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that dead dog ii Harris’ back yard?” Inquired Colonel Newton at the breakfast table “No I haven’t I didn’t know thej bad a dog” his wife returned "No more did I but there’s a dead their back yard and It’s dog lying in been there tor a day or two It il Isn’t disposed of by tomorrow I shal notify the health department” As the dog was still there stretched stiff and stark upon his return at the colonel telephoned the night health department to come lu the morning and remove the body of a dead dog In his neighbor’s back yard which was becoming offensive The men came early before the colonel had left home to attend to the matter He saw them pick up the anl mal drop suddenly and turn away The colonel mystified hurried out to see about it “Why didn’t you take that dog away?” he sputtered The officer eyed him coldly “Aw come off” he said In a tone of disgust “that’s a stone dog giece ol put out there for the ash man” ECZEMA are LITTLE discret- ion? 3 Installment what’e Stomach and In the matter of ’em Coat you too muck bad aa dlntemper Nearly a Don't Look bad— are bad phyaic ’em to death will remove the vormi Improve the appetite an i round and don’t ‘‘physic” Acte on glands and blood with each bottle and aeld by all druggists Goshen Ind U S A MEDICAL CO Chemists ‘'Wormy” teitlnal worms works he should have itayed to finish were well begun Compelled to Surrender When therefore on the 17th of April the river suddenly filled with canoes bearing an army of more than 600 Frenchmen who put cannon ashore and summoned the 40 men who held the place to surrender or be blown Into the water there was no choice but to comply The young enswho tha little commanded garrign ison urged a truce till he could communicate with his superiors but French commander would brook no The boy might either take hie delay men off free and unhurt or else fight and face sheer and sent” and’ such a fee they thought nearest succor wasdestruction a little fam of 150 was too like a tax to be enduredl men under Colonel Washington who They would) withhold the grants they had not yet topped the Alleghanies in declared unless the fee was abolished their painful work of cutting a way notwithstanding they saw plaJnly through the forests for their field enough in how critical a case things pieces and wagons stood in the west and the testy govSecond In Command ernor very indignantly sent them The governor's home again plans had been altRe ordered a draft of ered By the assembly's vote of money 200 men from' the militia nevertheless with the purpose of 'assigning and the additional levy of men which"’ It made possible John Tty Col the command to' Washington and seewhom1 Dinwiddle deemed “a man of ing what might be done spot the Ohio good sense snd one of our best mathewithout vote of the assembly had been given the commaticians” Defies the Borgeses mand IB' chief and Washington had A Scotchman past sixty been named bis second in command could not be expected1 to wait upon a with the rank of lieutenant colonel and’ factions body of wrangling pro“Dear Cfcorge” wrote Mr Corbin of vincials for leave to perform' hla duty the Governor’s council “I enclose you in a crisis and inasmuch aa the obcommission God your prosper you ject was to save their own lands and with It!” and 'the brunt of the work perhaps their own persons from the In fact fell upon the younger man French could hardly be blamed for But 300' volunteers could be gotproposing in his anger that they be ten together and all too late half taxed for the purpose by act of par of the raw levy were sent forward liameat “A governor” he exclaimed to find or make under Washington "Is ready to be pitied in the disway for wagons and ordnance to the charge qt of his duty to his king and Ohio The last days of May were in having to do with such almost at hand before they had crosscountry obstinate people!” ed the main ridge of the Alleghenies Some money he advanced out of his so Inexperienced were they In the own pocket rough labor of cutting a road through When Washington came back from t the growth and over the his fruitless mission Dinwiddle or sharp slopes of the mountains and so and by that time it was equipped already too late by a full month and more to forestall the French who had only to follow the open highway of the Alleghany to bring what force they would to the key of the west at the forks of the' Ohio Build Fort Duquesns As the spring advanced the French force upon the river grew from 500 to 1400 men and work was pushed upon fortifications rapidly forward such as the little band of Eogllshmet they had ousted had not thought of attempting —a veritable fort albeit of a rude frontier pattern which Its In honor of bullderB called Duquesne their governor could hit upon no waWashington ter course that would afford him quick transport ’twould have been folly besides to take his handful of Into the presence ragged provincials He was fain of an intrenched army to go into camp at Grand Meadows across the ridge of the mountains just with suphla colonel and there await dered his Journal printed and copies plies and an additional handful of sent to all the colonial governors “As men it was thought advisable by his honor Becomes the governor to have the following acIt was “a charming field for an encount of mjr proceedings to and from counter” commander the young the' FVench on Ohio to committed thought but it was to be hoped the print” said the modest young major enemy would not find their way to “I think I can do no less than apolo- it in too great numbers An “Infor the number- dependent Company” of provincials in gize in some measure less imperfections In It” But It was the king’s pay Joined him out of South a very manly recital of noteworthy whence they had been sent Carolina and touched the Imagination things forward by express orders from Engman land and the rest of the Virginia voand fears of every thoughtful who read it quite aB near the quick as lunteers at last came up to Join their the urgent and repeated letters of the comrades at the Meadows— without troubled Dinwiddle good Colonel Fry the doughty matheIt turned out was after matician who had sickened and died Virginia all more forward than all her neigh- on the way— so that there were presbors when It came to action The ently more than 300 men at the camp was now their comPennsylvania assembly very coolly and Washington madeclared his mander ' they doubted jesty’s claim to the lands on the The officers of the Independent comIn New York pany from South Ohio and the1' assembly Carolina holding followed suit “It appears” they said their commissions from the king In high judicial tone “that the French would not Indeed take their orders have built a fort at the place called from Washington with his colonial French Creek at u considerable disand what was commission merely tance from the river Ohio which may worse their men would not work but does not by any evidence or In- but there was no doubt they would formation appear to us to be an In- fight with proper dignity and spirit for vasion of any of his majesty's colohis majesty their royal master The nies” first blood had already been drawn on The governors of the other colonies the 28th of May before reinforcwhose safety was most directly menements had arrived when Washington aced by the movements of the French had but just come to camp ' in tho west were thus even less able (TO BE CONTINUED) to act than Dinwiddle For the Virginia burgesses though they would “Side Pockets” for Autos not yield the point of the fee upon ordered by the New automobiles land grants did not mean to leave have een fitted German government In the lurch and Major Washington with “side pockets” large enough to before an expedition could be got and two motorcycles accommodate afoot had come together again to vote have given a good account of a su3 of money In the recent army maneuvers A Regiment Raleed Is effected Entrance to the tonneau It would be possible with the sum from the rear and the running boards they appropriated to put 300 or 400 of the automobile are utilized as men into the field and as spring The particular spaces storage drew on raw volunteers began to gathof this arrangement Is that er In some numbers at Alexandria — a as long as the car Is running well ragged regiment made up for the most the cycles are out of sight and do not part of Idle and shiftless men who interfere with the free movement of did not always have shoes or even Should anything occur passengers shirts of their own to wear anxious the the car temporarily out of to get their a day but to putthere would be no delay In the not anxious to work or submit to disof messages the motorcycles 'Twas astonishing how delivery immediately cipline mounted by two being and how steady spirited they showed members of the automobile crew themselves when once they had shaken their lethargy off and were on the march or face to face with the United 8tates Embassy' In London “Of all diplomatic posts 1 have o5 enemy In most A body of woodsmen had been ten thought the pleasantest In February ere ways and the most exacting In som hurried forward to ambassador is that of American spring had opened to make a clearing and set to work upon a fort at the London” writes Sydney Brooks In ths forks of the Ohio but It was the 2d current issue of Harper’s Weekly holds It gets Infinitely of April before men enough could be “Whoever collected at Alexandria to begin the nearer to the realities of English Ilfs main movement towards the frontier than the representative of any other and by that time It was too late to country He Is treated from ths checkmate tho French The little first as a national guest whom It Is force sent forward to begin fortificaa delight to honor rather than as as tions had set about their task very official emissary Popular opinion coand without sluggishly skill and separates him at once from his He their commander corps had turned back lleagues of the diplomatic again with some’ of hla men to reie the only one who reaches the mass join the forced behind him before the of the- people” petty Healthy Baby is ON FACE AND SCALP An English lieutenant at Oswego had described the multltudlous fleet of canoes upon Ontario carrying this levy to Its place of landing in the lake beyond and a vagrant Frenchman had told him plainly what It was It was an army of six hundred men he boasted going to the Ohio “to cause alt the English to quit those parts” It was plain to every English governor In the colonies who had his eyes open that the French would not stop with planting a fort upon an obscure branch of the Alleghany but that they would indeed press forward ti take possession of the Ohio drive every English trader' forth draw all the native tribes to their Interest by force or favor and close alike the western lands and the western trade In very earnest against all the king’s subjects Governors 8ee Governor Dinwiddle the Danger was among the first to see the danger and the need for action as In truth was very natural In office and out his study had been the colonial trade and he had been iberchant and official now a long He was one of the twenty time stockholders of the Ohio company and had come to his governorship In Virginia with his eye upon the western country He had but to look about him to perceive that Virginia would very likely be obliged to meet the crisis unaided If Indeed he could Induce even her to meet It Governor Hamilton of Pennsylvania also saw how critically affairs stood it la'true and what ought to be done H1l agents had met and acted with the agents of the Ohio company already In seeking Indian alliances and fixing upon points of vantage beyond the Alleghanies But tjie Pennsylvania assembly could by no argument vor device be Induced to vote money or measures In the business The placid Quaker traders were as stubborn as the Btolld German farmersit because they They opposed could not for the life of them see the necessity of parting with their money to send troops' upon so remote an errand Dinwiddle Does Not Hesitate did' not wait or parley Dinwiddle He acted first and consulted his legislature afterwards It was In his Scots blood to take the business very strenuously and In his trader’s blood He had to take It very anxiously kept himself advised from the first of the movements of the French Their vanguard had scarcely reached Presque Isle ere he dispatched letters to England apprising the governAnswer had ment of the danger come very promptly too authorizing him to build forts upon the Ohio If he could get the money from the Burgesses and meantime should the French trespass further “to require "If of them peaceably to depart” they would not desist for a warning” Utica St Denver Colo— “My eczema came first with pimples and a rash on my face thenon my scalp eats and neck It Itched so bad that I could not sleep I was a mass of sores and my eyes were so I could not see out of them It broke my heart to look at my face Every bit of skin came off where the disease awful between the I suffered was whatever and burning and Itching part of my body It was on would be swollen I treated for three months and would get better for a week and then I would be as bad as ever "I saw In the paper about Cutlcura so I sent and got some Cutlcura Soap I had the eczema for and Ointment five months before I began to use Cutlcura Soap and Ointment but I got well In a short time after I started to use them It Is a sure cure as I have not You It ' since been troubled with I have ought to see my face now such a nice complexion as soft as s Glendln? Mrs baby's” Mary (Signed) 4400 n!ng Dec 23 1911 Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world Sample of each Address Skin Book free with “Cutlcura Dept L Boston” said Ills majesty “we do hereby strictly charge and command you to drive them off by force of arms" Even to send a Warning to the French was no easy matter when Adv the king’s letter came and the chill The autumn rains were at hand Much Was Impressed A little girl who had acted as ring mountain streams already swollen bearer at a cousin’s wedding was In- presently to be full of ice would be for men and horses very dangerous clined to view her part of the imand the forests were likely enough to pressive ceremony with great seriousness One day some time afterward teem with hostile savages now the were French there the child heard her grandmother talkA proper messenger was found and ing of her possible future marriage — "You know I’m half married al- dispatched nevertheless young Major of the Northern ready" the child earnestly remarked George Washington The errand lay in his quar"Half married already! What do district ter hia three years of surveying at you mean child?” asked the surprised the heart of the wilderness had made grandmother woodsman and when 1 him an experienced “Why don’t you remember hardy traveler had tested his pluck carried Cousin Carrie’s wedding ring?" and made proof of his character be was well known upon the frontier and Investigating Further his friends were very Influential and "Dobble’s word is as good as his him Tor very cordial In recommending bond" this or any other manly service that bond?” How is his good "Exactly called for steadiness hardihood and resource PILES CURED IN 8 TO 1 DATS Dinwiddle Knows Hit Men Yotir druggist will refund money If PAA) OINT feil to earn enr earn of lushing Blind Dinwiddle had been a correspondent Bleeding of Protruding Pile In to U dnjre Mo ever since of Lawrence Washington’s of the Ohio company The first condition of human good the presidency ness is something to love the second had fallen to the young Virginian upon something to reverence— George Eliot the death of his neighbor Thomas Lee writing to him1 upon terms of Intimacy He knew the atock of which the younger brother George came and the Interests In which he might be expected to embark with ardor he could feel that he took small' risk In such an agent selecting Knowing him too thus through his family and like a friend he did not hesitate in writing to Governor Hamilton of Pennsylvania to speak of this youth of twenty-onas “a person of distinc- tion" Washington performed his errand Dinwiddle must have expected he would He received his commission the governor's letter to the French commandant on the last day of October and set out the same day for the mountains Jacob Vanbraam tha Dutch soldier of fortune who had been his fencing master at Mount Vernon him as Interpreter and accompanied Gist the hardy Christopher frontier trader whom the Ohio company had employed to make Interest for them among the Indiana of the far region npon the western rivers which he knew so well was engaged to act as his guide and counselor and with a few servants and pack horses he struck straight Into the forests In the middle of bleak November Reaches the French Fort It was the eleventh of December before the Jaded party rode In the cold dusk Into the drenched and miry clearing where the dreary little fort stood that held the French commander Through two hundred and fifty miles and more of forest they bad dragged themselves over swollen rivers amidst an almost ceaseless fall of rain or snow with not always an Indian trail or the beaten track of the bison to open the forest growth for their flagging horses and on the watch always against savage treachery It had become plain enough before what they reached their destination answer they should get from the French Sixty miles nearer home than these lonely headquarters of the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf they had come upon an outpost where the French colors were to be seen flying from a house from which an English trader had been driven out and the French officers there had uttered brutally frank avowal of their purpose In that wilderness as they sat at wine with the and temperate “it was their absoyoung Virginian lute design" they said “to take possession of the Ohio and by G they would do They were sensible the English could raise two men for their one yet they knew their motions were too slow and dilatory to prevent any undertaking of theirs" as and it The Commandant Courteous The commandant at Fort Le Boeuf received the wayworn ambassador very courteously and even graciously — a thoughtful elderly man Washington noted him "wlthmuch the air of a soldier” — but would make no profession even that he would consider the English summons to withdraw and the little party of Englishmen presently turned back amid the storms to carry through the frozen wilderness a letter which boasted the French lawful masters of tll the continent beyond the Alleghanies When Washington reached Williamsburg In the middle of January 1754 untouched by even the fearful and anxieties of that daring fatigues journey he had accomplished nothing but the establishment of his own character in the eyes of the men who were to meet the crisis now at hand He had been at infinite pains at every stage of the dreary adventure to win and hold the confidence of the Indians who were accounted frlenda of the English and had displayed an older man’s patience address and fortitude in meeting all their subtle shifts and be had borne hardships that tried even the doughty Gist When the horses gave out he had left them to come by easier stages while he made his way afoot with across the only a single companion weary leagues that lay upon hla homeward way Gist his comrade In the hazard had been solicitously "unwilling he should undertake such a travel who had never been used to walking before this time” but the imperative young commander would not be stayed and the Journey was made spite of sore feet and frosts and exHe at least knew hausting weariness what the French were about with what and forces and strongholds could afford to wait orders what to do next The Governor Had Been Buey Dinwiddle had not been Idle while Washington went his perilous errand He had gotten the burgesses together by the first of November before Washington had left the back settlements to cross the wilderness and would have gotten a liberal grant of money from them had they not fallen In their debates upon the question of the new fee charged since his coming for every 'grant out of the public lands and Insisted that It of the colony should be done away with “Subjects” they said very stubbornly "cannot be deprived of the leaat part of their property without their con the a |