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TOWN WEEKLY M4tfAZINE SECTION \Seadrift I* an American Provincial officer,\ interrupted Bpangenburg, passing one arm through Guilder's and trying to pry him loose and push him down the steps. Then Captain von Pauach, of the Hanau Ar- tillery, came quickly down the steps behind us. He warned us that our superior officers were already leaving the dining hall and he dryly advised ua to move on about our business. That sobered some of us and irritated others. Really, how- ever, we weren't looking for duels; we were merely noisy and disagreeable and Inclined to mischief. So finally we consented^ to move on with Upsy dignity to- ward the gilded coachea, sedan chairs and gorgeously saddled horses below, where an army of flunkeys in brilliant livery awaited their august military masters. His serene Highness, in white •ilk, stars and sash remained on the terrace, graciously ac- cepting the farewell homage of his subjects whom Irc was sell- Ing to the King of England, WE JUNIOR officers had no intention of retiring before morning if. indeed, we went to bed at all. For the first di- vision of German troops des- tined for America was to march early next day. February 22nd, 1776; ami we English and Provincial officers and the Ger- man youngsters who were go- ing and those who were to fol- low, meant to give the expedi- tionary force a noisy an re- Voir. So we left for the ball, whither already the Duke, the LandgruM and His Serene Highness of Hcsse-Hanau had betaken themselves. Ann,I gaudily liveried foot- men, coachmen, chairmen, ser- vants, totch heaicrs, we shoul- dered out u.iy, cost aside our military clonks and overcoats, exchanged 0111 kid gloves for cleanei ones, turned over our persons .n the cloak room to valets iiivI litckryx who-brushed hait powdei ftom our shoul- ders, smoothed out the lace on cuff and neckcloth, settled our queue iihhons. w ijnxl and bur- nished OM button< and dress swords and tinned us out us well gr<' >nu*d ;i.s our satin- coated hi>i *t s Altei u i- li,i>! entered the halliouri ,111.) m.'t'le our man- ners to .ill Ht^lm< sfies, mole and fein ili\ and to a chance visitoi. i I'lii'-.i.in Colonel, who wns no \fh imr ' visitor nt all in tnv opinMii. :IIKI U lirn we had suliitei. IIi>:li Command, If Ruptured Cut This Out HH't ill.i:! 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My heart had given a pleas- ant hop at sight of Mlas Wym- ple—not that she personally Inspired it. No, It waa a hop by proxy, and in behalf of Ijer oddly unusual looking sister, the young Baroness I <rs«liur. Not that I am any profes- sional stealer of other men's wives. I'm not a bad fellow, as young men go In these days. However, this Inconvenient and sudden passion for the Waldeck Baroness, for It amounted to that, had leaped full-armed from my hoar} at first light of her. It was not intentional. 8he had received me politely; had explained the absence of General von Lessing; I spent only one hour under her root and returned to Brunswick. But the .nstant I had met the deep blue eyes of the Baroness Leaning I had been bereft In- stantly of all common sense. And that is when my unac- countable heart gave iU first spasmodic hop. Well, this hopping. Instead of abating had continued to In- cr»--' in violence and fre- quency. I was at first incred- ulous, then bewildered, then very, very sorry for myself. No heart of mine had any busi- ness to Jump about and thump for this young lady. Not only because it seemed silly and clownish to succumb so sud- denly and like a bumpkin at first sight, JpGt also there was something almost atrocious In my falling in love with this married American girl whose sympathies were entirely with the American rebels. 8he had arrived in Bruns- wick with her sister, Peggy Wymple, to watch the troops depart for Ameriea. I suppose. So now I was seeing her for the second time, and already I knew that however atrocious, inconvenient, shameful or otherwise was this sentiment of mine, Madame von Lessing completely possessed my dis- concerted heart. Well, amid the shrilling of fiddles and whanging of cym- bals and blast of brass, which was the way that the orchestra of His Grace of Brunswick made dance music, I made my way through the press and surge of •waving dancers in their silk* and Jewels and laces until I espied the lovely living magnet who ever drew me on- the Baroneaa von Lessing. She was in animated conver- sation with that clever artil- leryman. Captain George von Pausch, also destined for Amer- ica, and I paused to take a pas- sionate and tragic look at her before aaaailing her with blaz- ing gallantry scarce controlled. I don't suppose she was beau- tiful. She had made no par- ticular furor at Court. I was told, where they liked them plump and blond as April butter. This was her first visit to Brunswick. She had been mar- ried only a year and never so far had appeared in any of the petty court* of the German princelings, but had remained in seclusion at CasUe Welasen- feU in Waldeck. She was quite slender, of medium stature, with a deli- cate brunette skin. You can scarcely imagine the lovely ef- fect of her deep blue eyes In those brunette features, framed with thick brown hair as soft as silk, and unpowdered. Her lips seemed neither a bright pink nor a rose red, but were soft and fresh as the petals of a carmine-tinted carnation. Well, I approached to make my manners, and Pauach sur- rendered her the instant I made my bow. v| They had not been dancing, and now he retired— to hunt up something blonder and fatter, I suppose. \So here you are, Lieutenant Seadrift,\ said she, \with your impertinent face and conquer- ing step!\ \Oh. Madam,' said I, \it If I who am the conquered, and am arrived to confess my sub- jugation and offer tribute—\ \What kind of tribute?\ says she, looking curiously at me as I lifted her childlike hand and touched my lips to it. \My life in fee. Madam, If you condescend to accept it.\ \And your honor, too?\ ^- \Oh Madam, your ladyship never could demand that of me!\ She was laughing all the time and it seemed difficult to recon- cile such youthfulness with so much sophistication where her lightly-winged words, flying at random, bore each its tiny sting. ' TOWJS PERSONALITIES: BOY SCOUT EARNED FAME AS POLAR EXPLORER ERIE COUNTY. Pennsylvania, may be justly proud that Paul Allman Siple makes his home there. This young man, who will not celebrate his thirtieth birthday un'i\. December 18, 1938, can claim to be a \vet- eran\ polar explorer. His record < f exploration be- gan with 'I.e first Antarctic ex- pedition of Admiral Richard E. Byrd v After tests of more than 600,000 Boy Scouts in Amer- ica, young Siple was chosen to be the youngest member of that expedition. He was put in onarge of the biological and zoological work ot ihe .wily nnd brought back rare specimen* \' penguins and sc als for the American Museum c>t Natural History. The Adelie penguin, for In- Ftnnce. is ;> black and white bird, its body and outstretched Nsinps co\eird with scaly-look- inR fenthei s When Admiral Byrd mnde his seenn expedition, cover- ing frnm in;;-, to 1<».'!5. I\iui A. Siplo was n nn-i ibe, of the ad- miral's pcisonnl staff, and was in chaige of erecting and equipping the base in which Byrd lived alone for four and a half months in 1934. Siple ill so was leader of the Marie Byrd sledpinfj party in newly discovered land. Antarctica, f'the pr<»a.t white south.\ in considered the cold- est region of the earth. Al- though the South Pole wop leached by Scott and Ainuml- •en after many years of pa- tient effort, the frozen con- tinent on which the pole Is lo- cated has never been explored. Man ever seeks the unknown. One of the secrets locked in this frozen south may unravel causes of severe storms which affect climate in sovernl parts of the world Antarctica appears to be a continent of about five million square miles. Including what may be the highest land on the globe. A deep wa surrounds this land. Ice and snow, piled up through centuries, push out to sea from the land in great glaciers. The .iext time you think It's cold in your part of the world, console yourself with informa- tion about that shivery section of the universe in which young Siple and other members of the Bvrd expedition spent so much time. But it is not only in lands of Ice ind snow that Siple has ttnveled He toured Kurope. Asia Minor and North Africa off the beaten path of tourist trips. He has been in charge of research in Antarctic prob- lems for various institutions. Among other distinctions, he was awarded the Congressional Medal in 10.10. and the Heckel science prize in 19.11. A Fel- low of the American Geo- graphical Society. Siple is also a member of the national coun- cil and camping committee of the Boy Scouts of America, was first president of the Ameri- can Polar Society, is an hon- orary member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, belongs to the Exchange (Tub of Erie. Pa., and \th» KiwaniB Club of Bloomington. Ill . as well as several Greek letter fraterni- ties Bom in 1H0S in Montpeller. Ohio, he is the son of Mr. ami Mrs. .'lytle I- Siple He was graduated from Central High School in Kruv Pennsylvania, ip 1926, and won a barhelor of science .U-Kiot- frnm Allegheny College at Meadville. Pennsyl- vania As an author,he has written \A Boy Scout with Byni.\ \Ex- ploring at Home,\ and \Scout to Explorer \ As a lecturer' he has ad- dressed various groups over 1 the nation. His present home is 1 ir>8 Weat^Fifth Street. F.ric. Pa. 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V. * \Come air,\ mid she, \no more badinage, and no more of you and me; but you •hall tell me the very beat news out of America and what those saucy, naughty rebels) and their wick- ed' Mr. Washington are doing to ktae moat meek and Chris- tian soldiers of the best of British kings!\ \Madam may I not aspire to walk with you a minuet— just now sounding off on the harps and fiddles—\ \Yes you may aspire, my far too humble friend; and I will dance with you—but later. For flrst, before you and I go a-dancing, you shall recount to me all you know about the Americans.\ \Well then, Madam, I know nothing more than you know already—that the rebels carry it very high around Boston since their battle at Bunker Hill, and that there Is, I am sorry to say, nearly as much disloyalty in New York and Philadelphia aa there Is loy- alty to the beat of kings in these same distracted cities.\ \Whom do you mean by 'the best of king*.' sirf\ she in- quired Innocently. \These aov- - ereign princes are all of a stripe. Lieutenant Seadrift.\ \Madam for heaven's sake be discreet—\ She smiled; \Oh everybody is welcome to learn what I think. Let who will listen, then ... As for the Landgrave of Hesse-Caasel—why, he needs money to keep his heavy feed- ers in petticoats and tn sau- sages and zwlebach. \Therefore Hla Serene High- nesa sells his soldiers u> your 'beat of kings.' your merciful and Christian friend. King George III, to shoot and bay- onet the American rebels into loving submission There's kingly clemency for you, Mr. Seadrift! Admire it!\ She waved her fan gayly. de- fiantly; glanced about her with a smile and said: \The Land- Kiave's son. William of Ha.iau, is meaner and more avaricious than his serene papa; and no doubt will get a bigger price for his poor bartered soldiers from your Lord Suffolk and your cold-eyed British commis- sioners yonder. Colonel Faucitt and his English recruiting offi- cers.. I would scarcely call William of Hanau 'the best of princes,' would youT\ \Madam.\ said I, vnstly worried and uneasy, \my sta- tion in life doea not permit me to compare the merits of indi- vidual sovereigns—\ 'Why,\ said she. \I am told you arc near kinsmp.n to the Duke of Deveron! ' \I am a poor American farm- er.\ said I. \loyal to my <ing, plthough unable to maintain any rank or title tr which I might lay claim.\ \Well.\ says she, laughing at my stiffness and boyish dis- tress. \I am, by rank, quite capable of comparing and crit- icizing sovereigns!\ \Let us consider,' said she, still laughing, \the Brunswick Duke, our dear sovereign, Charles, and his co-king, the Hereditary Prince Ferdinand, both of them cruel, infamous soldier-sellers. And there is the son of the murderous Mar- grave of Anspach, celebrated for his military and personal acts of barbarity. He sends all Continued On Page 10
