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Show r J y 1 5 . --P Just then all things went either by favor or by accident, had made a sorry blunder In the choice of a commander. Major General Edward Braddock. whom they had commissioned to take the two regiments out and act as commander-in-chief In America, was a brave man, a veteran soldier, bred In a thorough school of action;- - a man quick with energy and Indomitable in resolution; but every quality he had unfitted him to learn. brutal, headstrong, "a very Irohe would take quois in disposition, neither check nor suggestion. But energy, resolution good soldiers and a proper equipment might of themselves suffice to do much in the crisis that had come, whether wisdom held the reins or not; and it gave the Old itkmiinlon a thrill of quickened hope and purpose Keppelatrans-port- s in the Potomac and Braddocka redcoats ashore at Alexandria. Troops Movs Up thvPotomao. The transports, as they made their way slowly up the river, passed beneath-the very windows of Mount Vernon, to put the troops ashore only eight miles beyond. Washington had left off being soldier for Dinwiddle, but he had resigned only to avoid an intolerable Indignity, not to shun service, and he made no pretense of indifference when he saw the redcoats come to camp at Alexandria. Agalr and again waB he early in the saddle to see the stir and order 'of the troops, make the Ucquaintance of the LIFE SAVING CHEW RESCUES ORPHANS V Captain Garland and Men From Chisagp Do Fina Work at 'ort Way ns. t. - Capltula-,able- , at once, like a bill of goods, and a new force sent to the Ohio again to catch the French while they were at ease over their victory and Return Home. 'jig saw bis wretched slackly upon their guard at Duquesne Vr way Jiack again Dinwiddle .Blunders Again - When he was cut had they flatly told it w&a Imyd I They had nelth-n- s possible, he turned to other plans, to carry their equally 111 considered, though no He increased. and Washington hot-fo- v Veould they burn-or- e doubt equally well meant. By Octo- stricken In ber hejhad obtained of the assembly Wounded e twenty thousand pounds, and from of food the government at home ten thousand and dragged more in good spscl such as - was V all the fifty1 scarce in the colony for the sharp I at home. stir of actual fighting had had its efpendent com-vil- fect alike upon king and burgesses to have apd had ordered the formation and com-stor- ht equipment pf ten full companies for the the frontier. But the new orders contained a sad Jien fifty last voted money, to be spent Instead of blood, for levy ho , men; but no succor bad come from v any quarter when It shdlild The English were driven In, and all their plans were worse than undone. , re- ef 'poet haste to obtain support elr diplomacy? Washington might regret that young M. Jumon-rllle- , their commander, had lost hla life In the encounter, but he had no doubt he had done right to order his men to firs when be saw the Frene.h spring for their arms at the first surprise. Now, at any rate, war wks unquestionably begun. That sudden volley fired In the wet woods at the heart of the lonely Alleghaniee had set the final struggle ablaze. It was now either French or English In America; it could no longer be both. Jumonvllle, with hla 80 Frenchmen, was followed ere manjt weeka were out by Coulon fie VlTllera with 700 some of them came all the way from Montreal at news of what had happened to Frances lurking ambassadors In the mountains of Virginia. 'faraway On the Sd of July they closed to zn . encounter at, Fort Necessity, Washingtons rude tntrenchments un ue M 'V'lif'uiiQai mt.'it everythin. Sh Cun talk In French and Clerwli, alia can swim and ahe ran sing Drautlful? Hhe'a ilk k ptotuyo! When talk' a He the make you think Of thaweeteet kind nf music, and aha dotgn't amoks or drink; ''"Oh, I cant hearin to tell you all the poem aha can quota; ma ta wise aa any lawyer la-- hut cant vota. aid late sbe-wo- uld Bitter Medicine for Waehlngtoitj. It was a bitter trial for the young Virginian commander to have hla first campaign end so disastrously to be worsted in a petty fight, and driven back hopelessly outdone. Ahen pa I writing letter ma must No one he cared for In Virginia linger mar 'lo aaaiit him in hla spelling and to maka blamed him. His ragged troops had hi meaning clear. borne themselves like men In the If ha need advice her Judgment, h adi fight; his own gallantry no man could mlts, la always beat; ' doubt. The house of burgesses thankEvery day alia givea him pointers, moatly at hi own request; him and voted money to his men. ed Flta keep track of leglalatton, and But It had been a rough apprentice its. taxed on bond and slot Hut aha never get a look-i- n at the sacred ship, and Washington) felt to the ballot box. quirk the lessons It had taught him The discouraging work of recruitM Winer than onr coachman, for hea not a graduate, ing at Alexandria, the ragged Idlers And I doubt If he roulj tell you who la to be governed there, the fruitless governing the elate, drilling of listless and Insolent men, lie haa never studied grammar, and Ill the two months work with axe' and bet heoeant know "Whether t'aeaar lived a thousand or two spade cutting a vayJihrough the forthousand years ago, ests, the whole disheartening work of I! could never tcJl ua how to keep - th Teady for the fight, of seeking making ehtp-n- f atate allmrt, the enemy, and of choosing a field of Tor be doesnt know there auch a thing but ina can't rote. encounter, he had borne as a stalwart while his digestion youngman-ea- n Once when Mr Jones waa rolling they holds good got up a short debate as, rwr aiwhsd atdenst bRnselUdOhtnfer e'fjf' I WhI he haijl It atralght. that was possible, and It had thing Hut iieforo they'd flnlalied talking ha been no small relief to him to write threw up hla Hands and said plain spoken letters to the men who That he'd not read much about it nor remembered what he'd read, were supposed to be helping him in Jle'a too badly rushed tf atudy how to Williamsburg, telling them exactly better human lives, how things were going and who was fltlll be looms up like o giant when electo blame letters w hlch showed both tion time arrives how efficient and how proud he was. Mr. Oooklns does our washing, for ahe . haa to help along, Enjoyed the Bullets. Taking care of her atx children, though He had even shown a sort of boyher husband' big and atrong, ish zest In the affair when It came to When he get a job he only holds It till actual fighting with Jnmonvllle and he draw hla pay, Then he apends hla cash for whisky or his scouts hidden in the forest He else gambles It aWay; had pressed to the thick of that hot I suppose his brain's no blarer than tba and sudden skirmish, and had taken brain of any goat And he'd trade his ballot lotvo drink but the French "volleys HJTa'lad's relish ma can't vote! of the danger. "I heard the bullets Brought Them to Surrender. whistle, he wrote his brother, "and PROFITABLE. believe me there Is something charmder the Great Meadow s. There were in the sound." ing and fifty EnglishHawe you at- three hundred But after he had stood a day In the men wlthhlm able to fight, spite tended many flooded trenches of his wretched f sickness and and shoftatlons; thl winfort at Great Meadows,-an- d fought as- - the enemy began - to show till ter? In the open with an enevening Oh, yea, several themselves at the edges of the emy he could not see, he knew that neighboring woods through the damp he had been courses.' taught a lesson; tb&t he mists of that dreary morning, Wash'What was at this terrible busivery oung ington drew his little force up outside ness of they about? fighting; and that something their works upon the open meadow. re"I don't more must be learned than could be He thought the French would read In member now, but wt Mount Vernon, the.booka to hliu Jn open field. laugh-iI've succeeded in getting a lot of mew. come up in the dreary a cheerful He front kept a wily Indian, who gave him couu-le- l ideas ibout Btyles. hls men bravely retreat heartening freely, but no aid In the fight; hut word and of by example no Vllllere had mlnto meet, the gal- ness; but It was a sore blowsteadfastWorth th Price! to-- hls lant young I can't understand how you Virginian In that manly havq and his he must and onlv pride hopes, the nerte to charge me' $50 fop the fashion. Once, lnfdeed, they rushed to have winced without he could protest blit' finding hot recep- have heard how Horace .treatment you gave me. I saw jou only his trenches, callWalpole aftertion distance their there, throe times, and you told me ourself kepp ed him a "tirave for his ' that the disease I had was, not at all wards. Villler brought them after rodomontade aboutbraggart" the of deadmusic as near that only at possible without ly missiles serious." "That is all very true, the doctor uselessly exposing the lives of the He had no thought, however, of replied, "but 1 invented a long latln Rings subjects, and poured his fire quitting his duty hf'eause his first St In cover the from the woods name for it.1 For nine hours the unequal fight campaign had miscarried. When he had mad his report at Sragged ofithe Frelvcb ami their Information. iluamsburg Tie "rejoined his demor- show themselves hardly lug 'Ta. what's a diapason?" allied - Oh, Its some klmi of a useless regiment at Alexandria, where shelter of the forest, the an hours ride from Mount it but lay crouchfag knee deep In wathing that the doctors cut out of peo- English thiSdr and set about executing his Vernon, In rude ter while the trenches, ple whenever they can get them re. as If the POunMl 1nto- - -- bo8pital Ineessamlyrrediming lkvn't;bmheTffa!n w efe business Just , only begun ine now, I'm-- busy try In to figure breastworks to a masa of slimy mud. Build Fort Cumberland. and filling all The alnalth a cbill and when to buy Union Pacific pallid mist Captain Innes, who had brought a Not. hundred and fifty men from three Parley. Probably Day Insensibly darkened Into night North Carolina too late to be of asTErowwensay there Js'sTwajs In such an, air,' and It was eight sistance at the Meadows, and who had way of doing everything la there? I wonder, vf he ever o'clock when tne firing ceased and the had the chagrin of seeing them take found a best way of wearing a pair of French asked a parley. Their men themselves oft home again Tecau-- e shoes that w ere about a size too were tired- - of tle dreary fight, their there was no" money forthcoming to small? Indian alllef threatened to leave Thera pay hem what had been promised. when morning should come, anJtlioy remained t Wills Creek amidst the were willing the English should booh settlements,. to command .. the Remrabl. The Brainley8 are a, remarkable draw,.Tf theywbuTd furtheF king's provincials from South Car hurt or molestation llna who had been with Washington family., Yes The terms they offered seemed very There are eleven of them, Meadows, and the two indepenand not one ha ever been operated acceptable to Washingtons officers as dent companies from New York, who a fbr appendicitis the Interpreter read 'them out. stand- had lingered jo long the way; and ing here In the drenching downpour to build there a rough fortification, V,' ' and th blak nighty It rained so to be tamed Fort Cumberland Zio Place for Her. In TheftWKjsbe no shocking stories to 1 ard we goum hardly keepThe candle honor of the. Dijke who was about pec?iie tp heaven, so the gbted to read them by." said an commander-in-cblefjEngland voman lih the gossiping tongue may but there was really no choice Dinwiddle, having such' hot Scots .not car If she never gels there. what to do. More than fiftv men lay blood lu him as could brook no and having been bred no soldier dead or wounded Ttr the flooded camp; the amin'kntUon waa all but, spentrior Trontlersman, but a merchant and heen f a man of business, would havw, had the French touched ta the fight, and might at Washingtons - recruiting despatched - ht al-- M 1 I tfr leo-tur- ei j wore d , t V .Ths-FrencH-- -- with-witho- ut athe s'? -- far-awa- 'trll ot-ee- r; y n de-jja- I strength-haiUhard- Ty it civilian blunder. The ten companies should all be Independent companies; there should ho no officer hlgher than a captain amongst them This, the good Bcotsman thought, would accommodate all disputes about rank and precedence, such as had come near to making trouble between Washington and Captain Mackay, of the Independent company from South Carolina, while they waited for the French at Great Meadows. Washington at once resigned. Indignant to be so dealt with. Not only would- - he be reduced to a captaincy under such an arrangement, but every petty officer would outrank him who could show the kings Commission."' It was no tradition of his class to submit to degradation of rank thus by indirection an without fault committed, and hjs pride and sense of personal dignity, fojr all he was so young, were as as any mans in Virginia. He had shown his quality In such matters already, six mouths ago, while he lay In camp In the wilderness on his way towards the Ohio. The burgesses had appointed a committee of their pwn to spend the money they had voted to put his expedition afoot in the spring, lest Dinwiddle should think, were they to lve him the spending of it, that they had relented In the matter of the fees; and these gentlemen. In their careful parslmonyhad cut the officers of the force dow n to already straitened little u HPT sy a ncTToo d ' as Washington deemed unworthy of a gentlemans acceptance. A Volunteer Without Pa He would not resign his commission there at the head of his men upon the march, but he asked to be considered a volunteer without pay, that he might be quit of the humiliation of being stinted like a beggar. Now that it was autumn', however, and wars stood still, he could resign without reproach, and he did so very promptly. In spite of protests and earnest solicitations from many quarters. I am concerned to find Colonel Washingtons ConducU so" Imprudent. wrote Thomas Penn. But the young"offlcer deemed it no Imprudence to Insist upon a Just consideration of his rank and services, , and quietly withdrew to Mount to go thence to his mother at the ferry farm upon the Rappahannock, and see again all the fields and friends he loved bo well A Brief Reeplt. It was a very brief respite. He had been scarcely five months out of harness when he found himBelf again In camp, his plans and hopes oncemor turned Towards the far ' wilderness where the French lay. He had set a great' war ablaze that day' he led his forty men into the thicket and bade them fire upon M. Jumonvjlle and his scouts he lurking there; , and could not, ldving the deep b slnes as he did, keep himself alooi from it when he saw bow It was to be finished. 7 Horace Wade might laugh hshtlyl at the affair, but French and English statesmen alike even New castle' England's prime mln'ster, as bus about nothing af an old woman, And as thoroughly Ignorant of affairs aa a young man knew that something must be done, politics' han'gtrg "atTso doubtful a balance between them, now that Frederick of Prussia had driven FTance, Austria and Russia into league against him. The French "minister in London and the British minla-ter"IParis vowed their governments atill loved-antrusted one another, and there was no declaration of war. But In the spring of 1755 eighteen French ships of war rut to sea from Brest and Rochefort, carrying six battalions and a new governor to Canada, and-s- s tnanysMpa got awayuMer press of sail from English ports to Intercept and. destroy them. ' The English Prepare Transports carrying two- - 'English regiments had sailed for Virginia in January, and by f,he twentieth of February ha reached the -- Chesapeake. The French ships got safely In at the despite pursuit, losing but twx of their fleet which had the ill luck to be found by the English befogged and bewildered ofT the coaet The colonies were to see fighting on a new scale. Th English' minister, with whom ' toee offleera, and leaxn..lLiie. mlghtT. w hat It was that fitted his majestys regu- lars for their stern business. The gentlemen who frore his majesty's uniform and carried his majestys commissions in their pockets had scant regard, most of them, for the raw folk of the colony, who had never been In London or seen the set array of battle. They were not a little impatient 'that' they must recruit among such a people. The transporta bad brought but a thousand men two of five hundred each, whose colonels had Instructions to add two hundred men self-confide- half-regimen- d Ver-noa- ' SL-Lawr-ence and without and their atchildren eight tendants were rescued from the Fort Wayne Orphan Asylum by Captain Charles Carland and his crew from the Chicago lliGj saving station. Capretain Carland and' 'six turned to Chicago from Fort Wayne with their surf boat, but Immediately departed for Terro Haute to continue their rescue work . . Captain Carland's st6ry was graphic. He told how he and his men arrived at' the asylum just after four ehildren had nrnt death when an attempt was Five trips to them the asylum were made by Captain Carland aMdjeaeh time a boatload was taken safely across half a mile ,of swiftly flowing water Besides the children four matrons and six men were rescued from the building Carland Telia Story. "We arrived at Fort Vujne whrn the water was highest, Baid Captain No sooner had we arrived Carland when a report reached us that the children were marooned in the Orphan Asylum. One attempt had been made to rescue them which ended disas trously for four of the children and The small rowboat two brave men In which 'the would be resellers l;ud reached the building overturned after four of the children had been taken from a second story window. All were Chicago Ilalf-froze- n It food, fifty life-save- made-Toresc- ae - r (F "Conditions in the asylum were awful when six men and myself finally reached the building In one small room, huddled together half frozen and hungry, were the little girls and boys with their attendants "Many were trying, a few were asleep from exhaustion. One of the women had fainted . Afraid to Trust Boats. At first they refused to trust their lives to our boats. They had witnessed the fate of the, first boat and - were afraid. We finally carried twelve of the little ones out of the second story window and then our fight bck start-eIt needed the combined strength cf every man on ... the boat to, fight the current and prevent the Then we boat from overturning. were hampered by the cries of the children, and at times the one matron we took with tis'would become panic" stricken; After getting to shore the children were placed In the care of merchants of the town, and we went back for another load. We received a different reception on bur second arrival at the asylum. A shout of joy went up when they heard that the first load had been Janded safely. A little confusion resulted from the natural anxiety of thejots to get Into the boat.' N one was hurt. however7and after'flve tripswe suc ceeded in removing all the children and their attendants to safety. Children Go Hungry. The merchants thanked us for what we had done. One of the ma- trons .told ub the children had not had a full "meal for 48 hours. They had run out of coal and were breaking up the furniture in the place for fire wood. The fire thby kindled in the middle of ing the the danger of the entire building burning up. Brings 200 Peru Children. Charles JU Thacher and his wife,- who live at 3260 Groveland avenue, arrived here from Peru, Indwlth 200 Pru childreh, many of them now orphans. A man In Peru, haring a tyoat, demanded $50 Jrom Thacher to take the two away. There 4 as another worn-rin the marooned house, and the boatman refused to .lake her. A shot was fifed and the man fell out of the boat; dead, said Mr. Thach- Mr. Thacher escaped with his wits and the ether woman in the beat. A second man. Dr. Hupp, offered a boar man $100 to take his wife to a hospital, there'being imminent a visit from the stork. The man'refused and the doc tor knocked him out tbeboatr wlt a .Jbric kAl-- inona college studn rowed the doctor's wife to the hospital. where a baby was born mother and child being saved. Trio io Stolen Thrbe unknown men were drowned et Peru when a leaky boat, which they had stolen, sank. The beat was own ed by Oliver Wilson, a fanner whe lives near the water ltaerThe Tnter urban tracks Wilson discovered ub., theft when the three men were jpf yards from shore. When fhey had half mile, In distress. The Wilson family watchd the men truggle in the water ana d.sappear. 'No effort has been made 7 to recover the bodies. At Logansport heroic work wa done by' the crew sent from Lake Bluff and by the cadets from Culver Military academy in saving lives , . Many rathetij'Yacuknts marke thg workr-e- f rescue In all more than "5,C00 persons were rescued from marooned homes taken to safety In rowtoats. Many lost' everything . they possessed Horses, cattle and other animal Lulled by the hundreds. d General Braddock. apiece to jthelr force In the colony. Sixcompanies otrangers, too,-t- he colonlsta were to furaiBh, atid one company of light horse, besides carpenters and teamsters. By all these General Braddocks officers sej small store, deeming It likely they must depend, not upon the provincials, but upon themselves for success They were at small pajns to conceal contempt for the people they had come to help. Washington a Social Favorite. But with Washington ft was a dif- their-heart- y ferent matter. There was that In his -- proud eyes and gentlemans bearing that marked him. a man to be made friends with and respected. A good comrade ho proved, without pretense or bravado, but an 111 man to scorn, as he went his way among them, lithe and alert, full stx feet In his boots, with that strong gait as of x backwoodsman, and that haughty carriage as of a man b( --n to have his will He won their liking, andi even their admiration, as a fellow of their own pride pse.' GeneraKRrgddock, knowing he elred t0 make th,f campilgll if he 1 might do so without sacrifice of promptly-invite- d him to goo a member of hla staff, where there tion .of junk-asktncouldJjj!0qtotesname him, besides, any young gentlemen of his acquaintance he chose for several vacant ensigncles In (he regiments. (TO BE CONTINUED ) do- - self-respe- g t-- n d Boatloads of Children Taken Safely Across Mile of Rushing Water Incidents of the Flood at Peru. Five drowned high-strun- g high-spirite- iEADERrSTOM IS1RHPHIC Philippine Scouts Fight Rinderpest. The veterinary division of the Philippine bureau of agriculture is waging an energetic campaign against rinderpest, a disease which In former years destroyed arvmially upward -- carabaos of half a mllllo in the Philippines, though the number has been reduced to two or three thousand. A unique feature of this campaign Is' the extensive use 'made of the Philippine scouts In searching for cases of the disease and also in patrol duty to prevent the Introduction of Ipfected cattle In regions where the disease has been stamped out Last, ' year a cordon of about 1,(03 scouts pushed southward as far as southern P&mpagan and northern Bulacan, lewr-lnths territory behind them' free Amori- from, rinderpest Scientific can. , g ' mJ I! room-brav- ' c V j" i ,L ed. Beal-Drown- - they-appea- red f I |