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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1911-7-20, Page 6i i • TM eiro AV; J11LY III 1NJ1 • TWO LOVES A Seery Showing Wirt Dress this to Do With ilea ANetebss By Karl Sommers Obwrlgae by Ae•.Acas Prey Aaae- ellehee, lath W tie Retretntlonary war broke out t who collected to fight ou the patriot elde cams from the farts, the workshop. the country store ---in- deed, Crum the then few simple avo- moose In which tbs colonists engaged. They were soldiers neither In training boy dreg+ and were looked upon by the BriUvb well drilled and bandsonte- b uniformed omcent and men with the contempt regular troops entertain for a mob One day -ft we. in 1TTS-a regiment of American patriots were marching along • road In rho rk lnity of Eliza- bethtown. N. J. It was to the spring following the memorable winter wben Washington's army suffered It Valley Forge. Not only were the leaves sprouting under tbe warm rays of the returning sun, but news bad come that Trance was to seed so army to belp the colonies. Nevevtbefess the regi- ment marching through New Jersey was a tatterdemalion lot. They were all hungry. and whenever they passed a house when a patriotic farmer's wife would bring oat • pail of milk and a few loaves of stale bread they srooId fell out of the woks, It then were ranks. to satisfy their appetites. At the gale ot one ot tbese farm - boons stood a girl of seventeen. wbo bad been sent out by her mother with a tin pan full of doogbnuts. The Cakes were nearly all gone as well ss the men who had taken them when a young soldier, very pate and wltb targe. deep sunken eyes, bespeaking Illness. approached the get. laid his sausket against the fence and sat down on the mounting stone beton the gate. There we. one doughnut left In the pan. wbletf the girl ofered Mire. but be, was too W to relish IL He sat for a tow minutes resting bis bead on th.hpalms of his bands, his elbows on his tmees. then, casting a Oauow r nr Oa7O*1 Rs TOLL glance at the last straggling tiles of Ms comrades, arose and took up Mia musket to follow tbem. But tbere was something that trou- bled roo-bled him (sr more than ble trembling limbs. He won little of that winch L the pride of a sotdler-uniform--and what then was of it was torn and soiled A young girl was looking at him sympathetically wltb a pair of tender brown eyes. and to leave ber be must expose Ws rear, and from • Mole in the seat of bis trousers pro- truded s portion of btu shirt tall. How could • soldier expose such Ig- somtsy f But wbtle be itood deplor- ing eploying the necessity of doing so a dark- n ess time before his eyes. be tottered. and tbs girl c•urbt bhm before befell. It was several weeks before the young moldier. Abner Wtets. was welt e nough to reeve the fa nu house. and (wben be was bis departure was made Painful from the tact that be mast leave We beam with the little girl wbo bad nursed him. True. bet mother bad don• the greater part of the nurs- ing. utsing. btu the daughter bad done the bring. Leet' Ilariob was of so age When lore comes eeatly sad fnm many -aures. le (tile ease it arose from pity. Abner was hot a year old- er tb.e be. and be loved bet because Mer etre were frown and because she gdtkd blm. It was • love that taught be bar.►en as easily as It bad roma or Welt eclure when bots. with leeks white as anew. should tetter arm le arm together. One morning Ahnef tank up 1,1s muster to co .54 rejoin his reglmeet HM emoting n was nM M emb•r esesieg as It would Mre hews • few week• t.•r.re for f.nrr'a mother bel pstct.ed ri.e rat ef hie treesera Nee - set beerier there IPSO settees le Mrs s,- •., in% 4r.- web ndratrattee es r MIM given a emilterly ewe le a Me wombs a•tfm.n Abmor bed r. ••ed his An set kle bisedier1Nef. for be bad OW ha eller abler-teesa a crew • abort tWtmee•. tern •h. farmhouse •tad bed peso/ orae se Ullrkt we's • Wiles sf member MPS aptwM le tie Mreetyse Opp* Ms* lien tees le willed, be we febeg. toinee gwee& aid Mr staff. all es lterarnR. tame g99b9ig Seem. N; w ter THE B1tlriv AL the timbales. Their e .ts were scarlet, covered with gold taco, and the sus glittered on their bras tr toes and their side arms. Hen was something admirable for the to rest upon. Then was nota rip in ley man's uniform, not a rusty spat o• any saber, not a tarntsbed bit of leve. They trotted on up to Farmer Bar- ton's arton's house, and the general, call- ing Mos. Barton-tbe farmer was at Valley For .-eked if there we. • creek or • spring near by. Sim told him then was • brook farther on. but 11 be wished water only for the party be bad with hire she had aplenty in her well. to which ice was welcome. Daring the brief chat Lucy, who stood by her mother and was looking with admiring eyes at the group of equestrians wbose chargers were im- patiently pawing the ground. could sot help contrasting their appearance with that of those ragged Continentals wbo bad paired tbe boom a few weeks betors. Then was in the party a Dime eyed, flaxen baited young Brit, leper witb teal English roses to his cheeks, wbo sat on his horse admiring Mer simple country beauty, and she thought bow dlffereot be was from the boy wbo but a few minutes before she had watched retreating down the road, the two prominent objects b Ws dress being the patebes-one square. its other round -in hls seat and especially noticeable from their color being different from that of bb trousers and from each other. It 1• • Mew to oar ideas of Mamas constancy to contemplate the change that Immediately came over Lucy Bartoq's heart, for she immediately withdrew 1t from Abner and gave 11 to the young Brltisb aid-de-camp. And yet in view of the circumstances mu we blame ber? The contest be- tween the Continental's garb and the British regulars red coat, butt breeches, blgb top boots and resplend- ent decorations was too much for the seventeen -year-old Lucy, wbo had thus far seen men dressed only in the Lacey woolsey of the period. The British general concluded to rie mina ter days wbere be was, utak- fag his headquarters in the Barton farmhouse. In three days Ceptala Arthur Cleverly made a greater in- road o-toad upon I.ocy's Mart than Abner Wicks had made In three weeks. True, the Britisher bad no nee for bar h eart, but a common sense view of the eltuatlon had no place to either et them. At the end of the three days he rode away. gayly kissing his hand to the little girl who looked after Ws. She had looked after After with the same longing, Mt a longing that spring from a different source S ire had pitied elm; young Cilaverly bad dazzled her. Tone years passed Lucy Barton remembered bar two lovers with ttlelr two very different uniforms. Tbs Britisher engaged the larger part of the thoughts sbe gave to both. but to Abner, forlorn appearance there was always something that caused little ripples to peal over bar beart More- over, orsover, she was cow twenty years old and had become deeply interested in Um struggle between what were now the United States and England Then there were passings ot Ameri- e$n troops southward-bor., foot, dragoons, artillery. Tbey were going to Yorktown for the last campaign of the war. One morning before day- light the watch In Philadelphia who called the hour announced that the British army bad surrendered. TM news spread all over the country and reached the Barton farmhouse. Not long after this the American hoop• began to pass Barton's, moving northward. It was late in October, and the lesyes had fallen from the trees. One evening Lacy Barton, re- turning turning from milking, beard a clatter of horses' hoots behind her and turned lust to time to ase the general and his stag wbo three years before had spent some days at Mer home gallop past Their beads were bowed In worttMea- tios, for they were paroled prisoners of war going to New York to return front there to Dnglaad Loey saw amo•g them the young officer wbo bad so quickly takes bar beart from the Oentinentai, but be Med to recognize Mat A week later a regiment of Vatted States infantry marched northward by the house and with a very dtfferest Bien_ Their heeds were held bight their step was springy, tbeir whole are peerage* triumphant At their bead Inds their colonel, a youngster who had attained the Command only a short Um* before and la passing througb Pbtladelpbla bed pnrebassd a brand sew nntfoes. He was Abner Wicks, wbo had foe three yeses been rising in rank and bad especially die- tstigulaMed himself derisg the lighting at Yorktown. He bad resolved that it be wbile jet a soldier should sesta ase Lucy Barton tt should not be under each demeaning conditions as before. he Leers Drltfsb lover did sot re - wptss bar, as she did gat reetirei t6 Aimee. ladeed, M looked se brave and strew sad proud Is bis sew agi. term tbst the was abeet to give her Mart ter a debt Use to a soldier wbo this time was set may hey dteas.d bat a 'toter. wham the young colonel threw bemsslf trews kis horse arilb the erubeesees et kb leytook be late W arms before the whole re. mast Ile mere the story .f olda tars wfieb is its tc .,..ry bed se ether 5Ser Best them a tattered midterm. bet wberb after tbe M were mart ed cad settled grew each year Mei lived legether tin It sleeked all their being. Yet Nets go se year atter year tale tag their (Meths moss sort small we - aim. bet wMe owl se/ that ibena mar Magee tees saw MMIIIt easeidete$ tars cot Magpim► SOME HUMORS OF ERIN RAMSAY COLLIS TELLS A FEW STORIES OF IRELAND. TM Jarvey Is • Mark Twain In • Small Way and His Retorts Have s Quaint Insinuation That Often Earns Them Money -How the "'ted Earl" Knighted Davy Stephens, the News -Vender -Irving', Way. Although not always a sit. the aver- age lr.shman is usually a huisorist-- U unconec:ously so at. times. The story which Sir Robert Ball, the as- tronomer. te114 of the /arvey who was sent to meet him at a railway sit tion, and who ultimately apologised to Sir Robert for keeping him waiting, adding, as au excuse, that he had been told to look fur t "distinguished - looking geut!. man," is fairly familiar to most of us. And Mr. Ramsay Colles, , his de- ligntlul book entitled "In Castle and Court House" which comprises his re- miniscences of thirty yeah in Ire- Lrrxi, supplements this story with one or two others which illustrate the humor o' the Man in the Street in the Em—raid Isle. - "It .s ten to one," says Mr. Giles. "that the tint car -driver one strikes ou visiting Ireland is as truly a born humorist as was Mark Twain. Sir George Moyers was fond of telling a good story about a Jarvey who steed w drier nine to Glengarry at night. One cold night Sir George, having paid the fare, handed the Jarvey a g lass of whisky, and on being given back the empty glass, said, 'Well, Pat, isn't that good whisky?' 'Begorra, yer honor,' said honest Pat. '1 forgot to tate it!' ';AnAher Jarvey, on being eked the same question, replied, 'Faith. ore made a new man of me, ind shun De's thirsty,, too!' " AnotLer Jarvey story concerns a cal- low youth who, having successfully glialified at one of the great military schools in England, was sent to Rich- mond Barracks, Dublin, to commence Ls career as a soldiex. LOo arriving In that city be took an outside car and directed, tnsc driver to the bar- ncka. "Richmond Barracks, all right, cap- tain," said the Jarvey, as he started on • trip fur which the legal fare is sixpence. but for which • chilling is u sually tendered. What is the tarer" asked the "cap- tain." • "Wel, colonel," said the driver a7sin, in a tone of 'voice which pre- cluded the idea of any attitude save that of profound respect for the ex- alted person he was driving, "the meanest of thin gives me hall a crown. ' . Mr. Colles also tells of how that well-known personality in the news- paper -selling world, Davy Stephens, who is practically tyle first person on. sees on landing at Kingstown, was knighted many years ago by Lord Spencer. Bi:' lordship was Lord Lieu. blatant of Ireland at the time, and the story goes that as Davy Stephens on bended knee presented Her Ma- Wty's representative with copies of e Irish daily- papers, the 'Med Earl" emote him on the shoulder and jocu- larly exclaimed, "Arise, lair Davy Ste- phens ' There are a number of amusing stor- ies, too. concerning other celebrities. Qne concern W. E. H. Lecky, the great historian, who one day went in- to a second-hand bookshop kept by- one yone Michael Hickie. "Lecky came in- to the shop with a volume 'be had pinked off the improvised shelf out- side, and asked: 'What do you want for that?' It was a shabby -looking eopy of the Bible. Hickie pulled hie beard meditatively and said, 'One •billing.' "'It's not worth a shilling,' said `h• man, emphatically, 'I'11 give you sixpence for it.' "Upon this Hickie awoke, and Shouted 'Get out of my shop! Any Roan who says that the word of God is not worth a shilling won't stop here!' Hiekie was not religious; he told me afterwards that he had mis- taken Lecky for • clergyman!" My friend, John Fergus O'Hea, the artist," says Mr. Colles, "told me a talker amusing story of Irving. "When Irving paid his first visit to Ireland he was called upon by O'Hea. who wished to make some lightning sketches of the gnat •etor. Having mads • few thumbnail portraits, O'Hea said: - May I ask, Mr. Irving, if you can give me a photograph? it may moist roe in completing these sketches.' "'Certainly,' replied Irving, produc- ing a couple et doses photographs of himself; 'you can have which von Ube ' O'Hea shoes a photograph, and then, as he was takng leave. said. 'will you add to your kindness. Mr. Irviog. by aligning this photograph?' "'With pleasure,' said Irving; and 'skint up • pen he wrote across the toot of the photograph : 'To my very dear friend —` He paused, and, turning to O'Hea, asked in the charm- ing manner which all lovers of Irv- ing will recall with a sigh. 'What cane did you sayr " Peer and Mis Tremor*. Lord Farquhar has kept his sixty- sevent k birt ay. He was Master of King Edwards Household is 1991, and his lordship is an accomplished musician, most of the lusting plygj- eiant of the tf•I liavitld bled enfet• tsta«l at eapRtl, jMetng. Re is also a N••aumimatl 1 of antique fur• snore and Auroral on, and has made a sperm' study of the eighteenth oeo- tory French Some rat his most valued treasure* mine iresi the homier? of Mane An Jeanette while he possesses a gnat many of the most 1asloaa pseceo fromFrew* bosses of that period Ned Swlrwsnere. ,,♦aaesg the enmpe inn iii a 9rirn'Hyjjsil� k•gdle•p for veteran nmm •e awp.stlilse NT& Park. Lew w lob — of eighty-Sve, ale dllapowes Pear el DER — BOTHA A NLfi�R, treader el Muth African Union Plays • Very Fair Game, Ueaeral Lotus Botha, one of the talo ia1 Premiers now in Emgland. ea one of $he most skilful and ag- (reserve of the Boer commanders in 011ie South African War. He is was wbo planned the detainees of the Tu- pelo and lolled for so long the late u Bedvers Buller's efforts w effect the rebel of Ldysmith. On the death at General Joubert he became com- menderan-chief of the Boer forces, and in tie long struggle his military exploits were brilliant and skilful. Gasped Botha's genial humor, his tranquil, wall-balaneed mind, his sane ontbok. and shrewd eommon- ssow have served him and his coun- try well in the past. It goes without saying that they will do so in the future. There is no South African of either race whose name commands such wide respect In all the whirlwinds of passion sitar the war, as well as in the tempestuous scenes that occurred at Pretoria before the final outbreak of bostilitie..';t at least was never breathed on. Iiis sincenty as • Lib - oral o nt of President Kreger's fatal po of exclusion was never in doubt. 's chivalry, his humanity, • Irite=e, and lua skill were• gl nerds who ltjs in all the id. fhh p His honor and his loyalty to his pledged word have always hese equal- ly above reproach. General Botha is not at all lepacioas, and his voice we. seldom -heard in the old Yolks- raid. olks- r d. To, mown his other perfections, bs .peaks English perfectly. Wean be was in England in 1907, General Botks was initiated into the mysteries of golf and promised to lay out a course in South Africa. He did this, cad sew plays a respectable game. Dialog its voyage to England' this time, be w an example to the atup. retiring early and up early in the morning. He was out soon atter aims and walked briskly round. the promenade deck for an hour and • if Occasional* he took part in the desk games, and the passengers elect- ed h.m chairman of the Sports-Com- mittee. ports-Com- mittee. In this capacity he helped to arrange a two -days' program. The events included tugs -of -war, potato race, egg and spoon races, fiat race, and cha.king tike pig's eye. Premier's Ramble. Immediately n arrival in England as one of the Dominion representaives at the coronation., the Hen. James S. McGowan, the Labor Premier of New 6outh Wales, carried out a promise which she gave h.- aged mother (wtto emigrated from Lancashire fifty years ago) that he isoulci spend his first day rambling among the green lanes ad Old England. and he was (harm- ed with all he Eas. Mr.* McGowan was bons at sea when his parehts were about three weeks' sail from Melbourne, on August 16, 1836, but the career of the Sydney Premier has no sensational chapters. He had gstot{y pushed his way from the founder to the Premiership by determined. useful work in the un-' ions and. in the ranks of the State Parliamentary • Labor party. He graduated in Labor polities in 1851, when he became member for Redfern in the New South Wales 'House of Assembly. Redfern -the railwit sub- urb of Sydney -has been loyal to him ever sine,. Alter three years in Parliament he was elected leader of the growigg Labor party in 1864; and has been re-elected every three years sines. Like most of the best and ablest men in the Australian Parliament, James McGowan is an unaffectedly' religious man. For twenty-four years be has been soperinteodent of an Anglican Sunday school,in his own constituency. My Pew. The recent death of Mrs. Wan, widow of the Bishop of Barrow-in- Furness, reminds a correspondent of an amusing experience which that lady had. Her mother, the late Mrs. Goodwin, and she entered a North country church in a place where they happened to be strangers to the ma- lority of the congregation. They were directed to • wed -cushioned pew oc- cupied by • fashionably dressed wo- man. The entry of the ladies excited the wrath of the occupant, and in a tone more forcible than elegant ahe . insisted on them clearing out They n eeded no second bidding, and repair- ed to mother part of the church where they could sit undisturbed. After the service, some one acquainted with the identity of the strangers approach- ed the inti pew owner. "Dlo you know wbo those ladies were who wank. ed to sit in your pew?" "No; they were nobody in particular, I'm sure.' 'IA! well, one was the wife of the Bishop of Carlisle, and the other, bag daughter, the wile of Bishop of Bar rowan-Furnen "-Yorkshire Poet Reedy Fey All -Comers. Mr. Clement Edwards, M.P., wile triumphantly survived • stormy scene. at a meeting at Tonypandy, in the Rhondda strike area, recently, was lionised at the British House of Com- mons two days later. 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