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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH h raff a m U m t I i A J m r i r tv By Irving DacficIIer CjTrlM bj lrvtn Bf fcriUc lilt WNC Service SYNOPSIS tm W luhd mmOm f Mr, At low af ITTS, Colo CaW. to kte mrtkMrt. Pa-tl- r. lft ii If. Iu4 W-b- y Bta, "Pr" arat rM l feucbt FirmlW, but bntll at Uit a tMca m bfafet I - CHAPTER I Continued 2 The ay young patriot rolled down the splnway like a barrel of fish and was tumbled aboard and atored on deck tight end up with lea Important merchandise. lie rode at ease half an boor or so standing erect in the darkness. Then he bad to lower bis head. The cover down. Its edges were served with pitch. The barrel, lifted to the gunwale, fell Into the bay and begun Its tossing Journey In the hurrying tide. He was riding In the curious craft Dot more than twenty minutes, he reckoned, although the terra of his Imprisonment seemed very long, for the air was close and his pout u re fur from comfortuble. At last he bumped the sand in the shallows at Winnlsl-me- t He heard two voices young and gentle voices. They were near him. Some person was out In the shallow water trying to roll the barrel In with a stick. Impatient to be released, Colin decided to take the chance of Showing himself. He pushed the head from Its place and with hands on the chimes shot out of the barrel Into the shallows. A boy and girl a little younger than he stood near. In bathing costumes. Daylight was coming. "The girl had a face and form not easily forgotten," Colin writes. "Although the light was dim I could see clearly after the darkness of the barrel and the first thing I saw was that shapely, beautiful girl." "Are you bound for Cambridge?" the boy asked with a friendly smile. "Yes." "I am Emory Woodbrldge and this Is my sister Nancy. We come here every for a swim. We meet day at flood-tidOur house Is yonder many on the hllL Go through the pine bush to the road. My father will help you. I'll take care of the barrel head." The boy rolled the barrel Into deep water as Colin with his bag set out for the road, wondering at the strange water-wisdoof Ebenezer Snoach. Mr. Woodbrldge welcomed him and put him to bed abovestnlrs where he Slept until he was called about two o'clock for dinner, at which he sat beside the plump, blond, dark-eyeNancy. "I know all about you," she said. "You are a great lover. My school friend, Pat Fayerweather, has told me the story." "Oh, that story I" he exclaimed. "Thinking of It kept me happy In the barrel. It would put life In a smoked flsh. It was a barrel ful of happiness that lai.led near your pretty feet." They had a merry visit and their theme was mostly Tat. He rode away with Mr. Woodbrldge soon after dark and having arrived at his home he made this entry In his diary : "Nancy Woodbrldge Is a vivid mera-- i y and some young fellow who Is 'snoaehed' out Of Boston will be sure to fall In love with her." When the young man had left them Nancy Woodbrldge said to her mother, "What a big, gentle, boyl 1 could love him myself." Young Cabot spent three days with his family, and "rid his mother out for an airing every day," Then mounting his bay mare, he proceeded to Cambridge with his sword, firelock and pistol He went first to his friend. President Samuel Langdon of the famous college, who gave him almost a father's welcome, saying: "I suppose that you have come to enlist?'' "Yes, sir, and 1 have a letter to Washington." "I will go with you." Immediately they Bet out for the headquarters of the army In the big square mansion, long a familiar object Washington was at his desk. The president of the college Introduced the young man, summing up In warm words his history at Harvard, as If conferring an honorary degree. "A good student, of an excellent disposition, a born athlete, the best wrestler, the best fencer, the fleetest runner of his time at Harvard." These were the phrases he employed. Washington listened with dignity and a benevolent smile. In a letter to Colin's mother Is this description of the person of the Commander in Chief: "George Washington of Virginia.' Those words have been flying around New England stnce John and Sam Adams returned from Philadelphia. Who has not heard of his wisdom, his noble spirit,' his modesty, of his coat torn to rags by bullets, while horses were shot beneath him when he fought with Braddock? I feared It was like the talk we have heard on the king's birthday and was prepared for disappointment But he has conquered me. I am like a man thrown and tunned who Is trying to think how it happened. "He Is a big man at a guess two inches taller than I broad at the hip and shoulders. Looks straight in your eyes. Big bones, big bands, big feet rather slender waist for long arm one of his size. Yet all this Is the smallest part of him. His head Is no better shaped than others you have I swear I have ;een In Boston, butwell set I won ever teen on so e tlde-rlder- merry-mouthe- d The men addressed their offl ram a if tl.cr were all having a DOOO- hour in the bay Held. Even the captain was "Anna," to every private. It was then probably the most army the world has seen a bome-sirof fair good catured. gossiping, h.ving pioneers quartered In lines of tents and lodges and In public buildings. Outside the tents and lodges they saw numbers of women at work washing, some with young children playing around the tubs. They had come to I H,k after their husbands, to see that they were fed and kept decently clean, and nursed if wounded. They had lodgings In the village and came dally into tamp. What a contrast were women who to the thet were wont to infest an army! There were fourteen thousand two hundred men In this grent jolly fair of pioneers. The churches and the College halls were filled with them, nftit-ernot properly uniformed were distinguished from privates by ribbons on their ca's. It was early July and the dress was mainly like that of the hay field and barnyard. There were even men wearing one su'pender. an undershirt and raged trousers over bare feet There were beards of many shapes and colors. !.' ln't know there was so much l hair In the world." Colin said to rfieiit. I dered why I felt a kind of awe In bis presence. I know now. The big thing Is Inside of him. It reaches out and touches you when you look In his eyes and when be moves h!s bands. It hits you again when you hear his gentle voice. , There are three words that come to cue as I think of liim. They are I'ower. Vitality, Kindness. I think that be has a mind as istrong as our best pair of oxen and that Gid is driving it He said little and our minister could have paid it as well as he did. He has a gimd tiatured face, a bit weathered, with a wk murk here anil His straight there not handsome. nose Is a shade thick and large. Mis blue-gradeep-set- , eye are wide apart and they look down Into you. Ills brownish hair, brushed hack and powdered and falling In a queue, was a comely detail. His mouth Is a trifle too large and very firm when closed. Yet when he stood up. straight as an arrow, and walked proud as a king to the window, he was magnificent. It's a big full word not carelessly chosen. He wore his riding boots. His blue an.l tm.T uniform with golden epaulettes, ami buttous. was spotless and well fitted. A broad blue sa;h spanned his bread from waist to shoulder. From shoe to ruffles every detail In his dress was admirable. Still it was cot his look nor his manners, ns they were, thi't reduced me to a sense of stnaliness. It was the man under It all. I felt as I di1 the day I looked up at the big laotirtaiti in New Hampshire, nricoiii'ortnbl little. He has doubled my faith In our cause." The preliminaries being over, the learned president said: "General, you have had time to survey the army. May I ask for your Impression of It?" "It Is a disorganized mass of poorly armed soldiers without a national spirit and with no knowledge of what Is expected of fighting men. Many of them do not know the difference between an officer and a broomstick. The New England troops feel that all men are equal even In n regiment, that a uniform cannot create a caste. So there Is little order, government, or discipline among them. We have only raw material a mound of ore to be fused and slagged and shaped Into useful Iron." Turning to Colin he added: "I am glad to welcome young men like you to the army. You will. I trust, bend your mind to Its problems. I wish you first to go down among the men in the line and get the feel of It. My orderly will now conduct you to the muster master. For the present I will send your horse to my stable." Colin was mustered knto the company of Cnpt. Amos Farnsworth from Groton. It was quartered In lodges made of hewn timber, rough boards The regiment was In a and long row of like lodges, some built of fence-rail- s clinked with turf and roofed with hay heaped on slnntlng timbers. Their doors and windows were mostly made of woven withes. ' Only ten men In the company were In uniforms and they were of varying colors red, blue and gray to suit the family taste. The most were In shabby farm clothing. There were also ragged men In torn boots. Some were unarmed. A number of the boys had old fowling-piece- s nnd "Queen Anne" muskets. One had a straightened scythe blade bound to the top of a pole for his weapon. The Rhode Island regiment the smartest-lookinbody of men In the army and well uniformedwere In tents opposite the rude quarters of the Massachusetts sail-clot- g boys. Captain Farnsworth gave his fellow townsman a hearty welcome. His lef arm, broken and slashed at Bunker Colin rememHill, was In a sling. bered the tall, lean, bony, farmer, so often rightly worried as to the condition of his soul. There was a noticeable lack of coordination between his brain and the Incorporeal part of him. The human soul was a troublesome asset In New England. It was menaced, frightened, persecuted by the ablest men schooled In the arts of the orator. It was yelled at, berated and cowed by Ignorant, pulpiteers In the back country. The Inner and the outer man were often In a quarrel with each other. Amos' Farnsworth always hiked serious even when other men were laugh Ing. His sad expression was relieved only by a quizzical look In his gray eyes. Mental activity produced a singular effect upon his countenance. The skin on his brow rolled Into deep wrinkles. He had a marked fondness for the word "which," often misplaced In his conversation. He was a widower about forty years of age. "How are you?" Colin asked. "Anxious as a painter In a tree with the dogs barkin", which the fact Is I'm on the run with Satan hold o' my coat tail," the captain answered He surveyed Colin from head to foot adding: "Say yo're a mortal man whia I'm glad you've come. There's goln' to be a big wras-tlhere an wrastle between the Rhode Islanders and our rlgament. You're a big, bony, cuss an' Tm a gram mistrustful o' them fellers. We'll need ye." The captain took a bite from a plug of tobacco which he called a "Vlr glnla cake" and Introduced the young man to various officers In the regl ment after which they went for a walk together through the big camp. An Important recruit was often thus favored. The spirit of Farnsworth's company was for friendship, not for war. Stern discipline excited a degree of resent- brown-bearde- stout-looki- all-flre- d hard-meate- i d d n' itf-ac-e half-worl- d new-worl- d s iiii. . ' "I Know About You," She Said. "You Are a Great toyer." All Amos. "The poorer the man, the richer the crop." "Well, It takes time an money to keep 'em mowed off. So they let 'em slide." Amos answered. "And they slide In all directions, and straight up. down, sideways ahead." At a point near the enemy they saw cannon balls from the Britisfi batteries thump the side of Prospect hill, throwing dust Into the air and rlcochetting down the slope, bounding over rocks and slowing to a long roll. "Ain't that a caution?" said Farnsworth. "Don't amount to much; they Just shoot at America an' ye know it's a mortal sight bigger'n the army. Don't hurt a hill to be wownded. Boys used to chase them balls till they found out how mean they was, which ye know they can kick a leg off ye, when ye think 'em harmless." There were places In each brigade where spirits and cider were sold. Soon they came upon a man riding the wooden horse for drunkenness and for striking an officer. The back of the horse was a small, board roof with a sharp peak above Its four legs. This the prisoner had been compelled to mount: Then weights had been tied to his feet. Fi a moment they Joined the crowd who were watching the distress of this poor man, in a silence broken only by his groans. As they turned away Amos ex claimed: "Oh. that men would consider their latter end and seek the grace o God!" "Well,. I think that man will be considering his latter end for some time," snid Colin. "Which he'll know he's got one," Amos went on without relaxing his face. "What I've seen an' been through an' suffered makes me grab hold o" sperital things an' hang on fer the love o' God." They crept behind a broad stone wall on the side of Winter hill where a hole had ben prepared for observation. s Amos took a small telescopic from his pocket and peered through the hole at the British line on Bunker steep-slantin- g spy-glas- hill. "There, take a peek," he said to Colin. "The British ain't more'n a mile off. Ye kin see the redcoats over thar. We call 'era lobsters." "Lobsters?" "Uh. huh. In our gab. them red boys are all lobsters." Amos went on seriously. on their way back they stopped at the parade ground to watch the drilling squnds. The air was full of the shouted orders: "Half-cocyour firelocks. "Handle your cartridge, "Prime your cartridge. "Shut your pans. "Return your rammers. "Poise your firelocks. "Cock your firelocks. "Present your firelocks." Eighteen motions were needed in loading, aiming and discharging this weapon. "It's got the power o' seven devils." said Amos. "We load the ca'trldge with a ball an' a few buckshot an' all the powder the gun'll stand an' hold together. We bu'st 'era frequent The stock Is like the heels o' my roan hos which ye got to look out or It'll crack ye open. They hit severe. When they hit ye don't want no air 'twlxt them an' yon. They Jump back'ards spry as a panther which they can cuff ye k r Tether day a man'. -wnen d unbeknownst went ol a baby. would like ye noldin' of It loose, with Mm I tell ye. boy. it got even his Jaw Busted thar. right then and he an' floored him senseless whichfraca It's same. the be never won t a cat tious critter, son, meaner than in a granary. Ay uh! It la." -I've beard our guns were deathy aald on Breed s hill and Bunker hill." shameful Colin. Our Government How It Operates By William i-i- a-i Jliu Chhuh! him. His eyes glowed as he went on: "Them that wasn't aimed at run like They a nigger that's seed a ghost formed an come back In platoons. They was brave, no mistake, which I give' 'em credit. They behaved proper. Ag'in we mowed 'em down. They kep' They was streamin' our way flank an' middle like a red river runnin' up hill, by G d! At last they was so dam' many we couldn't snuff 'em out They charged with their bayonets which they was that nigh we didn't have time to reload afore they was on us an' shovin' the cold Iron Into our guts. Them that hadn't bayonets fit like h l with gun stocks an' heavy stuns which a many wilted By the down an' died right thar. Heavenly King! I tell ye the rest on us run. We did. We went fast. I had a busted arm. Them that wasn't rammed through was nicked which the firelock Is yer friend when It's loaded, but the world can come to an end while yer a loadin' of It Then whar be ye? In Heaven er h L Thar's where you be. Uh huh!" In his fervor Amos had entirely lost his hold on "sperital things." No historian would report all of his profanity. The thought of It worried him as they headed for their own quarters. His left cheek rose In a rueful squint that affected the setting of one eye. "Seems so when I git mad it's as nat'ral fer me to swear as It Is fer a bird to sing," said he. "Alwus do It when I think o' that day which the fact Is I've got a backslldin' heart, an' thar's times when I fergit to put on the brakes." Amos shook his head and blew and sighed and brushed his hands and added : "Alas ! I wisht somebody would make up some words that would feel as good as swearin' when a man Is mad which It would save me a lot o' Ay es! It would." Colin went on grass duty with grazHe had ing horses until ten o'clock. three days of service as a private under Captain Farnsworth at grass, wood and water duty, sleeping rolled in his blanket on a bed of straw under a tree near the captain's lodge at night. He had met many officers and men In and out of the regiment. He had easily thrown his competitors in the wrestling bout with the Rhode Island boys witnessed by the Commander In Chief, a part of his staff and a large crowd of the idle soldiery. When the last sturdy Rhode Islander in Cabot's hands went down there was great cheering and Amos let out a yell that was heard a mile away. Colin had become popular in the regiment. Amos patted his shoulder saying: "That was a cordy rrn. It was snug work to heave him lirt you done it." The third morning he was awakened as usual by the fife and drum corps marching through the camp soon after daylight. Colin found Amos building a fire In front of his lodge. He had a solemn suf-ferl- n. face. "The big Chief was here 'bout ten minutes ago," he said. "Do you mean General ton?" Washing- "Yes. sir. He an' a squad o' cavBeen ridln' round the camp which he wants ye to come to fer hreak'ast at seven. My G d, sir! He's colder than an Iron bar on a winter mornin' like most o' the southern officers. Been shlverin' ever since he was here." "And now you're sliding." "So I be an" may God take the flint out o' me. It's the plague o' my heart. I was kind o' riled. Spoke to him friendly like not thinkin', same as If I was to hum. Forgot I was in the army. 'Nice mornin',' says I. "'Salute, sir.' says he, cross as a bear, an' me gittin" no pay since I got here, by G d ! An' my hay uncut. I'd like to be hum an' I orto he. Two o' my men have deserted an' when ye think It over ye enn't blame 'era alry. much." There was a nwment of silence while Amos bent and hlew on the coals. "Hey ho ! I've slipped ag'lr.," he mut tered. "An' may the Lord ferglve me. This place Is nhout as slippery as a side hill in midwinter. Ch huh !" Amos had voiced almost a common spirit among those peaceful. Industrious men assembled Ip the wrap at Cambridge. Colin went Into one of the lodges and bathed himself as best he could with soap and a basin of wnter and put on fresh clothing. home-lovin- TO BE OONTIM. ED.) "SI HA THE MONEY STARTS TO YOU . . They was." His graphic the fight began with a of description nalittle assenting grunt full of good see Ye God! ture. "Like the wrath o' was we didn't fire till them lobsters which off. feet close up. 'bout seventy 'em. ve could almost shake hands with a Only their guns. Thev had emptied few'hit us. A fog o'smoke twlxt them stood an' us. Aimed too high! They loadin' their firelocks. Guess they didn't think we farmers knowed which I enough to shoot straight, swear there wasn't a man in our line bulwho couldn't trim yer hair with When blood. o' lets an' never a drop we let go, Goda'mighty! How they went down! That blast o' lead was like a long sword, which It stabted with the power o' God at their bellies. It cut 'em In two. It tore 'em into I tell ye. bloody rags. In a minute. boy. thar was flies on their livers." Amos was angry and excited. The rage of the battle had come back to Brncksrt Ms ttn gams grgi rr USED to be said as representative that of the acme of Impossibilities a -of out luruiji. blood vou can't get believe the person who first used that observed the expression must have control that Is exercised as a protec-or tion for the government's stock and money in the bureau of engraving Is the impresthat At least printing. sion it made upon me. us recount the steps by which currency leaves the bureau of engraving and printing: FedFirst It Is necessary that some eral Koserve bank or some national addibank must have had need for has it applied tiouul currency and that of to the treasury for It In the case It applies to the Federal Reserve bank. the official In Its own organization who is known as the Federal Reserve ageni govwho, under the law. is the federal otheran in ernment's representative wise private institution. He sends the order through for currency, If he has Insufficient stocks that were stored with him by the treasury in advance. In the case of the national bank, the for application goes to the treasury, national banks operate under different laws, and It can get the new currency of only if it puts up a certain type to and as bond security government It protect the treasury for the money is releasing to that bank. Second, the proper officials of the treasury approve the applications. They notify the director of the bureau of engraving and printing, or some official designated by him. of the amount of currency to be furnished, the denominations and shipping details, ne gets that order in writing and In duplicate, one copy of which is delivered to the men who actually start the money in your direction if the application came from a bank In your community. Third, after the order for delivery and shipping of the currency has been fully executed. It then takes the Joint action of three men to get that currency out of the giant storage vaults where It has been "aged." It has stayed there, perhaps, three months, possibly longer, so that It is "cured" and ready to stand the tests to which it is subjected when you carelessly crumple it up in your pocketbook or fail to fold it properly, or to meet some of the other conditions of modern life. But to get back to the three men who let that money get out of its hiding place; one of them represents the secretary of the treasury, a second the treasurer of the United States, and the third represents the director of the bureau. Each has a key. None can do anything about releasing that money alone. Each has to turn the key in the great lock. At last the bundles of bills, described In the order, are counted out The truck, armored with steel and with armed guards nbonrd. stands waiting with doors opening into the cavernous interior standing ajar. Each bundle, tied and sealed. Is transferred to the truck, whose doors click as do the vault doors. The truck moves toward the great building that Is the union terminal of all railroads entering Wnshington. Adjoining It, is the central post office of the city. To one of those places is the destination of the truck. In the meantime, something else has been happening in respect of this shipment of currency. The proper officials of the bureau and the three-mateam have marie out their reports, and they have gone to the treasury and the Federal Reserve board or the treasurer of the United States. If the shipment was destined for a Federal Reserve bank, a message goes by telegraph to that Federal Reserve bank. It would do you no good to see it, however, for It would he wholly unintelligible. It Is in code of the most secret type. It might say something about three thousand hogs, cows and chickens coming home with some word or words that would tell on what railroad the shipment traveled and the time of Its departure from Washington. 1 do not menn that those are the words used; I employ them be cause they are Just as good as anything else as an illustration of how meaningless the mesage would be even to a trained crook who was laying plnns for a train robbery. The shipment that goes to the national bank and let me explain here that the national bank Is used because there are more of them than state banks who have complied with the laws respecting circulation of their own notes may carry money that will get Into your hands In normal esses of business much sooner procthan through the Federal Reserve banks Yon may cash a check the next day after those new bills get there, and one or more of them may be handed out. and the Journey to yon has been completed. Shipments to Federal Reserve banks may lie In their vaults weeks and months before some bank in your town has occasion to obtain currency from the Federal Reserve bank of its district Rut that money eventually gets to you. only to find Its wav back to the treasury for destruction in great machines that grind It to a pulp when It becomes tob soiled and broken to be classified as 'it" It i n - - HE birthday of tne h' Good will was at hj' the frosted wlndoti ! my f e t FX tf f holly-wreat- 1 fJ out upon a world in the first suow the year. t gleamed with ors as the breeze stirred the brJ It was zero weather. Dan had dropped In with tj eon's greeting, and we sat ti before the open fire. Dan wujt elor. and if be didn't speak soot be calling me an old maidt rieb and he was poor. If jjl sure that that was the reaam silence. I'd have spoken niyw!: ? I urnsn't unit our frienrtuhlr, beautiful a thing to spoil. If was not mine. Ice-coa- t J nh f ai:g i' si f i Jrire "And h jbtf Be b rgnt us de i:jtj I I f Annette came in and arraj.. tea table at my side. "Certajf pie," be had mused, before AomI 1 tered. "diffuse a charm as reali hard to define as the perfum rose," Tliis was poetical convrf for the practical Dan; thet something on his mind. I into the kitchen for mort before his mood should vanish t The door-bel- l rang. It waste to keep anyone waiting; I tui. It myself. A prim and tiny o:. ' stood there. "I'm making a little extol s Christmas," she announced, & "Would you like to look at aprou "Just what I'm in need of," 1. "Come In." lagtng ner Dag, i tea her i,; Bitting room, and Dan placed i "P 4 Igt for her before the fire. "Good-da- y and thank u,"ghea! an: 3f ed Dan. "How nleasant herel fnfJ 11 fire!" Annette came In with the catafr oa n other teacup," I whispered. Hef registered, "You certainly arer'5 trip " hut t li'norort thta In vctri i; my little visitor haif to the front door and I saw i5, ' ,? ti Si son why she should not hat'f bird-likWith movements, gls ei now at me. now at Dan. shee L 4' the satin strings of her neat In historic bonnet. f hiJD f1 "Oh, Haviland," she exclaim"1'5" preclafively, handling her cupr'e .CA ;V tily. Now l was sure that seen better days. pees .p "J "You have courage to be outff little mother." said Dan. "That's what my daughter Bnocnii a iti jr-She s' twinkled the old dear. t & eighty-twone should be It's run to around. wanting ! ar much the money." she fibbed prT 1 F.e "but I like to get out and see litj, 's ii people. One Is always running such lovely experiences like JK tea. One can Just see that p J." are made for each other. end Jte "Alas!" confessed Dan. smiling, "1 have not the honor the lady's husband." i "Let us look at aprons," I sags and the naughty romancer f(7 them out ,a Dan fingered the change hum-nett- e ! self-respe- e f jT. r'1' t WWI Mill ti'- J- - i frjffflfck'F I'll take two of thos- epocket. ones for mv wife" he annouw The words were simple, butt fell upon my ear like a death m "You never told me," I gaspft proachfully, us our guest turwf" fold her supplies and arrange hfl "Well. I must go now." she I "I'm staying too long. I've got to Ha e1 ty this bag before nightfall." The door closed behind U I ,"; J quenchable optimist ' "Isn't she a wonder I" we excl we simultaneously, at which little fingers and pressed tbs laughingly, while we wished. I drew my hand away, as was decent No more famlHK now. "Think." said I, "from BrI rl to peddling, and still Ihe wonderful. It makes one ashan. f have been discontented." "Exactly," agreed Dan. "I f. we are all given our dally r"5, Joy, If our hearts are tuned to i it A case of adjusting the length to our capacity." "And now, about your w"' -- t challenged bravely. Ho should know my puln. ,f "I must see if her aprone M aald, putting one about me andf; Ing up the strings till we stood" the mistletoe. "You darling, darling i'" ' sobbed when I got my breath. exulted "Some Christmas," "and blessed be aprons." r 1 j, " by McC1ur NfWipupW Byna"" WNU SHrvioi , |