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Show Pa Pn om fm act Seat ed [om fm fr nr fn STATES Pm - fy Pf oP Yea ic Nea KIIOOOCOOO OOO Ne” oat Seat Yad Senet Nyt Naat Nad Sed Additional Are ee . 0000080000000 aged, the dashing sol- dier of tune game America’ inv and offered forto 1777 his skill, A ile THOMAS CON WAY but aA most amazing capacity’ for' making trouble. The soldier was Thomas Conway, a British subject, .who had lived since early childhood in Brance. There he had joined the army and risen to a colo- neley. When he came here he was joyfully received. The Revyolutionists lacked expert officers and they made him a brigadier-general. The man’s mmo ways boasts impressed and th¥ his dashing simpler states- men. But George Washington read him at a glance, for a windy, vicious incompetent. So when congress decided a little later to make Conway a major general the chief sternly opposed such a promotion and gave his reasons for foing so. From that moment Conway was Washington’s sworn foe. One, active mischief-maker work more men harm can undo. can than a sometimes dozen .wise Conway at once join- pd Washington’s opponents in conBress and the army, and started a campaign for the chief’s overthrow. He. and his associates formed what was and known did all as in the “Conway Cabal,” their power to under- mine Washington’s influence. ries letters of anonymous iculed the chief as In a se- Conway a coward rid- and as foo feeble of mind as a leader. He Buggested Gen. Horatio Gates as commander-in-chief in Washington’s place. Not only did Conway and his friends win Gates over to this scheme, but they induced several prominent congressmen to lend their influence to the movement. ‘ a It New was the Revolution’s dark hour. York and Philadelphia were in the hands ton and of his the in the O British. army were Washingstarving and hands of Gen. fussy, inefficient, at the head of the || American troops would have been along ‘military patriot armies 80,000 our country: Gates’ aid, Wilkinson, drank too | much one night and babbled to a friend of the chief a letter some from of the Conway contents of Gates in to which Conway had spoken insultingly of Washington. The story was told to Washington, who called Conway to account. Conway rushed to Gates for aid, and ‘Gates tried difficulty by liar. to get out of the branding Wilkinson as a Wilkinson promptly challenged Gates to a duel. Gates wept on Wilkinson’s shoulder and implored him to withdraw the challenge, speaking of himself as a feeble old man who loved Wilkinson like a father. In this way the frightened old general wriggled out of fighting. Meantime, thanks Washington learned anonymous ies. letters The the der facts of all Conway’s treacher- made was easily. He was by Washington’s who. first™hint, known to cabal was -crusbed unpublic disapproval. Conway lader, the and other were people. The a storm of But to not to escape so challenged to a duel friend, Gen. Cadwal- proceeded to shoot him through the mouth. Conway, believing himself dying, wrote one more letter. This time to Washington, asking forgiveness for his villainies and declaring the chief to be a “great and good man.” Then he “conditionally” resigned his commision as an officer in the American service. Congress accepted the in his province MELISSA DECIDES THAT MR. CAPIAS WON’T DO. “We seem to be seeing a great deal of Mr. Capias lately, Melissa,’ observed Mrs. Merriwid’s maternal maiden aunt Jane, beginning in the afghan she was the wrong color. a new row knitting, hey with *And because he’s mere accident it might readily of the that Mrs. Merriwid delicately picked up @ candied violet from the box of bon- honored. and indispensable profession should be considered ineligible matri- bons monially.” Aunt Jane delivered herself of this with a degree of acrimony, in her lap and, crunching it be- tween her white teeth, answered with some indistinctness of articulation that there was a good deal of Mr. €apias to see. “He is certainly man,” said Aunt “Two figures,” riwid. a fine. figure Jane. corrected “Twenty-three of 2 Mrs. is the Mer- genitle- man’s number, the way I’ve got it down. Cheer up, dearie, we'll see less of him after this evening. We've got the probate business about settled and all I’ve got to do is to settle him.” Aunt Jane laid down her knitting and adjusted her glasses for a steady inspection of her niece. “Do you mean to say you exnéct him to propose?” she asked. “I wouldn’t swoon with surprise if he did,’ replied Mrs. Merriwid. “I don’t think my poor fond fluttering heart will flutter as high as my tonsils if such a thing should happen. Yes, auntie, will get a he will jar that propose will and loosen he every “Dearie,” said Mrs. Merriwid, “that’s because you haven’t given the subject due consideration, and little Melissa has. A lawyer has to have an analyt ical mind. That’s all right in his hon: ored profession, but he’s apt to bring it home with his umbrella and apply it to the garbage can, so to speak, to deduce things.” “That’s nonsense,’ commented Jane. depriving Washington of powé¥ and of placing the of command a general in After that French the Conway royal “So is most of the law,” said Mrs. Merriwid. “Anyway, a lawyer is supposed to know how to argue and put the person he argues with in the wrong. What Kind of a happy life would a woman lead with a husband that could get the best of every discussion? Isn’t that a wife’s privilege? And saying mean things in an agegravating way: You know perfectly well that all lawyers that. It’s merely an pride A: ear - old Pennsylvania boy stood cowering and weeping amid a band of Indians one day in 17565, while his stepfather, John Turner, Wi was burned at the SIMON stake. The boy was Simon Girty, son of an who had turned Indian lad’s father had drunken Indian. Turner, been His GIRTY emigrant trader. The killed friend, had slain the Indian by a John and mar- fied Girty’s widow. The Indian’s tribesmen in turn murdered Turner and made young Simon a prisoner. For years the boy lived among the savages, learning their language and customs, more until an he Indian he grew became than at a white to early manhood heart man. As he left the tribe and sought a living among the settlers. His knowledge of Indian ways made him useful in many ways to the British military commanders along Lord and the frontier. He Dunmore’s forces interpreter, and enlisted as a soon in soldier became known as one of the cleverest military spies in the colonies. : Then gan. the American Girty rose joined to the Revolution the rank patriot of be- army lieutenant. -Then, in 1777, he suddenly played the traitor, and went over to the British. It is not absolutely known whether he did this because of some quarrel with the Revolutionists or because he thought he could make more money and fame in the enemy’s camp. At any rate, the British received him gladly. They were forever trying to get the Indians against the Americans, and they counted on Girty to use his influ- ence to this effect with his savage friends. The renegade performed the abominable task cleverly. Through the west he went, everywhere stirring up the indians to attack the colonists. At the head of a band of redskins he swoop- ed upon ill-defended American forts “and desolated the farming districts. When Col. William Crawford, at the head of a little body of patriots, marched against Sandusky, and was. captured by the Indians, he begged Girty to save him. Girty, according to most accounts, refused and laughed aloud while Crawford was tortured to death, Girty always denied this, and said he had tried in vain to persuade his In- . lian followers to spare Crawford. aid sueceed once in saving from (He tar. themselves their business, while amusement with us. on it’s And disappeared from died Kenton, the In 1782 Girty invaded Kentucky at the head of 600 Indians, and attacked a fort near Lexington. The plucky little garrison held out until Daniel Boone could come up with reinforceMents and drive Girty away. Boone |followed the retreating savages. The two forces met at Blue Licks. a fierce battle, disastrous There to the Americans, was last fought (the of many great Indian battles in Kentucky). « Girty, not content with leading savages against men of his own race, next proceeded to drive the gentle Mo- ravian missionaries out of the Indian tribes. He made his headquarters on a Sandusky River farm, which he changed into a trading station, and from which he and his followers crept forth every marauding now and then on cruel expeditions. By trade, and by service to the British, the renegade was amassing a very tidy fortune, At Gen. Arthur St. Clair’s defeat, in 1791, Girty played his usual murderous role. In that battle Gen. William Butler was wounded. Girty saw the general lying helpless on the ground. Calling upon an Indian, he ordered him to scalp and kill Butler. ~When, in 1798, the United States government appointed a commission to arrange a peace treaty with the Indians, Simon Girty had himself made interpreter. interprei, the So crafty did and so he misin- brutally did he insult commissioners, that the treaty fell through. : Then came the war of 1812. Girty once more rushed to the front as the friend of the British and the foe of his own country. Again he Yi marshalled bicuspid in his mobile jaw. Pm quite looking forward to it.” _ “May I ask why, my dear?” said Aunt Jane, elaborately. eo “Because he can’t note any excep-| tion to cruelty, his combined to make him, perhaps, the best hated man in the west. Many tales of his atrocities—some true, some exaggerated—are still handed down from generation to generation ‘in the districts he ravaged. He. has been described as a human monster, of hideous aspect. This is not true. He was merely a fat, swarthy, necked man, about five feet ‘inches tall. Some historians say Girty was bullnine kill- ed at the Battle of the Thames in 1813 (where Gen. Harrison crushed the Indians, and where their leader, Te cumseh, fell); others that he survived | the war and years later. the ground that employed court’s ruling on the the erred when she court the word ‘not’ in her deci- sion,’ Mrs. Merriwid replied. “He won’t get any thirty days or thirty seconds to file an appeal. He won’t) have the closing argument either, or get the costs Mr. Capias. taxed I’ve to anybody one or two but other ;. vteasons.” the greatest cent. number 1; Mas- next with 2,800; and numerical increase, ing provided in the year. over FINGERS RoR. SO D. 1,800 No: <2, Pickles and Condiments beds ‘ There's a goodness to them{i that beggars description. One taste |}? 252, Seattle, middle fingers and you'll want more. Libby’s label my hands in soapy water quality. again. The nail came Always Buy—Libby’s they off wd Fura a similar trouble cured: by cura Soap and to try them and bought a 50c, Ointment. sent for a box NING SMILE! Cuti- I decided sample. I of Cuticura Oint- ment and some Cuticura Soap and now I am thankful my fingers are perfectly cured and my nails perfectly smooth. Cuticura Soap and Ointment , cured me.” (Signed) Mrs. Rieke Hinton, Apr. 24, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free,. with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.” an?” “Well, W.N. then there’s there’s You no must awful to eat. he cross-questioning! use talking see about yourself it would in her aunt’s protesting mouth. “Toe resume, Mr. Capias rumbles. When a men has a deep bass ‘voice and rumbles with it and then puffs out his cheeks and swells his chest to show how much wind he’s got left if Oh! it, auntie. how simply be.” like the cost of living, unless some-: body sticks a pin in it and there’s no repair material handy. I wouldn’t wonfer one bit if Mr. Capias lands in a soft place on the bench, but I’m no Maud Muller and have any I don’t think regrets.” ll Eas “I think you might do a great deal vyorse,” aunt Jane contended. “Bless which a worse. woman your That’s the There are has. in men pickles, little got There! Bless tussedness 1ave cunning .haven’t dearie. right. turis! ihe your you and quite Now they’re cunning might one no do varieties of consolation more than little always some one people man has them all, or even the worst of them, f you take his wife’s opinion. She tan always look around her circle yf married acquaintances and thank 1er lucky stars and hose-supportcrs that John hasn’t acquired ar he yay. that brand brute of vice that distinguishes next door or across the You’ve sweet the particu- no idea what a comfort hight-have-been-worse as- jurance was to me in my married life, & iuntie.” died a natural death tweo- - “So you object to him because hea | fasn’t a tenor voice?” Aunt Jane’s ane was mildly sarcastic. { . “Ah, yes. I knew it from the story hold from of the Irishman,’ I have him. he never “If he’s so distasteful der you’ve encouraged “I didn’t say Mrs. he iried to you I wonhim the way was Merriwid distasteful, replied. “And as for encouraging him, I couldn’t be ing of tender sentiment -of my second series; but many pretty pebbles strewn about the 80.” “What’s that?” inquired “He makes me so said Mrs. Merriwid. (Copyright, 1912, Had by Aunt awfully W. “Oh, But George!” Jans. weary,” eo Cheese was made or otherwise) more eynspicu- ous.” The writer adds that when pannier skirts, high heeleqd shoes and many puffs in the hair were fashionable the “beauty spot” was a necessary ac- companhiment, and that when the makers of this was wax fashions found heads in consulted to be so, the show old prints “and a few windows often the one with each, one, one with supposing “He bit the hand the eg an a s Be enthusiasti¢ rather: dull for heaven’s sake Fryte.. by herself.” three that \ go over and She is sitting alj _ “But-—but what shall I say to her?” “Tell her how pretty she is.” “But she ain’t pretty.” — EE “Well, then tell her how ugly the other girls are. Ain’t you got no se cial tact?” We rr tere eee eee “ Good Bait. -Aunt Sarah, cook in a family, from took home a her mistress’ children had been dish i 2 Richmond of macaroni table for the edifamily. When assured her that; it Was good they proceeded to eat. with great gusto. The next morning Aynt Sarah discovered spring in the yard and soil and the earth, two of her. turning scratching over $ftstones vigorously fin. Ces ‘“Heah, yo’ chillun!” called out; Aunt “what mo’ yo’ of dem .all doin*?” macaroni old-time ers owning say 14 milch cows, received all the milk night and morning, according to the daily yield of their little herd. Thus given two families five cows feet and said unto him: “Say, talk to Miss some farmers in the summer on the co-operative plan by which four cattle own- having 4,000 {21 “We’s a-huntin’” was the reply, “fo? Days. the worms:” I They Are Overworked Now. Four-year-old Dick had made an portant discovery that his hair woyld pull out if enough force was exerted, and was absorbed in proving the cinating find on his forelock. ter—aged. seven—noted the ing with “Dickie! round-eyed Dickie!” fas- His sisproceed- horror. she e ae cried,. “you mustn’t do that!” “Why?” demanded Dickie, cynicism of childhood, IS with the e es “Because the Bible says that all your hairs are numbered—and if you pull\any out you’ll make a lot of extra bookkeeping for the angels.” st that fed him” said Teddy of Big Bil And didn’t tell us if the bite had made the biter il. «| | Now had Toasties been the subject of Bill's voracious bite | He'd have come back for another Written of ‘he hairdressers decorated with the black spots did the rest The fashion was established, or rather revived.’~— New York Tribune. member Sarah, by is Tact. club dance approached fication of her own harp.”— in Olden Social ee five cheeses each; one would press “It had to come—there was no way by which its advent might have been three,.and one only one cheese, but averted.” : this one would be as good and as large thé This wail in a Paris newspaper did | as any of the rest.—‘‘Nobility of not refer to a great catastrophe, but Trades—The Farmer,’ Charles Winslow Hall, in National Magazine. to the “beauty spot,’ the. speck of black plaster “which, worn on cheek or chin, or both, makes natural tints {real At a member the average yield per cow was the same, in two weeks, two owners would make to Come. No is you clean house?” The saint smiled, “You can’t shake off the ruling passion, can you?” he said. “Oh, well, step inside and they’ll give you a broom Cheése Syrup for Childrex 4 he said, and held the gate ajar. But the woman hesitated. “Tell me first,” she said, “how Making with penal Passion. a Soothing agree oe y produced and dustpan instead of Cleveland Plain Dealer. you pe Its Advantages. coun- The woman who had chased dust and dirt all her life finally reached St. Peter. “Come in, you poor; tired woman,” and G. Chapman.) Ru'ing a “TI think the pillory ought to be re Journal. Her whs vived as punishment for this frenzicd financing.” “Why so?” ° “Because it provided a fitting ty in stecks and bonds.” gift—a silver thimble—and it got suddenly cooler in the room.—Ladies’ Home those Jewett—But the sea isn’t on level; it always makes me sick. fa- broke in, “this George have His View. Hewitt—This place above the sea level. I never dreamed—” then to Mrs. Winslow's Bettis she Why, just the helps 29-1972, teething, softens the gums, reduces inflaramation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢ a botti-, a Pretty Thing. finger or not, but—” as the first there are sc beach that don’t wear black string neckties, and there’s one insuperable objection to Mr, Capias if it was ever on as nr I recognize sandwich ; "Twas te on tight to something to keep screaming. There was that about poor Henry Merriwid: to tell funny stories.” cheese man in- my so sudden! ‘Sweets to the sweet!’ curls— o1 this place long?’ isn’t so worse. rude. Not unless it became necessary. Aunt Jane. {I never gave him any real reason to “Self-rising,” agreed Mrs. Merriwid. suppose that we could ever be more to “T don’t doubt it, auntie. He’s a par- each other than very dear friends, and ticularly yeasty person. You take a I shall always regard him with a feelcombination of oiled silk and gas and you've got something that will go up running quired the drummer. “No; I just inherited ther.” also No, Nothing so completely knocks a vox trary him, proprietor. The young man produced a small, square box from his pocket. “T have a present for you,” he began. “I don’t know whether it will fit your dearie,” any sub-cellar oratory most exasperating mo- the I don’t think it’s your real reason.” “If it isn’t that, it must be the way he has of making hiinself agreeable,” said Mrs. Merriwid. “Perhaps it’s his winning smile and perhaps it’s the cute things he says, like ‘Sweets to the sweet’ when he produces the candy. No, it wasn’t this candy; this er at out his “Been know City, Lest you forget when next in need of 2 laxative remember the name “‘Gartield Tea.” A trial will convince you of its merits. The place looked familiar, but didn’t Lake eee © wire.”’—Life. a party this old ter.” you have,” said Aunt Jane. rolled me in on Salt a “There might be something in that, certainly,” Aunt Jane conceded, “but he cared to use it, I always want to give him a jar. Poor dear Henry nevments.” “They say he’s a rising man,” urged she’s U., And the Lord help athers, The Heirloom. Pittsburg drummer in a small dropped into a place to get a bite A town rhe i & Libby my third finger four times. I tried everything with no results until one day I read of a lady who seemed to have had /if ne |] #j 17 At All Grocers in. the. Suburbs. ;“Is Mrs. Gillet a well-informed wom- | dengue ts ly i Don’t accept a substitute. Whether it be relish—— soup—meat — asparagus— reserves or jams—— insist on the Libby bel. Ther you're sure of satisfaction, would get worse. They would be so very sore, then the nails would come off, and no more would a new one grow on when they would begin to get sore Purity ? |} is your guarantee. | Economy? They're not expensive when you consider their superior {/f right at the end of my nails troubled me for three years. They would get so inflamed, burn and be so painful [ could not sleep. It seemed every time { had ij hav- additional Box three oa et any of PAINFUL COULD NOT SLEEP Wash.—“The * z an “I don’t call what you’ve said any and the smile went with it. He’s gat reason,” remarked Aunt Jane, severely. ; & cunning little collection of funny “Have a marron glace, dearie,” said anecdotes, too—culled from the first Mrs. Merriwid, selecting one with the edition of a patent medicine almanac. candy tongs and forcibly inserting it When he says, ‘That reminds me of ull all per Pennsylvania, a close third with 2,700. Alabama showed the greatest percentage of increase in the last year by adding 57 new beds to its 42 a year ago. Georgia comes next with 109 beds added to 240 a year agd. New York has Vg straight, Hig treachery, his genius for evil doing— ——¥ Ny and alike. 100 wpe ASTY? Yes indeed — ji they're real pickles—crisp fi and fine—just as good as |jj you could put up at home and far less troublesome. But |} then—you should try Libby’s |i Olives or Catsup—in fact, |] A woman may not realize that she has a good figure until other women begin to find fault with it. his Indians to the fray, and again the torch, tomahawk and scalping knife wrought havoc along the frontier. Girty’s name was cursed by. settlers soldiers over If your digestion is a little off color course of Gartield Tea will do you good. . armies. history. He is supposed to have about 1800 in poverty and exile. ture his old friend, Simon Kentucky pioneer.) or os g interests Simon Girty, the “Indian White Man” We were June The humor of some people is so delicate they ought to take a tonic for it. SUCH A WIN NEON Aunt ; he He returned to France and be- came the Orient there. have by said anter ways of making herself miser-. able.” hg “Of course I’m very ‘dense, but ] can’t imagine why a member of an During the French Revolution he fFeezing at Valley Forge after a sumHe was mer and autumn of repeated defeats. was’ cOndemne:l to death. (Men's hearts grew faint and theiral.. saved only by.on anneal ta Great Rritain (against which he had fought in fegiance weakened. Conway’s crafty but was words at such a moment fell on ready the American Revolution), compelled to flee from France for his pars. : The cabal waxed strong. But for a life. endef a lawyer,” Mrs. Merriwid, nodding her bang.completely. over her left eye. ‘I think any woman is foolish to marry a law: yer when there are so many pleas: res- wrecked 1912, | sachusetts comes ignation, unconditionally, and Conway went back to France. There he styled himself “Count de Conway,” and managed to win an appointment as governor of one of France’s Oriental provinces. He made such a mess of his diplomatic work almost in New York State leads in the of beds, having 8,850 on June liberty” Here, in American daomed. prief, is the story of the accident that saved states ending 1, according to a statement issued by the National Association for the Study 000000000000 0000000 0000 Gates. And with || cowardly old Gates jolly, with him no great pee the and Prevention of Tuberculosis. This makes a total of over 30,000 beds, but only about one for every ten indigent tuberculosis patients in this country. In the last five years, the hospital in- | provision for consumptives has creased from 14,428 in 1907, to over “Cabal’ ’ Against Washington Thos. Conway M IDDLE- brought weanona for Tuberculosis Established. be Are Ee ae By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE services to the patriot army. He rte DANGER ~ Nearly 4,000 additional hospital beds » ane of the Being for consumntives in 29 provided during the year Copyright, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). a TO Hospital Beds Treatment 0000000600000 and AWAKING One of the 50 Jingles for which the by a keener appetite, WILLIAM TIT. HINCKS, #07 State St., Bridgeport, Conn. Postum Battle Creék, Mich., paid $1000.00 in May. with Co., .< — +? sas ae ane ce okie: Ee ‘ |