Show wv j rJ i t iti i I ) tom Installment I lA 5 The letter of Invitation written' by was Orme Captain corcouched In terms of unaffected diality Washington very gladly accepted in a letter that had just a in It touch of the young provincial was Us so elaborate and planation of Us writer’s delicate posbut motives ition snd 'with so much more of the proud and resolute man that the smile with which Captain Orme must have read It could have nothing of disrelish in It The young and all the mil(Other members of the general’s itary “family’ found Its author at any sate a man after their own hearts when It came to terms of intimacy among them the By had brought five governors gether at Alexandria In obedience to his call for an Immediate conference— William Shirley of Massachusetts old lawthe yer every Inch “a gentleman and politician" who had of a sudden turned ®o!dler to face the French for all he was past sixty James De Lancey qf iNew York astute man of the people Horatio the brave and energetic Share of Maryland Robert Hunter 'Morris fresh from the latest wrangles vith the headstrong Quakers of Pennsylvania and Robert Dinwiddle the busy merchant governor of the Old Dominion whose urgent letfs to the government at home 'Siad brought Braddock and his to the Potomac Plans were promptly agreed upon New York and New England seeing war come on apace were astir no leBS and in active correthan Virginia in spondence with the ministers TWO regiments had already been raised and taken Into the king’s pay rthe militia of all the threatened In all quarters were afoot was expected and instant war 1 I ' V of June when the advance began straight Into that “realm of forests ancient as the world" that lay without limit upon all the western ways” Braddock i n ' Breeder tion Surprised by the Enemy On the 9th of July at they waded the shallow Monongahela but eight’ miles from Duquesne making a brave show as the sun struck upon their serried ranks their bright uniforms their fluttering banners and their glittering arms and went straight into the rough and shadowed forest path that led to the French post Upon a sudden there came a man To Strike at Niagara bounding along the path to meet them ’Governor Shirley the council wearing the gorget of a French offsagreed should strike at once at N- icer him and the forest behind iagara with the king's new provincial swarmed with a great host of but In the hope to cut the regiments men Upon signal connections with their western given these spread themselves to the William Johnson the right and left within the shelter of groats Colonel trader and borderer who tho forest and from their covert had lived and thriven so long In the poured a deadly fire upon Braddock’s forests where the dreaded Mohawks advancing lines ad their strength shopld lead a levy With good British pluck the steady from New England New York and regulars formed their accustomed Stow Jersey to an attack upon Crown ranks crying “God save the king!" JPoiot where for years the to give grace to the volleys they sent 'JFmteh had helij Champlain and back Into tho forest the brdnance Lieutenant Colonel Monckton of the was brought up and swung to its king’s regulars must take a similar work all the force pressed forward forms against Beausejour In Acadia to take what place It could In the while Braddock struck fight General but where was the use? straight into the western wilderness Braddock Will Not Listen Ho take Duquesne General BradWashington '"Pwere best to be prompt In every dock to scatter besought his men too and meet paft of the hazardous business and the enemy under cover as they came t Braddock turned from the conference' not would but he They must vto juish big own expedition forward stand in ranks as listen were bidden they at once “After taking Pori and take the fire of their hidden foes he said to Franklin "J am like men without breach of discipline jto proceed to Niagara and after in would have broken When they taken that to Frontenac If the of him In their panic at being :eason will allow time and I suppose spite there In the open glade slaughtered will decan for :lt Duquesne hardly without sight of the enemy Braddock tain me above three or four days aud beat them back with his sword and fhea I can see nothing that can bitterly cursed them for cowards my march to Niagara” would have lie t a Mischief It was a thing of Infinite difficulty get that lumbering train through and It kept the tangled wilderness the temper of the truculent Braddock very hot to see how It played havoc with every principle and practice of campaigning he had ever heard of He charged the colonists with an utter want alike of honor and of honesty to have kept him so long awaiting the transportation and supplies they had promised and to have done bo little to end with and so drew Washington Into “frequent disputes maintained with warmth on both of the sides" but the difficulties march presently wrought a certain forest change upon him and disposed him to take counsel of his young Virginian aide— the only man In all his company who could speak out of knowledge in that wild country adOn the 19th at Washington’s vice he took twelve hundred men and pressed forward with a lightened a train to quicker advance leaving Colonel Dunbar to bring up the rest of the troops with the baggage Even this lightened force halted "to level every molehill and to erect bridges over every brook as Washington chafed to see and "were four days In but the- pace getting twelve miles” was better than before and brought them at last almost to their destinato kept the Virginians The Sagacious Franklin too back from the covert If he could —To be sure sir" quietly replied the when lie saw them seek to close with “if you arrive the attacking party In true forest fashagac!ous Fratfklm As It was they were as often "well before Duquesne with these fine ion shot down by the regusfroops so well provided with artillery can probably make lars behind them as by their right the fort foes In fronf They alone made any shut a short resistance” ’Twould head In the fight but who could tell But there was the trouble had a In such a place how the battle fared? “Slave been better' no doubt been Redskins In Force route through Pennsylvania chosen No one could count the where cultivated farms enemy stretched well Into the west where they sprang from covert to with their own roads and grain and covert They were in fact near a cattle and wagons to serve an army thousand strong at the first meeting with but the Virginia route had been In the way— more than six hundred selected (by intrigue of gentlemen Indians a motley host gathered from In the Ohio company it was far and near at the summons of the “Wilted) and must needs be made the French sevenscore Canadian rangers of 2est seventy odd regulars from the fort There was there at the least the and thirty or forty French officers men had come out of sheer eagerness to have Washington’s wrough track col to the Great Meadows This must a hand In the daring game could not spare more Frenchlie widened and leveled for an army with Its cumbrous train of artillery men from his little garrison hfs conand its endless procession of wagons nections at the lakes being threatladen with baggage and provisions To ened and he sorely straightened for stake two thousand men through the men and stores He was staking louse forests with all the military everything as It was upon his encounter on the way trappings and supplies of a European to would It be If be put the English should shake the savmight Army four miles of Its rough trail between ages off as he deemed they would wan and rear of the struggling line he must no doubt withdraw as he sand It would be a clumsy enemy as could ere the lines of siege were He never dreamed fighting went in the woods tv ho could closed about him aiot cut such a force into pieces — “like of such largess of good fortune as In as thread" Franklin said came pouring upon him The Advance Begins The English were not only checkThe thing was to be' attempted ed but beaten 'nevertheless British with stubborn They had never seen business like resolution It was the 19th of May this ’Twas a pitiful shameful slaughIn like bears tool ore all the forces' Intended for the ter — men shot a were finally collected at Fort pen there where they cowered close Cumberland twenty-twhundred men In the scarlet ranks Their first blazfug volley had sent in all— fourteen hundred regulars In nw the rccruiis'-wernearly live the craven Canadians scampering back iu!i1nd Virginians 'horse and foot the way they had come Beaujeu who was killed almost at companies from New led the attack jvn “Yirl! ami tH sru-I- l to roe of ralors the first onset but the gallant who led the motley array wavCV n rig- m rig tackle for rr alien i litre was need on ered never an Instant and readily udit was the 10th held the Indians to their easy work with a few hundred men against prowlmasters of the ing bands of savages craft of swift and secret attack dexin a country terous at skulking” and full of swamps and "mountainous hollow ways covered with woods” For twenty years now settlers had been coming steadily into this wilderness that lay up and down upon the nearer slopes of the great mountains —Germans a hard breed Their settlements lay scattered far and near among the and valTheir men were valiant and leys the rifle quick with hard as flint when they were once afoot to revenge themselves for murdered wives and children and comrades But how could they scattered as they were meet these covert sallies In the dead of nigh? — a sudden rush of men with torches the keen knife the quick rifle? The country filled with mifor whom Washington’s fugitives could find neither food nor litiamen did all that furious Washington energy and reckless courage could to keep the order of battle his com mander had so madly chosen to hold the regulars to their blind work and hearten the Virginians to stay the rout threatened driving his horBe everywhere Into the thick of the mur derous firing and crying upon all alike to keep to it steadily like men shelter Tender Heart He had but yesterday rejoined Washington’s the "The supplicating tears of the womadvance having for almost two weeks en and lain stricken with a fever In Dunbar’s moving petitions of the men’’ cried the young commander camp "meit me Into such deadly sorrow that A Charmed Life He could hardly sit his cushioned I solemnly declare If I know my own saddle for weakness when the fight mind I could offer myself a willing to the butchering enemy began but when the blaze of the bat- sacrifice tle burst his eagerness was suddenly provided that would contribute to the I would be s like that of one possessed and his im- people’s ease munity from harm like that of one willing offering to save fury and die charmed Thrice a horse was shot by inches to save a people” know It was a comfort to under him many bullets cut his clothat least A that he was trusted and believed In ing but he went without a wound like mad energy drove Braddock The Burgesses had thanked him under stroke of Braddock’s defeat storming up and down the breaklhg lines but he was mortally stricken at In terms which could not be doubted In the very thick of his deep last and Washington alone remained sincere to exercise such control as was poswhen he would have guarded troubles sible when the inevitable rout came the helpless people of the border but It was Impossible to hold the ground could not Colonel Fairfax could send from Williamsburg "Your in such fashion him word stubborn Brad The dock himself had ordered a retreat ere good health and fortune are the toast the fatal bullet found him Sixty at every table" ‘‘Our Colonel" wrote officers of a young comrade in arms "Is an exthree out of the eighty-sihis force were killed or disabled less ample of fortitude In either danger or than five hundred men out of all the hardships and by his easy polite bethirteen hundred who had but just havior has gained not only the regard now passed so gallantly through the but affection of both officers and solford remained unhurt the deadly diers” A Trying Ordeal slaughter must have gone on to utter destruction But it took all the steadiness that had been born or bred In him tq enDeath of Braddock dure the strain of the disheartening Inevitable— ’twas Retreat was blessed good fortune that it was still task from which he could not in honHis plans he comWhen once it began it was or break away possible frenzied The men plained were "today approved tomorheadlong reckless ran wildly blindly as if hunted by row condemned” He was bidden do It would redemons whom no man might hope to what was Impossible resist — haunted by the frightful cries quire fewer men to go against Dumaddened by the searching and secret quesne again and remove the cause now conilng hot of danger than to prevent the effects fire of their foes Many of Wounded comrades while the cause remained upon their heels ineffistores military baggage their very his officers were careless and arms they left upon the ground cient many of his men mutinous abandoned Far into the night they “Your Honor will I hope excuse my ran madly on In frantic Bearch for the hanging Instead of shooting them” he “It conveyed a wrote to the governor camp of the rear division crying It they even passed much more terror to others and they ran for help ter- was for example’s sake that we did the camp in their uncontrollable It” ror of pursuit and went desperately It was a test as of fire for a young on toward the settlements Washington and the few officers and colonel in his twenties But a single light lies upon the who scorned the terror provincials Early in 1776 ere the sumfound the utmost difficulty in bringing picture upon the Off their stricken general where he mer’s terrors had come while and he could be Upon the fourth border lay wishing to die took horse and Washington day after the battle he died loathing spared see Govto Boston to made his way the eight of a redcoat they said and ernor Shirley now acting as murmuring praises of "the blues” the in the colonies and from once despised Virginians They buried his body In the road that the army him at first hand obtained settlement of that teasing question of rank that wagons might pass over the place and had already driven the young officer obliterate every trace of a grave their once He went very from the service savage enemies might rejoice to find bravely bright In proper uniform of and desecrate cloak buff and blue a A Craven Commander the sword at his upon his shoulders reach Dunbar’s He had lived to side knotted with red and gold his with the camp but not to see the end of the horse’s fittings engraved shameful rout The terror mastered Washington arms and trimmed In the saddlers best style of the London the rear guard too They destroyed their artillery burned their wagons With him rode two aides in their uniand stores emptied their powder into forms and two servants in their the streams and themselves broke inlivery to a disordered feverish retreat which Curious folk who looked upon the was a mere flight their cravan com- celebrated young officer upon the road He saw him fare upon his way with all mander shamefully acquiescing would not even hold or rally them at the pride of an admirable Virginia Fort Cumberland but went on as If gentleman a handsome man and an — a very gallant all hurried the errand a way to admirable horseman upon deny Everywhere Philadelphia leaving the fort and figure no one ascould he went everywhere all the frontier with it “to be de- he was feted he showed himself the earnest fended by invalids and a few Virachieving youth he was ginians” An Affair of the Heart "I acknowledge” cried Dinwiddle "I In New York he fell into a new amwas not brought up to arms but I think common sense would have pre- bush from which he did not come off His friend Beverly vailed not to leave the frontier expos- without a wound must needs have Miss Mary ed after having opened a road over Robinson Phillipse at his bouse there a beauty the mountains to the Ohio by which and and an heiress Washington came the enemy can the more easily invade away from her with a sharp rigor at us The whole conduct of Colonel But he could not leave Dunbar seems to be monstrous” And hb heart that desolate frontier at home unproso Indeed It was tected to stay for a siege of a lady's But the colonies &t large had little from such had recovered Governor Shirley heart he time to think of It had before that left wounds before had gone against Niagara only to find for duty and In proper seathe French ready for him at every pleasure son was back a? his post with papers point now that they had read from Shirley which left no doubt papers taken at Duquesne and who should command in Virginia to come back again without doing any(TO BE CONTINUED) had been taken in Beausejour thing Acadia but It lay apart from the main Suburban Horror Johnson beat the field o struggle “Everything ws eat” grumbled the French off at Lake George when they commuter "costs me attacked him and took Dleskau their agricultural twice as much" as it used to — except commander but he contented himself That doesn’t cost a cent our honey with that and left Crown Point una swarm Year before last I touched' There were other frontiers of bees and they’ve captured kept us well supbesides those of Virginia and PennsylThey’re In that old hive in the plied vania to be looked to and guarded back yard” Three Years of French 8uccess "Then don't think of the high cost his urban visiFor three long years did the forof living” counseled tunes of the English settlements go tor "think of the low cost of hiving” steadily from danger to desperation His Dual Role as the French and their savage allies advanced from victory to victory "I think Millie Is doing a good In 1756 Oswego was taken herself to that In 1757 Fort thing in engaging William Henry Commander clever young actor” succeed' ed commander "How so?” among the English both Is a promising and he only to add blunder to blunder failure "Because to failure a performing young man" And all the while It fell to Washing Ion Virginia's chief stay In her Two New York inventors propose to trouble to efand steadfastly to mine coal with a machine that grinds the hopeless work of keeping three it to powder mixes it with water and hundred aud fifty miles of frontier tarts it to market by pipe line FEMININE She had known WARFARE Frank Green only short while they had been together ALL DEEDS AND HAPPENINGS OF but half a dozen times yet she felt THE UNIVERSE RECORDED this sunny afternoon that she more than liked him He had come to go Waves Flashing Eternally Through sailing with them— Betty Deaver and Space Forever Continue to Carry herself but while Betty was a very Brief 8tory the Comparatively and pretty girl she was engaged Her therefore not to be feared of Man and Hie Doings fiance was going with them this after ' aoonNot the least of the wonders of light! They were all ia the best of spir- is the truth that through Its agency its and none more so than Helen As ordinary deeds and ordinary happenthey left the porch she caught sight ings as well as all other kinds of of a girl approaching down the road in this busy world of ours are Then 'she stood quite still and her Immortalized We are accustomed to eyes grew dark with apprehension the Idea that souls are immortal that “Here's Mary Buckingham now!" a energy cannot be annihilated that note of dismay In her voice “I sent matter cannot be destroyed but what Bet' of this extraordinary immortality of her a card laBt night you know deeds? ty but—” Simply this: llght that is re"Oh didn't she use to come to' the flected or given off from an object carlibrary — when we were out at the ries an Image a picture of the object with it on its travels no matter how Carnegie?" But Mary had hailed them How long the journey or whither it may When these stunning she looked as she crossed the tend grass her white tailored dress and light waves enter the eye the picture Boft panama hat shining bright In the they bear Is revealeff? whether ths Helen felt cheap In waves have been only the infinitesimal rays of the sun her stiff blue straw and shirtwaist fraction of a second In coming from and skirt and her heart sank at sight the face of a friend across the street of the look In Frank’s or whether they reached the eye alter a jaunt through space from the flasheyes f star Even He ing scintillations of a Tt was bad from the start as we'Tsee our nearest star neighbor well found he knew Miss Buckingham not as it is today but as it was four by hearsay and one after another mureflected Is the light that ago tual acquaintance was 'dragged forth years to this star from our planet carries to put them on a firm footing Only of the earth as it was 48 when the party reached the boat did pictures months if at that relief come in the necessity for the distance ago andthe'any person earth and equipped from men to get busy and cast off with some means of collecting the As guest of honor Mary must sail light waves would see events and And of course she required much at- deeda that had transpired on this tention Often she had to “come a earth in the year 1908! little this way” or "bear off into the we bad such an apparatus Suppose wind" and there were exciting mo- and could light We could ments of luffing and tacking when the Journey to the Pole star 60 light years tiller went over with a bang and It from the earth and behold we should took a stronger hand than hers to see the earth as It was in the year 18521 right It If we journeyed nine years of At such momenta Helen felt savtoward the light waves farther In She would Introduce subjects as earth we would intercept the light picage foreign as possible to Mary — Intimate tures showing the firing on Fort Sumthings and otherwise —to make her ter in 1861 Even though every book And and every manuscript and every monuappear stupid in her silence sometimes the old look was still in ment should be destroyed the gallant Frank’s face — and then Helen would charge of Longutreet and the incombe reassured parable bravery of our northern and But Mary generally managed to Join southern soldiers are written eternalla somehow if only with a question ly on the scroll of the heavens Long The other two had made their way after the earth with its pomp and vaniand were sitting close to- ties has crumbled to cosmic duBt or forward gether in the bow What could be vanished into some other system the more exasperating than this light waves flashing eternally through space will continue to carry the comconversation Helen wondered? She wouldn’t try to keep It up any paratively brief story of man and his comdeeds There was one grain of longer fort at any rate — it was only for this If we traveled still farther out Into afternoon Mary might have him now space and caught up with the light but once on the train for home she’d waves that left us say 420 years sgo discovering and of be safely disposed things we would see Columbus a would go on as before Helen Would the time n?ver pass? thought she would "appeal to Betty for help and tried to draw the couple up conversation but into the they front were too much occupied with themand the attempt fell through selves How selfish enof its own weight Or rather how gaged people were! for these two were totally heedless of all that was going on unconscious behind them Her hands She must do something resting Idle in her lap made her feel altogether "out of it" Besides the helm was indeed the center of the boat She must get the tiller into her own hands “Aren't you tired of sailing Mary?” she suggested But Mary assured her she was not and It waa not till later and after more Insistent urging that she finalthat she was Then at ly concluded last they changed places And the center of interest changed True Frank still lent a with Mary hand at the tiller but not so frequentand often ly nor at all unnecessarily head turned to speak to it The waves America! that left us about 700 years since would give us with John the picture of Runnymede Lackland signing the sumamed Charta Nearly 2000 light years from the earth speed the waves that bear the Story of Caesar’s fame and Still the glory that was Rome’s out hurtling through the eternity of unending space is a picture from of corridors far back in the dusty time a picture of the earth when it was void and without form agqg and ages before that wonderful creature man had entered the arena of llfo Soft Fabric From 8tone A manufacturer in the north of Russia claims to be making a fabric from a gray stone of Siberian origin This stone is susceptible it seems of being drawn into a fiber and the cloth wovIs said to be soft durable en from One roport has it and presentable that the peasants of the district are wearing clothes made from generally it This necessarily calls attention to the glass cloth Industry The fabrics woven from spun glass however are more costly than the fine silks they resemble so much An English manuMary facturer is doing something more to Helen gritted her teeth mentally the point in weaving cloth from old and forced a smile now and then with ropes In the sandwich islands a fabThe sun was getting ric In common use is made from the a few words low and she hoped It was time to mulberry plant More interesting still In India go home and Jamaica the natives un"I'd love to have you stay to tea of derstand a process by which banana course Mary but you say you can’t— skins may be reduced to a fiber that and you told me not to let you miss may afterward be woven into cloth as she askthe 5:30" she apologized ed one of the boys for the time Not Much Out of the Way Neither of the men had brought a Mrs Rush is a zealous and loyal so It was up to them wife and intends to avoid exaggerawatch however There were tion but bas a strong tendency in that to hall a passing boat several such In sight but none with direction hailing distance So they started off "It’s perfectly wonderful” she said in pursuit of the nearest and had al- to a patient friend "to see the way most come up with her when she sudMr Rush counts bills at the bank denly started off on another tack think they are so lucky to have him! But they crossed the path of the boat He’ll take a great pile of five and ten behind her and were able to make and twenty dollar bills and make his themselves understood by the jolly fingers fly Just like lightning and crowd bn board never make a mistake!” "It's just 5:30” came across the "Never?” asked the frlepd who knew Mrs Rush's weakness and could water In answer to their question was consterwith not forbear the question struck The party "Well — no —at least” stammered nation had no Idea It was so late!" Mrs Rush “why perhaps he might "Why came from Mary get five or ten cents out of the way but not any more ever” "Neither had I” chimed In Frank "I've missed the last train in tlras for dinner!" exclaimed Mary Americans Control Pitch Supply "Oh that’s all right" Frank quickly Island of Trinidad On the beautiful volunteered ’Til take you up In my chief source of the world’s supply of car tt pitch the article has been put to won’t" Indeed “No Helen' ery possible use by the natives Foryou "she merly the streets of the Port of Spain struck In most emphatically must stay for dinner now she’s miss- were lighted by torches of pitch but You wlllwon’t you the ed the train people objected to the odor Nothasked “Do she eagerly Mary?" stay ing bow'ever was done to develop the I’m glad you missed it—" sho went pitch and oil Industry until recent on breathlessly This Indifference to Its value years Frank turned to Mary “How about has been credited to the fact that the Is it go or Trinidadians had so many other reIt Miss Buckingham? sources such as their cocoa coffee stay?” “I’m afraid the folks'll think wo’ra and rugar from which to gain as drowned if I don't come back to din- abundant living that they were to leave Pitch lake alone Amer ner” was the demure reply— Buffalo leans now control its outnnt ffipress it I I i |