“A THOUSAN' POUNDS” SYNOPSIS, — Solomon Binkus, veteran scout and interpreter, and his young companion, Jack Irons, passing through Horse Valley, New York, in September, 1768, to warn settlers of an In- dian uprising, rescue from a band of redskins the wife and daughter of Colonel Hare of England. Jack distinguishes himself In the fight and later rescues Margaret Hare from the river. Jack and Mar- garet fall in love. On reaching Fort Stanwix, Colonel Hare says both are too young to marry. The Hare family sail for England, and the Irons family move to Albany. Unrest grows in the colonies be- cause of the oppressive measures of the English government. Solo- mon and Jack visit Boston. In. November, 1770, Jack goes to Philadelphia and works in Ben- jamin Franklin's printing plant Nearly three years later Margaret writes him from London, remind- ing him that her youth is passing and saying she has appealed to Doctor Franklin. CHAPTER |Il—Continued, ae letter went to the heart of the young man. She had deftly set before him the gross unfairness of delay. He felt it. Ever since the parting he had been eager to go, but his father was not a rich man and the family large. His own salary had been little more than was needed for clothing hooks, That autumn it had doubled and editor had assured him that higher pay would forth- coming. He hesitated to tell how little he earned when measured In had seemed to be, when his friend rived from Virginia. the latter had been looking interests Major Washington the Ohio country. They together at the i et omon told him of his ad- ventures in the West and Hes of the notorious one-legged robher, Micah Ha den on the shore of the Ohio and of the cunnin outlaw in evading capture ahrl's 3 This thes be and how small, money, He Solomon Binkus For two ‘ after out his progre £8 of in river that evening Crook and Sol frontier sto- and his rpe, } g of the Solomon letter and said: “If 1 was you I'd swir if nec ‘ere pure, fi masted wants you fer captal said when he seen on, 's ti boots, “m % “Then mon. “1 hs n the big is a real =in omern an’ As the feller pond i 'RATY Ti on war she hovs, re fed iven't money enot ried and “What omon exclaimed. “You know when yee well off. “What do wl 5 thousan’ “I would have only fi ;,” Jack Solomon izh to get mar keep a wife.” an ign don’ you 2 uth at money.’ ther for help san that ye're w Pounds eash not ask my f rity pouh d answe took It conta ing w he sal “You poun 1 an rh fifteen h an’ no questions ask nary “You mean you've g RB" “Wi Irons owns it wp ldn't be . an’ were taki Solom shut one eye if he of a with the other as alm along the top Then he shook “Cat's ble ‘ere slaps me the shin,” walked day an’ had to no fun- gun barrel. his head and drawled: That cks me wl an’ gunpowder in the face an’ ki Solomon answered ed eighty mi an' shot at which it an’ paddl le stabbed fer my li -you hear s'pose 1 done it fer kentry? There ain't name an’ bi on ocean——not nobody kin't work fer bout as soon in a an’ ain't been run fe, to me, but you an’ nobody of this side o at all. An if 1] Jack, I'd just er- This money ain't no good me ‘cept body cover an’ an’ I'd leave drop it In the river. It bothers ne I don't need it. When I git hum I go an’ hide it in the bush whars-—jest to git It out o teen thinkin' all up the road from Vir giuny ©’ this ‘ere gol demnable money at what I were a-goin’ with an’ what it could do to me. An’, I'm ergoin’ Jack to take it use it fer a wall 'twixt hi * troubl an’ the horsied me est! Kind o de me ha if I had n be different, but I ain't An’ now ye tell me ye don’t want it, which it makes me feel lonesomer 'n a tarred Tory an’ kind o' sorrowful-—-ayes, sir, it does.” Solomon's voice sank to a whisper, “Forgive me,” sald Jack, "I didn’t know you felt that way, But I'm glad you do. I'll take it on the understand- ing that as long as I live what 1 have shall alsd be yours” “I've two hundred poun’ an’ six shil- Hin’ In my pocket an’ a lot more hid in the bush. It's all yourn to the last round penny. I reckon it'll purty nigh bridge the slough, I want ye to be orl respectable lke a geutleman my my ood the you, quit, to powder ‘ere fer balls. ns some- my way, 1 to do to ask idee sriong--hon mi ppy. Course, f wife an’ childe got no one, Copyright by Irving Bacheller —gllck duds, plenty o' cakes an’ ples an' no slightin’ the minister er the rum bar'l. “Major Washington give me a letter to take to Ben Franklin on t'other side o' the ocean. Ye see ev'ry letter that's sent ercrost is opened an' read afore it gits to him essen it's guarded keer ful. This I guess, has suthin’ powerful secret in it. He pays all the bills. So I'll be goin’ erlong with ye on the nex’ ship an' when we git thar 1 want to shake hands with the gal and tell her how to make ye behave.” That evening Jack went to the man- ager of the Gazette and asked for a six months’ leave of absence. ‘ere one, CHAPTER IV The Crossing. There were curious events in the voyage of Jack and Solomon. They datled on or about the eleventh of Oc- tober, 1773. Their ship was the Snow which had arrived the week before with some fifty Irish servants, inden- tured for thelr passage, of poor quality, the cooking jaw, palate and digestion, the unclean. When weather of a tax upon service good me, by and by, and those who had tasted food for d n to feel pangs of hunger filled with a most pas It was then the petition captain, “Cap'n, not 8 be the sionate lot that Solomon of the passengers to the ship was of pl presented th hout slobgolli out wi We're we're wore an’ on. all the head.” IL." sak had a gald he could cook per “A man Sengers wi meat by “So'm down ‘ere man the pans Solomon full o' galley, I rigt 3 n an’ shift way © : me into the fC COUTSe O ship bow toward heaven p'inted straigh penny. T this an' keep hey's ‘re s Christi n wi tongue'll il a 11 brea) look lik vheel ——— OVERHAULE THE STAR, ~ | I A meat won’ { there | cuit” So and happine In the cour overhauled bound hours won't be no insecks Solo installed to was returned of the the yoyag they four-masted York vessels Star, a New two ship Dover. For | close that the passen | kind of batt] it by hurling on the other ship of ZOrs engag the at ¢., Those on turnips who responded with gan a volley apples, Solomon of the stranger an English name of Hawk whom | at and halled sald Solomon “It's enough of Amer that tub that I helped put a tar an’ feathers on in the Ohio Kentry the « with the hlack pipe I don't know his name but endl him Slops—the dist ywhndest, d--n Tory traitor that ever lived. Helped the Injuns out thar in the West, See that ‘ere black A'lus earries it in th ‘cept when he's eatin’. I guess he with it. It's one o' the fea tures o' his face. We tarred him plenty now you hear to me" That evening a was lowered and the eaptain of the Snow crossed a hundred yards of quiet sea to dine with the captain of the Star In the cabin of the latter. Next day a stiff wind eame out of the west, Because he had to take off his cont while he was working in the galley, Solomon gave the precious letter into Jack's keeping. About noon on the twenty-ninth of November they made Dover and an- chored in the Downs, Deal was about three miles away and its bonts came off for them. They made a circuit and on the deck Preston Captain of the had Kknowr and officer he Oswego them. a shi ¢ had ClUHSS On load o' Torles who'y iky. They's a He's his mouth. they est, ne nse fo low -cli i ipe? : his mou to sleep hont tach boat that went for passengers had its own land: ing. Its men threw a rope across the breakers. This was quickly put an a windlass. With the rope winding op its windlass the boat was slowly hauled through the surge, its ocen- pants being drenched and sprinkled with salt water. They made their way to the inn of the Three Kings where two men stood watching as they ap- proached, One of them Jack recog nized as the man Slops with the black pipe In his mouth, “That's him,” sald the man with the black pipe, pointing at Solomon. whereupon the latter wps promptly arrested, “What have I done? he asked. “You'll learn directly at ’'eadqunar ters,” sail rhe «flicer. Solomon ghook hands with Jack and seid: “I'm glad 1 met yo,” and turned and walked away with the two men Jack was tempted to follow them, but feeling a hidden pu in Solo mon's conduct went into the inn. So the friends parted, Jack being puzzled and distressed by the swift in the color of their affairs. The letter to his pocket—a [OE lucky elrcumstance to go London and deliver letter and reek advice relief of Solomon At In the of the Three Kings lenrned that he must take the mise for Canterbury, which aving until 6 p. m. time to el In i friend. Turning toward the met Captain Preston ith great know w decided to the the the dex lobby would be le This gave beh take couns wmlf varmth here WHS Major Jack told the captain of the arrest of his friend “1 expected it." here sald Preston. “So for your st on the Bink: tw ans you here U4 to t.” Preston answered witly and my heart is Jack as he “After presse i al and bag, 18 rough in it wi and Befo in a gibbhet lock they ane p bumped re dark h is ne ek nterbury the and drew up Head. The attended for Passe aiters He had some supg and two w wr and went to hed Awakened at 5 a. m. by d of an bugle, and They ROUT found went hurriedly the post walting. on the from Canterbury and a white gate Ring's mile out came to a big light of the early morning. and shouted : ‘Sixpence, yer honor.” ft was a real turnpike and Jack stuck his head out of the window at it. They stopped for break- ast went Sittingbourn, Faver sham, and the.lovely valley the River Medway, of which Jack had read. through Rochester on pair,” flying waiter to words “chaise an’ host to waiter and se nnd back in the wink of an eve the from host l« Jack sg on next morning and Shootershill and Then the Thames nnd Greenwich and Deptford, from he could see the crowds and donies and towers of the big city. past two o'clock he rode over London bridge and was set down at the Spread Eagle, where he paid a shilling a mile for his passage and ate his dinner, Such, In those days, was the cross. ing and the trip up to London, as Jack describes it in his letters. nnd Gadshill went over “She is a lovely girl, Jack. | congratulate you.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) 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But this knowledge We, who doubt thelr sincerity, sorry lot Indeed If these us. and for we Incline dishellef, looseness our ship be lost, obstinacy, snobbery extravagance, speech, selfishness, the aged and mandments, Theirs Is a life of tion, filled with well abundance of faith, And the opposite, mun» hour storming sea, of hopet by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) of disregard of the com- and doing love and an ours, shame upon us, held here by a links, liable to set us adrift unlighted by a single is just weak break at and ray [g00s00000s0800000000000502 THE WAY YOU ARE By DOUGLAS MALLOCH live, not the way but the way you walk, world will you claim, the world will world will blame. judge, whatever praise, or the way you say, way you spend, you pay, It will like the most, do, not the way you but the way least, or will like the way you work, not the you boast, way the way not the you sigh way you whine, you try, will hold you down, you far— you you are! (D by McClure Newspaper Eyndicate.) you sing, way but the way or will help way seem, but the way HAVE YOU ' Metrog its CoOWSDR Service.) HOW HE ABOUT FELT iT owe'sr | ya, tt seems to me only noble to be good are mors than le faith than Norn soronets | an blood "Tennyson hearts HE kind amilics if thes of food we depends largely there serve fo our upon the are children in the plain, wholesome, They also should and vegetables, wenther a day and all meats quantify. The if they will go Iatting need ei] fom, fruit warm f ei advisable cut down In overfat are much better out meal oceasionally the digestive tract have a rest Butter, eream and rich foods should be avolded by those who are inclined to put on weight. Starchy foods, like potatoes, should be eaten sparingly. Nitrogenous foods are easily decom- posed, especially during the warm weathar, The by-products from this decomposition are more or less polson. ous und eare should be used in serving all such foods, should be Graham Gems. Take one cupful each of graham flour ful milk, one-l one-half teaspoonful well-beaten two table of sugar table- of melted Mix and drop into wel bake in n makes and of one sour soda, salt, spoonfuls egg. and three shortening. Ibhuttered gem moderate oven. six good-sized gems, spoonfuls Baked Chicken in Milk. One may uee skim milk for this dish the fat chicken bakin for the family. aa for fricassee. g dish after it has been rolled in seasoned flour and fried a delieate hrown in butter. Cover with sweet milk and bake for several hours in a moderule The milk will cook down and with the flour make a deli. cious gravy to serve with the chicken. Fruit Cream, Break one egg white into a bowl, Place In a oven, tablespoonfuls of sugar; beat until stiff enough to stand. Serve In sherbet cups topped with swegtened and fla vored whipped cream. Nese Mayme (OD, 1924, Western Newapaper Union.) we Social mn 1STeR >i HPOOOD Sooo o By E. R. PEYSER Has like th to you? 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