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Show A 4 THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH TO BED WITH OT-A- DRUM AN SHOT. Without End 8ervant Girl Finds Taps and SunrlM Gun Annoying, So'u our Wedding Ring.. They ,re From the following story It would Bade in one piece with no noldet-- d joint, seem that the cadets at West Point pul 18 karat o 22 karat gold. Will e4l are not th only persons who along at you live. Youli but one. Cm a good one. Not eapetaue findtaps and the sunrise gun alL knnoying. The wife f one of the officers there had a colored maid who was giving satisfaction and was, apparently well pleased with her position. Mrs. Brows was ' therefore amazed uxas a A- utaij when Sallle came to her and told her she could not work there any longer. Will you tell me Why , you are WheD engaged In the leaving, Sallle? her mistress asked. pursuit 0f Mis Lizzie," she answered, "Ah, happiness too many disregard the likes you an Ah likes de Kunnel an speed laws. Ah likes de chlllen. But Ah caqt stay nowhar ' wbar Ah has to b drummed to bed at night and shot out of bed in de mawnin. S , , .j some-lime- s' 1 n 0STER1TY get-- a stiff, formal pic-- I ture of Washington standing In the I I bow of a boat crossing the Delaware J amid floating blocks of Ice on that T memorable Christmas night, to fight the battle which turned the tide of the revolution In the right direction. Hot no painter could delineate the heroism of the' actual scene. 111b men were ragged half oaked. Resides the running Ice In the river, there was a blinding blizzard, and H was bo bitter cold that the chief loss on the American side was of the men who, though inured to pioneer hardships, froze to death that awful night. Did General Washington stand In his boat in that dangerous current during a drlilng storm and stare Rpinpously at the opposite shore? Not he.1. Instead of that, hfr at tlght-a- nd cajoled the men, using every device that might make them forget their terrible situation; even telling, them--facetious story, which, coming from him, startled them, set their blood tingling and made them ..oblivious la. the cold ami dangers a roue d them.-Tbat was the grandest deed in the military stratagem which made Frederick the Great of Prussia, and. Indeed, the whole world, wonder at the . genius of Washington. Nearly every one knows the outside of the story of the siege of Boston by the new commander jio had romo to the continental -- congress-as Virginia colonel, and his , nondescript crowd of raw' recruits, wholly unusod not only to military discipline, but even to military forms. Hut few know of the transcendent bluff GeneraLWashlngton had to put up when he discovered that there were but a few founds of the possession of the Sihale Ainerl- gunpowder-lw hile tha Hrltlsti wcre' amply supplied' with ammunition and might sally forth any hour! against the American Irregulars." "Some one hud blundered. Many a commander would have" shown up the Improvident officers who had that matter In charge and peevishly thrown up the command as ridiculously Impossible. But General Washington did not tell his most trusted officers of the excruciating dilemma he found himself lu. lie knew the awful, secret i would spread If known to a few, and the great cause of Justice might be lost.- He began quietly to scour the country for gunpowder, lie soon found that the nearest place at which any quantity could bo had was in a magazine on the Island of Bermuda. To get that required a secret expedition, much hazard and many weeks; but Wash- -JngtonVnerwT wts eqnaT to the fearful strain. During that leng, tense Interval thp American . troops were working away upon the fortifications, preparing for a grand attack. Meanwhile the was entertaining youngs contmander-ln-chlehospitably at his headquarters, the Cralge mansion. now best known as Longfellow's Home," In Cambridge. As a pleasant diversion, Lady" Washington, then otuyjf the wealthiest women In America, came to visit the general, and all the four with countryside was agog over her coach-anelx black postilions in white and scarlet livery. Evenup In Boston, were lui pressed by the resources and apparent confidence of the American generalissimo. While one expedition was gone to Bermuda for powder, General Knox,, with a small force, succeeded In bringing a number of cannon several hundred, mllea on ox sleds in midwinter -In those times that from Fort Tlconderoga. tried men's souls" it was Washingtons Iron nerve, supported by his broad sense of humor, sometimes scintillating with a radiance worthy of a Franklin or a Lincoln, which saved the day. This was only one of many occasions on which . Washington had to fight out the revolution alone. A friend of Lincoln's once said of him, "The This was president's laugh Is hts aruer of Washington than any one seems to hav nvalized In a day when strict gravity without .loyity, was expected of public characters. To. Lugh or to sc thejiuincreus side of an Incident 'considered the sign of a frivolous disposi' ' ' ' tion. Vprhingtcn's ct.rly biographers were solemn r.ci To heve told in their books how much their hero laughed would have been. In their opinion, wantonly -- extosing bis weakness to public gaze. Men like Parton" Weems, renegade preacher and tramp fiddler though he was, had been brought, up to think that laughing; "whs ""worse than' wick-- ' 1. w:s. Vulgar!" In straining to. make their ro f ppFTtoTia e bet n a demigod, those' pedantic biographers related not what George Wash-t'!.Trn.llv did. but hr.t they Imagined suc h a Ley or nun mht to have done under given cxn-- T s - J US Think it Over Remember, you get a Full Half Pound Package of Hewletts High Grade LunetaTea for 25 cents. This is the fine&Tra hlrn to change seats with her Mend. ia that they would not be separated. With a sweet, demure Bmlle, there1 on- the fore, she, laid her Jiand-Iightl- y - . -' . - f . d - my Companions. Had w Bot been verylfed, I am sure w should not have slept .much that night. The next night he related that they ' had a good dinner & a good Feather lied, which was a very, agreeable regale." In describing an Indian wgr dance, he went on, Some liquor elevating their Spirits put them In yP Humor of Daunting. Ye best Danncer Jumped about ring ta a most cornicle Manner! Others of that wilderness gaug told a story of the boy 'surveyor which he was too modest to relate about himself hew young George turned the tables oh Big Dear, th wily cbigf, who was In the hablt-o- f holdings out his 'sinewy' hand with seeming friendly intent and saying, Indian fashion, "HowT Woe, to the unsuspecting white man whose hand Big, Bear seized in his terrible grasp, while he laughed in savage glee at the paleface's anguished contortions. Young Washington had been warned In time. He had a huge, strong band of his own and knew 'a trick or two that he thought he would like te try op that,, Indian's. wiry daw. it he. could Just, get.; the right hold. His chaftep caine soon enough fok Big Beat, who presented a seemingly amicable paw with an Innocent "How?" The young surveyor seized the Indian's hand with such friendly enthsiasm that Big Bear did an agonising little dance "in a very comical manner," w hile th spectators, both white and red. stood by and shouted with glee to see the cruel savage caught In his own trap. Never again did Rig Bear show such solicitude for the health of Georg . Washington. At the age cf twenty George was the chosen "envoys to carry a "notice to quit" from the governor of Virginia to the French commander encamped In the Ohio region. He wrote in his journal of that expedition concerning the supper given hint by the French tind Indians at the fort at But by the dispensations of Providence I have been protected beyond, all human probability and expectation, for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, altho death waa leveling my companions on every side of me! We have been most scandaldusly beaten by a ..trifling bfidyof men, but fatigue ahd want of time will prevent me from giving you the details, until I have the happiness of seeing you at Mount Vernon. GEORGE. War Is not supposed to develop the latent sense of humor in a commanding general, but Washingtons wit never forsook him. His successful stratagems were little more than practical jokes raised to the highest power. They always worked," and then he waited, laughing In his military enemies tried to play sleeve, while his his own tricks back on him. Even in his retreats and escapes from the British as at Long Island and before Princeton he laughed and kicked up nimble heels In the face of the sursuing enemy. It was while his headquarters were In Jersey that pefpetrated the ' great Jersey joke still perpetuated by so many millions. He told an English traveler named Weld that he "was never so much annoyed by mosquitoes, for they used to bite through the thickest boot." When the war was over the victorious commander entertained the vanquished general. Lord . Cornwallis, at dinner, with some of the leaden would' have laughed heartily at Washington, among the French- - allies. Washington- presided V.'oesTi!" tree. story if lie had In calling tor toasts, Cornwallis, with An ohlivt never which Tie heal'd it did, ler it was not ' ousness of' the changed conditions that was truly wfr Invented till a later r4kn of the erring rectors English, proposed The King of England as- a Juverjv history. six years gfter Washington subject for high praise. fie cherry-tred,ath Yet the reel luro-of-t, The other guests were in consternation. Would of oeeasitin the found would it have gravity t'en the presiding genius, on whose very head King ts well as ni'rth. In the stilted s.ory of "Lltile George had set a price, resent this a an insuk? is Pa, Wei ms was only carrying "The King of England." announced the toast George and cut the idea of his time; to tell rot what Jhe small master general, raising his glass .The guests the consummate-litthboy. actually d'd gazed at him, transfixed with astonishment little he conceived "The wine, as they dosed themselves pretty Washington to George prig "Long may he." continued Washington. Long " would have dene if he had cut down his hc.vo may he stay there!" plentifully with It. seen banished the restraint which at first appeared in the conversation, and Mur's favorite cherry tree. He pronounced the last two words In a stage if little Washington had been the gave a license to their tongues to reveal their whisper, with a shrug and a rueful grimace which little j rig dc scribed by Mr. Weems, his made all the company, including Lorn Cornwallis, sentiments more freely. They told me that It was have loved him better their absolute design to take possession of the who now saw his mistake, applaud with helftuo.lurs would-no- t hearty Ohio and by G than llmir own brothers, or their own children. they would do It!" laughter; and Washington's ready humor had exfuller of At the French fort, while awaiting the comDr tl;a matter. His ei rly life was prevented a disagreeable complication. mandant's reply, the young envoy from Virginia After the Revolution. Washington was citing experiences than any fiction. Yet the life permit of veung Washington ip yet to be tcld as an ad ted the played a diplomatic game for the friendship of the happiness of living peacefully little diaries, Even his in French When the venture story. Indians. quaint plied'the Indians with under his own vine and figtree," as he called it ho early discloses a lively sense of hundreds of times In as many letters. It Is a great liquor, young Washington promised them guns; humor sometimes, but broad and boyish. He mistake to think that hia life at Mount Vernon gnd the game cf diplomacy, seasoned with savage , old showed this by telling only the jokes against himwas either stale or stilted. Nelly Custis, his adoptsauce, went on between the In the arts of wap and duplicity, and the young self. When he was a lad of sixteen he led a sured daughter, is authority for the statement that Virginia major, who possessed common sense and veying party to lay out the lands of his old friend. Allred general was always full of gayety and Lord Fairfax. In the wilderness of the Shenan-humor withal. good spirits, surrounding himself with young etoah. Here ts one of his own experiences as1 n After the awful slaughter of Fort Duquesne! company, enporlng their lively miiTPrgaTTnn icrdcrfoot." recorded on Tuesday, March 1a from abed of fever. In Into which the Jokes." as he once said. Nelly particularly t"47-f. a vin attempt to save Braddock and his army, went so far as to claim that she found no one "We got cur Suppers & was lighted into, a of the Major Washington was left quite 0 willing to keep pace with her own ex.Fvcom. and I, not being so good a Woodsman as scattered forces. At this time he wrote to his travagant spirits as her dear, delightful old fosbrother Jack" a letter, which at least suggests ye rest of my company, stripped myself very or-- , ter father. derly - w ent Into , ye Fed. as ..they... called Jt..., Mark Twain's attitude toward the grossly 'Stag-- ' How Washington did enjoy his home wbev he wa-to my surprise found it to b nothing but gerated" story of his own death: was finally permitted to stay there! Mount Vef: a IRtle straw-ma- tted Forth Cumberland, 18 July, 1755. together without sheets or non was a Mecca for pilgrims from all over the , "Dear Brother; AsJT have heard, since my ar anrtbihg else. but one threadbare blanket, with world. 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