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WAR SI JO. Texas Monument t< The ladle? ot' the State of Texas, asaded by those of Sao Antonio, arc inaugurating u movement which daes i'i ual credit tc their patriotism aud -appreciation of the heroism of those who made the State ou?, of thc former .republic of Texas by their genius and dauntless courage, when nie" like Houston furnished her chief magis trates and Gen. Albert Sidney John son led her gallant soldiers to victory. One hundred thousand dollars have ?icen subscribed for the erection of a czionument to the men who fought and ?died at the Alamo-men like Crock ett, Harding and Bowie. These are .muong the names that will be inscrib <ed on thi3 granite monument, and of those who won at Alamo immortal .fame none is more deserving than Jas. .Tlowie. There at ihe Alamo, sick and ?alone, he died at the end of such a berserk ru&e, and a deed that has handed his famous knife down to im mortal fame, for on that day Bowie , performed a feat fit to rank with tho proudest deeds of the dead days of ?rromeuce and beauty. &l has often been asked what man w<et-cf man was James Bowie. Tho only mau the writer over knew wbo .had an intimate personal acquaintance with-him was ex-Gov. James Madison 'Wells of the parish of R?pidos, in iXouisiena, whose house was Bowie's 4- home-when the latter was in Louisi *'f'??ejweS Bowie," he sp.id, "whoBe jd 'r "- was just such a one as he would ^ivii chosen-for there were seven ., u?j*u Mexicans lying around him, each -of whom had died from one stroke of bowie's awful knife-was born in either in Maryland or Teunc6 ?reee. He was never quite aure which ?arf these States was his birthplace. "Thc papers and family Bible, ?which would have settled this ques tion for good, was burned in 1810 when ctfhe residenco of the Bowie's was fburned, either by 'the Cherokee's or ?Shawnees, who were fighting for their ancient homes and hunting grounds in iKentuoky and Tennessee from 1790 to 2816. James Bowie's father was a oman very like his son. Of an anolent '3Iaryland family he came, and ho . owned a fine homestead in his nativo '?State. But Stephen Bowie carno of ?that 'wild tnrkey breed' of tameless -?wanderers--men who were ever 'mov nong' farther Sooth or West. So when .This three sons were well grown and ^handsome lads, each able amply to ?cake caro of himself and hi? own any where. Stephen Bowie sold his Maryland estate and uki og ship at : J3 altimore he aad his three aoaa sailed j ^or Louisiana, the lead of lit-let, ffltecin found an estate ia Avkaataa .# j X' ?OO acres that pleased hiss aad tfcavt 'Sae .and ht* & negro ula va sta?* sfiewn and Spaned op a Sae t???&?. -a* . Sesin Bowie sosa basasse a fa ?V wealthy man sod waa regarded ma a -od ci cititen. If be achieved ao ^great-fame he did oo barm, bat lived ?coder vhie own vine and fig tree the 4Kte <Si the old time, patriarche? Bair*, <?giGig at a r.tpe old age. ""Stephen Bowie selected his estate v?a the parish of Lif ouodre, and on the t&tyxm-of vthat name in Louisiana, and ??erscnm ? sugar and rice planter of '?feift. He died in the 50's, just be fjaenjthe war. ^"But James! There seemed to be ttl? in his blood, a fever in his veins ?hu would not allow him to be still," .ca?? Gov. Wells, his lifelong friend, v''JTames Bowie hover weighed more ,<Al?an 150 pounds in his life and was ... crnly- about fivo feo> seven and a half Euches in height. But ho was like .^tempered steel? He never drank li? -?iiuor ann only at dinner most sparing ly of red wine. His oyes, in repose, :*wero large, fine, woll-openeo\ and of a .Sark, steely blue-grey. But in anger! jJEhen his ejee would glow and burn as does thc .eyes of .the hunted panther or/leopard. Then ho was the most -dangerous vlodkiug man I have ever v ?eon. I have never seen the man who ??oould gazo into the eyes cf Jamos Sowie in anger and not have asenso /of personal fear. .was in Louisiana from about TL82T) toTB30, trading in lands and im porting negroes fror? the Wost IndieB .^aodeometimcB he would buy aneo* ..^tirecargo*of negroes just run in by s-.aemo -^paaish slaver from the weat . ?east country of Africa. A 'cargo* in % t?ttose days meant 4Q? or 500 slaves. ^'.??k? newly 'imported' negro when first -t?ijien out of the hole of the slave ship > iic4fr awful lookingcreatore, just about AOtt?-remove from a wild beast. Two .?? lasenths af ter hei foll into the hands of < .^*acmauo planter you would n?yer ^?aacw him. He had become fat and -or ho r;as eating better food t' i?b*mihe,ha?e^er known before and y ^tvas xaado to wash himself in the ba *ini-u*?V?ry night before he ste his -t?ttndantr supper of good, wholesome weU cooked, food-rfieh^, cf which TORIES. o the Alamo's Heroes. ! ail negroes are very fond, rice well te-aponed, and corn bread. Three times a week beef cr pork, whichever they liked best. "When Bowie had got bia 'oargoes' of negroes into good condition and clean they would sell from $450 to $600 each for men. Women about one-third less. These Spanish slavers were very bruta!. In faot Bowie had I to kill ono or two of them 'to compel,' as he naid, 'the usual respect.' " j In those days, as later, there were many men in the South who were op- j posed to thc slave trade. The Bev. I. Newton Moffitt, a roost distinguish ed divine, preached a notable sermon against it and hada weighty argument ou the subject at Gov. Wells table one day with James Bowie. "Is it uot better," ?aid Bowie in conclusion, "that these poor creatures should bo decently clothed, kept cleanly and by their labor add something to thc wealth of the State and the individual citizen as they are now doing, than that they shall continue in their de graded aud barbarous condition, hard ly a degree abovo the wild beasts they live among, constantly at war with one another, uot adding one whit to the world's progress?" "I had not re ceived the question in that light be fore," said Kev. Mr. Moffitt, very gravely. "I don't know but that you are right," he said in ccaolusion to James Bowie. After ho killed Col. Crain of Shreveport, La., on Natchez island in 1829, Bowie became very restless. "He very much regretted that Crain duel all his lifo," said Gov. Wells ouo day while talking of Bowie. "But you must remember the timo and the condition of things. Bowie oould not have acted in any other way than he did and stayed in the State. He would iuevitabiy havo been the target of every cheap .bully and follow who wanted to establish a reputation as a "fighting man," at some one else's expense. No," said the governor in conclusion, "I don't see how he oould have avoided the fight or its conclu sion." In 1832 he beoame very muoh interested in the colony of Americans who wero settling in Texas. A lot of Teunesseeans were there. They knew Bowie and liked him. So they en thusiastically insisted on hin becom ing a member of the young and flour ishing colony. They obtained for him a grant of land three leagues (nine miles) by two (six miles) in width. So Bowie rather sadly said good-bye to bia few lifelong friends as? ?iib bia 25 negroes started for the land of promise from New Or* lanna. At Galveston island Travia, Hard * g. Saan Honiton, Ned Burleson, Al- J ?en kidney Johnston, then adjutant geneva) of the colony but commanding ell the aoted forces, whioh meant every American above 18 years of age who waa any kind of a mah, and the other kind did not go there; Ben Day* is and "Deaf Sm' h," the man whom' the speaker of the Texas house of rep resentatives, oalled ont and "Deaf Smith" killed him with* a rifle at 40 paces, all these were on hand to wei* come "Jim" Bowie to their, homes and hearts. "I don't know when any thing has touehed me moro deeply," he said, "than the welcome these gal lant fellows have met to extend tome. Some of them had traveled 300 or 400 miles over bad roads ail to see me and tell me how glad they were to shake my hand onoe more." It touched and softened Bowie, very much. He at once began to improve his cstato _,i_?. _.. auu vrus very luriuuatt*. But all at once the war between ?he oolony and Mexico broke out and in 1836 it "declared itself a ropubile. Meantime Mexico, under Gen. Santa Anna, was preparing with all her re sources to "put down the rebellion." ! Santa Anna was president of Mexico j and he meant at one blow to squeloh j these Americans.- At the beginning of the war Bowie was made the colo nel of the First Texas Regiment of ri fles. This command was mustered in by Gen. Johnston as numbering 720 men, but one thing and another re duced it to 600 men in ranks. But under Bowie they beoame ? terror to the entire Mexioan border. They cap tured all the border towns and levied tributo on them. Chihuahua paid $150,000 in Mexican om as to Texas as its ransom, while Matamores got oft with ?100,000 in Mexioan dollars. All of thia set Santa Anua fairly wild. To have a miserable little colony ox insurrectos levy tribute, and collect it, too, on tho'great republic of Mexi co was too much! Santa Anna at first threatened to hang all of the authori ties that paid tribute. "Drive those diablos Americanos out then." was the reply. "Wa aren't I anxious to pay tribute to these insur Irectiohists." I .v it tickled the fancy oi Bowie and the others-Ned Borlesoc, Travis, Faooio, Deaf Smith, Ben Davis-to reflect that they had made Santa An na pay the expenses of a war levied against himself. But the siege of the Alamo and the murder by Santa Anna of Bowie, Travis, Fannin and 400 oth er Americans after they had surren dered on honorable conditions io San ta Anna at the Alamo chocked all Eu rone, enraged the entire American na tion to a degree never before known and made them resolve to conquer Mexico, take all the territory they wanted and make her pay a money in demnity besides for each man killed at the Alamo. It was an awful bitter dose but the proud Mexican president had it to do. And with that irony of fate that sometimes befalls the mose haughty Santa Anna himself was cap tured by one of the very people he had reviled and condemned, Gen. Sam Houston! Never in all history were the tables so turned. Bowls was murdered in cold blood. He was siok and badly wounded, ly ing in bed. He might have got away, but neither he nor any of the others ever dreamed of suoh a tragedy as fol lowed the surrender of' the Alamo. "Where is that American dog?" in quired the valiant Santa Anna of the sentinel set over Col. Bowie. "Ido not know, cxcellenza," the frightened man replied. ' He was a Mexican and a private soldier and ho did not in tend to be accessory to a bloody mur der if he could avoid it. But Bowie, hearing a voice, thought some one was coming to call on him and so there was, but it was Death! When the party entered the officer immediately in charge said: "Shoot that mani" They came up to the bed. Bowie realized the situation perfectly. He quietly reached under his pillow foi his deadly knife. As the oommandei inadvertently came nearer, ill as he was Bowie sprang upon the oaptait like a-tiger just as the other fired hil weapon, a Short, heavy musket. While tho room was stall full of smoke Bow ie had driven his knife clean througl his throat until it touohed the verte brae and severed the jugular vein Why, a man thus stahb?d is dead be fore he has touohed the floor! Bu he oould not quite reaoh the one h< wanted, Santa Anna himself. But ai his fearless, gallant soul went out ti the shades there went with it th .souls of seven of his foes! For a long time Bowie's knife wa kept at the Mexican War Office as : trophy. Finally, through the influ enoe of Gen. Cassius M. Oluy, of Ken tucky, our government demanded th weapon and it was returned to- th State of Texas. When last hear from it was among the Texas Stat Military Belies at Austin. It ahoul he oarefully preserved, for it was th weapon of one of the bravest me who ever bore the name American. The knife was made by a famou steel worker of New OrleaUB known t the publio as Pedro, the skilled out 1er. Besides fine Bowie knives h made the finest surgical instrument eyer, seen in America and super hunting knives. For his Bowie an hunting knives he had but two prioei For those of the finest finish he cheri od $100, for the second rate, $71 With either class you could whittle a iron rod to shavings as though it wei a pine stick.-Washington Star. HOW INDIANS FOUGHT IN .18? Before They Learned the Danger i Breech Loaders. How unhappy old Red Cloud mu be in those days of peace when thei flashes across his memory the fron tie days of long ago, the recollections < the time when, as a gallant warrie painted and decorated for war, he rod at the head of his braves, in anassau on a wagon train of military supplh destined for the Phil Kearney Poa Those were the days of bloodshed i the West, and Red Cloud the bl o o dio chief among all the tribes. Red Cloud in his time was ono i tho most successful, daring, savaj chiefs of the great Sioux nat io Luring the hostilities waged so br' tally On the plains against the e croaohment cf the whites hia nan v;us tho dresden one on every ora grant's longue. I knew him perso ally quite well. . I have had mai talks with him about old times. Pc sibly our relations were more f riendl; inasmuch as 1 had a. skirmish wi him and his war party on my mar into the Big Horn country io the F: of 1867, on Crasy Woman's Fork, W o ruing. - * Red Cloud was the "Big Obie commanding the hostile Sioux fore that attacked Brovet Major Jim ? Po t.i's command. Several times ? ask the old fellow to give me r.n scoot! of his side of the hattie. I never st ceeded in making him talk free about it. r?1h? reason may hi*o be that he "*as defeated K this, one tho moa* desperate of' cur Indian < gagemonts. Red Cloud's prominer among the Sioux was ewing eel bitter declaration of war to the dei against the whites. All the die?Se ed-of the tribe joined bis band. Although I could sci. set Bcd 0\r Ito talk aV^at-bis attack o?vMa Powell, I had been well posted that fight by several members of I Twenty-seventh infantry, ^ho were m tho engagement. The old chief veri* fled many of the details of the Indian side of the story, such as had been told me about the approximate num ber of Sioux engaged, their losses in killed and wounded and,the terrifying effect on the attacking "Indians of the "much talk" gun, the "then new to them breech-loading rifle. Major Powell and his soldiers were guarding a wood contractor's party of citizens, who supplied the Fort Phil Kearney garrison with wood. Powell knowing that he would be attacked at any time, had fortified his camp by building "hasty entrenchments." i His foresight stood him in his hour of great peril, for on the morning of August 2,1867, 900 warriors/splen didly mounted, the best and bravest of the Sioux nation, appeared io hos tile array before the camp of this little band of white men-two officers, twen ty-six privates and four citizens. These determined men -.?pew this was a fight to the death. Thcxp would be nothing between them and" "-torturo at the stake if driven from -tho hastily constructed fort. , That these warriors advanoed open? ly on this little band of white men, oontrary to the Indian well-known so oret taotios, showed the utter cont m pt in which Powell's foroe was held. On they came, shrieking their war erv. fir ing a volley of bullets. The replj was a deadly and continuous stream ol bullets from tho little band. Thc warriors could not face the deadly fire They were driven back in confusion and amazement. The secret, of tb< white man's success was that hut ) short time beforo the Fort Phil Ko ar ney soldiers had been armed with i new brecoh-loaiiog rifle, a fact at thai time unknown to the Indians. Tee: were calculating on the old-time muz zle-loading guns in the hands of th troops. Red Cloud and his principal., chief held a hurried consultation.. The determined to launch their whole force on foot, against the little fort on th hill. Major Powell's lieutenant, Jei aess, galla-, lly and, as he thought necessarily exposing himself durin the first attaok, had been killed; on or two men had been killed or wounc ed and the attaok had' developed oei tain weak points of his 'dofenoea whio were very promptly strengthened wit whatever was at hand. The firle was so rapid that the gun barrels bi oame overheated; ? spare guns we] placed in each . wagon bed. - Some < the men were poor Bhots . and fire wildly. They were ordered not to fii but to load and pass guns to the a looted marksmen. Now from the hills swarmed a seco circle:of warriors at least 2,000'Stron When within about 500 yards the o der to charge was given. . The who line dashed on to the corral, to b when they bad almost touched " i hurled back in confusion and disma Again and again did the gallant Hi rally and oh argo, to be again driv< back; and it was only after three co tinuous hours of almost superhumi efforts against this unseen, in tangie foe that the line became utterly d moralised,' and fled in consternation the bille. Bed Cloud and.some of .the older his prinoipal chiefs had watched t' whole notion. For a long time th thought the wonderfully continuo fire was due; io the faot that the were more men in the porral than, would appear to hold; but on the fin impulse of the long succession of d? perate chargea' they concluded il the white man had some "medici gnus" which would "fire all the tim withont the aid of human hands a that their host plan was to stop t conflict. When the demoralized host h ! readied the safety of tho hills th were ordered not to fight any mo but to recover the bodies of the kill .and wounded. A crowd of skirmii ors was sent out to cover . this ope tion, with orders to keep up a cont uo?? fire. All the killed and won) ed nearest the hills were soon tat -to the rear and oared for, hut to oover those nearer the, corral was ceediagly difficulty Taking one ow of a long ro formed by tyin ? together many li ats, a warrior tku out into the open far as he dared, ?hen throwing hims on the ground and covering binn with a shiold of thick buffalo hide, crawled to the nearest dead or won ed man and fastened tho rope aroi his ankles. The men in the woodi the end of the rope then pulled it dragged tho man or body to a plao* iafety. The resouing warrior t crawled backward, protected by shield. I learned in after years fron Ho Bear, a well-known chief, ?uv "medicine man" of the Sioux told him that the total.loss, in . ki and wounded Indians of all tribes bands in that fight was 1,137; this be true, the combatants ! w^r one white man to 100 Indians. Josses, ono white man to 268 Indi Ono of the cituons who fought i Bowell was a frizzled old trap who had spent MB lifo ou the fror .at?d b?ifii lil Tv.,J'ar> TI cn rn reif) number. Some months after", the tlet the department commander ftnd questioned him. "How many Indiana wara in the at tack?" asked the general "Wall, ginr'l, I oanVeey forsartic, bot I think thar waa nigh onto 3,000 of em?" "How many were killed and wound ed?" "Wall, ginr'l, I can't say for eartin, but I think thar waa nigh onto a thou sand ov '?rn hit." "How many did yon kill?" "Wall, ginr'l, I can't say, but I kept dead rest. I kin hit a dollar at fifty yards every time, and I fired with a dead rest at more'n fifty of them in j uns inside of fifty yards." ' "For- heaven's sake, how many times did you ire?" exclaimed thc as tonished general. "Wall, ginr'l, Ioan't say, but % kept eight guns pretty well hct up for more'n three hours." This may be called a "transition fight." The Indian was just emerg ing from his scarcely dangerous days of bows and muzzle-loaders, and pro curing an arm suited to his mode of fighting, becoming what ho now ie, the finest natural soldier in the. world."-Kansas City Star. Carious Ways of Men. We do not understand that Kendall divorce case. Perhaps it was not in tended that humanity should be able to fathom the cussedness of man. It is a Dublin (Ind.) affair, and Ellen Kendall declares that her husband, Alfred, frequently goes to bed .wear ing muddy shoes. It is her chief ob jection to him. He has money. In appearance he is not so bad. He has been a good provider. Ho has been aought by the goldbrick artist io Vain* He would not buy green gooda or sign notes. Really, he has/few fia wa. But it is hard for a woman to get used to the shoe habit. Think Of having one's pet corn raked by a hob-nailed brogan at dead of night. And why the habit? . There are men who sleep with their, knees drawn up to their .chins; men who refuse to sleep without a light in the room; men who smoke in bed; men who talk ic their sleep,' a most dan gerous occupation, by the way; men who snore; hut the shoe habit is the limit. Ooe wonders why Mr. Kendall does not also robe himself in a hat and smile, when retiring, and why be could not at least compromise on slip pers when he thrusts his shanks be tween the sheets. It ia t. funny world, and if the searchlight could be turned on the things that women have to bear it ia possible that ? majority would receive a setback. A ?levelamd. husband licked the cream from the milk.that was set aside for the baby. A St. Louis . man was so badly infatuated with the circus that he shook the pennies out of his little girl's oank to steal away and view the festive hippodrome. A Kan sas City mau was infested with the I microbe cf unrest, and 19 times in two years did he force his far better half to pack up and -uove. A Nev York man play ecVtb> clarinet; a Chicago mah read bad poetry of his own man ufacture, and two Women were ripe for the madhouse. In each of tho instances .cited, sym pathetic judges granted divorc,ts. They didn't attempt to analyze CbUses. Man is au enigma. The court records prove that he is ^ ??roblem.*^ He can hot be solved. He docs things and nobody can tell why he doe? them. Mr. Kendall and his muddy-shoe habit has intensified tho mystery and af forded not ooo clue; to tho why of things: Sometimes we wonder how men are abie io^BcCnro wiveB. ?twould never do for a burglar to go into polities, because be wouldn't have nerve enough. . GOOD tjvim Quite often results in bad health, because ?what is termed ?'good. living ? ia usually the gratification of the palate without r?f?rence to the ?ntritic-? ; nf .tfu* "body^. When the good liver ia a: bu ?nes? maxi . '.? _ and rises from 0 a'jjS'^few full meal to pillage at once iiito work ?fir^ . req?iriug mehtal ?jg JOHL ? effort the result is JBB \MSSO ' almost sure to be ! Jfil y&SSf disastrous, because HMh ryL. digestion draws ^Btff?i*l9Bk uPon thc same \?^BaJiGBsaL nervous forces I HB^iK^^^S^w ployed in thought. w ffiffflBT time the st om jBiwHBraB- ' ach becomes dis Sn ?B eased, the pro-, .HW. xSP cesses of digestion fM\\ V and ?utr?ion 'are I \\i 1 imperfectly 00**1 j ll 1 formed end there /}/ \U 1 i& a physical /j M \ breakdown. / l\ Dr. Pierce's ._Jf Golden Medical n?Sr"^a' Discovery c?r>A * jm fal diseases of the. '? *f stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It eliminates the effete poisonous matter IUrbich originates in the avstemas a con a^quence of imperfect diwst?on. It gives .cued health to the ^hofe body. ?X trish to say to the world th*t Dr. riereis aW&ary. PnwJOit^Q*, UM. ?Prior to, September. *8*7. 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