emam A Fourth of July- Skeich by Robert Donnell. 4» Copyright, 1908, by C. N. Lurie. - fed © F the shrines to which Ameri- cans go in patriotle reverence none is more sacred than the . house which was the home of Francis Scott Key, author of \The Star Spangled Banner.\ For some years funds have been accumulating in the hands of officials of a memorial as- sociation the purpose of which is to restore the old \Key mansion\ and preserve it to posterity as one of the nation's shrines. 'The old dwelling stands close to the Potomac river in Washington in that part of the na- tional capital which was called Georgetown until . its consolidation with the greater city. Francis Scott Key lived many years in this quaint old house. It is quite probable that within its walls or in the little annex adjoining, which he occupied as a law office, he wrote a part of his famous song. For many years the popular supposition has been that the poem was written while Key was aboard a British vessel of war in Chesspeake bay. 'The statement that 'the days when that old house was} SZ other articles of trade not commonly regarded as poetic. Inthe lower front room a cobbler's shop has been in- stalled., ' . The outer walls are two feet thick, Even the inside partitions carry a width of eighteen inches of brick. In really a mansion in comparison with : the average Awelling of the period families of means built houses to stay built. It is said that there is enough brick in the big chimneys and fire- places of the Key mansion to construct i the walls of an ordinary brick house] of the present day. There is still an' aspect of old time elegance in the old house despite its outward shabbiness.! Washington antiquarians will point out to the visiting pilgrim the lower window at the front of the house, to the right, through which young Francis Scott Key, Jr., son of the songster, climbed with his fair girl cousin when |; the devoted pair ran away to be mar- ried. ‘ |i . The eloping pair had a large family *-* THB OLD \KEY MANSION,\ GEORGETOWN. Lup: he was a prisoner of war at the time | of chil has been published far and wide. Both these impressions are erroncous. The wording of the poem itself proves that the latter part of it was written at lenst some months after the event which evoked the glortous national lyric, Furthermore, the third stanza contains. conclusive internal evidence that a good lawyer, such as Mr. Key is reputed to have been, did not write that part of the poem, at any rate, while he was in the enemy's custody.. During the conflict known in our his- tory as the war of 1812, the year in which it began, the British ascended the Potomac, occupied the city > of Washington, burned the national capi- tol, destroyed most. wantonly many of our pricoless - documents and public treasures and then retreated down to salt water, That was in the summer of 1814. On their-way back to their ships the enemy captured and carried away Dr. William Beans, a prominent citizen of the town of Marlboro, Md. Dr. Beans was held a prisoner on board one of the English vessels in Chesapeake bay. > Near the end of August a citizen of Upper Marlboro, William West, called at the office of Luwyer Key and en- gaged the attorney to use his efforts for the release of Dr. Beans. Key was a young man of thirty-five, with a lu- crative practice and some liffle local reputation as a writer of verses. It was proposed that Key obtain the sanc- tion of the American government to go out aboard the flagship of the British commander under a flag of truce and intercede for the imprisoned doctor. The lawyer obtained the necessary au- thority and started on his mission. He got aboard the ship at a critical time. The British were preparing to bom- bard Fort McHenry. Key succeeded In securing the release of Dr. Beans, but both he and the doctor were held aboard one of the vessels until the bombardment was over lest they re- veal the British plans. Key watched the bombardment from this highly interesting vantage point- And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that the flag was still there. Then the poetlawyer returned to the home which nearly a century later patriotic Americans propose to rescue from the low estate into which it has fallen with the advance of the Capital City. 'The little law ofice annex has been used as an Italian fruit and pea- nut venders stand, while the end walls of the residence itself have heen pro- faned with lmiige, lurid and ladierous letters advertising cheap groceries and «~ anes dren, whose descendants live in. Washington and other cities, Francis, Scott Key Smith, a grandson, is secre- tary of the Memorial assoc' \on which is to restore the \mansion. ~ The Fourth of July 'For the World Republic. By J. A. EDGERTON; « & a* wit 3&7; VOICE from the fu- ture is calling The world to diviner estates. : A light on the present is falling ® f! * From some | fuller of splendor . that ix walts- =C Alight like the glory supernal - - O'er God's. golden g ~ stairway. that -= streamed MAJ When Jacob, with glimpses eternal, In Bethlchem dreamed. . . A promise is heard in the nations, - m A prophecy thrills through the earth, ~ That freedom brings new generations - Of equals.and helpers to birth; That each in the service of others, By science and wisdom's increase, Shall learn what it means to be brothers Through ages of peace. - On all shall a new day be risen, . 'With justice the sunshine thereof, And man. shall go forth from his f prison, E as Made free by the 8 angel. of Love. 'The glow from these $ dawns | unbehold- ._ en x\ Of happier eras to RY be # Falls most with. its refluence golden, My country, on thee, UNTIL EVERY SEHAUOKLE Is BROKEN. By thee Freedom's word was-first spoken. Thy hand wrote the gospel of man. Until every shackle is broken: ' B Thy place shall be yet in the van. 4 Go on till in union are blended All nations and isles of the sea. Thy mission® shall never. be erded TIM all men are free. The day of thy glad:> jubilations, - Of thine and ofi Liberty's birth, E=] Shall yet be observed by the nations, - Till heaven shall come on the earth, Till all men. with: luminous faces Shall send up thei reverent cry, 'Tis Liberty's day - 'TIS LIBERTY'3 for all- races- PAY, John M. Smyth, the Great Chicago Mer- chant, Says: \You have to go through things and grow past things . and before you . build up great business. ° ~ The Key to MySuc- cess is Advertising\ J climb over: things bus _ The Fourth of July! TT We ITS SO EASY! to turn out a fine roast of beef t every one's delectation when the beef is cooked in a gas stove that the housewife's wondering question is: \Why didn't I use gas before \ © Summer days make the query all the more urgent. Wha's the use of doubling heat when you can halve it using gas? We can solve your ° perplexities satisfactnli.. May we? c. LOCKPORT LIGHT, HEAT & PowERr co. If You Wish to Reach The HOME, Mr. Mer ,~ - chant, the best and safest way in your is to advertising. . < Use The Journal , non.: of value you can. Buy in this city, never 'dccured to you. ' f .., . vine \bargain\ On smile Occasions ‘de Could Afford to- Pay: wan rising?\ want - AdvertiSing ' i | WANT ADVERTISING SPACE is about 'the\ lowest-priced . thing | This pha‘se'of the matter probably . Bgt\fhink it.over. Suppose that the rate for want advérfising in .this newspaper were one dollar a word! «say?\ (Perhaps, for some classes of business, But ? you were compelled to sell real estate, a dollar a word for ~ an as: would still be a profit returning rate for you IF 4T FOUND THE BEST MARKET For YOUR PROPERTY. cheap‘Eate'for a Situation Wanted ad. if it found twico as good a job for you'as you have ever had. It would be a profitable way to \isepu‘re' ‘atehafit'ufor vacant property. : | In fact, perhaps half of the want ads. wouLp PAY THE Ap- ' VERTISERS AT A DOLLAR A WIRD-and a groat many of them would hju “if\ Fér at that rate if this newspaper charged that rate. .'1‘hc purpose of this comparison is not to announce'zmy I . Advance in the want advertising rates-but to bring .to. - your. mind the fact that wantadv, as now sold, is a gen-, ° & . a *- ca > A prohibiHive rats, you It + would he. a & \L think the, country is just sweet,\- said .the town young lady. \I love to see the peasitnt returning to hisshumble cot, his sturdy figure outlined aghinst the setting Sun, bis faithful collie at Ris side, his pipe in his mouth and his plow upon his shoulder,\-London Tele- graph, * ~ M CABMOERTA. _ Beare the --> Tho Kind You Have Always Bough Bigniature ' © \ ® ~ \Yes said the very eminent phys- chin, \we are doing a great deal to pro- long human life,\. 20. ? \I'm glad to hear it,\ answered Mr. Sirius Barker. \By prolonging life yoir *% give a man more time and opportunity - to get together the amount of your: bill.\'-Washington Star. 2 Boars the The Kind You Have Always Bough ~ Signature | 4 i C sudld