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.
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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
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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. The red-
haired girl has proved that she is not
hot-tempered, but, as a rule, much bet
ter balanced meutally than a brunette.
—Exchange.
No Time Just Then to
Think About Fairness
Valentin Garflas, the millionaire oil
man, said In New York the other day
that there Is a great overproduction
end consequent waste of oil.
“ Nevertheless," Mr. Garflas went on,
“ there are men who snatch oil prop
erties as unfairly as— well. It's like
the story.
"A chap, wild with hunger, rushed
up to a railway station lunch counter.
The counter was crowded, and he only
had a minute to catch his train. Must
he go without food? It looked like It.
“ Two beautiful sandwiches had Just
been set before two gentlemen, and
the chap grabbed one of them up.
“ 'Here,' Its owner snarled. ‘Here,
that ain’t your sandwich!’
“ ‘Ain’t It?’ said the chap, as he
slipped it In his pocket. Then I guess
this must be mine.’
“ And he grabbed up the other
gentleman's sandwich, and galloped
off and caught his train Just as It was
moving from the station.”
The Whimsical Max.
Paul Jones of the family of the
University of Pennsylvania, said on
his recent return from Europe:
“ I have a great admiration for Max
Beerbohm, and In August I visited him
In hts villa at Rapallo on the Italian
Riviera.
“ I had visited him before, and had
told him a story about James Joyce;
but I forgot this on my second v is it
and retold the Joyce story.
‘‘The whimsical Max, when I fin
ished, said:
“ ‘That's a good story, but, really,
If you tell It to me again I shall have
to tell It to you.’ "
G u lls L ik e d S tr a w b e rr ie s .
Strange picnic guests were enter
tained at a clambake on the shore at
Belfast, Maine, when a flock of sea
gulls, after circling about, swooped
down and made an attack on a plate
of strawberry tarts, although they left
the apple tarts on the plate. Only
one of the birds succeeded In getting
away with one o f the tidbits of des
sert. and he was followed for some
distance by the others trying to get a
bite.
j
RELIEF!
Every Mother Should Know
This Quick, Sure, Safe Method
A
« 7 » .: “ W h e n m r on,
year old baby bad whooping cough, G;e»ea
gave quick re lie f fro m coughing SDella. Ta
la w o n d erfu l.”
•
• • • • •
Babies and child ren can so ean ly be spared
m uch suffering fro m whooping cough, c” 0» 7
c o ld , and cougha. Aalt a n y phyiician i f
»rained nurae— about the rem arkable aeonX
tiea of Gleaaco. W h e n symptoms o f them
appear, give thia ew ithing, healing remedr at
ence. W hoop ing cough is lightened, c r » «
r r h / r r d w ifnoM t vo m iting, colds chccketL
cougha atopped— im m e d ia te ly / Containi M
cpiatea. Get it now — and have it at hand al.
h i” C
dru» * ist’
general a to r^
C ough and C roup Remedy
CDPr
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This good old-fash
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remedy fo r consti
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tem so prevalent these days is In even
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than In yonr grandmother's day.
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L a s t o f th o
F la m in g o e s .
The vivid color o f the flamingo may
have been driven from the earth by
the last hurricane. The Inst existing
colony of the birds was on Andros
Island In the Bahamas, which was
badly hit by the storm.
T r ia ls o f th e T u b e rs .
“ Can you imagine anything worse
than being a cornstalk and having your
ears pulled by farmers?”
“ How about being a potato with
your eyes fu ll of d irt? "—Montreal
Star.
A
D iffe r e n t E d u c a tio n .
Too few of ns have the courage to
nse what education we have, unless
some one has given us a diploma cer
tifying our right to IL—American
Magazine.
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. Poles or boards may he laid
across the plates nnd covered with
straw, hay or corn stRlks.
a
Seme Revised Opinion
About the Red-Haired
SAY
“ BAYER
A S P IR IN ”
and
IN S IS T I
Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for
Colds
Pain
Headache
Neuralgia
Neuritis
Toothache
Lumbago
Rheumatism
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART
•
liens w ill be healthier
nst subjected to too much
is rarely sny need of a
henhouse If the building
cons! ructed.
£ [ only ‘‘Bayer” package
which contains proven directions.
If they are
I eat. There
stove In a
Is properly
a m r t a la the trade stark at B a -er
Hsadv "Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists,
Winkrtsre Vt MonoaeetleacMeate, ot SailejlicaetS