CHAPTER XXI!I—Continued. a $a . “There are many here who have mothing to wear but blankets with armholes, belted by a length of rope. There are hundreds who have no blankets to cover them at night. They have to take turns sitting by the fire while others are asleep. For them a night's rest is impossible. Let this let- ter be read to the people of Albany and may they not lle down to sleep until they have stirred themselves In our behalf, and if any man dares to pray to God to help us until he has given of his abundance to that end and besought his neighbors to do the same, I could wish that his praying would choke him. Ar» we worthy to be saved—that is the question. I? we expect God to furnish the flannel and the shoe leather, we are not. That is our part of the great task. Are we going to shirk it and fall? - “We are making a real army. The men who are able to work are being carefully trained by the crusty old Baron Steuben and a number of French officers.” That they did not fall was probably due to the fact that there were men in the army like this one who seemed to have some little understanding of the will of God and the duty of man. This letter and others like it, traveled far and wide and more than a million hands began to work for the army. The Schuylkill was on one side of the camp and wooded ridges, protected by entrenchments, on the other, were felled and log huts constructed, 18 by 14 feet In size. Twelve privates were quartered in each hut. The Gates propaganda was again be ing pushed. Anonymous letters com- plaining that Washington was not pro- tecting the people of Pennsylvania and New Jersey from depredations appearing in sundry newspapers, i | i i : arrived from congress. would die of cold and hunger. It was on a severe day In March The scout found alone by the fireside In his office which was part of a small farmhouse. He was eating a cold luncheon of baked beans and bread without butter. Jack had just returned from Philadelphia where he had risked his life as a spy, of which adventure no detalls are re- corded. The general arose and went to his desk and returned with sealed letters in his hand and said: “Colonel, I have a task for you. 1 could give it to no man in whom I had not the utmost confidence. You have earned a respite from the hardships and perils of this army. Here is a purse and two letters. With them I wish you to make your way to France as soon as possible and turn over the letters to Franklin. The doctor Is much Is need of help. Put your serv- ices at his disposal. A ship will be leaving Poston on the 14th, horse has been provided; your route is mapped. You will need to start after the noon mess, Two the tables. have beef on blankets coming. in good heart, If you can. cannot be long delayed. fashion.” Soon after one o'clock on the Tth of March, 1778, Colonel Irons bade Solo- mon good-by and set out on hls long Journey, CHAPTER In France With Franklin, Jack shipped In the packet Mercury, of 70 tons, under Capt. Simeon Samp- son, ode of America's ablest naval commanders. She had been built for rapid salling and when, the second day out, they saw a British frigate bearing down upon her they wore ship and easily ran away from their enemy. Their first landing was at St. Martin on the Isle de Rhe. They crossed the island on mules, being greeted with the cry: “Voila les braves Bostones!” In France the word Bostone meant American revolutionist. At the ferry they embarked on a long gabbone for La Rochelle. There the young man enjoyed his first repose on a French fit built up of sundry layérs of feath- er beds, In the morning he set out In a heavy vehicle of two wheels, drawn by three horses. Its postilllon in frizzed and powdered hair, under a cocked hat, with a long queue on his back and In great boots, hooped with iron, rode a lively little bidet. Such was the French stagecoach of those days, its running gear having been planned with an eye to economy, since vehicles were taxed according to ithe number of thelr wheels, The diary Informs one that when the traveler stopped for food at an Inn, he was expected to furnish his own knife. The highways were patrolled, night and day, by armed horsemen and robberies were unknown. The vineyards were not walled or fenced. All travelers had a license to help themselves to as much fruit as they might wish to eat when It was on ¢ vines, They ved at Chantenay on a cold rainy ev They were settled in \ xxi Copyright by Irving Bacheller thelr rooms, happy that they had pro- tection from the weather, when thelr landlord went from room to room in- forming them that they would have to move on. “Why? Jack ventured to inquire. “Because a selgneur has arrived.” “A selgneur!” Jack exclaimed. “Oui, Monsleur. He Is a very great man.” “But suppose we refuse to go,” said Jack. “Then, Monsieur, I shall detaln your horses. It Is a law of le grand mon- arque.” There was no dodging it. The coach and horses came back to the Inn door. The passengers went out into the dark, rainy night to plod along In the mud, another six miles or so, that the selg- neur and his suite could enloy that comfort the weary travelers had been forced to leave. Such was the pow- er of privilege with which the great Louis had saddled his kingdom. They proceeded to Ancenis, Angers and Breux. The last stage from Ver- sallles to Paris was ealled the post royale. There the postilllon had to be dressed llke a gentleman. It was a magnificent avenue, crowded every the kingdom, in gorgeously painted coaches, and lighted at night by great center. They came upon {t In the morning on their way to the capital There were few people traveling at that hour. Suddenly ahead they saw a band of horsemen riding at a wild gallop. They were the king's couriers. “Clear the way,” they shouted. "The king's hunt is coming." All travelers, hearing this command, made quickly for the sidings, there to draw rein and dismount, The deer came In sight, running for its life, the king close behind with all his train, the hounds in full ery. Near Jack the deer bounded over a hedge and took a new direction His majesty—a short, stout man with blue eyes and aquiline nose, wearing a lace-cocked hat and brown velvet coatee and high with spurs—dismounted not ing with great animation: “Vite! Donnez mol un cheval frais” Instantly remounting, he bounded reached the house of Franklin in Passy OU, MONSIEUR, HE 1S A VERY GREAT gMAN.” about two o'clock in the afternoon of a™ pleasant May day. The savant greeted his young friend with an affec- tionate embrace. “Sturdy son of my beloved country, you bring me joy and a new problem,” he said. “What quired. “That of moving Margaret across the channel. I have a double task now. I must secure the happiness of Amer fea and of Jack Irons” He read the dispatches and then the doctor and the young man set out in a coach for the palace of Vergennes, the prime minister. Colonel Irons was filled with astonishment at the tokens of veneration for the white haired man which he w]tnessed in the streets of Paris, “The person of the king could not have attracted more respectful atten- tion,” he writes. “A crowd gathered about the coach when we were leaving it and every man stood with uncov- ered head as we passed on our way to the palace door. In the crowd there was: much whispered praise of ‘Le grand savant.’ 1 did not understand this until I met, In the office of the Compte de Vergennes, the eloquent Senator Gabriel Honore Riquettl de Mirabeau. What an impressive name! Yet I think he deserves it. He has the eye of Mars and the hair of Samson and the tongue of an angel, L am told. In our talk, 1 assured him that In Philadelphia Franklin came and went and was less observed than the town crier, “‘But your people seem to adore him," I sald, “‘As If he were a god,’ Mirabeau an- swered, ‘Yes, It Is true and it is right. Has he not, like Jove, hurled the lightning of Heuven in his right band? 1s he not an unpunished Prometlieus? is the problem?" Jack In- Is he not breaking the scepter of a tyrant? “Going back to his home where In the kindness of his heart he had asked me to live, he endeavored, modestly, to explain the evidences of high regard which were being showered upon him, “It happens that my understanding and small control of a mysterious and violent force of nature has appealed to the Imaginations of these people, he sald. ‘I am the only man who has used thunderbolts for his playthings. Then, too, I am speaking for a new world to an old one, I am the volce of Human Liberty. I represent the hunger of the spirit of man, It is very strong here. You have not traveled so far In France without seeing thousands of beggars, They are everywhere. But you do not know that when a child comes in a poor famlly, the father and mother go to prison pour mols de nourrice. It Is a pity that the poor cannot keep their chil- dren at home. This old kingdom is a muttering Vesuvius, growing hotter year by year, with discontent. You will presently hear {ts volces.'"” There wns a dinner that evening at Franklin's house, at which the Marquis de Mirabeau, M., Turgot, the Madame de Brillon, the Abbe Raynal Compte and Comptesse 4° Haudetot, Colonel Irons and three other Ameri ean gentlemen were present, Madame de Brillon was first rive. She entered with a jaunty alr and ran to meet Franklin and caught his hand and gave him a to ar- his forehead and called him “papa.” “At table she sat between Doctor Franklin” Jack writes, frequently locked her hand im the doc- tor's and smiled sweetly as she looked into his eyes. I wonder what the poor, simple, hard-working Deborah lin would have thought of miliarities. Yet here, I am one thinks ill of that kind fa- no these told, treat thelr favorites with like tokens of regard. Now and then she spread her arms across the backs of our chairs, as if she would have us feel that her affection was wide for both. savant, “Franklin, ‘It Is because my age and infirmities. then embrace, as the great Mr. Pope has written.’ “*We think they pity it a captured by the charms of women,’ Madame Brillon declared. in the average male American. swer,” sald Franklin. "There this table four Frenchmen and four Americans, Let these gentlemen stand of a man. the shortest belng six feet contrast raised a Iaugh big men, tall. The among the ladles, in his kindnest tones: “‘My dear Abbe, I am aware that manhood is not a matter of feet and 1 ouly assure you that these are pretty well filled with brain and spirit “The Abbe spoke of a certain print- ed story on which he had based his Judgment, “Franklin laughed and answered: ‘1 know that Is a fable, because I wrote It myself one day, long ago, when we were short of news.” for a talk by the fireside. spoke of the women of France, saying: “You will not understand thém or are in Europe and that Eighteenth century. Here the clocks are lagging. the poor It stands still, They know not the thing we call progress.’ “ “Those who have money seem to be very busy having fun' 1 sald, (TO BE CONTINUED.) Real Color of Gold Few persons are familiar with the real color of gold, because it Is sel dom seen except when heavily al loyed, a state In which it Is much red der than when It is pure. The purest coins ever made were the $50 pleces which were once in common use in California. Their colnage was aban doned because the loss by abrasion wns so great and because thelr inte rior could be bored out and filled with lend. They were octagonal in shape and were the most valuable colns ever minted and circulated. All gold ls not alike when refined. Australian gold is distinctly redder than that taken In California; Moreover, placer gold 1s more yellow than that which is taken from quartz. This Is one of the mysteries of metallurgy, because the d In placers comes from that which is In quartz. The gold in the Ural mountains is the reddest In the world. His Nose Broken In a fight with a schoolfellow Thackeray, the famous novelist, had his nose broken nnd the disfigurement lasted all his life. . ALONG LIFE’S TRAIL By THOMAS A. CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinols, (© A084. Wostern Newspaper Union.) NEIGHBORS ie HO is my neighbor? the quertlous lawyer asked the Christ, and it was the simple story of the despised Samaritan which was told him to illustrate the point. It Is a story familiar to most people, no doubt. A certain man sets off for Jericho along a roud and through a country difficult, dangerous, beset by perils. He is held up on the way, beaten, robbed, stripped of his clothing and left bleeding and broken by the roadside. Thirst and hunger and paln rack him, but the way is lonely and the travelers few, In time a priest, educated, well-fed, comfortably clothed down the road and hearing the groans of the unfortunate man lying by the way walks over and gazes at him curi- ously. “How plous, Comes unfortunate,” he probably of hig, he had heen a fool to take such a journey alone and unprotected. Any- to look after him, and the priest walked on. It was a Levite, who came next down a religious aristo- the road a 4 = his ears might not be an- the cries of the sufferer or go that made unclean through physi with him. What was un- wonld avold his hody pleasant, he self-satisfied, It was the Samaritan, despised and outeast, from whom who recog i the unfortunate man. He was a neighbor to him. There wns a letter in the mall this morning from John, asking for a loun of dolers” He was sick In a hospital In Hot Springs he said. and few comforts pot supplied by the management, He would return it when he came north in the spring. John, you should know, is a “knight “thre needed a Hig buttons are not Lending him ing every spring I'm sure John has few neighbors But he does his work faithfully: he is loyal and honest, and just now he has who his power to make a living “Better send It to him,” Nancy sald, thinking of the Good Samaritan, went out and mailed him the “thre fie pald it back/In the spring. BUTTONS AND BADGES arti-colored button In to me, “Just Joined he explained, These badges of accomplishment are the ‘Boosters’ flies around a can of decorate all thay reveal the KS nUmes maple sirup; ind coaditions of men; personal and if life. We conceal CUS as they sorts intimate rejations nothing In of the ost or the activities In which we are engaged as | rode home on the electric cars was atrocity announcing that secret industrial or fraternal order The professor who occupled the me announced by the but dangling from bis watch chain that he had sccomplished no little in a scien had maintained a schdastic average of 20 or above. The traveling man facing me told his bustaess by the organization badge be had taken In Masonry by his watch fob, his signet ring giving away an other series of facts concerning his fraternal affiliations. It wus as easy to pick out the college boys and girls as to tell a policeman by the star that he wears. We tuke no stock these days In aot letting our left hand know what our right hand Is up to. Instead, we shout it out until every Individual in the neighborhood knows fully our comings and goings, what we have beea doing and where our money has gone. If we give a quarter to charity, we an. pounce the fact with a button; If we join anything we publish our member. ship through the medium of a pin or a watch charm, I have wondered sometimes if the widow spoken of [a sacred writ who dropped her farthing into the contribu. tion box at the temple asked for a but. ton when she was leaving the building, or if the Good Samaritan ultimately dangled a Carnegie medal on his shirt front or from his watch chain. It Is quite possible If It was the style a those days. Salary Grab of 1873 The “salary grab” by members of wongress in 1878 stirred up the whole rountry. Near the end of the term an increase in salary was voted congress. men, and the outgoing congress made the hill wsatrosctive, = POINTS ON KEEPING WELL Dr. Frederick R. Green, Editor of “Health.” (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) ¢ EARACHE A DANGER SIGNAL AVE you ever noticed the hope less shut-in expression on a deaf person's fade? Next to our eyes, our ears are our most {mportant sense or- gans, It Is through the eyes and the ears that we learn about the world outside ourselves and keep In gom- munication with our fellows. A blind man cannot see what is golng on around him but he can hear, and his hearing generally becomes more acute, to make up for his loss of sight. jut a deaf person is cut off from the world of sound. Not only human voice but also all forms of music do not exist for him, Becuuse the external ears are prom- Inenmt features we generally think of portant ery. part of our hearing They are like the horn or the loud speaker Thelr function is to sound waves and guide them to the inner ear. The really Important part of our hearing apparatus lies in on on radio modern membrane, to the dia- Three small like the tight oval corresponds phragm In the telephone. bones, held by ligaments and attached that they move the drum transmit sound In the when the which carries the Impulse to the brain. Anything which interferes with perfect operntion of this delicate ma- chinery will affect the hearing. Wax In the outer canal will prevent the alr waves from entering or keep the drum from vibrating. Adenoids or enlarged tonsils in the throat may close up the lower end of the canal from the throat to the middie ear and so affect the alr pressure that the drum or the bones cannot move. In- flammation of any kind will produce thickening of the drum or cause the ear bones to stick in- fection In the the to each other. pus may work back into the abscesses, very dangerous ‘o life, of childhood, as some think, It is a sign of deep may endanger life and certainly will injure hearing. Don't use hairpins, matches, penholders or bard substance in the ears Don’t children to put thing Into thelr ears. Any foreign may produce deafness or in the ears. if wax occurs remove It with a soft parents toothpicks, any other nllow If your child has earache find out reason for it. Hot water or hot household remedies to control feces and other the cause of the pain. Middie ear infection In due to persistent “colds” may ness, Take the same care of your ears Earache deafneds are danger signals, Take warning in time, SCARLET FEVER QCARLEE FEVER Is one of the few diseases which baffle the scientist, Efforts to ascertain ts cause have seen unsuccessful, although recent in- vestigations and experiments give hope that we may soon have a specific treatment, The germs which cause the disease are apparently present io the tonsils, the blood, the lymphatic glands, and an the mucous membrane of the mouth, nose and throat. There Is, at present, no cure for scariet fever, Once it has attacked a person, there 18 no “curing” it. It will run its course, It is comparatively rare among grown people and chil iren over ten years of age; among young children, however, it Is highly contagious. It Is widespread over the sntire world but is more prevalent in temperate. climates than In hot parts of the world. Efforts to combat acarlet fever are nandicapped because the cause of the disense Ig not known; because we have no direct method of controlling {t; and because many nilld cases are not recognized and consequently are not treated and quarantined as scarlet fever. It your child suddenly feels tired and out of sorts, if he has a fever, a chill, or convulsions, or if he vomits, If the tongue (8 coated, If he complains of a sore throat, especially if these symptoms are followed by a rash, keep him away trom other peo ple and call your doctor. Then do as he directs in regard to quarantine, dis infection, and after care, He will tell you when It Is safe to let your child again mingle with other children. Do as you would like to have other par ents do. To keep your children well you must help to keep other people's children well, [Nw ag as ALT Champions have been standard equipment on Ford cars for 12 years. They are alsoequipmenton Ford trucks and Fordson tractors. 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