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Show BEAVER PRESS Preparedne fT) fflv The hdi.$i Ye&p of AelfevoluilOtl Mistress What Is In that huge bottle on the kitchen mantelpiece, Mary? Maid Oh, just some stuff for mending china, ma'am. HummeL I Stern Truth Teacher What tense is "I am t . . i... Hilt beautiful"? Pupils Past. house? Heal Estate Uncle Sam makes people pay, but not leased. how he wastes the money! Little Hiss Mi&cZwOSttC& p-M- ' S- - kill , Customer-- so x Alice Ann Bummm 4 j)" I Agent v I fN of Verona, Tnn, ST , it" this fill ' ( I ?P :: j ?. V ; t :i:5v Tort BooresboxugK rZgU ?H 1- X V A V ' rx. ir ' 5 -- "'""O J x" nh-'h 4 PrlWMj V i if ft A ( ? " - P 'A ' , 300,000,0 - y V Antaj of 3 ' km 'MM . jwee: wlitial 4 0 it n fcrity The Blue Licks Monument By ELMO SCOTT WATSON ICTOUEK. 1781. Northward thronph Maryland, through Pennsylvania, through New Jersey, New York and New England speed horsemen, and sleeping Tillage and farmhouse awaken to listen wonder-lngl- y to the cry that rings through the night: Tornwallis Is taken I Cornwallls Is taken!" So the struggle for freedom Is ended and George Washington and his ragged Continentals have triumphed at last I The Revolution is overl Such la the picture which the school histories have painted In our minds. But the Impression they have given us that the surrender at York-towmeant the dawn of peace and the prosperous beginning of a new nation Is only a half-trutTrue It Is that 1781 was the last year of the Revolution In the main theater of war the Atlantic seahoard. But there was one people In the new nation who were to know another year of the horrors of war such as their eastern neighbors had never known. To the scattered border settlements west of the Alleghenles there had not yet come a "winged Victory wiU smooth brow laurelled to teach us to forget the holocaust." Instead, the year 17S2 was to be a repetition cf 1777, the "year of the bloody sevens," and again, virtually deserted by those governments to whom they had a right to look for aid, the pioneers In the Ohio valley, especially those In Kentucky, must crouch behind the log walls of their stockaded forts with the savage ringing In their ears and a shower of Indian arrows and bullets whistling over their heads. So In Its year, we Americans should not forget what these ancestors of ours who won the West for us suffered and endured In 17S2, the Inst year of the Revolution. It opened with an affair which must ever be a blot on our history, the massacre of 90 of the "Moravian Indians" at (inadenhuetten. Ohio, by a party of Pennsjivanians, led by CoU David Williamson, Maddened by the slaughter of their brethren, the Delawares rallied to their aid the Wyandots and other Indians allied with the British and waited for a good chance for revenge, which soon came. In May a body of 4S0 Pennsylvania and Virginia militia gathered at Mingo Bottom on the Ohio and prepared to Dtfirch against the Wyandot and Shawnee towns on the Upper Sandusky. The commander of the expedition was a Virginian, Col. William Crawford, a personal friend of Washington, who had won a reputation as a brave and active officer in the Continental army but who was utterly unlltted for leadership against such an enemy as the tribesmen he was ordered to crush. Crawford hoped to surprise the Indians but enemy scouts discovered his force Boon after he started and Indian spies followed every movement of his army. On June 4 Crawford reached one of the Wyandot towns but found It deserted. He marched on to find another and encountered a small force of Indians and Canedinn rangers, nnder the command of Captain Caldwell, which had been sent by the British In Detroit to aid the Indians. There was a sharp skirmish with neither side gaining any advantage, although Crawford had the superiority In numbers. The aext morning, Instead of forcing a battle and crushing the enemy, Crawford's army lay Idle. Caldwell also was willing to delay proceedings They for he wa9 expecting reinforcements. came in the afternoon In the person of HO Shawnee warriors. At the sight of this, Crawford's militia began to waver and Crawford decided that the only course left for hlui was to retire from the field. That night hla force bepin a hurried and disbeorderly retreat. In the darkness the troops came there when morning came scattered and The Burning c Col. Crawford in (TVov n old engraving six-ye- ar n, h. war-whoo- p sesqui-centenni- "Incident Ma tjUin Bom of Border Life") the spring which lay outside the fort and who, gambling that the Indians would not spoil their chance for a surprise attack on the fort by molesting them, went singing down the path as though no enemy were near, although they knew that savage eyes looked out at them from every bush along the trail Included in it, too, is the story of young Aaron Reynolds. When Simon Girty tried to get die defenders of the fort to surrender by assuring them that reinforcements with artillery were on the way and that no quarter would be given if the savages stormed the fort, Reynolds sprang to the top of the walls and replied to the renegade, telling him that the people of Bryan's Station feared neither their reinforcements nor artillery but that If Girty and his followers gained entrance to the fort Reynolds and his friends would scorn to use their rifles but would drive them out with switches. ML SimorL si we ifl Girty were only about 3()0 left togetlier In one body. Crawford was among those missing and CoL David Williamson, perpetrator of the Gnaden-huette- n massacre, who was second In command, directed the retreat. If poetic justice had been at work it would have been Williamson who was missing and Crawford who was to lead the disorganized remnants of the command back in safety to Mingo Bottom. But Instead Colonel Crawford, Doctor Knight, the surgeon of the command, and nine others were captured by the Indians. All, except Crawford and Knight, were killed at once but these two were taken to a Delaware town for torture. Crawford was burned at the stake and Doctor Knight was forced to watch the sufferings of his friend. Crawford Is said to have appealed In vain to Simon Girty, the white renegade among the Indians, to end his sufferings by shooting him, hut Girty either could not or would not heed his plea. Doctor Knight managed to escape and after wandering In the woods for 21 days reached Fort Pitt In safety. Encouraged by their success the Indians appeared In large numbers on the Upper Ohio and fell uion the settlement of Hnnnastown. Pa., which they burned and captured or killed 20 of Its Inhabitants. Then the jxirtlsan Captains e and Caldwell assembled a force of l.HKi Indians, the greatest single IkhI.v of savages brought together during the Revolution, for an attack on Wheeling. But while they were marching thither they became alarmed by a report that George Rogers Clnrk was lending his "Long Knives" again to attack the Shawnee towns. So MeKee and Caldwell marched to meet him but upon renrhlng the Shawnee towns discovered that the alarm of those Indians was groundless. It having originated in the appearat the mouth of ance of an armed galley-boa- t the Licking river. Most of the Indians, showing a characteristic fickleness, declined to go any farther on the expedition but Caldwell and McKee managed to keep together some 3(K1 Wyandots and Ijike Indians and with these and their Detroit rangers set out to invade Kentucky and to attack the five small stockaded settlements In Fayette county. On August 15 they uppeared before Bryan's Station, the northernmost settlement In Fayett county, which was defended by less than U) men. The story of the brief siege of Bryan's Station Is one of the classics of Kentucky history. Included In It Is the story of Its, heroic women who took their lives In their hands to bring pails of refreshing water drawn from Me-Ke- After the failure of attempts to set fire to the fort, the enemy withdrew. Meanwhile messengers had been sent to the other stations asking for help and by the evening of August 17 a force of ISO men had assembled at Bryan's Station. From Boone's Station came that famous Kentuckian at the head of his men, among them his youngest son. Israel; from Lexington and MK'onnell's and McGee's Stations came the men under John Todd and from Harrodsburg came those under Colonel Trigg and Majors McGarry and Harlan. More were reported coming from Lincln county under Colonel Logan, but the Kentucklnns decided to follow the invaders at once without waiting for Logan. Then began the pursuit which was to end In the famous Battle of Blue Licks, fought on the hanks of the Licking river on August 10 There the rash counsel of a hot headed 'officer prevailed over the wisdom of Daniel Boone and precipitated an attack which ended In disaster For the flower of Kentucky's manhood fell that of approximately 180 men C7 killed daynut ontrlL-h- t or murdered as they lay wounded and seven captured of whom four died nt th ture stake. For a time it seemed that Kentucky could not ......vi in. 111 mis crushing disaster. Then i.eorge Kogers Clark, who had Hied to be iifferli. from a strange lelhargy critical year, was aroused to his old during this time ener ie sent out runners to all the settlements call! Ing upon all men to rally a blow t the Indians. Again the ma,ie of h U asserted itself and in a short time he had gath ered toother a force of more than a thous mounted riflemen. On November 4 he left IS '..mhs of the Ohio and started north On v 'Vom, her 10 h o...,.b ...i "urm"' ine Miami town. me ioss 10 u.e savages at the beginning f rn weather was very great.- write, lhey were utterly cast down and n,.ni--- ... jm tick ....... K . on i. ... ..I rih.ii itH inouiS or uie power cf !, coming as it did so soon after the ViiZ , Line Licks. The expedition re,liriled r Lh and the Kentuckians "lJ " compP,.ly and though for r' ,l(,r er Kentucky suffered from the Inroad 0? of savage. t was never pnrt,. thr"at- ened l,y a serious Invasion." So the disastrous last year of the IWl,,.. -- nded , triumph. But even han the fact of tP triumph over the Importance of the events of thaVJe futnre history of America. 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