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babe them remain indoors. She would in
vestigate, she said. and bring them all in
formation.
Dozens of the men were still lowering
about old Shaughnessys quarters the
tall gaunt form Of the captains sister came
stalking through the crowd, making
straight for the doorway. The two senior
officers, Byrne and Plume, were, in low
been shown the scarf and promptly sec
onded Norah. He knew 1t at once-knew
that. as Elise came forth that dismal morn
ing and passed under the light in the hall.
she had this very scarf round her throat
this that had been found upon the person
OF wounded and senseless girl. He
membered now that the sun climbed
higher and the air grew warmer the day
OF their swift flight to Prescott, Elise had
thrown open her travelling sack, and he no
tced that the scarf had been discarded. He
DID not see it anywhere about the Concord,
but that proved nothing. She might easily
have slipped it into her bag under the cush-
ions of the seat. Both he and Byrne, there
fore. watched with no little interest when,
after a brief glance at the feverish and
wounded Indian girl, moaning in the cot in
Mrs. Shaughnessys room, Miss Wren re-
turned to the open air, bearing the scarf
with her. One moment she studied it, I'M
der the dull CLEAN of the lantern of the
sergeant of the guard. and then slowly
spoke:
Gentlemen I have seen this worn by
Elise and belive know how it came to
ma us way DaCk here-dnQ II does not
brighten the situation. From our piazza,
the morning of Major Plume's start for
Prescott. 1 could plainly see Downs hang
ing about the wagon. 1t started suddenly,
| as perhaps you remember, and as 1t roll
ed away something went futtering to the
ground behind. Everybody was looking at
ter the Concord at the moment-everybody
but Downs. who quickly stopped, picked up
the thing. and turned hurriedly away. /
believe he had this scarf when he deserted
and that he has fallen into the hands of
| the Apaches."
| Byrne looked at the post commander
| without speaking. The color had mounted
| one moment to the majors face, then
| left him pallid as before. The hunted.
haggard. weary look about his eyes had
deepened. That was all. The longer he
| lived. the longer he served about this Woe
| begone spot in mid Arizona. the more he
realized the influence for evil that hand
vain. shallow. yet beautiful and beloved
wife. Against 1t he had wrought and
pleaded in vain. Elise had been with them
since her babyhood. was his wife's almost
| indignant reply. Elise had been faithful
to her-devoted to her all her life Elise
was Indispensable: the only being that kept
her from going mad with home sickness
and misery in that God-forsaken cline
Sobs and tears wound up each interview
and, like many a stronger man, Plume had
succumbed. 1t might. indeed, be cruel to
rob her of Elise. the last living link that
bound her to the blessed memories of her
childhood. and he only mildly stroye to
point out to her how oddly. yet persistently
ner good name had suffered through the
words and deeds OF this Eighty, melodra-
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which sweeps up the knoll is to be seen
the remains of st. Georges Chapel the
most interesting and remarkable ruins of
which our new country can boast. In an
open field, bespecked with blue thistle
stands the UNCOVERED walls of what at
one time was accounted grand structure.
Its foundation antedates the memory of
the Oldest inhabitants of the valley but
the site is generally believed to have been
donated by Lord Fairfax The walls twen-
ty inches in thickness, We're constructed of
blue limestone quarried in the vicinity
while the other material was brought pre-
Sumably from England The window and
door frames We're of cedar and the high
back pews and projecting pulpit of oak
Ella borately carved. Scattered here and
there through the churchyard are still to
be found fragments of tombstones which
once marked the graves where the fore
fathers of the hamlet Sleep Doubtless
President Washington and his brothers
have often worShped in this cha pei as IL
was unquestionaby the first Episcopal
Church erected in the Shenandoah valley.
This venerable pile stands just as it did
half a century ago defying alike time and
the memory of man.
Historical Associations.
There likewise interesting historical
ASSOCIATE tons of later date connected with
the broad acres constituting the fields and
pasture lands of this ante-bellum home.
For during the civil war both federal and
confederate forces bivouaced on the
grounds Jackson's signal corps was en-
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marches on to the front, happy and cheer
full again. They make light of the hazard
of war and the hardships of the campaign.
There are no harder. people in the world
than the Indians of Central America, Co.
lombia and Venezuela. Even the women
think nothing of marching thirty miles a
day for weeks at stretch over rough
mountain tracks. carrying rifle, heavy
cartridge belt, a machete and a pack-load
of miscellaneous luggage.
Sometimes a guerrilla band will enlist all
the members of a family. from the youngest
boy of ten to the grandfather of seventy
And they will march and fight side by side
husband and wife, mother and daughter
father and son. uncles, aunts, cousins and
grandparents.
During the recent civil war in Colombia,
when the government was very hard press
ed for troops, it was common practice to
surround country churches Sunday and
forcibly enlist the entire congregation, ex-
cept old people and infants unable to
march.
The armies with which President Castro
has made his great fight against the Matos
revolutionists in Venezuela comprise large
proportion of mere boys. whose ages range
as low as eight and nine, and every COM
pany of his soldiers has from dozen to
twenty women attached to 1t. They are
generally Indians mulattos and they
march with the baggage train, armed to
the teeth. when the troops are campaigning.
Such women always accompany Venc-
Zuelan or Colombian army into the held,
and make themselves useful by supplying
the troops with rum while they are under
fire. stealing provisions for their bivouac
and tending the wounded. On occasions,
too. they will take their place in the firing
line and fight as bravely as any man on
the field.
How the Army Marches Home.
When I was in Caracas last January,
Castro's army marched home in triumph
after defeating the revolutionists few
days before Christmas.
There was a blare of trumpets, dis
cordant rattle of kettle drums, an ear
piercing shrek from the flies, and the
army swung round the corner and march
ed up the street past my hotel.
First came the fife and bugle band, COM
posed of half a dozen ragged Indian boys,
blowing a triumDhal march for all they
were worth. Behind them, riding proudly
on stolen mule. a copper-colored general
carried a huge Venezuelan flag. its gaudy
strips of red, blue and yellow Haunting
proudly in the sunlight
He was dressed in a pair of tattered red
pants with a broad gold stripe, blue
service blouse like that of the United
States army, old palm-leaf hat with
ribbon of the Venezuelan coIors twisted
round it, and pair of alpargattas-the
native canvas sandal, which exposes the
toes and heels.
a Mauser rifle was slung over his shout
der. Andino machete, with gaily-col-
ored scabbard hung side and
brass hilted regulat ton sword on the other
while the belt around his waist contained
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CHAPTER XVIII.

At the first faint flush of dawn the little
train of pack mules. with the rations for
the beleaguered command at Sunset Pass,
was started on it's stony path. Once out of
the valley of the Beaver it must Chamber
over range after range and stumble through
deep and tortuous canons. A road there
was-the old trail by Snow lake, thence
through the famous pass and the Sunset
crossing of the Colorado Chiquito to old
Fort Wingate. 1t wormed it's way out of
the valley of the broader stream some miles
further to the north and in face of the Red
Rock country to the northeast, but 1t had
not been travelled in safety for year. Both
Byrne and Plume believed 1t beset with
peril, watched from ambush by invisible
foes who could be relied upon to Turk in
hiding until the train was within easy
range, then, with sudden volley, to pick off
the officers and prominent sergeants, and,
in the inevitable confusion aided by their
goatlike agility, to make good their escape.
Thirty sturdy soldiers of the infantry under
veteran captain marched as escort with
Plume's orders to push through to the relief
of Sergt. Brewster's command, and to send
back Indian runners with full account of
the situation. The relief of Wren's COM
pany accomp lished, the next thing was to
be a search for Wren himself, then a de-
terrnined effort to find Blakely, and all the
time TO keep a lookout for Sanders troop
that must be somewhere north of Chevlon's
Fork, as well as for the two or three little
columns that should be breaking their way
through the unblaZed wilderness, under the
personal direction of the general himself
Capt Stout and his party We're out of sight up
the Beaver before the red eye of the morn
ing came peering over the jagged heights
to the east and looking in upon a garrison
whose eyes were equally red and bleary
through lack of sleep-a garrison worn and
haggard through anxiety and distress
gravely augmented by the events Of the
night All Sandy had been up and astir
within five minutes after Norah Shaugh-
nessy's startling cry, and all Sandy asked
with bated breath the same question: How
on earth happened 1t that this wounded
waif of the Apaches, this unknown Indian
girl. dropped senSeleSS at their doorway
in the dead hours of the night. should have
IN her possession the very scarf worn by
Mrs. Plume's nurse-companion, the French
woman Elise, as she came forth with her
mistress to drive away from Sandy. as was
her hope, forever?
Prominent among those who had hasten
ed down to Sudsville. after the news of
this discovery had gone buZZing through
the line or officers quarters, was Janet
Wren. Kate Sanders was staying with
Angela, Tor the girls seemed to find COM
Tort IN each others presence and society
Both mad reused at sound of the clamor
and were up and half dressed when pass
Ing hospital attendant hurriedly shouted
to Miss Wren the tidings. The girls too
would have gone, but Aunt Janet sternly
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who had fought magnificent1y, was made
minister of war. He Immediately purchased
gorgeous uniform, with lots of gold and
silver lace on it and then walked into his
wifes room to show her his finery. She
died on the spot. Her heart was weak, and
the joy of seeing her lord and master so
magnificently arrayed was too much for
her. She had never seen him before in
anything better than ragged old s.nock
and a pair of alpargattas.
These family troops are sometimes guilty
of terrible atrocities. and the boys and wo-
men are often worse than the men. 1t is
not unusual for a lad of fourteen or sixteen
to be made an officer if he has distinguished
himself in battle or happens to be related to
the president. One of the most noted guer-
rilla generals in Venezuela is under seven
teen, and colonies and captains may yet be
found even younger.
Boy Bandits.
Naturally, these youngsters, unrestrained
by discipline and with practically absolute
power to do as they like when campaigning
sometimes run amuck In the streets Of
Barcelona one of the principal towns Of
Venezuela, the other day one of Castl o 8
young Indian officers was asked for small
coin by little boy who begged in the
streets He drew his revolver and shot the
boy dead on the spot.
Next day two boy officers were walking
along the street, when one of them tainted
the other with being bad shot. The latter
lifted his earbine and fired at the head of
child who was looking out of a top-story
window. killing it on the spot Some for
eigners accused these officers to General
Velutini, Castro's right-hand man, but they
were never punished. When they do such
things in the streets Of crowded city, it
is not difficult to imagine their behavior
when they are out campaigning.
In Hayti. several years ago, the late Gen.
Manigat, who was then little more than
I boy. went through the streets of Jacsnal
with fifty ragged, barefooted negro soldiers
at his back. AS he put it, he was sup
pressing a slight local disorder" In plain
English. he was numbering half the people
in sight. He said to his soldiers, Shoot
this mani" and Shoot that womanw until
nearly hundred people were left dead on
the sidewalks.
The conduct of the women warriors is
often too horrible to write about. They are
far more savage than the men, especially Il
their husbands or lovers have fallen in
battle.
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been dragged through a cactus hedge, feet
first, and then rolled in a mangrove swamp.
The officers were dressed in odds and ends
of uniform from nearly every army in the
world The rank and file made no pretense
at uniform, but wore anything they hap
pened to have picked up. Some even went
half-naked.
The Indians. who made up the bulk of
the army. wore their favorte alpargattas;
but a few negroes and mulattOs went bare
footed They all marched along sturdily
at a swinging quickstep-almost trot-al-
though they had covered over thirty miles
that day and gone through fortnights
hard campaigning.
Each man carried Mauser. belt full
of cartridges, a machete or sword, and
perhaps a blanket, a mess kettle and tin
pan. The Venezuelan soldier has TO be MS
own commisSariat service, or go without.
AS the army filed past was surprised 10
see the ranks full of youngsters. There
were scores of little boys, eight or ten years
old, carrying cut-down Mausers, and step
ping out as bravely and sturdily as the rest.
An even stranger sight. to foreigner
eyes, was company of Indian and mulatto
women, armed to the teeth, who marched
along at the rear Oh the army Will lHe
baggage train.
Here and there a whole family marched
together-women and men. boys and girls,
all mixed up. There was no attempt to
enforce military order. If the soldier liked
to enjoy the society Of his womanfolk and
children on the march, the general INDUCED
his domestic tastes. He didn't think it was
up to him to interfere.
Indeed, it was good business for the re-
public, as all the members of the family
were quite ready to fight whenever the need
arose. They cost nothing to feed. for the
army had no official commissariat. 1t lived
on the country. The soldiers foraged for
themselves, with the help of their children
and womenfolk. Nearly every man in the
force had little loot to show, if 1t was
only a skinny fowl or small bunch of
plantaips sIung on his Mauser rifle.
Quick Promotion for the Fighter.
The fortune Of war often brings men to
the front with surprising rapidity in these
turbulent republics. The family which goes
to war ragged and shoeless may, in a few
short weeks or months, become one of the
greatest in the land. Promotion is rapid
for the good fighter. A man may be rag
ged Indian peasant one year and distin-
guished general the next.
When President Castro fought his way
to supreme power in Venezuela, many men
of no account went up on the crest Of the
wave with him. One of them, Gen. Louis
Otalora, used to be the village barber at
Castro's home in the Andes. He still shaves
the president, as an addition to his military
duties.
Another friend Of Castro's an old Indian
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st. George Ch.pe1, Charlesto. n, w. Va.
camped nearby, and upon the top of the
knoll, to the right of the dwelling, Patter-
sons cavalry awaited the result of the
battle of Bull Run.
1t took years of untiring industry and
good management to repair the havoc and
devastation of those four years of warfare.
But it has been done. and now Altoona, con-
verted into an experimental stock farm, is
successfully supplying the southern mar
ketS with western beef. Where once
marched and counter marched the troops
in blue and the troops in gray now peace
fully Craze the cattle upon the thousand
hills.
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were Apache Yumas. The day wore on
slowly. somberly. All sound of life, melody
or merriment had died out at Camp Sandy.
Even the hounds seemed to feel that a
cloud of disaster hung over the garrison.
Only at rare intervals some feminine shape
fitted along the line of deserted verandas-
some woman on mission of mercy to some
mourning, sore-troubled sister among the
scattered households. For several hours
before high noon the wires from Prescott
had been hot with demand for news and
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dawn. It was nearly time for taps
lights out-when yell went up from the
parade and all Sandy started to its feet
All on sudden the spark at the lookout
bluff began violently to dance, and a dozen
men tore out of garrison, eager to hear the
news They We're met halfway by a sprint
ing corporal whom they halted with eager
demand for his news. 1.-TWO blazesv' he
painted. Two! must get in to the major
at once? Five minutes more the assembly.
not taps, was sounding Plume was SEND.
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heavy Smith & Wesson revolver and
enough cartridges for a Maxim gun.
The army followed in single file. generals
and colonies marching along on the TANKS
in generous profusion. There was a field
officer to every half dozen men, but you
could hardly tell the field officers from the
rank and file. 1t would be impossible to
find a worse collection of scarecrows any
where. The men looked as if they had
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lads of twelve and fourteen, and that the
wife is a fine. strong woman.
mo, 1 must take your man." he tells
her but, If you like, you and the boys can
come, too. They are strong enough to
march and carry rifles, and you can help
do the cooking for US and look after the
wounded"
So it comes about that the entire family
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Mr.. Gruff-"Do you think that Pastor
Goodman always practices what he
preaches?"
Mrs. Gruff-"Ah my, yes! Mrs. Goodman
was only saying the other day that he
practices his sermons a whole week in ad-
vance on his own family. '-Yonkers Herald.
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-13
A soldier Of Christ.

The soldier does not expect always
to march in dress parade Doubtless
such military displays are occasions of
eXultation. hut that is not what men
become soldiers for The fatiguing
march. the exposure, the deprivation,
the terrible battle, with wounds and
death momentarily threatening. are the
SCI vices for which he has enlisted He
wl ondures them is IA good soldier So
a good soldier Of Christ must be able
TO endure hardness and must expect it.
Paul learned how TO suffer, and we ac-
count him a hero because he did not
mirmur nor charge God foolishly nor
al ate one iot of his faith. His faith
was steadfast: trial did not weaken OF
aher it. HIS emotions were change
al'2, hut his Faith was fixed, and he
wclt through all his sufferings in a
81 1T Of triumph because his faith was
so strong. New York Independent.
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Quiz 10Y.

Amy question may be asked that per-
tains to any phase Of Christian Endeavor
work. Address Lock Box ga. Bingham
ton, N. VI
AZ. t., Erie, Pa. Pennsylvania
union will run special excursion to
the Denver convention next July, and
the New York state union will un-
doubtedly do the same thing
As. s., Buffalo. N. Y-Rev DR..
Charles NJ. Sheldon, author of In His
Steps" is most enthusiastic Christian
Endeavorer. and the society in his
church is model one. 1t receives his
personal encouragement and help.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1903-03-13
EPWoRTH LEAGUE.
Topic For the Week Beginning
March Is, "The Young Christians
Pleasures; the Recreation of
Body, Mind and SouI'-Text,
Cor. vi, 10; X, 3I-33.
"Whatsoever We do do all to the glory

whatsoever We do do all to the glory
of God"
@The Young Christians Standing
Ground" is the general topic for the
present month. We have already con
sidered our position on the temperance
question and on the proper use of the
| Sabbath.
The present week brings us a topic
of broad application which deserves
careful thought The subject is too
often narrowed to a mere question of
amusements, proper and improper, and
the mode of treatment is as inadequate
| and profitless as can well be made.
An excellent example is set us in this
matter by the Young Mems Christian
association. It's emblem is a triangle
Of which the sides represent the three
/ field nature of man in body, mind and
soul Its members endeavor in their
work to secure harmonious develop
ment of each.
Each part of our makeup is so re-
lated to all others that no one can be
bUilt up without benefit to all others,
and, on the other hand, no one can be
neglected and stunted without detri-
ment to the others. "A sound mind
and spirit ia sound body is the goal
| for which we should each one strive.
/ I.imitat.c. sai,d hindrances will be met
il many W.Ys. but the mark should be
kept clearly in view to develop in har-
mony and rs far as possible all parts
Of our being. Due regard must be had
TO the place each part occupies in the
scheme of the whole.
\ Recreation should never he confound-
/ cd with mere amusement 1t may be
fun or it may be downright hard work.
Its test is rot in the pleasure it gives at
the time, hut in the new yigor and re-
| freshment Gained The word gives The
right clew to the end we should aim te
4 reach We become weary. Our ener-
! gies are exhausted We need new pow
er to become untired. This can be done
oftantimes by diyerting attention, by
| considering different lines of thought
| than those we have been following. by
! taking UP some form of exercise unlike
what we have been occupied with. Use
! Il different set of muscles; think of an
| other subject; arouse feeling on Other
interests. This will recroate us; it will
refresh us. We become rested, new III
energy. alert and alive again.
Gods glory is never enhanced by
Gripping part of our nature. Spirit
cannot be emancipated by crampine
the body or dwarfing the mind. nor car
4 any recreation come from dissipation
The freest, most rational use of all pow
4 crs, in order that all faculties may co
operate for highest development of each
and all, is oHr duty.
There is no ominence in piety indi-
Gated by danouncing indiscriminately
all amusements, nor is ii Il sign of wis
dom to ndiscriminately commend al
the popular forms of entertainment.
Earnest and clear eyed young people
are fast coming to choose the best
things, the most helpful in each depart
ment and to let alone whatever merely
serves to entertain and does not leave
permanent betterment OF body, mind OF
soul.
Whatever does most good is best an6
should be used.