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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
American
Heroines
By
LOUISE M. COMSTOCK
Jane McCrea
/■"SF ALL the women who have In
one way or another influenced
the destinies of nations, none, per-
haps, did so more truly, or with less
recognition by later historians than
Jane Mct'rea, whose death in 1777
proved the turning point of the Amer-
ican revolution.
In the late spring of that year Gen.
John Burgoyne with an army of 7,000
British and Hessians nnd a large
number of Canadian and Indian al-
lies invaded New York from the north
by way of Lake Champlain. He won
easy victories at Ticonderoga, Crown
Point and Fort Edward, forcing the
main Colonial army under Gen. Philip
Schuyler to retreat southward. At Al-
bany he was to meet Sir William
Howe advancing north by the Hudson
from New York city, thus completing
a barrier between New England and
the rest of the colonies and, in all
likelihood, putting an end to the re-
bellion.
Near Fort Edward, in the cabin of a
Mrs. McNeill, a handsome girl of twen-
ty-three, whose long dark hair was
famous throughout the countryside,
was dressing herself in wedding finery.
She had no suspicion of danger. Mrs.
McNeill was cousin to Brigadier Gen-
eral Fraser of Burgoyne’s army, and
the lover whom she was preparing to
marry was also an officer is the loyal-
ist troops.
But Jane McCrea had not counted
on the ferocity and lawlessness of Bur-
goyne’s Indian allies. Having attacked
a picket guard of Americans, killing
their commander and taking one pris-
oner, they swooped down upon the
McNeill cabin and draggeu out the
two women. Jane they seated on a
horse. Mrs. McNeill proved to be too
bulky to be thus manipulated, and they
contented themselves with striping her
to a single garment, and thus later
handed her over to the astonished
brigadier general.
Just why Jane McCrea was killed
nobody knows. But is certain that
somewhere between the cabin and fort
she was shot, scalped, and her body
brutally mutilated. The scalp, with
the lovely long dark hair that was his
pride and joy, later came to the hands
of her waiting lover. And it is also
certain that this deed, proving to luke
warm patriots that the British com-
mander was either afraid or only half
willing to restrain the atrocities of
his Indian mercenaries, roused a storm
of feeling throughout the colonies.
“Remember Jane McCrea,” became a
rallying cry under which the morale of
the colonists was so strengthened as
to make possible their victories at
Fort Schuyler, Bennington and Sara-
toga, thus defeating Burgoyne’s well
laid plans and turning the tide of the
Revolution.
* • *
Sacagawea
TN THE journal of their famous ex-
* pedition across the great Northwest
to the Pacific, Lewis and Clark be-
tween them manage to spell the name
Sacagawea in no less than eight dif-
ferent ways. But, however they spell
it, they use it only to express admira-
tion for its owner, the Shoshone In-
dian girl who played so heroic a part
in their “magnificent adventure.”
Sacagawea, or Bird Woman, was but
sixteen when she became a membefr of
the Lewis and Clark expedition. Five
years before, during a Blackfoot raid
in Montana, she had been captured and
carried .eastward into the Dakotas.
Here she had been s,old to the French-
Canadian voyageur Toussaint Char-,
bonneau, who later made her one of
his wives. When Lewis and Clark
engaged Charbonneau as interpreter,
1t was arranged that his wife, because
of her knowledge of the Shoshone lan-
guage and country, should accompany
him.
The first mention of Sacagawea In
the journal of the expedition records
the birth of her son, Baptiste, which
took place in February of 1805, under
the administration of two rings of the
rattle of a rattlesnake, “broken into
small pieces with the fingers and add-
ed to a small quantity of water!”
The Indian mother’s part in the suc-
cess of the expedition was a real one.
Charbonneau turned out to be a poor
sort after all. Captain Clark notes:
“1 checked our interpreter for striking
his woman at their dinner.” Once,
when several of the party were caught
in a ravine during a cloudburst, and
almost washed away. Charbonneau
6aved his own skin, leaving the res-
cue of his wife and child to Clark.
And again, being the “most timid wa-
ter man in the world,” he almost cap-
sized the piroque during a squall, and
hut for his wife, who fished them from
the river before carried away, the
party’s most valuable records would
have been lost.
It was Sacagawea who guided the
expedition finally to the Three Forks
of the Missouri, the land of her child-
hood, and turning aside the .animosity
of the Shoshoni, which might have
proved fatal to its plans, secured In-
stead their aid in crossing the moun-
tains. On the return trip Sacagawea
once more turned guide, leading the
party through Bozeman pass. Once
back in the Blackfoot villages of Mis-
souri, Lewis and Clark left Charbon-
neau and Sacagawea behind, but not
without a parting testimonial In the
Journal to one who had been “par
tieularly useful.”
t ©. 1932, Western Newspaper Union.
Cheerio Chapters
Fun for All the Children
Edited by DOROTHY EDMONDS
THE GUESS-ME’S ARE
HERE
A.'tL
An extraordinary family these
Guess-Me’s. They talk in riddles
and conundrums. For instance here
is the man of the family address-
ing you. “1 am sometimes gray,
sometimes black, and sometimes al-
most white. I have also been known
to look yellow, 1 am in trains,
houses, engines. I start off very
thick and heavy but soon disappear
altogether.” Now if you can guess
what this gentleman is you can go
right on down through the family
and see how they are all related.
Here is the lady of the family
talking: “I am exceedingly impor-
tant. It doesn’t matter what I am
made of just sq long as I am firm
and reliable. I am also not par-
ticular as to my shape or size. I
do not touch the ground. I do not
move from my place of duty except
sometimes in a cyclone. I keep
people happy because 1 keep them
dry and warm. Some like me red,
some green, some several colors all
mixed together?’
Next comes the .grandfather: “1
am easy to guess for I am so close*
A PUZZLE OF TREES
There are four names
guess them.
represented here. See if you can
ly ' related to the first guess-me i- thin. We do not like to be smoky
who spoke. I am much more diffi-
cult to make than people think for
first of all each separate part of
me has ta be made. 1 am never
made of wood, only of brick and
stone. 1 am hollow right through.
1 am especially popular with the
children at Christmas time.”
And then the bright and happy
daughter Guess-Me’s: “Our useful-
ness its affected by the weather,
although we are happy to think
that without us even in the worst
weather people would be mighty
dark and miserable. We are very
and
very
dignified:
“We
in
firm
support
of
our
and sisters.
We
are
of
many
kinds
of
ma-
or dirty for all of our beauty is
dependent upon cleanliness. Some-
times people break us but this is
usually by accident for we are
quite expensive to replace. There
are probably more millions of us
in the world than all the people
and animals put together."
Stern are the brother Guess-
Me’s,
stand
mother
made
terials, put together carefully and
tightly. We would be ashamed to
have cracks in us as we would be
as ineffective as people are with
tears in their clothes. They paint
us all colors of the rainbow al-
most according to individual taste,
but we do not mind about our col-
or. It is our strength that con-
cerns us. We struggle against
winds and storms that constantly
threaten us and the people we pro-
tect. Sometimes when we get very
old we just crumble away, then
woe it is to our mother and sis-
ters.”
Can you guess them all?
THE HALF AND HALF
PUZZLE
Some one mixed these parts all
up. By putting them where they
belong you can make six different
objects. The best way is to cut
out the pieces.
© 1933, Western Newspaper Union.
Carrying Supplies to Gold Hunters
Carrying supplies for prospectors, a plane lands on the ice at Island Lake,
400 miles north of Winnipeg, Canada, t^care for those who hit the trail with
the discovery of gold in the north of Canada.
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Good Things We All Enjoy
A T THIS season of the year when
** we enjoy pork roasts, chops and
spareribs, try this:
Roast Stuffed Spareribs.
Rub the outside of the spareribs
tvith seasoned flour and stuff with the
following:
Onion Stuffing.
Take one pint of bread crumbs, one
cupful of cornmeal, one chopped on-
ion, one tart apple also chopped, one-
fourth of a cupful of chopped celery,
two tablespoonfuls of butter and salt
and pepper to taste. Mix with hot
milk to moisten. Place in the spare-
ribs and roll. Bake as usual.
English Chicken Salad.
To one five-pound fowl add a table-
spoonful of salt, herbs tied in a small
cloth, using two sprigs of thyme, one
of marjoram, a bay leaf, two sprigs of
parsley. Simmer until the fowl is ten-
der. One-half hour before it is done
add one-half pound of bacon cut into
bits. Remove the largest bones from
Most College Girls
Tell Mothers All
New York.—The secret is out.
Mother is still the college girl’s
confidante. The boy who murmurs
sweet things into his companion’s
ear may rest assured that his hon-
eyed words will be relayed back to
mother.
In the study of “Problems of
Freshman College Girls,” released
at Columbia university, Dr. Eugene
Andrus Leonard reports 06 per cent
of the co-eds interviewed at Syra-
cuse university talk over their love
affairs with their mothers.
The survey also indicated, al-
though Doctor Leonard deems it
unlikely, that “31 per cent of the
girls interviewed have had no love
affairs.”
the fowl and arrange a layer in a
baking dish, cover with one-half pound
of mushrooms that have been sauted
in butter five minutes, or use the
chicken fat; add hard cooked eggs, us-
ing three cut into slices. Continue un-
til the dish is full. Add three cupfuls
of the chicken broth which has been
slightly thickened by cooking with
flour. Cover with flaky pastry in tri-
angles, bake until well browned. Sea-
son well before adding the pastry and
if wanted especially good add some
rich cream and less broth.
Spanish Beans.
Soak a pint of navy beans over
night, cook in the same water until
the skins slip off easily. Turn into a
bean pot or casserole and add one
onion, one cupful of tomato, one small
green pepper, one pimiento, three
tablespoonfuls of molasses, one tea
spoonful of mustard and one-half cup-
ful of pork fut into small dice. Cut
the vegetables into dice and bake as
usual.
Hot Toasted Cranberry Sandwiches.
Broil cold boiled ham in a hot frying
pan, lay on buttered toast, cover with
hot cranberry sauce and sprinkle with
chopped cheese. Garnish with parsley
and serve.
©. 1933, Western Newspaper Union.
Yaqui Indian Last to
Speak Ancient Tongue
Berkeley, Calif.—The last of his
race to speak his own language is
Ralph Moore, full-blooded Yaqui In-
dian, residing in Round Valley, Men-
docino county.
For 30 years Dr. A. L. Kroeber,
chairman of the University of Cali-
fornia anthropology department, has
been studying Moore and his language.
Evidence seems to point to the con-
clusion that the Yaqui are a survival
of an ancient people, says Doctor
Kroeber. Nothing similar to the Yaqui
language is in existence, he declares.
Kroeber, who Is an authority on
western Indians and their languages,
has been recording the Yaqui language
from Moore for many years.
He described Moore as a well built,
stocky Indian of unusual intelligence.
He is married to a woman of the
Wailaki tribe and has two children.
ON THE TOP
Oooooooooooooooooooooooooo
How It Started
By Jean Newton
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“Kissing Goes by Favor”
A S EVERYBODY knows, the ex-
pression, “Kissing goes by fa-
vor,” implies that the selection of a
person for a certain office, like that
of a man for a maid’s kiss, is a mat-
ter of personal choice of favoritism
rather than merit. In other words, the
analogy between “kiss” and “Choice”
is because both are often the reward
of favor instead of just desserts.
However, the words "kiss” and
“choice” are etymologically as well as
logically connected. To kiss, in Anglo-
Saxon, is “cyssan” (kissan), and in
German “kussen”; while to choose, in
Anglo-Saxon, is “coesan” (koesan),
and in Dutch “kiesan.”
®. 1933. Bell Syndicate. -WNU Service.
“I knew that Jack was born to lead.”
"Has he attained a high position?”
“Yes, he is now yell master of his
college class.”
Lights of New York
By WALTER
TRUMBULL
Before the recent Presidential elec-
tion there were more corrugated brows
on Broadway than there were movie
patrons or auction sales of cut-glass
diamond rings and brass watches.
Yes, everybody’s forehead looked as if
the champion knot-tier of the navy
had been working on it, and they tell
me it was the same right through
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. You
might start to talk football or col-
lege humor with some citizen, and for
a moment the worried look would
leave his face. But then he’d go right
back to saving the country.
* * *
I just wonder whether this broad
land of ours knows how many times
it was saved during the campaign.
There was scarcely a citizen who was
not willing to rescue the United States,
and the North American continent iri
genera]. If it took his last vocal chord.
Some of them put in a lot of valuable
talking time rescuing South America
and the European nations. Everybody
slept an instant or an hour. Nor did
he know exactly where he was. This
perhaps was because it had started l»
rain and the windows were so wet he
could not see out of them. He started
his engine and his windshield wiper.
* * *
In a moment it became evident that
it was a good thing he hadn’t slept
any longer, for there, close ahead of
him, in the glare of his headlights wao
another car. It seemed plain that he
was in traffic. He waited patiently for
the car ahead to move, but there ft
stayed. Finally he blew his horn.
Still the car didn’t move. Now he
really was annoyed, so he put bis
finger on the horn button and h.eh1 ft
there. He held it there for a full min-
ute. Then he heard noises like win-
dows going up and a sound of raised
voices. He climbed out to see what
was the matter. There were lights in
his house and also in those of his near
neighbors. The car ahead of him was
his wife’s eoupej which she apparently
The Modern Eliza
was confident-he had the only course
which would bring the ship of state
safely through the storm. He was, to
be sure, also wearing his life preserv-
er, just in case. There sure was a lot
of worrying going on.
* * *
It probably still is going on, but
it’s different. Nobody is worrying
about the country any more. Each
voter figures that he has done his
patriotic duty, and, if there is any
further worrying to be done concern-
ing our fair land, let Franklin Roose-
velt do it. Isn’t that what he was
put in for? Sure it was. Just try
to get some friend or acquaintance,
someone who was doing the loudest
worrying, to corrugate his brow over
the country right now. He won’t even
listen to you. He is too busy worry-
ing about whether his favorite player
was overlooked on the All America, or
whether his golf score will be lower in
the spring.
« * * *
If you were asked to name the most
beautiful woman in New York, you
would have a hard job. New York is
full of beautiful women, and beauty,
as they say, is in the eye of the be-
holder. Every moonstruck youngster
would vote for his own girl. But, if
you were asked to name this city’s
handsomest women, it might be easier.
The chances are, for example, that
most of us would agree on Fannie
Hurst as one of the handsomest wom-
en of Manhattan. She is a Junoesque
figure, attracting instant attention, no
matter how softly she may enter any
gathering.
* * *
A Manhattan business man, who had
attended one of those late banquets,
started home in his car. The streets
at that hour were empty, and he did
pretty well. He lives outside the city
and his house has a driveway. He
made the turn into that nobly, but
when he had circled around to the
back yard, all his efforts had made
him very tired, so he stopped the car
and went to sleep. Some time later he
woke up feeling somewhat refreshed,
but not knowing whether he had
had left for him to put in the garage.
He has found some difficulty explain-
ing just how everything happened.
©. 1933. Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
cMy ^Neighbor
▼ ▼ Says: ’r ’r
'T'O KEEP cookies nice and fresh,
A put half an apple in the cookie
jar. You will find that it not only
keeps the cookies soft, but it adds I*
the flavor.
* * *
In regard to water spots on silks,
take between your hands and gently
rub together, or take inside of bot-
tom hem and rub on spots.
* * *
Graham and whole wheat flour
breads mold more easily than those
breads made from white flour, so the
bread box should be frequently in'
spected and aired.
* * *
To clean a coffee pot that has be-
come discolored, put about two tea-
spoons of oxalic acid crystals in the
coffee pot, then fill up with cold wa-
ter. Allow it to remain on the back
of the stove for two or three hoars.
Then wash thorpughly with hot wa-
ter and soap.
(© by the Associated Newspapers)
(WNU Service)
NO NEWS
Wifie (reading)—There’s no news in
the paper today.
Hubby—No scandals or divorces, eh?
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