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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 4, 1929)
Dim Efti Eeffl I&5affl A Romance oS Braddock's Defeat NEARBY i AND YONDER By T.T. Maxcy . i By Hugh Pendexter OoMrrlfM kf tb rmdsxur. CHAPTER X -39 Th Long Trail Ends It was thirteen days after the bot tle that Dunbar the Tardy arrived at Fort Cumberland on Wlll'a creek with three hundred wounded soldiers. It la Impossible to picture the amine ment and consternation that smotb ered the colonies when It was definite ly known that the army had been de feated and broken. There had been no concern In the public mind a to the outcome of the campaign. The Drat uncertain news was re ceived by Colonel James Innes, com mander at Fort Cumberland. This was on July eleventh, two day after the battle. He immediately started expresses to the neighboring provinces to announce bis grave fear that the army bad met with reverses. While these messenger! were carrying the astounding news the wagoners, who bad first fled the bloody Held, were beginning to reach the outlying settle Bents. Governor Morris was at Car Usle when a half-starved, half-mnd wagoner flogged bis exhausted mount Into the settlement and began crying ont that Braddurk bad been defeated, that the entire army had been annl bllated, and that he, the wagoner, was the only survivor. The provinces were stunned. On the sixteenth another messenger brought further details. General Brad dock was dead and bad been burled at Great Meadows on the fourteenth and the army and Dunbar's wagons bad passed over his grave to hide It from the savages. On the dny this man brooght his dismal budget. Gov ernor Morris sent ont a call fur the tnembly to meet him In t'blladelphla on the twenty-third, so aa to permit Dunbar to take the offensive and pre vent the triumphant enemy from over running our frontiers and from bring tog the ax to the eastern settlements Dunbar promptly announced his de termination to be done wltb forest lighting; and be marched his twelve hundred soldiers to Philadelphia and left three hundred wounded men at Will's creek. Bis army went Into camp on Society bill, and In tuln did Governor Morris urge blm to send s tew men to patrol the Susquehanna. Enongb refugees came In to swell the army to fifteen hundred, and without raising bis band to protect the border Dunbar the Tardy sailed with this force for New Tork In October. 8tupefactloo was replaced by dis may as this, the only fighting force In the south, war withdrawn. In very truth were the colonies sruused to the realization that tbey must protect themselves by doing their owo fight ing, and no longer depend 0ko over seas armies. Once Pun bur's Inten tlons to withdraw from the province became known. Governor Dinwiddle urged Pennsylvania and Maryland to unite with Virginia In bulldlnt a Strong fort at the Great crossing or on Great Meadows This wise plan for protecting the bonier came to nothing because of the colonies' In iblllty to overcome factional Jealous les snd to agree ss to the division of the eiinse. labor snd the like. So we drifted Into three years of rapine snd slaughter. I reached Carlisle the dny after Governor Morris started for I'hlladel phis. My wounds, aggravated hy ex pom re, forced me to travel alowi) : and my efforts to find some trace of the Dlnwotd girl permitted many sur vivors to pass me. Mine was old news when I did arrive. In Carlisle I fell In wltb three rangers who were ut off from the ford when the final rout filled the narrow road. They were forced to sdvance north, or close to Duquesne, to escape the savages The? hud concealed themselves In the woods near the Allegheny, snd from what they had observed I learned how five hundred of Confine's Ottawas had quarreled wltb the French over the division of the booty, and had thrown back the ax snd bad killed and calped two Frenchmen very close to the spot where my Informants were biding. I recovered from my wounds and ecame active In preparing s defense against the red swarms we knew jrould soon be upon us. As rapidly as possible a string of forts was built from the Delaware and Susquehanna o the Potomac. There were Fort ttedford a' Ilea's Town, Fori I.lgonla a the site of the old Indian town of Loyal Harms In Westmoreland conn y. Fort Loudon at the foot of nine nnuntaln, Fort l.o wilier at Carlisle ind Chnmherr fort few miles west Of that town. And there were other forts, ss well is numerous small blot k bouses, erect td during the tiext three years. For two months after the bnttle of the donnnguhels we worked feveilsnly. Inking advantage of the brief period the Indians required to convince themselves that the war path to the Mist was unobstructed. Then the storm began to break. The first blow struck by the raider, as In Cumberland county, and mw Ihe as was taking toll on the Husque hanna. A large body of Indian, romped thirty miles above llnrrln terry snd killed on both sides of th ITJustratforu river. In October a mixed force of French and Indians was burning and scalping within forty miles of the ferry. Settlers were frantically flee ing to the east, or doggedly fortlng themselves on learning that escape was cut off. I went out with forty five men from the ferry and helped bury fourteen mangled bodies. Great cove was destroyed. Ry December, the Indians were on the Lehigh behind the Blue moun tains, where they killed a hundred people and burned ninny cabins Beth lehem prepared to resist an attack. At about the same time another band penetrated to the Schuylkill la Berks county and did devil's work. For fifty miles around Easton the country was devastated. So widespread were the activities of the savages that bun dreds of teople fled Into the Jerseys, some carrying their household goods and driving their cattle; others vain ly offering half of all they possessed In an effort to save something. It was a characteristic of this on equal fighting that the Indlnns took but few prisoners. Thirty-six houses and the cLurcb at Gnadenhutten were burned, although Lieutenant Brown and a company of rangers forted themselves In the church and held It until It was fired. The Juniata was visited early In January and many people were murdered within two or three miles of Fort Patterson. Even the back districts of Chester and Philadelphia counties were en dangered, and four hundred German farmers from the latter county marched Into Philadelphia city snd demanded that tha assembly grant them some protection. These settlers should have remembered bow men of their race defeated Joseph Seely Berks county cnndldate for sheriff. In the October election, because he favored military training. Throughout the winter, the savages continued very active, which was un usual, ss during the snow months the frontier always bad experienced a re lief from sttacks and had slept sound ly. The woods from the Juniata to Shamokln were filled with feroclout red men, who killed and burned. In the latter part of the month a hnn dred Indians st Klttannlng. Inclod Ing not a few who had been loyal to England until the defeat on the Mn ongnhela, left to raid the Coocix-he ague settlements snd forts Shirley and Littleton. I was one of those who rode ahead to spread the alarm. and I experienced enough thrills to last me several lifetimes. And so the bloody story might go on through volumes. Settlements In flames and the rough roads crow-led wltb terrified families. 8carcely s night could one scan the horizons snd not see the red flares that told of some cabin or hamlet being wlied out. Not until Gen. John Forbes' ex pedition In the summer of n.VJ. when he marched to Duquesne wltb fifty eight hundred men and a thousand wagons, did we begin to bave a rest from the butcheries But General Forbes would have nothing to do with the III fated Braddock road and wise ly followed the central path through Carlisle, Shlppenshnrg. snd nrer Laurel mountain. The long rifles wert proving their worth snd were soon to tnke Canada from the French During all this strife and thete ru!s eruble scenes, I endeavored to do mj shnre In exacting s penalty from the red tnea For two weeks I worked with Cuptaln Jack, the Black Hunter of the Junlnta. But when that rtvei was harried he became such s mad man and would take such foolhuidt risks that I left his band. Tel we made some rare killings In the shr time we were together. The danger was never so rreut, however, as to cause me to forget, the Dlnwold gtrL In my dreams and In my waking hours I could aee tier tugging st young Morgsn's hind and striving to come back snd face the trouble nut In my company. At night I would awake with her voice BHnBant4nnnaBunnuantjannt4aa Humble Seaweed Put It "weed" Is lo continue ss the name for a plant for which oo use bus been discovered, then seaweed will have to change Its name. After prolonged research, a process has been found In which seawood Is utilized In the production of slglo and alginates Algln Is a subrtnnce sim ilar to starch and gum arable In Its profiertles, but In many respects su perior to either. With a viscosity fourteen times that of starch snd thirty-seven times that of gum s ruble, It Is of greater sdvsnlage Ihon starch In sizing and llntelilng fabrics, for It fills the cloth better, Is tougher snd more elastic. Formality Little Jean was visiting ber small 'cousin. They were playing end hav ing a glorious time together when leu us father came to lake her home After she had donned her coat and tint, she turned sround and said: "Say come back to me, somebody I" by Irwin Myers WNU Ssrvla In my eurs, culling me "mister." Once I dreamed we were wltb the hnggnge train and she was saying "Kiss me." I required many a bloody foray against Shnwnee and traitorous Dela ware to wash that last dream thin. So there was never s day, when I was meeting wltb some one new, Hint I did not make diligent Inquiry for her, 1 But so many families had been ex terminated, ao many pedigrees ended, that only by chance could I hope for news from the wltch-glrl An elfish boyish creature In reality, but my separation from her translated her Into some symbol of the border, some thing fearfully desirable. It became s mania with me to find her, and yet my place was on the frontier. On relief sallies, on retreats and 00 scouting trips, I asked of all I met If they knew of one called Daniel Morgan. Some professed to have met him, but none knew about a young woman dressed as a man. At the end of my service rith General Forbes I was as Ignorant ss to whether she be alive or dead ss I had been when 1 recovered my wits at the edge of the clearing along tha Allegheny, where the dead bung from the twelve torture-stokes. And I missed the Onondaga. God only knows how I missed hint and his brave heart when on some lonely faring. I missed Cromll In a lesser degree, and often wished his terrible hands could help me decide some uneven argumenL Aye, I missed them. But It was Bound Paw of tha Wolf clan whose absence ate Into my soul, lied or white, never was there a stronger comrade than he. The lone ly Monongabela alngs his requiem, hut In my heart he shall ever bave a high place. Mnny a good comrade have I bad In my day, but none so dear lo my memory ss the Wolf man. Gone to meet his particular god as has many another, snd sit becaww one man did not understand. Worn by Incessant hardships snd serloosly troubled by the old arrow wound In my arm, I returned to Car lisle, uncertain as to what I should do next The settlers were preparing to follow General Forbes srtny snd moke s new beginning slnng some pleasant stream. But L the last ot the House of the Open Hand, had on desire to build a cabin and lake roof In one SKL The strange onrest which had been only satisfied hy the turmoil of border warfare, reduced me to s sad state of nerves. How could I ever be content on one creek or In one valley, wltb the memories of the Monongahela haunting me) Wltb the vision of that small wlstfu! face staring back at me, I rode skeleton of a horse Into Carlisle. Perhaps It was a weakness of spirit that Impelled me to surrender to the sudden longing to visit my old home snd once more look through the gate of my father's garden. I scsrcely re member my mother, but perhaps this longing was the divine calling of the maternal In me. Like my horse, I was scarcely more than s skeleton borrowed s suitable horse of stranger and did not marvel at his trust In me. At limes I ensured my self It was but a whim, that I would soon be doubling on my tracks and seeking service In the north; and yet I rode on. The memories stirred up by the Jour ney were painful. Unlike thai othet rlstt, the Onondaga was no longer my companion; and yet st times funded he walked at my stirrup, his chest showing the fresh white pnlnf of the round paw of the wolt. In my more rational moments I fell old and out of place. It was when I brooded over the witch girl s dlsap pearance that I fell s great emptl ness of heart which made all the plans ot youth hut little account I hod no wish to look on Josephine again and tell her poor Rushy's fare well message; and yel something drew me to the town. (TO BB CONTINUED.) to Commercial Uses transparent when dry, and Is ont sot ed upon by acids. Alglo will undonht edly be uaed In dyeing and color print Ing and In the sizing snd coating of pnper. Seaweed, too, has for sometime been known as a source of iodine. "Lvoof" There Is one thing harder to under stand In Lwow than the Hebrew, Po lish, German, Italian and Itusslan heard on Its streets the prununcla Hon ot the city's name. Most of as would pronounce the "L" snd folio up by a well emphasized "wow." Bui the Poles will tell you to press your tongue to the roof of your mouth snd say "L" as we do, then forcefully bit Ing the lower Hp with the upper teeth to say "vnof" (l.voof). H taring ot Fitht$ Fisn ao not actually nave ears; they have sensitive sound organs snd can usuully bear noises under watec. -t "God's Acre" Forlorn DOWN on the lower Eust side of New York city, u I most within the budow of Brooklyn bridge on New owery street, to bo exact, behind S lull Iron fence, a tablet carrying the following announcement unexpectedly ttracts the nttenfon of tha passer by: "This tablet marks what remains of the first Jewish cemetery In the l ulled Stoles, consecrated In the year luoO, when It was described as 'Out- Ida the city.' During the War of the devolution it was fortified hy the pa triots as oue of the defeuses of the city." History records that this resting place of the departed was In high es teem for many years, many who were prominent In their day having been tenderly Interred therein, but as the encronchments of the commercial so tlvltles of the living practically pushed Ihe dend out of their own, many of the bodies were moved to a lurger lace then fur beyond the city con nea where supposedly they would re nin In undisturbed forever. But, ss America grew and New York city ex panded, this once beautiful place also as had to gtvs way to the murcb of progress. All that Is left of the original cem etery la a small plot of ground, con taining probably one hundred tombs ot unknown dead. The Inscriptions bave been worn by time to a state of Illegibility, the sctlons of the elements have badly disintegrated the stones and caused the vaults to crumble In decay. The rear windows of surround ing apartment houses frown upon this hallowed spot and sn oil station id- Joins to the south. A more . forlorn sight would be difficult ot Imagination. Busy Water VTEWTON CHEEK forms a part of I the boundary line between Brook lyn snd Long Island City. Its navl gable length Is approximately five miles. Its maximum width probably la 2.10 feel and Its greatest low-water depth Is perhaps S3 feet Four bridges enable vehicles, street cars and pedes trians to cross It at convenient street nteresectlnns. It empties Into ths East river, which separates Long Is- and snd Manhattan Island, opposite Thirty third street. New Vork city. Its eastern end Is near the geographical center and Its western end Is near tha center of population ot Greater Ne. York. By virtue of the fret that Its en tire length Is near to both the whole sale and the distributing centers of Manhattan and that It penetrates one of the world's leading manufacturing centers, which Is growing wltb sslon- tolling rapidity, this little creek has he reputation of being the busiest wa terway of Its sire lo sll the world. Stenotic Indicate that during s recent year receipts and shipments via this little waterway aggregated more than fi.ii00.utiu tons of freight nmnu factured products, sand, nil, stone, lum ber and ore constituting the chief Items, having an aggregate valuation of something like g.'Hi.i.0lsi. More than lo.ouo arrivals and a like Dumber of departing vessels were recorded during that time. Allowing for the ad dltioniil tog, lighter and barge move ments which necessarily took place. It seems safe to conclude that its waters were churned some 4o.ouo times dur- Ing those twelve months. "The Corn Belt" TUB Corn Belt Is generally and fa .oriibly known as the outstanding corn-producing section of America, It extends east lo west from mid Ohio to mid-Nebraska or about IKsj miles snd north to south from about 'M to Sou miles. Including portions of ten stales Michigan, Ohio, Indians, Illinois. Missouri, low Minnesota, Ksnsns, Ne braska and South Dakota, Although this belt comprises only about 8 per cent of our national land s.ea, II pro duces shout 70 per cenl of all the corn grown In America or about 40 per cenl of the world s supply lo say nothing of staggering quantities of other crops. Nature apparently Intended this for her prize winning, com growing section, because conditions combine to make It Ideally suited for that pur pose. The loamy soil Is particularly adapted, Its general levelness conduces to ease of cultivation snd operates to prevent the flowing away of rainfall; to grow rupidly corn should have hot nights snd this region certainly has litem during ths corn growing period; the crop usually has smple time to mature before frosty nights appear and experts declnrs that Ihe dry, odd winters which often prevail In this area are beneficial from the soil stand point Big cities havs grown np In and urourl tl.ls section, created made-to-order mnrkets and hold an snnr- mou consuming population. Half the population of the United Stales lives within 700 miles of Ihe renter of this great belt Ilnllronds criss-cross I ho territory snd provide wonderful trans portation. The "Cora Belt" Is most ap propriately named. (A till WwUrn Nnrspspsr Union I Clamt Crow Slowly It takes from two to four years for clnms to grow to edible size, the exact time depending on food conditions temiieraturt of the water and other conditions. it if W ( i feii Loading Lighters Frrl hv lh Nallonsl Oorhl Socidr, Vhiin.n, I. O N't ( Hl'SIXKSS reaches out In- so many remote places of the world as docs Hint of the pharmacist, a fact which It will be remembered was tleuioiiHtrnt- ed graphically during the World war when the commerce of the world was disrupted. Consider as a typical case, su foe- thin gum. Much of It comes from the city of Herat In Afghanistan. Numerous citizens of Herat make their living by going down yearly midway between the mountains and the Persian desert, after the rains clot ho the pinion w ith venture, there, w ith much back bending, to Incise the Feruln root. From the Incisions comes a milky gum, which, diled, forma the axafoetlda of commerce Throughout history man has comlied the out-of-the-way places for his drugs. It was the trade In drugs and spices which made Venice from the Thirteenth to the RlJteetith century the nioMt Important commercially and the richest rlly In Kuro, and It was the loss of this commerce which cnused her rapid decadunce and the passing of her riches and her glorr The story of Venice Is so essential ly romantic that to mention commerce In connection with It seems out of drawing. Yet It was aa merchents Unit the Venetians were famed. The traffic In spires snd aromatic drugs began to assume vast proportions In the Middle ages, as the people of Europe became educated to a hunger for the spicy flavors of the East. From India and China and Persia camo not only silks and Incea. but more Important, spices nnd nils nnd drugs, and Venice was quick to real Ire the Importance of having this commerce pass through her port The knowledge of medicines used by the Moors and Arabs, which wns brought back by the Crusaders, helped to educate the eoile of ninliv lands to the uses of biiUnms snd spices of Ihe oriental markets. The embarkation point for Palestine was Venice. The Venetian merchant ma rine profited well by furnishing trans port service, and during the Fourth f'rusnde, finding the Crusaders unable to pny their pnssnge morey, the Ve netians forth with enlisted them as soldiers In a war agnlnst their Chris tian neighbors, the Imlimitlnns, and the Infidels got off scot free! Columbus Was After "Cplccs." The monopoly of Venice wns re sented, ss Is Inevitable; her proiper try wns envied. This Is why nil the explorers of that period sourhl a short ocean route to India. Colum bus, It will be remembered, Sought the "spices of the Indies" rather than s new land. Ho from the hour when, on May 20, I ID1. Vasen dn Guma ful filled the ambition of his Portuguese sovereign, blazed s new trail In the uncharted deep nnd snlled Into Call- cut, after rounding t npe or flood Hope, the commercial greatness of the Itnllan port was doomed. When the news reached Venice that Portuguese carracks laden with spices had come Into the hnrbor nt Lisbon without the necessity ef touching at Venice "the whole rlly was disturbed nnd astounded, says the ancient chronicler, prlitll, In his diary. They had ample cause for worry, for they fixed the Inevitable. How Venice warred on Portugal; of the Inter wnrs between Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and Kngllsh to assert supremacy In the spice nnd drug trade; of Ihe long voyages, with deel inn Hon of the crews by pirates, hy mutineers, and hy Ihe often fatal nnd always horrible scourge of scurvy thesH tales la-long to the heroic age of the sens, and hnve furnished In spiration to many a poet nnd novelist Well may poets sing of Drake and Hawkins, nnd Greenville, and Oven nam meeting, with their little 200 ton ships, the great galleys of Spain snd defeating them I But the prizes thev captured were galleons laden with cloves, snd ginger, and popper, and frankincense, nnd dragon's blood, nnd cinnamon, nnd when these cargoes were found they asked not for dou bloons. - Motley, In his "History of the United Netherlands," emphasizes this point very well. "The world had lived In former ages," he says, "verv comfortably without cloves." Bui In st Zsmlbar. the beginning of the Seventeenth cen- u ry that odoriferous pistil had been the cause of so ninny pitched battles and olmtlnuto wars; of so much vitu peration, negotiation, and Intriguing, that ths worlds destiny seemed tn hnve become almost dependent upon the growth of a particular gllly-llow-er. Out of It sweetness had grown such MltcrncHs among nations as not torrents of blood could wash sway. Alsppe a Shipping Point When Venice was distributing drugs and spices to the West, Aleppo, Syria, was the most Important con centration point for the eastern goods, and It still helps to supply the druggist's shelves, tiuiil trsgncnuth used as s source of in mil age In medicine and the arts Is one of the principal products sent from Alepiw today. Concerning Aleppo there Is some Interesting correnpoiidcneit In the rec ords of the old Kngllsh Muscovy coin pnny. Kdwnrds, one of their fuctcrs. writing In l.s'A said: "Therein nr many Venetians , , , who buy gull, tnllow, saffron, skins, col ton. wool , , , and also will serve us of all kind of spices, we giving them sufllclent warning lo fetch It In the Indies nnd will deliver It to ua In Hhiiinnky And as there la nothing new under the sun, another factor tells about the light Rusninn oil which now. when It Is refined, we prize so highly as a medicine: -mere is a gn-iu river," he wrote, "which fiiMeth Into the Caspian sea by a town mllml llnchu w hereunto which Is a strange thing to behold. For there Issuetll out of the ground s large quantity of oil, which oil they fetch from the Ut termost hounds of sll Persia, It sere elh all the country to burn lo their hoiiie. This oil Is black and Is culled ii) fie. There Is also by the snbl town of I'.aclm another kind of oil which Is white and very precious; It Is supposed to lie the same that Is here called petroleum." Today men are coniiH-tliig for Hint oil as In his day they fought for cloves! Camphor, which Is tmportnnt not only In medicine hut In Ihe arts and manufactures, was nn example or ef ficient production and control of out put. After the Japanese-Chinese war Japan obtained control of the ror inosa camphor Industry, Although the Formosa forests are practically Inexhaustible, forestry measures wers instituted for replanting and rare of trees; 2.U00 police were ftimhihrd t protect workers snd large refining -plants were built Workers were paid ' s fixed sum. The distribution of tint entire product was let hy contract nud the right of sale swarded nn Kngllsh linn, the latter contracting to conduct the sule of camphor In New York, London, Hamburg nnd Hong kong, and to accept from Japan a definite amount of camphor each yenr. Today s growing part of the camphor iicil In the West Is being mode la western laboratories. Batavls's Osys of Glory. Butuvln, aa of old, la still s greal exiort center for the spice snd drag trade, ns It was when It wns fort I lied as the capital of the "Spice Islands," and was known as the "gueen of Die Knut." In How days, when every sea voyage wns a perilous undertaking. It was only natural that s warlike community should assemble In audi a place. And so picturesque soldiers of fortune nnd adventurers from all parts of the world gathered about Its riimils and In Its while walls, besides Imleli and Japanese, many Cermnns Portuguese, French, Chinese and Moors; for. of course, being a Dutch city, It wns Intersected by ratuils, mid, being a rich eommunlly, It n fort I (led, , With Its picturesque nnd adventur ous population. Its quaint architectur al scheme, and lis gleaming snow while ramparts outstanding like a finely chiseled cameo In the glare of the tropical sun ngalnst the turquoise ocean, It was a dream city of the do parted days of piracy and buccaneer ing A garrison of a thousand men was there In the Heventeetilh century, suit an equal number lo guard tha I nil eh monopoly if the .cinnamon I rude In Ceylon, Today the old fortI flcntlotis have crumbled; ths old "city" proper Is no more.
