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WHITING. MAMIE CLAGETT-On Sun.
day night, May 10. 1885. at her resi-.
dence. III Cameron Street. Alexandra
daughter of the late D. ". and Jarc
Clagett Whiting. She is survived BY four
sisters, Miss Mamie whiting Miss Viz
Einia. whiting, Mrs. W. B. Davis and Mrs
Floyd Saunders
Funeral services will be held on Wed
nesday afternoon. May Is. 1885. at
o'clock from her late residence. III
Cameron Street. Alexandra. Va
Interment will follow In Bethel Gene
terry. Alexandria. Va.
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COL. GEORGE E. MITCHELL

CULA GEORGE E. MITCHELL
Funeral services for Col. George
E. Mitchell, y. 8. A., retired, who
died at Walter Reed Hospital last
Thursday, were held with full mill
tary honorS today with interment
in Arlington National Cemetery.
Chaplain Julian E. Yates Off.
ciated and the honorary pail.
bearers included Major Gen. Fred
erick L. Carmichael, Brig. Gen
erals Edgar T. Conley and Andrew
Moses. and Colonies Mervyn C.
Buckley. Frederick z. Johnston
and Lawrence 8. Miller.
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May 9. 1885. FANNY T. STRIBLING
wife of the late Robert H. StriblinK, she
is survived by three children-one son
Newton E. Stribling, and two daughters
Schorb.
Remains resting at the ". ". Chamber,
Company Southeast funeral home, ST.
Eleventh Street Southeast
Funeral services will be held on Mon.
day afternoon. May IS. 1895, at 2 o'clock
from the W W. Chambers Company South.
east funeral home. 517 Eleventh Street
Southeast
Relatives and friends are invited to At.
tend
Interment will follow in Cedar Hill Gene
terry
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MRS. JEAN v. GRIFFITH
Funeral services for Miss Jean
V. Griffith, daughter Of Earl H.
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VERTIsEM EMIT
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ROSE EMMA-On Saturds

Interment will follow in Congressional
Cemetery.
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ADVERTISEMENT
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DIED

May, -, 1855, ROBERT LEE DUNCAN.
the beloved husband of Lottie J. DUNCAN.
two children. one son. Robert Earl Dun.
gan and Grace Elizabeth DUNCAN and
one brother, Edward G; DUNCAN:
". W.. chambers Co, sOutSeSst irG fnne aaf
Wednesday. May is, 1895. '' y"
Notice of time and interment hereafter.
KYNAsToN. JOHN DUNBAR-on Mon.
MIA, gay Nay Nay IL 6,i lgs5 at Emergsncy Hos
beloved husband Of .Effie z. Kynsston. '"'
a. BESIDES his wife he is also survived by
three children. John D. Kynaston, jr',
GGeoiirey A Kynaston and Marvin R.
Remains resting at the W. W. Cham.
S Ssrs Co funeral home. Fourteenth and
roi Funeral ,, services Sill be held on Wed.
f GSIoSH b 5rSm th hoo WI cshambeTs c.
west. avn WI
Relatives and friends are invited to At.
LIGGETT. JAMESON Saturday NAV ~
1885. JAMES LIGGETT, the beloved
son Of Lee LiEsett and the late Warden
Funeral services will be held from his
late residence, 2212 Charming Street
fMooaP s on o' Tuesday morning, May Il.
Relatives and friends are invited Ia At.
tend. W AZ
Interment will follow In warden,vius
West Virginia, at 3 D. m. S'
Services by Chambers.
PATTERSON. JAMES A.-Suddenlv An
Friday. May 10. 1885. JAMES A. PAT.
TERSON. the beloved husband of Emma
vived by one daughter Mrs Margaret Van
Ormer: one sister Mrs. Agnes Drake. one
brother. John Patterson. Of Richmond. Va
and also survived by one Rrandd auShtsr
Nora Elaine Van Ormer.
Funeral services will be held from nj,
l late residence. 47eh G 81; s. W.. on. Mon.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend.
Interment viii follow in Baltimore
Services by Chambers Co. Southeast III.
neral home.
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GARRETT, ROSE EMMA-On Saturday,
May H.. 1885. at her residence. 342s
Reservoir Road Northwest ROSE EMMA
her age.
She is survived by two children. one
son, Joseph N. Garrett. and one daugh-
ter. Mrs. Blanche Chamberlain.
Remains resting at the W. W Chambers
Co. funeral home fourteenth and Chanin
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Flynn. JOHN H.-on FRIDAY, May 10:
husband of Alice Flynn. Besides his wife
he is also survived by two sisters and one
brother, Mrs: ". G. Wilding, Mrs. c. L.
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majority Of them were Irish, German or Welsh,
the second generation Of some OF the thousands
of immigrants who in the early years Of the
Eighteenth century had settled in William
PENIS colony. Then. too there were many de-
scendants Of the Scots who had been driven by
religious persecution from their native high
lands in the Seventeenth century. They had
sought temporary refuge in the province Of
Ulster, Ireland whence between the years 1T20
and 1740, thousands of them migrated TO Amer
lea and peopled the hills Of Pennsylvania from
tier with sturdy, rugged race that was destined
10 play an important part in the formation Of
our national character" Besides these. there
were others Of pure English stock and. 10 make
the cosmopolitan nature Of the battalion more
complete, the rolls OF Captain Lowdons COM
pany carried the name Of John Shawnee, a
Shawanese Indian warrior.
On these same rolls were three other names
which should have made Lowdon's company for
ever famous. One Of them was a German, Peter
Bentz. Pennsylvania would later hail him, under
the name of Peter Pence as one of her great
est Indian fighters. Another was seventeen
year-old boy, a red-headed Irish lad named Sam
uel Brady. The future would see him making the
name of Capt. Sam Brady, Chief of Rangers
a household word along the Pennsylvania-Ohio
border. II would know him as the hero Of
"Brady's Leap across the chasm of the Cuya-
hoga river in northern Ohio. But this would be
only one OF many of his hairbreadth escapes
from the red men.
The third was another Irishman, a rolIicking
6ark-eyed Celt named Timothy Murphy. Two
years later the sharp crack Of his long rife
would sound the doom of a British army as his
bullet punctuated the death sentence Of Gen.
Simon Fraser at Saratoga Another year would
add 70 his fame as "the most redoubtedly notori-
Gus marksman in North America and. the
Scout Of the Schoharie," he would become the
terror Of his Iroquois and Tory enemies in New
York.
No less notable than the eagerness of such
men as these TO enlist in the fight for liberty
was their speed in reaching the theater of war.
Between the 18th. OF July and the ID instant,
the rife men under the command of Captains
Smith, Lowdon, Doudel, Chambers, Nagel, Miller
and Hendricks passed through New Windsor "a
few miles north of West POINT in the New
York government on their way 70 Boston" said
a New York item in the Philadelphia Evening
Post Of August IL, 1II5. But il was evidently
incorrect so far as two Of the companies
Nagels and DOudePs-were concerned. A letter,
dated from Cambridge July "A. 1775, says: The
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ether settlements along the west branch OF the
Susquehanna these backwOodsmen FASTENED 10
Sunbury TO enroll in the company which their
neighbor John Lowdon. was forming Lowdon
had been born Of Quaker parents but apparently
he was aposrate 10 the doctrines Of the Society
OF Friends for p had fought as an ensign in
the French and Indian war. He was an Inn
keeper ar Lancaster for time, then moved TO
Buffalo Valley where he was a leading member
OF the committee Of correspondence.
On June % Lowdon's commission as captain
Of a rife company signed by President John
Hancock and Secretary Charles Thomson Of the
Continental congress. -Four days later he was
leading his company across the river to Nor
cumberland TO be sworn into the Continental
service. There they remained until one day early
in July when young Dick Grosvenor the COM
pany drummer, beat the long roll TO summon
them 10 take up the march TO Reading and
EastOn and from there start on the long journey
10 Boston
In the meantime congress had passed another
resolution, directing the Colony of Pennsylvania
10 raise two more companies. which. with the
six already authorized, were 10 be formed into
a battalion and TO be commanded BY such Of
fcers as the colonial assembly or convention
should recommend Even before this word came
out Of Philadelphia the rife companies were be-
ing filed 10 the overfowing. AT Samuel Getty's
tavern Cater the historic town OF Gettysburg)
the York county men were rallying TO the lead
ership of Capt Michael DoudeL In Berks county
they were swarming into Reading 10 enroll under
Can't George NageL In Northampton county
recruiting for Capt. Abraham Miller's company
was going forward swiftly and from Bedford
county IN the west came word that Capt Robert
CIuggage's men were almost ready 10 march.
Cumberland county was providing two compa-
MES. commanded by Capt. James Chambers and
CAPT William Hendricks
In fact. so prompt had been the response OF
the Pennsylvania backwOodsmen 70 the call
that on July II congress was notified that two
companies instead OF one had been enlisted in
Lancaster county BY Capt James Ross and Capt
Matthew Smith and that the Battalion Of Rifle
men. raised for the defense of American Lib
erty and for repelling any hostile invasion
thereof would consist OF nine companies They
were 10 be commanded by Col William Thomp-
son OF Carlisle with Edward Hand OF Lancaster
as Northumberland and Robert Magaw as
major all men whose courage we have the
highest opinion Of
Each company consisted Of one captain three
neutenants four sergeants, four corporals a
drummer or trumpeter. and IS privates- The cap
tain received SO month. the heutenants S1S1s
the sergeants S. the cOrporals and the drummer
or trumpeIer S715, and the privates S62s They
were ito ind their own arms and clothes and
the term OF enlistment was for one year
These ridemen were miscellaneous lot The
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Reading company Of rifles got into camp last
Tuesday 1Sth): the rest are hourly expected
and much wanted" Thus the men from Berks
county had the honor Of being the first Penn
sylvania company TO appear on the scene Of
action
By July % they had been joined by their
sharpshoOting brethren from York county under
Captain Doudel Captain Chambers company ar
rived on August and Captain Hendricks on
August s On the same day Tim Murphy Sam
Brady. Peter BentZ and their mates in Captain
Lowry's company shu1led their well-worn moe
casins through the grass on the campus OF Har-
ward college and shook the dust OF the weary
miles from their green-thrummed hunting shirts
Ten days later Captain Ross and his company
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more important than these was a young doctor
named James Wilkinson.
A native of Tidewater Nd, he had studied
medicine in Philadelphia and there made the
acquaintance Of officers of a British regiment
the Royal Irish. His association with them, as
he later wrote, inspired in me that love Of
things military ever after the guiding star of
my life" So when he returned 10 Maryland 10
practice and found little demand for the serv-
ices Of seventeen ear-old doctor, he spent
most Of his time attending the drills Of rife
company which he is said to have joined
Just why he did not 90 TO war with this COM
pany Of Acknowledgements is not known. But
il is certain that he accompanied Colonel Thomp-
sons Pennsylyanians TO Cambridge. There, with
that genius for intrigue which was TO charac-
teriZe his whole life, he succeeded in ingratiat-
ing himself with those in high command and so
well did he play the part of sycophant that, be-
fore he was twenty-one, he had become briga-
dier-general! This was the beginning Of his
amazing career which carried him eventually 10
the high position OF commander in chief OF the
Army Of the United States despite the fact that
he was, in the words Of one historian. -venal
eowardous, reacherous, bribe-taker from
Spain, traitor 10 the United States, and faith
less in all relations, public and private"
Soon after the arrival Of the Pennsylvania
companies at Cambridge, the battalion became
the Second Regiment OF the Army of the United
Colonies" thus losing their identity as 'rifemen"
In the light infantry" authorized by congress.
But they lost none Of their characteristic fight
ing qualities, for as one Of their captains wrote
home, -the rihemen go where they please and
keep the regulars in continual hot water"
Early in September Captain Hendricks and
Captain Smiths companies accompanied Arnold
and Montgomery on their Tl-fated expedition
against Quebec where Hendricks was killed and
most OF the rifemen taken prisoners In the
meantime the other companies were giving their
officers and the cOmmander-in-chfef plenty Of
trouble by rebelling against attempts TO enforce
discipline But their -diSobedient and mutinous
behavior" was somewhat forgiven by their con-
duct in a skirmish ar Leehmere's Point in No
vember which won for Colonel Thomson and his
regiment The public thanks OF washington
On January L 1776. the army was recognized
and these rihemen became members OF the First
Regiment OF the Continental Army In March
Thompson became brigadier-general and Hand
succeeded him as colonel Under his leadership
the regiment distinguished itself an the Battles
OF Long Island. Brandywine. Germantown PaoIi
and Monmouth and its members. frequently re-
ferred 10 In terms OF their Commander made
the name "a Hand Riaeman- badge Of special
distinction for -frst-class fighting man il the
struggle for American liberty
Western News1zoe- U-;ou
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swung into camp, TO be met with much good
natured banter at his tardy arrival, because his
Lancaster county Dutchmen were so slow" Al
though there is no record of the date Of arrival
OF the companies commanded by Captains Smith,
Cluggage and Miller, it was evidently prior 10
August Is An army return from Washington's
headquarters OF that date shows that the Penn
sylvania rifemen had three field officers, nine
captains, q neutenants, the adjutant quarter
master, surgeon and mate, % sergeants, 13
drummers and ffers and 713 privates present
and fit for duty.
Besides these regularly enlisted men there
were several gentlemen volunteers" who had
accompanied the rifiemen on their march Among
them were Edward Burd. Jesse Lukens, Matthew
Duncan, and John Joseph Henry, who later rose
10 prominence in the history Of their state. But
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LIVE IN TOWNS
WITH NO TAXES
People of French Communes
Should Be Happy.

Just the spot we have been seeking
all our lives. Towns where no taxes
are paid and where on the contrary
one Is paid TO live there
II may sound like a fairy tale.
Yet il is a fact. confirmed by off,
cial documents, that "a French COM
munes in the Jura mountains. on the
Swiss border. with a population of
about 10000. pay no local taxes. In
stead each inhabitant receives a
yearly dividend. ranging from 100 10
200 francs
The explanation is quite simple
In years gone by these communes
became the proprietors of spruce
and FIR woods in the vicinity. These
woods are exploited in businesslike
fashion by each commune so well
that there is a profit after all the
communal expenses have been paid
This profit is divided among the in
habitants.
La Chaux des Crotenay, one OF
these communies, which is an al
nactive mountain resort. may be
taken as one Of the best examples.
During the present century nobody
has paid any local taxes Instead,
each inhabitant. including women
and children. has received a yearly
chack averaging 80 francs.
Further, each family has been
furnished with free firewood and,
since the allowance has been quite
generous, half Of IL has generally
been sold, adding TO the dividend
check.
Whenever a citizen OF the CON-
mune desires 10 build a house, he
Is given a free plot of ground. Also
free stone and sand. Finally, the
village doctor is subsidized by the
commune and, according TO the con-
tract, he has reduced his fees
Many square miles OF Jura for
est land are owned and exploited
by the communes and the villages
have literally gone into the wood
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The RifIemen Of the Revolution
THE PENNSYLVANIA
COMPANIES
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

T WAS the summer OF 1775. On the
benches outside a tavern in the little
Pennsylvania town of Sunbury a group
Of villagers lounged in the warm sun
shine and gossiped idly about the news
from the north At Concord and Lex
ingtOn in Massachusetts, some farmers
had lit the reg'lars" and there had
been blOod-letting s-plenty. Away up
in New York a leader OF the Green
Mountain Boys, named Ethan Allen
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SEE A PIN"

0CEE a pin and pick It up; all
Othrough the day, you'll have good
luck" So says one Of the maxims Of
our forefathers.
At first, il didn't seem like a lucky
day for Jacques Lafhtte. a young
Frenchman who had come to Paris TO
get a job. He had letter Of intro
duction to the grea. Swiss banker,
Perregeaux, and that won him an in
terview, but very brief one.
Perregeaux told the young fellow
very decisively that there was no place
In his great institution for him at
present and probably would not be
very soon He had better try else
where
Curly dismissed from the beauti-
fully furnished Office. Lafitte walked
dejectedly out through the palatial
courtyard. Suddenly he noticed q pin
in the path before him. Somewhat
absent-mindedly, he stopped down,
picked up this trifie and carefully
stuck Ii in the lapel Of his coat
He didn't know that Perregeaux was
watching him from the window nor
that the great banker, who was q
stickler for economy and orderliness In
his employees, had noticed him pick
up the pin. But that evening note
was brought TO Lafhtte's lodgings II
was from Perregeaux- Il said. "a place
Is made for you in my Office that you
may occupy tomorrow morning"
Laffitte became one Of the great
fnanciers of France. A pin was the
tremendous trife that started him on
his career.
q Kesrsru Ssws-aosr T-ufon
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MILLION DOLLAR coW-PATH

In THE 1S50's, DR.. Jared Bassett
L owned a small farm IN the heart
OF what is now Chicago's famous
Loop" He also had a favorite cow
named Bessie for whom he built a
barn. From it ran a path over which
Bessie" walked sedately out TO Craze
along the road.
When Doctor .Bassett sold some Of
his property, the deed contained pro-
vision for a 10-foot easement over
which Bessie" could make her way
unhampered between the road and the
cow barn Years passed. Both the
good doctor and Bessie" were dead.
Forgotten was the provision for the
1O-foot easement.
In 1925 a corporation acquired the
site Of the Bassett farm for an Office
building. Then CONSERVATION
There was the viii, and the provision
for the path which gave the COW easy
access to the green grass by the road.
Under its terms the path could not be
blocked. The matter was taken TO the
courts but the legality Of the easement
was upheld
So the corporation went ahead with
the building, keeping Bessie's path
clear. They did, however, usurp her
"air rights" (Which she never knew
she had. anyway Above the 1S-foot
level the building tutted out at right
angles. covering the COW path and ex-
tending upward for twenty more sto-
ries. Setback skyscrapers are COM
mon. but this is the only "set-out"
building on record.
Today in the structure at 100 West
Monroe street, there is a portal that
is never closed. For the ghost OF Bes-
sic may want to come back some day
and 90 from the barn-that-was TO the
road that is now busy Monroe street
The viii says that she shall have that
right. II that passage, Is feet high
and 10 feet wide, could have been in
Guided in the building IL would have
meant ar least $1,000 to owners of the
property in yearly rentals. But, then,
Chicago could not have had million
dollar cowpath ~
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cutting and wood-selling business
The profits are devoted to munic-
ipal expenses.
The diyidend-paying villages are
naturally proud Of this unusual dis
tinction, and. as naturally, newcom-
ers who may seek TO become per-
manent Inhabitants to get their share
Of the booty are not welcomed cor
daily.
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WHOEVER TO WHITE HOUSE

of ALL the members OF the cabinet
~ Of President Andrew Jackson, the
secretary Of state, Martin Van Buren,.
had no wife And largely because OF
that fact he became Jackson's success
sor as President In 1887. He had mar
ried Hannah Hoes in 1907 but she died
in 1919. True to her memory, Van
Buren, had never remarked.
In January, 1929, Secretary Of War
John Eaton married Peggy O'Neal
Tinberiake. Immediately Vice Presi-
dent Calhoun's wife elevated her nose.
Snif-sniff! Peggy O'Neal was a tav-
ern keepers daughter The scandal
mongers were whispering that Peggy's
first husband had cut his throat be-
cause she was untrue TO him Accept
that woman" as an equal? Never
Other Washington wives also elevat-
ed their noses. ~Old Hickory Jack
son was furious. Mrs. Calhoun and the
cabinet ladies must accept Peggy. But
they wouldn't and their husbands
couldn't make them.
Calhoun wanted TO be President. But
his wife continued 70 snub Peggy and
Jackson continued to fight for her.
Now Martin Van Buren, had no wife to
embarrass his ambitions. The widower-
secretary Of state called on Peggy
He danced with her. He gave
9 dinner in her honor and "Old Hick-
DRY" was nightly pleased.
The row over Peggy went along and
grew worse. The upshot was that the
whole cabinet. including Van Buren,.
resigned But in 1892 he became vice
presiden. when Jackson was reelected,
and President In 1887. Andrew Jack
son had hand in bringing that about.
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