The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1883-06-28

Tor any person having bad teeth A child
can be taught the Importance of attending
to the teeth, and every child that has his
second front teeth should be provided with
a tooth brush and be required to use it at
least once every day, using CASTLE soap.
Once in six months at furthest dentist
should be employed to examine the teeth
and properly fill any that may be found
decayed. Were this plan generally adopted
we should see no more toothless men and
women.-Hdu's Journal Of Health.
A Brave Girl.
In the year 1871, while Clinton and Wash
ington were watching each others move
ments near New York, General Schuyler,
having resigned his command, on account
of some unjust charges against him, was
staying at his house, which then stood
| alone outside the stockade or wall of AL
bany. The British commander, therefore,
| seeing his opportunity, sent out John Wal
ter Meyer, with a party of tories and In
dians, to capture General Schuyler.
When they arrived at the outskirts of
the city, they learned from Dutch labor
er that the General's house was guarded by
six soldiers. The Dutchman, the minute
the band was out of sight, took to his legs,
and warned the General of their approach.
Soon after, a servant announced that
there was a strange man at the back door
who wished to see the general.
Schuyler, understanding the trap, gath
cred his family in one of the upper rooms,
and giving orders that the doors and win
dows be barred, fired pistol from one of
the top-story windows to alarm the neigh
borhood.
The guards, who had been lounging in
the shade OF tree, started to their feet at
the sound of the pistol but alas, too late
for they found themselves surrounded by a
crowd of dusky figures, who bound them
hand and foot before they had time to re-
sist
And now you can imagine the little group
collected in that dark room upstairs the
sturdy General, standing resolutely by the
the door, with his gun in his hand, and his
black slaves gathered around him, each with
some weapon lat the other end of the room
the women huddled together, some weep
ing, some praying. Suddenly, crash is
heard which chills the very blood, and
brings wildly to each ones mind the tales
of Indian massacres so common at that day.
The band had broken in at one of the win
dows.
At that moment, Mrs. Schuyler, spring
ing to her feet, rushed toward the door
for she remembered. that the baby, only
few months old, having been. forgotten in
the hurry of flight, was asleep in it's cradle
on the first floor But the. General, catch
ing her in his arms, told her that her life
was of more value than the child's and
that if any one must 60 he would. While,
however, this generous struggle was going
on, their third daughter, gliding past them
was soon at the side of the cradle
All was as black as night in the hall, ex-
cept for asmall patch of light just at the
foot Of the stairs. This came from the
where the Indians could be
seen plllaging the shelves, pulling down the
china. and quarreling with one another
over their ill-gotten booty.
How to get;past this spot was the ques-
tion, but the girl did not hesitate She
reached the cradle unobserved, and was
just darting back with her precious bur
den, when, by ill-luck, one of the savages
happened to see her. Whizl went his sharp
tomahawk within afew inches of the baby's
head, and, cleaVing an edge of the brave
girls dress, stuck deep into the stair-rail.
just then one OF the Tories, seeing her
fit by, and supposing her to be servant,
called after her ''Wench, wench, where's
your master?" She. stopping for "a mo-
ment, called back, ''Gone to alarm the
town . and, hurrying on, was soon safe
again. with her father upstairs.
And now, very nearly all the plumber
having been secured, the 5and was about
to proceed to the real object of the expedi-
ton, when the General, raising one of the
upper windows, called out in lusty tones.
as if commanding large body of men;
"Come on, my brave fellows Surround the
house! Secure the Williams who are plum
dering!" The towards knew that voice,
and they each and every one Of them took
to the woods as fast us their legs could
carry them, leaving the General in posses
sion of the field
The old Schuyler house looks now as it
looked then, except that the back wing for
the slaves has been torn down and some
fewalterations have been made around the
place; but when you are shown the house,
you can still see the dent in the stair-rail
made by that Indians Ratchet more than
hundred years ago.-George Enos Throop,
IN st. Nicholas for july.