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Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1920, by Jpmnes Morgani.) PEN OF THE REVOLUTION 1743--April 13, born at Shad well, Va. 1767-Admitted to the bar. 1769-74--Member of House of Burgesses. 1774-76-Member of congress. 1776-79--Member Virginia as. sembly. 1779-81--Governor. 1733.84-Member of congress. 1784-09-Minister to Frar.ce. 1790-93-Secretary of state. T IlOMAS .JEFOElSON is much as Abraham Lincoln, WNais nuIr(sed lit the brenst Of the unexhauwted west . At the time of Iis hi rth honeath one of its foo(ihills the Blue Jidge of Vir ginIa was the Anerlein front(Ir. The farm on wihh hlhe was born had heen cleared in the wild forest by his plo ner fat her when the smoke of a nic 'ghbor's chhiney lorly coltid he C(en from his cibin door. When he rode east, with his darlng ftidlo under his aim, to be a student lit Willia laind 'Mary college, tihe tall. sh'nder, saitidy-ilred, siub-nosved. freckded-inced seventeen-year-olI boy of the froitlersmnanl never hnd seen it manslot, a church or a village of t.welty houses, 11n1d he looked wit i a stranger's eyes upon the baronial % 141 Jefferson in 1775. pride and display of the old fanillmie: wll) foried the vieeregal court at \Vil lianishurg. To support the large family of his mother on their too small fatrmn Jel'er son tu1r1nled to tihe law. In seven year.; at the hur h1e doilled his estate wmii icreased his shivey to -100. Itumying tile little iloulltaill at whose feet lie was born. 1e huit umponi its Summl1l11it from plals of ils own[) drawing, wilth bricks of his own making and with woid of his ownA0utting, t-he noblest I ili110 e1 mde his hmomei ever aifter. Jieffer-sonl's la w tractice continu22120. raipihiy to grow ilutil It antoun22ted tom ).2,F00 a2 year, whenl he abandoned120 it forever- to proseenlte Geormge 11T in the~ grel and1 genleral (0ourt Of mankinkld. H~e 1ha2( heard tile first 01al1 of tihe lley ''lutioni wilie I la2w stuldenit inl Wil I llmsburg. Its cliarioni had1 bleln rimng Ing in his ears ever2 since he0 stood, an1 enger looker-oni, ill the (1002 of the house5 of burgesses. Hie saw Walshinlg ton In hlis sent ond lhe a1w ils oIwn friend, Patrick Henry, a1 flddiing Vir ginilik~ hueimse15lf, hloilig the flnoor nynlid eries of treason nS ihe inivited tile kinlg to p~rofit by tile oxampljle oif Ce sar, who had( his BrnItuls, andl( Charles T, who( had is Cromwell. Tihe swordi, till t ongume and1 the penf of Amerlenn freedom were wieli Imet thait memIlorable daiy. After tile penl hadi Waltedi twelve years for iits t urn to speak Jefferson Hilt in tile congreoss at! hiladlelhiai. The11 squire~ of Monti nlS the squire of Motunt Vernon. Op port unity and] dulty went st ralight to those0 two speechml'ss ('ongressmlen as tile ineedie ilaps to a iladstoneC. After servin~g as5 goernor of Vir ginlia and mlember of 'on~gre.'48 Jeffer SOnl wals 8(4t eS minister to tihe court oIf Fran (ce. "'You~ r-epjhlac Dot or 'ran :k - 1in,"' tile Count Ve'rgennes' said( to im i onm his arrival ill Palris. "'I sullceed h:im,"' tile new envoy ihappily repliel; "no1 one enin rPinen(' Dolt or Franl.k~iln."' Six Weeks and( ai daly a fter ill 12nd 5eeni tihai oldim 1"ran(ce of tile iHouI~ron ('irni sh hnealth till waulis oIf th 12 astiile Je(ff'ersonl left Pauris to becoI~me our Iirst secre'tary of state. Tinkinlg his sent1 at h right (of Wa1(shling(tonl i he w5 ase hto fale' acro0s till enineiit ialme withi Alexander Hamilton, tile secretary of time treamsurly. fly nature1 and 2 l trilning th 1w O we're' as oppiosite in l their pllilt 'l opin1 11on1 11s in their chairs, aind thley found thlemlselveS, Ias Je'fferson saidi, "pit ted like (tht ing cocks5." As the(y fouighlt anld thle fent Ihers flew a1 great i r'owdi rolltd b'eh11 ilin' achm tom ur'ge on its fa1v'srli e ill thiat ('olkinlg ma1ill over wvh!ch Wasinitgtonl had1 tile ulnhappi l.('5s to pire'side. Quikly oil tile pele( ill th iland1( took one1 s1ide or till othler il0iI1lI'1 par mties which with chlanging name10 and1( chaniging% disputes hlave di v-led the ('u221' to th I ilis dity. Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN (Copyright, 1920, by Jaines Morgan.) JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 1825-John Quincy Adams in. augurated sixth president, aged fifty-seven. 1830-48-in congress. 1831--Presented first petition against slavery. 1848-February 23, death of Adams at the capitol. Aged eighty. 0t '110 chieftalship of every great imtiol still vmssed from father tc son until the presidency of the United 8tines was createl, when the fIrs free-for-all race and an eveni start foi thl highest prize was opened to th( ons or mnit regarl(ess of tle acetldents (of lirth. II tills fiair test, new bloodl has woin every tine with only two ex. (eption in a century and a quarter. Even John Quincy Adams did not win the race, but was outrun it thc luuls bv Anidrew Jackson, the son of an Immigrant. Political parties hav. Ing disappeared ii 182.1, four men en tered tile contest and deadlocked Ihc e-lectoral college, which left the housc of representatives to choose froi atuong the thiree highest candidates Tils eilimilnated ti-h fourth imian-iien. ry (lay-who ided in lie election of Adand s and who received from tit new president the appointment o1 secretary of state. The only non-partisan administra tion the country ever has had was no a shilillig examliple of success. Uncom proining, alone, John Quindy Adamt 'stalked his solitary way, nqer onc turning to the rigot or to the left fron the strait and narrow path ot indepen, dence. With no sense of hihor to re, lieve his sense of self-righteomsness, tc light ui ils view of his fellows gr tc thaw his own icy virtues, it was lim. possible for his supporters to feel anl. eiliusilasi for him. John Quincy Adatimi led the slipik life in the White House. Getting u; at 5, lie built his fire, read his dall. portion of the Bible and while tlt ... . .. .. .. John Quincy Adams. goverinmeint cleriks still slept, lhe t(ook his wialk or swimi. lie prolem of e'x-l)residentl s. l ie forgot that lhe had bleen plresidlent at aill and1 w~ent to work like alny oilher citIzen. With hIiis houses ill Quinluy and(1 lb toil mlortgatged and' tile Income fron his estate too slendier for the support of his famIly, John11 Quincy Adlams heard the hasrk of the wolf at is dor .a1s in his5 gloomy fancy lhe closedi it up~on putblic life inl his sixty-s5econd( to ask tile nlext y~r if it would he he. neathII his dligni ty to re'presenit the 01ld Ply mouth Rock district ini (ongress, thIis great American, who1 had been a s~enaitor, a1 miniister at tile courts of Thie Hague, Berlin, St. Petershurg andl IfLondon. a secreta ry of stat1,4 and ai president, replied that lie w.ias not above serving the people r.s one of tile .seleetmlen of is town. Wa~shington wuas aghlast at (lhe sightl oIf ani e'x-presidIent taking is sent in thie hurly-hlurly of the lower hiouse only twvo years after leaving thii White House. Without joining ther Democrats or the Whigs, with 1n0 fac 141 ionaouit im, John Qiney Adamslli faced alone thle Jackson administrat ion wvhich had1( suplPntedl his (own and alone he met a swarm of his olid-ttinme citics on a level. Un~sder hiis incessanut I oundin lg. the miajiflIy 'a gainst- the right ofi pet itin fell Sessin by Les. Slln ulii it d14pipea red ent irely in 18-14. Hhe had won his long fight iaga in. thei gag J ruile and hs id 'iary1 i lit up with his rejoleing ill victory. His5 life~ was croiwned'. Illis work was done. Still he labsoredl on. Althloughi lie fell in at Boston strmeet un~der' a St roke' of p:ara55lysis, lie Instated59 rlpon *'-tuirninig to his. duities in ionlgress, where the miemblers stood as lie en~ tered thei hallI and cheered him oni h1s way to hIss seat. A year afterward, as he seemied, absout to rise to address thie spbeaker'. lie xuddenly pltchien .*or wrdi upon 1 th 111le floor. Thei veternni haia oaan mortally iftr!~eiinon th~e tleldl. Althbough he~ lin-i 'e8ed' I wo daysll 3, he~ was not remio ved s'ruini 'Ei 'a Iitol, but remainbed in a little i'...i of'i the old hall of the horiaS. ', lire, stIll at his 110st, dlied d'. old AI d.d~ (' R:van.7Wt ot ble Cmiuntry. COTTON. MARtKET IC SEES IEACTIO-NS lReports Say Cotton Farmers in Strong < Position. Advances From, ianki s Likely. I New York, Sept. 17.-More favorable weather in the south and unsettled trade conditiolns have been et ede((i An reactions frol tihe Iigh prices tou(hed toward thle ndil of last week iI the cot tonl mlarket. t According to local Iolokt.I, how ever, the s;ellinj g has not been as agrew able or aggressive as it was on del ine toward the end of August, and rallies have bCen more fretiuent. Tihe Ihftt'r are sWt)Ota ed to have been du1v to a .9 slightl, more cptim(' C 1)1oIsti1' feel ,ig as t 1 ilm posiilty of an early revNval it' t he 1goodn trade, and nlotwith. nding the better weather, comt piaints from the new cre: have been more numeir ois, palrtiularly 1avith reference to 'n. sect daimage. Fresh bulying oil the-' feaiturle( hai's : en checked 1', the- (e tinued uncrertaiity rf the lriih 1:. . itutilattin, w illle there i; iiill a feeling a moig ma1,t1ny trader. here that ilcreys ing Crep recipts will bring greatet :-vssIure upon the souithvrn ipot mr 1 I,. The rcfisal or tie' federal rA' : ':. , t.. ; rat the reques' of riricsentativc of cotton grewers for ey~taor!'mr crdits to) aid in! IIrI ne. ;n:I, cott.'ta )ed to temlporary de i . !cn, b.t tire Ias not mich el ling In tlIt raltre, as It wa:; Conte ndede hait th. mI arke-t. , as al:-eady dis- I Bank Vice Tells How Ziron Iron Tof After Operation J A FTER any serlous illiess, the first thing yoq notiee when you begin to get 4rotind Is your lack of strength and energy-a tired, weak feeling. The sooner you get your strength back the bettor. The thing to do is to eat plenty 6f good, nourishing food, get all the fresh air you canl, exercise conservatively, and take Z!ron Iron Tonic three times a day. Your doctor will tell you this is sound advice, and urge you to follow it. Good AreP 30.. x 3 G FarcNl 30 3% Fb icA cunting a continuation of .tight money. On the other hand, local bulls en liasized reports from the south that otton farmers were in a strong po ition, and that southern banks were ntending to advance between 18 and :0 cents a potind on cotton. At va ious times diring the 'week, there vere rumors that spots were offered in a tenderable 'basis as coipared vith October contracts here but ltt le vas heard of possible shW!pments. On lie contrary, there were reports (hat good part of the siall certificat ?d utpply already here was to be shipped nI(d there was anuother flurry of cov ring by near m11on1th shorts toward the Id of the week. The censius repo hoving doilestic m1ill consumliption v" 83,193 bales was rather under ith orceast but had little a paretit intil lice oin the market. .\lid-iothi ei lition reports have rangel from 57 ,6, inlieatiig deteriora-tiol of a1rm ev(:n points) oil the aveiIrage. I Spent $1 on Rat-Snat an1111d Saved the Price of a .Jamies AeGutire, famois log Raiser f New lersey, says, 'I advise every atrimer trotibled with rats to use IAT iNAP. Tried everything to get rid f ats. '-pent $1.25 on ItAT-SNAP. iured the rats it killed saved the rice of a hog." RAT-SNA P coies a cakeo form. No mixing with other fod. Ca(ts or dos won't toieh It. 'hree sizes, 35c, 65e. $1.25. Sold and i utara nit ee by Lau rens 'I Ia rd ware Co., 1111iu11 im's I)itg Store and Kennedy -President ic Helped His Daughter Jr Appendicitis. Read this letter from Mr. H. B. Keliy, rice-president of the FiIt National Bank, Graceville, Fla.: "My daughter iad been in bad health since last April. She waS operated on for appendicitis. 3he has been taking Ziron for two veeks. Her appetite is better than it ias been. Her nerves are better, and ihe says she feels better . . . I know :Sat Ziron is good for weak and feeble )eople." Ziron is a scientific, reconstructive onic, prepared from valuable strength )iilding ingredients, for weak people vith thin blood. Druggists sell Ziron in a money-back guarantee. 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