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BARNEYS SPRING SPRINGHere SPRnGOLD
Here Commodore Barney Barn With Wi Vi h 400 oo Seamen Gal Gallantly GalHere ¬
OLD HOUSE NEAR BLADENSBURG BLADENSBURGHere
b lantly Fought the British Veteran Tro ana ffJS ffJSAte
Here Admiral Ccckbum and Gen Ross BossAte RossAte
Ate Breakfast on Day of the Battle
I IAnnouncement
Announcement of o oManeuvers f War WarManeuvers Waraneuvers
Maneuvers aneuvers Recallsf Recalls RecallsEvents RecallsEvents
Events of o f 1B14 1B14i 1B14Ninetieth lB14Ninetieth
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Ninetieth Anniversary of ofCitys ofCitys a aCitys f
Citys Capture Comes ComesThis ConlesThis ComesThis
This Week WeekHowjthe Weeki
Howjthe H ovthe 0 i the OldTime 0 ld Tilne Places PlacesVisited PlacesI
Visited I sited by b bLook Y British BritishLook BritishLook
Look Today Todayl Todayannouncomont TodayEMIOFFICIAL
l EMIOFFICIAIi announcement has hasbeen hasbeOA hasbeen
been made that the problom to be beworked beworked beworked
worked out In the next years yearsjoint yearsjoint yearsjnlnt
joint maneuvers mlUle Te11l of th the army and navy navywjll D DHI zaat7 zaat7will
will HI be the defense or Washington Washingtonagainst Washingtonagainst Va blngton blngtonagahat
against tat invading InvaalD fares faresThre fereeTh freeTh
Th Thre announcement recalls to Ameri Americans Americans Amenana ¬
cans ana that the ninetieth anniversary anaherso1 of ofthe otthf ofthe
the capture of Washington by b the Brit BritIsh Britt Brit Britt
t Ish falls on Wednesday WedJle6 ay August Si In Inthat Inthat Inthat
that month and the year ISM a British Britishforce Britishforce Britishfarce
force landed at Benedict Mdt Md and andmarching andmarching andmarching
marching through the villages of Nottingham Not Nottingham ot otUngham ¬
tingham and Marlboro advanced to toBladenaborg toI toPIadenebarg
I Bladenaborg < laden org six miles northeast of ofVashIngtoE oraebln ofRashingtor
VashIngtoE aebln tor and ad there defeated defe ted an anAmerican anAmrlcan anAmerican
American array arrayOn armyOn rmy rmyOn
On the night 1t ht following the battle the theinvaders tileInaderw theinvaders
invaders camped on a common part of ofwhich otwhl ofwhich
whl which < h la now no the east plaza of the Capi Capitol Capitol Capitr1 ¬
tol The They were w re reckless with the torch torchThe torchThf torchThe
The sky was red with names from the theCapitol tbeCapitol theapitol
Capitol apitol White Home Treasury Trur War WarOffice WarOffice Warltlke
Office ltlke and private buildings 1Natkl fired by the theEnglish theEn theEnglleh
En English Jl2h and from the navy yard rd warships war warFhlpK r rshlJ8
ships moored or building there and amiI andlrid
I lrid ridges over the Potomac and EasternBra EasternBranch Eastern EasternBranch
Branch Bra nch which had been fired roo by the theAmerican theAmeriClUl theAmericans
American
Town of Benedict BenedictBenedict BenedictRfnrolct BenedictBenedict
Benedict the base of the invaders is isa laa isa
a lI1tle listless hamlet in Charles county Md Mdr Mdthe
r I i the west bank of the Patuxent River Rivercvl Riverr
r cvl l about forty mile miles southeast of ofv ofa ofI
I v ashington a hlnrton by the wagon roads The ThepTare TherTafe Thepuce
puce has ha neither railroad or telegraph telegraphconnection telegraphnnectlon telegraphc
connection c nnectlon though steamboats plying plyln plyln1rtwten plyingbetween plylncbetween
between Baltimore and Patuxent land landings landlng landings ¬
ings lng stop at Benedict The town is of ofirs oflg ofs
irs s Importance than a century ago Its Itstr Itstrtr1 Itstare
tare trtr1 tr do and population like that of many manyrth manythfr
1 rth thfr > r waterside towns in Maryland and andVirginia andVirginia andVirginia
Virginia has shrunk Many of the old oldhouses oldJrII1eS oldl
l houses JrII1eS uses have disappeared som some by b fire fireand flreand fireand
and some because of sheer h r decay decayThe decayTh decayThP
The Th anchorage of the British fleet IB IBrinted 18rlntfCl ispInted
rinted out and that part of the shore shorewhere shorewIPrf shorewl
wl wIPrf where cre the redcoats climbed from from their theirsmaJl theirsmall theirsmall
small boats is shown sho with pride by the thesV theI thesPpy
sPpy sV I fpy > py villagers vlltag n One may walk the old oldstreet old8tret oldstreet
street where the English column formedfor formed formedf formedtor
for f r its march on Washington Not Nottingham NotUngham Nottingham ¬
tingham a tiny village and Marlboro Marlboroa
a small town through which the in invaders 1nyaden Invaders ¬
vaders passed have changed ehAng very lit llttlt JlttlL little
tlt
Bladensburg BladelUlbur Is pretty much now as it itwas ItWi18 Itwas
was than Standing Standin = are many of theh the thehouses thehfJlJsea
houses h iuses in and behind which the Englishfound English Englishfound Englishfound
found shelter from the American six sixpounders slxpn eixprunders
pounders pn l1Dder An old mill under cover cov r of ofnhich orh1ch o owlrIch f
nhich h1ch a body of the retreating retreaUn Ameri Americans Americans Americans ¬
cans made a a stand tand is still UII grinding The Theh Theh Th Thh e
h > u ut e in which General Ross and Ad Adrriral Adrriral
rriral Cockburn the British command commanders commandcra ¬
ers ate breakfast breakta t on the battle morning morningla mornin morninis g
la in fair repair but tenanted by to toarh loss lossaristocratic ss
aristocratic arh toeratk persons per > > ORII than ninety years yearsago yearagn ears earsagt s
ago
Could Be Recognized Now NowThough NowThou NowThough
Though Thou h no effort has been made to tokeep toke t tkeep o
keep ke < p the battlefield as It was It has no not notso notso t
t
so changed chan ed but that men who fought foughtthere loughtthpre foughthere t
there could recognize the land coul coulthey could couldth couldthy d
th thy y revisit it it The English killed and andsome andsome an ansome d
some of tM tit Americans were buried on onthe onthr o othe n
the field but the location of the grav gravhas graves graveshas gravOfJhas es
has been long ago forgotten There is I on onpoint one onepoint onepoint e
point on the battlefield battJe eld which attrao attraothe attracts attractsthe attraotsthe t8
the passerby It is small natural founfair foun fountain fountain ¬
tain that has ha been bricked up Wayfarers Way Wayfarers Vaytaren ¬
farers stop there to drink for the wa water water water ¬
ter has been famous for more than thanyears 300 300years OO OOyc
years yc a 11 It is called Barneys Spring This Thisspring This8fJrlng Th Thspring le
spring was the center of the American Americanline AmcrlCiinlIne Americaline n
line In the tb last stand standCommodore standCommodore tand tandCommodore
Commodore Barney Darn y and 400 sailors sailorsfrom saUorfrom nationfrom a
from the flotilla that had been turned turnedin turnedIn turns turnsIn d
in the Patuxent wore posted a little in infront Infront infront
front of the spring It was the point pointof pointor poinof t
of the best be t fighting of the day de Mos Mosof Most Mostof Mostor t
of the loss of 4both both sides fde was sustained sustainedin
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in this part of of the field eld And for ninety ninetyyfirs ninetyfarll ninet ninetyers y
yfirs farll the spring has been called Bar Barmy BarnfY Barn ¬
my nfY n ys spring There is J no mmumen mmumenon monument monumenton t
on the BiadenslHirg field but every everynow overynow ovarynow
now and then the proposition propo lUon is made to toerect tor t terect o
erect r < > ct a marker of some s me kind idnd at the thespring thespring th thspring e
spring springA
i A man traveling along the route followed fol followed followed ¬
lowed by the British BrJt1 h from Benedict to toBladenslHirg toBadenrg t tBladensburg o
BladenslHirg can get some very bad b d his history histot ¬
tory t1 by b the way For instance ln taaeo this thisThe thisThe thisThe
The picture ef the th spring shows a a negrdrinking nogro nogrodrinking nogrodrinking o
drinking He ta an ordinary negro c of L
MAIN STREET OF BENEDICT BENEDICTHere BENEDICTHere BENEDICTHere
Here the English Column of InvasionFormed Invasion InvasionFormed InvasionFormed
Formed for March on Washington
I the country countl but the day being Sunday SundayI Su SuI Sundayhe
I I he Ie dres dressed ed up and wears his coat coatthough coatI coatthough
I though St is midday mldda and the mercury mercuryregisters mercuryregisters mercuryregisters
registers near the 100 pointWhat point pointWhat pointWhat
What a Negro Said SaidDo SaidDo SaidDo
Do you know kno the historic significance significanceof signhI cane caneof
of this place he was askedThe asked askedThe akodTh
The Th man looked dazed and sillyThen silly sillyThen
Then he was asked Do you know knowwhat knowwhat knowwhat
what happened here long ago And heapswered he heanswered heJ1swered
apsweredNo answered answeredXo J1sweredXo
Xo sah b not zactly zacU but I has heard hearddat bearddu hearddat
dat de President of England shot htseef htseefheah hlNethcah hiesefheah
heah hcahIt heahIt N NIt
It is a country countr of wonderful interestthrough interest interestthrough Intere t tthrough
through which the British marched Itis It Itis ItIs
is stilt fertile and must have ha been ex extremely extremety extremely ¬
tremely so o a hundred years ear ago agoIt a80It agoIt
It is e the black belt of Maryland the thenegroes thenegroes thenegroes
negroes largely outnumbering the thewhites theI thewhites
whites Most Mo t of thorn are illiterate butkindly but butkindly butkindlY
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kindly polite and of a fair degree of ofIntelligence orIntelUgence
l
Intelligence The whites are of two twoclasses twoclaMes twoclasses
classes The first class cla are the real realpeople realpaople realpeople
people They are lavishly lal8hl hospitable hospitablecourteous ho hospitablecourteous pltable pltablecourteous
courteous In address addre and Intenselyproud intensely intenselyproud Intenselyproud
proud of their ancestry ancest1 and State Nearly Near Nearly Nearly ¬
ly all of the men and wtomon have been beento beento beento
to college or academy academyThe academyThe academyThe
The other class of whites are densely denselyignorant denselyh denselyignorant
ignorant h nlrant cos suspicious lIueJJlcloulI closs of strangers and oC ofvicious oCvicious o ovicious
vicious habits whisky whisk drinking and the theplaying theplaying theplaying
playing of s sevenup venup being apparently apparentlywhat apparentlywhat apparentlywhat
what they live for Nearly Ne rly every man manin m manto n nIn
in that country chews tobacco publicly publiclyand publiclyand publiclyand
and privately and in Charles county countybarrooms countyb countybarrooms
barrooms b rroom are conveniently located at the thecrossroads thecro thecrossroads
crossroads crossroadsThe cro crossroadsThe sroads sroadsThe
The capture of Washington by the theBritish theBrlU theBritish
British BrlU h Is a 8 long story 8tOI but it may be bebriefly bebriefly bebriefly
briefly told The British threatened threatenedWashington threatenedVashlngton threatenedWashington
Washington for a J year and a half be before before before ¬
fore making a direct effort to capture capturethe capturethe capturethe
the city cityNo cityNo cityNo
No Preparations for Defense DefenseDespite DefenseDo DefenseDespite
Despite Do plte this long warning the Ameri American American American ¬
can authorities made no preparation preparationfor
for defense The British maintained a afloat afloet afleet
float of warships in the Chesapeake Bayand Bay Bayand Bayand
and had made forays on Havre dp dpGrace df dfGrace dpGrace
Grace Frederlcktown Frenchtown and andother andother andother
other places In Maryland aryland and on the theHampton theHampton theHampton
Hampton Va They pillaged these theseplace theMplaces theseplaces
places burned dwellings and stores and andIt andIt andIt
It Is charged killed or made prisoners prisonersmany priscmermany prisonersmany
many noncombatants noncombatantsIn
In the annals of the Thirteenth Con Congress CongreM Congress ¬
gress may be seen a at preamble and reso resolution reeolutlon reaolutlon ¬
lutlon introduced in the House of Rep Representatives Relr Representatives ¬
resentatives r entatlo July Jut 16 18I 1813 by Philip PhilipStuart PhilipStuart
Stuart of Maryland setting tUng forth the thedefenseleesnees thedeCen
defenselessness deCen elC86ne 8 of Washington the dan danger danger danger ¬
ger of attack the presence of a at hostilefleet hostile hostilefleet hOtltlleftct
fleet and troops within a few hours sail sailof n nor
of the Capital and urging the th j distribu distribution di trlbu trlbutlon ¬
tlon of arms to all ablebodied men In Inthe Inthe
the District of Columbia ColumbiaTh ColumbiaThe
Th T The record shows that the House Hou e vot voted voted voted ¬
ed to consider the preamble and resolu resolution re resolutton olu olutlfft ¬
tion in secret that a R motion to lay on onthe onthe
the table was defeated by a vote of 74 74to 74to
to W that the preamble was stricken strickenout etrlek n nout
out and the resolution re oluUon to distribute arms armswas armsWOII
was referred to the Committee on Mili Military MIIItry ¬
tary Affairs and adversely advenel reported reportedAnd roportedAnd
And all this while British BrlU h ship were werecruising werecnalslng
cruising In the Chesapeake ascending ascendingthe R8Cenc1lnathe
the Patuxent P tl1xent and the Potomac and andmaking andmaking andmaking
making descents on villages a few miles milesfrom milesfrom
from Washington WashingtonPresident WashingtonP YuhlnJ ton tonI1r6fildent
President I1r6fildent P Madison and his Cabinet Cabinetthought CabinetthouKht Cabinetthought
thought the British would not attack theCapital the theCapital theCapital
Capital In Washington there was net neta netR
a R piece of artillery a regular soldier or ora 01 01a
a properly armed company of miltia miltiaThere mWUaThere mlltiaThere
There was not a Q redoubt on onanyapproach any approach approachto
to the city clt Fifteen miles down the thePotomac thuPotomac
Potomac was Fort Washington then thencalled thencel1C thancalled
called < 1 Forth Warburton a R frail struc structure truc tructure ¬
ture mounting a few smell guns with withone withon
one on company of artillery to serve eno thornThis thorn thornThis thornThis
This indifference of the Madison Ad Administration Admlnl Adcontinued ¬
ministration mlnl tratlon continued well into the theyear thoyear
year mol
Brig Ida at BostonThe Boston BostonThe BostonThe
The brig Ida from Rochelle landed at atBoston atBOiIton
Boston May 12 1 1S14 and brought news newsThat newsht
That the allied troops had entered Parisand Paris Parisand ParS ParSand
and early In June 1814 official Washing ¬
ton knew l < ncw that several of o Wellingtons Wellingtonsveteran Volllngton Volllngtonveteran
veteran regiments released relea ed from Europlan European Euro European ¬
pean service had embarked on troopships troop troopMhlps troopHhlps
ships and convoyed by a war fleet un under undol ¬
der Vice Admiral Cock Cockrano ran o had sot sail
for the Chesapeake Chee peako President Madlnon
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k
THE RUINED CAPITOL CAPITOLPhotograph CAPITOLlhotograph CAPITOLIhotograph
Photograph of the Building After the hc British Had Wrecked It by Fire
I July 1 114 J called call the Cabinet together togetherto t lether letherto
to consider con lder a plan for the defense deCe 8e of ofWashington ofVuhlnlton ofWashington
Washington WashingtonA VuhlnltonA
A report re1 > Ort of th the army on that date dateshowed datebowed dateshowed
showed the force of military mlltta1 district Nob No NoS NoG
S of which the District of Columbia Columbiawas Columbiawu Columbiawas
was part to be 2154 154 officers o leer and men menOne menOne menOne
One thousand and eightythree were at atNorfolk atNorfolk atNorfolk
Norfolk f2 at Baltimore 330 In n St StMarys StMarya StMarys
Marys county Md d 40 at Annapolis and and7t
79 at Fort Washington ashln8ton Not one soldier soldierin soldierIn soldierin
in the District of Columbia ColumbiaOn ColumbiaOn ColumbiaOn
On July 14 1814 draft was wa made on onthe onthe onthe
the governors of Maryland Virginia Virginiaand Virginiaand Virginiaand
and Pennsylvania Penn ylanla for militia Depreda Depredations DepreJ1tlons Depredttions ¬
tions by b the British in southern Uthern Mary ¬
land were Increasing and alarm was wasgrowing wasgrowing as asgrowing
growing In Washington On the morn mornIng mornIng morning
Ing of August 36 6 1814 twentytwo sail sailIng sailIng sailing
Ing vessels entered the Chesapeake and andJoined andjoined andJoined
Joined the fleet already in the Patuxent PatuxentRiver PatuxentRiver PatuxentRiver
River The combined fleet t sailed up that thatriver thatrhcr thatriver
river and dropped anchor off Benedict BenedictThe DenedlctThe BenedictThe
The debarkation of troops began Au August AuIrust August ¬
gust 19 11 Capt Sir Peter Parker in the thefrigate thefrigate thefrigate
frigate Menelaus with some small ships shlpnwan shipswas hlp1 hlp1was
was dispatched dl plltchecl toward Baltimore and andCaptain andCaptaIn andCaptain
Captain Cordon in the frigate Seahorse Seahorsewith Seahorsewith Seahorsewith
with another frigate rocket ships bl8 and andarmed andarmed andarmed
armed schooners was sent ent around Point PointLookout PointLookout PointLookout
Lookout and up the Potomac to take takeAlexandria takeAlexandria takeAlexandria
Alexandria which he did didTroops didTroops didTroops
Troops in Washington WashingtonThv VashingtonTip
Tip Americans wire w re gathering troops troopsat troopeat troopsat
at Washington There were two bri brigades hrlgadcII brigades ¬
gades of District of Columbia militia militiaami mutUaann militiaand
ann volunteers numbering 1S20 men menThen menThen menThen
Then there were three regiments from fromBaltimore fromBltlUmore fromBaltimore
Baltimore there were two other regi regiments rflglments regiments ¬
ments of Maryland militia and one Vir Virginia Virginia Vtrginia ¬
ginia regiment There were about 300 300volunteer JOOyolunteer 200volunteer
volunteer cavalry from the District of ofColumbia orColumhla ofColumbia
Columbia Maryland and Virginia commanded com commanded commanded ¬
manded by Lieutenant Colonel Tight Tlghlman Tightman TighIman
man manThe manThe manThe
The regular army arm of o the United States Stateswas StatesW811 Stateswas
was represented relre ented by detachments from fromthe tromtho fromthe
the Thirtysixth and Thirtyeighth rhlrtyel < < hth In Infantry Inlantr Infantry ¬
fantry lantr numbering num rlng 800 men under Lieut LieutCol LieutCol LientCol
Col William Scott on one company com ttny of the theTwelfth theTwelfth th thTwelfth e
Twelfth Regiment Captain Morgan and anda anda an ana d ed
a squadron IUadron of dragoons under und r Lieuten Lieutenant Lieutenant Lieutenant ¬
ant Colonel Laval Barney was as readyto ready readyto read readto
to lend assistance with 400 sailor sailorsThe sailorThe nON nONTho
The American army arm for the defense deren of ofWashington orWa o oWashington f
Washington Wa hlngton was 7000 men All of these thesewere thuewere thesewere
were raw recruits excepting 90 9 enlistedsoldiers enlisted enlistedsoldiers enll ted tedSQldler8
soldiers and sailors These rhe e men tvure tvureto svtr svtrto vureto e
to oppose about 80M English veterans veteransThe veteransThe veteransThe
The Americans had twentysix pieces of ofartillery orartillery o oartillery f
artillery of which twenty were six sixpounders alxpounder sixpounders
poundersThe pounders poundersThe pounderTho
The English column moved out of ofBenedict orBen o oBenedict f
Benedict Ben lct August Augu t 30 and was at Notting Nottingham Nottingham Nottingham ¬
ham fifteen miles from Benedict enedlet on the theevening theevonlnG theevening
evening of the Slat tl t The squadron of ofAmerican oCAmerican o oAmerican f
American dragoons was sent ent to harass harassthe Itarassthe har harthe
the enemys enems flanks and the Americans Americansmoved Americanmoved a I Imoved
moved down Into Maryland to meet th thInvaders the theinvaders e
invaders Inv ders After getting In touch wit witthe with withthe WJlhthe h
the English Engll h at Nottingham an order ordercamo ordercame ordecame r
came from Washington to General GeneralWinder GenerulWinder GeneralWinder
Winder to retire rotlr He fell back to a a
country place p e called Long Ok Old Fields Fieldsfrom Fieldfrom Fieldsfrom
from which place the Americans had hadwithdrawn hadwitbdra badwithdrawn
withdrawn witbdra wn
wnStand
Stand at Bladensburg BladensburgOn
On the morning of August A rgust 24 the theAmericans theAmerlran theAmericans
Americans wearied we rltMl by b their marebm marebmand marofc maroland a aand
and fetreats letr retreats a were drawn up n nc < r rBladensburg rBladentburg rBladensburg
Bladensburg with 1th their backs to Washington Wash Washington WuhIngton ¬
ington six miles away Between them themand themAnd themand
and the village of Bladensburg Bladen burg ran the theEastern theElUJtern theEastern
Eastern Branch fordable but yet yetcrossed yetcrossed et etcroHCl
crossed by a bridge brJd e At noon the enemy enemyappeared an enemyappeared em emappeared
appeared in Bladonsburg threw rocketsat rockets rocketsat rocketsat
at the Americans America and started to cross crossthe cr088the crossthe
the bridge The American artilleryspoke artillery artilleryspoke arUl1or arUl1orspoke
spoke and the ZSnglish retired with a aloss aloss
loss of o one killed and two wounded
A FEW evenings ago at a NewHampshire New NewHampshire ew ewHampllhlre
A Hampshire summer boarding boardinghouse bo boardinghouse < < rdlng rdlnghouse
house a group of perhaps a adozen a adozen adozen
dozen vacation lovers sat t chat chatting chatting chatting ¬
ting together and exchanging stories storiesnotes storlonotes storiesnotes
notes a writer In the Boston Herald HeraldAs HeraldAa HeraldAs
As men and women alike they were abright a abright abright
bright set of people the stories were werenot werenot werenot
not of that mere haw ha haw kind kindwhich klmlwhich kindwhich
which grows so tedious through mon monotony monotony monotony ¬
otony of laughter unrelieved by seri serious serloua serious ¬
ous thoughtIndeed thought thoughtIndeed thouchtIndecd
Indeed the subject of previous die discussion dlsculon diecussion ¬
cussion that called the stories out in inthe Inthe Inthe
the way of concrete Illustration had hadturned hadturned hadturned
turned on the familiar French trav travesty travety travesty ¬
esty I can get along without fleece necessities noccslUes fleececities ¬
slUes but I must have luxuries luxurletln luxurletlnsaying luxuriesasaying n nsaying
saying which many present insistedexpressed insisted insistedexpressed InsistedxprellJel
expressed the same kind of solid para paradoxical paradoxical pamdoxtcal ¬
doxical truth as I can get along with without without without ¬
out mere bread and meat but I must musthave musthave musthave
have salt butter pepper ppcr and mustard mustardLies mUlltardLies mustardLies
Lies in EssencesAll Essences EssencesAll EssencesAU
All that makes human life taste tastest tastestthey tastesothey so sothey
they argued arguedeither either like a crude raw rawturnip rawturnll
turnip or a deliriously cl1icloual flavored t1a yoroo Craw Crawford Crawford Crawford ¬
ford peach > each lies In the presence or ab absence abBence nbBence ¬
Bence of a few highly volatilized essen easenca essences ee en encu ¬
ces
Yes and its just the same me with talk talkwhether talkwhether talkwhether
whether It shall be sprightly or ortadious ortadiousbroke tedious tediousbroke tediousbroke
broke in one Tee Yo and with women womenwhether women womenwhether womewhether
whether they shall be piquant and andcharming amIcharming
charming like the specimens In this thisgroup thisgroup
group chimed in a second Yes and andwith andJth andwith
with Jth everything else in the world worldva worldvacaUon worldvacations va vacations ¬
cations scenery golf boarding houses housesdigestions houseBdlKt
digestions dlKt > 8tlons the ripple of the breeze on a alake alake alake
lake an and l above all sermons echoed echoeda
a third
Story That Was Was Told ToldWhen Toldhen ToldWhen
When hen I was a young oun1 man I had an anodd anodd
odd experience of this universal unlver al prin principle prlnellle ¬
ciple that made me open ol > en my m eyes eye wide widehere widehere
here interposed an elderly elderl gentleman gentlemanof
of the group Id like to tell you about aboutit aboutI
it I to soe whether any of you OU can cap CR1
It t with an illustration more pat to > the
Again the enemy enom advanced in twcolumns tw twcoiumne tWcolumn
column one crossing cro lng the bridge and on onfording onfording
fording the stream streamReaching atreamReaching streamReaching
Reaching the Washington side of thstream th thstream <
stream the British moved to the atta attaSchutz attack attackSchutz ck
Schutz and Ragans Baltimore regiment regimentbroke rcrlmentbroke regimentbroke
broke and ran They left some ome batteriounsupported batterunsupported
unsupported and these then retired retiredThe retiredThe retiredThe
The remainder of the American lin linafter linafter <
after firing a few rounds left the field fieldThe fieldThe fieldThe
The troops rallied quickly quick and formed formedline formedline <
line of battle one mile farther back backBarneys backBarneys bac bacBarneys k
Barneys men being In Ute center Th Thfighting Thfighting <
fighting continued for half an hour hourBarney hourBarney hornBarney
Barney was as wounded Colonel Thorn Thornton Thornton Thornton
ton Captain Hamilton and LieutenanCodd LleutenaCodd
Codd of the English army arm wore killed kills d
matter mRtt r In hand Whereupon he at oncelaunched once oncelaunched oncelaunched
I launched Into the following narration narrationI
I had just graduated from college collegeyou collegeou collegeyou
you ou see ee and crossed cro ed the Atlantic for forBerlin forBerlin
I Berlin Germany where I was to spend spenda
a couple of years esrs In study at the uni university unlI univeretty ¬
versity versityBefore venltyBetore verettyBefore
I Before the first year 0111 was over however how however however ¬
ever my m digestion had gone to wrack wrackand
I land and my m head become so badly rattled rattledthat rattledthat
that further close c10 e application was an animpossibility anImpo animpossibility
I impossibility Impo lbllIty lbllItyI
Strenuous DietaryMeanwhile Dietary DietaryMeanwhile DietaryI
I
Meanwhile I had heard a groat deal dealabout doolabout dealabout
I about a famous water cure establieht establiehtmint establish establishment eetablhthment ¬
ment In Austrian Silesia SlIe la presided pro ldad over overby overby overby
by an uneducated peasar peasant pen named namedPriesenltz namedPrle namedPrleesnltz
Priesenltz Prle nltz warranted to be able to put putout putout putout
out the most raging tires of digestive digestiveheartburn digestivehfartburn digestiveheartburn
heartburn with copious inundations of ofcold oCcold ofcold
cold mountain water and to restore the themost thomo themost
most mo t rickety of heads to a ft condition of ofserenest oCserene ofserenest
serenest serene t nervous equilibrium So away awayI awayI
I posted for Prlessnltz to put myself myselfIn myscltIn
In his car care for several months monthsIt
It was midwinter when I arrived at atmy atmy atmy
my destination dellUr Allon among the snowcoveredmountains snowcovered snowcoveredmountains snowcoveredmountains
mountains and began to submit Myself Myselfto T1soltto
to my m dally dall regime of Icecold sltz sltzbaths 81tzOOths sitzbathe
baths beanpolejabbing douches cracking crack cracking crackIng ¬
ing frozen bandages round the middleand middle middleand mhldloand
and gallons of fireextinguishing water waterapplied waterapplh waterapplied
applied applh d internullyWith Intemul1yWith internally internallyWith
With Peasants PeasantsMeanwhile Peasants1eanwhl1c PeasantsMeanwhile
Meanwhile during long intervals of ofleisure orlol o oleisure 1
leisure lol uro between those serious duties I Ifound Itound Ifound
found groat pleasure in gradually mak making makIng making ¬
ing myself at home In the households householdsof
of the poor peasants settled on their theirlittle theirtittle thei theilittle r
little patches itches of land all round the thecentral thocentrAl thecentral
central village They proved to be sim simple simple simple ¬
ple social and hospitable hospitableIn
In one family raun 1 in especial I grew Tow to tobe tobe t tbe o
be on the friendliest t footing It con consisted consi consisted ¬
sisted si ted of a a man of fortyfive to fifty fiftyyears Uft Uftyoors fiftyyears
years his wife and daughter of eighteen eighteenBut olghteenBut eighteenBut
But the man was ailing aUfn and scarcely scarcelystrong acarcelyt scarcelystrong
strong t rcng enough to w wk > ck In the most intermittent in intermittent intormlttent ¬
termittent way wa and his disease was sosteadily so sosteadily 80ateadU
steadily ateadU gaining on him that in a month r
l TIII = OLD MILL NEAR BLADENSBURG BLADENSBURGAmerican BLADENSBURGAmerican BL BLAmerican
American Riflemen Stationed Behind BehindThis BehindThis BehindThis
This Annoyed the Advancing English
7 c
THE BATTLEFIELD OF BLADENSBURG BLADENSBURGThe
The Right Rig tOf of the American Line Rested at the Clump of Trees on the Hill Hilldn Hilldnthe in inthe inthe
the Middle Background
The sailors sahors aided by Peters Petn batteryalMl batteryand battery batteryand
and Magnifiers regiment were fighting fightingwe lightingwell htlD htlDen < <
we well en But the American A rleaa line gave wayIt way wayIt wayIt
It rallied ram d again and reformed three threemiles thr thrmiles threemiles
miles farther back when It was order ordered ordered ordered ¬
ed to retire through Washington and andGeorgetown aJNIGeorgeton andGeorgetown
Georgetown The troops were enraged enragedat
at this order and mutiny impended butat but butat butat
at length the little VolD volunteer army army leftthe left leftthe lenthe
the Held HeldGeneral neldGeneral fieldGeneral
General Rose Ro reported his loss 91 kill killed klUed killed ¬
ed and Iff 15 wounded Dr Catlett sur surgeon suugeon ¬
geon 8 on General Gt > neraJ Winders staff who on onAugust onAugust onAugust
August S went from Washington asbtn on to toBladensburg toBJadtntlburg toBladensburg
Bladensburg to attend some American Americanwounded Amerleanwounded Americanwounded
wounded says says ys a British surgeon told toldhim toldhim toldhim
him they had burled JflO on the field fieldWhen AeldVhen fieldWhen
When the enemy retired from Washington Washing Washington Va8hin Va8hinton ¬
ton the day after the capture Ameri Americans America Americans ¬
cans ca found the bodies of fifty fiit or 01 sixty sixtyEnglish aL sixtyEnglish ty tyEnglish
English soldiers on the field of Bladens Bladensburg BIa Bladensburg eas easburg ¬
burg and burled them The American Americanloss Americanlose
loss was as twentysix killed and fiftyone fiftyonewounded fiftyonewounded fiftyonewounded
wounded woundedAt woundedAt woundedAt
At S oclock on the evening of August AugustM
31 the British entered Washington Wa hJogton turn turnIng turnIng turning
Ing from the Bladensburg Bladen burg Road into intoMaryland IntoIaryJand IntoMaryland
Maryland Avenue and marching to the theeast theeast theeast
east front of the Capitol Commodore CommodoreTIngey ComO Commodore CommodoreTingey Odore OdoreTinge
TIngey Tinge set fire to the navy yard and andthe andthe
the new frigate Columbia and the sloop sloopor
of war Argus were burned A party of ofAmerican otAmerican ofAmerican
American soldiers in Virginia fired the thegreat
great bridge over the Potomac and two twobridges twobridges
bridges over the Eastern Branch were wereset
set on fire by our troops troopsThe troopsThe troopsThe
The British entered entered the Capitol and andapplied andappUed andapplied
applied the torch using the thousand thousandbooks
books composing the Library Llbrar of Congrew Con Congress Congreu
grew for kindling The Capitol of mol
l was a far different building to the Cap Capltol Capitol
tol of lOOt 00i Only the two little sand saClstone
stone wings were standing The cen central central central
tral structure on which the dome rests restshad roetabid rustshad
had not been built A wooden passage IMIs age ageCOi1nected
connected the two wings The stone stonewalls stORewalla
walls were not much damaged by the
fire Jhe The English went to the WhiteHouse White WhiteHoueeT W1dteHou
House Hou e Madison x4U on expecting an Americanvictory American Americanvictory merteanYktory
victory had prepared a feast for the theAmerican tbeAmerican theAmerican
American officers Madison Xacll oft and his hI Cab Cabinet CabI cabmet ¬
I met fled but left the feast The English Englishate EnsU Englishate h hate
ate this and vet lire to the building buildingTh buJdIagTIley buildingThey
Th They y also aJ o burned the offices of the theTreasury theTreasury theTreasury
Treasury and the War office officeAs o8IceAs o4 ce ceAs
As the English entered the t city a man manstanding JOILnsaJlldlDc manstanding
standing behind the house noose of Rotgert RotgertSeweH R EollertSewell ttert ttertSeweD
SeweD shot at General Bos Doss and kill killed klllhlB killed ¬
ed his horse This Th house was burned earnedThe burnedThe hanIecLThe
The hotel of Daniel Danl Carroll of Ducting Ductington D Du dtng dtngton g gtoa
ton and several several vera 1 dwelling were also aleoburned Ideoburned alsohorned
burned The office of the Ua the National Intellgencer In Intelligencer Intelltgencer ¬
telligencer was wrecked and the type typeand typeand typeand
and ple presses press ses thrown into the street lrett un under under under ¬
der the personal direction of AdmiralCockburn Admiral AdmiralCoekburn AdmlrdlCoeJtn
Coekburn The editors were we Gales and andSeaton andSeaton andSeaton
Seaton and Gales wag an Englishman Englishmanwhom Eng1lshmanwbom Englishmanwhom
whom Cockburn considered cOD ldered a a traitorPowder traitor traitorPowder traitorPowder
Powder in a Well WellWhen WenWhen WellWhen
When the Americans abandoned the theArsenal theArseIMLI theArsenal
Arsenal where wberethe thWar the War College Code is isbuilding isbuilding isbuilding
building they threw a number e et kegs kegsof k1gsof kegsof
of powder Into an old Id well wellDuring wellDuring wellDuring
During the night of August 51 > t IL i par party part party ¬
ty t of 300 Engll English h soldiers went wen to the theArsenal theAr theArsenal
Arsenal Ar enal and while pillaging there accidentally ac accidentally accklentaJly ¬
cidentally dropped a lighted portfire portfireInto portlroInto portflreinto
Into the well The explosion explo lol was washeerd washeerdfor heard heardfor heardfor
for miles and the sbellhouse sbeJlbou e at the Ar Arsenal Arsenal Arsenal ¬
senal with its contents blew up too tooTwelve tooTwelve tooTwelve
Twelve of the English were killed and andthirty nndthirty andthirty
thirty woundedOn wounded woundedOn woundedOn
On the morning of August Augu t 25 2 the In Invaders invaders Invaders ¬
vaders withdrew from Washingtonmarched Washington Washingtonmarched Washingtonmarched
marched back to Benedict Benedle over the road roadthey roadtbey roadthey
they had come embarked embark on their thf ehlp9 ehlp9and hips hipsand hJPJand
and sailed to North Point near Baltimore Balti Baltimore B1t1mon ¬
more where they were badly 1 > dIy beatenwhere beaten beatenwhere beatenWh
where Wh rc General Roes was killed and andwhere andwhere lneSwhere
where during the course oC the fight fighting fi fighting 1t 1tIng ¬
ing the Star Spangled Banner was waswritten wa wawritten wafI
I written
Luxuries or Necessities 1ecessiliesWkicli Which An Impromptu Debate
or two he was wholly 1boIl confined to the thehouse thehouse
I house and after that to his bed bedHuman oodHuman bedHuman I
Human Talk TalkTo TalkTo
To the very end he liked to haveme have haveme baveme
me come In and talk with him on simple sim simple simple ¬
ple human grounds neither Catholic CatholicProtestant CatooUcProtestant catholicProtestant
Protestant American nor Austrian but butbetter butbetter butbetter
better and deeper than any an of thesepoor theee theeepoor theo e epoor
poor distinctions till on the last occasion occa occasion OCCAslon ¬
sion I went to visit him I saw his hispoor hisPOOC hispoor
poor wasted Sted body stretched out In his hiewinding hhJwllMUng hiswinding
winding sheet and with 1th two tall wax waxcandles waxcandles waxcandles
candles burning at the head symboli symbolically smbollcal1y symbolically ¬
cally to light his soul on the dim mys mysterious mysterklUs mysterkius ¬
terious way it was to journey through throughrealm throuChreallJM throughrealms
realm unknown unknownDesperately unknownDesperately unknownDesperately
Desperately PoorThese Poor PoorThese PoorThese
These Austrian peasants pea ants in that re remote remote remote ¬
mote mountain region were desperately desperatelypoor d desperatelypoor peratel peratelpoor
poor and it pained my m heart to think of ofthe orthe ofthe
the lone widow and her sole daughter daughternow daughterII daughternow
now no that the strong arm arm nil on which they theyhad the thehad theyhad
had relied so many years eara was wa witheredand withered witheredand witheredand
II and dead In those faraway farawA davs I had hadmoney hadmoney hadmoney
money galore Sl ore and could play pia the young youngprince youngprince oung oungprince
prince with the best So 1 resolved re olvetl to tomake toI toI
I make provision for them that would wouldsubstantial wouldsubstantial wouldsubetantialy
substantial subetantialy carry the th two over the thenext tbenext thenext
next six months In the meager way in inwhich Inwhich inwhich
which they were accustomed to live liveTor liveror liveFor
For Necessities NecessitiesAlas NecessitiesAlas NecessitiesAlas
Alas however I was young and inexperienced In Inexperienced IncXl ¬
experienced cXl rlencffl and at the farthest removefrom remove removefrom removefrom
from having sounded the depths of the theprofound theproround theprofound
profound maxim I can get along with without without without ¬
out necessities but I will m have luxuries luxuriesIf
If 1 had been I should never have done donej
t j what I did didthat that Is before rore the funeralhave funeral funeralhave I Ihave
I have handed over the whole lump sum MlmIn
l in a 0 roll of batik bills to uie widow Idow to tobe tobe tobe
be as I Innocently innocent supposed gradually graduallyand graduallyand graduallyand
and economically transplanted into mealand meal mealand mealand
and potatoes tatoes and salt pork and firewood firewoodand flreoodfind
and cabbage It was the vision lslon of these thesethe thesethe
the grand staple neeeseitlee neeeSiJIU of human humanexistence human9Cl humanexistencethat
existence 9Cl existencethat tencethat that filled my soul with a asense aMnse asense
sense of peace In tnmking over the solid solidprovision solidprovision solidprovision
provision I had made for the wdow and andorphan andol1 andorphan
orphan ol1 han against the stern ttreee fr of ofcalamity orcalamity ofcalamity
calamity calamityBut calamityBut calamityBurt
But unhappily my mind was wa of a apractical ILpractical
practical rather than nn an artistic cast
The soul of the widow as 8 I later found
dwelt in a R more glorified realm of being
than mine
Went for Funeral FuneralTwo FuneralToo FuneralTaro
Two days later the little open opensquare open8Quare opensquare
square of the village witnessed themost the thamost themOlt
most magnificent magDtfi t pageant pa e nt of a funeralthe funeral funeralthe funeralthe
the oldest inhabitant could remember rememberMessengers rememberlMsengers rememberMessengers
Messengers had been diepatehed dl patehed to three threeor threeor threeor
or four villages in the neighborhood to tosummon tosunrmon tosummon
summon extra priests who appeared appearedwith appearedwith
with banners and small acolytes to hold
the tassels and keep k p erect the largo
burning wax candles that wero borne bornealon bornealong
along alongA alon alonA alongA
A sonorous braes band discoursed requiems requiems re rnH ¬
H quiems iems and funeral dirges while
Heaven save the mark mJrkI I was expected
to march at the head of the procession
as chief mourner Thus Thu impressively Imp IV8ly
we moved on to the church > where the
burial burl service rvlee was celebrated and andmsMe8 andmasses
masses said for the repose repo e of oftb the soul soulof soulor soulof
of the departed departedAnd departedAnd departedAnd
And More to Come ComeBy ComoB ComeBy
By B this time I Innocently supposed supposedthat supposedthat supposedthat
that all was over and that I would wouldnow wouldnow ould ouldnow
now be permitted unobtrusively unobtru lyel to re retire retire retire ¬
tire to private life Vain hope A large largefuneral largefuneral largefuneral
funeral dinner of forty peasant guests guestswas gueststo guestswas
was to follow folio at which at one end of ofthe ofthe ofthe
the table I must needs assume 8ume the theseat theeat theseat
seat > > eat of honor and at the other throned thronedthe thronedthe thronedthe
the widow klow in her h l weeds but proud as a apeacock a apeacock apeacock
peacock peacockFor peacockFor peacockFor
For once in her poor bfalc b ak molllnj moIllWUflite molliniflife molllnjlife
life she was the grandest d dame ante me in tho thovillage thovIllage thevillage
village a a virtual tragedy queen and andwhile andwhile andwhile
while at first I must confess cQnte s I felt net nettled nettied nettied ¬
tied that my comfortable comCorta le provision of ofneedful otneedtul o1needful
needful bread meat and ftrowood ftrowoodshould fin nvood nvoodshould wood woodshould
should thus have ba Ve been consumed on the thenaming theftamlnr theflaming
naming altar of these final obsequies obsequiesof Ob equll equllor
of funeral luxury later reflection have haveoften haveoften haveoften
often Induced Ind Ced In me a belief as I have havothought havethought vo vothought
thought of the devout woman who broke brokethe brokothe brokethe
the alabaster box of precious perfume perfumeover verfumeover perfumeover
over the masters feet t t that IB i reality realitymy realitymy realitymy
my swiftly Utl vanishing funds bAd adminIetered admin administered admlnl ¬
istered l t8red to the poor widow 1dow a soneolauonsuch aoneofcukm aoneofcukmsuch n nsuch
such as the world could neither give gi nor nortake ROrtake nortake
take away awayShe
She was used u ed to poverty and Oukl Ouklstand oeldstand aaaldstand
stand it t out to the end Nw N w for feree fereeabe Ssae Ssaeshe nee neeshe
she had had her tate t e ef o proulgai H06l l lux luxury luxury luxury ¬
ury of fgelinsr f + eltng ltng
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