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Show II i heels, with a force but little Inferior Europe seemed about to turn upon the e numbers or In stout little kingdom in ita nnanlmous " "Baron von Steuben had won hlnwHf la hlg (ear and hatred of her arrogant su. discipline. place on the great Frederick' stall He might never have reached New premacy upon the seas. In the seven years war, and was of British a Common Target that studious race of soldiers, the York at all had not Charles Lee been Everywhere there was war upon the World was presently to learn to fear, once more second In command In the American army. ocean highway even America tendSteuben'at Valley Forge. The Insubordinate Lee. ing forth men of desperate valor, like He joined Washington at Valley lie had come out of captivity, ex- John Paul Jones, to ravage and chalForgd and turned the desolate camp and now proved himself the lenge Britain upon her very coast. changed, teacha training-school of arms, Into Insubordinate But England's spirit only rose with poltroon he was. Ha never had' what these ing. troops In had never had the real the heart any danger, and Washington waited all known before, promptness and precision In the manual of arms, In massed cause. He owned estateg'ln Virginia, the weary year through for his French he was not of the great Virginian allies. In 1780 it looked for a little and ordered movement. In the use of as If the British were indeed turned of the Northern Neck family of and drill the the bayonet, mastery He waa only a soldier of fortune, victors. the charge and of the open field out of the British service on ..In the spring Clinton . withdrew the ,WflLiliingiatj:j)OLjny ,of his strayed officers had knownhow to give this Tialf pay fo seek some pr6flt'TnIB fortarhsi haffUeld Newport to New had colonies, and cared for no Interest but York, and, leaving General Knyphau-setraining The commander-in-chie- f there with a powerful force to not even had a properly organized staff hts own. While a 'prisoner he had movement Howes directed keep Washington and the city, carried secretly Gertiir this schooled and thorough and now he 'was eight thousand men southward to take man supplied it, and he was valued In to consummate bis cowardly treach- Charleston. There were forces althe camp as he deserved. ready In the south sufficient to swell ery. Bxron Admires Americans. his army to ten thousand ere he Inhis oppoWashington outstripped You say to your soldier, 'Do this,' In vested the fated town; and on the the nent New movement York, upon an old wrote to he doeth and It, he fell !nto-h-la comrade In Prussia: I am obliged to and determined to fall upon him at twelfth of with Monmouth Lincoln and three General on Court hands, House, where, reason why aay to mine, This Is the thousand prisoners, you ought to do that, and then he the night of the 27th of June, Clin8outh Carolina Lost tons divisions lay separate, offering a 008 It. Washington hid sent such succor as Out he learned to like and to ad- chance to cut them asunder. he could, but the British force was A Treacherous Move. mire his new comrades soon enough On the morning of the 28th, Lee overwhelming, and South Carolina was when he found what spirit and capaIn them for the field was ordered forward with six thou- lost city there was . - South Carolina teemed with, loyalsand men to enfold Clintons left wing action. of eight thousand men, the flower of ists. The whole country was swept The army came out of its dismal winter quarters stronger than It had the British force by gaining its and harried by partisan bandSi The men who swelled should have General while Its Washington held ever been before, alike In spirit and flank, Lincolns force knew not when their discipline;- more devoted to Us com- msln body ready to strike In his aid homes might be plundered and demander than ever, and more fit to at the, right moment. If they were to leave them. ' sucmovement was stroyed, The perfectly aerve him. cessful, and the fighting bad begun, The planters of the low country dared An efficient Army. not stir fur fear of an Insurrection of At last the phange to a system of when, to the amaxement and chagrin their slaves. of allkh officers Lee and men, began long enlistments., had. transformed It to In Clinton could take half his June withdraw. a 'messent Lafayette from a levy of militia into an army to New York, deeming the force back who for senger Washington, steadied by service, unafraid of the . ' to find rode his meif, not attackup field. Gates Put to Rout. The year opened, besides, with . a ing. but pursued. General Gates completed the disas.What la the meaning of all this?" new hope and a new confidence. They trous record. On the thirteenth of were no longer a body of Insurgents he thundered, his wrath terrible to June he was given chief command .in see, even to the eye of Europe. the south, and was told that the counWashingtons Terrible Wrath. ..ews came to the camp late In try expected another Burgoynade. Lee some When would have made the night of the 4th of May (1778) that His force was above three thousand, In he cursed his him. hotly France had entered into open alliance excuse, and he struck bis blow, as he should, a for himself rallied the coward, fury, w.lth the United States, and would led them forward at Camden, where Cornwallis had but send fleets and an army to aid In se- willing troops, and to won a the field two thousand men, albeit trained and .back again victory; curing their lndependence.had Lee abandoned, and drove the veteran troops; but the end was total, An Alliance of Power. shameful rout (August 16, 1780), and to the cover of a morass. enemy 'Such an alliance changed the whole men knew at last the Incapacity the face of affairs. England would no "In the night that followed, Clinton of their hero of Saratoga. even his hastily withdrew, leaving In State. Congress wounded behind him, and Washing-VnHelpless Certainly things looked desperate chance to crush him was gone. enough that dark year, Grsat Fredericks Opinion. ' Clinton gained no advantage ex- - The congress - was Sinking. Into a cept to reach New York- with the more and more helpless Inefficiency. wreck of his army," commended the Definite articles of confederation had observant Frederick over tea; Amer- been submitted to ths states nearly three years ago (November, 1777), but ica Is probably lost for England. But a great opportunity had been they had not. been adopted yet, and treacherously thrown away, and the the states had almost ceased to heed war dragged henceforth with every the requisitions of the congress at ail. Unable to tax, it paid Its bills and the painful trial of hope deferred. wages of Its troops In paper, which so French Fleet Off Bandy Hook. A scant three weka after Clinton rapidly fell In value that by the time had reached New York, the Count the hopeless year 1789 waa out men In the ranks found a months pay too d'Estalng waa off Sandy Hook, wPlr Of a French fleet of twelve ships ur the little with which to buy even a single buahel of wheaL line and six frigates- ,- bringing-foWashington was obliged to levy supthousand troopa. The British fleet within the harbor was barely half as plies from the country round him to longer have the undisputed freedom of strong) but the pilots told the cau- feed his army; and In spite of their the seas, and the couquest of her tious Frenchman that bis larger ships stanch loyalty to him, his men grew in America intghtturn out the could not cross the barren d he turned mutlnou,la sheet, disgust, with- - the least part of her task in the presence away from New York - to-- strike at weak and faithless government they of European enemies. She now knew Newport the only other, point .now were expected to serve. Wholesale the full significance of Saratoga and held by the British in all the country. desertion began', as many as one hundred men a month going over to the Germantown. That place-ha- d' hardly been In and when Washington's splendid audacity Lord Hows ap- enemy, to get at least pay and food vested, however. extraordinary command of his re- peared with m stronger fleet than the and clothing.1 Ths Country Worn Out sources in throwing himself upon his French. The country seemed not so much victorious antagonist at Germantown Flsst Balia to Boston. as worn out and Indifferent; as the closing move of a long retreat D'Estalng waa obliged to draw off to dismayed had touched the Imagination and won meet him; a great storm sent both weary of waiting and hoping; looking the confidence of foreign soldiers and fleets Into port to refit instead of to stolidly to see the end come. atatesmen hardly lesa than the taking fight; and the disgusted militiamen - Washington was helpless. Without cooperation of a naval force. It of Durgoyne at Saratoga. and continentals, who had come to the was Impossible to do more than hold withtown Parliament Awakes, the with the take French, Parliament at last February, 1778) drew In high choler to see the fleet, the British In New York. France.- it waa waa herself true, bestirring again. came to Its aensea: resolved to re- without which they could do nothing, On the tenth of July a French fleet nounce the right to tax the colonies, taken off to Boston. When the autumn came Clinton felt xcept for the regulation of trade, and men sent commissioners to America to of- free .to send fer such terms for submission. But to the southern coast, and Savannah It was too late; neither congress nor waa taken (December 29, 1778). the states would now hear of anything Only In the far west, at the depths of the great wilderness beyond tha hut Independence. W(th a French fleet about to take mountains, was anything dons that the tea. It was necessary that the promised decisive advantage. In America British commanders George Rogers Clark, that daring - should- mnCentrateJhclrforceB. Saxon frontiersman, who moved so Philadelphia, they had"at lasrfovld llke'a'klng' through the far forest, 'out, waa a burden, not a prlxe. It swept the whole country of the Illinois had no strategic advantage of post free from British soldiers and British tlon; was hard to defend, and harder authority that winter of 1778-9- , annexto provision; was too far from the ing It to the states that meant to be sea, and not far enough from Wash- Independent; and a steady stream of Immigration began to pour Into thq ington's open lines of operation. General Howe Resigns' opened country, as If to prepare a still Before the summer's campaign be-a- deeper task of con quest for the BritSir William Howe resigned hie ish at far New York. But few noted In the east what galcommand and bade the town amidst elaborate festivities ! (May lant men were doing In the valley of the Mississippi. put In at Newport and landed a force 18th, 1778). General Clinton, who succeeded him They saw only that the' British, of six thousand men, under Count a most sensible and capreceived, orders from England to undo foiled In New England and the middle Howes work at once, abandon Phila- colonies, had changed their plans, and able officer, who waa directed to Join delphia, and concentrate his forces at were now minded to try what could Washington and put himself entirely be done In the sotith. There at last under his command. New York. But a powerful British fleet presentv their campaigns seemed about to yield Washington Close Behind, . them something... Savannah taken, ly made Ita appearance In the sound; Twsa easier said than done. There were not transports enough they had little trouble In overrunning the French admiral dared not stir; - to move hlsMlfteen thousand men by Georgia, and every effort to dislodge dared not leave him withtea; only the three thousand loyal- them stalled; for Washington could out succor; and tha reinforcements ists who had put themselves under not withdraw hit army from before that were, to have followed out of his protection could be sent In the Clinton at New York, France were blockaded In the harbor (r Spain Joined France' in offensive of Brest ships, with a portion of his stores; he must cross the hostile country; and alliance In April. 1779; In August a Treason la Added. was scarcely begun (June combined French and Spanish fleet at'titn'--cThen, while things stood so, treason VR'V before Washington was at Ida tempted an Invasion of England; all was added. T s h .Installment 1 6 r n ", t against-Philadelphi- Benedict Arnold,- - the man whom Washington trusted with a deep affection, and whom the army loved for his gallantry, entered Into correspondence With the enemy; arranged to give West Point and the posts dependent upon It Into thefr hands; and, his treason suddenly detected, escaped without punlsnment to the British sloop of war that u.aited In the river for the British agent in the1 plot. Washington was at hand when the discovery was made. Hi aides were breakfasting with Arnold when the traitor was handed the note which told him he was found out; and Arnold had scarcely excused himself and made good his flight when the commander-ln-chle-f reached the house. Overcome With CiTef, When Washington learned what had happened, it smote him so that mighty sobs burst from him, as if bis great heart would break; and all the night through the guard could hear him pacing his room endlessly, In a lonely vigil with his bitter thoughts. He did not In bis own grief forget tbe stricken wife upstairs. "Go to Mrs. Arnold," he said to one of hie officers, and tell her that, though my duty required that no means should be to arrest General Arnold, I hare a great pleasure In acquainting her that be l8 E0 safe n board a British vessel." Arnold &d deemed himBelf wronged and Insulted by congress but what Of-neg-leote- d T Riley's Homecoming. had, been a distressingly When Yon See hot day. It Riley returned home thoroughly exa Good Thing hausted after a bard days work and Adraliodi if it Wntl a the Sock found his better halt peeved and also of a jewe ty store, w have it. OmriJs tired out after putting the greater Silvec. Simmons Chains. Big Ben Alatms and hundreds of others. part or the day ip at the washtub. She was, however, at the time he entered, seated, fanning herself vigorously. "Aint ye got no supper?" he asked, somewhat angrily. Supper, is it?" she asked. Go on Lne arjuTAW wid ye. Me all tired out from a bard W It ITU US day' wurrukjn the hate an you come home an ask for yer supper. Bad cess to ye.-would cook no supper either if ye bad to wurruSf all day In The average man love is fearfully the devils owq fnrnac Aisy, Indade and wonderfully made for you, all day down in a nice cool Ye sewer!" Harpers Magazine. An Occasional Visitor. A notable housekeeper of the past generation, before the days of screens, had just announced with decision that she never had any files. -- But, Aunt Augusta," faltered the timid visitor, It seems to me that saw a few in tbe dining room. Oh, those," replied her aunt, with a majestic ware of the hand, were the neighbors fifes. They . will come In eeeasloBaHy- .- Bat 1 was saying we Nanever have any of our own. tional Monthly. ' 1 her.-- -- A Bad - i 1 1 s i. f V i j) 1' Y Vl i si: : ' i i j i i - col-ont- i V rll r- - w j- - s Is I - .1 t I ' I i i i f thlrty-flveflrundre- d fi j 7 - 4 t t t , i good-bye- . lij . t r s i I I - i i h Fresh Roasted, Steel Cut Coffee Avlll please you more all the time. All grit, chaff and inferior beans are removed from .Luneta .ancljt-IsaDvay- s readyfor use. CnHSS tor Rotor to Erory Flo Silrorwar Packag. Example. wont obey me," com- plained the bride. You musnt mind her. All cooks are like that' 1 dont mind her, but 1 dont like to have such an example constantly before my husband. Sooner or later It will have its effect fleer that Washington trusted might not? Who could be confided in If such men turned traitors? But a sudden turning of affairs marked the close of the year. Cornwallis had penetrated too far Into the Carolina; had advanced Into North Carolina, and waa beset, as Burgoyne had been, by a rising of the country. He lost twelve hundred men at Kings mountain (October 7, 1780), as Burgoyne had lost a thousand at Bennington; and everywhere, as he moved, he found himself checked by the best officer the long war had bred Nathaniel Green, who had been Washington's right hand man tv war through; Henry Lee, the daring master of cavalry, whom Washington loved; the veteran Steuben; Morgan, who had won Saratoga with Arnold; and partisan leaders a score, whom he had learned to dread In that wide forested country. Cornwallis Outgsnsraled. He was outgeneraled; his forces were taken In detail and beaten, and he himself was forced at laat Into Virginia. By midsummer, 1781, all his Interior posts were lost, and he was cut off from Charleston and Savannah by a country he dared not cross again. In Virginia, though at first he raided as he pleased, he was checked more and more as the season advanced by a growing force under Lafayette; and by the first weeirtn "August h had taken counsel of prudence, and established himself, seven thousand strong, his bass at Yorktown, near ths sea, ' of supplies. Ths Final Blow. Then it was that Washington struck the blow which ended the war. At last Rochambeau was tree to move; at last a Ftench fleet was at band to block the free passage of the sea. DEVELOPING AND FINISHING (TO BE CONTINUED.) It la Gasplpes Mad of Paper. said that paper can be used tor making gasplpes, and two processes sre now in use. In the first the pulp Is' run Into a mold, through which runs a mandril. It la then compressed, dried and varnished.,. The tubes thus produced are rigid and little liable to breakage; they last well and are capable of rendering a good service. a In the second process sheets of paper are cut to a breadth equal to the desired length of the tube and then passed Into a bath of- cementing material, asphalt in a state of fusion. From this, when half cold, they are rolled tightly and uniformly round an Iron bar. whlch forms the core. Successive sheets are added until the desired thickness has been attained. The tube thus formed Is subjected to pressure in a special machine and covered with fine sand, which adheres to the asphalt The whole is plunged Into water to finish the cooling, and exterior and Interior are finally rendered Impermeable by a material with silicate of alumina as a basis Christian Science Monitor. ma-nll- - to Guarantee. Jones answered an advertisement and sent a dollar fofour pairs of socks. 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