i In the Days of Poor Richard
Helena D’Algy
VAIN RED ROSE
By IRVING BACHELLER
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CHAPTER
duino BACimj m
XXVII—Continued.
no heart The message w as from Sol
omon. He had got word thut the
British warship had come back up the
river and was two miles above Stony
Point with a white Aug at her mast-
head.
"I went out of doors. Soon I met
Merrtwettier coming Into camp. Ar
nold had returned. He had ridden at a
walk toward the headquarters of the
Second brigade and turned about and
come back without speaking to any
qne. Arnold was looking down us If
absorbed In hla own thoughts when
Merrtwether passed him In the road.
He did not return the latter's salute.
It was evident that the general had
ridden away for the sole purpose of
being alone.
“I went back to my hut and sat down
to try to And my way when suddenly
the general appeared at my door on
his bay mare and asked me to take a
little ride with him. I mounted my
horse and we rode out on the east
road together for half a mile or so.
“ 'I believe that my wife had some
talk with you this morning,' he begun.
“'Yes,' I answered.
“ ‘A British officer has come up the
river In a ship under a white flag with
a proposal regarding an exchange of
prisoners. In my answer to their re-
quest for a conference, some time
ago. I enclosed a letter from Mrs.
Arnold to Miss Margaret Hale Invit-
Ing her to come to our home where
she would find a hearty welcome and
her lover—now an able and mbit val-
ued ofllcer of the staff. A note re-
celved yesterday says that Miss Hare
Is one of the party. We are glad to
be able to do you this little favor.'
“I thanked him.
“ ’I wish that you could go with
me down the river to meet her In the
morning,’ he said. ‘But In my absence
It will, of course, be necessary for
you to be on duty. Mrs. Arnold will
go with me and we shall, I hope, bring
the young lady safely to headquarters.’
"He was preoccupied. His face
wore a serious look. There was a
melancholy note In his tone—I had
Jack and Solomon exercised unusual
care In guarding the camp and organ
ising for defense In case of attack.
It was soon after Washington's depart
ure that Arnold went away on the road
to the South. Solomon followed, keep-
Ing out of his field of vision, The gen-
end retimed two days later, Solomon
came tntu Jack's hut about midnight
of the day of Arnold's return with Im-
porta nt news.
Jack was at hfs desk studying a
map of the Highlands. The camp was
nt rest. The candle in Jack's hut
was the only sign of life around head
quarters when Solomon, having put out
‘his horse, came to talk with his young
friend. He stepped close to the desk,
swallowed nervously and began his
whispered report.
"Suthln' neevarlous be goln' on," he
began. “A British ship were lyin’
nigh the mouth o’ the Croton river.
Arnold went aboard. An' officer got
into his boat with him and they pulled
over to the west shore and went Into
the bush. Stayed thar till mos' night.
If *twere honest business, why did
they go off In the bush alone fer a
talk?"
Jack shook his head.
“Soon as I seen that I went to one
o' our batteries an' tol* the cap'n what
were on my mind.
“ 'D—n the ol’ British tub.
We'll
make 'er back up a little,' sez he.
’She's too clus anyhow.’
“Then he let go a shot that ripped
the water front o' her bow. Say. Jack,
they were some hoppin' eround on the
deck o' the big British war sloop.
They h'isted her sails an' she fell away
down the river a mile 'er so. The
sun were set when Arnold an' the
officer came out o’ the bush. I were
In a boat with a fish rod an' could jes'
see ’em with my spy glass, the light
'were so dim. They stood thar lookin'
fer the ship.
They couldn't see her.
They went back into the bush. It come
to me what they was goln' to do. Ar
nold were a-goln' to take the Britisher
over to the house o’ that ol’ Tory, Reub
Smith. I got thar fust an’ hid in the
A rnold w < ni
bushes front o’ the house.
Sure
i Y 1 An A y on the
•
ÍOAO TO THE
"nough !—that's what were done. Ar
SOUTH.
nold an’ t’ other feller come erlong
an’ went Into the house. 'Twere so
dark I couldn’t see ’em but I knowed
’twere them.”
“How?" the young man asked.
“ 'Cause they didn’t light no candle.
They sot In the dark an’ they didn’t
talk out loud like honest men would. |
I come erway. I couldn't do no more."
”1 think you've done well," said
Jack.
"Now go and get some rest.
Tomorrow may be a hard day."
Jack spent a bad night In the ef
fort to be as great as his problem.
In the morning he sent Solomon and
three other able scouts to look the
ground over east, west and south of
tbs army. One of them was to take
the road to Hartford and deliver a
mesr^ge to Washington.
After the noon mess, Arnold mount
ed bis horse and rode away alone.
The young brigadier sent for his trust
ed friend. Captain Merrlwether.
“Captain, the general has set out
on the east road alone,” said Jack.
I “He Is not well. There's something
wrong with his heart. I am a little observed that In other talks with him
worried about him. He ought not to —but It was a friendly tone, It
'be traveling alone. My horse Is In front tended to put my fears at rest.
। of th» door. Jump on his back and
“I asked the general what he
■ keep In sight of the general, but don’t thought
i
of the prospects of success
Het him know what you are doing."
1
for
our cause.
A little later Mrs. Arnold entered
“ They are not promising,” he en
the office of the new brigadier In a swered. ‘The defeat of Gates in the
most cheerful mood.
; South and the scattering of Ids army
T have good news for you,” she an in utter rout is not an encouraging
nounced. “A British offln has come event.’
In a ship under a flag of truce to
‘"I think that we shall get along
confer with General Arno <1. I sent better now that the Gates bubble has
■ a letter to Margaret Hare on my own burst,' I answered."
I responsibility with the z< neral’s offi
This ends the testimony of "the
cial communication. I inv ted her to able and most valued oflicer," Jack
come with the party ami promised Irons, Jr.
ber safe conduct to our house. I
' expect her. For the re t w e look to
CHAPTER XXVIII
¡you. Let us have a wed ng at head
quarters. On the nlgtit of the twenty-
As an Army With Banners.
eighth, General Washinrr-o) will have
The American army hud been sold
returned. He has agree 1 to dine with by Arnold. The noble Ideal It had
us that evening.”
cherlthed, the blood It had given, the
“I think that she mii“t have ob- bitter hardships it had suffered—tor
served the shadow on my face for, ture In the wilderness, famine In the
while she spoke, a great fear had Highlands, long marches of half
come upon me,” ho test-fle<l In the naked men In mid-winter, massacres
court of inquiry. “It seemed clear at Wyoming and Cherry Valley—all
to me that, if there was a plot, the this had been bartered away, like a
capture of Washington himself was shipload of turnips, to satisfy the
to be a part of it and my sweetheart greed of one man. Again thirty pieces
a helpful accessory.
of allver I Was a nation to walk the
“ 'You know much that I am eager bitter way to its Calvary? Major
to know,’ I said. The general has Andre, the adjutant general of Sir
not told me that he is to meet the Henry Clinton's large force In New
British. May I know all the good York, was with the traitor when lie
news?1
rowed from the ship to the west shore
“‘Of course, he will tell you about of the Hudson and went into the bush
that,’ she assured me. “He has told under the observation of Solomon
me only a little. It Is some negotla- with his spy-glass. Arnold was to re
tlon regarding an exchange of prls- ceive a command and large pay In
oner«. I am much more Interested In the British army. The consideration
Margaret and tli- wedding. I wish had been the delivery of maps show
you would tell me about her. I have ing the positions of Washington's men
heard that she has become very beau and the plana of his forts and other
tiful.’
defenses, especially those of Forts
T showed Mrs. Arnold the minia Putnam and Clinton and Battery
ture portrait which Margaret had Knox. Much other Information was
given me the day of our little ride and put In the hands of the British offl-
talk In London and then an orderly cer. Including the prospective move
came with a message and that gave ments of the commander In chief. He
me an excuse to put an end to this was to be taken In the house of the
untimely babbling for which I had man he had befriended. Andre had
only to reach New York with hts
treasure and Arnold to hold the con
fidence of hts chief for a few days
and, before the leaves had fallen, the
war would end. The American army
and Its master mind would be at the
mercy of Sir Henry Clinton.
Andre would have reached New
York that night If The Vulture had
not changed her position on account
of a shot from the battery below
Stony Point. For that, credit must be
given tv tho good scout Solomon
Blnkus. The ship was not In sight
when the two men cnme out In their
boat from the west shore of the river
while the night was falling. Arnold
had heart! the shot und now that the
ship had left he feared that his treach
ery was suspected.
“I may want to get away In that
bout myself," he suggested to Andre.
Beautiful Miss D'Algy is Ais of ths
"She will not return until she gets newest “finds’’ of a popular producing
orders from you or me." the Britisher company, and she promises to be seen
assured him.
to good advantage in the “movies.”
"1 wonder what has become of her,
She io regarded as one of the moot
said Arnold.
graceful women In motion pictures.
"She has probably dropped down
the river for some reason," Andre
answered. “What urn I to do?"
“I'll take you to the house of a
man I know who Ilves near the river
and send you to New York by horse
with pussports In the morning. You
B t ANDREW F. CURRIER. H. D.
cun reuch the British Unes tomorrow."
"I would like that,” Andre
claimed. "It would afford me u wel
come survey of the terrain."
SHINGLES
"Smith will give you a suit of
clothes that will fit you well enough," OIIINGI.ES. also known as herpes
said the traitor. "You and he are
zoster. Is painful and supposed to
about of a size. It will be better for be due to some kind of Infecting po|-
you to be In citizens' dress.”
So it happened that In the darkness
It la an acute. Inflammatory disease,
of the September evening Smith and usually following the course of some
Andre, the latter riding the biased- I nerve distributed over the akin.
face mare, set out for King's Ferry,
It begins with general discomfort,
where they were taken across the : loss of appetite, perhaps with a chill
river. They rode a few miles south of and fever (like so many Infectious dis
the landing to the shore of Crom pond eases) nnd w ith great sensitiveness in
nnd spent the night with a friend of ’ the skin.
Smith. In the morning the hitter went I Its constant feature is a hllsterllke
<>n with Andre until they had passed eruption along the course of the In«
Pine’s bridge on the Croton river.
Then he turned back.
These blisters are usually only on
Now Andre fared along down the ’ one side of the body, become Inflamed,
road alone on the back of the mare ' and leave scars which are sometimes
Nancy. He came to an outpost of the ] prominent and disfiguring.
Highland army and presented his 1 The disease occurs In children. In
pass. It was examined and endorsed ‘ young adults, and the aged, often per
and he went on his way. He met sisting with the latter for months and
transport wagons, a squad of cavalry years.
and later, a regiment of militia com
The fever, with which It begins,
ing up from western Connecticut, but ' lasts three or four days, the pain be
no one stopped him. In the faded hat 1 ing sometimes dull und somettmes
and coat and trousers of Reuben ! sharp). Sometimes the pain subsides
Smith, this man, who called himself after the eruption appears, but recurs
John Anderson, was not much unlike from time to time.
the farmer folk who were riding
This pain Is severer In the old than
hither and thither In the neutral terri In the young, and often la Worte at
tory, on their petit errands. His face I night.
was different. It was the well-kept | The blisters come In successive
face of an English aristocrat with ; crops for four, five or six weeks, and
handsome dark eyes and hair begin suppurate, discharge, and at length
ning to turn gray.
scar over.
The eruption mny follow exposure
A little out of Tarrytown on the
highway the horseman traveled, a to draughts of cold air, or mental or
group of three men were hidden In the physical
1
exhaustion, nnd mny occur us
bush—ragged,
reckless,
unlettered i nn epidemic.
country lads waiting for cows to come I The fluid In the blisters Is first clear
watery, then turbid, bloody and
down out of the wild land to be nnd
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milked. They were "skinners" In the [ 1 purulent, and the resulting sores mny
healing a long time.
patriot militia, some have said; some resist
1
On the chest the eruption follows
that they were farmers' sons not In
course of a nerve between two nd-
the army. However that «may have the
1
ribs ; on the face It may resid'
been, they were undoubtedly rough, jacent
.
hard-fisted fellows full of the lawless ' In
1 paralysis of the side affected, nnd
eye mny be
It re
spirit bred by five years of desperate the
1
nnd
warfare.
They were looking for sembles chicken-pox.
Tories as well as for cattle. Tories psoriasis, and Is most frequent In < dd
were their richest prey, for the latter weather.
A patient with this disease sho ild
would give high rewards to be ex
remain In bed, and should fret and
cused from the oath of allegiance.
They came out upon Andre nnd chal worry ns little ns possible.
The bowels should be kept open
lenged him. The latter knew that he
had passed the American outposts with castor oil or suits, nnd the diet
and thought that he was near the should be simple. Including milk,
British lines. He was not familiar soups, eggs, cereals, fruits and no
with the geography of the upper east meat.
The eruption must be carefully
shore. He knew that the so-called
neutral territory was overrun by two dressed every day, and the blisters
parties—the British being called tho must not be broken If this cun be
"Lower” and the Yankees the “Upper.”- avoided.
Gauze moistened with alcohol.
“What party do you belong tor
Andre demanded.
any suitable antiseptic lotion, may be
“The Lower,” said one of the used to protect the surface.
Yankees,
When possible, It Is better to hnvc
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
the ndylm of nn Intelligent physician
than to depend on sell treatment.
Rare Sea Shell
This Is especially Important with the
In a specially provided case in the view of obtaining ns little ultimate
foyer of the American Museum of scarring as possible.
Natural History, there was exhibited
(® by Oeorse Matthew Adama.)
recently for the first time one of the
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most highly prized cone shaped shells
ever found In the world. According
to scientific authorities, ft Is properly
called “The Glory of the Sea.”
It Is about five Inches In length, of
ownx
peculiarly slender appearance, grace
ful proportions, and has a tapering
spire.
It suggests an unfolding rose
bud. The ground color Is pale Ivory,
overlaid with a mosaic of thousands
of triangular figures ranging from an
eighth of an Inch to almost micro
scopical size. These triangles are out
lined In chrome yellow or deep chest-
nut brown.
0XK rimming In a garden there was
a little bewdrop thut wanted to
get uway from the sun's hot breath
that It might stay In the garden all
duy. so It nestled dose to a beautiful
red rose und whispered: "Hid« ma,
beautiful Hose, In the soft petals of
your lovely gown,"
The Bose was very vain nnd thought
only of her own beauty, so she told
little I>ewdrop to creep clos« Inside
and nestle In her heart, for she wanted
to keep It until moonlight flooded the
garden, when her lover the nightingale
would come to sing to her Ids love
song.
Away down deep In her heart crept
little Dewdrop, thinking that lied Rose
must love It to let It rest In her heart
Your Health
shine on one of the beautiful red
petals
the rose and they would be
the most admired of all the garden
folks.
Hut It did not know the cold, vain
heart of the beautiful rose nnd nil dny
long she kept Dewdrop from peeping
once Into the garden, us It longed to
do. for feur of losing the Jewel she
wished to adorn her beauty nt night.
By nnd by w hen the moonlight crept
Into the Karden und made It nhpoat
like day th
red
told
upon one of her
soft petals.
'Tonight I shall be the loveliest rose
When the nightingale flew doser
und told the vain rose she WHS Indeed
the most beautiful rose In the garden
»h« tossed her proud head and down
tumbled the pour little dewdrop to the
ground.
"Now see what you have done!" said
the angry rose. “After I sheltered you
nil dny you repay my kindness In this
word did h I w u«k
way
about the poor little dewdrop thut
lay (wmbllng on the ground below.
"Rose,
cried the dew-
drop, "do bend over und help me to
rest again on your soft chmtk !”
"Item!
the
Indeed,"
rose "Why, you foolish thing, I might
break my slender stem. You have
spoiled my evening by tumbling off
and you expect me to help you."
"But don't you love me. Rose, dear?”
asked the dewdrop, who hud I.... .. all
duy dose to her heart nnd had grown
to love her deeply.
you!" exclaimed
vain
rose. "Why, you silly llttl« drop, 1
only saved you from the sun that you
might milk« me more beautiful at
night when the nightingale cum« to
sing to me."
The nightingale hail ceased hla sing
Ing und had beard what the vain rose
said, so be flew down to the dewdrop
uni) gently lifted It In Ida bill and car
ried It to another rose more fragrant
than «led Rose but not so beautiful.
Into the very heart of (he pale pink
ro>e (he nightingale dropped the dew-
drop. "Here you will fimi sweetness
that will be worthy of your love," nubi
the nightingale. "Here will I como
each night and sing my love song, for
the red rose haa no heart for love. It
Is filled with vanity."
For her vanity and cruel treatment
of little
the proud
beauty not only lost her jewel but her
by MrCluri
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Superstitions
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Morpheift and Somnui
Morpheus, the ancient Greek god of
dreams, was early pictured ns an old
man w ith wings. He held In his hands
n vial or horn from which Issued the
sleep-producing vapor. Morpheus was
the son of Sornnus the god of sleep.
The name Morpheus Is derived from a
form, nnd the name was given to the
god of dreams because of the shapes or
forms which he calls up before the
dreamer.—Family I lerald.
TT IS an omen of good luck to have
A a wren build Its nest near the
house. This, with the exception thut
It Is also considered In some sections
bud luck to kill u wren, appears to be
the only survival In this country of the
mystic character which pertains to tho
wren In Europe nnd has so long at
tached to It there that Professor Fra
zer considers the ceremonies attend
Ing the wren aupenrtltlon
have
"come down from u very primitiv«
paganism.”
The ancient Greeks nnd Romans, tho
modern Italians, Spaniards, French,
I »ani-s, Swedes, English and Welsh, re
gard the killing of a wren us sure to
bring disaster to the slayer. But not
withstanding such belief the annual
custom of "hunting the wren" was, to
comparatively recent times, universal
throughout Europe and
a
modlfied form In many sections today,
ns, for Instance, In the Isle of Man
where on St. Stephen's duy a wren Is
annually killed and buried after Its
body has been tak^n around the vil
lage ami shown to the Inhabitants.
The ceremony of killing the wren
differed slightly In different countries
but was everywhere rather elaborate.
This annual slaying of an animal con
sidered sacred and not to be killed at
other times Is a custom found among
many peoples still living In a primitive
state and was once common to primi
tive man. Frazer says: "The wor
shipful nnlmul Is killed with especial
solemnity once a year and before or
after death Is carried from door to
door that each of his worshipers may
receive a portion,of the divine virtue
that Is supposed to emanate from the
dead or dying god. Religious proces
sions of this sort must have had a
great place In the ritual of European
peoples In prehistoric times If we mny
judge from tho numerous traces of
them which have survived In folk
lore."
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A LINE O’ CHEER
By John Kendrick Bang*.
THE ROSE
think
of
this
old
f/f <
Beauty and fragrance all com
bined
kind
To «very passer-by with wit
Enough to paus« and joy In It.
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THE WREN
KJO LIST of feminine mimes would
' lie complete without the lovely
Thelma. It 1» u Norse name, sug
gestive of the mythology of the Land
of the Midnight Sun where Valkyries
drive their gleaming chariots over the
battlefield and conduct the glorious
dead to their appointed places in Vai-
linlla.
Little was known of Thelmn nnd
neldom was the name used outside of
Scandinavia, until Marie Corelli In her
sensational novel of that name pre
sented the tragic love story of a beau
tiful Norwegian who was transplanted
from the land of fjords to the center
of London's smartest and most cor
rupt society.
From that time the number of Thel
mas In England ami America were le
gion. The name has had particular
vogue In this country where the Scan
dinavian immigration Is great. As a
romantic and poetical name, Thelma Is
without equal, but her p<qmlarity lias
never extended beyond Scandinavian
and English speaking countries.
Amber Is Thelma's tallsmanlc stone,
it will guard her from all evil, espe
cially from contagion. To wear It on a
Journey will preserve her from accl-
dent. Monday Is her lucky dny and 7
her lucky numlx-r.
never
earth
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Ohe U7hy
What’s in a Name?
utterly In worth
Ro Iona an In noms garden clone
I still can find the budding
Fair Play
A woman bus Just learned that her
colored workwoman, Aunt Dinah, hud
at the age of seventy, married for
the fourth time,
"Why, Aunt Dinah,’’ she exclaimed,
"you surely haven't married againP
"Yesaum, honey, I has," was Aunt
Dinah's smiling reply. "Yessum, as
ofen us de Lawd takes 'em, so will L"
Lifted It In Hit Bill and Carried It to
Another Rose.
In th« gurdvn. für 1 can uee timt non«
of my ulaters wrars « Jewel. llow for-
tunate you ar«, little Dewdrop, tu huve
me near you I"
Just Iben th« sweet tonet of the
nlghtlngalo's lov« Mong filled tb« gnr
den and Red Hose swayed u little In
the breeze that hei Jewel« mlght
sparkle In th« moonlight and make
her more beautiful In th« eyes »f her
CARELESS
Jim Crow—My It’s a wonder theie
folk« wouldn’t have the grata cut In
their front yard!