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COPYRIGHT laviho eACHELtb*. IRVING BACHELLER, Chapter *iii? continued. ?13? ? , .. Solomon and his young friend met John Adams on the street. The dis tinguished Massachusetts lawyer Mid IV to Jtyck when'the greeting* were over: ing man, your pen has been not t, but making history." w It mean war?" Jack queried. 'Adams wiped hla brow with hla :erchlef and said: "People In our circumstances have seldom grown old ' " i in theUvbedt." ... I, ought to be getting ready," said .. ' ^ "And we are doing little but eat and drink and about and' bluster," Mr. Adatios answered. **We are being en tertained here with meata and curds - ?j j - , .dicui or-S floating Islands and Madeira wine. It is top you to Induce the' people of Philadelphia to begin to save. We need to learn Franklin's philosophy of ' ' thrift" Colonel Washington was a member of the Virginia delegation* Jack wrote that he waa In uniform, blue ooat and red waistcoat" and breeches; that he was a big man standing very erect cJfennd about six fefct, tw6 Inches in fljfjhelght ; tliat his eyes were blue, his complexion light and rather florid, hla face slightly pock-marked, his brown hatr tinged with gray ; that he had the v',;.-!arc*ta b^nds, save those of Solomon (Us, that he had ever seen. Bla ^contains these lnfonqlng words: sever quite realised the full ng of the word "dignity* nam I saw this man and heard his' deep rich voice. There w?? a . kind of magnifi cence In his manner and person when he said : " *1 win raise 6ne thousand mto toward the relief of' Boston and sub sist them at my own expenso.' ? '?' "That was an be said and It was the most eloquent speech made In the con tention.*. Thereafter, be was the cen tral figure In that congress of trusted met It Js also evident tM he will be the central figure on thli 'ilde of tl?e. ocean when the fcionn breaks. Next r, he announced that he was. as yet, >osed to any definite move Yoward lependence. So the deietmtes oonr Jted themselves with .a (lcclaratloA rights opposing Importations at*d peel.)* Waves." V "Then the congress adjourned Ooto twenty-sixth to meet- again on the ? ith of May, there was tittle. hope of . peacte among those who had had a part In- Yts proceedings. " ' s ' ?' ,Jick, who > knew the conditions In England, knew -also tha$ war would come soon, and freely expressed his news. Letters h|d . come >? sa* . giving him the Welcome news that <1. UahaI ? %L_' - ' ' ??J T ' Letters hfd . come from Margaret jiving him : the Welcome news that . , Lionel Clarke had recovered and 'an nouncing that her own little revolu-' ?lnn Vail _ _ . o.. UVI UTTU tunc IOVUIU tlon had. achieved success. She and her father would be taking ship for Boston In December. Jack had urg;ed that she try to Induce him to start at once? fearing that December would be too late, and so It fell out. When the news of the congress reached London, the king made new plans. He' began to prepare for war. 'Sir Benjamin Bare, who was to be the first deputy of General Gage, was assigned to a brigade and Immediately; put his regi mfents In training for service overseas. He had spent six months in America an^ waa supposed, in England, to havi leaned the art of bosh fighting. Such was the easy optimism of the cheer ful young^ minister of war, and his confreres, in the house of lords. After the arrival ; of the King William ft Qravesend on the eighth of December, no English women wept .down to the sea in ships for a long time. There after the water roads were thought to be only for fighting man. Jack's hope was that armed resistance would con vince the British of their folly. CHAPTER XIV Adventures- In the Servlee. On* day Jack received a letter from Doctor Franklin who had given up his fruitless work in London and returned to Philadelphia. , ? '.T. It said : "My work In England has r'.ggMe n fruitless and I am done with It .-'I bring you much love from the fair lady of your choice. That my young friend, is a better possession than houses and lands, for even the flames of war cannot destroy It. I have net seen, In all this life of mine, a dearer creature' or a nobler passion. And I will tell yoa why It Is dear to me, as well as to you. She Is Jlke the good people of England whose heart Is with the Colonies, but whose will is being baffled and oppressed. Let us hope It may not be for long. My good wishes for you thvolve the whole race whose blood 'Is In my veins. The race has ; ' ever been like the patient ox. tread Ing out the corn, whose leading trait is endurance. ? There Is little light In the present outlook. Tou and Blnkus wlU do weU to mm here. Tfcla, for a time, wUl be the center of our activities and you may be needed any moment." . Jack, and Solomon went to Philadel phia soon after news of the battle of Lexington bad reached Albany In the last days of April. They were among the cheering crowds that welcomed the delegate* to the Second congresi. Colonel Washington, the only dele gate In uniform, was the most Impres sive figure In the congress. He had dome up with a coach aqd six horses from Virginia; The colonel used- to say that even with six horses, one had > a slow and rough Journey In the mud and sand. His' dignity and noble stat ure, the fame he had won In the In dian wars and his wisdom and mod esty In council, had silenced, opposlr tlon and opened his way. He was a man highly favored of Heawen. The people of Philadelphia felt the power of bis personality. They seemed to regard hltn with affectionate' awe. All eyes were on. him when he walked around. Not even the magnificent Hancock or the bloquent . Patrick Henry attracted so much attention. Yet he would stop in the at*aet' tq speak to a child or to say a pleasant word to an old acquaintance as he did to Solomon.. That day in June when the beloved Virginian was chosen to be command er-ln -chief of the American forces. Jack and 8olomon dined with Frank lln at his home. John Adams of Boa ton and John Bro'wn, the great mer ? chant of Providence, were his other guests. The distinguished men were dlicukslng the choice of Colonel Wash ington. Doctor Franklin, who never failed to show some token of respect for every guest at his table; turned to Solomon and said : ? r-r "Major Blnitua, you hjhVe been with good deal. What do you think of <*1od?{ Washington r )._? ' - think, heV a hull fou? hoss team aft'.^e dog under the weggln," said , John Adama often quoted these <word? of the Scout Aid 'they tfectae a saying Id Mew England. . Washington set out In . June with ? Colonel t*4 and tf company of Light Hcrae for Boston, where some, sixteen thousand men had assembled with their rifles and muskets to-be organ Iced Into an army for the defease of Massachusetts. ? ~ * A little later Jack and Solomon fol lowed with eight horses and two wagons loaded with barrels of gun powder made under the direction of Benjamin Franklin add paid for with his money. A British fleet being to American waters, the overland route was chosen as the safer one. It was a slow and toilsome journey with here and there a touch of stern adventure. Crossing the pine barrens of New Jer sey, they were held up by a band of Tory refugees and deprived of all the money In their pockets. On the post road, beyond Horse Neck In Connecticut, they bad a more serious adventure. They had been traveling with a crude map of each main road, showing the location of houses In the settfPft country where, at night, they could find shelter and hospitality. Owing to the peculiar character of their freight, the commit tee th, Philadelphia had requested them to avoid inns and had caused these maps to be sertt to them at post offices on the road Indicating the homes of trusted patriots from twenty to thirty miles apart. About six o'clock In the evening of July twentieth, they reached the home of Israel Lockwood. three miles above Horse Neck. They hsd ridden through a storm which had shaken and smitten the earth with Its thunderbolts, some of which had fallen near them. " Mr. Lockwood directed them to leave their wagons on a Large I " f,,< ? ?? empty bars io?r mm asked them la t? fcuppe#, '??'?? ?; j , "If you'll bring tiuthlu' out to u?, l guess We better Itjaj' by her," said Solomon. "She might be nervous." ' "Do you have t# >tay with this stuff .all the while}" LOcHtrdod askw}. . "Night-- an' day," ,satd Solomon. "Don't do to let 'er git lonesome. To day when the llghtnln' were, slkppln' the ground .on both sloe's' o' me. I wanted t<j hop down an' run' off In tfc$ bush a mile ef so fer Jo see th* 'ken try- but I Jest had to seton* hope that she would hold her temjjier an' pot go (o jlappln* back." "She," as Solomon' call eft the two loads, was a'.ffioat exacting mistress. .They never left her- alone for a1 mo ment. jfchlle one was puttlpg away the horses the other was on guard. Xhey'slepf near her at night , Israel Lockwood sat down for a visit w^th them when he brought their fqod. . While they were eating, another .terrific thunderstorm arrived. In the mfdat of It a bolt struck the barn and rent its roof open and set the top of jfflow afire. Solomon Jumped to .'tha.War wheel of one of tbe wagon* while Jack seized the tongue. In a second It'yaa rolling down the barn bridge and away. The barn bad filled with 8Rip*? and. . cinders but these dauntless men foiled out the second wagon. Rain was falling. Solomon ob served a wjsp of smoke coping out from under Jhe roof of this wagon. He jumped In and tound a live cinder Which had burned through the cover and fallen on one of the barrels. It Was eating Intj the wood. Solomon tossed It .out In the rain and smoth ered "the live spot." He examined the barrels and the wagon floor apd was satisfied. In 'speaking of that Inci dent next day he said to Jack: "Jt Ihadfi't *a' had plirty good con *trol o' my legs, 1 guess they'd V run erwoy with me. I had to put the whip on 'em to git 'em to step in under that wagon roof ? you hear to me." ' While . Solomon was engaged with this trying duty, Lockwood had led the horses out of the stable belojv and rescued the harness. A heavy shower was falling. Tlje flames had burst through the root and In spite of the rain, the structure was soon de stroyed ' "The Wind was favorable and we all stood watching the fire, safe but help less to do anything for our host," Jack wrote In a letter. "Fortunately there was another house near and I took the horses to Its barn for the night. We slept in a woodshed close to th* wagon*._We slipped out of trouble by belpg on band when It1 started. If we had gone Into the house for supper, Pm1 Inclined to think that t4e British would not have been driven out of Boston. :\ / V ?. "We passed many companies of marching riflemen.' In front of one of these, the fife and drum corpa play ing behind him, was a young Tdry, who had insulted the company, and was, therefore, made to carry a gray , "goose in his arms with thli; maxim of Poor Richard on his back: 'Not every goose has feathers on him.' "On the twentieth we reported to General Washington In Cambridge. This was the first time I say him lxi the uniform of a general. He wore a blue coat with buff facings and. .buff underdress, a small sword, rich epau lets, a black cockade in his three-cor nered hat, and a blue sash under his co&t His hair was done up In a queue. He was In boots and spurs. He received us politely', directing a young officer - to go with us to the powder house. There we saw a large number of barrels. " 'All full of sand' the officer whis pered. 'We keep 'em here to fool the enemy.' "Not far from the powder house I overheard this little dialogue between a captain and a private: "'BUI, go get a pall o' water,' Said the - captain'. ?* 'I 'shan't do It. 'Taln't my turn,' the private answered" The men and officers were under mftny kinds of shelter In the big camp. There were tents and marquees and rude structures built of boards and roughly hewn timber, and of stone and turf and brick and brush. Some bad doors and windows wrought out of withes knit together In the fashion of a basket. .There were handsome young men whose ' thighs had never felt the touch of steel; elderly men in faded, moth-eaten uniforms and wigs. This great body of men which hhd come to besiege Boston was able to shoot and dig. That is about all they knew of the art of war. Training had begun In earnest The sergeants were working with squads; Generals Lee and Ward and Oreen and Putnam and Sullivan with companies and regi ments from daylight to dark. Jack was particularly Interested in Putnam ? a short, rugged, fat white haired farmer from Connecticut of bluff manners and nasal twang and of great animation for one of his years ? he was then fifty-seven. He was often seen flying about the camp on a horse. The young man had read of the heroic exploits of this veteran of the Indian wars. (TO BE "CONTINUED. ) Diffused Concentration An enthusiastic young admirer said to Arnold Bennett shortly after one of his more thoughtful books wag pub lished: "You have been a wonderful help to me, Mr. Bennett" "Indeed! In what way, may I askT" "Oh, that last book of yours I It has taught me to concentrate." "To concentrate? Well, well, that's nice. Now tell roe. what ire yoo con centrating on?" "Oh, lot* and lota of things," was the reply.? Boston Transcript NOTES WHAT , H?? OCCURRSD 0VRIMO WKK THROUGHOUT COUN TRY AND ABROAD l>: EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE Oatherad From All Parta Of TM Qloba And Told In Short Paragrapha ' '* Foreign ? i . . Tirana, capital of Albania, has been captured by the nationalist revolution ary forces, according, to a Brlndlsl dis patch to The Trlbuna. ~ The dispatch states that the city fey after an at tack in which 100 were killed and wotinded. German co-operation In execution of the Dawes report was sustained, and -the antl-Dawes Junkers of the nation alist party received a. setback when Wllhelm Marx, who resigned as chan cellor a week ago, reformed his old cabinet without nationalist partldpa .tlon. President Miller and has not answer ed the radical bloc demand that be resign, but officials of the Frenqh sen ?te^n^chamber of deputies have de at-' pre B con Iffc; ClUl ed Pftl doi 1 ma sul "t< on cei ,0 hJ Al ah rt CI th i th tl. fol "i a % Loan board. A concurrent resoluton was adopt ed by both the house and senate, au thorizing the appointment of the 28 tnembert' of the beard ot tax appeals, provided tor in the qpw tax law, dur ing recess of congress. Less than two hours after the Mc Nary-Haugen (arm relation bill . had been sent Into the discard by a Vote of 224 to 164, Republican leaders In the house had tentatively agreed on a substitute. * ?? 8enator W. J. Harris requested the department of agriculture to allocate sufficient funds In their telegraph market news service to provide live stock reports for the Atlanta office from Louisville, Montgomery. Nash ville and Jacksonville. A new vice prealdbntlal candidate has appeared, Edwin Markham, poet, who wrote "The Man With the Hoe." The lnteuiatlonal Longfellow society has decided to present his name to both conventions. The house adopted resolutions, of fered by one of Its elections commit- 1 tees, throwing out the contest of Don 1 H. Clark. Republican, for the seat or j Representative R Lee Moore. Demo crat. of the first Georgia dUtrlct. and declaring that E W Cole has not valid claim to membership as a represen tative *t laree from Teraa I ? 1 . v ? - ? i * : u Radically displeased with many fea tures of the compromise tax bill, Pre?- 1 ldent Coolldge has nevertheless signed it, believing that wltb all Of Ha alleged defects it does grant - pome measure of immediate tax relief. At once a 86 per cent reduction in current income | taxes become* effective. Other reduc tions: apountlpg to GQ per cent on in comet) under f8,(XK>, become effective next year. ' . The provision for a 25 per cent rei ductlon in income taxes payable this year, contained In the new revenue law may be put into effect by the taxpayer immediately^' Persons pay ing on the installment plan may 6ut their second payment, due June 15, by one-half and the'last two installments by one-fourth each. Those who paid | the full tax on March IS will receive as soon as Is possible a refund of one- 1 fourth from the treasury without mak ing application for It. Federal reserve board statistics re- | cently made public disclose tb?t the effect of the downward trend of busi ness has been strongly felt by the federal reserve banks, and on the basis of present calculations, they may end this' year with the lowest net earning in seven years. ' ?> I - Domestic ? i Columbia university at its one' hun dred and 'seventieth commencement ? VMHP "Onlltr" was the finding of the trial court of the Protestant ' Episcopal house of bishops In the case of William Montgomery Brown, retired bishop of Ark^nisaA. The trial court sat in Cleve land, Ohio. The yerdlct meant -official dental that doctrines of religion set forth in Bishop Brown's writings were In harmony with those held by the church. Federal Judge, A. M. J. Cochran granted the application of M. S. Daugherty, Washington Court House, Ohio, banker, for a writ of habeas corpus releasing htm from custody of an assistant sergeant at arms of the United States senate who had arrest ed him on a wan-ant charging con tempt. Fairly active trading marks the curb market in New York. Public utility issue are demonstrating strength Oils are moving erratically and have de veloped weakness on reports o* im pending price cutting. Thirteen persons are known to bavt been killed and many were injured by a tornado that struck Wetumpka. Ok lahoma. in Hughes county. The tor nado approached from the southwest and swept through the southern frlrgs of the town, whose population hai be?n swelled recently by oil activities fn the surrounding territory. 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