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About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1896)
AT VALLEY^ FORGE. AI.l.K V Forge i» • rough piece of ground on the bank* of tba Schuylkill, twenty one mile from Phil adelphia and six from the naareat large town. Aa mere land, it la ot worth much. But If the Paaa of Ther mopylae la ciaaatc ground, Valley Forge la ctaaaic. If there la one *pot on this continent more fit than any otbar for a final and aufllclent monument to the m. n .mt to the men of the American Revolution, It le Valley Forge. I do not referjnerely 10 the hunger, thlrat and cold endured there by eleven tbou aand aoldldra, after an exhausting cam paign In the field. The worat of all that misery was over In alx weeka. The Buffering waa acute while It laated, but It waa followed *oon by comparative abundance; then by the cheering new* of the French alliance; then by the flight of the enemy from Philadelphia, and the awift pursuit of them by Gen. Washington. What the troop* endured there wotfld alone make the place for ever Hfcgreatlng to posterity. But Val ley Forfe means more than that. It witnessed tyomc of the moat important and striking scenes In the war. It was there, tin, through the constancy and tireless eoergy of the commander-ln chlef, that the cause was saved and final victory made possible. The selection of the ground was Itself a piece of no table generalship, aa daring aa It watt wise. The occupation of Philadelphia by the British had filled every other town of Pennsylvania with refugee*. The middle ot December had passed before the army had repulsed the last demonstration of the Brltlah, and af forded the American commander breathing time to consider the ques tion of his winter quarters. Then he said. In substance, to the troops: Blnce there l« no town for us to retire to. VJUXKY KOHUB TO-DAY. lot us wonla « toou for our»**lvm, ti«r« uIinm to tba anauty, Untiling bla ran*.’ . ttrtalllng bla auppllna, protnetlni Pennsylvania amt holding uitraalvai randy to raaunia tba aggreaalv# aa aoot aa ba ahandoua Hie Mty. In which hi Will ba by na i»r«. tl. all> l.. »t. «.d it. .tboaa Valloy Porga a daop Mi in . lofty mil. with a alraam at tba button of it ampiying Into tbo ihbuylhlH Thar* waa nothin* in tbla vallay fui human una aau*|M Iba prlmotral fares that dauaat) auvarad It and tba slraau.i „f a alar that Hutted by and tbruugt II tlul Washington blmaotf «al ,ntll.nl |g wuoJnafl .nutmauds.l sul glar* moat of whom bad built or latioh I let |ug .abina Whan ba told thru Ibat log bulo could ba gobbty mad. •arm and dry. b* «•*** *b*l «*»*» al baao la ba imm> lla also aura pro «la*ly obsi «*a nammaory fur lbs .on airurltoo of tba hula. *bal looii oan * aaadotl ggd obai malar lata Ida or Agp of (loaombor l« im, inUMfoima lbs obol* arm) »•** • mbM-bnUdiai ha*i Baory mao bad bla plw* **< duty, from i»te major generals to the drummers. All the tool* were fairly divided; each regiment bad It* ground a*signed ic; the street* and Interval* were marked out, and when the work wax begun the valley was alive with i *y builders. Ku<b colonel divided bis rsglment Into partle* of twelve, gave them their share of axes and shovels, and let them know that they were building a home for themselves. A cabin waa to be oc cupied by twelve men. (Jen. Washing ton added the atlmulant of a reward to the party that should build the best but. An order of the day had this In teresting passage: As an encouragement to Industry and art, the general promises to reward the party In each regiment which fin ishes It* hut In the quickest and most workmanlike manner with twelve dol lars. And as there Is reason to believe that boards for covering the huts may be found scarce and difficult to be got, be offers one hundred dollars to any officer or soldier who. In the opinion of three gentlemen (bat bn shall ap point. as judges, shall substitute some other covering that may be cheaper and more quickly made, and will In every respect answer the end." The huts were fourteen feet by six teen, and six and a half feet high. The officers’ huts were ranged In a line be hind those of the soldiers, and only generals were accorded the conven ience of having a whole bouse to them selves, (Jen. Washington Inhabited a caom of one room until later In the season, when a second was added for the accommodation of Mrs. Washing ton. He said. In another order of the day, that “the general himself will share In the hardships and partake of every Inconvenience." it does not appear that any one In vented a better roofing than slabs, nor has any one recorded what company of soldleis won the twelve-dollar prtxe. lit,. ..till* l.nou' (fill# I Im k'a lil n - I it i < 1,1 l at or I was begun early In the morning of De cember 19, and that moat of the army , would have eaten their Christinas din ner In their cabins if there had been any Christmas dinner to eat. It was Just then that the worst of the starv ing time began. While the men were building their cabin city they lived chiefly upon cakes made of flour and water, and there was a lamentable scarcity of all the most necessary sup plies shoes, clothes, blankets and ' straw, Nothing saved the army from i sooliitlon hut the fiery remoustrallies arid energetic action of tk” ••nruroandei 10 chief. There is preserved at Phila delphia u hand-bill Issued by him while the army was building Its huts. In this he notlfleii the farmers to thrash out their grata with sll convenient ,4 nod, on pstn of having the sheaves seized by the commissaries and paid for at the price of straw. The conduct of the commander during these agonis ing weeka can only be estimated aright by persona familiarly acquainted with the circumstances. No man ever gave a higher example either of fortitude or wisdom, aud It was directly through i the exercise of those virtues by him that the army was saved. W'hlle the p»eii were busy building, news was i brought tu the camp that a force of the enemy was approaching The ; troop* were In eueh dire need of food and shoes that they were unable to stir Their wee not a pound of meet In the ramp, and not a ration of rtuur per man It was while he war con tending with such'dfltlrultlee aa thsse that the intrigue tu supplant the gen eral was most active and lha clamor | loo test for a winter campaign I can aaaure those gentleman,* • Mite the general, that II la a much i su»ier and less dUliesalag thing to i drew remunetraacea la a t out fur table I room, by a good flreetde than In oe . j cup) a >old. bleak hlU. and steep un der float and enow without • lot has W i uls n kata'* t his dispatch la the prsetdaul of can I gresa a boon da la f«w«# and pal baa, and I thaw a baa much better a writer lie I | author was than sat man wha erei | wrote tor him. If I were asked to men tion the fluent exhibition that a com mander has ever given of great quali ties, both of heart and mind, I should answer: Washington at Valley Forge. One unexpected consolation that he en Joyed at this period waa tbo affection ate enthusiasm of Lafayette, then Just ' recovering from his wound received at Brandywine. The young and ardent Frenchman, In hla letters to his wife and family, gives the warmest nxpres slon to his love and admiration. He speak* of Washington as a man ex pressly "mad# for" the work be was doing, he alone having the patience j and tact to conciliate the discordant elements, "Every day," wrote the marqula, "I admire more the beauty of his charsc- | ter and of hi* soul. Jealous Intriguers wish to tarnish his reputation, but his name will be revered In all ages by every one wbo love# liberty and bu- | manlty." Many such passages, written in on* of the log-cabins of Valley Forge, I notice in the family letters of th< youthful enthusiast. In such clrcum stances, the American army was recon structed, reinforced, becomingly clad well drilled, and at last abundantly supplied, while the English were elr cumscrlbed so closely that It required two regiments to escort a foraging par ty, If It went more than two miles Into the country. Valley Forge It was that rendered the possession of Philadelphia a trap Instead of a capture. June 18. 1778, tlen. Washington received Infor mation that the British had secretly and suddenly evacuated Philadelphia He wh In such perfect readiness for the news, that, within an hour, six brigades were on the march for the Delaware river. The next day, he him- ' self Joined the advance. Ten day* after the first troops left their cabin* ' In Pennsylvania, he fought the battle of Monmouth, which turned their re- ' treat Into a flight and shut them up In | New York. 'If neither congress nor Pennsylvania shows an Inclination to 1 posses* the scene of so many memorable events, then let some patriotic capital- ! 1st convert It Into a summer re*ort. M AHIIINtlTUN’H HKAlXjl AKTKItH AT VAI.I.KY KOROl cntolully teaUrrlug Ul« old camp road*, marking all the alt** nod making the pluc« tin obJe<st-la**on In lilatury. Jhiihhi I'arton In N*"v York ledger \t >«nIuni,mi*« partuiu* ItperatlcMM Waablngtuu Inhrrllwl Mmnil Vermin In 1759 from III* hat ('brother, laiwieme Waehlngton, who tlle<| In I?&T Thl* lirolher had a daughter Mwah who waa lielrea* lo the eatme, but the died IWo year* later and the property then rr i varied lo tlrorge, wbo wa* then ju*t HI j year* old The relate then eoioprleei) lee* than J.twb acre*, but amm alter ha i came Into pooaeaelon be added I,mm airee by pureha**. whnh gat* him tea mllee ol rltO (tuoi Then began th* • tern uf Ittiproveiuenia aad cnlMva* lion which *ube*i|uetilly Hind* Mount Vemiiii the urns* rntt»v*ile lauded p«up *riy la Vlrglata II* dralaed (be Und w b<-rv ter needed, be rotated crupa got ih* boat farm implement* then In eetat erne, built attd repaired leluee. bad hie grl*4 wilt, hi* owa diet tilery, had hla oaa emit by for repairing luni*. hla own carpealer ahop, btbme and ho butll More* oI huueaa aad cabin* lor hi* elate* Ilia •«* larrna tanged Itom l.tHW iw J.umu HIM each, and each larm had It* ateteaof and Ha altolwwal #t H eg root aad elm k I f I (CIIArTKR IX.-Coimi'VtD). ; There wm ao algnature. Nona wm needed. Ralph Trenbolin* wae deapar ataly angry. Ha chafed Ilka a caged lion. Tbla woman whom ha did not lova, whom ha married eolaly to plaaae an other, wm diehonoring hie proud name, and making him merely a tool to play upon with her eubtle wit, at her own pleaeiire. He ehut hie hand like a vlee. Time would ha cruah her power to die grace him further, he eald, hoareely. When ehe did return, ehe ahould give an account to him for theee myeterloue abeencea, or he would make her a prla- , oner to tha Roek. On the night of the third day he found her eewlng quietly In her little private anting room. She looked up coolly m he entered. "It la a fine evening, Mr, Tren bolme," ehe remarked, Indifferently, He laid a heavy band on her ahoulder and bent hie dark, fiery eyee upon here. She met the gfi/.<- wlthoul flinching. "Madam, where bMve you been?" he aeked. In a voice lioaree with anger. She ahook hereeif looee from hie graep. "You hurt my ahoulder," eh* eald, quietly, "I oak you, where you have been?" “And I don't chooee to tell you." "You muat tell me, 1 will take no cold i.i.talnnul 'T..II nr t.V t H hl<H VC11M aboy# ua. you will repent It!” The red leaped Into her cheek. “Do you command?" “Ay, I command! and the sooner you obey the better!” “And I ahall not obey. There la the bell; I am going down.” Hhe rose, lifted her arm to put her work into a hanging baaket. In so doing her aleeve fell away from the wrlat and her husband noticed that the heavy garnet bracelet ahe had always worn was missing. "I don't see you bracelet?" he aald, half inquiringly. T have laid it aside. Oarnete are not eo becoming to me aa they were before I lost my color." He detained her a moment to say, in a voice low and deep with stern deter mination: “Imogens, you will consider yourself an Inmate of the llock for the remain der of the winter for all time, until you explain to me this mystery. I leave It with you to decide, whether I ahall confine you to a single room with bolts and bars, or give you the liberty of the whole place, and let your word of bouor be the chain that keeps you here. De cide!" Hhe looked up Into Ills hard face, and her own set lineaments softened. Hhe remembered how she loved him. It made her a simple woman, ready to obey the man she loved. "I will remain here. I will not go away. I give you my word, and It shall be a chain.” “Very well,” he said, "so be It." Then in a gentler tone, aa If suddenly recol lecting that she was a woman "Any j time when you deign to explain this mystery, 1 will listen gladly, for It goes against my will to use this semblance npiittlt V.** Mr*. Trenholme bowed loftily, and went up to her chamber. After that, she spent most of her time in her room. In vain her husband's mother urged her to come out of her retirement. She al ways had some reasonable excuse for her conduct and after a while she wa* ( left to herself. Ralph she scarcely saw now. ssve at meal time. He never came to her; never spoke a soft word to her. ! He never looked at her. even when she bad spent long hours in making herself beautiful, hoping to attract hla atten tion. Business called him to Boston for a week. He merely announced the fact at table, and went away without any leave-taking. He did not *«* the ghast ly pal* face that front her window j watched him rid* away; he did not know that for hour* after hi* depart- ; ure hie wife lay In a heap upon the Hour, | not weeping women like her seldom weep but breathing great shuddering | cries. «0 heaves!" she moaned, "fur hla | late I have risked every thing and be hold h« hate# me!" Hall'it returned home about tl oue cold stormy, bight, II* took kls horse to Ike elald* himself, without dls I turblng the homier, and tame to the, bouse by a path through the garden ! Th# sound of Ms wife's vole# from behind * * ump of evergreen* arrested blm. The bight was dark and he mop ped sad Balaam! Me was a man of th# strlvlsst sene* of honor, but under the i clr. oeisian.ee he felt no scruples about hearing what •*• «ot Intended for hi* i Hr l i*il ifeftl !**•* I *g*l*r *k* Mid. la a low Una tub*. If It dt«* '* Th* remainder of th* *ea ; ler « ta spohea la a whisper It*ear* how you threat**!' fcl***d the vote* of a *»**, "I have the po«*r y*tf sad tf yoa do *ot deal *oftl> mad am, I will not h**ttato to " [by cl Am "Hush!" she Mid, quickly; "the very air baa ears. Do not coma If you need j mora. Writ* to me. You know the place where letter* reach me. Take tbla, and v>:’ Hhe put something Into bla hand. Kalph pressed forward, and peered | through the buehee, but It waa so dark , he could discern nothing beyond th* outline* of a tall, dark figure, heavily bearded and wrapped In an Immense shawl. For a moment be was tempted to rush forth and annihilate them both on the spot,' hut prudence held him back. He would watt and watch. Ho he stood quietly In the shaduw, while Imo gen* returned to the bouse, and her companion went down the path lead ing to the shore. Kalph Trenholme ground his teeth In rage. He was a proud man, and lie did not love this woman who was hi* wife lie had no love to wound, hut she hurt his pride, lie could not bear a dishonored name, CHAPTER X T THK close of a j boisterous day In March, a traveling | carriage stopped j before Trenholme house, and a little | figure wrapped In ' furs alighted, Hhe : Inquired for Mias Trenbolmeand Ag nea went down to find Helen Fulton waiting In the parlor. The girls em braced cordially. "Hometblug sent me here, Agnes!” <ald Helen. "OoodUSM knows 1 didn’t wnut to come! fot there was Hal How ard Just ready to pop the question to me, and Ham Jenkins wanting to aw fully and I hadn't my pluk Thlblt dress rmir nounced and papa • oiildn t very well apart* ma, but I had to come! I^ertl- i Ha waa crow. Just between you and me iha'a half In love with Hal Howard her •elf, and lie’s got the sweetest mous tache! And how do you do, dear? and bow did you get through that awful lourney? "I am very well, and 1 was In time," returned Agnes. "f’ome Into the sitting room now, and let me present you to the family." "Are there any gentlemen?” “None except my brother." Helen made a comical wry face. "Then f needn't brush my hair, nor put on any of my sweet things, nor any j if my nice litttle smiles, need 1? Worn ! in never notice such trifles, and as for 1 »ld married men- hah!" Agnes conducted her Into the sitting room. Irnogene was there with Mrs, frenholrne. Hhe did not look up a* they entered. Hhe seemed absorbed in thought. Hhe sat silent a great deal now, Her white hands were crossed on tier lap, her great eyes fixed on the •now-covered landscape without, Hhe was dressed In heavy black silk, and wore no ornaments. The elder Mrs, Trenholme kissed the young guest, and hade her welcome. Then Agnes led her up to Irnogene and named them to each pther. it was a decided case of mutual an tagonism. Both were repelled strongly, though both refused to let It be known by word or gesture. Their hands met, hut the touch was like ice and snow. Th" moment Helen and Agnes were j alone the former said: "Wflfl Its t hilt U/fitll II fl **'* "My mother, ami —" "I mean the one with the eye*,'* "She I* my brother’* wife." "Doe* he love her?" "He married her," replied Agnes, a little proudly. "Men do not uMually marry women for whom they do not care.” "O, I don’t know about thatf’ *ald Helen, gravely ”1 think they do. Men are nutaance*. Did you know It, dear? Hut then they are nice to help you out of carriage* anil put on your shawl and pick up yo»r arlattom, and spool cotton, when you drop them on purpose. Some time* I think I wish there hadn't been any men. but theu when 1 want to talk nonaense to aomebody, und have some body (o tell me how pretty I am, I'm right glad there was a masi'Ullne gen der In Murray'# grammar. Where wai that queenly Imngeiie when your broth er* first love wa* murdered?" "Ithe wa* here. She wa* to have been one of the bridesmaid*.” "Ah! What a delightful tea rose you | have!" she rattled on; and looking at her gay. card#*# face, an Indifferent ob server would not have believed that *h* ever had a serious thought In her life. Helen had noi been long at the ttoek before ahe got a bint of the haunted chamber and »he at one# made frleuda with the servant and obtained ike wrhule stoty. Instantly she made a re» solve. She meant to sleep In that room and fathom the mystery Hhe waa a girl of atroug nerve nud undaunted cour age. and not by any means inclined to superstition During the day eh* made the chamber a vtalt without the knowl edge of any of the household It waa a Urge lofty room, with white celling# and pap»r hanging* of a pale rune color and white It had hewn aump tonsly furnished, but Uuw the dust 1st thick and dark over everything The great windows were hung with cob Weha and the tlsesl blind* gave wd mtltance to no ray of sunshine There qpe the ted enow wed, where •he bed last slept tit Malph's order* It had remained uttdieiurt*ed ever slave Helen touched the corn y trinket* on cbo table with somethin* 11ke*hwe—re membering who had need them laat Tb«*r#» waj a knot of ribbon that the murdered girl had worn on her bosom, there, too. was the little gold brooch that had fastened her collar. In a closet hung the bridal dr***. spotted with blood, aide by side with the stiffened and stained veil, to which the dead orange flowers yet clung. Their pet*.a crunfbled to dust beneath the touch of Helen, and emitted a faint, sickly sweetness "Helen Kulton, are you afraid? asked the girl of heraelf, putting her hand on her heart to aee If It heat quicker than Its wont. "No," ahe said "Helen Is not afraid. Not at all. Won't It be aplendld to tell grandchildren, that their courageous grandmother slept In a genuine haunted chamber? Won't the little darlings creep Into bed In a hurry and wrap their head* up under the coverlet?" When night arrived, Helen excused heraelf early and went up to her chain bar. Hha dresaed heraelf in a thick warm dress, put a heavy shawl ov<< her shoulders and making sure that tb" lamp waa full of oil, she made her noiseless way to the haunted chamber entered, and. locking the door behind her, put the key In her pocket. Ht» meant to be secure from all Intrusion Ohoats, she agreed would not need to open the door to get In, If they were orthodox one*. The lamp burned bright ly and lighted up every nook and cor ner of the apartment, Helen did not m<an to go to bed, she sal on me sofa and crochatfad, laughing a lit tin to her aelf, at the Idea of watching a gboai and croc batting a aoniag at the Mine time. A dead alienee reigned. The wind which had blown through Ibe day aub aided and not even a deaihwaleh ticked In the walnacot. The old clock cblmed 10, then It Holen'a bright eyea be,gun to droop. Hhe waa growing decidedly alecpy, and before aba knew It her head hud aunk to the arm of the aofu and ahe wii* acleep! The conoclotianeoa of Nome praatnee bealde her own woke her auddeiily. Hhe aiarted up and rubbed her eyea, A cold rurrrent of air awept. over her, chilling her from head to foot. The door Into the puaxage afood wide open and her lamp awayed In the bluet of air Ilka a willow loaned by autumn galea; and Juat he hind the great arm chair where Marina bad aat when the fatal blow waa atruck otood a tall figure enveloped In gauzy white, and upon ber head and over bar face waa the bridal, blood atalnod veil Helen could have oworn it! The right hand of the gpectro, the long, delicate, marble-white hand waa extended to ward the chair; tbc other waa tightly preaaed agalnat her heart, Helen took a atep forward, but before ahe could lay a hand upon the atrange preoence It returned, dropped the veil upon the floor and vanlahed through the open door. Helen gave purault, but. the long corridor waa empty there did not linger behind even eo much aa the echo of a foot. For tbia time the girl wu < baffle I. But one thing ahe remembered. The door of that chamber hud bean un locked and the phantom had forgotten to lock It after her; ahe waa unable, It appeared, to paua through keyhole* Ike the aplrlta Helen felt acquainted with, through the medium of various novel* ahe bad read aurreptltloualy, ito au coariaiimt.i THE PALL OP BOGU. He r*e<l to He » Hlrlnlty, tint He I* Plain "Hug” New. Contact with the Aryan raw bar played the rntacblef with the Indiana, but It brought other* low, alao, aaya the New York I’rea*. l,ong ago there waa a divinity called Bogu or lloghu, ar Hu gaioa. Hy and by Hugaola aunk to a apook. He became a pooka to acara irivii pmiutuir/ wmi, <» uiimuir that came at night to auck blood from _ the living. He turned Into a bogy man. or, aa It la aomeLlmea pronounce*. In the we*t, "boager-man.” That If nearer to what the original wound mum have been. Note alao In tbla eonnec tIon that fine-tooth comba are uaed li order to catch "boagera.” Poor Bogi, took two or three putha, all downward Not only did he turn into a common terror but he became a aort of bogUf terror. In fad the word"bogua” Itaelf came from lila name. He lu a ware with nothing hack of him, a ghoat that turnu out to be a white atump. He la u bugaboo, a bugbear, an Imaginary dim cully. lie degenerate* tutu a aprltc that play* trick* on a|c«pera, knot, their hair, upaeta the mllkpana and tlx like. He la Puck, the Joker, and no- ' body reapeeta the Je*ier. Hut worue I, yet to folow. Ill one edition of the hible It read* "The unit ahull not hurt thee by day, nor the hug by night.' It read* now, "The terror by night," but the word ha* goue out aud now the deapalr of rleanly houaewlvea, the t» caalun of the aule of »o much "tuff war runted death to every clme*, bear* the limin' of the deity lu wlioae honor altar, uiuokad. tl I voal Ht Paler Are they ail burnt tlabriel AH but New York am. Philadelphia Ht Peter Whale tile matter With 1 beta t tint,ltd | ,mil,In t wake Philadel phia ana New York had lo gel b«r burn out of pawn Judge itfiwaa* i It* vv itr “Hid you a* Jwbheieoa law aigbi •pending mon* i Hbe a prince?” I.Ike a I lie ■ Itn blew in .vtro.it |t I Hi y ou vail tbal Hbe a pilme?" ■ I HI ' t It* ll,mn » W ,» blw W He * ItullanapnlM Juatual t he dreae lo be worn by ibe Mtwpreaa ul Itaeala at ibe I'orntMIloa rereinoalea ae»l year bin Juai been nrdered in Pall* ll la lo be de* Wialevt a lib pewrla and gold, and wilt «TW IJOO.IWMI