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= ' " " I ? ? ' ' lewis ac. grist, proprietor. J |ln (Independent ^amilfi Jjtepaper: dfoii tli<^ Jromotion of the political. Jsoqial, ^gritultuiial and ?ommcqcial Jntergsts of the jsouth. jterms?$2.00 a year in advance. VOL. 87. ~ YORKVILLE, S. C., WED^ICSPA-Y, JUNTO 3, L891. ISTO. - - ? - ? I ? ?~ <> mamtlna u r\f1 it AN ARMY , I ?M- i i f BY CAPT. CHAS I Author of "The Colonel's Daught Ranks," "Dunraven Ra [Copyright, 1890, by J. B. Lippincott Con ment with the . v CHAPTER XHL !VC If Frank Hearnwas a wronged and unhappy man before the regiment marched away his trouble** seemed only intensified now. Deprived of the oommandof his troop and confined to his quarters in cloee arrest, he was confronted by a new sorrow, one least expected, yet hardest of all to bear. The sharp assaults of The Palladium to a certain extent had been discon- i tinned. One great and influential jour nal of the northwest had taken the i pains to investigate tho situation independently. and was now giving its readers the benefit of the facts in the case of the maoh heralded martyr Welsh. And when that eminent patriot was thus shown up in his true colors the other papers had to moderate their ecstasies on his account Very few managing editors, indeed, had not already been shrewd enough to see what he must inevitably turn out to be. But the originators had hoped to effect their onslaught on the army before the actual character of their witnesses was 'exposed. The moment The Pioneer came to the rescue it was time for them to change the line of attack, for no one of their number dared lode horns on a question of fact with a journal so fearless and re' spected. Still, as the truth can never UH S/ml | Jim 1^4 | HI | "/? there no officer you know to take up tht* case for pout" overtake a lie, and as in this case the he had a week's start, these exponents of the ethics of American journalism had reason to feel moderately well satisfied. It would be prudent, however, to let the matter "simmer" now; and there were other reasons, too; so Mr. Abrams was recalled from his mission to Central City and set to work at the foundations of the character of a gentleman just spoken of in connection with the coming municipal elections. He had hitherto borne an unimpeachable name in the community, but his friends had committed the grievous offense of speaking of him for mayor be-, fore The Palladium had been consulted, and it therefore became The Palladium's duty to pall his props from under him. Contenting himself for the time being with the announcement that the military authorities at division and army headquarters had expressed their deep Bense of obligation to The Palladium for having brought to light the scandalous condition of affairs at Fort Ryan, and that it had received their assurances that ' as a result of its efforts Lieut Hearn would be brought to trial by court martial, this public spirited journal wisely turned its attention elsewhere. Other papers, of course, kept up the hue and cry, but The Pioneer's columns having warned them that thSir martyr was after all only a scamp, and their victim a young officer with a capital military record whom the court might after all acquit, it became necessary to prepare the public mind for such a bouleversement by pitching into military courts in general as "Star Chamber" affairs, organised only to convict privates and whitewash officers, one journal going so far as to announce that a "court martial for Lieut Hearn m$ant simply that a body of men, each and every one of whom was in the daily habit of violating every rule of decency and humanity, was to sit in judgment on his case and declare him innocent" All this, of course, camp duly marked and with pencil comment to Mr. Hearn from scores of anonymous senders as he sat dazed and disheartened in his cheer- j less room; but this was not all. Nearly : two weeks had elapsed now since the first assault, and the home letters, for i which he had looked with mingled fear | and longing, had begun to coma The ! first he opened was from his mother. : She had received the marked copies of j The Palladium of the first three or four | days, sent no one knew by whom, and ! they were quickly followed by others. What was it Thackeray wrote? 4 'There are stories to a man's disadvantage that ? the women who are fondest of him are always the most eager to believe." A A ,1 ttrnm n v* nn/1 mAfhn* WOO A UU?UWU wwimu OUU UAVTVATOA W HO Mrs. Hearn, bat her sole knowledge of army life was derived from what she had seen around their nearly rained | home in a southern city about the close I of the war. Prank's boyhood was spent i in straitened circumstances, but little by . little his father's toil and pluck had re1 stored their fallen fortunes, and, a stanch soldier himself, he could not wonder that the young fellow's heart i should be wrapped up in the hope of a ' commission. Poor Mrs. Hearn! she had looked for something far different, and even her pride at Frank's winning a cadetship at West Point by competitive examination did not reconcile her to his entering upon a profession which would associate him with such characters as she had seen about the time the great army was being disbanded, and hundreds of officers seemed to have nothing to do bnt carouse. By the time he was j graduated his father's practice had be- j come so well established as to warrant the squire-colonel's yielding to his wife's pleadings. ' Secretly he rather wanted the boy to j go on in bis career, and was prouder of ; the chevrons the handsome young cadet ! captain had worn than of the old tarnished sleeve knots that he had pnt away so reverently the day after Appo- j matto:c, where Lee's kindly hand had rested for a moment on his arm when he j went to bid his beloved cmei adieu. Yielding to her entreaties he offered Frank good inducements to drop the army and come home and study law, j but the youngster said his heart was bound up in the cavalry. The mother had let him go with prayers and tears. The letters from Ryan were buoyant, and n^ade no mention of care or trouble of any kind. How could he ask his 1 father's help when he had refused his I offer? The colonel rejoiced at the youngster's independence and decision, i although he said nothing to his wife. Then came Frank's orders for Arizona, ; and Mrs. Hearn sobbed herself to sleep. i Again the father said, "Resign if yon like and HI start yon here," bat in the solitude of his library he kissed the boy's letter and blessed him in his heart of hearts far replying, "I wouldn't be my father's son were I to resign now, with the prospect of sharp fighting ahead." Heaven! with what trembling hands and tear dimmed eyes he reed the glowing words of old Capt. Ravelins' dispatch PORTIA. I. KING, U. S. A., er," "The Deserter," "From the nch," "Two Soldiers." lpany, and published by special arrangein.] telling how brilliant and daring the bey had been in the first fierce battle with the Apaches. He draped the Stars aztd Stripes over Frank's picture in the pa.Tlor, and bode the neighbors in to drink to the new south and the old flag, and eve.*, Mrs. Hearo. ever oessimistic and filled with secret dread of vague tempbvtions that she knew not of, fearing them more than peril or ambuscade, took heart and strove to rejoice that Frank was such a soldier. How shocked and sorrow stricken they were when but a j short time after came the tidings of the old captain's lamented death! How they studied all Frank's letters and learned to know the regimental officers through his eyes, and longed to meet that capital adjutant, Lane, when he came to Cincinnati recruiting! Col. Hearn even took a few days off and the north bound "flyer" on the Queen and Crescent to go thither and make the acquaintance of his boy's friend, and sat for hours with Lane at the clnb, listening to his praise of Frank. Then came the eastward move again, and a brief leave, and the mother's heart yearned over her stalwart son, wondering at the bronze and tan of his once fair skin and rejoicing in the strength of his handsome face. Mother like, she sought long talks with him and strove to catechise him as to what they did when not actually in the field. Was there not a great deal of dissipation? Did they not play cards? Were there not too many temptations to drink wine? What opportunity had they for attending divine service? etc. So far as he himself was concerned he answered frankly, but as to his comrades, all these question.'; he had laughingly parried. He had now been six years an officer, and had never once asked his father for money, yet she nursed her theory that under it all there was something hidden. From childhood she had been taught that army life meant frivolity and dissipation, if not vice, and now at last, when her husband was miles away from home looking after investments he had made in Florida, came this startling and terrible confirmation of her fears. In glaring head lines, in crashing, damning terms, in half a score of prominent northern papers she read of her son as a drunken bully, a gambler, an abusive tyrant to the helpless men committed to his charge, and, utterly overwhelmed, the poor soul had thrown herself upon her knees to implore of heaven the strength to bear the dreaded blow, and wisdom to guide her aright in the effort to reclaim her wayward boy. The gray haired pastor, for whom she had sent, came and mingled his teara and prayers with hers, and then they had between them written the letter that was now before him: It is but the confirmation of a loo? hiianting fear. I have all along felt that you were holding back something from me, my son, and God only knows bow I have prayed that this cup m'ght be spared me and this Kin arerted from you. I dreaded the temptation of army life fa: one of your impulsive temperament I strove, Ij-ebellod against the idea of your being subjected to such companionship. I hoped against hope that it might not be as I feared, but, alas! my Intuition was right after alL Do not think I am an^ry, my boy. Do not let this drive you from us. as soon as It is over come home, and all that a mother's love can do shall be done to spare yon further bitterness. My first impulse was to wire your node James at Washington to ask if something could not be done to avert the court martial, but good old Dr. Wayne, whose son was in the army before the war, tells me that It is hopeless, and that the best that can be done is to get your resignation accepted, so that, though you have to quit the service, as he says, it may not be by the disgrace of a sentence. I have, therefore, wired James to go at once to the secretary, and Dr. Wayne has also invoked the aid of some inflnen UaI frieods. Wire me instantly on receipt or this, that I may know that you are benrteg up manfully. It will soon be over. May God sustain you. my son, is the prayer of your devoted and distracted Muthxx. P. S.?Frank, my worst anxiety is oo 3 our poor father's account. I dread to think of the effect this news will have upon him. He never appreciated the danger as I did. And this was the letter poor; Hearn was almost raging over when the door opened, after a single prefatory bang, and in came the major. "Hello, lad! How are you today? The regulations which forbid your visiting the commanding officer dau't prevent his coming in to see you, 1 luppoee. Any more newspaper attach a? Yon couldn't have got much worse if you had been running for president of these United States. I see that three papers of my beloved home are now ca-ling me ugly names because my brother published a letter in which I had the temerity to say to him that Welsh was a sneak and Abrams a slouch and yon a soldier; bnt I never expect anything better. Why, Hearn, my boy, forgive me. Something's wrong, and here Tm rattling away and never seeing it" "Read that," said Hearn; and the major read, with wonderment and concern deepening in his grizzled face, then turned away to the window with a long whistle. "Well, lad, that is something even I hadn't thought of. By gad! I'm going to write a few lines to your good mother on my own hook; she reminds me of mine. No; no shntting yourself up in your bedroom now. Come out here on j the piazza, where there's sunshine, and where there will be roees jxreeently. Mrs. Lane and Miss Marshall have gone over to the hospital with some jellies for Brent, and it's time for them to return. Come oat, I say, or, as commanding officer of the post, I'll send a die of the | guard to haul you out. You've loet i three shades of tan in four days, and j I'm not going to let you mope in here, if j I have to annul your colonel's order of i close arrest and give you extended lim- j its. Come out." There was no resisting the major; | there was 110 resisting the deeper long- | ing in his heart. Every day since his in- 1 carceration Mrs. Lane had found means to send him some friendly little note, ! together with dainties of domestic man- I ufacture; every day she and Miss Mar- | shall had appeared at least onse or twice j upon the walk in front, although he j oould not join them; and now they were j interesting themselves in Corp. Brent, j said the major, and the corporal was | getting well enough to be real to a little while and to see some of hie chums for a few minutes and to inqinre how he had been hurt. Kenyon fairly towed his prisoner ont through the hall and landed him on the veranda just as the noonday drum was sounding orderly call, then rattling out "Roast Beef of j Uia ruigiana in noarbe acct mpauuneiii. to the piping of the fife. Half an hour later two parasols could | be distinguished above the low shrub- ' bery farther east along the row, and the i ladies on Burnham's veranda, where the i doctor was seated in clover, now that j Wallace had ridden away, stepped forward to the hedge and accosted the bearers and strove to persuade them to stay. Hearn's heart seemed to halt in protest, then pounded gladly away | again, for the delay was but momentary j ?phenomenally short for far linine chats, but the mail was coming, and Mrs. Lane ( was impatient to get her letters. Once more the parasols come floating along above the hedge. One, hold some six inches higher than the other, was on the outside, farthest from the fence. That was hers, and she it must be who would first come in sight from behind the big : lilac bush in Brodie's yard. If Mrs. Brodie should happen to see ' them and stop them! But no; Mrs. Brodie went across the parade to the Crosses' Half an hour ago, thank heaven. Hearn's eager eyes were fixed upon the outer edge of that lovely lilac screen, longing for the first glance of the face he had seen in his dreams night *and day now for nearly a week. If she were thinking of him, if he were anything to her, would not she be apt to look toward this rr veranda the instant she hove in sight around that sheltering bush? "Yonder they come now," said Kenyon, slowly j-j lowering his boot heels from the balcony raiL "I'm going to stop them at the gate to see how Brent is." Another instant, and once more the & floating fringes of the outer parasol came sailing slowly into sight beyond the lilacs, then the white ferrule, a daintily gloved hand, a white draped shoulder, then a proudly poised, dark haired head, thick, low arched eyebrows and long curling lashes through a flimsy web of j veil that hung almost to the rosy lips, ! close compressed; then sudden upward j sweep of bisk, a quick, straight glance | from two deep, dark eyes, a gleam or joy, of glad recognition, an instant parting of the curving lips and a flash of white, even and Hearn's heart throbbed and bounded. She had seen I him instantly und was glad. Yet it was Mrs. Lane who had to do most of the bilking, for Georgia Marshall was strangely silent. Every now* and vi C. then her eyes seemed to take a quick i ? note of the pallor of his face and the i lines of care and trouble. Kenyon had j i held open the gate and quietly steered j the two ladies to the veranda, where | f Hearn was hastily placing chairs; and j though the mail orderly was approach- j ing and Mrs. Lane knew there must be i letters from her captain, she could not * take Georgia instantly away, and so for 1 a few moments they sat there in their f dainty summer gowns and with deep j j sympathy in their eyes?eyes so differ- j I ent in color, yet so like in expression, j they would have cheered a sorer heart 1 ^ than Hearn's. ! c The orderly carrying the mail came j ?! briskly in at the gate. ! . "I left Mrs. Lane's letters at the j . house, ma'am," he said, as he handed a j j"1 package to Kenyon and proceeded to un- ! r load half a dozen bulky newspapers on j a] Hearn. Kenyon had opened his official j ai letter with brief "excuse me" and then began to chuckle: i "Hearn, my boy, they mean to do you all proper honor. Just look at this de- i ^ tail, will you? Four or five colonels and 81 majors and half a dozen captains to sit I 55 in judgment, and?well, if this don't ; beat all! old Lawler himself for judge j m advocate." j . Hearn's face was flushing and paling ^ by turns. ' "You don't mean that CoL Lawler | himself is detailed?" , "Certainly I do; and what do you want i ^ to bet The Palladium doesn't say that j this was done in deference to its snggestion that no biased associates of the ac- , cased officer should be allowed to offlci- , ate, as the people will tolerate no i :i whitewashing of character in this most a flagrant case, or words to that effect? , n! Oh, I know those fellows! There's more j a conceit in one newspaper office in my beloved home than in all the armies in j ^ Christendom." ? The ladies had risen, Mrs. Lane's eyes I , saying plainly to her friend, "We ought P, to go." f "Does the court meet here?" asked , Hearn quietly. "Please don't go, Mrs. ? Lane?not just yet." J "Indeed we must, Mr. Hearn. I know you need to confer with the major now. |j and we will only be in the way." ., Hearn's eyes had sought Miss Mar- . shell's. She was standing by the balcony with half averted face, yet listening p intently. "The court meets here, and on Mon- ' day of next woek. Verily, Hearn, publie wrath demands a prompt trial of your villainy. Now, with Lawler to prosecute, you'll need a friend to defend. ? Who is it to be?" . "I have not asked any one," said ? Hearn, slowly. "The charges have not : ^ yet reached ma I do not know of what ! 1 I am to be accused, who are the wit- j 111 nesses, or anything about it Whom ; ^ could I ask to oppose Lawler?" | n. Miss Marshall had slowly turned, and i P1 now looked full at Kenyon's troubled | ?? faca Her slender hands were clasping; j . her breath seemed to come and go al- \ most too quickly. : p "There's no man here fit to advise you, j . Hearn, and I know of no one quite a | J? match in subterfuge for that 'Tombs j . Lawler,'" was the reluctant answer. : "Then Til fight it out alone as best I j can." said Hearn at last n I IE The ladies were going* Mrs. Lane was j ^ down the steps already, and toe major i ^ gallantly striving to raise her parasol, i p Hearn had clasped Miss Marshall's slen der hand as she turned to say adieu, ^ and the frank, cordial pressure embold- j ened him. He would have held it firm- w ly, but as firmly, yet gently, it was aj withdrawn. M "Only a week yet, Mr. Hearn," she U] spoke, her bosom rising and falling J gt quickly. "Is there no officer yon know j to take up this case for yon?" j ^ "1 fear not, Miss Marshall. You know 1 ^ I'm not oven a first lieutenant yet, and ( ^ he is a lieutenant colonel." She looked up one instant in his eyes, ' then with sudden impulsive movement j ^ held forth the hand she knd jiust with- ' m drawn. j gt "Good-by," she said, turned quickly ; -n and was gone. ' ^ For a moment the two friends walked ( on in silence. j j "Apenny for your thoughts. Georgia?" j "I wish I were a man." j "On his account, is it? Don't yon know?he would far, far rather have you g. iust as you are?" J ui [TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.] UJ - - I fc Odd* and Ends. tt Milton employed 8,000 different words ni for poetic purposes. ti More than 14,000 persons registered in al Faneuil hall, Boston, in 1800. I ai There is standing in Guilford, Conn., i w a house that was built in 1C43. ! uj There are in the world 1,500,000 coal j tt miners and 4,000,000 metal miners. ' di A bell Napoleon Btole in Switzerland : la is now used in a school house in Pater- ! hi son, N. J. : gi A clergyman in New York declined to : sc permit an engaged couple to rehearse in vi his church the wedding ceremony. ci The Finn belongs to a race which was w active and civilized before the Greek or st the Indian, the Hebrew or the Persian q1 was heard of. j ft The average salary paid to men clerks C in Washington is $1,321 a year, while , oi that paid to women m tne saiuo ueparc- , a* rnents is only $8C9. ' h According to a German statistician I K there are 15,985 paper mills in the world, j g and of tlio 1,904,000,000 pounds of paper j turned out annually half is used for j w printing, 000,000,000 pounds being re- j n quired for newspapers {done. j ? The panorama was invented by a j oi Scotchman named Robert Barker, who ] ? obtained a license in London in 1787 and j n erected a rotunda on Leicester square. I e: He was associated with Robert Fulton, " the practical inventor of tho steamboat. \ v The celebrated diamond necklace I h which the worthy Ismail Pasha pre- j n sented to the Empress Eugenie on tho opening of the Suez canal, and which I h was sold, together with the rest of tho j ci French crown jewels, a few years ago, it is again for sale for $75,000. ; f< In Belgium the voting is restricted to i v those who pay a certain amount of direct ! c, taxes, and the whole electoral power of j o the country is vested in less than 132,000 1 persons. In Greut Britain there is one h elector to about six of the population; in j si Belgium only one to about forty-six. i h 1 b Which Im It? ' Q Governor Hoard savs that during a re- ! v cent trip through the oldest dairy sec- : 1 tion of New York state he saw on a j it day with the mercury down to zero ! n hundreds of herds of cows patroling the j h fields up to their ankles in snow. In j & many instances the owners were fodder- ' ii ing the cows, either with hay or corn- i a stalks, on the snow, rods away from the j B stable. He wonders if these owners kept | j. cows for profit or for fun. gfttsttltatKOUS ^ratling. 'HE RED MOUNTAIN BAB ' IS GRAPHICALLY DESCRIBED BY PRENTICE MULFORD. n Unappreciated Paradise?A Settlement In Numbers Small, In Individuality Larue? Some Queer Characters and Kventft?"Old Mac" and Bloody BUI. [Copyrighted by the Author.] A i HE California mining JHj?| camp was epbemeraL ff UjBSrl Often it was founded, built tip, flourished, WfiBP decayed and had V^CrwHg weeds and herbage * ft/mm growing over its site and hiding all of man's work inside of ten jars. Yet to one witnessing these langes it seemed the life of a whole jneratdon. Of such settlements Bed [ountain Bar was one. Red Mountain y three miles above Swett's Bar, "up ver." I lived "off and on" at the "Bar" i its dying days. I saw it decay gently id peacefully. I saw the grass, trees id herbage gradually creep in and reime their sway all over its site as they ad done ere man's interruption. I lived there when the few "boys" left sed daily, after the close of an unlccessfnl river season, to sit in a " ? - 3 .1 >w on a log ny tne rivers euge, ?uu lere, sun-eying their broken dam, ould chant curses on their luck, he Bar store was then still in extence. Thompson was its proprietor, he stock on hand had dwindled down ? whisky. The bar and one tilled bote alone survived. On rainy nights, hen the few miners left would gather bout the stove, Thompson would take 3wn his fiddle and fiddle and sing What can't be cured must be enured," or "The king into his garden une; the spices smelt about the same"? quotation of unknown authorship. Of eighbors, living in their cabins strung long the banks for half a mile above le store, there was Keen Fann, an jed mercantile and mining Chinaman, ith a colony about him of lesser and tcially indistinguishable countrymen P varying numbers. Second, "Old larry," an aged negro, a skilled per>rmer on the bugle and a Binger who fared at times to favor us with what a termed a "little ditto." He was the thiopic king of a knot of Kanakas athered about him. Third, "Bloody ill," so called from his frequent use of le sanguinary adjective, and, as may a guessed, an Englishman. Fourth, a old Scotchman, one of the ar's oldest inhabitants, who would >me to the store with the little bit of aid dust, gathered after a hard day's crevicing," complaining that gold was Jtting as scarce as "the grace of God in le Heelands of Scotland." Fifth, Mcarlane, a white bearded old fellow, an?er pioneer, who after a yearly venture ito some strange and distant locality to change his luck," was certain eventilly to drift back again to the Bar, hich he regarded as home. Down the ver, nestled high up in a steep and icturesque gulch, stood the buckeye nbowered cabin of old Jonathan rown, the ditch tender, a great reader ! weekly "story papers," who lived like boy in the literature of the Western rontier Penny Awful, and who, comig to the store and perching himself on le counter, would sometimes break out t remarks about how "Them thar Inians got the better of 'em at last," to le astonishment of the "boys," who nagined at first that he referred to InInno +V10 lrv?olifv en frprmjf i yi r* TVWfli *" *-?W *w*^v I ?DO o f ilities of a repetition of the great Oak lat uprising of 1850. At the "top of the hill," a mile and a llf away, stood the "Yankee ranch," apt by a bustling, uneasy and rather ncomfortable man from Massachusetts, ded by liis good uatured, easy going m-in-law. One rainy winter's day the boys" congregated about Thompson's ore became seized with a whim for the anufacture of little pasteboard men irning grindstones, which, fastened to ie stove, were impelled to action by le ascending current of hot air. So iey smoked their pipes and wrought all ly until the area of stovepipe became uckly covered with little pasteboard ,en busily turning pasteboard grindones. Then George M. G., the soni-law of the Yankee ranch, came down ie hill to borrow an ax. George was of that temperament and iclination to be of all things charmed ith a warm stove on a cold, raioy day, knot of good fellows about it, a frelent pipe of tobacco, maybe an occaonal punch and the pleasing manufactre of hot air driven little pasteboard ien turning pasteboard grindstones. He irgot his ax?sat down and began with ie rest the manufacture of pasteboard ien and grindstones. And he kept on 11 a late hour of the night, and staid ; the Bar all night and all the next day id that next night, until the stovepipe as covered to its very top with little ien, all working away for clear life irning grindstones; and on the second ly of his stay the exasperated iather-in,w suddenly appeared and delivered Imself in impatient invective with reird to such conduct on the part of a >n-in-law sent forty-eight hours preiously to borrow an ax. Such was the xcle oft gathered on the long, rainy inter's eve about the Thompson Btore ove. All smoked. Keen Tann frerrfintlv droDned in. Ho stood respect illy, us a heathen should in such a hiistian assemblage, on its oator edge, r humbly appropriated somo unoccupied eg, and for the rest?grinned. From is little piggy eyes to his double chin keen's face was a permanently 3ettled rin. Keen Fann had learned about twenty rords of English and would learu no lore. In Ids estimation these twenty 'ords, variously used, after a sort F grammatical kaleidoscopic fashion, lenied adequate to convey everything xjuired. Oue of his presumed English rpressions loug puzzled the boys. Asklg tho price of articles at the store ho muld say, "Too mucheo pollyfoot." At ist the riddle was correctly guessed. He leant, "Too much profit." For protection Keen Fann built his ouso opposite the store. Tho Mexiins were then attacking and robbing olated bands of Chinamen. At one Bar a jw miles below, then deserted by the -bites, the Chinese had inclosed their amp with a high stockade of logs. Yet ne night they were attacked. The lexicons besieged their fortress for ours, peppering them from the hillide with revolvers, and at last they roke through tho Mongolian works and ore off all their dust and a dosen or lore revolvers. Keen Farm's castle fas in dimensions not more than 1- by 5 feet, and in height two stories. Within b was partitioned off into rooms not inch larger than dry goods lwxes. The allways were jnst wide enough to queezo through, and very dark. It was ntensely labyrintliian, and Keen wilt lways making it moro so by devising iew additions. No white man ever did now exactly where the structure began I or ended. Keen was a merchant, deal- 51 ing principally In gin, fish and opium. 81 His 6torewas involved in this curious J1 dwelling, all of his own construction. le In the store there wns a counter. Be- 71 hind it there was just room for 'ieen to 11 Bit down, and in front there was just " room enough for the customer to tarn ? around. When Keen was the merchant ~ he looked imposing in. an immense pair of Chinese spectacles. When he shook his rocker in the bank he took off these . spectacles. He was a large consumer of 13 his own gin. I once asked him for the ^ amount of his weekly allowance. "Me R tank," said he, "one gallon hap" (half), ?! From the upper story of the castle pro- intruded a huge spear bead. It was made by the local blacksmith, and intended j* as a menace to the Mexican bandits. As they grew bolder and more threatening, j* Keen sent down to San Francisco and y1 nnwhmwl a lot of old. DAWnshOD rOVOlV- I ere. These being received, military 81 preparation and drill went on for several P: weeks by Keen and bis forces. He prac- 11 ticed at target shooting, aimed at the ^ mark with both eyes Shut, and for those ^ in its immediate vicinity with a most jj' ominous and threatening waver of the & arm holding the woslgpp. It was proph- a esied that Keen would kill somebody K with that pistol None ever expected u tljat he would kill the proper person. ^ Yet he did. I T One night an alarm was given. Keen's castle was attacked. The "boys," hear- " ing the disturbance, grabbed their rifles and pistols and sallied from the store. ^ The robbers, finding themselves in a ^ hornets' nest, ran. By the uncertain , light of a waning moon the Bar was seen . covered with Chinunen gabbling and ^ wildly gesticulating. Over the river two men were swimming. Keen, from the bank, pointed his revolver at one, shut his eyes and fired, One of the men y crawled out of the water and tumbled in a heap among the bowlders. The "boys" crossed, and found there a strange white man, with Keen's bullet through w his backbone. a I experienced about the narrowest es- ir cape of my life in a boat during a freshet B< on the Tuolumne crossing. I counted P myself a good river boatman, and had just ferried over a Swett's Bar miner, si He had come to purchase a gallon of the tl native juice of the grape, which was ci then grown, pressed and sold at Red a Mountain Bar. When he crossed with b me he was loaded with it. Some of it h was outside of him in a demijohn and n j some of it was inside. Indeed, it was in- ci I side of us both. I set him across all t( j right. On returning, by taking advan- 01 | tage of a certain eddy one could bo w 1 rushed un stream counter to the current tl coming down for a quarter of a mile, tl and at a very rapid rate. It was very p exciting thus to be carried in an oppo- R site direction, within ten feet of the p great billowy swell coming down. It ft was a sort of sliding down hill without p, the trouble of drawing one's sled up p, again. So I went up and down the t:| stream. The Red mountain wine mean- a time was working. Night came on, a glorious moon arose over the mountain tops, and I kept sliding up and down the {|j Tuolumne. I became more daring and u, careless, so that suddenly in the very ?p fury of the mid-stream billows I slipped .. off the stern sheets at a sudden dip of ^ the boat and fell into the river. I was heavily clad in flannels and mining ^ boots. jj Of my stay under water I recollect ft. only the thought, "You're in for it this ^ time. This is no common baptism." The next I knew I was clinging to a rock half a mile below the scene of the submergence. I had been swept under . water through the Willow Bar, the walls ! of whose rocky channel, chiseled by the ^ current of centuries, were narrower at the top thau on the river ted, and 11 through which the waters swept in a ^ succession of boils and whirlpools. Wet ? and dripping, I tramped to the nearest cabin, a mile and a hall! distant, and j staid there that night. Red Mountain . Bar, on seeing the mishap, gave me up for lost?all but one man, who was nega- ? tive on that point, for the reason, as he " alleged, that I was not destined to nnike " the final exit by water. I reappeared '1 the next morning at the Bar. When I told the boys that I had been swept h tlirough the Willow Bar they instituted u comparisons of similarity in the matter o of veracity betwixt myself and Ananias cl . of old. It was the current impression ? that no man could pass through the Wil- s< low Bar alive. cl Chinese Camp, five miles distant, stool si as the metropolis for Red Mountain Bar. a It contained but a few hundred people. c< Yet in our estimation at that time it a bore the samo relative importance that New York does to some agricultural vil- ii lage a hundred miles away. Chinese cl Camp meant restaurants, where we could u revel in the luxury of eating a meal we tl were not obliged to prepare ourselves, a d luxury none can fnlly appreciate save 8 those who have served for years as their rj own cooks. Chinese Camp meant sa- tl loons, palatial as compared with the Bar g groggery; it meant a daily mail and u communication with the great world g without; it meant hotels, where strange jr j faces might be seen daily; it meant, per- K 1 liaps, above all, the nightly fandango. gj i When living for months and years in ^ j 8ucli out-of-the-way nooks and corners Q i as Red Mountain Bar. aud as were thou- | j | sands of now forgotten and nameless jj i flats, gulches and bars in California, cut ! ! off from all regular communication with j the world, where the occasional paswage j of some stnuiger is an event, the limited I * i stir and bustle of such a place as Chinese j . Camp assumed an increased importance | ; and interest. ! e Chinese Camp justice presided at our . , lawsuits. Chinese Camp was the Mecca j to which all hands resorted for the grand ?, blow out at the close of the river mining c season. With all their hard work what 8< independent times were those after all! True, claims were uncertain as to yield; I hopes of making fortunes had Iwen given u : over. Bat so long us $1.50 or $2 pickings u remained on the banks men were com- ^ j paratively their own masters. There was v , none of the inexorable demand of busi- j v ness consequent on situation aud employ- '! j ment in the great city, where, sick or ! well, tho toilers must hie with machine- ft , like regularity at the early morning hour tl to their posts of labor. If the Red tl Mountaineer didn't "feel like work" in tl the morning he didn't work. If he pre- j ft ferred to commence digging and washing ii ; at 10 in the morning instead of 7, who j e ; should prevent him? If, after the inorn- | t< | ing labor, he desired a siesta till 2 in the | a afternoon, it was his to take. It Of what nature could giyo there was | tl much at the Bar to make pleasant man's j I stay on earth, save a great deal of cash. : o We enjoyed a mild climate?no long, a ; hard winters to provide against; a soil j a ' that would raise almost any vegetable, a 1 necessity or luxury, with very little ' :l 1 labor; grajjes or figs, apples or potatoes; ' tl I land to bo had for the asking; water for (r ! irrigation accessible on every hand; s Til<-ntv of nastnre room; no crowding. A 1 tl I 1" <* -- i i quarter of a section of such soil anil ! j climate within forty uiiles of New York j ^ i city woulil lx? worth millions. Coutrast I i such a land with the bleak hills about j ^ Boston, where half the year is sjtent in a j s j struggle to provide for the other half. 0 Yet we were all anxious to get away, i ^ i Our heaven was not at lied Mountain, j ^ Fortunes could not l>o digged there. We ; p j spent time and strength in a scramble .4 'i for a few ounces of yellow metal, while : i in tho spring time the vales and hillsides J * covered with flowers argued in vain that ( they hail J,he greatest rewards for ou r C i picks anil shovels. But none listened. | , 1 We groveled in the mud and stones of a the oft worked bank. Yearly it respond- , i eil less and less tu our labors. One by (l i i one the "old timers" left. , The boarding house of Dutch Bill at ' i the farther end of the Bar King stood j r i j empty, and the meek eyed anil subtle a i I Chinaman stole from its sides board after ; | board; the sides skinned off, they took , joist after joist from the framework. a i | None ever saw them so doing. Thus I ' lontly and mysteriously, like a melting mwbank, the great ramshackle boardig house disappeared, until nanght was ft save the chimney. And that also antehed brick by brick. All of which taterial entered into the composition ad construction of that irregularly uilt, smoke tanned conglomerate of hinese huts clustered near the Keen ann castle. "Old Grizzly" McFarlane went away. 3 did Bloody BilL So the Bar's populaon dwindled. Fewer travelers, dotlike, ere som climbing the steep trail o'er ,ed mountain. Miller, the Chinese Camp ews agent, who, with mail bags well lied with the New York papers, had >r years cantered from Bed mountain > Morgan's Bar. emptying his sack as a went at the rate of fifty and twentyve cents per sheet, paid the Bar his at visit and closed ont the newspaper osinesis there forever. Then the county ipervisora abolished it as an election recinct, and its name no longer figured i the returns. No more after the vote as polled and the result known did the :tive and ambitious partisan mount his orse and gallop over the mountain to onora, the county seat, twenty miles way, to deliver the official count, signed, ialed and attested by the local Bed lountain election inspectors. Finally le Bar dandled to Thompson, Keen ann and his Mongolian band. Then hoinpaon left. Keen Faun grieved at ?ing his friend and protector. He ime on the eve of departure to the dismntled store. Tears were in his eyes, [e presented Thompson with a basket of la and a silver half dollar, and bade im farewell in incoherent and intransitable words of lamenting polyglot Ingliah. Prentice Mulford. LIFE AT VASSAR. ITliat the Girl Student Does for Recreation. The life in any woman's college, of hich Vassar is chosen as the type, is bnormal and unique. The girls live i a world of their own, as distinctly ;t apart as if removed to another lanet. When the girl freshman enters Vasir, instead of receiving the hazing lat awaits her brother on entering >llege, and being obliged to stand 011 table in her robe de nuit to receive ucketfuls of ice water 011 her devoted ead, with an accompaniment of deloui.acal howls and groans, she is welsmed with the prettiest, gentlest cour sy one girl knows how to bestow up11 another. The "old girls" (those ho have been one or more years in ic college) immediately find out where le new girls are to room and call very roiaptly, introducing themselves and :aving their cards. The new girl is resumably a little frightened uud very oir.esick, but the old girl doesn't apnrvfino if np uvmnntliizn lent, it recipitfite a flood of tears, but eneavors to interest her in the customs ud incidents of college life, of which tie is now an element. There are few single rooms for the ;udents, and these have always been ssigned to the more delicate girls, 'here is usually a small parlor occuied by three or four girls, and into ii? open three or four bedrooms, of no of which each girl is proprietor, 'he parlors are most artistic, cosey ttle snuggeries, essentially feminine nd dainty in their arrangement. The road high window seats are cushioned nth some bright soft material und iled with gay pillows ; handsome angiugs conceal the doors opening lto the bedrooms, rugs, pitchers, etchigs, bits of decorative work and comirtuble little rockers complete the furishingof the rooms, to which small 'riting desks and well-filled bookcases ive the air of student life. The handsome parlors belonging to tie seniors, and in which they receive ieir guests, are furnished by them enrely. Every year they are despoiled f all their treasures, even to the chanelier, by the graduating class, and retted again the next year as diflerent; as possible by the new seniors. At ae close of the year the furniture and angings, together with other trensres brought from the private parlors f the seniors, and which always inlude a saucepan and corn popper, ithout which a college girl would as jou think of existing as without a lass pin or Latin grammar, und are aid at auction by the pretty, laughing uctioneers, who mount chairs and onduct the proceeding with energy nd delight. Once the girl freshman is established 1 her little kingdom the routine of uily life and work begins. Every lorningat 7 thesignal sounds through ie building and the dearest morning ream is shattered. At 15 minutes to the great gong in the dining room ings, and suddenly the long corridors, ie elevator, and every place is full of iris, hurrying, skipping, fluttering ? ?/! iillrinir ill tho clllddest. IWI.fi, M..V. ... 0 , irliist kind of way. The large dinlg room is full of tables, each accomodating about a dozen girls. On one ,de, at a long table, sit the teachers, nd down the centre extend the honred tables for the worthy seniors, 'hey are spread with the whitest of neit and waited upon by maids in the nov.'icst of caps and aprons. After the moment's silent grace the iris begin to talk all at once. Did you ever hear 350 girls talk jgcther? It battles description and lud.es expression. As everyone is talkingit isextremc; ditlieult to hear, consequently every ne talks a little louder, and the strange lattering rour, with its sharp staccato muds increases. Sometimes a little mjjh starts around 011 the circuit of lie room. Table after table catches p the infectious sound until it rings nd rings down the room. Malaria, iliousness, pessimism, and liver disease rould all get worsted in an encounter rith that merry, musical, rollicking lugh when 350girls join in its melody. After the announcements are made ir the day, the girls leave the room at lieir convenience in little groups, and lie next twenty minutes is devoted to lie care of their rooms. There are >ur periods in the morning and four I the afternoon, and a girl is rarely ngaged for all of them, but endeavors i so arrange her work that it shall II come in one portion of the day, ;aving her free for the remainder of lie day. An hour's exercise must be taken aril day in the open air if it is pleasnt, in the gymnasium 011 rainy days, nd she may take it in any way she houses. There are boats on the lake, howling alley in the gymnasium, lie long, delightful walks about the rounds, always the tennis courts in uniiner and skating on the lake in lie season, for a wealthy man has enowed the lake with a sufficient sum l? keep it in order for skating. Dinner is at 1 o'clock and supper at . There is a brief interval between upper and chapel, when the girls dance r walk in the long corridors or crowd uto muling room and library, ami then icy all assemble for a short devotional xercisc. One hour's study after this i required by the college, but the girls rolong it sometimes until the signal tribes at 10 for all lights to be darkned, and even after that there is luny a long lesson learned and many , naughty prank played by the merry inidcns in their loose gowns when no lie is the wiser. There is a certain etiquette attached o the calling ceremony, which is caried on inside the college as formally s out. I f a girl is busy she pins a card earing the word "engaged" on her :oor, and the caller leaves her card ml noiselessly departs. On one door saw a card on which was sketched a | table with a drop light, a little pot of f I teu and a solitary cup. Beside it a dishevelled maiden bent over a book, with her hands buried in her tangled J tresses. No one dared to rap over that "engaged," no matter how urgent their business. All the students belong to the lawn 1 tennis club, though there is, of course, a little rivalry between classes, and at the annual tournament each class desires that their champion shall be the ( champion of the college. When the freshman attains the dignity of a sophomore, just before the close of her college year she selects some desirable j | tree on the campus as the one beneath j I which her college records shall be buried ou class day two years later. I This tree is decorated with an appropriate emblem like an iron dog epllar or girdle, which is locked about the tree with a shield bearing the class motto and date, while sparkling college songs are sung and brave college cheers resound. The members of all the classes join ( in the procession to the tree in their A dainty gowns. Each class has its mar- j shal in a trailing dress, and at the i head march those who take part in the 1 ceremonies, which are very Impres- J sive and at the close of which the lit- J tie coffin is buried and a stone set ( above it, and the president of the sen iors hands down to the president or the 1 juniors the spade with which Matthew Vassar broke the soil for Yassar col- 1 lege, and with it all the privileges and ' dignity of seniors. , But the naughtiest, wildest pranks < of all occur on Halloween, and at i "Senior Howl," which somewhat grue- I some festival occurs on the evening of the last senior examination. The 1 seniors gather in their corridor and ' wail over their impending separation, ] though sometimes, owing to the inter- ( veution of the faculty, the howl has to f be a silent one. In either case it is < followed by a supper, and then it is that treacherous juniors play their < wily tricks. The class of '89 has been ] proverbial for their lamb-like propensities, cheerfully acquiescing in all the , desires of the faculty with a gentle \ patience only excelled by June's meek- i uess, and last year at senior howl, 1 when, according to all traditions, they ' ?> ' ' 1 ?i suouiu nave piuyeu suiuc nuuguy : trick upon the grave upper classmen, tliey went into the corridor so sweetly , with strawberries and cream for the ( feast. On Halloween of this year, i when they had attained the dignity of < seniors, they were awakened by a long, loud "ba?a?a?" about mid- 1 night, and gazing into the corridor J they saw a live lamb with a box of Huyler's candy tied to his tail, a col- i lar of gold and white, the class colors, i around his neck, and the figures '89 i branded on bis side with ink. The < girl who left him there was just disappearing down the corridor, and was ' dressed like Bo Peep, with a crook , over her shoulder. The seniors hastily appointed a committee to take charge of the lamb, and it was locked i in the bathroom, where its melancholy < bleut kept everyone in the building awake. In the morning it was spirited 1 away very mysteriously, and put out , to board at a farm house six miles from ; the college. The girl who had it in ] charge gave an assumed, name to the i farmer, but, in spite of all their precautions, the juniors discovered its hiding place, and in the midst of the senior howl last week in wulked the lamb, its caudal appendage adorned with a letter written by the farmer to the girl who left it in his charge, asking whether she would have the lamb shorn or not. How the juniors contrived to smuggle the lamb into the building past the night watchman, who patrols the ball every hour, how they discovered its hiding place or i obtained the letter from the postoffice, will always be one of the unexplained ' mysteries, for even the members of the class ure not to be trusted with the secret, which only the committee , knows. , Diseases Caused by the Dead.? j The belief that diseases are caused by the dead is of great antiquity. It was , applied in the case of vampires, which i were supposed in the middle ages to be the spirits of diseased individuals, 1 which left their graves at night and sucked the blood of the living. The , most horrible part of the fancy which , set all Europe panicstricken n few centuries ago, was the theory that the victims were obliged themselves to become vampires after death. To prevent this, thousands of suspected corpses were dug up in order that their hearts might be transfixed with stakes to prevent the fiends from going abroad. In 1875 the body of a woman in Chi- j cago who hail died of consumption was | exhumed and her lungs burned, under j the persuasion that she was drawing I others alter her into the grave. Pass- I ing over a hidden grave is thought in some parts of England to produce a j rash, while in New Jersey the same cause brings about incurable cramps in the foot. In China and Scotland also people are reluctant to save a drowning man for fear that the latter, if his | , life is preserved, will do some dreadful j injury to his savior. The Scotch be- j lievc that the spirit of the last person j buried has to keep watch in the church- i yard until another is entombed there, | to whom he delivers his charges. The duty of the latest interred to stand sentry at the graveyard gate every night until relieved, often gives much uneasiness to the deceased's surviving friends in thinly inhabited parts of the country.?New York Evening Star. A Bank on Whkklk.?The man- ! agers of a bank in New Zealand have hit upon a scheme for an extension of busbies'; that is said to be meeting with great success. It has a special car which makes regular visits to the country districts, and at every station where it stops it receives deposits, cashes checks, negotiates loans and discounts, and does all the regular work of a bunk. This plan is a great convenience to the settlers, who are scattered over a wide area, and were j it not for the new arrangement they i : would be obliged to leave their farms 1 I and go to towns whenever they have j business to transact. The car is fitted up something like the "pay ear'' of an 1 ' | American railway, and it is said that j ' the enterprising bank manager who ' ! caused the experiment to be made, | took his idea from our pay ear. and j improved upon the original. ; Tai.mack Says Lincoln wii.i. hk ' 1 Prksidknt.?I had spent the pre- ' ! vious evening with Robert T. Lincoln, | our minister at St. James's. We consider Mr. Lincoln one of our great i men, and a noble descendant of a very illustrious father. He has all the broad | common-sense of bis father, with a j grace and polish and a scholarship ! peculiar to himself. All America rej joiced when President Harrison sent ! Mr. Lincoln to represent us at the Court ; of St. James. He will be the president j of the Cnited States yet. It is only a matter of time, and he is young, he , can afford to wait; and what I wish , : to add is that Mr. (Jladstone spoke of him in the highest terms.?Interview with Dr. Talmage. Bay" It is told that one day during the war a squad of Confederates, wearing captured blue overcoats, rode up to a house in Tennessee and greeted the owner with : ''Well, old man, what ( are you, reb or yank ?" Puzzled by the blue coats and gray pants, and not knowing to which army his visitors be- j , longed, Old Caution answered: "Well, i gentlemen, I'm nothin'and a very little 1 | of that."?New Orleans New Delta, j rEAUEDY OF THE ALAA1U 5UBLIME DARING OF COL TRAVIS AND HIS Tt-XANS. rhreit toned by Suntu Anna's Army with Odds of Twenty to One, They Tried to Hold tho Fort?Bombardment and Assault Followed, Then Massacre. Copyright, 1801, by American Press Association. Book rights reserved.] fMERICAN colo nists in Texas suf fcred so much from the interference ol usurping Mexican rulers that in the summer of 1831 they began to llghl for independence, Gen. Houston tool command of the Texan army it \\ Governoer, anu 01 * -?? \ Dec. 10 a brilliant victory at San Antonio de Bexar drove th( ratiro Mexican array from the state. Santf Anna, the reigning dictator, imraedlatelj ?ut au army in motion to overrun the Tex ins, nnd on the 23d of February drew uj n front of San Antonio. His plan, de dared in advance, was to drive oil revolu tionists out of Texas, together with (ill for signers near the sea coast and on the bor iers of the United States; to remove fron Texas all colonists notduly entered accord ng to Mexican rules, and to permit n< Anglo-American to settle there. The ex [>ense of the wnr was to Ub saddled upoi the Texans. Houston did not propose to meet the in raders on the outposts. He deemed th< Texas army too weak, and hod no faith ii the promises of friendly Mexicans along th< border. He ordered the position at Sat Antonio to be abandoned, the works de molished and the artillery withdrawn t< the interior. The stronghold of the Texam it San Antonio was the stone inclosure nnc buildings of the old Alamo mission on thi sast bank of the San Antonio river and op posite the city. It was occupied by a foro >f 145 men under command of Lieut. Col W. B. Travis. Travis had been sent to th< Alamo after its abandonment under Hous ton'sorders, by Governor Smith. The artil lery had not been removed, and Travis se to work to prepare for a defense agains Santa Anna's army. He asked the govern meut for 500 regulur troops, and sent won to several outlying detachments to comet< bis aid. The Alamo was not a fortress, bu ivould answer the purpose very well i properly manned and supplied with provis ions and ammunition. On the aide fcowart the town and facing the enemy was a wal thirty-three inches thick, and on the south the approach coming from the bridge, w& \ prison structure, a church, and a yart wall. The entrance was on the south Travis Inul fourteen cannon, and placet them on the north, sonth and east. Thi pluce wtis well supplied with water, but pro visions were short. On the approach of Santa Anna's arm] the Texun Guard in the city of San An touio retired to the Alamo. The dictatoi it once demanded the surrender of Travis command without terms. The answer b the demand was a shot from the fort and Santa Anna opened a bombardment, a the same time running up the red dag as j token of his purpose. His cannonading produced little damage, and the next day Feb. 24, Travis sent out a messenge to arouse the people and his comrade slsewhere to come to his support. Said he "I am besieged by a thousaud or more o the Mexicans under Santa Anna. I havi sustained a continued bombardment fo; twenty-four hours, and have not lost i man. The enemy have demanded a sur render at discretion; otherwise the garri aon is to be put to the sword, if the plao is taken. I have answered the summon with a cannon shot, and our flag stil waves proudly from the walls. I shal never surrender or retreat. Then I call 01 you in the name 6f liberty, of patriotism and of everything dear to the America! character to come to our aid with all des patch. The enemy are receiving re-enforce meuts daily, and will 110 doubt increase t< three or four thousand in four or five days Though this call may be neglected, I an determined to sustain myself as long a possible, and die like a soldier who neve forgets what is due to his own honor am that of his country. Victory or death!" In a postscript he stated that he bcgai the defense with only three bushels of corn but had since gathered ninety bushels am twenty or thirty beeves. The following day Santa Anna crosset the San Antonio with a battalion, and at tempted to plant u battery in front of thi gate of the Alamo. Travis resisted stoutly and though the Mexicans were re-enforce< he drove them off. During the night, how ever, they succeeded in getting two bat teries established under protection of somi houses. They also posted some cavalr; around the place. On the 26th Santa Amu received additional troops and increase the number stationed before the Alamo The Texans sallied out at night and dc stroyed a number of houses that migh A LISTENING FOR THE SIGNAL. Berve ns cover to the enemy. On the 2Stl the Mexicans planted a battery ou th north and were able to lire on the Alumi from three sides. On the morning of March 1 thirty-twi men, led by Capt. John W. Smith, enterec the Alamo from Gonzales, and they wen the last reserve within seventy miles o San Antonio, while the intervening coun try was overrun with Mexican cavalry Travis was saving of ammanitiou, espe cially of that of his artillery. Every mom ing, at sunrise, and again at noon and a night, he lired a signal gun to announce t the jieople that the fort still held out. Th 2d and 3d the attack increased in vigor, th Texaus fighting as well as they could. Th Mexicans finally erected a battery withii musket shot. Travis sent out the last ines senger that ever left the Alamo and notifies the government of his situation. He sail that the blood red banners of Santa Ann meant a war of vengeance against the rebels The same messenger carried letters t Travis' friends. In one he said: "I hav held t his place ten days against a force var: ously estimated from 1,500 to 0,000, and shall continue to hold it until I get relic for my countrymen or I will perish in it defense." Gen. Houston was at the seat of goverr ment when Travis' dispatch reached thei on March 0. The convention of republ cans then in session proposed to adjour and march to the relief of Travis, hi; Houston, in a vehement speech, dissuade them. In the crisis then existing in Tex.i he thought that a government was the firs requisite, and lie himself would go to th relief uf the Alamo. Finishing his upper and mounting his horse lie set out wit four or five companions. They rode a night, and the next morning, the 7tl Houston put liis car to the ground t catch, if possible, tin? soiiikI 01 Travis sij nttl gun. For the lirst time in many da\ the signal failed to appear. Meanwhile the drama ;.t the Alamo ha slowly reached the tragic climax. A corn cil of war in the Mexican camps htul a< clared for assault. Opinion was divided n to the time, some favoring the (1th an others of the generals the 7lh. Sant Anna decided on tiie (itli, whicli was Sin day, and on the morning of that day th Mexican infantry was funned in front < the walls of tlie Alamo. Behind the it fantry a line of cavalry was stationei with orders to cut down the former shoul they fail to press the assault. At dayligl the ladders were against the walls, an scaling parlies attempted to mount then but the Texans bravely drove them oil. . second attempt mct t he same fate, but o the third the presence of Santa Ann among his men inspired them to umisu: valor, and many reached the top of th wall. The lirst of them were cut down b the Texans, hut others followed in sue overwhelming numbers that the defender could do no more than protect their ow persons. The place was soon tilled wit Mexicans. The Texans, too closely presse to load and lire, dubbed their guns an beat oil" their assailants, aud kept this u until but a handful remained. If any crie for quarter the appeal was unheeded. The stone church building, located i one comer, wus iuci u <? muouuu.., ??? .. hod been arranged among the defenders that when all was lost some one should fire the powder and destroy friend and foe. ' Maj. Evans, the ordnance officer, attempted to do this, but was shot down. At last there were only seven survivors of the Texan fighting band. Among them was Col. Bowie, the adventurer, whoee name 1 ?bos been handed down with the celebrated > weapon he declared, was better than a pistol in border struggles, the noiseless bowie knife. Col. David Crockett was also among them. Crockett and five companions surrendered to the Mexican general leading the assault, and were taken before Santa Anna, who instantly ordered them disi patched. Crockett was stabbed several f times. Bowie was sick in bed in the hosi pital, bat he shot down several Mexicans i before he was killed. When the sun was i an honr high every man of the 188 who took part in the defense lay dead. Tbey ? DAVY CROCKETT. 3 had made the Mexicans pay dearly for their 1 victory, however. Throngbont the siege the rifles of these accomplished marks men 3 had been busy, and from loopholes in the 9 walls of the buildings they had kept op a 1 steady Are upor the enemy. During the \ 9 assault they tw.ce cleared the wall of the assailants. According to Mexican accounts 3 521 of Sauta Anna's men were killed and * about 1,000 were wounded. The bodies 9 of the Texans were horribly mutilated by * sword and lance, and then placed in a heap * and burned. t The victims of the Alamo were chiefly t Americans who had emigrated to Texas ' under the Mexican colonization laws 1 which Sauta Anna abrogated. The de3 voted bravery of Travis and his heroic t band was not in vain. True the Alamo f bud fallen, and the way was opened to * Santa ^.nna to pour his battalions upon 1 Texas. But the news of the siege and of 1 the gallant conduct of the intrepid handful ? thrilled throughout the state. For days 9 the salutation on every tongue was, "What ' Al.mnlll Tli? rrnvornnr the etn Ui. IUO AiAUiV f *MV 0 erals, the council, the volunteers, the reg1 ulars, friends in all the borders and out9 j side, knew that in the name of American * ; liberty and of the independent state of j Texas 150 men were standing up away out f ; on tbo border and hurling magnificent de' i fiance at the usurping monster who coolly r : set aside ull laws of right and humanity, and proscribed men for daring to assert 9 their manhood. Travis' messages were * as bngle notes borne on willing winds. 6 From lip to lip, from ear to ear, they sped, i and before the terrible story of the final S horror had been let loose to chili men's i hearts, their souls hud been fired with the r unquenchable flame of patriotism. "Fel3 low citizens," "compatriots," "country: men" were the ringing terms used by f Travis in his uppcals to the colonists, and 9 in a moment u little nation was born, for t r every man who heard those appeals said, 1 i "Ayel aye!" When the awful tragedy beL came known oil hearts stood still a second * as if to gather fresh access of anger heated 9 blood, and then there burst forth the cry, 3 "Remember the Alamo!" So the men of 1 a moment before were transformed into 1 heroes, and rushed forth to wipe out a stain 9 ' and to make a state. They did it, and , ! Travis and his martyrs were avenged. 9 i When subsequent victories placed San ^ i Antonio within the Texas lines a small r I command of soldiers under Houston's or9 : ders gathered the ashes of the gallant dead L i and placed them in a neat coffin, whereon 9 | were engraved the names of Travis, Bowie 3 and Crockett. The casket was then buried r with military honors. Some years later 1 the event was marked by a monument bearing the inscription, "Thermopylae had 9 I its messenger of defeat; the Alamo had t | none." Geouge L. Kilmer. i ! ? j Rothschild's Maxims.?A practii ! cal and helpful gift from a parent to a r | sou would be the following alphabetical 0 | list of maxims, printed or written as a j j heading to a calendar, or framed and . | hung up on the wall of his room. It is r ) said that Baron Rothschild had these e ,| maxims framed and hung up in his T | house: 9 j Attend carefully to the details of j of your business. 1 | Be prompt in all things. t j Consider well and then decide posiI tively. i Dare to do right, fear to do wrong. Endure trials patiently. I Fight life's battles bravely, man' fully. j Go not into the society of the vicious. | Hold integrity sacrcd. I Injure not another's reputation or j business. , Join hands only with the virtuous. | Keep your mind free from evil i thoughts. ( Lie not for any consideration. i ! Make few acquaintances. ' ! Never try to appear what you arc j not. I Observe good manners, j Pay your debts promptly. Question not the veracity of a friend. i i Respect the counsel of your parents. 0 Sacrifice money rather than princi3 | pic. Touch not, taste not, handle not inj j toxieating drinks. Use your leisure time for improvcf : ment. Venture not upon the threshold of -. I wrong. . Watch carefully over your passions. " Extend to every one a kindly salu* J tation. ; Yield not to discouragement. e Zealously labor for right, e And success is certain. j ? ? ? i- Some one has discovered that the .1 initials J. and G., figure more prom1 inently together in the world's history 11 than any other two letters. He in^ ! stances in this country James G. Blaine, 0 J. G. Holland, James Gordon Bennett, ? [. | John Gorham Palfrey, John Godfrey 1 j Saxe, John Grcenleaf Whittier, Joshua .f ! Giddings, Jay Gould, and other cona ! spicious names, and finds also in forj eign countries the same prominence of ' ' the combination, as in John George y ' Campbell. (Duke of Argyl) Jacques y I George Danton, Joseph Guillotine, lt | Jean Gcrome, and many famous Ger,1 ! mans whose front names are Johann a Gottfried and Johann Gottlieb. it ' ie A MonstkrGkai'K Vink.?'The largil est grape-vine in the world is that h growing at Oys, Portugal, which has 1 j been bearing since 1802. Its maximum l> yield was in 1S64, in which year it pro" i duccil a sufficient quantity of grapes to make 105 gallons of wine; in 1874, 14(5.1 gallons, and in 1884, only 79J galil Ions. Last year it seems to have taken i- ! an extra spurt, the expressed juice of - 1 the grapes it produced again exceed^ 1 ing the 100-gallon mark. It covers an ; area of 5.815 square feet, the stem at ' the base measuring 01 feet in cireum e i fercnce. * ; sai.k of ovkkloadki) stocks.?a j ' New York dispatch says: As prc,j dieted, the effects of the MeKinley it bill are now showing themselves in all I their vigor. Trade in generul is de'? moralized by the sales of the over* loaded stocks imported in the rush to " ! get ahead of the increased duties. No I ; more unfavorable conditon of the dry goods trade is said to have been e.\y ]>erieneed since 1S(!0. Tho dullness h ! is unprecedented in the memory of the '* present generation. h | Flat irons that have been red-hot, j ' do not retain the heat so well after| wards and will always be rough. Do j not put them on the stove too long before they are needed, if there is a very u I hot lire.