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CLARK’S ROUTE
Hamilton’s route
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
ULY 4, 177S. The sun has
gone down behind the Mis-
souri hills across the Mis-
sissippi river from the lit-
tle French town of Kas-
kaskia in what is now the
state of Illinois, and the
soft evening light is
spreading over the low
rambling houses and the
orchards and gardens.
From the belfry of the lit-
tle stone church in the center of the
village, a sweet-toned bell rings to ves-
pers. Dark settles down and in a lit-
tle while lights begin to twinkle in the
windows. A scene of peace in strange
contrast to the warlike sounds which
are soon to shatter the stillness when
that little army, which now lies in the
timber that lines the bluffs above Kas-
kaskia, shall sweep down upon the
village and raise the dreaded war-cry
of the “Long Knives of Kentucky.”
For stirring events are about to take
place in this sleepy little town, events
which in the light of the century and
a half that have intervened, we now
realize were history making.
But let the leader of the invaders
tell his own story, as he does in the
hook “The Capture of Old Vincennes—
The Original Narratives of George
Rogers Clark and of . His Opponent,
Gov. Henry Hamilton,” edited by Milo
M. Quaife and published recently by
the Bobbs-Merrill company, in the fol-
lowing words:
On the evening- of July fourth we ar-
rived within a few miles of the town,
where we threw out some scouts in
advance and lay until nearly dark. We
then resumed our march and took pos-
session of a house on the bank of the
Kaskaskia river, about three-quarters
of a mile above the town, occupied by
a large family. We learned from the
inmates that the people had been un-
der arms a few days before but had
concluded the alarm to be groundless
and at present all was quiet, and that
there was a large number of men in
town, although the Indians were for
the most part absent. We obtained
from the man boats enough to convey
us across the river, where 1 formed my
force in three divisions, 1 felt confi-
dent the inhabitants could not now ob-
tain knowledge of our approach in
time to enable them to make any re-
sistance. My object was now to get
possession of the place with as little
confusion as possible, but to have it
if necessary at the loss of the whole
town. I did not entirely credit the
information given us at the house, as
the man seemed to contradict himself,
informing us among other things that
a noise we heard in the town was
caused by the negroes at a dance I
set out for the fort with one division,
ordering the other two to proceed to
different quarters of the town "If I
met with no resistance, at a certain
signal a general shout was to be given
and a certain part of the town was
to be seized immediately, while men
from each detachment who were able
to talk French were to run through
the streets proclaiming what had hap-
pened and informing the townsmen to
remain in their houses on pain of be-
ing shot down.
These arrangements produced the de-
sired effect, and within a very short
time we were in complete possession of
the place, with every avenue guarded
to prevent any one from escaping and
giving the alarm to the other villages
Various orders not worth mentioning
had been issued for the guidance of
the men in the event of opposition.
Greater silence, I suppose, never
reigned among the inhabitants of a
town than in Kaskaskia at this junc-
ture; not a person was to be seen or a
word to be heard from them for some
time Meanwhile our troops purposely
kept up the greatest possible noise
throughout every quarter of the town,
while patrols moved around it con-
tinually throughout the night, as it was
a capital object to intercept any mes-
senger that might be sent out. In about
two hours all the inhabitants were dis-
armed, and Informed that any one who
should be taken while attempting to
All pictures from “The Capture of
Old Vincennes," courtesy Bobbs-Mer-
rill company.
escape from the place would immedi-
ately be put to death. Mr. Rocheblave
was secured, but some time elapsed
before he could get out of his room.
I suppose he delayed to tell his wife
what disposition to make of his public
papers, but a few of which were se-
cured by us.
In this matter-of-fact& manner does
George Clark tell the story of the
events of that Independence day far
out on the fringe of the western wil-
derness. If he recognized the appro-
priateness of the occasion, there is no
indication of it in his writing. It is
doubtful if he did, however, for the
significance of tliat* red-letter day in
American history was not yet appar-
ent to the men who had the most to
do with putting it in our calendar.
American independence from the
mother country had been declared
only two years and it was yet a Ques-
tion whether the Revolution would
succeed or fail.
Neither could he foresee what lay
before him—his easy capture of Ca-
hokia and Vincennes, the loss of the
latter place to “Hair-Buyer” Hamilton,
the British governor of Detroit, the
terrible march which he was .to lead
across the Drowned Lands the next
year to reqapture Vincennes, the di-
plomacy, the tact, the boldness, the
daring, and the master skill which he
must employ to win the French inhab-
itants of the Illinois country from
their sworn allegiance to the British
flag and to overawe the Indian tribes
so that his slender force could hold
the country which they had conquered.
Least of all could he foresee the
mighty eonsequences^of his ambitious
plans and the sufferings which he and
his men were to be called upon to en-
dure before he had accomplished his
designs. We can look back now and
see that had it not been for George
Rogers Clark, the western boundary
of the new republic at the dose of
the Revolution would most likely have
been the Alleghenies and the great
states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky, to say
nothing of the whole vast territory
west of the Mississippi, might not now
be a part of the United States.
For it is not venturing too wild a
guess to declare that had Clark’s at-
tempt to capture Kaskaskia that In-
dependence day a hundred and fifty
years ago by some chance resulted in
failure instead of success, the whole
course of American history might have
been changed. It is often upon such
slender threads as this that the des-
tiny of natfcns 'hangs. In view of the
importance of Clark’s conquest of the
British posts in the West, it would be
natural to suppose that a grateful na-
tion would have enshrined his memory
as one of her greatest heroes. In-
stead it has been a matter of shame
to historians who have recognized the
full indebtedness of the United States
to this great Virginian that our nation
allowed him to die in poverty and neg-
lect, his last years embittered by the
ingratitude of a “republic which for-
gets,”
Recently, however, some recompense,
tardy though it is, has been made for
the many years of neglected honor to
the name and fame of George Rogers
Clark. Last year the first organized
tribute of the Old Northwest to the
man who made it a part of the United
States was offered in a pilgrimage
made by a large number of citizens of
the six states to his birthplace at
Charlottesville, Va., on November 19.
the one hundredth seventy-fifth anni-
versary of his birth.
Further honors to the memory of
Clark were also projected during the
sessions of congress this year in the
introduction of various bills. One was
to authorize the construction of a
George Rogers Clark memorial light-
house on the Ohio river near Louis-
ville, Ivy.; another provided for the
construction of a memorial on the site
of Fort Gage (Kaskaskia) in Ran-
dolph county, Illinois.
But most important of all was the
recent passage of a bill providing an
appropriation of $1,000,000 for the
construction of a historical museum
on the the site of Fort Sackville at
Vincennes, Ind„ and the participation
of the federal government in the Clark
sesquicentennial celebration to be
held there next year. This celebra-
tion which will open next February
on the one hundredth and fiftieth an-
niversary of the capture of Fort Sack-
ville by Clark will he the most impres-
sive gesture of honoriug the conqueror,
of the Old Northwest that has yet
been made, initiated by the people of
that section, the whole nation will be
invited to participate because it is the
whole nation which owes a debt of
gratitude to Clark.
The celebration will have a special
significance since it will also mark the
one hundredth and fiftieth anniversary
of the first time the Stars and Stripes
were raised over that section of the
country. For when the British flag
was hauled down from over Fort
Sackville, after Hamilton’s surrender
of the fort, it was the new flag of the
new nation, one of the several stands
of colors which the French inhabi-
tants had presented to Clark’s men
and the volunteers who accompanied
them on their expedition against Vin-
cennes, which was run up in its place.
Some historians have stated that
Clark first unfurled the Stars and
Stripes on the soil of Illinois before
retting out for Kaskaskia, but Clark’s
narrative, in the book quoted atjove,
makes no mention of this fact, and it
is probable that Vincennes and not
Kaskaskia first had a sight of Old
•Glory.
It would have been a final touch of
patriotic appropriateness if the Stars
and Stripes had been displayed on
July 4, 177S. But even though it was
not, the events of that day were sig-
nificant enough, and on Independence
day this year, when Americans are re-
membering the men on the Atlantic
seaboard who, on July 4, 1776, signed
the Declaration of Independence, they
should also remember the little group
of backwoodsmen who helped make
that Declaration good by their daring
and the privations they endured un-
der the lea^deafghip of George Rogers
Clark.
Great Marsh Area
El Chaco, a vast area oi land be-
tween Paraguay and Bolivia, is await-
ing the ambitious adventurer. It cov-
ers about 200,000 square miles and is
believed to be constituted mainly of
swamps and jungles. A few mer-
chants, who even today, as they were
tn the days of the Phoenicians, are
the pioneer explorers of distant and
little known areas, are about the only
people who have ever visited the in-
terior of the Chaco, lured there be-
cause it is the home of the querbracho
tree, an important source of tannin.
Deprived of Equipment
A man who had made.a reputation
as a political exhorter was asked to
talk to a gathering of the gentler sex.
He demurred. “I’m afraid I can’t do
much good at it I have never talked
to women, you know.”
“Nonsense!” his friends replied.
“You arouse the men, why not the
women?”
“1 tell you I’m certain to make a
failure of it.”
“Why are you so sure of that?”
“Because,” he answered, “I can’t
use more than half my vocabulary
when 1 talk to women.”
Hopeless Case
The cream of all absent-minded
professors is the one who, about to
start on a journey, filled his wife with
gasoline, kissed his road map good-by
and tried to shove his motor car into
his pocket.
Electric Set’s Power
Supply Is Irregular
Reports received from the owners
of receivers employing A.C. tubes of
the new 226 and 227 types vary widely
as to tlie results obtained. In most
cases the tubes have given entirely
satisfactory service, and the produc-
tion obtained from the receiver is all
that could he desired. On -the other
hand, there have been received some
complaints that the life of the new
tubes is rather short, with the result
that the cost of replacement has been
rather heavy.
Due to the experience of a few ex-
perimenters who have found that their
tubes burn out at too-frequent inter-
vals, the rumor seems to be quite
prevalent tliat a large number of the
new A.C, tubes are defective. How-
ever, this is not necessarily true, while
investigation seems to indicate that it
is false. It nas been discovered that,
in practically all cases where short
tube-life is experienced, the trouble is
due to the application of excessive
voltage overloads to the tube fila-
ments; resulting from a high line-
voltage at the house lighting source,
without suitable means of regulation
in the power unit of the receiver.
In operation, A.C. tubes are no more
critical as to filament voltage than
standard tubes of the 201A type-; but
trouble is caused by the fact that the
house-lighting circuit sometimes does
not provide as constant a source of
potential as does a storage battery.
In the case of the latter, the maximum
voltage in the filament circuit is
known to be 6 volts, and it is possible
to insert ballast resistors in the cir-
cuit and reduce the potential to the
value required by the tubes. In this
way it is possible to operate a receiver
without any danger of overloading the
filaments. In contrast’ to this, there is
no definite maximum voltage of an
A.C. house-lighting circuit. These cir-
cuits are usually rated at 110 volts
but, during the day, the voltage may
vary all the way from 90 to 125 volts
in extreme cases; and foj this reason
some form of voltage regulator is
needed in every radio * power unit.
Voltage variations are not as great in
the large cities as in the rural dis-
tricts where elaborate regulating de-
vices are not provided; but in all
cases it is wise to use some type of
voltage control,
A satisfactory solution to the prob-
lem is found in connecting a power-
rheostat in series with the primary
(110-volt) winding of the filament-sup-
ply transformer, and with this instru-
ment the filament potentials of all
tubes may be adjusted simultaneous-
ly. After the construction of the re-
ceiver has been completed, the resist-
ors in series with tube filaments
should be adjusted and checked with
an A.C. voltmeter until each tube re-
ceives exactly the correct voltage.
When a set has been adjusted in this
way an adjustment of the master rhe-
ostat in the primary winding of the
transformer will bring all filament cir-
cuits back to the correct voltages,
whenever the line voltage increases
or decreases, as the case may be.
When operating a receiver with a
master rheostat connected as de-
scribed, a wise habit for the owner
to cultivate will be the practice of
setting the rheostat so that the fila-
ment-current adjustment is at a mini-
mum, every time when he is turning
off the set. If this plan is followed,
the danger of overloading the filament
will be greatly reduced; but it be-
comes necessary to increase the volt-
age to the proper value each time the
set. is used. On the other hand, if the
set were not adjusted each time, there
would be little advantage in having
a master rheostat. It may also be
suggested that a 150-volt A.C. volt-
meter will be a great aid when ad-
justing the master rheostat; as it will
remove the guesswork which is usual-
ly involved in the regulation of fila-
ment current. The increase in the
life of the tubes used would probably
pay the cost of the meter in a very
short time.
In rural districts where the power
supply is known to be very irregular,
it will be wise for the radio listener to
investigate conditions before deciding
to use an A.G, set. In some places
there are continual line-voltage fluctu-
ations which would make it very un-
satisfactory to attempt the operation
of an electric radio receiver.—Radio
News.
How Low-Loss Sockets
Can Be Easily Made
An excellent low-loss socket can be
made by taking an ordinary one and
screwing it to a square piece of bake-
iite or hard rubber by means of small
screws. The socket is then cut in
quarters by means of a hacksaw. This
socket will be found to be quite an
improvement when used on very short
wave lengths, as losses are cut down
to a minimum. If the saw cuts are
too wide, care should be taken so that
the tube is inserted the right way.
Use Head Phones When
Searching for Stations
Employ ear phones to locate dis-
tant stations. Once the stations are
located they can usually be given in-
creased strength, sufficient to operate
the loud speaker, by manipulating the
volume and tuning controls. Many dis-
tant stations too feeble to actuate the
loud speaker can often be heard on
the head phones.
SAY BLOODSTAINS
CAN BE TRACED
System Will Help in Detectior
of Crime.
London.—Suspected persons who
tell detectives that bloodstains on
their clothing are due to nose bleed
or to cuts while shaving may now
have their stories tested by chemical
and microscopic methods, described to
the Royal Institute of Public Health
in London by Dr. Roche Lynch, ex-
pert in legal medicine.
Comparison of the “blood group” to
which the suspected person belongs
with blood in the stain often proves,
Doctor Lynch said, that the blood is
not self-shed, but must have come
from some other person.
There are four recognized blood
groups to which a person may belong,
and it is possible to divide these into
several subgroups, depending upon the
presence or absence of specific chemi-
cal substances in the liquid part of the
blood or in the solid corpuscles.
Tests for these substances can now
be made, Doctor Lynch disclosed, on
bloodstains at least a year old. It is
sometimes possible to say not only
that a bloodstain in question was not
made by the blood of the suspect-
ed person, but that it probably did
come from a murdered victim, if that
is the truth.
This can be tried whenever a sample
of stain known to be of the victim’s
blood is available for comparison.
There are some uncertainties, Doc-
tor Lynch admitted, but he believes
that these rew blood tests should he
used in criminal practice more often,
New Pneumonia Serum
Covers All Four Types
New York.—A new serum for treat
ing pneumonia, developed by Dr. L.
D. Felton of Harvard university, has
given promising results in combating
this highly fatal disease.
The serum marks an advance in
that it can be used for all four of the
recognized' types of pneumonia, ac-
cording to Dr. Russell L. Cecil of the
Bellevue hospital, who has obtained
very efficacious results from its use
in the pneumonia clinic of that hos-
pital. It works best with types one
and two, the two groups that comprise
the majority of pneumonia cases. The
recoveries after its use with type one
have been very encouraging, indeed,
Doctor Cecil declared, though the
deadly type three has proved the least
amenable of any group.
Pneumonia serums used in the past
have been specific for each type. Since
certain laboratory procedures have to
be followed out before the type from
which the patient is suffering can be
determined, precious time often has
to be lost before the doctors know
which serum to give. The Felton
serum of mixed cultures can be ad-
ministered on admission to the hos-
pital and frequently a gain of many
hours can be made in checking the
course of the disease.
Don't Make aTby
Out of Baby°
-'Babies Have ^Nerves'
By RUTH BRITTAIN
Much of the nervousness in older
children can be traced to the over-
stimulation during infancy, caused by
regarding baby as a sort of animated
toy for the amusement of parents, rel-
atives and friends. Baby may ba
played with, but not for more than a
quarter of an hour to an hour daily.
Beyond that, being handled, tickled,
caused to laugh or even scream, will
sometimes result in vomiting, and in-
variably causes irritability, crying or
sleeplessness.
Fretfulness, cryihg and sleeplessness
from this cause can easily be avoided
by treating baby with more consider-
ation, but when you just can’t see
■what is making baby restless or upset,
better give him a few drops of pure,
harmless Castoria. It’s amazing to see
how quickly it calms baby’s nerves and
Boothes him to sleep; yet it contains
no drugs or opiates. It is purely veg-
etable—the recipe is on the wrapper.
Leading physicians prescribe it for
colic, cholera, diarrhea, constipation,
gas on stomach and bowels, feverish-
ness, loss of sleep and all other “up-
sets” of babyhood. Over 25 millior
bottles used a year shows its over-
whelming popularity.
With each bottle of Castoria, you get
a book on Motherhood, worth its
weight in gold. Look for Chas. H.
Fletcher’s signature on the package so
you’ll get genuine Castoria. There art
many imitations.
ALLEN’S FOOT=EASE
The Antiseptic, Healing Powder for
tired, swollen, smarting, sweating
feet. It takes the friction from tha
shoe, prevents blisters and sore spots
and takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. Always use Allen’s Foot-Ease
for Dancing and to Break in New
Shoes. Sold everywhere.
In a Pinch, Use Allen’s Foot-Ease
Bigger Catch
“Doris thought she would not marry
Aer hero until she heard how much
lie spent at the tailor’s.”
“Well?”
“Then she decided to marry the
tailor.”—Oslo Karikaturen.
Hunter Loses as Utah
Deer Dies in Colorado
Ft. Morgan, Colo.—-During the short
season last winter when hunters were
allowed to shoot deer in Utah, Har-
ley Thomas, a hunter in the Diamond
mountains near the Utah-Colorado
state line, shot a large buck on the
Utah side, but the wounded animal
ran 300 yards into Colorado and
dropped dead.
Thomas went after the buck, but
when he arrived where it lay he found
a Colorado game warden sitting on
the carcass of the dead animal. Even
though the deer was shot in Utah,
which at that time gave the hunter
the right to hunt deer, the Colorado
warden refused to turn the animal
over to Thomas, as the Colorado game
law forbid transportation of the car-
cass of a legally killed deer beyond
the state line.
Thomas was not allowed to kill an-
other deer that season as he had al-
ready killed his allotment by law, al-
though he was not allowed to keep It.
This is the first case of this kind to
happen regarding the killing of deer,
but under the laws of both states offi-
cials were unable to do anything to
aid the hunter.
Doctor’s Bills Low on
His Majesty’s Estate
Sandringham, England.—The serv-
ices and skill of King George’s resi-
dential doctor for two pence (4 cents)
a week a family are one of the many
advantages of the employees on the
royal estate at Sandringham that are
due to the benevolence of his maj-
esty.
The penny is a powerful coin at
Sandringham, for this amount each
week entitles workers on the estate
to use a well-equipped club replete
with billiard room, library and read-
ing room. Beer may be obtained here
at reduced prices.
On Saturdays popular concerts are
arranged and again a penny covers
admission, children one-half penny.
The proceeds go to charity.
The estate contains many fine
homes for the widows of estate work-
ers, and retiring employees receive a
pension with other advantages.
None Too Good
‘‘What do you think of his tennis?"
“Oh, I think lie’s singularly bad in
doubles’and doubly had in singles.”—
Passing Show.
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attachment at 75c; and in tin box at 60c.
Itching Piles
& FEVER TONIC
30$
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For Poisoned Wounds as Rusty
Nail Wounds, Ivy Poisoning, etc.
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Saved by Convicts
Norristown, Pa.—The crew of a
naval balloon owe their lives to some
convicts. Caught in a squall, the bal-
loon threw out ropes when over a
prison farm. Several dozen men
grabbed them willingly and were
dragged across two fields before the
bag was brought down.
W©RLD CRUISE £1000
New s s "Caledonia” sails Jan. 16. N. Y. and up
Havana, Panama, Los Angeles, Hilo, Honolulu.
Japan, Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, (Siam),
Java, Sumatra, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Naples
Monaco, Havre (Paris); Europe stop-over in
Spring. Hotels, drives, guides, fees, etc., included.
MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE
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Frank C. Clark, Times Bldg., N. T.
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