IRVING BACHELLER.
CHAPTER XVi—Continued.
ee] Go
*The man has a great heart In him,
as every great man must,” he wrote
to his father. “I am beginning to love
him,
in the army are going to be bound to
him by an affection like that of a son
for a father. With men like Wash-
ington and Franklin to lead us, how
can we fall?”
The next night Sir Henry Clinton
thelr left fank. Smallwood's com-
mand and that of Colonel Jack
were almost destroyed, twenty-two
Jack had his left arm shot through
fective use of his pistols and hanger,
and by good luck, his horse
been “only slightly cut in the withers."
The American line gave way. Its un.
seasoned troops fled Into Brooklyn.
There was the end of the Island.
was desperate,
follow and pen them In and unlimber
his guns.
to follow.
acle could prevent it,
The miracle arrived. Next
fog thicker than the darkness of a
ly, quickly Washington got ready
friendly cover of the fog,
quietly taken across the
with a regiment of Marblehead sea
dogs, under Colonel Glover,
the boats. Fortunately, the
army had halted, waiting for
weather,
mg his wound In
old shed on the heights
Jack had lain in a stable.
end of his confinement,
came to see him,
“Were you badly hurt?”
man asked,
John
the
“You do not look like yourself quite,
delphia. 1 have some business
Staten Island to confer with
Lord Howe.
pish old dogs and need a
like you to look after us,
young
You would
notes in the conference.”
Philadelphia with Mr. Adams
Franklin, with the two great
men for the conference on Staten Is
land,
was to witness the last scene of the
war.
In Amboy he sent a letter to his
father, which sald:
“Mr. Adams is a blunt, outspoken
man. If things do not go to his lk
ing, he is quick to tell you. Doctor
Franklin is humorous and polite, but
firm as a God-placed mountain. You
may put your shoulder against the
mountain and push and think it is
moving, but it isn't, He Is established.
He has found his proper bearings and
is done with moving. These two great
men differ In little matters, They had
a curious quarrel the other evening.
We had reached New Brunswick on
our way north, The taverns were
crowded. I ran from one to another
trying to find entertainment for my
distinguished friends. At last I found
a small chamber with one bed In It
and a single window. The bed nearly
filled the room. No better gccommo-
dation was to be had. I had left them
sitting on a bench In a little grove near
the large hotel, with the luggage near
them. When J returned they were hay-
ing a hot argument over the origin of
northeast storms, the doctor asserting
that he had learned by experiment that
they began In the southwest and pro-
ceeded In a northeasterly direction, 1
had to walt ten minutes for a chance
to speak to them, Mr, Adams was hot
faced, the doctor calm and smiling. I
imparted the news.
“'God of Israel!” Mr. Adams ex-
claimed. “Is it not enough that I have
to agree with you? Must I also sleep
with you?
“Sir, 1 hope that you must not, but
if you must, I beg that you will sleep
more gently than you talk,’ sald Frank-
lin.
“1 went with them to their quarters
earrying the luggage. On the way Mr.
Adams complained that he had picked
up a flen somewhere,
“ “The flen, sir, 18 a small animal,
but » big fact’ sald Franklin, ‘You
alarm me, Two large men and a flea
will be apt to crowd pur quarters)
set out
“In the room they argued with a
depth of feeling which astonished me, |
a8 to whether the one window should |
be open or closed. Mr. Adams had |
closed it.
“Please do not close the window,
‘We shall suffocate.’
“Sir, I am an Invalid and afraid of |
the night air,’ sald Adams rather |
testlly,
“ “The air of this room will be much |
worse for you than that out-of-doors,’ |
Franklin retorted. He was then be- |
the covers. ‘I beg of you to |
open the window and get into bed and
if I do not prove my case to your sat-
{sfactlon, I will consent to its being
“I lay down on a straw-filled mat- |
I heard Mr.
Adams open the window and get into
Then Doctor Franklin began
He de-
clared that cold alr never gave any |
one a cold; that respiration destroyed
a gallon of air a minute and that all
the alr in the room would be con- |
sumed In an hour. He went on and on
and long before he had finished his
argument, Mr. Adams was snoring,
convinced rather by the length than |
the cogency of the reasoning. Soon
the two great men, whose fame may be
sald to fill the earth, were asleep in
little box of a
room and snoring in a way that sug-
I had to laugh
as I listened. Mr. Adams would seem |
to have been defeated, for, by and by, |
I heard him muttering as he walked the |
to |
Howe's barge met the party at Am-
boy and conveyed them to the landing
It was, how- |
ever, a fruitless journey. Howe wished |
to negotiate on the old ground now |
abandoned forever. The people of |
America had spoken for Independence
-—a new, irrevocable fact not to be put
aside by ambassadors. The colonles |
were lost. The concessions which the |
wise Franklin had so urgently recom-
mended to the government of England, |
Howe seemed now inclined to
but they eould not be entertained.
“Then my government can
maintain its dignity by fighting,”
only |
lin answered,
dignified for your government to
knowledgs its error than to persist In
“We shall fight,” Howe declared.
“And you will have more fighting to
do than you anticipate,” sald Franklin, |
“Nature is our friend and ally. The |
Lord has prepared our defenses,
are the sea, the mountains, the forest |
and the character of our people,
sider what you have accomplished.
have killed about eight hundred Yan- |
kees. They have cost you ten thou-
sand pounds a head. Meanwihle,
least a hundred thousand children have
There are the
factors In your problem. How much
time and money will be required for
the job of killing all of us?”
The British admiral ignored
query.
“My powers are limited,” sald he,
“but I am authorized to grant pardons
and in every way to exercise the king's
paternal solicitude.”
“Such an offer shows that your
proud pation has no flattering opinion
of us,” Franklin answered. “We, who
are the injured parties, have not the
baseness to entertain it. You will for
give me for reminding you that the
king's paternal
rather trying. It has burned our de-
fenseless towns in midwinter; it has
incited the savages to massacre our
farmers in the back country; it has
driven us to a declaration of Inde
pendence. Britain and America are
now distinct states. Peace can be
considered only on that basis. You
wish to prevent our trade from pass
ing into foreign channels. Let me re
mind you, also, that the profit of no
trade can ever be equal to the ex-
pense of holding It with fleets and
armies.”
“On such a basls I am not empow-
ered to treat with you,” Howe an-
swered. “We shall Immediately move
‘against your army.”
The conference ended. The ambas-
sadors and thelr secretary shook
hands with the British admiral.
“Mr. Irons, I have heard much of
you,” sald the latter as he held Jack's
hand. “You are deeply attached to a
young lady whom I admire and whose
father is my friend. I offer you a
chance to leave this troubled land and
go to London and marry and lead a
peaceable, Christian life. You may
keep your principles, If you wish, as I
have no use for them. You will find
sympathizers in England.”
“Lord Howe, your kindness touches
me,” the young man answered, “What
you propose is a great temptation. It
is like Calypso's offer of Immortal
happiness to Ulysses, I love England.
the
I love peace, and more than either, I
go and keep my prineiples.”
“Why not, sir?”
“Because we are all of a mind with
our Mr. Patrick Henry. We put lib
erty above happiness and even above
life. So I must stay and help fight
her battles, and when I say it I am
grinding my own heart under my heel,
Don't think harshly of me.
help It.
bones.”
His lordship smiled politely
bowed as the three men withdrew,
The feeling is bred In my
and
man and pressed it silently as they
were leaving the small house In which
Howe had established himself,
Jack, who had been taking notes of
the fruitless talk of these great men,
was sorely disappointed. He could
see no prospect now of pence,
“My hopes are burned to the ground,”
he sald to Doctor Franklin,
“It 18 a time of sacrifice,” the good
man answered. “You have the In
vincible spirit that looks into the fu-
ture and gives all it has. You are
America.”
“Now I am
ready to lay down my life in this great
cause of ours.”
“Boy, 1 like you,” sald Mr. Adams,
“I have arranged to have you safely
conveyed to New York.
derly will meet and conduct you to our
headquarters.”
“hank you, sir,” Jack replied.
“One remark of yours to Lord Howe
You sald that
It put me in
mine.
web,
“I repeat that all nature Is with us,”
sald Franklin, “It was a sense of in-
nature that sent us
the barrier of the sea
HCTOSS great
Here
water between them
cannot Cross
long in a hostile land.
far from home,
porting and
and
It and
The expense of trans.
maintaining them
he has picked a quarrel with Almighty
God, and it will go hard with him.”
CHAPTER
How Solomon Shifted the Skeer.
In the spring news came of a great
force of British which was belng or-
ganized In Canada for a descent upon
New York through Lake Champlain.
xvii
Generals Herkimer and Schuyler
had written to Washington, asking for
mon Binkus, in that region.
“He knows the Indian a8 no other
knows the
written, “If
guage and he also
Schuyler had
bush.”
there
needed just now, it is here”
“Got to leave ye, my son”
said to Jack one
that.
“How 50?" the young man asked.
“Goin'’ hum to fight Injuns The
Great Father has ordered it
it better, Gittin® lazy here. Summer's
comin’ an’ I'm a born bush man.
Solomon
yard.
since we got here.
plainin’. 1 ain't
month.”
A look
My hoofs are com-
shot a gun in =a
of
sorrow spread over the
“I'm tired of this place,” sald Jack.
“The British are scared of us and
we're scared of the British, There's
nothing going on. I'd love to go back
to the big bush with you"
“I'N tell the Great Father that
you're a born bush man. Mebbe he'll
let ye go. They'll need us both. Rum,
Injuns an’ the devil have {ined hands,
The Long house will be the center o
hell an’ its line fences'll take In the
hull big bush.
That day Jack's name was included
in the order.
“I'm sorry that it is not yet possible
to pay you or any of the men who have
served me so faithfully,” sald Wash
glad to lend you 8 sum to help you
through this journey.”
“1 ain't fightin’ fer pay.” Solomon
answered. “I'll hoe an’ dig, an’ cook,
an' guide fer money. Bat I won't fifht
no more fer money-—partly ‘cause 1
don't need it—partly ‘cause I'm fight.
in' fer myself. 1 got a little left in
my britches pocket, but If I hadn't,
my ol' Marier wouldn't let me go hun
gry.”
(TO BE CONTINUED)
A Serious Case
A notoriously absent-minded man
was observed walking down the street
with one foot continually In the gutter,
the other on the pavement, A friend
meeting him sald: “Good evening.
How are you?
“Well,” replied the absent-minded
one, “1 thought I was very well when
1 left home, but now | don't know
what's the matter with me. [I've been
limping for the last half hour.”
Passing the Buck
The new cbok gave some pork chops
to a relative who called while the lady
of the house was out paying a few
enlls,
“The missus will miss them,” warned
the parlor maid,
“Oh, I'll blame that on the eat.”
“We have no eat"
“Then be a good girl” urged the
new cook earnestly, “and let the canary
out of Its cage”
JUST A STEP BEYOND
n step beyond the barriers
we are sure of our ground, certain of
realizing our fondest hopes,
marching on with the victors.
The thought thrills us with elation,
stride when we are worn and weary.
Human nature is prone to lose cour-
age when the chase is tiresome,
It inclines to become digheartened
when carefully worked out plans and
calculations fall Iminediately to pro-
duce anticipated results,
The fatal fault with most of us is
lack of patience, coupled with an In-
clination to be governed by Impulse
rather than reason at the turning mo-
calmness and firmness of purpose,
We incline to baste when we should
should conserve
not be filled
overcome with
where we
that our minds may
with fear and finally
apprehension.
In business, as in love,
our energy,
most of our
from our re-
the step
fusal
beyond,
to consider seriously
Through the Glad
Eyes of a Woman
>
By Jane Doe
TO ANY PRETTY GIRL
You of c
you immensely,
In fact,
But my
know, of course, that 1 envy
I'm rather jealous of you.
Jealousy Isn't altogether of
the green pea-tinted variety.
A good deal of it should be spelied
with a “2"—Zealousy—Iif you will
1 feel toward all you little kitteny
bits of womanhood with your dell-
ciously fresh and engaging ways, your
sublime and unconquerable optimism,
much In the same way as your own
mother does, or should.
If you belonged me 1 should
want, oh, 80 much, to see that those
first wonderful eighteen years of your
life were filled with the joy and beau-
ty of existence,
to
1 should try to give you all the sun
shine during your flapperhood, so that
you would always have your memories
to compensate you when the
are inevitable
to shadow the brightness in your eyes
clouds
so deadly come
a weight on your heart,
Of course, | should want to spank
And the
administer
very hardest spanking 1
would be when 1
you allying yourself too
to the powder puff and bun-
ny's foot, and wasting your money on
treatments,” vibro massages
tended for the thirties and forties
I am aware that pretty
to is your
If secret sition, and you
hesitate second If you
were offered the choice of the charms
of Helen of Troy and the brain
to be and
look at often
aint
one
bux
for yourself in posterity,
And all of us of the sex, with a few
misguided exceptions, would do the
same, seeing that we are all very much
aware that beauty, when It Is beauty
and not camouflage, Is the easiest and
pleasantest known method of achiev
ing fame and fortune yet discovered
But, If you are lucky enough al
ready to possess the loveliness that
For some paltry reason, a whim of
the fancy, or a laxity of activity, we
| find ourselves at the crucial moment
| weary of the chase,
| So we git In the Inviting shade of a
| friendly nook, while our more ambi
| tious rivals steal a march upon us and
our impatient reach,
The blame is our own. But the trhth
| never penetrates our souls until the
| clear perspective of years gives us a
sharper vision which enables us to see
our folly,
It Is not until then that we fully
understand our shortcomings.
To make
ficlencies, we proceed to pass around
advice to our Intimates, which, as a
rule, falls on barren ground. They
know us!
There i8 but a step between suc
and fallure, likewise but a step
between hope and despair,
occasion comes for action very few of
us, know to make the step,
though it is Inviting and has an alr of
simplicity.
And
movement
CERES
how
alas,
so vitally Important
man's future success as the step just
beyond.
{ by McClure Newspoper Syndicate.)
MOTHER'S
SUMMER GIRL
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH
UMMERTIME is children’s time
More than any other,
“Wintertime brings Christmastime,”
Interrupts my mother.
Yes, I know, hpt Christmas goes
Overnight and leaves the snows,
But the summer stays and stays
All through all the summer days.
Summertime is sunny time;
That's another reason
| Why I like the summertime
| More than any season.
| Mother says, “It's often hot”
Yes, and often it Is not.
| Then we have the summer showers
| Bringing all the summer flowers.
| Summertime is picnic time,
| That is why I love it,
| With the green grass all around,
| Skies of blue above it
| “But the summer cooks you so,”
| Mother says. It does, 1 know,
| But, it seems, the more you cook,
{| More they say how “well” you look,
}
“Summertime 18 some one's time,
And that some one's youl”
Mother says, and takes me
Just lke mothers do.
Says (and aren't mothers queer?).
“] was teasing you, my dear,”
{ Pets my cheek and pats my curl,
up,
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makes of your flapper years a tri
umphal procession, do take care of It
as you would some very
thing and remember that if It
lasting it must be backed up by a
tion of good health,
for the quest for beauty.
also want to spank you If
you side-tracking your
telligence,
Bell there
lightful intriguing
than the girl who is as interesting as
he Is pretty.
be
founda
So much
wuld
were
eve is de-
me, no more
wl
ana
se
It is easy enough to remedy dull
Ness,
Get the newspaper habit, keep your
| eyes wide open and take a real and
vivid Interest in everything and every-
| body.
{ Live-—don't stagnate.
{| So many of you start out In life
| electing to be butterflies
There Is a large and very knowing
class who rejoice in the name of grum-
blers, persons who are soc sure the
world is going to ruin; they resent
every attempt to comfort them, and ac-
cordingly seek their greatest consola-
tion in being inconsolable, their chief
est pleasure in being displeased.
Though you be with these people, 1
pray you be not one of them, for to do
so means a life of uselessness.—Whip-
ple.
TO FEED THE FAMILY
WiTH an diversity of tastes It Is
hard to make every meal please
all appetites, For that reason It Is a
wise mother who early trains her off-
spring to eat all kinds of wholesome
foods, even If they are not especially
well tked.
Jelly Relish.
Soften one-fourth of a package of
gelatin in one-fourth of a cupful of
cold water and dissolve by placing in
an dish of hot water. Set Individual
molds in lce water; decorate the sides
and bottom with figures cut from pi
mentos, placing them with the point
nf a large needle, dipping them In
gelatin ond setting them In place.
Chop one slice of mild onion, two
green peppers and eabbage to make
one pint. Mix with one-fourth of a
ecupful of vinegar, one-fourth of a cup-
ful of brown sugar, one-half teaspoon-
ful of salt, one-half teaspoonful
celery seed, one-half teaspoonful of
mustard seed and the gelatin, Turn
into prepared molds and set aside In
a cool place. Unmold on lettuce.
Serve with fish or meat course,
Minute Soup.
Take one cupful of bread crumbs,
one tablespoonful of butter; mix well;
add one grated onlon, pepper, salt and
a dash of poultry dressing, one and
one-half cupfuls of rich cream, three
cupfuls of bolling water; simmer for
one minute and serve with toasted
crackers,
of
Graham Bread.
Take one cupful of graham flour,
one-half cupful of sugar, half a tea-
spoonful of salt, two cupfuls of good
buttermilk, ome level teaspoonful of
soda. Beat well and pour into a but-
tered pan and bake one hour,
Rips Tomato Conserve.
Take five pounds of ripe tomatoes,
two pounds of sugar, three lemons cut
into dice and one cupful of citron
finely shaved. Cook until thick and
seal In ginsses or jars as usual,
Nereie May were
(©, 1934, Western Newspaper Union.)
| Few pass the
comes to the Intelligence
Just a word
If you want the wuorid
| pretty girl, go out of
charming. You will
when
bright
grub st
charm
at your feet,
your way to be
astonish yourself
the of 8
and frequent smile, Erm
little air, the scrupulous
courtesy, the frank speech and the ab
sence of all “side™ and cattiness,
When one thinks of the
{of snappy, depressing and uninteres!
| ing women one comes daily In contact
| with one little wonders that men seem
to veer with one accord to the fluffy
{ the frivolous and the flirtful
Stake your claim on falr manners
fair speech and, above all, fair play
as well as fair looks,
And believe me, you won't go far
wrong.
| My love to you!
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
md Pusan
about
you realize power
the
pathetic
multitudes
e Young Lady
Across the Way
The young lagy across the way says
religion ought be kept out of the
public schools and she's sorry to sex
by the paper that they're becoming
too utilitarian and It certainly isa™
fair to people of other denominations
(©. McClure Mwapaper Syndicate.)