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staccato tongue Of the South seas as in
the "ernacular.
Mrs. Crosse was before her marriage
Miss Edith Wilson, daughter or Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank w. Wilson of Cincinnati.
Her mother belongs to the well known
family Of Guthrie. Mrs. Crosse was edu-
Gated in Cincinnati and studied music for
some years. She met Lieut.. Crosse while
on visit to New York and the marriage
occurred about eighteen years ago in
Cincinnati. at the home OF her parents
long to the sea defense. she has
dwelt in many lands since her we'd
ding, but none of them has made the APP
peal of Samoa Mrs. Crosse with others
Of the trials of civilization, is passing
more OF her waking hours icconsulta-
ton with modi>--a nose who perform
a part in the intricate drama OF getting
clothes. For three years, with the aid OF
the intelligent young Samoan who lived
with her, she fashioned her raiment of
linen batiste and lawns and in the most
independent fashion.
"Of course. when went visiting over
to the. other islands,. said Mrs. Crosse.
I'VE oyerhaLled the latest pattern books
and lad our skirts and every detail to
the latest cry from Paris. Otherwise. as
1t Is always summer we dressed for ease.
careless whether the sleeves were a tri-
fe shorter or wider than were current on
the Rue de la Paix.''
Commander and Mrs. Crosse will make a
stay of some duration here. This is the
rirst long visit Mrs Crosse and her daugh-
tiers have ever made in the Capital city,
and they are enjoying seeing sights as
well as telling of the sights they have
seen.
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or Samoa, Il have lived most hdppHy' a.
it were, in a nursery. The Samoans are
an absolutely childish race. fond OF life.
music. color, dancing. all manner OF rapid
rhythmic movements and consumed with
curiosity for everything novei-a quality
which IL not entirely confined to children
Is at least a characteristic Of the young.
Such peace of soul. such rest for body
and mind. such reserve force for the
struggles to come that one can store in
that wonderful realm Of sunshine and
water in the Island OF Tutuila.
Imagine living with people who know
nothing of city. who simply cannot
comprehend what crowds mean. to
whom poverty and its evils are unknown.
who lead the ideal natural life. rising
when the sun shines and reposing when
IL declines. partaking of the gifts OF
nature with small labor and following
unquestionably the elders Of the village
and the voice OF authority coming from
the Washington government That II IL
soothing 10 the nerves is apparent, and IT
is just as comforting to the soul. After
this experience l cannot imagine myself
getting fiuttered over the trials Of civiii-
zation. gowns. dinners and all those
non-essentials. l have tested that bit Of
philosophy which says he is only rich In
proportion to the number OF things he
can afford to do without. The conven-
and I believe that shall eventually md
a spot in a deep woods to build q bunga-
low and go back to the primitive life.
ITO the majority OF my fellow country
men. Samoa has only literary meaning
and those who penetrate into this portion
of the South seas are impelied by the
same idea which leads one to visit
Dryburgh Abbey or the Burns country OF
the highlands. Ii Is the memory oil
Robert Louis Stevenson and the desire
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from the service. giving her at the same
time brief note of advice and enough
money to take her back home Although
the kind general spoke not a word Tor
fear OF adding to the girls embarrass-
ment. his eyes filled with tears and he
was obviously much moved at her self
'.How thankful" Deborah often said
afterward, was I to Gen. Washington
for sparing my feelings! He saw me
ready to sink with shame; one word
from him just then would have crushed
me: But i. he said nothing; and ! blessed
Some years afterward Deborah mar
ried BENJAMIN Gannett of Sharon, Mass.
She visited Washington by invitation dur
ing the generals administration, where
she was rather lionized. Congress pass
ed a bill granting her pension as well
as certain lands and she was a guest at
a number Of functions given by the lead
ers OF the "fficial society.
BY all odds the most extraordinary
figure of the whole conflict was Mad
Ann" Trotter Bailey. the female Daniel
Boone Of the Ohio Kanawha region. This
unique character. according to her ac-
count. was born in Liverpool in 100, the
daughter of a soldier named Sargent. At
the age Of nineteen she was kidnapped and
taken to Virginia, where she was sold as
a bound servant to pay the costs of her
passage In 1870. after having worked
out her indenture, she married one John
Trotter, and the pair shortly afterward
moved of into what is now West Vir-
ginia, where they lived quietly for more
than forty years.
Then started the Indian troubles which
served as q premonition Of the break
with Great Britain. rrotter volunteered
for service and was killed at the battle OF
Point Pleasant, his wife fighting Shout
der to shoulder with him. Wild with rage
at the loss Of her husband. Mrs. Trotter
offered herself to Col. William Clenden-
min, commander Of the forces, for any
service. the more dangerous the better,
provided that thereby she could inf1ict
the maximum amount Of damage on the
red skins.
Mrs. Trotter at this time was seventy
four years old; short, stout. coarse-fea-
tured, with q voice so gruff that It
frightened children; stronger than most
men In their prime. masculine In every
word and look and act. She was crack
shot, a splendid rider and an expert In
woodcraft. She rode stallion that she
had broken herself and named Liverpool
after her birthplace; great. black,
vicious beast whom no one could mount
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was accomplished by Nancy Hart. This
woman lived in a lonely cabin in what is
now Ebert county, Ga. In looks, dis
position and character she was a prod
uct Of her mountaineering environment
roughhanded, violent Of speech and i'll
favored. But she was willing to risk as
much for the cause Of liberty as any or
her more fortunately situated sisters.
Nancy had a husband whom she CALI
ed "a poor stick because he did not
take up arms for his country, although
at the same time there was not the least
ground for calling him tory. One day
while her husband with two or three
neighbors were clearing In a field some
distance or Nancy received visit from
five so-calIed 'loyalist'' marauders.
They formed part Of band which had
detached itself from the British camp
at Augusta. made a dash into the in
terror, murdered the patriot Col. Dooly
in his bed, and then broken up for the
purpose of piliaging the country.
The party stacked their guns in a cor
ner OF Nancy's One-room cabin. and sit
ting down at the table before bottle OF
whisky ordered the women to get them
dinner. Nancy stormed and swore a
while. but 1t was no use; she had to obey.
Near by was a spring from which the
Hart family got its water. The conch-
shell on which Nancy blew to call her
husband to the cabin was also left here.
While getting dinner for the tories.
Nancy sent her ten-year-old daughter
Sukey out to the spring for water. with
directions that she should blow the
conch. Meanwhile Nancy herself had
managed. while apparently very busy
getting dinner, to slip out one of the
pieces of pine that formed the .'chinking''
between the logs Of the cabin. and
through this crevice she was poking out
the party's muskets whenever opportu-
nifty offered.
She had got two out and was working
on the third when detected. The whole
party started to make a dash for the
weapons, but quick as a flash Nancy
brought the piece in her hands to her
shoulder and swore she would kill the
first man who made another move.
The five men could have made a con-
certed rush and overcome the. determined
woman at the cost Of one OF their num-
Der, but Nancy was cross-eyed and as she
stood there with the gun cooked. each one
thought she was aiming at him. Hence
there was a painful pause. After a
while one man did start forward. Nancy
shot him dead. The others stayed quiet
thereafter
Finally her husband and his friends
came up in response to the conch-sheil
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of salt and pepper A Samoan feast is
not to be sneered at. for 1t contains
such articles on the menu as Holsters,
crabs, many kinds of fish and chicken,
besides the roasted pig. Such glorious
fruits as cocoanut, mangoes. oranges,
bananas and mummy apples may be
had for the shaking OF tree. Little
exertiOn is needed to provide for a
large family in Samoa and the natives
are constitutionally opposed to work.
They are not lazy, as they keep their
muscles hard as iron. But it is through
play and not work"
X
husband and two daughters, guests Of
Commander and Mrs. Thomas J. Sem,
the former a naval officer at present
stationed in the Navy Department as
recorder in the board of inspection
and survey of ships. Few visitors are
the center of SO much attention as this
recent sojourner in the land OF strange
ways and many delights as Mrs. Crosse
pictures Samoa. After leading a life
Of Arcadian Joy and simplicity. Mrs.
Crosse is tasting the pleasure OF Wash
ington society in its most engaging
mood. Her elder daughter. Miss Janet
Crosse, takes keen relish In the out
door sports Of which she was not en-
tirely deprived in the South seas but
with different companships.
Mrs. Crosse has placed her daughter at
school. for she missed much in the isola-
ton OF her last home. In spite Of scho-
lastic duties. Miss Janet IL managing to
renew her acquaintance with moving pic
ture shows. ice cream soda, OPEN
air concerts by the Marine Band and
other joys OF the summer girl. But for
the small daughter OF Commander and
Mrs. Crosse the return to civilization
opens q wide vista. One thing 10 the
houses are SO close that she can call
across the street to small boys and girls
with whom she wishes to play. She has
numbers of jolly playmates In Mintwood
place, where the senns reside. Miss Cath
crime 10 unique In her accomplishments.
ona Of which IL knowing how to dance
the ''siva." the national dance Of the sa.
means, and she is called on very often to
amuse her new companions by showing
them its intricacies. Swimming was the
chief joy in that tropic home and Miss
Catherine will no doubt make q record
when the season Is farther on. She can
ride WELL AID u - much ut homo In the
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man folks by the departure Of Col.
Prescotts regiment for Boston, the
women Of the place organized home
guard" Dressed In the clothes of their
male relatives, they drilled on the
green under the command OF Captain
Mrs. David Wright Of Pepperell till
they had got themselves into passable
military form.
In ali the company there were only
three or four guns, for the regular SOL
diers had requisitioned practically the
entire supply. These were given to
the best shots, while the rest of the
itary use Of pitchforks and scythes-
both of which are murderous weapons
indeed when properly handled.
The woman's home guard took upon
bridge, which spans the Nashua be-
tween Pepperell and Groton. Rumors
were rife that the regulars were ap-
preaching to invade the interior OF
Massachusetts, over this bridge, and the
banded women bound themselves by an
oath that no foe to freedom. foreign or
domestic should pass it as long as one
OF them remained alive.
Owing to Washington's mastery
handling Of the situation at Boston
the expected invasion never material
lied. Instead. the British were bottled
entire state. But as long as there re-
manned redcOat in Massachusetts, the
faithful guard of women stood watch
and ward the clock around over the
key position. which they had sworn &c
defend
While SO engaged they succeeded in
catching a tory courier, one Capt
Leonard Whiting. who was bearing I'm
portant dispatches to the British al
Boston. Seeing that the picket guard
which halted him consisted only OF
women. dressed in mems clothes. and
armed with nothing but farm nipple
ments, Whiting attempted resistance
but was speedily endorsed and made
prisoner. Dispatches and captive alike
soon found their way to the headquar-
tiers of Gen. Washington
Possibly the greatest suffering OF the
entire conflict was experienced by the
women. old men and boys Of the southern
states. Many sections Of the south were
practically denuded Of all bodied
patriots. and those left behind were SUBJ
jected to pillage. slaughter and unutter-
able cruelites Of every description at the
hands of desperadoes calling themselves
loyalists. Not infrequently, however, the
women whom these wretches prosecuted
paid them back In their own coin.
The most notable reprisal Of this kind
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Hence Its Origin.

UEvERY superstition. or nearly every
II superstition. can be traced back
to something sensible and rational. Take
the Friday one, for example.
The speaker was Mayor Reuter- of
Lansing.
Take tho Friday superstition" he re-
sumed- "One Lansing clerk said to an
other:
Would you start OF on your vaca-
ton on q Friday. BobT
You bet your life I wouldn't Bob
replied.
what q superstitious one you are,
Bob!
Superstition be hanged. said Bob.
i wouldn't start off on a Friday because
Saturdays payday"
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moved to Gallia county. Ohio, where he
became large landowner and lead
ing citizen. Mrs. Bailey went along,
but after few years got tired of
civilized life and turned back to the
wild.
The rising generation OF Trotters
heaved a sigh Of relief when Grandma
Bailey disappeared. She was brave
scout and a thorough pioneer. but she
would chew tobacco, smoke a corncob
pipe on the streets and swear like q
pirate.
Trotter household observe the Sabbath
in the strictest manner, for she was very
pious. Hence the younger Trotters 90
jected to grandma both because ner
in the mother of Gallia county's lead
ing citizen and because she ruled the
Trotter home with an iron rod.
went about four miles out Of town. built
a little shack Of fence rails. and lived
there the rest Of her life. Her son
made frequent efforts .ae Ssr to p19v shs ad
have none Of it. The old lady supported
her declining years mainly by her
smoothbore. She was familiar sight
about the woods of Gallia county and
the neighboring country, through which
she roamed. always clad in pair of
buckskins-over which she sometimes
wore a woman's skirt-a mans coat and
a SLOUGH hat
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Throughout the countryside she was
noted for her kind-heartedness not less
than for her eccentricities. All the
game she didn't need herself she gave
away to the sick and needy, oftentimes
walking five or ten miles out OF her
way to present it; while her pioneer
knowledge of herbs and simples made
her valued caller at the sick cham
Der. She died in 1925. II the date Of
her birth as she gave it is to be trusted.
she was then 125 years old.
Mrs. Bailey. as the obituaries say.
was active till the last" On the day
before her death she was roaming the
woods as usual, and the post-mortem
revealed no sickness of any kind. She
had, simply wrapped herself in a
blanket, laid herself down to sleep as
usual on the earth floor of her rail
cabin, and never walked up; that was all.
1t is more than probable that the career
of Mrs. Bailey is unique in history.
But deeds OF derring-d0 were done by
women who never once saw the front
Of battle lower, as we'll as by those
who went into action. Thus, for in
stance, when the little town of Groton,
Mass. was stripped of nearly all its
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r historic Women Whose

Historic Women Whose
! ! Mothering Care Kept
the Baby Nations Armies
Aheld During the Very Black
est Period of Reverse-Amerl-
can Woman Filled Role OF
Roman Matron of Old. and
She Did Far More-The
True Story of Moll Pitcher,
and Another Woman of the
Revolution Who Duplicated
Her Act-"Mad Ann" Trot-
ter Bailey, the Female Daniel
Boone of the Ohio-Kanawha
Region-Others Who Played
Important Parts.
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except Mrs Trotter He was the fleetest
horse in the whole country, and dreaded
worse than wildcat on account of his
murderous disposition. Clendennin
couldn't haye had a stronger combina-
ton for frontier work.
Mrs. Trotter was used as a spy, scout,
dispatch rider and general Indian killer.
All during the war with the savage
allies of the British, and afterward. till
the Indians were pushed beyond the
Ohio. she performed the most difficult
and dangerous duties of every military
expedition. The Indians came to regard
her as having a charmed life, and they
feared her like a witch.
Some of the reputation she gained
for possessing supernatural power was
due to the fact that she could beat
But most of it was due to her hardi-
hood and recklessness of danger.
One instance Is typical of her con-
duct. Word came to Col Clendcnnin.
who was then holding the fort named
after him, situated on what is now the
site of Charleston. W. Va. that he
might expect an attack in force from
the Indians.
This was serious news. for his stock
of powder had run dangerously low and
the nearest supply was at Fort Union.
where Lewisburg now is. some 100
miles away. To send three or four men
after more powder was foolishness, for
the country was infested with Indians.
On the other hand. if he sent sufficient
men to beat off any prowling band they
might run into he would seriously
weaken his garrison. Clendennin was
In a quandary.
Just then Mrs. Trotter stepped up. :.
How much powder We want?" she
asked, abruptly.
We'll have to have a key Of it,"
answered Clendennin. That's more
than one person can carry"
Mrs. Trotter grinned.
lis it," she said. HUH"
She picked up her smoOthbore. gave a
hitch to her buckskin trousers. leaped
onto Liverpool. took a big chew of
tobacco and vanished On the third
day she rode in with a key of powder
slung across her horses back, having
covered some 200 miles of hostile
country In less than sixty hours.
At the age of ninety this interesting
old person married again. this time
to John Bailey. an old veteran. When
he was murdered a few years after
ward she went to live with her son.
John Trotter q prosperous farmer of
West Virginia. Some years later John
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light to talk just as their American sis
ters, was. SO to speak. stumped. On
occasion 1 ran out Of topics l tried
photos of great American cities, / even
took photos of my guests, of their homes
and children, but they never absorbed
the idea. Steam cars, autos. flying ma
chimes were all so many mysteries, so 1
sadly had to put aside that -honored
way of entertaining your guests when
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BY MARGARET B. DOWNING.

OR almost three
years." remarked
Mrs. Crosse, wife OF
Commander WILL
liam Michael Crosse
o ( the United
States Navy. who
has just rounded
out a most salts
factory service as
governor of the
American portion
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/ have been out OF touch with important
political movements at home many Is
sues have arisen. For those who are
championing the equal division between
men and women Of all LIES duties and
responsibilities. / recommend the con-
Jugal method in Samoa. The woman
gathers the brush for irewood. but on
man devolves the full duty Of not only
providing food for the family, but also OF
preparing 1t. The wife sits back COM
fortabiy and waits to be called out to
eat or course, catering to Samoans is a
simple thing and much OF the food is
consumed raw. Bread fruit and other
fruit Is staple. Pineapples grow to
enormous size. some weighing fifteen to
sixteen pounds, and they are delicious be-
yond the power OF words to describe.
soft and juicy as luscious pear and al
ways to be eaten with spoon. The chief
export is the dried copra. from which q
number of useful things are produced,
PRINCIPALLY the oil and butter of COM
merce. Every head of a family must
pay annually So In copra as a tax, and
after that what he brings to the gov
ernors office is purchased In cash. The
small islands last year showed a profit
of more than $l5O.OGO for the tribes in
copra products. Bananas are the IA
yorite food. but the Samoans eat meat
and vegetables and are very fond Of pork.
chickens and fish.
"Fireless cookers were In vogue hun.
dreds OF years ago In Samoa and in
all the South seas. The cook shed, at
tached to every home, contains a big
hole in the ground. lined with stones.
Three or four times a week q fire IL
built in the hole from twigs, leaves
and brush gathered by the women and
children and when the stones are very
hot It Is all raked out and the food
placed therein and snugly covered.
Sufficient meat Is roasted for several
days and vegetables cooked also in
the exact way used In the present-day
nreless cooker. The roasting OF pork
Is quite q ceremony and not unlike our
preparation Of turkey fer Thanksgiv.
ing day or Christmas. The animal 10
roasted whole. after having been care
fully cleaned and skinned. The entire
inner part is stuffed with leaves OF
bread fruit and Ia eaten to the last
fragment with the utmost relish. Tho
natives use no.seasoning whatever. aud
the Europeans hidden to such feast
are wise to carry small receptacle
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VERY complete In
dependence day
celebration pays
equal honor to the
p a TT S played by
both sexes In the
revolution-to the
historic women Of
the time. whose
mothering care
kept the baby na-
I / on 8 armies
afield during the
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you have no conversation in common
showing them the family picture album.
must confess that missed hearing good
music, and that consider the only real
privation / suffered during I'LL our stay
in the South seas. But In a way l had
music of the most interesting sort For
instance. the missionaries have taught
the natives hymns and sometimes they
catch popular strains. Think of hear
ing fervent assemblage singing sacred
words to the tune Of the waltz "Sobra las
Olas" or THE Blue Danube River"
u Ind that during the years In which
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"Tutuila presents that anomaly that
everybody is somebody. and so excellent
ly are the natives Informed on tribal
etiquette that contretenps are unknown.
IL used TO make me wish we were as ex-
act about Others rights in what We call
the civilized world.
"One thing which did disconcsrt me In
my efforts to entertain my visitors was
that I could not interest them In pic
lures. I had q charming companion in a
young Girl educated In English and the
daughter Of one Of the richest chiefs in
Tutuila, who lived with me and acted as
Interpreter. The women are absolutely
lnsuiar and after had asked the num-
Der and ages of their children, about
their illnesses, theme on which they de-