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T he R ed Roa<l A Romance oS Braddock’s Defeat By C opyright H ugh P endexter by Hugh Illustration s by Irw in M y e rs W X D f e r r ic « Pendeatar. CHAPTER IX—Continued —24— Our course was to the bead of Se wickley creek, which was but a few Dillei north of the T hicken; run cutup. The night's reel had done the girl much good and she did not appear to have an; trouble In keeping up with us. I wanted to carry her rltle, and thereby aroueed her Indignation. Al most all the talk was between Gist and me, although I made several at tempts to get some expression from her. She preferred to keep at our heels and hold her tougue. Once, while Gist was climbing a tree to look for amoke from the army's campfires, the asked me: “ Does be know I ain't a man?" “ I forgot to tell him. Think I must have been forgetting the truth my self," I answered. “ Keep on forgetting, and don’t tell him," she curtly requested. “ I shall never forget how you stood by me and did a man’s share of the lighting,’’ I told her, somehow sensing she was displeased at something I bad said, or left unsaid. “ W ill the array be at Thlcketty run?” she asked. “ No one knows where It'll be," I sorrowfully replied. “ It should be well on Its way to the head of Turtle creek It was at the run two days ago, and I'm afraid it Isn’t far from there now. I f It's moved north we'll cut Its line of march. Dunbar’s provision train will be stretched out over a long distance. I f it Is still wasting time at the Kun we’ll shift our course and find It there." “ That mao Braddock don’t know how to lead an army through this sort of country, lie 'll git licked." “ You should be ashamed for saying that,” I rebuked. ‘The army moves slowly, but os It goes by the head of Turtle creek It can k ill time till snow files and yet take the fo r t Captain lienujeu told me at the fort that be could do nothing but run If the creek course was taken.“ “ Don't go and git mad ut me, mister. I ain't used to armies and soldiers. Wonder where that Injun, Round Paw. Is Just about this time." “ He should be several miles south of us and moving parallel to us. To day Is the sixth. I t ’ll all be settled In- side of four or the days." Gist came down from the tree and reported haze or smoke a few miles ahead, lie was skeptical about Its being smoke ns the army ought to be In motion aud not In camp. The Din wold girl abruptly spoke up und de d a re d : “ I feel like we was being followed.'1 Gist looked at her curiously a od asked : “ Do you pretend to hear and see things that Brood and me can't see. nor hear?" • I f 1 was a woman folks would sa j I was a witch,” she gravely replied, meeting his gaze steadily. lie glanced back through the shadowy woods und assured us: “ I believe the Indians who chused you two have gone back to the fort.” "My feeling Is that only one or two men are following us," she qualified. "Younkers often feel Hint way when in Indlnn country,” be carelessly re marked. Ills Indifference Irritated her, and she stoutly Inflated: “ Some one's chasing ns.” “ Our duuger w ill be uhead. from the Indluns hanging to Hunks of the array,” I told her. "We may have some trouble In rutting through their line. She tucked her rltle under her arm and trotted along behind us. She had had her say and was uot Inclined to talk further. Curiously enough I soon found myself glancing backwurd. and each time I did so I met her question Ing gaze and felt ashamed. At last I had to admit to myself that her words bad put a foolish notion Into my head. Of course one might ae followed whenever alone In the forest, but as yet there was no evidence that we were being dogged. I fought agnlnst the Idea, and then told Gist: "Keep on going. I'll overtake you w ithin the next mile. I’m going to watch our buck track for u b it ” (le sped on, with the girl running a few rods behind him I settled down between iwo trees aud condemned my self for giving way to a silly fancy My view of the forest was limited, but I watched faithfully. A slight nolee behind me made me duck and twist my head. Instead of keeping after (¡1st the Diuwold girl hud turned back to share my spying. I nodded to her and resumed searching the tow arches that radiated In every direction from our position She sank down beside me and clasped het hands almut her knees and watched my frowning face rather than the woods. "You think I'm queer, don't you. mister?' she w illy asked. “ I believe you’rs oollonal,* I re lorted "We'll be traveling after Gist. "Look I" she whispered. I was In time to catch a suggestion nt motion near a walnut. I watched the tree ■uspleluusly and from the turner of my eye detected a dicker ol s-tmelhlng off to one side. “ ! sow It.’ murmured the girt, rest tog an e'how on her knee aud making .re*o|y to a quick shot. HIT! p H s 1 1 JULJ COMMON WINTER POULTRY ERRORS In looking over the average poul try bouse iu winter, the most common defects are as follows: Bare, dump floor, upon which the fowls stand and sometimes get rheumatism; broken windows, letting cold a ir blow upon the roosts or upon the fowls In day time. Both the above w ill check lay ing. and are common causes of roup. Damp droppings left for weeks to heap under the roosts; lack of supply of water, obliging the hens to eat snow, thus stopping the eggs; lack of plenty of good, sharp grit, which alone Is a sufficient cause of failure; lack of fresh meat and cut bone fed twice a week; overfeeding, overcrpwdlng, and no inducement to scratch for a living. These are the most common and Important mistakes, and those who wonder why their hens do not lay, w ill do well to go over the list. Soe that your house Is tight, so that on cold windy nights the fowls w ill not suffer any more than can be helped. A good plan Is to keep a bar rel In the building, and the coldest nights put In the birds that are liable to have their combs freeze, and cover the barrel. Above all, do not crowd the fowls. During the long winter months, when they cannot exercise out of doors, they w ill need at least seven or eight feet square per fowl. Scatter some hay around and throw the grain Into it. This w ill make them exercise and w ill be what they need, and the eggs w ill hatch better In the spring. Avoid feeding stimu lants to fowls you are going to breed from, and do not give them any more food than they w ill eat up clean. The rest is very apt to be left and become filthy. Another thing Is, pure, fresh water; do not fall In this. You may think snow w ill answer, but is is not good for poultry and w ill make them poor. Warm the water on cold days. Fowls are always thirsty, and a great deal of roup is brought on by allowing them to drink Impure water. with the escort, but all the time 1 wa9 talking elie was shaking her head. There was a number of women aloDg with the train, but how many I never could learn as tbelr names were not on the rolls. She would hare the com pany of her sex, yet 1 was much de pressed, and not a little provoked, at her stubbornness. We left her in young Morgan's wagon aud went up the line. The wagon train was alarmed by rifle-fire In the woods; then Cromit ap peared, trailing his long rifle. He had been mistaken for a French scout and bud barely escaped the bullets of some of our flankers. He was but little worse for Ills hasty travel SDd grinned broadly on beholding us, and more broadly when the Onondaga refused to shake bands with him. "Allnqulppa's Injuns are hiding In the woods, scared of the French," he told me. ‘There's going to be a vast ly severe wring before we finish thia business.” "We march by the head of Turtle creek. The Indians will refuse to at tack. The French can do nothing alone,” I Informed him. ‘‘There's going to be a mighty tough wring,” he Insisted. “ I've dreamed again of the witch-girl." “ She's back In one of the wagons. She'll put a spell on the French." He was much Interested In my news and prophecies, and by bis glances toward the rear I surmised he was wishing himself back beside the girl's wagon. Yet he maintained that to dream of her Instead of “ t ’other one" meant bad luck. He philosophically decided It was an III outer for him personally and perhaps did not con cern the general welfare of the army. We passed a covered wagon In which ColoDel Washington, a very sick man, was traveling. He had over taken the rear of the army two days before, July fourth. I have no doubt he would have wished (o question me, but I knew he must Indeed be 111 when he could not ride a horse, and thought Breeders Retain About It best not to make my presence Half of Old Chickens known. According to a study of the Mis Before we caught up with the staff “ You Think Pm Queer, Don’t You, we learned that some of our rangers souri demonstration farm flocks, the farmers retained 55 per cent of their Mister?" She Softly Asked. had tired on several of our Indian hens from one year to the next. Breed scouts, mistaking them for French In town on the Allegheny, twelve miles ers of light breeds retained 58.4 per above Duquesne, one of their villages. dians, and killed Scarouady's son. cent as compared to 52 per cent for The Ononduga (Irmly believed that the Scarouady, an Oneida chief, was the breeders of heavy breeds. It Is ghosts of their ancient dead could, If known among the Delawares ns Mon- thus seen that nearly one-half of the they so desired, stop the pairing of nctuatha, but had been called the flock Is replaced by pullets. This Is Half-King by the English since the either red or white man. good management practice, for early 'The man Cromit w ill reach the death of Half-King Scrunlyatha in the developed pullets w ill lay more eggs, preceding year. army. The Shawnee ghost* w ill not The slaying of his son was a ter especially during the winter periods, stop him. They have not stopped the rible error as It might have resulted than w ill the old hens. In the case English, who traveled dowD the Sus- In the complete alienation of our few o f the light breeds one would prob quehunna, the Conemaugh, and the Indians. But Scarouady was above ably cull one-half each year. Thus If Klsklmlnetas; and their dead are the averuge Indian In Intelligence and one starts with a flock of 100 pullets, buried along those streams." he w ill retain 50 as one-year-olds, 25 "Gliosis place traps," he uneasily was as devoted to the colonies as he ns two-year-olds, 12 as three-yenr-olds, was hostile to the French. muttered. "They may make a trap nnd possibly 0 ns four-year-olds. This They bad burled the youth with for Braddock and his Swnnnocks." means that with breeds such ns Leg suitable ceremonies the day before we “ What Is he talking about, mister?" horns, one enn well retnln them re asked the girl as we followed after reached the army und had covered his gardless of nge, so long as they show bones with the g ift of an elaborate Gist. signs of having been productive In the red coat to the bereaved father. Yet "Only some nonsense about Shaw past. However, with the heavier the tragedy had a lasting effect on the nee ghosts waylaying Cromit If he breeds practically nil should be dis Indians. Bound I’nw told me that the goes up Sewickley creek." posed of at the end of the second lay Delaware scouts were asking one an “ I dreamed Iasi night of a dead Eng ing season, and a higher percentage other: list) soldier." w ill he removed at the end of the “ I f the English shoot us what won't "Then keep It to yourself. It our firs t the French do?” friend knew tliut, be would accept It A shadow seemed to hang over the as a warning of Braddock’s defeat." entire length of the slowly moving Round Paw caught enough of her army. The militia were outspoken in English to be curious, but I did uot their pessimism because they were not j Interpret It fully and etiquette re turned loose to fight In the only way » ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ strained lilm from questioning closely. they had been accustomed. The reg Girt left a plain trull for us to follow The best remedy fo r lice on scrub ulars were facing their task with grim but did not hold buck for us to over visages, wondering what chnnce they chickens Is to get rid of the chickens. take him. We did not sight him until could • • • have in this strange wild land j within two miles of the army's camp I f s farmer keeps chickens at all, when the woodsmen were so down on Thlcketty run. he can afford to house them comfort cast. The head of l lie army was well un ably. We reached the staff Just as a halt tier way for Rush creek, an eastern • • • was made for the officers to eat theii 1 branch of Turtle, but a portion of It Don't make your hens pick n hole poor rations. General Braddock eat was still In the camp as shown by the apart f r o m the others, and we wort In the ice to get a little drinking smoke from the many tires. We fell not allowed to approach him. He ap water. In with a long line of wugoDs that was • • • laboriously making Its way over the pen red to me to be dispirited over the The old poultry house may he re condition and sluggishnest of the road hewn through the forest by the modeled and made more comfortable axmen. I talked with a young wugon- army, and disgruntled with several of at very little expense. his officers. How much the last con er, Dan Morgan by name, and he told • • • elusion was due to my observation me that the army had Ion twenty four It Is best to repair nil leaks In the and how much to the report Cromit ‘ hours nt Thlcketty run. had brought me after Beauvais es roof and sidewalls before winter, as The Dlnwold girl was showing wear cuped from the road-builders' camp l dampness and drafts lead to colds and iness, and I found room for her In cannot cay. Undoubtedly Cromlt's talk poop. Morgan’s wagon. An escort with sev • • • Influenced my decision, as I saw him eral wagons filled with sick soldiers there within seventy-two hours of his No similar amount of money can was about to start for W ill’s creek. I bloody death. buy as much ns a few dollars w ill buy endeavored to persuade her to go back (TO BR C O N T IN V B D ) in pure blooded poultry. But she did not see It again nor did 1. Close at hand a low voice called out: “ ‘Ha bum webI‘ My white brother and the witch-woman should be travel ing like the deer;" and Round Paw t>e Onondaga stepped from cover and stood beside us. “ The witch woman’s medicine told her some one was following us. We waited." I explained. “ She Is arendlouanen," he gravely said. “ The Wolf runs long and fast from Alluquippa's town to find the army. The bone-breaking man took your talk down the Yougblogeny and w ill follow up Sewickley creek If the ghosts of the Hathawekela burled there do Dot stop him.” The Hathawekela were the principal division of the Shawnee and claimed to be the "elder brothers” of that na tion. I bad been In Old Sewickley Poultry Facts c X-<-->XX>< h ? -X X X X X m X>C m X ^ i > X > 0 0 < m X »0< m X H X X m X n X «X >(X )< m »<X><«>OCÎO M a jo r ity o f M a n k in d There are clubs and societies fot every conceivable purpose under the sun, yet one of the most obvious needs of Americans today Is left entirely un covered. What we need Is a don't get excited club whose object fhall he to keep people from coming to the boil ing point when It Isn't uecessary. The trouble with most ot us Is. we get too excited over little things snd not excited euough over the hlg ones Agitation, loss of temper and sue render of self command over the trlv l al annoyances of life are a sheer waste of lime aud energy In most lilimnn affairs more cun be accotn pllitslietl through poise aud placidity Gian through effervescence and sels rale phenomena. If s don l gel-excited club could he -<) organized as to conserve all the | iiuiomi votings that no» goes tv waste Too E a s ily E x c ite d through needless excitement It would mean that mankind had reached tin suburbs of a new era.—Harry Daniel In T h rift Magazine. W ord Invent o n Shakespeare Invented the word “ be smirch“ and Carlyle “ bestnutch"; Southey produced "betrayal" and Coleridge “ eseraplastlc” ; Goldsmith contributed “ cantankerous." Burke "disorganize," and Bernard Shaw “ sn perman." according to the Oxford Eng list) dictionary. Fruit of the Banyan The banyan tree Ik a species of fl, and produces a frnlt of rich, scarlet color not' larger than a sherry, grow ing In pairs from the axils of lit leaves. a • a a Oeese sholud not he used for breed ing purposes until they are two years old. A gander may be used the first Season. • a a Winter egg production Is largely ol>-_ tulned from pnllets that are well grown, properly fed. and carry a sur plus of flesh. a • Scientists have discovered all kinds of odd facts about humanity. For (instance, nn expert recently stated that he had never seen a bald- headed lunatic! Now comes the even more peculiar disclosure that red headed girls may be bow legged, but brunettes are, as a rule, knoet--kneed. These facts are based on data supplied by a certain artists’ club which has been collect ing statistics respecting Its models. Another luteresting point Is that red-haired women suffer less from se rious diseases than their darker sis ters. This Is due to the fact that their sklo throws off poison more rapidly than a dark person's. Also, red hair, which a generation ago was Jeered at, nowadays Is ad mired, as It should be. 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It Is the go-getter that does It, but the bystander sees how It Is done. T r e a t in S to re . Clare Sheridan, the sculptor o f half- American and half-English blood. Is coming back to lecture again. Shs said the other day to London cor respondent : "My other American lectures failed because they were too heavy. M.v new lectures w ill be light and a iry—fu ll of epigrams, yon know. My lecture on love, fo r example, w ill begin : "Love-making consists In a man run ning after you till you land him."— Rehoboth Sunday Herald. W e ll, M a y b e N o t. “ I have been reading some of the articles In Woman's Home Companion on why people marry," wrote one hus band. " I don’t believe the authors know why they marry,” he addetL “ Nobody knows.” Im itators are a servile race. a Broiler chickens that are regarded In many quarters as a delicacy, are sent to murket In too many cases In an unfinished condition. • • • A warmer, better ventilated poultry house can be had If a straw loft Is used. 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