HALSEY E N T E R P R ISE , HALSEY, OREGON, DECEM BER 27. 192X For Colds T he R ed R oad A Romance of Braddock’s Defeat By HUGH P e NDEXTER C o p y r ig h t hy H ugh P o n d o sto r. Illu stration s by Irw tn M yers W X U S e r v ic e '* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ■ * * * * * * * * * * * . * * * * > * * * > ^ ^ *^ # s ^ ^ ^ ,> ^ ^ ^ s **> *^ ^ *.# ^ **^ ****« r************-********^ The Cabildo p .litH A P S uo building In New Or- * leans bolds more Interest for the strange* that, the Cabildo—that solid, dignified structure of unquestioned ancient origin, built of adobe and shell lime, two stories high with a munsard roof. The guide Informs us that It was so named from tbe municipal council which sat here under Spanish rule when It was tbe government house or palace of Justice and that It was "put ! up" In 1795. A tablet explains that here In 1803 the formal transfer cf the Province ? of Louisiana from Spain to France, also from France to the United States, took place; that the Marquis de La | fayette resided her In 1825 as a guest of the city, also that later the main , room on the second floor was used by the Supreme Court of Louisiana. In this same room, It is said, was held the flrst Protestant church service conducted in the state of Louisiana. The courtyard was used as a prison yard for more than a century. The remains of the old pillory may be seen as well as the bullet holes In tbe walls — executions having occurred here as late as 1836. This historic buildlnfe also played a prominent role In more recent days. Here a reception was given to Presi­ dent McKinley In 1901, and the cen­ tennial celebration of the Louisiana purchase was held In 1903. Still well preserved, this old build­ ing now bouses the state museum— a collection of Intensely Interesting rel­ ics of early days. Including the death mask of the great Napoleon. river. In October a mixed force of In my ears, calling me "mister.” Once French and Indiana way burning and I dreamed we were with the baggage scalping within forty miles of the train and she was saying “ Kiss me.” The Long Trail End* ferry. Settlers were frantically flee­ I required many a bloody foray It was thirteen duys after the hat ing to the east, or doggedly fortlng against Shawnee and traitorous Dela­ tie that Dunbar the Tardy arrived at themselves on learning that escape ware to wash that last dream thin. Fort Cumberland on Will'» creek with was cut off. I went out with forty- So there was never a day, when I three hundred wounded soldier*. It live men from the ferry and helped was meeting with some one new, that la Impossible to picture the amaze I did not make diligent Inquiry for bury fourteen mangled bodies. Great went and consternation that «moth her. cove was destroyed. ered the colonies when It was definite­ By December, the Indians were on But so many families had been ex­ ly known that the army bad been de the Lehigh behind the Blue mono terminated, so many pedigrees ended, tested and broken. There had been tains, where they killed a hundred that only by chance could I hope for no concern In the public mind as to people and burned many cabins. Beth­ news from the wltcb-glrL An elfish the outcome of the campaign. lehem prepared to resist an attack. boyish creature In reality, but my The first uncertain news was re At about the same time another band separation from her translated her celved by Colonel James Innes. com penetrated to the Schuylkill In Berks Into some symbol of the border, some- wander at Fort Cumberland. This county and did devil’s work. For fifty thing fearfully desirable. It became was on July eleventh, two days after miles around Easton tbe country was a mania with me to And her, and yet the battle. He Immediately started devastated. So widespread were the expresses to the neighboring provinces activities of the savages that hun­ my place was on the frontier. On relief sallies, on retreats and to announce his grave fear thnt the dreds of people fled Into the Jerseys, army had met with reverses. While some carrying their household goods on scouting trips, I asked of all I met these messengers were currying the and driving their cattle; others vain­ if they knew of one called Daniel astounding news the wagoners, who ly offering half of all they possessed Morgan. Some professed to have met him, but none knew about a young bad first tied the bloody field, were In an effort to save something. woman dressed as a man. At the end beginning to reach the outlying settle It was a characteristic of rhls nn of my service rrlth General Forbes I merits. Governor Morris was at Car equal lighting that the Indians took was as Ignorant as to whether she lisle when a half-starved, hulf-mad but few prisoners. Thirty-six houses lie alive or dead as I had been when Wagoner flogged his exhausted mount and the church at Gnadenhutten were I recovered my wits at the edge of Into the settlement and began crying burned, although Lieutenant Brown the clearing along the Allegheny, out that Braddock had been defeated, and a company of rangers forted where the dead hung from the twelve that the entire army had been annl themselves In the church and held It blluted, and that he, the wagoner, was until It was tired. The Juniata was torture-stakes. the only survivor. And I missed the Onondaga. God visited early In January and many The province* were stunned. On people were murdered within two or only knows how I missed him and his the sixteenth another messenger three miles of Fort Patterson. brave heart when on some lonely brought further details. General Brad­ faring. I missed Cromlt In a lesser Even the hack districts of Chester dock was dead and had been hurled und Philadelphia counties were en degree, and often wished his terrible at Great Meadows on the fourteenth hands could help me decide some hungered, and four hundred German and the army and Dunbar's wugons rarmers from uneven argument Aye, I missed them the latter county bad passed over his grave to hide It But It was Round Paw of the Wolf j marched Into Philadelphia city and from the suvages. On the day this Sunshine at Night” clan whose absence ate Into my soul. demanded that the assembly gram m.’n brought bis dismal budget. Gov­ them some protection. These settlers Red or white, oever was there a ;eneratlons of time that noted ernor Morris sent out a call for the should have remembered how men of stronger comrade than he. The lone- spot where a mighty river spreads assembly to meet him In Philadelphia ly Monongahela sings his requiem, but Its waters over the broad, sharp edge their race defeated Joseph Seely on the twenty-third, so as to permit Berks county candidate for sheriff. In In my heart he shall ever have a of a rocky cliff and Jumps off Into Dunbar to take the offensive and pre Many a good comrade space with a thundering roar, only to the October election, because he high place. vent the triumphant enemy from over­ favored military training. have I had In my day, but none so , be clothed In mist and caught up In a dear to my memory as the Wolf man I basin 160 feet below, has been one running our frontiers and from bring Throughout the winter, the savages log the ax to the eastern settlements Gone to meet his particular god as of the great sights of America. continued very active, which was un has many another, and all because Dunbar promptly announced bis de­ usuul. as during the snow months the Tbe stupendous cataract of Niagara termination to be done with forest has Its moods and until one has seen frontier always had experienced a re­ one man did not understand. Worn by Incessant hardships and It glorifled as the sun announces a lighting; and he marched his twelve lief from attacks and had slept sound hundred soldiers to Philadelphia and ly. The woods from the Juniata to seriously troubled by the old arrow new day, as the setting sun burnishes left three hundred wounded men at Shamokin were tilled with ferocious wound In my arm, I returned to Car Its water* with gold, when Its dancing lisle, uncertain as to what I should do waters glisten In the moon's silvery W ill* creek. His army went Into red men, who killed and burned. In next. The settlers were preparing rays, during high water when Its flow camp on Society hill, and In vain did the latter part of the month a hnn to follow General Forbes' army and Is prodigious und when the Icy hand Governor Morris urge him to send a dred Indians at Kittanning. Includ few men to patrol the Susquehunna Ing not a few who bad been loyal to make a new beginning along some of winter has stiffened Its liquid form pleasant stream. Rut 1, the last of | into a fairyland of Ice, he has not Enough refugees came In to swell the England until the defeat on the Mon the House of tbe Open Hand, had on really seen it—In the broader sense. army to fifteen hundred, and without ongahela, left to raid the Coocoche desire to build a cabin and take roof raising bis hand to protect the border ague settlements and forts Shirley Remarkable as the contributions of The strange unrest, . Nature's benefactors have made IL Dunbar the Tardy sailed with this and Littleton. I was one of those In one spot. which had been only satisfied by the man's Ingenuity has added another force for New York Io October, who rode ahead to spread the alarm, Stupefaction wus replaced by dis­ and I experienced enough thrills to turmoil of border warfare, reduced I rare beauty to tta charms—one en­ me to a sad state of nerves. How tirely beyond the conception of those may as this, the only fighting force In last me several lifetimes. the south, war withdrawn. In very And so the bloody story might go could I ever be content on one creek who have not yet beheld IL termed truth were the colonies aroused to on through volumes. Settlements tn or In one valley, with the memories “Sunshine at Night." the realization thnt they must protect A battery of superpowerful search­ flames and the rough roads crowded of the Monongahela haunting me? themselves by doing their own light­ with terrified families. Scarcely a With the vision of that small wistful lights, trained from across the river face staring back at me, I rode a ing, and no longer depend upon over­ night could one scun the horizons and on both the crest and fall, resurrects seas armies. Once Dunbar's Inteti thel’ forms from their nightly dark not see the red flares that told of skeleton of a horse Into Carlisle. tlons to withdraw from the province some cabin or hamlet being wiped Perhaps It was a weakness of spirit ness and causes them to blaze forth became known. Governor Dinwiddle out. Not until Gen. John Forbes' ex­ that Impelled me to surrender to the j In a veritable dream picture. Nor Is urged Pennsylvania and Maryland to pedition In the summer of 1758. when sudden longing to visit my old home | that all. Through the manipulation of unite with Virginia In building a he marched to Duquesne with fifty nod once more look through the gate numerous colored screens, these trem- strong fort at the Great crossing or eight hundred men and a thousand of my father’s garden. I scarcely re- J bling waters can be transformed Into on Great Meadows. This wise plan member my mother, hut perhaps thle a kaleidoscope of color, unequaled wagons, did we begin to have a rest for protecting the border came to from the butcheries. But General longing was the divine cslllng of the elsewhere tn this world—a scene which nothing because of the colonies' In- maternal In me. Like my horse. I once beheld cunnot be completely for- Forbes would have oothlng to do with ability to overcome factlonul Jealous the Ill-fated Braddock road and wise­ was scarcely more than a skelet. o I gotten. les and to agree ns to the division of ly followed the central path through borrowed a suitable horse of a • • • stranger and did not marvel at big , the expense, labor and the like. So Carlisle, W all Street Shippensburg, and over we drifted Into three years of rapine Luurel mountain. The long rifles were trust In me. At times I assured my y y ^ A L L street came by Its name and slaughter. “ m , ' Wh' m’ ‘ h1” ' W° U,d ’ ’ from ‘ he fact that along about proving their worth and were soon ? ' f V s I reached Carlisle the day after _ u>bin ° U i n8i ° ° J” 7 trncl(s and J652, as a protection against possible to tnke Canada from the French Governor Morris started for Phlladel During all this strife and these mis t i attack from hostile Indians or col» phla. My wound*, aggravated bv ex y r° B °,n nlsts, the adjoining Dutch settlement eruhle scenes, I endeavored to do my posure, forced me to travel slowly; share In exacting a penalty from the The memories stirred np by the Jonr (the original New York) constructed and my efforts to tlnd some trace of red men. For two weeks I worked ney were painful. Unlike that other a palisade (or wall) Immediately to the Dlnwold girl permitted many sur­ with Captain Jack, the Black Hunter visit, the Onondaga was no longer the north of the city, near the present vivors to puss me. Mine was old news of the Juniata. But when that river my companion; and yet at times I location of this now world-famous when I did arrive. In Carlisle I fell fancied he walked at my stirrup, his street. was harried he became such a mad in with three rangers who were cut chest showing the fresh white paint as time went on houses appeared man und would take such foolhardy off from the ford when the final rout In and a new gtreeL which naturally was risks that I left his hnnd. Yet we of the round paw of the wolf. tilled the narrow road. They were my more rational moments I felt old ! named Well, was ushered Into exlst- made some rare killings In the short forced to advance north, or close to time we were together. and out of place. It was when I ence. This newcomer In streetdom Duquesne, to escape the savages They brooded over the witch-girl's disap­ gradually became a “high hat” residen­ The danger was never so great. pearance that I felt a great emptl tial thoroughfare and remained so until had concealed themselves In the woods However, as to cause me to forget, near the Allegheny, and from what ness of heart which made all the along about tbe close of tbe Revolu- the Dlnwold girl. In my dreams they had observed I leurned how live and In my waking hours I could wee plans of youth but little account I tlonajy war. hundred of Pontiac's Ottawa« had Buildings having to do with govern­ tier tugging at young Morgan’s hsud had no wish to look on Josephine quarreled with the French over the and striving to come back and race again and tell her poor Busby's fare­ mental affairs also stood here. Among division of the booty, and had thrown well message; and yet something them uie Colonial city hall which, re­ the trouble out In my company. At hack the ax and had killed and modeled. became Federal hall and night I would awake with her voice drew me to the town. erlnd better. Is tougher and more elastic. up by a well emphasized "wow " But the Indiana required to convince the Poles will tell you to press your T h e C o tt o f P eace tongue to the roof of your mouth and themselves that the war path to rhe F o r m a lity say "L ” as we do. then forcefully bit sast wns unobstructed Then the storm Somebody has said that courage Is began to break the price we must pay for peace of ; Little Jean was visiting her smalt Ing the lower Up with the upper teeth to say "v o o r (l.vnof) ndnd. If we are afraid of anything— ; The first blow struck hy the raider» cousin They »ere playing and ha> no matter what—we can not ee at .r«s In Cumberland county, and soon Ing a glorious time together when peace with ourselves and with our the ax wns taking toll on the «usque H e a rin g o f F ith e t lean's father cnnie to take her home After «lie had donned her mat and hanna A large body nt Indian» Fish do not annuity have ears : they world. But If we have sufficient conr rn*ti|>ed thirty mites above Harris i>«t. she turned around and said : "Say j nave sensitive aoijnd organs and can see to cast out fear, we can have peace. ferry and killed on both sides of the ¡ >' o n D IA R S t l a m l d - > ” tM A IN Som ew here the Suo Shine» Cannibals In the Island of I ’aquR eat the Dutch tax collectors. There seeing to be some Justice In the world after all.—Springfield Sun. 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