The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-03-16

to make him responsible to an out
ragged public.
CHAPTER L.
THE SETTLER
Captain Haywood was native o.
Virginia and of course belonged tc
one OF the first families. They al
do. He might have enjoyed the title
of Col. if he had wanted to, for every
body born in Virginia is a Colonel
by right of birth. But Captain May.
wood had periodical attacks of mod
esty and in one of these spasms he
chose his title and once fastened up
on him it clung to him like mother
in-law. He brought it with him in
to the virgin wilderness of the North
west and he died before the product
| i've soil and pure unbreathed air Of
the new country got fair chance at
1t. Hence he remained q captain
only where the soil and ozone might
make him Gigadier Brindle. The
brave Captain had aft" in the revo-
luton and had survived to enjoy the
distinction along with about mill
ion other liars, of belonging to Wash
ington's Body Guard. But Captain
haywood was too modest to claim
the earth, so he only admitted his
connection with that famous and
numerically remarkable organiza-
tion, to people who did not know him
we'll and who were not sufficiently
curious to look up the records But
the Captain was really n revolution
ary hero. He had served his country
IN those times that had tried mems
souls; when with bleeding feet and
half naked bodies, they fought like
heroes at Lundy's Lane, this city,and
drove the British tyrant from our
shores, with bleeding feet and half
naked bodies. 1t isn't everybody
that could do it. But we did it, you
can bet your sweet life, and we can
do 1t again If England sticks her nose
in this little matter between Spain
and this land of the free and the
home of the brave.
Yes, Captain haywood had barred
his breast to British shot and shell
with the fortitude and courage of
Spartan. He did it in a Suffers tent
in the rear Of the army, where he
sold sardines, pickeled onions and
canned apricots at five dollars can.
The brave Captain held the distin-
guished position of Regiment Suttl-
ed in the Goth Rhode Islank Cavalry,
commanded by Col. Dilberry Forest
er, and by stalking his commanding
officer when he went broke on poker |
and giving him credit for sardines, |
figs, coffin varnish and other light |
ana airy diet, he won the esteem and |
affection of Col. Dilberry Forester,
who in return, allowed him to use
the title of Captain without having
him court-marshalled and shot for
it. SO intimate did their relations
become, at length, that when the
brave and noble Colonel tried to out
Aleck Alexander, by drinking bar
rel of commissary whiskey at one
sitting, and failed to come out of the
with that very necessary
element in the human makeup
known technically rs life, the cap
tain searched his effects, assembled
all his liabilities, including the rem
nants of his family, and thon gave
the hero a soldiers burial according
to martial form and the articles of
war. Carp, who was tho poet of the
revolution, wrote some touching
lines by Moore, for the occasion
verse of which we append:
Soldier rest thy warfare's DER
Sleep the sleep that knows no wax
ing,
Dream of battle fields no more,
Days of danger nights of shaking"
The above, together with sixty
three more verses, were sung at tile
by Miss Stella Smith, the
late lamented, sweet singer of Balti-
more, this county, assisted by the
silver tongucd Cantonian warbler,
Col. Reese M. Wynkoop and his
Lord Dundreary lilacs.
After the cruel war was over, Cap
ain haywood, together with his
'amily and Rosey Ann Forester, call
I'd Forest Rose, for short, eniigrated
% a large tract of real estate, gener-
'usly granted to him by the govern
nent. out of lands that belonged to n
'he noble red man, and in which the
government had no more title than
I has to the rings OF the planet Sat-
irn, or the canals of Mars.
1t has ever been the cheerful habit =
II our great and glur,ous ration to 1