W MEPE H IcSTOPYMAKI^&- & BATTLE WA S I omn% 2 7 WW ISTORIC associations cling | J about many places along fij S" ' ower part of the Wal lil Si) l°omsac valley In the re ■L'Jnh Bion of Walftomsac and ffISLrHR North Hoosick (the St. fIOON-T TMAO „ * I Croix of Revolutionary • /jshjT & days), and despite the i lapse of time many evl dences still remain to re call the battle fought there 133 years ago—a battle which has ibeen described as fought by New illanipshiro militia t. on New York soil and named for Ve nont —the bat tle of Bennington. True, the site of the old St. Croix toridge, destroyed by the retreating militiamen to check the advance of wrvwsv Col. Frederick I3aum and his detach iment of British, Hessians and Indian tallies, is now occupied by a modern (iron structure, but just below it still stand tho substantial foundation walla 'of the old mill, which housed part of [the flour and stores the invaders came jto seize, together with the old wooden jflume and the wreckage of the mill jdam; while on the highway just above them is the old story-and-a-half frame ihouse occupied temporarily as head quarters by the enemy's officers. It is mearly opposite the confluence of (White Creek and the Walloomsac river, while a little farther up the val jley, near the point now designated las "Battlefield Park," is the hill upon jwhich the invaders set the cannon Tvhich were subsequently captured by Gen. John Stark and his men. Scat tered about elsewhere are the remains of redoubts and many other places which history or legend associates with the brief but decisive contest of August 16, 1777, which gave the .first check to the invasion that ended In the battle of Saratoga. The well-preserved old Revolution ary house and the lands about it, lo cated about a half-mile from the vil lage of North Hoosick, on the road to Cambridge, are within the convey ance of 12,000 acres known as the Walloomsac Patent, dated June 15, 1739. in the thirteenth year of George !ll.'B rHgn. In this patent "all trees of the diameter of 24 inches and up wards at 12 inches from the ground were excepted" for masts for our Royal Navy, and also all such other trees as "may be fit to make planks, "knees and other things necessary for the UFe of our said navy only." The yearly rent of two shillings and six pence for each hundred acres of the granted lands was to be paid at the What a Queer Mummy Lid j Ar.OOn d< al baa been written lately about the malignant mummy at the British museum —or. ruther. the lid of th« co'Bn that contained the mummy; for.of .course. there Is no mummy In this ! particular case. It Is merely a Hd I that iH re port td to have brought so i many p. rsunal disasters in Its train. A well-known physician, who is in tended in I-yptolojty, *u asked hi* opinion concerning the strange case of the mummy of the priwteii ithat has aroused so murli curious in- ! tereit "I think." he said, "that the mummy •having been torn to pi c.-s, tin- spirit , «if the prbst. ss strives to nuialn In contact with the only material thing that is left In touch with her, namely, the lid of th- coffin This is the opinion of most occultists. The spirit of tin priestess has attached Itself to the ca»e. which la a sort of physical I basin ' "Hut why so malignant," this au ■th" -rlty «N4 l» ked, "as to bring about, according to reports, all sorts of dla ast> r» ui.it accident* to persons at tha proseiii dny?" "If," he i vpluiiii'd. "It la true that j the nuiani) ».i. turn to pl»<»* it was ' a fearful d> ecratloti, and quite I ••«Ht«h t«> n..tk<* the prit ,t> »* furious. j Hutih p' tmnis who try to g«t lata communication with her by occult 1 mean* •«>, ul ■ , .It.««* v«rjr badly ' trosM tt'-'l put to il> .4th tr«*«Hy til this, how» \ I hav ■■ no pro*»f "It baa he. a *al«| that the «wm al j i>.g» pi ii»v«r l< *k . n utaa after he ha* j t alts a part la tl>* violation of sha | chamber* tl" d »d It lolluw * hiw to th« >ll It.l -IK*! . , and .Mlwva tu. lit ; upon km. ia th« occult world I ia**ii tl«« «a«e of 4 |M|| MiiUbttijr . which was in ought to ia V% I* f■ «« 4 I *4l ' M "44 *H« 112 lll** •I*l%* * w * *HM '» Hf«A.* |ti%t |||# |j» I |ti|| «§**#* |f **' M mjf % . utu.*4 i 1,, a «o p»i«ad <M bbltai • i ,4 custom house in the city of New York on Day, the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. While the residence has been some what modernized by the building of a veranda and other minor changes, the structure retains many reminders of the perilous times. The hand-hewn timbers are visible, and there is pre served the strong door which opened into the south end of the house, against the casing of which a British officer stood when a Yankee from the hill on the south bank of White Creek picked him off with his gun. The door is in a good start of preservation, and on it is the massive old lock which in early days would have prov en an obstruction to a person seeking to unlawfully enter the building, but to the modern house breaker It would be as a toy. The lock Is ten inches long by fivo and a half Inches wide and one and a half inches thick. The original brass key, six inches in length, is still in position to shoot the bolt. In the days "which tried men's souls" tho building was used as a postofflce, and an inn, before it be came the headquarters for the Brit ish officers under Colonel Baum. In those days each inn and tavern keep er was required to enter into recogni zance to the people of the state of New York in the sum of £SO, not to keep a disorderly house or suffer any cock fighting, gaming or playing with cards or dice, or keep any billiard table or other gaming table or shuffle board within it. In regard to the sell ing of strong liquors, exceptions were made for the sale of metheglin, cur rant wine, cherry wine and cider made by the inn-keepers. At each tavern at least two spare beds, with good and sufficient sheeting and covering, were ono of the persons connected with It I went to Africa to shoot elephants. ' lie wounded a gigantic animal, that ! charged at him and literally tore him j to pi ci s with Its trunk and feet. The > attendants f1« ■ I In terror, and when: they n turned, only fragments of his j body remained." "And what would yo do," be was ! ask'-d. "with the coffin lid at the Hrit- j ish mu urn that is supposed to have caused .so much mischief?" "I would leave It."he replied, ■»her«j It I; iteyond a recent case , of a young lady who made great fun of tt. and thereafter met with a seri ous accident, the disasters that were reported to be so numerous on its i first arrival at th* museum have ap- I parently ceased If It Is true that the spirit is earth bound, and is attached to the ruse, It would only cause fur- Priwato Ea«cutlon«. <Sr»nt Kiittor nil a mail to that •xtM'tttiuß luawfTuw .nut toll htm to kw*>M tt ilowu to l«u <«ilunin* «*lty Kiittor No r>'|iurt»r» ar« la bo atlnitttml lirt-ti KdUor Is ihat m»? I>U him tu l»iak» tt Hva <uluiuii» N«w York \Vw«»kly Wtiunn'l Mulortuin Hh« I duii't *«« wky »om«n oltoulUu » u i*k« »• kimml »wtmui«r* »» ■MM ll» Vm. but >m*t mm*, • •wiiuit r hu# tu kwiii bt > in mii ii »)itit t'U-ik In MikM' ,-lluf. Hutv * i very Itpwlly niw'i, U * rati*-ti lk« tMw* Uuu«i>m i'u«it>Mt4ir M k«t In II • t'Uitk lit u»». It r«njtiui» M | ttm»k I'll •» t»tj» I »«l|t lu '•«!<« 4 »"!«'«» u( ti»xl M 'Wk| «•< * ilMt Iwkx K «><U*« '«*»% «fti »* *W» 4t*Uut ' CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 191«. BX/T/aH /i'CADQUAATt;/eO J/i T/fj.f ITVOLUT/ON to be kept for guests, in accordance with the demands of the law. "Good and sufficient" stabling and provender bad to be provided for four horses or cattle, and hay and pasturage in sum mer. No liquors were allowed to be sold to apprentices, servants and slaves. No innkeeper could collect a debt larger than ten shillings for liquors sold to travelers. In October, 1896, the old St. Croix (San Coik) grist mill, then owned by John G. Burke, was burned. .On one of the timbers of the structure was to be seen the inscription: "A. D. 1776," the suposed date of the erection of the building. It was in this mill, on the head of a barrel of flour, where this letter was written to General Bur goyne: "Sancolk, 14th August, 1777, 9 o'clock. Sir: I have the honor to in form your excellency that I arrived here at 8 o'clock In the morning, hav ing had intelligence of a party of the enemy being in possession of a mill, which they abandoned at our ap proach, but, in their imual way, fired from the bushes and took their road to Bennington. A savage was slight ly wounded; they broke down the bridge, which has retarded our march over an hour; they left in the mill about 78 barrels of very fine flour, 1,000 bushels of wheat, 20 barrels of salt, and about £I,OOO worth of pearl ash and potash. I have ordered 30 provincials and an officer to guard the provisions and the pass of the bridge. By five prisoners taken here, they agree that from 1,500 to 1,800 are at Bennington, but are supposed to leave it on our approach. I will proceed so far today as to fall on the enemy early tomorrow, and make such dispositions as 1 may think necessary from the in telligence I may receive. People are flocking In hourly, but want to be armed. The savages cannot be con trolled, and they ruin and take every thing they please. I am your excel lency's most humble servant, "F. IIAUM. "P. S. —Beg Your Kxcellency to par don the hurry of this letter, as It Is written upon the head of a barrel." The new steel bridge, known as the Dublin bridge, which spans White Creek near the old dam, was erected In October, 1903, to replace an old, covered, wooden structure. ther trouble if the lid were now de stroyed. It would be different, of course. If the mummy could be re stored; but. as It Is, 1 don't think any thing can be done. "I rather wonder, however, that the authorities at the museum have not removed It, for they do not like a number of persons who are Inquiring Into the occult KOIHK and starliig at It. There wa ; a very fine and rather curiotM acarabaeua which they tre nim • (lon the ground that they were not certain that it was genuine It aas lu a glass case, and whenever I placed my fingers upon It I per eelved a beating and tingling of the hands Others found the same curi ous effect 1 tried It several tlmea with the same result, but I did not Ind the -value i ffwet with the other scarabacl Why It was I do not know." Re.idv for th« Storm. "I IIU'-llll." lilt) |KMIt «rutH, "to COB tinuu tu niorni lb* citadel of jruur af fection*." Storm ,»»»>," wnt* ll.m li, "but !'*«• Ju»t MH t tri-dtttl 111 Kilting 111 gut of ih« *« i by bi coiulitic to • i|. »r oltl mun wbo li.m $:• ouu.ijuu " Could Undorttand " I'bo <'m . itrit »itor Hum 4 " • Th«y *r« Mild tu tbu iina«ln at ion " "ob, I dun t know I *i'«nt ||&9 OM 141 > V 44 at lull trtf " Had Nuti«.«d Thing* Ml >» k'lnijf Imi hi «llu» « loin to Vis* mm utilm* »a arc *nK*ftt><t Mim UriMht I fear m*' lumi you (Mm! *o iii4*t« i UQugttmutUa tiuublw tulllt * HubUlHg l| l« I bnv« «H wwlul lull! 11l inn bvilli lom< tt«r IklMliV l||je4 ' SUall*|fcll* V\ »|| *ou (n ibvr«> |. I a 1%. lISjgAMNET JRa. else dally In the open air, eat an abundance of fruit and drink pure water freely between meals. Plain, simple foods, as direct as possible from fields, orchards and woods, should always be our aim. Planning for a Small Family. When catering for a small family, care, judgment and economy must be used or one kind of food must be served several times in order to avoid waste. When purchasing utensils and dishe3 for cooking, choose the size most suit able to the size of the family, as such an investment has a great advantage even In serving leftovers. In buying a roast, too small a one dries out in cooking and is not an economical purchase. The beef left over may be served In slices heated in a Mexican sauce curry, tomato, or horseradish sauce. The little bits too small to serve may be chopped and seasoned, then used as sandwich fill ing, or one can always have hash. Bits of leftover vegetable like car rot, beans or corn, may be added to a salad greatly to its advantage. Eggs contain no waste and add to the nutriment of a dish. When ma king an omelet if a few peas are at hand fold them In at the last or serve in a sauce poured around an omelet. Very tempting desserts may be made from stale cake cut in rounds or fancy shapes, a preserved pear of peach, with a little of the syrup and whipped cream served on each piece. For a small family one can make so many attractive little diahes that would be entirely out of the question with a larger family. When using gas a small portable oven to be used over a burner is a great saving. A delicious dessert which is both pleasing to the eye and the palate Is prepared by beating together a half cup of any favorite jelly and the white of one egg. It will take a little time to beat until it stands alone, but the result will repay the effort. Serve in sherbet cups with sweetened whipped cream on top. A change from the usual French toast may bo made by cutting the bread in rounds or in some fancy shape, dip in egg and milk and fry in butter as usual. Often a dish refused many times will be welcomed if the appearance is changed. It Is necessary In all successful cooking to appeal first to the eye. 112) . .?!. - MFW ESOLVED to live with all my might while 1 do live. Re solved, never to lose one mo ment of time, but Improve It In the most ! profitable way I possibly can. Resolved, I never to do any thins which I should de spise or think meanly of In another. Re solved, never to do any thing out of re venge Resolved, never to do any thing which I should bo afraid to do If it were ' the last hour of my life. —Jonathan Edwards. Leaks That Sink the Household Ship. Meat is the most costly and extrava gant of all articles of food. Conse quently every bit should be saved and 1 worked over. The cheaper cuts of meat make tho best soups and stews. Where u sauce Is used to bide tho appearance there Is no occasion to spend money on 1 choice cutß. Soup meat. tasteless as It la, may be nicely seasoned and made Into pressed meat, hash or other dishes quite as good. Meat left from beef tea should be saved for highly seasonal dishes. Th« water has drawn out the flavoring and the stimulating principles of the beef, but the liber, which contains the greater part of the nourishment, la ! left undissolved. After using all the hain that will slice nicely from tho bona, chip the remainder for frlizlcd ham and put the bone in the soup pot. An orittnar nee grinder will save money .did hours of time, as It chops all kinds >f food easily. Fat from meats and soup stock should l«» carefully saved and clarified, 1 and If carefully done uo fat need be ! I ought for general frying ' T' V haves should be pressed '4gl)t|y after they have be« n used und %*ay to use In sweeping the carpet. j They both brighten tlm carpet and keep !h. dust froui fl> lllg over the malls and furniture. \ little water In the wooden tubs | will pre rent them from falling tu pieces. Twine aken Iroiu bundles. If tied to («iber and wound Ir. a ball will away* be r«ad alien a string la wanted ►'old pn •o* of tnanllla paper and I put In the wall pot kit on the pantry lour i »« lima for silting dour aud j »*¥«» lint* and dishes A 1,4« to of pg, pi r makes 4 gtk'd moulding board j tbii-kly tiuftltfi) wtdi flour 41< it>l t»* liut lit? Hiiij !r*jr iiUjtlt* .it feirttM for tltu UM« to mvu th« I I i » lii 14 *t*4 yak i»rtfttw »i«t* I *4l *»•*# iliw »nt< r title k* •- t. . ..,j a iio>» ii / '' { Jr We Have Over Half of the New World' WASHINGTON— The indications be ing that the census will show the population of the United States to be Dver 90,000,000, it seems assured that Ihe republic contains more than half pf the inhabitants of the New World, (t is quite probable that all of the re maining countries of this hemisphere tiave fewer than 80,000,000 inhabi tants. That point can never be settled defi nitely until conditions change radi cally in many extensive regions of Latin America. Now most of the Btates south of Mexico and north of the Argentino either make a farce of their census taking or else do not at tempt It at any time. Recent estimates, partly based upon census records, which have been mad© in South America and Central America, indicate that there are about 70,000,000 people living between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn, Including the West Indies. Canada has per haps 7,000,000, allowing for rapid growth since the census of 1901, and Newfoundland adds less than 250,000. Unless the estimates, which seem most intelligently made, are very wide of the mark In several countries where there are no authentic and ex act statistics of population, the total for the New World, outside of the Gives No Money for Road Building AS regularly as the sessions roll around, congress sidesteps, smoth ers or overrides all propositions which would embark the government in the business of road building. The logic and importance in the outcry for "goodroads" Is universally admitted; but everybody's business comes peril ously near having nobody's attention. Some commnulties, townships, coun ties and a few states have made more or less real progress towards improv ing the highways locally. Where the states take a hand a beginning Is made towards obtaining "through routes." But, despite all that has been said for a revival of road building, notwith standing editorial support from publi cations of all partisan shades, the movement as yet has no central or ganization which presses tho work along broad lines. The federal government thus far co operates only by giving advice. It maintains a small bureau In the de partment of agriculture devoted first to the propaganda of the good roads idea and secondly to the maintenance of a limited corps of experts, who, when their assistance is solicited, will make suggestions as to the best meth ods for road building under given cir cumstances, and to a certain extent, Capital Boys Are to Be Suppressed j j ! REGULATIONS to protect children from danger of Injury and to have | them looked after for violations of tho regulations are to be enforced by the Washington police. "The dauger to children who uiake playgrounds of the streets." says MaJ. Sylvester, "has been long since estab lished Now that there are public | playgrounds In different sections of the city the children should use them rather than risk their lives." Complaints against children playing on the streets sometimes cause a peck of trouble to the police Children Jump upon moving street- 1 Government Has No Hall of Records AJ4 the • until ry ha* been told about o«. u a day for the last SMI years, tlie lulled rilatc* Goveruutcul lias no United States, cannot exceed 80,000,- 000. Brazil, much the largest country of South America, is the most populous in the Western Hemisphere, except the United States. It is ptobable that a full and careful enumeration of the Brazilians would show about 20,000,- 000 of them. Mexico, only about 25 per cent of the size of Brazil In square miles, Is safely established in third place among all the nations of the • New World, as far as numbers go. In other respects the Argentine surpasses Mex ico, and so does Canada. Their indus trial output Is greater and their for eign commerce is largef in every way. Argentina and Canada are alke also. In growing so fast and with such as surance of continued swift expansion that they may overtake and pass Mex ico. Their chief cities already surpass the largest civic centers In the coun try which Diaz makes his footstool. But now neither 1B within 6,000,000 of the Mexican total. As a rule, with comparatively few exceptions, Latin America is rich in unsettled country. A very large part of the vast expanse of land south of the Mexican frontier, all the way to the southern end of South America lies open to settlement. Some clay such wealth in unused na tural resources must cause great growth, but that is a matter of the In definite future. For the present it Is certain that the United States will hold its lead over the other countries of the New World, counting all of them together. experiments in the use of materials are conducted by the specialists of this bureau. Here the government stops, for the reason that dominant view in congress has been that this properly delimits the government's function. Representative Anthony of Kansas introduced a bill in the house last win ter for the construction of a military highway between Fort Leavenworth and Fort Riley, 100 miles, by convicts in the two federal penitentiaries at Fort Leavenworth. The bill was lost after a debate that developed Into a general discussion of the good roads movement. The measure had the Indorsement of President Taft, the chief of staff of the army and the quartermaster gen eral. General J. Franklin Dell, then chief of staff, stated in a letter to Rep resentative Anthony that the proposed road would unquestionably be of great military value and convenience." Farmers of many townships through which the proposed road would run offered to supply all the rock andi other material to be used In its con struction. Like others of its kind, this meas* ure was wrecked upon constitutional rocks. The opponents of the bill con tended that General Bell did not claim; the road to bo a military necessity, and that, if not done for this purpose., the government could not build it, be cause the constitution authorizes thei construction of only such roads as aro. required to meet military necessities and post roads. cars. Others stand upon the streets., Others are loud and boisterous. "Death and accident have been caused by street cars and other vehi cles," tho superintendent of police says."On the other hand, children plavlng on the streets have caused destruction to property. "Ball pluylng on the streets," he continued, "has resulted in complaints on account of noises and broken win dows. The samo hue aud cry la raised when vacant lots are used for baseball and other garie At times, in certain localities, l.pge and noisy gatherings are attracted." Street corner gatherings are to bo broken up. the superintendent says, indulgence in profanity aud other bad language is to wean punishment. All offenders who are caught will be proa edited The police think that keep ing boys off the streets at night would accomplish much good. Ito house Its different departments In rented buildings all over Washington, I aud the constant danger threatens thu destruction of valuable archives when i ever a fire breaks out. aud there la ! uot any reason why a tiro should not break out lu a nou fireproof building. Tb« loaa of government property lu ibis flro la thought to be less than It.itoo, but In tb« library over the Mr aaa a HtlMiw toilet tlou of geologlu i literature containing more than tfb.uOO voluii.es. I • UIMJ pamphlet* aud 3ti,ootl maps, the awat compu te collection of geological works aud maps In thia What the lulled MutesGov.ru iii l at hti Is la a inaguiAt l ut hail of jreioida, when all the valuable uich ua> afn. a I * handled million a » i.io, ten t|«.uo>. 4 «Mkgr«M|
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