Copyright by TRVING BACHBELLER T—— By IRVING BACHELLER CHAPTER XXI|X-—Continued. Ry J “Oh, my Father!” he cried In a broken voice and with tears streaming down his cheeks. “Arnold has sold Ameriky an' all Its folks an’ gone down the river.” Washington knelt beside him and felt his bloody garments, “The colonel is wounded,” he to his orderly. “Go for help.” The scout, weak from the loss of blood, tried to regaln his feet but failed, He lay back and whispered: “I guess the sap has all oozed out ©' me but I had enough.” Washington was one of those who put him on a stretcher und carried him to the hospital. When he was lying on his bed and his clothes were being removed, the commander in chief pa'd him this well deserved compliment as he held his hand: “Colonel, when the war is won it will be only because I have had men like you to help me.” Soon Jack came to his side and then Margaret. General Washington asked the latter about Mrs. Arnold. sald comfort ner,” Margaret answered. Solomon revived under stimulants and was able to tell dire struggle he had had. “It were Slops that saved me, whispered. He fell Into a deep and troubled sleep and when he awoke In the mid- dle of the night he enough to lift this head. Then faithful friends of his began to know that this big, brawny, redoubtable sol- dier was having his last fight. He * he he whispered to Jack: “Take keer o' Mirandy Cricket.” Late the next day he called for his Great Father, Feebly and he had managed to say: “Jes' want-—to—feel— Margaret had sat beside helping the nurse. A dozen times Jack had left h run over look at On one of hurried visits the young man had learned of the wish of his friend. He went Immediately to General Washington, who had just re. turned from a tour of the forts. The latter saw the look of sorrow and anxiety In the face of his officer. “How Is the colonel?” 'e asked, “I think that he Is near the end.” Jack answered. wish to feel your hand again.” “Let us go to him at once,” ~ther. “There has been no man in the army.” hand.” » him all day his for a these the faithful his hand. Margaret put her to Solomon's ear and sald: “General Washington has see you.” scout. Solomon opened his eyes and smiled. Then there was a beauty not of this world in his hontely face. And that moment, holding the hand he had loved and se rved and trusted, the heroie soul of Solomon Bin kus went out upon “the lonesome trail” Jack, who hud been kneeling at his side, kissed his white cheek. “Oh, I knew and loved this man!’ young officer as Arose, “It will well know what men like him have endured for them,” sald Washington. “lI shall have to learn how to live without him,” sald Jack. “Jt will be hard.” Margaret took his arm and they went out of the door and stood a moment looking off at the glowing sky about the western hills, “Now you have me,” she whispered. He bent and kissed her. “No man could have a better friend and fighting mate than you,” he an- swered, general, said the he be “ ‘We spend our years as a tale that to his wife In Albany on the 30th of June, 1787: “Dear Margaret, . we thought that the story was ended when Washington won. Flve years passed, as a watch In the night, and the most impressive details are just now falling out. You recall our curi- osity about Henry Thornhill, When stopping at Kinderhook 1 learned that the only man of that name who had lived there had been lying In his grave these 20 years. He was one of the first dreamers about liberty. What think you of that? I, for one, cannot believe that the man I saw was an Im- poster. Was he an angel like those who visited the prophets? Who shall say? Naturally, I think often of the look of him and of his sudden disap- pearance in that Highland road. And, looking back at Thornhill, this thought tomes to me: Who enn tell how many ungels he has met in the way of life sll unaware of the high commission of his visitor? “On my westward trip I found that the Indians, who once dwelt In the Long House were scattered. Only a tattered remnant remains, Near old Fort Johnson I saw a squaw sitting in her blanket. Her face was wrinkled ith age and hardship, Her eyes were rly blind. She held in her withered hands the ragged, moth-eaten tall of a gray wolf. 1 asked her why she kept the shabby thing. “‘Because of the hand that gave it,) she answered in English, ‘IL shall take It with me to the Happy Hunting Grounds, When he sees It he will know me. “So quickly the beautiful White Birch had faded. “At Mount Vernon, Washington was as dignified as ever but not so grave, He almost joked when he spoke of the sculptors and portrait painters who have been a great bother to him since the war ended. “Now no dray horse moves more readily to the thill than I to the paint. er's chalr, he sald. “When I arrived the family was go- ing In to dinner and they walted until | I could make myself ready to join them. The jocular Light Horse Harry Lee was there, His anecdotes lighted the great man. I had never seen G. W, In better humor. A sin- gularly pleasant smile lighted his whole can never forget the gentle note in his voice and his dig nifled bearing. It was the whether he were addressing his guests The servants watched closely, A look to to indicate his Billy was always at naver seen a home, We sat an hour after the fomily had re- In speaking of his dally Little de- countenance, 1 sine Le : The his side, swecter him seemed enough wishes, utimos- at the table “4 ride time to farms until It dinner, when I! around my dress for me, out of respect for me, Per. would better The usual e brings me try to haps the word curiosity the of It. time of sitting at tabl ight, when I CRUSE to candle- letters.’ “He had much to say on his favorite viz. : settling of the ime answer my theme, the —————— mense interfor and to the Atlantle cities “1 was coughing with a severe cold. He urged me to take some remedies which he had In the house, but I re | fused them. “He went and I sat bringing its trad: his office together, to down The He had seen Washington's answer to the letter of the colonel. It was as follows: “'Be assured, sir, no occurrence in the course of the war has given me sensations more painful than your In- formation of there being such ideas In horrence and reprehend them with severity. I am much at a loss to con- celve what part of my conduct could have glven encouragement to an ad dress which to me seems big with the greatest mischiefs which could befall my country.’ “Is it not a sublime and wonderful thing, dear Margaret, that all our leaders, save one, have been men as incorruptible as Stephen and Peter and Paul? . “When 1 went to bed my cough be came more troublesome. After it had gone on for half an hour or so my door was gently opened and I observed the glow of a candle. On drawing my bed curtains 1 saw, to my utter aston. ishiment, Washington standing at my side with a bowl of hot tea In his hand. It embarrassed me to be thus walted on by a man of his greatness, : “We set out next morning for Phila- deiphin to attend the convention, Washington riding in his coach drawn by six horses, 1 riding the blaze-faced mare of destiny, still as sweet and strong as ever. A slow Journey it was over the old road by Calvert's to Anne apolls, Chestertown, and so on to the north, “I found Franklin sitting under a tree in his dooryard, surrounded by his grandehildren, He looks very white and venerable now. His hair Is a crown of glory. “Well, Jack, It has been no small part of my Ife work to get you hap pily married, he began In his playful way. ‘A celibate is like the odd half of a palr of scissors, fit only to scrape # trencher. How many bables have you? * “Three, 1 answered, “It Is not half enough ‘A patriotic American should least ten children. 1 to say to you what young man, Always with respect. It will for you not only from all who observe It. ing word.’ “My beloved, sald have i must not forget I say every treat your wife procure her, but Never use to from a slight. how but never made a am convinced depends old philosopher observation, I elvillzation Itself wiser largely “1 asked about his health, “1 am weary and the aight Is fal and 1 shall soon lie down to sleep, I know that I shall in the morning,’ he sg “He told me how, infirmity, he came out of France queen's litter, carried by cent Of England this to say: ' “She Is doing ing emigration tion mult represented Now World by in its government iy she co but awnke refreshed aid. distressed by her magnifi mules, he had only wrong in discourng America. Emigra nation. She sl id the {to iplies a in men who have a he valve this fair me instead of all natio uld repossess it leay ing it to foreigners, of ns, whe ALONG LIFE’S TRAIL Dy THOMAS A. CLARK Dean of Men, University of Ellinels, SHH OHO CHIC OO 0 (©, 1934, Western Newspaper Union.) HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER T IS characteristic of the race to shirk responsibility, Adem blamed our first moral disaster upon Eve; Caln lost his temper when the Lord asked him about Abel, and rather petulantly asked: “Am I my brother's keeper?” Richardson knew that young Mur- phy, who was lodging at his house, was suppoged to be in college and that he wus getting money from home regu to pay his coliege bills; though through the duys and wasting his foolish and sometimes even in vicious dissipation. He knew, the money fmeunt a sacrifice “Why dl too, from home to hard-working parents, d you not tell me,” 1 asked when by chunce I stumbled onto the facts, “und give me a to get Murphy to cluss?” “It wasn't Way of my affairs,” he suid quite carelessly. “He was puying i wasn't responsible Why should 1 worry?” Why, chance him, land. It Is emigrants and the mother Irisa in Pennsylvania’ “I must not fall the hope that my read it, what treason of ‘Here Richard 1f fact that now n sir ehidle iren ROovernment thel $1 possession of of to set SONS may some tim he sald to Arnold is the Extravagance is not the Hie vindication of poor way to self-satisfaction. The man who does not way keep his feet In tii of thrift will self, and then he will his friends or his country. nothing is so dear to pleces of silver. “y conclude confession mind of the made on the motion in the convention now stitution for the states. some time sell ba read him shall my letter with a of faith by this country, It was drafting a con to us: - the beginning Britain when we of were “in our contest sensible for Divine protection Our prayers, sirs, were heard and they were answered. All of us engaged In the struggle who were must our affairs that Providence In ten imagine that assistance? 1 and the longer proof 1 that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground wit} His is it probable that an emp rise without His sid? We have assured, that except the {id the house they labor in vain I firmly i's and that without His we shall steceed in this forg: Or do we need His sirg, a long the more we powerful LN time convinoing out re been girs, who build it helleve tl I also curring aid believe ron bullders of Babel; come a reproach to future ages. And, what is worse mankind may hereafter despair of es tablishing government by human wis Carter, living across the hall in the building, to ti dogs pretty fast, in ut night the of liquor, and he was wasting his money pretty regular sme wis Phe cme Inte under influence and crap guimes. “What have you done with Carter?” Wilbur, when the conditions place to my attention. en't anything,” was his ‘It's not my funeral, so long as be doesn’t bother me.” “Don't you feel any responsibility,” | asked, “for the character of for the effect which Car escCupudes pare on cume “1 hay done ters having work?” “Why ir urpr ised at should 17° he inquired rather question, sg if I look to get my prety don't well ufter want beside doing trouble ” if what free educa why the state is edu sometilaes wonder young peo wer stop to think i involves and ing ti ns of dollars on. The be trained us en in the support of real reason individuals er ourselves only, and to fol wes without re hors selfish purp the welfare of 1 in which in a very soper, It requires cour onsibility od 3 and few of us h Our ns igh We all inrge for ge i npuuct, uve sourage, » “I'd my friends and into trouble,” a man sald to me “if 1 tried to chidnge conditis friends and bad never realized that hrothers’ keepers, and ity which we cannot shirk loge get ms.” And he wanted all of ire our Y NEIG HB OR hus a very beanti ful aad spacious garden, well ept, orderly i pi ¥ choleest ints She y of every plant one hy its first name address the iy of « loule am erful collection of peonies hildren de Neige? at ‘Have you me whea | looking her mer a reply, for | do de Neige from and it Is humiliating floral ignorance talks of hybrids and seedlings and sports with a glibaess that amazes me, and scrutinizes the pedigree of row Fu Rousse, ie to Con fess such Khe might examine the genealogy of a prospective son-in-law, My garden 1s very different. It has conquest.’ been a part of the great story know full well that in these words of our noble friend Is the conclusion of the whole matter.” [THE END] ———— A Journalist in Church his sermons, sald: “Let all perhaps, but it Is I enre little for the pareatage of my garden friends. 1 variety, call to me. 1 do not know whetlpr my delphini. I only know up.” Presently every man, and child, with one exception, their feet, The preacher seated them, and said: “Now, let every man not paying his debts stand up.” The exception, a careworn, hungry-looking individual, clothed In Inst summer's suit, assumed a perpendicular position, “How Is It, my friend,” asked the minister, “that you are the only one not able to meet his obligations?” “1 run a newfpaper,” he anewerod meekly, “and the brethren here who stood up are my subscribers aid" “Let us pray,” exclainied the minis ter. Our Dumb Animals, Vanity Needed isn't on the official rose (oo Vanity walking through one of (he gardens at Oxford college. My ponples came the Chalet de Lake Louise, the grass and watched the reflections in the lake. My calenduin were given me by an old monk at the mission of the yellow rosebush gurden where 1 lived as a child; 1 picked the seed of the wall flowers that fiourish in my borders as Naacy and 1 walked from Melrose to Abbots ford. The bittersweet, whose crimson berries haag in festoons from my per ter. a dear old lady gave me and I car them. My garden is a garden full of pleas associations of home, the happy intercourse of friends and opinion of himself he will simount to much, Signals to Birds Atmosplieric pressure on the nerves of birds is seid to give them warning of changes In the weather, never Actor Lived a Century Charles Macklin, the great English actor and dramatist, attained the ripe old age of one hundred years. 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