Ethel Morton at Sweetbrier Lodge

asking me if I can run over to Philadelphia and attend to a little matter of business for him. He is so tied up at Fort Myer that he c

hose younger than Roger and Helen. Helen re

," she said, waving in the air the little

dn't share," her mother said. "I think this time we might all of us go, and I'm

u certainly were born a darling. How did you e

g to accomplish Uncle Richard's errand, because the people whom he wants me to see will be in Philadelphia only to-morrow

t see why we can't fly around tremendously and get our bags packed this morning and take an afternoon train," said Helen,

s and would call Helen again within an hour. She then telephoned to Dorothy, but found that she was at Sweetbrier Lodge and as the telephone had not been put in yet, she was, for a moment, at a loss wh

they frequently enjoyed an afternoon lemonade. Mrs. Emerson said, however, that she could easily send

er she had made these various calls, "but I had better be ge

with her own and Dicky's requirements and

s was from Margaret Hancock who said that her mother and father were delighted wi

nd I'm just as sure as if I saw it with my own eyes, that y

well accustomed to being jok

l about places," she said, "and this time you'll have to tak

at the Ethels had retu

in a tone that sounded as if she were not

o to Philadelphia?" Hele

thel, who was not quite sure tha

rush home just as fast as you can and get your bags packed. Aunt Louise says Dorothy may go, but

that was now filled with delight. "Ethel Blue

ome home as fast as you can rush. If we don't get off this afternoon, we can't g

the Hancocks were to join the party, and they were so excited over the prospect of

where. They called up all the places where they thought it possible that he might be, but he could n

her told him, "so rush and change your cloth

opping place of the Express. The Watkinses came out from New York on a local and the Hancocks arrived on the trolley, so that the entire group met

Emerson asked his daughter, as he counted

are surely big enough to escort us, and I know Philadelphia so well that I have no fea

y and murmured something about his da

he has actual responsibility," said Mrs. Morton, "and as for Ja

has he any sense?" ask

fficulty is going to come to us with these three big boys on hand and I wouldn't th

he again assured Mrs. Morton that he would b

semont station, thank y

the train was drawing in that Mr

uch time to get up my usual collection of historical poetry, but I couldn

y that he was in the habit, whenever they all went on trips together, of supplying himself with

a fertile field for you,

you'll escape the full force of my effor

amiliar to all of them and the country presented no beauties to make it remarkable, althou

time to look up some of the histori

n't have to meet my business people until midday to-morrow, so this afternoon and to-mo

large language, "Philadelphia has always interested me because the fathe

now that,"

Helen on the first ball. It isn't often that Helen admits

'! There are plenty of things I don't know about American history. For ins

the Society of Friends. He seems to have had some pull because the powers gave him a grant of Pennsylvania (that means P

alm way of giving out grants of land without saying anyth

is said to have been very remarkable in two ways; in the first place he wouldn't swear to keep it because he was a Quak

een a good chap

f him as soon as you get off th

t?" asked E

ilroad station. In fact you're so close to the Public Buildings, as they're called

ormous if it's up so h

Mrs. Morton, "and that the rim of the old gentleman's hat

thel Brown, as they looked out the cab which was taking them to the hotel, and saw the fig

conservative Philadelphia." Immediately after luncheon they packed them

ght to go first to all of the places that

Park, and the one belonging to his grandson is in the Zoo. We'll see them before we go home, but now we had better give our attention to the things that are here in the city. To begin with w

ns rather than with their eyes, for there was little of interest before them, while the Past held a vision of the elm tree under which the group of broad-hatted Friends discussed terms with the copper-colore

e in which the Great Settler had lived, and promised themselves to remember

seems to be called 'Franklin,'" said Ethel Blue,

James, by way of explanation. "He was born in Boston, but he soon deserted

mmented Ethel Blue again as she read ano

hiladelphia, without any doubt," said Mrs. Morton

to state that I don't know Carpe

t him with hor

ctly shocked that any American boy, old enough to have graduated from high scho

and Tom flushed as he saw that she r

"do you know what the

Boston men disguised as Indians had thrown overboard from a ship in t

dded app

the colonists, without allowing them any representation in the Parliament which was governing them. The feeling grew so strong that a Continental Congress, made up of

he Hall with an ent

e old buildi

id Helen, and then she allowed the

thoughtfully. "Why, that was the autumn b

inental Congress met to talk over the situation,

ne of them with the

anything as interesti

lettering. "WITHIN THESE WALLS HENRY, HANCOCK AND ADAMS INSPIRED THE

t-great-grandfather's bro

ed Roger, thumping him on the bac

gressmen chat here?" me

tion of Rights, and they sent it over to Franklin, who was in

uppose the House of Commons didn'

were the result. You remember they were fought in April of 1775. Ticonderoga was

sitting while all this

rly in June one of the members made a motion before the

, "but I dare say it was startling when a mere colo

od of history," said Ethel Brown. "If he were here, I'm sure he would never have let thi

n la

the colonists should be independent. It was a mighty important matter, of course, because if they adopted it, it certainly meant war, and if they did not beat in the war, it might mean a worse state of affairs than they were in at the present mom

he represent?"

she returned, "Now listen,

NEY'

id-land where t

d South on t

ty of Kent, on a

Rodney, t

big and bol

ornered hat an

George and the

Rodney, th

village he

k knew, from hi

grave that bro

ies three on

en we must ha

s fails and the

the King shall

nce the blood

er swift on

ho, you must

ss halts at a

alone may de

y then: 'I will

stress; it is

'To-night. Not

the wind from

he black! I've

ess sits eigh

time, if God

ist in King G

s off! and the

d road ere the

nd spur as the l

ring mile-ston

e clock! and the

dust with a cl

he gallops with

ds down to t

spurs into N

ing steed he

quick! not a m

eds Rodney

d the beams of

es of Wilmingt

e dust of C

cloud from the

the horse-boat

ll ferry crawls

fteen by the Ri

reins to the

is met; the

lags for the

e hall, not

Rodney, th

late! and that

world with a

passed ere the

ker City its

feet was the g

the bells through

the free may r

Delegate Ro

inental Congress had moved over to Independence Hal

in the East Room, when they passe

of the young people, took them about th

time of the signing of the Declaration. Right on this very table t

rmured Helen to Ja

of them," conti

s thrilling with interest, but who preserved the cal

ington in the Library of the State Department, but

e, under which Penn had signed his Treaty with the Indians, and they saw

aits of more historic than artistic interest. They enjoyed more seeing some of the boards of

at whose foot was the famous Liberty Bell, which had rung out its message of joy on July 4, 1775, when the delegates passed the Declarat

TO ALL THE LAND AND TO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF." They noticed the crack which ran

stationed where he could see the door-keeper of the room in which the delegates were sitting. When the final vote was taken, the