H A L S E Y E N T E R P R IS E , H A L S E Y . O R EG O N . JA N . 3. 1929
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The R ed R o a d
A Romance of Braddock’s Defeat
By
C opyrigh t
H ugh P endexter
by H ugh
Illu str a tio n s by Ir w in M yers
F e n d es tor.
W NU Servie«
Improved Uniform International Up-to-Date City Built
Sunday School
’ Lesson ’
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Moody Bibi« iD M itu to o f C b ica ro .l
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Lesson for January 6
OUR h e a v e n l y f a t h e r
CHAPTER X — Continued
I followed the roundabout Susque
haririu road and puaacd by the mine
of many a cabin. It waa not the meet
direct route, but It pleased me to
fool myself w ith the thought I would
never continue as far as Alexandria.
However, I did persevere, and an
astounding thing happened to me and
expelled my apathy and left me qulv
erlng with a new purpose. The On
ondaga would bare said It waa my
orenda working for me. A white man
would have said It was luck. It all
happened at a hamlet on the Mary
land line where a dozen men were
listening to a rugged fellow ’s plea
for volunteers to serve as riflemen
In the expedition soon to be made
against Canada.
W eary
of war.
weary of myself, and finding solace
only In my strange dreams, I would
have passed ny with deaf ears hod
not his rude eloquence compelled my
attention while he cried o u t:
“ Sick of It? Who ain ’t alck of It?
Hut bow will It he stopped unless
your rifles help stop If?
I tell you
we’ve got 'em running now. You’ve
had a bellyful of fighting! Who a in 't!
I thought I had a bellyful at Drad
dock's battle.
I've thought I bad
more'n enough during the lost three
years.
Out I've been earning all
these years; earning that If we want
a Job well done we must do It o u r
selves.
Men, It's the long rifle, and
not the Brown Bess what's going to
pat a atop to the Injun deviltries.
And If you’ll go along with me I'll
lend only as long as I can keep ahead.
When any other feller can lead fast«*,
he takes my place and I take his
orders."
I reined In and stared at the fellow
closely. There was something reminis­
cent In the strong young face.
He
was quick to see me and my travel
stained forest garb, and he called out
over the heade o f hla audience:
"Welcome, friend.
You look like
as you was used to woods flghtlug."
“ I've had my share o f It ; from Brad­
dock down to Forbes and much In he-
tween."
“ But you're not through y e t! Ycur
long rifle still alioots!"
" It still shoots. I am not through
until the Job la finished."
He pointed me out as a wholesome
example, and embarrassed me by ex-
tolling my high s p ir it Whereas I was
sick of Indians, sick of hardships.
I had but one desire; to spread my
blanket back of the Carlisle house
and dose to the sleepy lap-lap o f the
Potomac and rest there one night, end
perchance dream of Bushy and other
playm ates I backed my horse sway
and waited until the young man had
finished Ills talk and had secured half
a dozen names or marks on hlr. mus­
ter-roll.
Then
I dismounted and
Joined him and drew him aside, and
•aid:
"You'll he Daniel Morgan, at one
time a wagoner In Braddock's army."
" I lend center. But I don't know you
from Adam, friend. You have mighty
little meat on your bones"
“ I threw you on to a burse at the
lower ford of the Monongahela on
July ninth, three years ago."
“ I I —I I I remember. The man fight­
ing beside the tall Injun I”
"There was a young person wltb
you— "
"A gal In breeches Elsie Dlnwold
she gave her name. She had the grit
o f any man I ever eee.”
“ H a d !" I repented. a deathly faint
news stealing through my gaunt frame
“ And still h as I'll guarantee, tf
she's kept out o f danger aud didn't
gtt sculped. Lord I But she did try
desperate hard to gtt off that boas
and git hack to the flghtlug I"
"Man, where Is she!
Where did
you leave h e r!
W hy don’t yon say
■omethlng when you ta lk !" I cried
And I placed my hands oo his
shoulders and shook him.
Ils grinned broadly and showed no
resentment at my manners
"W here she Is I cannot say.
But
she went to Alexandria.
I gathered
from her ta lk —and she talked mighty
little — that some one the used to
know, and liked a heap, lived there
once. But you'll be signing up as a
rifleman for northern w ork?'
I mounted before bothering to
answer him
Then I called h a rk :
"That must come later. I must (In
Ish s lourney flrst."
And though It was dark and my
borse was weary I rode on.
A skeleton of a man on a worn
out horse. No leisurely riding uow
I would not ha1» eaten, nor slept, tf
hot for my m ount I had hut one de­
sire— to strike Into the old postroad
and finish the distance at a smash­
ing g u llo r The poor brute was bad
ly used up when I did leave Shooter's
hill behind me I reined In.
Now (hat I bad arrived and would
soon know all. 1 experienced a strange
tim idity. Three years had passe«! No
■oldlert now enlivened A lexandria;
and I knew the drowsy calm of the
town would never suit her. She bad
p u n away long before this; or—and
this was a most disturbing thought
—she bad found some nos who «p
pa eels ted her. and bad m arried Re
yond all doubt she bad come to the
belief that I was dead
Now that I bad ta.ked wltb young
Morgan I could not forgive my atu
pendoua folly In neglecting to seek
her on the banks of the Potomac.
Yet I bad reasoned logically enough
—she was never one to seek refuge
In Alexandria. She was born of the
frontier and border blood was In her
veins
She would feel as much out
of place In Alexandria as the fulr
Josephine would feel on the lonely
shore of the Monongahela.
I clucked to my burse and I rode
down the King's road, and the dust
scuffed up by my tired mount's feet
lazily drifted on to the meudow grass
and settled and apolled Its sheen; Just
as It had when I watched Lhe gren
adlers march up the some rood oo
Braddock's fatal business.
The town had changed noue. There
were the same slim and fat chimneys
the same qualm roofs of different
patterns, ond the double row ol Lorn
hardy poplars before the Carlisle
house.
There were the windows of
the blue-and-whlle room, where Brad­
dock bad drunk hla wine and rightly
bad berated the colonies for tbelr
lack of zeal. The new warehouse on
Point Lumley, at the foot of Duke
street, was complete and already
showing the mellow Influence of the
weather,
Oo the w harf were sev-
•Oh, M lstsrl
You’ve Coma B ackl"
eral guns, brought over by Braddock
and left behind because of their cum­
bersome weight.
But oo gay uni
forms decorated the approach to the
Royal George and Gadsby'e; no guaids
awed the natives by their precise
maneuvers In the market place.
I dismounted to be less consplcu
ous, and wltb my long rifle under my
arm led my patient anim al to the
House of the Open Hand. And here
I received a sharp surprise.
The
garden beyond the gate was trim and
orderly.
The fountain was cleaned
out, and the yellow-topped mustard
waa destroyed. The roof of the grape
arbor had been rep aired ; and the
grounds reflected the tidy content my
father had so dearly loved.
The
place was Inhabited.
I turned away, feeling greatly de­
pressed. Now I knew I had come on
a tool's errand.
The w ltcb-glrl—a
bit of thistledown before the w in d -
had drifted on.
I had no heart to
see the front of the house, end would
have returned to the market place to
bait my mount and ride away had
not a woman emerged from the door
to stare at me for a second. I was
for hurrying on. but she called me
by name and came running a fter me
as fast as her tl >unres and petticoats
would p erm it
" I knew you I I knew you, Webster
Brood I
Your tall ngure would be­
tray you anywhere I" she cried, ex
tending both hands
"Jom-pblne I* I mumbled
"Mistress lls w lt t w ife of Carter
H e w itt." she corrected, and relin­
quished my bands to drop me s cour­
tesy, "You must corns In and tell me
where you have been and what you
have been doing.
M r. H e w itt will
LESS« i N T E X T — M . t t h . w < :1 « -I4
G u l d e n T E X T — L l k . as a fa th e r
be back any tim e n o * .
Ue rode to
pjtleth tola children, so the lo r d pltletb
A nnapolis”
them th a t fear Him.
80 [/wir Busby's message would
PRIMARY TOPIC— Our H eaven ly F a ­
never be delivered. Relieved o f that ther
,
_
JUNIOR TOPIC—Our H eavenly F a ­
sad errand, there was do call for
_ _
me to tarry,
I mumbled something ther.
INTERM EDIATE AMD SENIOR TOP­
about being tn a desperate burry, but IC— W hat the H eaven ly F ath er Meant
_
she seemed to be possessed even to to Me
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP­
ttie point of on womanliness. For she IC—
The Fatherhood of God.
fairly danced before me, her bine
H a lf of the lessons for the year 1929
eyes sparkling w ltb m ischief; and
she Insisted:
are o f a topical character. T he aim of
"You must come In, mister. You Just the committee seems to have been to
m u st"
place before the Sunday-school pupils
"W hy do you speak like that?" 1 some o f the great doctrine, of God’s
whispered,
"W hy do you call me Word, as well as teachings on prac­
mister1!"
tical life.
And I grasped her bands and
I. W ho 1» Cur Heavenly Father?
gripped them tlL' her grimace re­ (Genesis 1 :1. 27).
minded me I was not handling a red
He Is the Almighty God who cre­
savage.
ated the universe. God was before
“ N o ; I'll tell you nothing out here all things.
“Before the mountains
In the road," she cried. “ A vestry­ were brought forth, or ever thou hadst
man will he rebuking us. Besides, It's formed the earth and the world, even
not comely that you should bold my from everlasting to everlasting, thou
bands.
Come I"
art God." The universe came Into be­
I released ber, and followed her ing by the w ill and act of the personal
under Lhe grinning mask and through being called God. Man himself Is a
the cool doorway. In the ball I baited creation of God. He was created In
and cautiously seated myself In a the likeness and Image of God. God Is
spindle-legged chair, and demanded: the Infinite and perfect spirit In whom
"Now tell me.”
we live and move and have cur being.
"Oh, Webster, It would be so ro­ H< Is omnipotent, omniscient and om
mantic I f you w eren't so stupidly mat­ nlpresenL He was not only before
te r-o f-fa c t Why shouldn’t I call you all things, but the cause of ell tilings.
‘m ister’! " .
II. W hat the Father Does.
“Josephine, the devil’s In you. Have
1. He loves us (1 John 4 :9, 10).
you anything to say or n o t!"
This love v ns expressed by sending
I rose as If to leave.
His only begotten Son Into the world
W ith a sigh at having her game
that we might live through Him. Ue
cut short she prim ly began:
not only loves the redeemed, but He
" I have a young ward, a refugee
loves the world (John 3:10). In the
from the Braddock ro u t She came
very essence of His being God Is love
here In a most scandalous condition
(1 John 4 :8 ).
—dressed as a man I She gave your
2. He redeemed us (1 John 4 :9 ).
name and said you would come to
He gave His only begotten Son that
And her.
8be gave me your name,
« • might live through Him.
but she always speaks o f you a t
S. God preserves us ( I ’s. 103:1-14).
'mister.' How Is that for mighty re­
The preserving mercy of God em
spect !”
,
unices «the following gracious bene-
"And now ! W lere Is she!” I mut­
»•rial acts:
tered.
f l ) He forgives all our Iniquities
“Why, now she should be In the
gnrden. gathering posies for the table. 'v. 3) This He Is able to do because
f the righteous provision He made
You see Mr. H ew itt bought this place
three days after Braddivk and poor or sin In the atonement wrought out
Bushy mnrclied away, lie was a con­ jy Jesus ClirlsL
(2) He healeth all our diseases (v.
firmed bachelor
He lived here alone
until our marriage a year ago this I). This healing refers to the body
summer
Mistress Elsie from the be­ and soul.
(3) He redeemeth the life from de­
ginning nould come here tn walk tn
the garden because It bad been your struction (v. 4). Redemption Implies
home.
It promised a rare scandal. the payment of all demands against
Mr. H ew itt appealed to me tn great the debtor.
(4) He satlsfleth thy mouth (v. 5).
alarm
I had tn marry th e poor man.
or else banish the wild tiling Now it s This means that God satisfies all
perfectly proper for tier to «calk In legitimate desires so ihat youth Is re­
the garden as much as she «« III I vs newed like the eagle's.
(5 ) He executes rlghteousnest and
lost my Interest In yon W e b s te r. Von
ludgment ( w . 0-12). The vrongs of
know the way down th e b all!'
An Idiotic question file 'loot. o| en- life are righted and man Is thus re­
Ing Into the garden, was the one I lieved o f their burdens.
(6)
He pities Ills children ( w .
bad passed through thousands ot
13, 14). The pity of an enrthly fa
times In the old days.
"You've been good to tier, Joseph­ tlier for his chl’ drea Is but a faint
ine. You must have been mighty good suggestion of t l . » sympathetic heart
to her, or she would never have of the loving God, our Father.
I I I . Our Responsibility to the Heav
stayed."
''Rubbish I
I couldn't have driven enly Father (M atthew 0:24-34).
Christ came to reveal the Father,
her away.
She was always looking
for •mister' to come. She would have l'lie subjects of the heavenly kingdom
made a camp In the “arden and lived will love Him as the child loves Its
like an Indian." Then w ith much sad­ father.
1. He w ill give unto him undivided
ness she added: "1 hate that word—
Indian.
You understand. Webster— attention (v. 24).
I'm sorry."
I Tf,e child o f God makes the nn
“ His last words. Joe," I blundered, equivocal choice between the heaven-
gtvlng her Busby's message a fte r u ll •? Father and the world. The word
“Go
find
her,"
she
brokenly ’mammon" Is a kind of personifies
whispered And as I made down the ,lf,n
worldllness,
hall I saw her hand traveling up the
-■ " ll1 n" t he anxious about food
balustrade, clinging to It Ughlly to ,n'1 clothing (vv. 21 3 2).
eld her weary fe e t
j The child of God who knows Him
But sorrow was not for me this ,s " Fathei w ill not be supremely con
day.
I was selfishly alive w ith the cernvnl about what It shall eat or
joy of anticipation.
I burst through " h a t •< ’ hall put on hecanse anxiety Is
the doorway as If pursued by Pontiac
<!> Useless (v. 27).
himself. Next I came to a plunging
Regardless of what thought or con
bait and found myself bowing awk- J cern one exercises concerning food
wardly before a dainty creature In " '"I clothing. It w ill be provided only
flounces and lace.
I n coord I ng to His will. In Him do we
"1 beg your pardon," I stammered.
"J was looking for a young lady—"
“Oh, mister I
You've come hack I"
she sobbed.
And the arm ful of
flowers was dnipped and a miracle
was worked; for I found the lovely
thing In my arms, her voice whimper­
ing over and o ve r: "Oh, mister |
You've come hack!”
( T H E END.J
« « » W X K H X H X H X H itX lO C H X K X IO C X X H X K i^ ^
Writer» Turned From Drugs to Authorship
It may seem a far cry from the drug
store to lite ra ry fame, but throughout
tbe ages (here has been a puzzling re
latlonshlp between tbe two
Many a
youth who has started Ilfs Io a pbar
macy has found, *strnngely enough.
Ihat his res I career lies In authorship,
ssys a w riter In the American Drug
glsl Magazine
Aristotle waa one of
the curliest of these. The Greek
philosopher, son of a physician, fol
lowe«l his father's footateiw as a youth
In those days when doctor and drug
gist were one
Dante. Immortal poet
was a member of the guild of spot be
caries In hla native Florence
John
Keala serve«! a t a pharmsidat's ap
prentkw an«, later graduated from
Apothe«wrlee'
ball
Henrik
lh«en
found the Inspiration for hie “Ghosts'
and "An Enemy of the People“ while
serving for six year» In a little Nor
weglan drug store«
And O. Henry,
probably the moat famous of modern
dnigglat-anthora, spent several of hla
early years In a Greensboro (N . C.)
pharmacy.
M a lt i a» Loud S p ta k tr t
Ask a mao toe Information, says a
woman critic In the American Maga­
zine. and no matter what the subject,
nine out of ten of them w ill bare a
beautiful time enlightening you on IL
But F tw E tc a p t
Headache Is the one form o f suffer*
Ing which makes all the world feel
kin. — American Magazine«
Am ericas typewriters shlppe«) to oth­
er countries last year were valued at
nearly S21.tW.AMK
on Old Refuse Dump
Part of Ottakrlng. the sixteenth dls-
I trtet of Vienna, known under the name
: o f “Sandlelten,” writes a correspond-
1 ent of the London Sunday Observer,
was used for years as a refuse dump.
But the municipality resolved to trans­
form the place Into a kind of garden
city, and a fter four years’ labor has
now finished the construction of a new
1 town which w ill house some 7,000 per­
sons.
The place, which Is to be opened for
use In a short time, w ill have 1,600
flats, a large number of shops and
storshouses, library, theater and cin­
ema, klDdergaiten, public bath, post
ofllce, cafe, restaurant and park. Its
architecture Is modern town style,
with a smack of the rustic. Round Its
center, the M atteottl square, the
streets are grouped. Some street» aud
squares are called a fte r LlUiknacht,
Rosa Luxemburg, Nietzsche, in d oth­
ers«
Denver Mother
Tells Story
Nature controls all
the functions of our
digestive organs ex­
cept one.
W e have
control over that, and
I t ’s the function that
causes the most trou­
ble.
See that your chil­
dren form regular bowel habits, and
at the flrst sign o f bad breath, coated
tongue, biliousness o r constipation,
give them a little C alifornia Fig
Syrup. I t regulates the bowels and
stomach and gives these organs tone
and strength so they continue to act
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Its rich, fru ity taste and It's purely
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Leading physicians have endorsed
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Protect your child from Imitations
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Tonaorial M o c k e r y
They are telling at the Century club
a joke on tbe English w riter, D. H .
Lawrence.
M r. Lawrence, on his recent lec­
ture tour, arrived In a smallish Ohio
town and went to the barber's for a
h air c u t
“Anything going on tonight!" he
asked the barber.
"Lecture,” said the barber. “Eng­
lishman named Lawrence.”
The Englishman named Lawrence
smiled. “I ’m him," be said.
The barber started back In a the­
atrical way. Then he said to a man
who was sharpening razors on a
stone:
"Here, B ill, sweep up all this red
hair.
I want to preserve IL "— New
York Times.
Day follows on the murkiest night,
and, when the tim e comes, the latest
fruits w ill ripen.— Schiller.
live, move and have our being. God
»applies all our needs (Phil. 4:19)
(2) It shows distrust of the Father
(vv. 29-30). I d the men stir«, that one
is anxious about these needs, he shows
lack o f faith In the love o f God
<3) It Is heathenish (v. 32). That
I those who are Ignorant of God should
! manifest anxiety .a not to he won
j dered at, but for Ills children, those
who knov God as the Father, to do so
s to play the heathen. He knows that
we have ne«'d of temporal blessings.
.1 W ill diligently seek the Kingdom
-f God and His righteousness, (vv
13. 34).
This means that he will subordinate
temporal things to the things o f the
spirit. It does not mean that a child
of God w ill fall to exercise proper
forethought In providing for himself
and family.
The Reality of Life
Silence Is In truth the attribute ot
God: and those who seek H im from
that side Invariably learn 'hat medi
tut Ion Is not the dream, hut the real
tty ot life ; not its Illusion, hut its
tru th ;
not Its weakness but Its
strength.—M art Inenu.
G o d ’s P r o m set
GaxFe pr L>»i:ma were neter meant t,
ferry our tazin e o like a l» w t; they
wed b j out ««ura. —lleor«
Ward Be«-«
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Kidney Poison
If
Your Back Hurts or Bladder
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Taking Salts
When your kidneys h u rt and your
back feels sore don't get scared and
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a lot of drugs th a t excite the kidneys
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Keep your kidneys clean like you
keep your bowels clean, by flushing
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In 24 hours they strain from It 500
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readily understqpd the v ita l lmpor-
tance of keeplDg the kidneys active.
D rin k lots o f good w ater— you can’t
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Jad Salts Is Inexpensive, cannot in­
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this ; also keep up the w ater drinking
and no doubt you w ill wonder what
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W . N. U-, PORTLAND, NO. 1-1929.
Exposed
L ittle Jane Nies, a frequent visitor
to southern C alifornia from SL Louts,
was poring over her lessons, working
hard for a double promotion, when her
mother spied her counting on her
fingers.
“Jane," she said Jokingly, “why not
take off your shoes and stockings and
then you’ll have tw enty digits to use.”
“Jane pondered over the suggestion
fo r a moment and then exclaimed :
"Now I know why 'daddy went bare­
footed when he was a little boy I”—
Exchange.
T hat's W h y
"T h a t big car o f Brown's sure kicks
up a lot of dust."
“No wonder. It's dragging a mort­
gage on a quarter section of land."—
Capper's Weekly.
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