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FRIDAY, JULY 23, IZZS THE FRANKLIN PRESS PAGE FIV2 A , THE WORLD'S GREAT EVENTS ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE ( ky DeJd, Mead Company. Jr.- Charle$XII ' A ROUGH LOOKING boj o; fifteen came tot the throne of Sweden in , 1C97, tinder the title of Charles XIL and started In at once on a . cross be tween the simple and the strenuous life? He gave no sign that he was going to make a name, for himself, for he hated the stupid business of state and spent most of his time in hunting and athletics. Nor was there anything i very kingly in his looks. His habitual dress was an old blue coat With cop per buttons, buffalo skin 'gloves and huge boots that came above the knees. In those days, of hard drinking' and high living his way of life made him a marked man. 'He drank no wine, ate only coarse bread, and slept on the bare ground covered by a cloak. Patkul, the wily , Lithuanian diplo mat, thought the boy king a fool and hit on a plan whereby other countries might take advantage of Charles' care lessness of state affairs. He formed a triple alliance Russia, Poland and Denmark against Sweden. Denmark opened operations by invading Swedish . territory Then, for the first time, the . world realized what character of king this unkempt, sport-loving boy was destined to be. For Charles, with a fierceness and vigor "no one had dreamed he pos sessed, drove out the Danes and ,. turned on the two other members of the alliance. He put away forever the ' pleasant outdoor home life he loved and turned to the wilder sport of hunt ing men. Russia, following Denmark's lead, had advanced on Narva and the . country around the Gulf of Finland. Poland's army had besieged Riga. Charles, with barely 20,000 men, inarched against the 80,000 Russians encamped under the walls of Narva. Then followed one -of the strangest and briefest battles in the annals of , warfare. Charles, disdaining all known military tactics, "rushed" the enemy's camp, charging headlong into force four times the size of his own. In less than fifteen minutes he had 'stormed it Of the 80,000 soldiers, 80,000. were, killed and the rest, cap tured or scattered. Without pausing, Charles hurried his little army across the Dwina, attacked the Saxon army Intrenched there and utterly routed it Then he turned his attention to the Poles. . By 1703' all Poland was help less before the twenty-one-year-old Swedish youth, and' three years later he dictated peace terms to his three enemies.. He had these once-powerful foes ' wholly at his mercy, yet he treated , them magnanimously. Having completely broken up the : alliance against Sweden and saved his . country, Charles might have been ex- pected to go back with a clear con ' science to his old,, easy-going mode of life. "But his fighting blood was' up. . The lust of conquest had fired his brain and his former, pleasures no longer appealed to him. He planned to crush Russia, and in 1707, with 'an army 37,000 strong, he marched on Moscow. But Instead of going thither direct and striking one decisive blow, as was his custom, he listened to, the advice of his ally, the Cossack? chief Mazeppa, that he march first through the Ukraine, in the, hope of inciting, the Cossacks' join him. The 'Uk raine expedition wls a failure. It -1709 Charles attacked the rich city of Pultowa and was about to capture It when .Czar Peter I of Russia bore down upon him with 70,000 men. Charles turned eagerly to meet this new foe. But in a preliminary skirmish he received a dangerous wound in the thigh. So, in the battle itself (July 8, 1709), he had to issue his commands from a litter. His troops, deprived of V his inspiring presence,; and weakened by starvation and fatigue, fell back before the superior Russian force His hopes baffled and his army beaten, Chasles seemed , to have lost all he had hitherto gained. But he wasted no time in despair To check the Russia invasion, he promptly in cited Turkey to war with Russia. The latter, country's diplomats, however, persuaded the Turks that Charles had , designs against Turkey, and an armd . body of met! was sent to arrest him. Charles was still at Varnitjft, in ' Turkish territory,, and had a guard of less than 300 Swedes. Yet with this puny force he defied all Turkey. He defended his house against a whole army of Turks and fought off the be siegers until they burned the house over his head. He was captured, fight ing, but escaped In disguise and made his way to the fortress of Strelsund. There a mighty army of Russians, Danes, Saxons and Prussians assailed him on December 23, 1715, and by sheer weight of numbers defeated him. No longer able to win by force he now, for the first time, turned to statecraft He formed a stupendous plan to win what might in time haw amounted to a world empire. His idea,- in brief, was to form an alli ance with Russia, attack and conquer Norway, from Norway to cross to Scotland, invade Great Britain and de throne King George I. The scheme air most succeeded. : The alliance was made with Russia, Norway was in vaded and partly conquered. ..But, on November 30, 1718, while besieging Fredrlkshall, Charles' head was crushed by a cannon ball. , ( Charles XII was but thirty-six when he died, and with his death Sweden sank from the high power to which his genius and mnd courage had raised her. Representative Of Storrs Mica' v Company Here Mr. J. F. Garneau of New York, representing Storr's Mica Compr-iy, of Oswego, N. Y., has completed a vacation of two weeks at the" fishing camp on the Cullasaja as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Roper. After the, vacation Mr. Garneau spent some days jnspecting the various .nuca properties in me county, anu so wen peased is he with, the possibilities along this line, he has decided to make another trip here next summr for further invstigation. This was Mr. Garneau's first trip south and he is absolutely carried away with the beautv of this section. He states that the mountains of New England and New York are mere hills when compared with -those of the southern Appalachians. The hos pitality of the 'southern people also greatly impressed Mr. Garneau. He leaves here a thorough convert to the South as a vacation ground and states that he will tell his friends in the north of Franklin and environs. SERVICES, AT ST. AGNES EPISCOPAL CHURCH Rev. E. J. Pipes, rector. Services as follows: ' - " Holy Communion (except first Sun? day of month), 8:00 a. m. Church school, (R. D. Sisk, super intendent), 10 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. m Vespers, 5 p. m. First Sunday of month Holy Com munion, 11 a. m. , Holy days, 10 a, m. The St. Agnes Guild meets at the rectory the first Thursday of each month. ' i . v The tennis court and playground is for the use of the whole community. We want vou to make this church your home. For County Commissioner y l have been asked by some of my friends , to run for County Commis sioner, so I take this way of putting my name before the Democratic Con vention of Macon county. . Yours to serve, J23 D. J. MOSE i WAYNES VILLE TO HAVE MASONIC TEMPLE An event -dear to the heart6 of the York Rile Masons west of Asheville, is the erection of a magnificent tem ple on the beautiful lot located on Church street, west of the post office, now owned by the fraternity. This structure is to be one of 'the finest of its type in North Carolina and is to cost in. the neighborhood of seventy thousand dollars. ' The; building will consist of. three stories with all modernequipment. The ground floor and the' front half of the, second floor will be given over to modern offices equipped with steam heat and all necessary conveniences. The rear half of the second floor will be equipped; as an auditorium and ban quet hall with a fully equipped kitchen in the rear.. The third floor will, be equipped as a lodge room and is said by the architect, W. H. Peeps, of Charlotte, to be the most con veniently arranged lodge room'in the entire south. A mezzanine floor in addition to the third floor will be equipped as a choir loft with locker rooms,' etc. The directors of this propositiot are : Dr. J. R. McCracken, Dr. : F. Abel, Hugh. J. Sloan, J. H. Howell, George Hall, V. C. Nobeck, L. .E. Green, O. T. Alexander and L. M. Killjan. These men, are the lead ers in business affairs in this section and are giving their 'untiring efforts to this prooosition and announce their intention of starting work on the building early in August. This will fill a long felt need of the Craft as for the past five years the several York Rite bodies have been enjoying r- ' i .u i: .i :j a idpiu giuwm, pi caumg irnpu in fluence from the Buncombe county line to Murphy. The members of the Craft who Mo not reside in Waynes ville are rejoicing with those who are putting this wondefful dreatn in to a reality. Waynesville Mountaineer Mr. L. E. Green, secretary of the York, Rite System west of Asheville was in Franklin' Monday . in' the-interest of the temple mentioned in the above article. The Waynesville Com mandery has thirteen members resid ing in Franklin, Each of the. thirteen, contribute) liberally tt 'th construc tion of the proposed Temple. Mr., Green ,was much pleased with the. success of his visit here, and stated' that he has never seen a finer body of men than the members of the. Waynesville Commandery at. Frank lin. The names of the members o the Commandery at. Franklin arc as; follows :Messrs. W. R. Sta11cup , Hv G. Robertson, Aivah Pearce, Frank I, Murray, Sam L." Franks, J W, Ropcrj . C. L. Lcntz, Charles Perry, J. S. Cotv ley, F.H. Higdon, Frank Fleming, E" W, Long, J.J, Mann. ' Pursuant to the urgent requests of; , several of my friends, I hereby an-., nounce'tbat I am a candidate for Representative in the next General' Assembly, . subject to the wishes of;., the township conventions next ,Satur. tiny, and the County Convention j' a wek later. J23 ' C. C. 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