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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
Lydia Darrah

a OUAKERESS by faith, Lydia
"A Darrah nevertheless put her
country's cause above her love of
peace.
In December Of 1777 the city of
Philadelphia was in the hands of the
British, and General Howe occupied
headquarters on Second street, direct
ly across from the neat white home
of William and Lydia Darrah. Quak-
ers both, and persons Of some promi-
nence in the city. One night a British
officer assembled the front steps of the
Darrah house. gained admittance and
informed it's fustered owners that the
general chose to hold secret council
somewhat later in one of their back
chambers. The family was given care
full instructions. They were to retire
at an early hour. The mistress of the
house. It was promised. would he in.
formed when the conference was over.
so that she might put out the lights
and lock the doors for the night.
The Darrahs retired according to
Instructions The British officers ar
rived. made their way to the desig-
mated chamber and locked the door.
The council was on. Then rose Lydia.
and with beating heart but brave de.
termination made her way barefooted
to the door of the meeting room. With
her ear to the keyhole she learned
that the British were planning for the
morrow surprise attack on Wash.
ingtons unsuspecting troops at White
Marsh. With this information she re.
tired and when the council was over.
could be awakened only by repeated
knocks at her door and finally an
swered in very sleepy voice indeed
Early the next morning Mistress
Darrah must have a pass from Gen.
eral Howe, so that she might ride
through the British lines and go to
Frankfort for flour. This gained. she
hastened, very conspicuously laden
with An empty -four sack to Frank
fort. Here. however. she discarded her
sack and FASTENED onward. until she
ulVS al OullVSl VI llic IWItlut HTIUV
and gave warning of the impending
attack. Then she returned to Frank.
fort. had her flour sack filled. and
made her way home.
The British attack at White Marsh
was failure. General Howe's officers
were at loss to know how General
Washington had learned their careful
and secret plans in time to be so well
prepared against their coming. In
vain they questioned other members
of the Darrah household. Only lydia
escaped their suspicious. "We know
You were asleep" they told her. eve
had to knock three times before we
could even awaken you :"
q. 1889. Western Newspaper Union
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09

was unusually familiar with the Bible
and during his Presidency, on his own
confession was praying man.
He was often of melancholy mood,
subject to seasons of gloom and grief,
yet was as often buoyant, laughing
heartily over good joke and told
droll stories inimitably.
He loved greatly all children, and
was most indulgent with his own, per.
hitting Tad to make a play room of
his office in the White House.
He never could wear gloves with
ease; formal society functions bored
him, and at his first Inauguration he
was puzzled as to the disposal of his
gold-headed cane and high hat.-until
his great protagonist. Stephen A.
Douglas. came to his relief.
He wrote neat hand, devised clear
and uninvolved sentences. avoided big
words. never padded his speeches, was
frequently laconic and pointedly brief.
He vas fond of poetry. wrote verses
Of homely sort md liked best poems
of somber nr pathetic appeal. as for
example. 'srhe Last Leaf and ~
Why Should the Spirit of Mortal he
Proud?"
He observed the faults and foibles
Of lis friends a,d associates hut sell
dom commented nnon their shortcnm.
ings and never rebuked them either
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
American
Heroines
RI,
LOUISE M. CoMsTOCK
Captain Molly" Corbin

VARIOUS are the ways by which
' women have served their country
during times Of war. But one who
actually shed her blood on the field
of battle was Margaret Corbin. the
Captain Mollie" whose remains were
recently moved from the ]. P. Morgan
estate at Highland Falls and reburied
with military pomp in spot of honor
at West Point.
Margaret Corbin was undoubtedly
the first woman so to distinguish her.
self on an American battlefield. Dur
ing November of I776 Colonel Robert
Magaw with 1000 Revolutionary troops
was defending Fort Washington
against the onslaught of the COM
bined British forces under General
Howe. By November 16 the greater
portion Of the American stronghold
had been taken. Only the northern
outpost remained, that section called
Fort Tyron. few fragmentary ruins
of which may still be seen at One
Hundred and Ninety-fifth street, in
New York city. Against this the Brit.
ish sent their Hessian mercenaries
commanded by Knyphausen. British
batteries from an opposite hill opened
fire, digging into the earthworks about
the fort and protecting the Hessian
soldiers as they streamed up the hill
to the attack.
Manning one of the two cannon with
which Fort Tyron answered this at
tack was young Virginian, John Cor
bin, and beside him stood his wife
Margaret, who had followed him to
war and shared with him its perils.
For three hours she stood there, help
ing him, watching comrades sink to
death about them and the Hessians
creep closer and closer. Then sudden
ly John Corbin fell, with a bullet
through his breast. His gun was ST.
lent. But only for a minute. For
there soon appeared on the ramparts
a strange figure, stalwart young
woman in homespun. not Margaret
Corbin now. but Captain Mollie" Cor
bin, leaning over her dead husband to
load his cannon and return the en-
emy's fire.
Weary minutes later she also was
wounded. the cannon was silent once
more, and Fort Tyron was taken. The
British carried the wounded woman
across the Hudson under a flag OF
truce, gave her hospital treatment,
and released her under the stipula-
ton that she should not again take
up arms for America in the war.
When the war was over. she was pen
stoned on soldiers half pay and the
value of a suit of clothes year, and
until her death at the age of forty
nine she was supported by the mill
tary establishment in private home
near West Point.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09

more than a years school
Ing in the most elementary subjects,
yet he lived to write impeccable Eng.
fish, and to be Judged by learned pro-
fessors as master of purest literary
style.
He grew up far removed from cul.
tural influences and the niceties of Pc.
lite society, yet wooed and won In
marriage Kentucky aristocrat, so
ciety belle, and an accomplished lin.
guist, Miss Mary Todd.
He never had the heart to kill any
living thing, looked with disfavor on
fire arms, but became by virtue of his
high Office, the commander-in-chief of
the Union forces in a war which re-
suited in half million slain.
He was smooth shaver for fifty-one
of his fifty-six years, and grew heard
the winter before his Inauguration, in
good-natured compliance with the sug.
gestion of a little girl who thought the
change might improve his looks.
He was voracious reader as a
boy and young man. borrowing many
treasured volume, but he never
owned a library of as many as a hum
dred volumes. excluding his law
books.
He did not unite with church.
th"urh he was frequent attender !;
sometimes called free thinker" he
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
WASHINGTON NEWS
ITEMS OF INTEREST
eriet Resume Of Happenings
OF the Week Collected for
Our Readers
THE MARKETS

Seattle
Wheat Soft white and western
white, 42Ac; hard winter, western
red and northern spring, 44c; blue
stem, &c.
Butterfat-18c.
Eggs-Ranch, 15@16c.
Hogs - Good to choice, $1,000
s.75. i@ stHi >, ~,
Cattle-Choice steers, $4.25@4.75.
sheep-spring lambs, $500 @ 5.25.
Spokane
Cattle-Steers, good $4.25 OATS.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1926 $3.50.
Lambs-Medium to good, $4.75@
625.
Portland
Wheat-Big Bend bluestem, hard
wheat, 54c; soft white and western
white, 43c; hard winter, northern
spring and western red, 42c.
Hay buying prices, +. o. b. Port
land; Alfalfa, Yakima, $3.50.
Butterfat-16@17c.
Eggs-Ranch 16@17c.
Cattle-steers, good, SAFE @5.25.
Hogs-Good to choice, 1925 400.
Lambs = Good to choice, $5.25 O
SIS.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
ANTHOLOGY
cfLIhCOLh
4y r1lnnA IRVING

A BEACON on the mountain height
4 \ Where Freedom waves her ban.
ner bright,
A clear, serene and steady light.
A hand that reaches from the dust
And writes for us in God to trust.
And be both merciful and just.
A soul that lives to cheer and bless
The student in his loneliness
And point the pathway to success.
"A spirit humble, yet divine,
That poured it's essence superhne
Unstintedly at freedoms shrine.
"A broad humanity to all,
"A love embracing great and small,
A sword, flame, bugle call.
A heart Of faith inviolate,
"A voice immortal in debate,
"A lighthouse to the ship of state.
A name undimmed as years go by,
A glory that will never die,
A star eternal in the sky.
His natal day from sea to sea,
Lord God, we render thanks to Thee,
For Lincoln and his memory.
IN. Y. Herald.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
LINCOLN'S IDEA ON
HOLDING PROPERTY

nPOPERTY is the fruit Of labor.
/ Property is desirable. II is a
positive good to the world. That
.ore should be rich shows that
others may become rich. and
hence Is just encouragement to
industry and enterprise. Let not
him who is house!ess pull down
The house Of another but let him
work diligently and build one for
himself, thus BY example assuring
that his own shall be safe from
violence when buift.-Abraham
Lincoln.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
Fort Stevens, Where
Lincoln Saw Battle

In Georgia avenue. near Walter
Reed hospital and not many miles
from the White House, is a small but
neatly kept cemetery. 1t is a grim
reminder of the trying period during
the Civil war when the Confederates
were almost in sight of the Capitol.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
q WAS born in a one-roo

D WAS born in a one-room
cabin in the backwoods of
Kentucky. and died in a
tiny bedroom in a boarding
house at the nations Cap
ital, while President of the
United States.
He never had all-told
,,oro +ho, ro,,,o ,,h,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1933-02-09
Stand with anybody that stands right
Stand with him Will. he is right and part
with him when he goes wrong.--Lincoln.
slave. Freed January 1, 1863

The proclamation of emancipation.
- freed all the negro slaves. waa
proclaimed by Lincoln. September 90,
vs. .. and became effective January l.
1853.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
PROFESSORS PRAISE
N. R. A. AT EXERCISES
National University Opens 66th
Session-Speakers Laud
Democracy.

Praise for the national recovery act
and conviction that the American sys-
tenn of government will continue to
meet needs of changing times, without
recourse to relationships were voiced
by legal instructors of National Uni
versity at the institutions sixty-sixth
Fall opening Monday night
BY creating more leisure for the ir-
dividual worker, the national recovery
act is elevating educational standards,
DR.. Hayden Johnson, chancellor of the
university and president of the District
of Columbia Board of Education. de-
clared in the opening address, pointing
out that it affords employed persons
more time for study
DR.. Charles Pergler, professor of con-
stitutional law at the university, said
the Constitution was framed in a pc
riod of national fluidity and has
proved flexible enough to meet our
needs for $50 years.
Other speakers included Chief JUS
tice Fenton w. Booth of the United
States Court Of Claims, Associate
Justice D. Lawrence Groner of the
District Court of Appeals, Associate
Justices Peyton Gordon and Oscar
Luhring of the District Supreme Court,
John Paul Ernest, chairman of the
bar examiners of the District Conrad
Syme, oldest member of the faculty
in point of service; Thomas Patter-
son and Glenn Willett of Nationals
law faculty.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
Buy u. S. Autos.

More than so per cent of Switzer-
lands imported automobiles and trucks
are purchased In the United States.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
MEETING TO HEAR
DR.. MARY WOOLLEY
Nationwide Peace Drive to
Be Inaugurated at Gather
ing Here Sunday.

DR.. Mary E Woolley, delegate from
the United States to the Disarmament
Conference at Geneva, will be the
principal speaker at the disarmament
mass meeting in the Belasco Theater at
$50 p. m. Sunday.
The mass meeting, arranged by Or
paniZed peace forces in. washington,
will inaugurate a Nation wide, two-week
campaign prior to the reopening OF the
Disarmament Conference at Geneva Oc-
tober 16 At least one mass meeting
will be held in each State. while many
congressional districts will have their
own meetings.
Besides Dr. Woolley speakers at the
meeting here Sunday will include Rabbi
Max c. Currick of Erie. Pa, president
of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis; Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan, who
for l8 months was an observer for
American peace organizations at the
Geneva conference, and Alden Alley,
lecturer.
Message Of Secretary Hull.
William Phillips, Undersecretary Of
State, will read a message from Secre-
tary of State Hull. in which the admin
iStration is to voice its approval OF the
campaign to marshal the desires of the
American public for a successful termi-
nation of the conference. William E.
Sweet. former Governor of Colorado,
will preside.
The program will be completed with
the invocation by Rev. Russell Clinchy
of the Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, and the benediciton by Rev.
DR.. Joseph F. Thorning, S. j., director
of research at Georgetown University.
Miss Virginia Sellars and George Fred
erick Freund will sing.
To Be Cabled to Geneva.
Resolutions adopted at the meeting
will be cabled to Geneva. where they
will be presented to final meeting on
Sunday, October IS. The day after,
American, English and French resolu-
tions will be laid before the president
of the conference, Arthur Henderson.
The campaign, of which the local
meeting is part. seeks to crystalline
public support for the "siX-point"
minimum program, which follows:
l. Substantial reduction of existing
ornaments.
>. No re-armament
3. Abolition of aggressive weapons
within definite period and with the
immediate elimination of all bombing
from the air, of the air weapon in gen.
eral and of poison gas.
4. Limitation of expenditure to pre-
vent rivalries in armamentS.
5. Effective supervision of existing
ornaments and of arms manufacture
and trade.
s, A permanent organization to car
ry out the above provisions and to
carry on the work begun by the Dis
armament Conference.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
DIVORCE is SOUGHT

SAN FRANCISCO. September ~ (R.
Mrs. Dorothy Hess Dorm, socially
prominent wife of DR.. John Harold
Dorm. staff member at the University
of California Hospital, yesterday fled
divorce action charging cruelty.
Mrs. Dorm, the former Dorothy Cable
Hess of New York, alleged Dr. Dorm
was sullen and morose and belittled
her before guests.
The Dorns were married in Glen
ridge, N. j., November %, 1928, and
separated August 13, 1882. There are
no children.
DR.. Dorm year ago announced he
had perfected a method Of predeter-
mining the sex of children.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
HONORED BY. ALBANIA
Robert Swan Townsend Decorated
for Services After War.

The Minister of Albania, in a brief
ceremony yesterday at the legation,
presented to Robert Swan Townsend of
Washington, the decoration of Com
mander of the Order of Skanderbeg.
This honor was granted by the King of
Albania in recognition of Mr.. Town
sends services to the kingdom, just
after the World War
Mr.. Townsend was sent to Albania as
a consul, during the Wilson admins
tration, being the first official repre-
sentative of the United States to that
country. His stay in Albania, during
one of the most stormy periods of that
countrys history was marked by great
tact friendliness and understanding,
the legation here announced.
Evening star., 1933-09-27

day gave the, following comparisons be-
tween last weeks exports and those for
the week before: Wheat. $4,000 bushels
against $4,000; barley, $1,000 against
1900; corn, 107, 1000 against 2S6 900;
oats. 1000 against $4,000; rye. none
against 5000.
Canadian grain exported last week
from the United States ports totaled
100000 bushels against $4,000 the
previous week. while exports of North
American wheat flour were $4,000 bar
rels against $4,000 barrels.
Evening star., 1933-09-27
KHAKI SHIRTS PARADE
PLAN AROUSES VETERANS
Thomas Threatens to Hold Counter
March Here if Fascists' Pro-
gram Goes Through.

The proposed mobilization of Khaki
Shirts" in Washington today drew
from Sergt Mike Thomas, leader of the
Communist wing of the recent
bonus convention here. tie threat of
counter march of war veterans.
AS national commander o. the Mill
tary Order of '76. Thomas declared he
would call upon all constituent veterans
to move on to Washington at the first
step taken by the so-called United
States Fascist, to put its Washington
march plan into execution.
Evening star., 1933-09-27

Sunday evenings in st. Matthew's
Church, the first one october IS at 8
p. m. The subjects to be discussed are
"The Tapestry of Reality" "The Quest
Of Reality" "A Real God" God and
the Realities of Science" 1.-THE Crown
ing Science" and THE Catholic
Church"
Evening star., 1933-09-27
DANIEL D. MOORE NAMED
COLLECTOR OF REVENUE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Appointment Of Daniel D. Moore as
collector Of internal revenue at New Or
leans was announced by President
Roosevelt yesterday, despite opposition
by Senator Long.
The nomination Of Moore, former
newspaper publisher, was recommended
to the President by leaders Of the anti
Long factiCn in Louisiana.
He was accompanied for . prelimi-
nary conference with Postmaster Gen.
eral Farley by Edward Rightor
Evening star., 1933-09-27
Spurs Here to Stay.

LIBERAL, Kans. R).-Henry Hitch,
who once rode the range on horseback,
has motor car now, but he still wears
his spurs.
He explains:
Every time I climb into the contrap-
ton without my spurs, the darned thing
QUITS running"
Evening star., 1933-09-27
GRAIN EXPORTS SLUMP
5000 BUSHELS A WEEK
Corn and Oats Shipments Drop
Heavily; Wheat and Barley
on Increase.

BY the Associated Press.
Grain exports from the United
States last week amounted to 289 900
bushels against $4,000 bushels the
previous week and $4,000 bushels
during the corresponding week Of last
year.
Commerce DEPARTMENT figures yester-
Evening star., 1933-09-27
REV. G. F. STROHAvER
TO GIVE 6 LECTURES
Dean Of q. q. Arts and Sciences
Will Speak Under Auspices Of
Knights Of Columbus.

A series Of lectures by Rev. George r.
Strohaver, s. j., dean Of the George
town University School Of Arts and
Sciences. to be delivered under auspices
Of the District knights Of Columbus,
was announced yesterday by the Catho-
lie Information Forum.
The discourses will be delivered on
Nogales international., 1933-11-11

When descended tired world fifteen
there thousands chairs the homes Of all nations That
the the people resolved that attained
dea the people resolved that should that the
worrugg had brought enlightenment which showed the futy
conflict sacrifices They resolved that the
sacrifice gallant have been vanand that the and
attaining should held
years obligation those resolves actual
that November H. 1913 when the
sienced homeTh tribute Arnice
stir reminds
Nogales international., 1933-11-11
WHEN PEACE DESCENDED

their obligations those who answered the call and threw
the walls defense that deemed uGrea
the ddhose gallant souls that their fear march
honor the
e full we'll would have turned back
the life threaenedWe this tribute that fellow
charged
oyyTs hour 1888 has brought forth its probembut
perpexy the which will justice e not be
said that failed tribute where tribute due That that
essential the battlefield lies within the breast loyal American
and this calls face the struggles civilian life
which recently have been most uncompromisng
Evening star., 1933-06-29
Links Lakes and Gulf.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
A work first recommended by Secre-
tary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin in
1908, included in congressional bill in
1911, completed in limited way in
1S48 and used for half century, will
reach its final and most useful stage
when the Illinois ship canal, connecting
the Chicago and Illinois Rivers. is
formally opened on June Is. The Gulf
of st. Lawrence and the Gulf Of Mexico
are now linked and already freight
shipments by barge have come and gone
between the Great Lakes and the port
of New Orleans, while waterway freight
lines are operating in limited fashion
between New York and Chicago by way
of the st. Lawrence River and the Great
Lakes. Thus the dream of a century
and a quarter is finally realized.
It cost the United States Government
s27, 500 600 to build this Illinois water
way system from Lockport to Starved
Rock, distance of go miles. Its CHAM
mel is 10 feet deep and its width 200
feet. The first cargo trip through this
canal was from St. Louis to Chicago.
A barge carried $50 tons OF chemicals,
fencing, Southwestern pecans and malt
products. discharged and picked up
some freight on the way, and took back
1000 tons of goods to st. Louis. In
April. the, first water-borne cargoes ar
rived at and left Chicago from and for
st. Lawrence River and seaboard ports.
A cargo of 500 tons of steel left Chicag
May IA fer Houston, Tex, by way Of the
waterway, the Mississippi and the Gulf.
Waterways can be made Of great
service to the public because of neces-
sarily cheaper rates. However, no sub
sidized Government barge lines should
further compete with railroads by
operating over these inland routes at
beloW-cOSt rates.
Evening star., 1933-06-29
High Lights on the Wide World
Excerpts From Newspapers of Other Lands
hat may help to promote his cleanli-

that may help to promote his cleanli-
ness.
The fellah is extremely poor and can
not afford to buy soap. In a country
where cottonseed is SO profuse and
actually cheap soap can be manufac-
tured at very reasonable price. the
health department should supply the
fellaheen with soap through its clinics
and other centers. Public baths should
be made in every town and village &C
cessib'e to the public free of charge
Clean water should be available in
every village. The easiest and the
cheapest way to do this is to put a
pump or artesian well from which the
women can draw their supply of water
We cannot possibly expect cleanliness
where water is so scarce and difficult
to get.
In a Mohammedan country where
cleanl ness is taught as religious de-
votior it should be preached from the
platte rms in the mosques. We cannot
enter heaven dirty. neither can We
make paradise on earth if We are not
clean.
Typhus is carried by lice. The health
department should supply the people
with applications Of oil of sassafras,
which destroys these animals. An &C
tive IlSnt SHOULD DS SET up 10 exCeTUll-
| nate this pest from the land. and if
sufficient thought and energy is given
to the matter I believe this horrible
Egyptian curse could be removed
The more I think of these conditions
the more convinced become that edu-
cation for girls at least should be made
compulsory in Egypt. In these ele-
mentary village schools special atten-
ton should be given to teaching them
hygiene and cleanliness. The care of
the home and children should be taught
them, and this may be the easiest and
most efficacious way of introducing
health and cleanliness among the fell
laheen. who form the great majority of
Egypt's people.
Will the health department give these
suggestions consideration. and may We
hope that elementary hygienic educa-
tion may be started all over Egypt for
girls at least? hope the budget that
is able to launch forth gigantic schemes
for irrigation may stretch itself out a
bit to save the health and promote the
education of its backbone. the fellah.
ESTHER FANNY W1SSA.