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COPYRIGHT t>V iRvfob BACHELLCR* 7 IRVING / BACHELLERj CHAPTER XVI? Continued. ? 1 6? 'The mar ins a great heart in him, ?8 every g?eit man must, ' he wrote to his fathe*. "I am beginning to love him. I car ?ee that these thousands in the army are going to be bound to him by an 4?^'tion like that of a son With mtn like Wasli ^ranklin to lead us, how for a fathqr lngton and can we falll The next! got around their left mand and were almofe Jack had and escape4 feetive use and hy go|> blight Sir Henry Clinton trie Americans and turned nank. Smallwood's com at of Colonel Jack Irons destroyed, twenty-two hundred hajvlfag been killed or taken. s left arm shot through jonly by the swift and ef f his pistols and hanger^ jl luck, his horse having been "only js ightly cut in the withers." The Amerim n line gave way. Its un seasoned troops fled into Brooklyn. There was t ie end of the island. They could go n( farther without swimming. With a Br t !sh fleet in the harbor un der Admiral Lord Howe, tjhe situation was desperate. Sir Henry had only to follow and >en them in and unlimber his guns. I he surrender of more than half of Washington's armyj would have to follow. At headquarters, the most discerning ninds saw tha^ only a mir acle could prevent It. The miriele arrived. IN'ext day a fog thicker than the darkness of a clouded nif : it enveloped the island and lay upon tli> face of the waters. Calm ly, quickly Washington got ready to move his tpops. That night, under the friendly e<j rer of the fog, they were quietly tanpn across the East river, with a regiment of Marblehead sea dogs, und?!( Colonel Glover, manning the boats. Fortunately, the British army had;1 halted, waiting for cle&r weather. | For nearip two weeks Jack was nurs ing his wound in Washington's army hospital, ilch consisted of a cabin, a tent, a nuij ber of cow stables and an old shed fn the heights of Harlem. Jack had in In a stable. Toward the end of hil confinement, John Adams came to s?i him. "Were | >u* badly hurt?" the great man askeq. "Scratcljrd a- little, but I'll be back in the service tomorrow," Jack replied. "You doj lot' look like yjourself quite. : I will ask the commander et you go with me to Phila delphia. have some business there and later b ranklin and I are going to Staten Island to confer with Admiral Lord Ho^?. We are a pair of snap pish old <l< gs and need a young man like you to look after us. You would only have 1o keep out of our quarrels, attend to our luggage and make some notes in t ii> conference." So it happened that Jack went to Philadelpl i i with Mr. Adams and, after two ( ays at the house of Doctor Franklin, set out with the two great men for te conference on Staten Is land. H^ went in high hope that he was to vdilness the last scene of the war. I 1 I think till In chief to . H In Arajxfy he sent a letter to his father, w liph said : i "Mr. -AWfinis is a blunt, outspoken man. If Ing, he ifc Franklin firm as $ may put| mountain moving, \ things do not po to his lik quick to tell you. Doctor i humorous and polite, but [Go?-placed mountain. You Swour shoulder against the land push and think it is t it isn't. He is established. He has found his proper bearings and h moving. These two great in little' matters. They had quarrel the other evening, ieached New Brunswick on Is done v ii men dlff< i a curiou i We had our way j north. The taverns were crowded. I I ran from one to another trying to find entertainment for my distingui: il ed friends. At last I found a small < hamber with one bed in it and a siiJfle window. The bed nearly filled th< room. No better "accommo dation w \ J to be had. I had left them sitting 01llla bench In a little grove near the! large hotel, with the luggage near them. V Ren I returned they were hav ing a ho :> argument over the origin of northeas :j storms, the doctor asserting that he 1 i d learned by experiment that they begdn in the southwest and pro ceeded itf a northeasterly direction. I had to in lit ten minutes for a chance to speal^ fac*d, th import eq u 'God claimed, to agree! with yo0* M 'Sir, o them. Mr. Adams was hot doctor calm and smiling. I the news of Israel !' Mr. Adams ex "Is it not enough that I have [jwith you? Must I also sleep hope that you must not, but if yoc jAjist, I beg that you will sleep more gepltly than you talk,' said Frank lin. I wehlt with them to their quarters carrying ftf?e luggage. On the way Mr. Adams i>mplalned that he had picked up a somewhere. "'Thd flea, sir, Is a small animal, but a l^g fact,' said Franklin. 'You ftlarm ne. Two large men and a flea yill b* ipt to crowd oar quarters,' "In the room they argued with a depth of feeling which astonished me, as to whether the one window should be open or closed. Mr. Adams had closed it. . "'Please do not" close the window,' said Franklin. 'We shall sufTocate.' " 'Sir, I am an invalid and afraid of the night air,' |Said Adams rather testily, f ? Ji <? " 'The air of this room will be much worse for you than that out-of-doors,' Franklin retorted. He was then be tween 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 isfaction, I will consent to its being closed.' "I lay down on a straw-filled mat tress outside their door. I heard Mr. Adams open the window and get into bed. Then Doctor Franklin began to expound his theory of colds. He de clared that cold air never gave any one a cold ; that respiration destroyed a gallon of air a minute and that all the air 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 said to fill the earth, were asleep in the same bed in that little box of a room and snoring in a way that sug gested loud contention. 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 floor.** Howe's barge met the party at Am boy and conveyed them to the landing near his headquarters. 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 colonies were lost. The concessions which the wise Franklin had so urgently recom mended to the government of England, Howe seemed now inclined to offer, but they could not b? entertained. "Then my government can only maintain Its dignity by fighting," said Howe. "That is a mistaken notion," Frank lin answered. "It will be much more dignified for your government to ac knowledgs Its error than to persist in It." "We shall fight," Howe declared. "And you will have more fighting to do than you anticipate," said Franklin. "Nature is our friend and ally. The Lord has prepared our defenses. They are the sea, the mountains, the forest and the character of our people. Con sider what you have accomplished. At an expense of eight million pounds you have killed about eight hundred Yan kees. They have cost you ten thou sand pounds a head. Meanwlhle, at least a hundred thousand children have been born In America. 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 the query% "My powers are limited," said 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 nation 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 solicitude has been 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 1 of holding It with fleets and armies." "On such a basis 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 their secretary shook hands with the British admiral. "Mr. Irons, I have heard much qf you," said 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 touchy me," the young man answered. "What you propose is a great temptation. It Is like Calypso's ofTer of Immortal happiness to Ulyttffs. I love England, i love oeace. and more than althar. I love the young lady, but I couldn't go and keep my principles." j j "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. I cannot help It. The feeling is bred in my bones." - His lordship smiled politely and bowed as the three men withdrew. Franklin took the hand of the young man and pressed It silently as they were leaving the small house in which Howe had established Jilmself. Jack, who had been taking notes of the fruitless talk of these great, men, was sorely disappointed. He; could see no prospect now of peace. 4 ?.'y hopes are burned to the ground," i*e said to Doctor Franklin. f "It Is 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." "I have been thinking too much of myself," Jack answered. "Now I am ready to lay down my life in this great cause of ours." "Boy, I like you," said Mr. Adams. "I have arranged to have you safely conveyed to New York. There an or derly will meet and conduct you to our headquarters." ~ "Thank you, sir," Jack replied. Turning to Doctor Franklin, he added : "One remark of yours to Lord Howe impressed me. You said that nature was our friend and ally.- It put me in inind of the fog that helped us out of Brooklyn and of a little adventure of mine." Then he told the story of the splder'i web. "I repeat that all nature is with us," said Franklin. "Lt was a sense of in justice in human nature that sent us across the gre&t barrier of the sea into conditions where only the strong could survive. Here we have raised up a sturdy people with 3,000 miles of water between them and tyranny. Armies cannot cross it and succeed long In a hostile land. They are too far from home. The expense of trans porting and maintaining them will bleed our enemies until they are spent. The British king is powerful, but now he has picked a quarrel with Almighty God, and It will go hard with him." CHAPTER XVII . I How Solomon Shifted tht Skeer. In the spring news came of a great force of British which was being or ganized In Canada for a descent upon New York through Lake Champiain. Frontier settlers in Try on county were being massacred by Indians. Generals Herkimer and Schuyler had written to Washington, asking for the services of the famous scout, Solo mon Binkus. in that region. "He knows tfte Indian as no othtr man knows him and can speak his lan guage and he also knows the bush," Schuyler had written. "If there Is any place on earth where his help is needed Just now, It Is here." "Got to leave ye, my son," Solomon said to Jack esc evening soon after that. "How so?" the young man asked. "Goln' hum to fight Injuns. The Great Father has ordered it, I'll like It better. Glttin' lazy here. Summer's comln' an' I'm a born bush man. I'm kind o' oneasy ? like a deer In a door yard. I ain't had to run fer my life since we got here. My hoofs are com plainln'. I ain't shot a gun in a month." | A look of sorrow spread over the face of Solomon. "I'm tired of this place," said 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'll 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 J'ined hands. The Long house will be the center o' hell an' its line fences'U 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," said Wash ington. "If you need money I shall be glad to lend you a sum to help yoti through this journey." "I ain't fightln' fer pay," 1 Solomon answered. "I'll hoe an' dig, an' cook, an' guide fer money. But I won't fight no more fer money ? partly 'cause I don't need It ? partly 'cause I'm fight' In' fer myself. I got a little left 111 my britches pocket, but If I hadn't, my ol' Marler wouldn't let me go hun gry." r (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 said: "Good evening. How are you?" ".Well," replied the ar>sent-mlnded one, "I thought I was very well when I left home, but now I don't know what's the matter with me. I've been limping for the last half hour." Passing the Buck The new cook gave some pork chops to a relative who called while the lady of the house was out paying a few calls. "The missus will miss them," warned the parlor maid. "Oh, I'll blame that on the cat.* "We have no cat" "Then be a good girl," urged the new cook earnestly, "and let the canary out of Its case." ?? I GRIND TOUGH END OF PORTERHOUSE STEAK Mill Putting Tail-End Through Meat Hopper. gF ' - . f I (Prepared by the United Statea Department of Agriculture.) The flank end of the porterhouse is to be classed with the toughest of jruts and with those which, when cooked alone, are with difficulty made tender even by long heating, and yet people quite generally broil this part of the steak with the tenderloin and expect it to be eaten. The United States Department of Agilculture says the fact is that to broil this part of the porterhouse steak is not good management. It is much more pnpfitable to put it into the soup ket tle or to make it into a stew. " In families where most of the members are ajvay during the day the latter is a good plan, for the end of a steak makes a good stew for two or three people. This may be seasoned with vegetables left from dinner, or two or three olives cut up in gravy will give a very good flavor]; or a few drops of some one of the bottled meat sauces, if the flavor is relished, or a little chill sauce may be added to the stew. But If the tough end of a porterhouse is needed with the rest, a good plan is to put It through a iyeat grinder, make it into balls, and broil It with the tender portions. Each mem ber of the family can then be served with a piece of the tenderloin and a npeat ball. If the chopped meat is seasoned with a little onion juice, grated letnon rind, or chopped parsley, a good flavor Is imparted to the gravy. ' * * * * * I TO MAKE CURRANT OR CINNAMON BUNS May Be Baked Without Any Top Coating. (Prepared by the United State* Department of Agriculture.) Take a portion of dough 'for light rolls; when It Is ready for molding, place- on a floured breadboard and roll Into a rectangular sheet one-half Inch In thickness. Pin down the corners to keep In shape. Spread lightly with softened butter, sprinkle with pow dered (or soft) sugar and stew with currants or cinnamon. . Roll up ' the Appetizing Buns. sheet as for a Jelly roll, cut Into inch slices and place on a greased sheet about one inch apart. Let rise until about trebled In bulk ; sprinkle the top with chopped nuts, or brush with a mixture of sugar and milk, and bake about twenty-five minutes in a fairly hot oven. If desired, these buns may be baked without any top coating and Iced Just a few minutes before taking from the 1>ven, suggests the United States Department of Agriculture. Vegetable Chowder Makes Most Substantial Dish Here is a mixed vegetable chowder that Is good. It makes a substantial dish. Rice and okra may be substi tuted for potatoes and carrots, sug gests the United States Department of Agriculture, indeed almost any vege tables may be used with or In place of those mentioned. 4 potatoes 3 carrots 3 onions 1 pint canned to matoes t teaspoonfuls salt . 3 tablespoonfuls fat, or a piece of salt pork 3 level tablespoon fula flour 2 cupfuls skim milk Cut potatoes and carrots In small pieces, add enough water to cover, and cook for 20" minutes. Do not drain off the water. Brown the chopped onions in the fat for five minutes. Add this and the tomatoes to the vege tables. Heat to boiling, add two cups of skip) milk, and thicken with flour. Celery tops or green peppers give a good flavor to the chowder if you happen to have them, so do 'finely chopped chives. Creamed Peanuts and Rice The United States Department of Agriculture recommends the following dish for a change. It can be easily and quicl^ly made when boiled rice is on hand. 1 cupful rice (un- 3 tablespoonfuls cooked) ' 1 " flour 2 cupfuls chopped 3 tablespoonfuls. peanuts fat ft tei^spoonful pa- 3 cupfuls milk prika (whole or skim) t teaspoonfuls salt Boil rice. Make white sauce by mix ing flour in melted fat and mixing with milk. Stir over fire until It thickens. Mix rice, peanuts and sea soning with sauce, place in greased baking dish and bake for 20 minutes. PRODUCE AND CARE FOR MILK PRODUCTS Cleanliness Will Help Qual ity and Flavor. (Prepared by the United State# Department of Agriculture.) Milk and cream are among the most perishable and easily contaminate^ of all foods, and since they are often served uncooked, they may be a men ace to health unless produced and handled in a cleanly way. Milk pro duced for home use on the faro: de serves as careful attention as It would receive In a first-class dairy. Cleanli ness in milking, the use of sterilized utensils, prompt straining and jcool ing of the milk, and keeping it at a temperature of 50 degrees F. or| less if possible, in a place free from oldors, dust, and flies will bring large re turns in quality and flavor and con sequently in family well-being, i The indifference or aversion of farm ; chil dren to milk has been traced in many cases to the fact that milk smells and tastes of the cow, the stable, and of poorly washed utensils. The proper care of milk, butter and cheese is very important, lit Is discussed in a new Farmers' Bulletin 1374, Care of Food In the Home, ^ hich may be obtained by applying tp the United States Department of Agricul ture. Milk bought from a dairy is best kept until used In the bottles In which it Is dell^red. They shoul<jl be brought Indoors as soon as possible after delivery, washed, and placed in the refrigerator or ether storage place where the temperature js 50 degrees F. or preferably less.l In washing, special attention shoum beN| given to the mouth of the bottle and the cap. Even a temporary ripe In the temperature of milk aids the de velopment of bacteria. Butter should be kept cold a id In a covered container that excludes light and prevents the absorpti foreign flavors! Creamery print ter keeps well In the cartons in which it Is marketed. Butter purchased in bulk should be rinsed off with; cold water to remove any drops of butter milk which may have come t> the surface and may then be wrapped In several thicknesses of cheesecloti wet In weak brine. Cheese of any kind is especially I susceptible to mold, but it c4n be protected to some degree by keeping It cool and well wrapped in waxed paper. Soft cheeses should be left In their original containers until used. . The odor of cheese is so pene trating that It should be kept! In a tight container If stored near but ter, eggs, or other foods likely to be flavored by It. bn of but One Most Satisfactory Way for Coddling Eggs Many means have been suggested for cooking eggs in such a way that the yolks will be cooked and the whites will not be overcooked.! One of the moat satisfactory is by cod dling, which is done as follows: Al low a cupful of water to each egg, brings the water to the boiling; point, remove It from the fire, put In the eggs, cover ,the dish closely . and leave the eggs In the Water for about seven minutes. There Is some uncertainty about this method, for eggs differ In weight and also in temperature at the time the cooking begins. Op the whole, the best results can be ob tained by pouring hot water ovejr eggs, If the same dish with the same a mount of water is always used, but each cook must make her own rules. SammerFind You Miserable? It'? hard to do one's work every day brings morning lam^ ^ throbbing backache, and a dullr*! feeling. If you suffer thus find the cause? Likely ity Vour v? neys. ' Headaches, dizziness and kin irregularities may give further ? that your kidneys need h?dp risk neglect ! Use Doan's Pill's-^ ulant diuretic to the kidneys. Thoua?^' have been helped bv Boon's ti should help you. Ask your nci0h$, A North Carolina Case Mrs. C. F. Melton, South & Orchard Sts., Mt. Airy, N. C.f says: "I suffered with painsfg^* in my ? back. SomeKTf' mornings my back!*/;* was so stiff and sore.SiK I could hardly get out of bed. My kid-, neys acted much too /A/ often. My husband t" recommended Doan'sf Pills and I got a box. * Soon my back was r, all right and my kid neys acted O. K. again." DOAN'ST STIMULANT DIURETIC TO THE KIDNEYS Foster-Milburn Co., Mfg. Chem., Buflti0| N.Y Relatively O. K. Tbe Boss ? I intend to snid Trf through Michigan How's your stand, .ng there? The New Salesman? The very h^t I've been all over that stau? and th,r(! are only four towns I don't (hire tQ$ back to. MOTHER! Clean Child's Bowels "California Fig Syrup" is Dependable Laxative for Sick Children \JJ Hurry, Mother! A teaspoonful qi "California Fig Syrup" now will sweet en the stomach and thoroughly clean the Uttle bowels and in a few hours you have a well, playful child again. Even if cross, feverish, bilious, con stipated or full of cold, children love its pleasant taste. It never cramps or overacts. Contains no narcotics of soothing drugs. Tell your druggist you want only the genuine "California Fijr Syrup" which has directions for babies and children of all ages printed on the bot tle. Mother, you must say "Cali fornia." Refuse any Imitation. T heir Condition "How are yore children coming en? asked an acquaintance from over b? yond Chickatanzy. "Have they all bad the mumps?" "Not yet," replied Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge. "Some have done mumped, some of 'em are still mump Ing, and the rest are 'lowing to mpnip pretty soon." _ Stearns9 Electric Paste 7 T-Qgalky Product Sore Death to Cockroach** Ants, Wattrbuf ?, B??. Wf4' Ottttot known destroyers of ,?!0 food alsO carrier# of disease. Does not bio* , III D A- i~. ...? Money btcJci. like powders. Reedy for use. Money 35c and $1.50. Enough to kill thousand* o and ants. Sold by all drucgists. 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