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FRETWELL, Aiu?oraon, S? Cc WAR SI The Heroes ol" the .A.L Travis anc Will T. Sheehan in M Thc fiituc of Travis and his share of the glory of the Alamo belong to Ala bama, ile came out of the pino woods of Alabama and went to TexaB to win a limitless fame. And yet so few Alabamian? know that Travis wa? Alabama reared and Alabama bred. Ile lcd in the fight of the Alamo which wa? perhaps tho greatest exhi bition of collective courage that his tory ha? written since rueu began to hunt each other down with weapons in their hand?. In the futuro some gifted one wiio reads the stars and j who sings the songs of the nation is going to give ?hat splendid oombat a voice. Tho world is going to know it then, as it was, in truth, a finer thing than Thermopylae; a braver thing than the fight of three HomaoB at thc bridge; a greater, a moro glor ious tragedy than tao charge of thc Light Brigade. It is not so known now. It in known, but nob so greatly as it should bc, as a memorable con flict, a narrowed field where men did deeds to be applauded in the years to come by generations to bo born. But the memory of tho meu who made the narrow bloody fiold of the Alamo glorious for all years .bas not yet come into its own. The Behool ohild reads more of the minor skir mishes between the Massachusetts Puritans and Massasoit and King Philip; more of Bunker Hill; more of the slaughter of the troops of the blind ans obstinate Braddock; more of Monmouth; of the Tippecanoe fight; of Gettysburg; of a half hundred battlefields of the War Between the States, than he roads of the splendid, desperate struggle that overshadowed Thermopylae and set a new standard for oolleotive bravery. In the Texas capitol at Auatin the Texans have paid due and just honor to the memory of tLoso who fought joyfully though hopelessly with a dead wall behind them, certain death in front of them, and the blood-soak ed sand at their feet. They have ereoted a monument to Travis and his men. The monument has this in scription, "Thermopylae had her messenger of defeat; the Alamo had none." It is an eloquent sentence. It is ss fine an epitaph as ovor marked the fight and the death of any choice band of spirits. No noble verse, no great song to catch the ear of the j world has been written upon the splendid death of Travis and his men. but this much at least is ?heirn, their j epitaph ia the most eloquent that ever preserved tho achieved glory of any set of men. Some Texas Tennyson may tell the story some day, tell it as Tennyson told the story of the ride of the Light Bri ?ade half a league into the jaws of he i Tell it as Macaulay told how tho Three kept the bridge in the braver, days ot old. It is a finer, greater theme than either the ride of Raglan's men at Balaklava or the ? -l- ? _* TT__?,_J t.t_ .?-tl_ iigue ui xxuratiuB aim UIB ivmuwo against ; Lars Porsena and host. The odds ' wore quite as great. And for the men of the Alamo there was no future, no chance but death? They fought the fight joyfully, fought it ia tbat ourious ccstaoy which so thrills a brave man with a sword in his hand, a foe in front pf him, the sun overhead and tho earth beneath his feot. . The fight of the Alamo was the orowning glory of the War of Inde* pen dc ncc, the fight of the American settlers against, the dominion Of the Spanish power of Mexico* And yet it was a defeat and worse than a de feat for Travis, and every mau that shared in the glory of the fight was slain in the walls of the Alamo and the bodies of all were piled ia a heap and burned, so f arion s were the.Mexi cans at tho desperate bravery of the Americans and so furious were thoy over the sight of the doad bodies ot their' ats?oht?9 which marked every step of they^vr:'tO their hollow vio tory itt (he P<0 walla of tho Alamo. BuVV- jttory of the fight was to all other Tehans like tba battle call of a silver trampet, .'" Those who had hesitated j huUsied no longer. Tho |Kin nn|? nf i???j T'aron o ?ajo swelled and whoo Santa An o a and h is men who had done the deed st tho Alamo met the Texan s under Houston at San jacinto the Mexicans wera .30 R t to re d like fall loaves before a wintc? wind, 8attU A^a ;bjm^^ ; brought, a poisoner \ io the" tent Of the picturesque Houston. And the fu ture glory of the Lone Star State waa aisored. . The fight began February 22, 1836. wheo the army of Sanie, Anne, ap posed to ha?* been 4,000 strong, appeared Ott the heights of A?cal s an' and invested tho ci tv of Antonio. Col. Travia, who was in ORIES. amo-13 o wie, Crockett, I Bonham. ontgomery Advertiser. coratnaud of the slender force of I Americaus, moved baok into tho old Alamo fort. Ile had, it ia said, HI nico. This force was later reinforced by a small company of Americans un der Capt. Smith, of Gonzales, Texas. I Capt. T. T. Travis, brother of the i leader in the great fight and now a prominent citizen of Evergreen, sayo that tho total number of mon in tho command was only 158. In this old Mexican fort they gave battle to San ta Anna's army of 4,000 men. The fort, for it is still tho greatest relic that- tho State of Texas cherish es, was an oblong struoture built in the Mexican style. With its walls and buildings it spread over two and one-fourth acres of ground. The walls were 23 feet high and three feetbio&l. Day after day the fight ing continued until the morning of March 6th, when Santa Anna deter mined upon a final assault. The fight the Americans were making was maddening. It was humiliating to any leader to know that a slender company of men were holding in check BO large an army. It was a situation that had nothing of credit or glory in it for tho Mexican arms. So the assault was determined upon. All the morning the fight went on and the sands were red with blood But the sando without the fort were redder than that within the fort When one Amerioan fell within tho fort five Mexicans lay stretched on the ground without the fort. A break was made, a cannon manned by the defenders was captured and turn ed upon the Americano-and the end was not far oh!. The Mexicans swarmed in. Only a few of the de fenders were alive, but they were fighting as confidently, as bravely as ! though an army of 10,000 were at their back. j Bowie, the great frontiersman, an intrepid spirit, waa up stairs stretched upon a bed and unable to use that de fl|rnn|ivA knife which he invested- ! and whioh hears his name. He ' was ! in the last stages of consumption. And no doubt he joyfully aooepted 1 the splendid chance to die fighting than tc iranio away enervated and hopeless. His bed was weighed down with loaded pistols. He heard the ! shots and the c'ash below, the vio torious shouts of the Mexioans es? tho tramp of their feet upc?, the steps. They saw him propped upon his pil low with his great eyes burning. But the first of those who saw him never lived to tell the tale. He turned the room of his death bed into a sham bles. Before his eyes were olosed, before his finger lost the strength to pull the trigger, the dead pf Mexico Uttered thu floor and surrounded the bed. ? . . In that famous company of the s Ala mo waa Davy Crockett, as brava aa the bravest and the b oat r i flo shot io the generation of Am crio an s whoso proudest boast waa of true shooting. On that day when he stood with his back to tho wall a?d, modo tho lae fr fight of hie life, be waa a national figure, io the front rank of Ameri cana. For this Tennessee rifleman had been sent to congress from Ten nessee where he first attracted atten tion because of hi s picturesquenoss and where later bia native ability won recognition. He waa tho politi cal opposent. of the grast ' Andrew Jackson, and many believed him Jackson's equal in ability. Of bim il ia told in thia Alamo fight that ho kept silent for two days a Mexican cannon that held tba pises et?d the rangs to:' bat tar. do^ra the walls of tba Alamo. : When he saw them mount the, gab it is said hs calmly took the Wall with his Tonnes see- rifle and coolly picked of? tho Mexicans who had put tho gun l?te place. And as ono after another triad to slip or run forward to shoot the gun, tba Tennessee rifleman drop ped them before they could touch -powder or ram?rod. v.V Death came to Crockett as perhaps ho would have chosen it. He raefe U with a al^bs4^ri?s^sgi?g Liisb above bis head and upon tba horde of Mai i ea M a BM??injj? t?t<m*iA nnan IV* oaged lion. And thus hi died. There wera other heroes-more than ?bree .-aignaHi^ gmt fight. There was ?Tamas Bonham, of the beat ; blood of South Carolina, jgjjjjt .one .??.fov?B|.^be)rik' ,v. Withttro iebinjrt^ liad to get help for the fight '*$i'tetB?"43am alipr^ through tba line and faithful-, j ly did their errand. ; it was .useless,-1 :i,^rdi-,"tbn' - W*^W$r--' ' rounded by &ho merciless . It wis tba task of a Verb : to rid? through thoso lines and get fewfe lei the fort. A?d ia tho fort there wa? only death and noble companionship. No help wan coming and tho three knew it. Bonham's companions i knew it and drew back. "WbaVwas the use?'' But Bonham thought of i?ie ujcn in the fort; he thought of Travis, the chivalric and the brave, shut in with his forlorn hope, all straining their oyes and looking for the aid that was j never to como. "You may do as you please," he told his cautious companions, "but I am going back into the fort or die in the effort. Col. Travis sent me away on a mission. I am going into that fort and make my report to him." And ho did. He swam his horse across the river and he made his perilous way through the lines of the I murderous Mexicans. Ho won bis share of tho glory and died in the choice companionship of tho Alamo. Tho other two rode away and their naincB aro not known. Crockett, Bowie, Bonham and every one of tho others were fit to fight shoulder to shoulder with these men, such are the men that Al?bame Travis commanded. And the thiogc they did which handed thom dowe to what honor and glory posterity oould bestow is recorded, imperfectly it is true, but in such a way it ii boped that any twentieth century Alabamian might know what Travii did and lead up to BOino remarks, t show what manner of man it was tba pioneer Alabama gave to TexaB t lead her towards her independeno and to her greatness of today. T appreoiate the mao it is meet to kmr where and how he led. M The brother at Evergreen, who i now fall 77 years of sge, is a rare an interesting link connecting Alaban as we know it with the pioneer da] and with the splendid Travis i boundless fame. And at 77 ho strong and hale, with a clear, viv recollection of his elder brother, grandson of the hero, Charles Tra*? De Oorsey, lives at Evergreen; he today the only descendant of Cc Travis. The leader of the Texai has many other relatives in Coneoi county and in middle and south Al bama. Bat Capt. Travis, in his c age and after a long life, in wbioh 1 people have seen fib to honor bim, the sole survivor of the pioneer ds who know and who has a vivid ree leotion of bia distinguished broth It waa a privilege to talk to him I Travia, his early life in Alabama a bf the deeds he did for a brave E aspiring people. He tells it fi hand and his account ic some parti lara disputes the erroneous hist written in some of the enoyelopedi For one thing some accounts of Alamo say that Col. Travis surr dered with 'Crockett end eeyc ethers on the promise of protect and safety from the Mexicana wi the breeoh was made in the, wit And it is written, too, that eev people escaped from tba AlamoY fighters, but several woman and e dren and '/uou-oomba tan ta. All wbioh ia ah error in part. "Juat two people left tho Al alive?" Bald Capt. Travis. > M were they? They ware a woman Ben, the negro servant of my brok No others escapad the general de I visited the Alamo in company ! Bea and be want over the inoid of tho fight as he had aean them. ' "Ho described the death of my br er and showed ma the place wher feiii . Jfe died enriy iu tue ifigu the l?et ? day, March 6th. ;'T^ui showed mo blaok spots on the andr bo .told me that was the bloc Col. Travis, Ho had juuiriud inte ? fight at that point of . tba: wal which the principal ai ? aok was ali Hawes .strusk by "a rifie b*ii but- ' tinucd to fight. :\ .<? "Tfce W Mexicans poured in. Among first to venter was a ^Mexieab < He and Gol. Tra vi's engaged ? n a to band! fight with . aworda.Vi were killed and ?they foll together by aide," And (lspt. Travis epi#e fe^?P? i^e..- bravery - of ? Bon?b - '?jf?jff?. ham, of Louisiana Bowie, cf To: :aee;,iiOroe)^^> memory o? thc Alamo a treasiVe. ??William .O.-'^v^-^aa^ Sdge?eid,^ S. ty; August iv ?1 said \?$pfe ^raviB^goingybver b the family history of the Alab* ^Hlaiparenta' were ;Marfc(and$ m??b TrayiB, InSl^ ?n4/ Willam Travie WM 9 years of ag '^?^i?l^|^ef\tti. ^Cone^'utk^^Cle f?wjg; r'^lt*'- a bo?? B^out ??O?u Bv?rgfeen,V but at that there ww no town here at all. liam waa tba olde?t'of tbi? ll. ; p?t? w?re faw aohoo?a the tb?y: -ware'li^t g^oo4 eohoela know them t?tr>tVjBut>OTft?ui: ? waa given tho best of :f&p$?''it 'He; wa?promising ''$6?/;;$s? practic? law when bo grew; to manhood, and waa veraed in ^{a^^e^wj^ibe^iid' ^|l>ol?et6 and Parao??; ; . ?.When be ent?'i?^?tlii : ilea of the Uw h* moved to ify .ta, '-tt?/^iiu^ of tb w iso* natural leader of moo. He was ^ix I feet in height and weighed perhaps 175 pounds. Handsome ia fao and figure he made a fine impression on all who me i bim ac d a great future waa predicted for bim. Ho was married to Miss Rosanna Cato of Monroe County quite early in manhood. To them was t >rn a son abd a daughter. Both the son and daughter are now ! dead and only one grandson sur vives, Charles Travis De Corsey of Brewton. "He moved to Texas in 1833. There was then somo estrangement betweon him and his wife. She was with her family la Monroe County. The two children later joined their father in Texas. He began tho prac tice of law at Old Washington on the Brazos river. He was a man made for ouch times. Of a brave and intrepid spirit, handsome in face and figur? and an eloquent speaker, he rose high in the esteem of the people of hie adopted State. When thc Texan wai of Indopendenoe broke out be wat one of the leading men of that section It was the highest of compliments t< bo put in oommand of such a body o? men as be led, but his selection tc the command of that body was a nat ural one in view of the talents ht possessed and of the confidence whiol the people of Texas gave him." And Capt. Travis- today lament tho harsh mandate of an unkind fat which forbade the glorious fature c so much of young manhood's promis* talks regretfully cf what greatnet young Travis would have attained he the hiotory of thc Alamo been ui written, and had he lived out his lil in the Texan republic and in thc grei American State of Texas. When one looks deep into the ci oumstancoQ that made the Alamo 1 comes to find in it a similarity to tl ohargo of the Light Brigade,, for tl men in tho Alamo, "knew that BOS one had blundered." There a those who think that some ono w GOD. Sam Houston. The questi may nevar be settled. Its discuss! is useless now. But Gen. Housto so it is said, was not many miles aw with a considerable force of Ame caos. To him was brought, word the plight of Travis and his m< cooped up in the Alamo and fighti like demons. There was time, some critica say, in that long fight 1 tw? February 22 ana March 6, Houston to have marched his OE against Santa Anna. Honston'a force wes inferi?; Santa Anna's, hut ibo odds in fight' would have been more ne? equal than between the f?rce wt was outside the ?lamo and tho fe ?bat VBB jrauiu toe w?te. JU are some harsh oritios. who even that Houston, uv>?i maa as he l was Jea1!."-* ?f y.e : rising star Travis. At ?toy rate he did not nt his foreo ti_-.;iu8i ttie Mexicans bes iog the Alauj ? But he oonaet vd his strength, ed to bis for?es and when\.a weeks tater he came upon the 99 cans at . San Jaoint? neitheir ges nor ' army/ was left of the Mex fighters. ; And in Texas $he honor o?. Tray treasured with and like the hon Houston.' It is the pleasure of Texans, as it should bo.; with all priety, to hold, his memory in deepest re*/rance. .\Tu\ .jqja bro Capt. Trfayis, wh.cn he v?s?tc^T? they ga^fa^^, proof ?of ltisv|si Tho honors jmown Capt. Travis evidence, of th? love ''abd; afiel boroo foi tho gallant Alabamian commanded at the Alamo and be que at ced to Texas a glory. shall he undiminished so lon time anal? last. ! Gare lUeeelf Awsy. , r ,'-v~ Ul . When Thomas drove up to dt the usual quart of milk tho ge ntl of the house kindly inquired, "I gg& htormiin^ deliver daily to your custom Bays ^s'w?rs, ;"Nin?ty-bne?e?r." ?-'^W?^ <* And how many co?te h?ve |?t ; },T^?i gentleman made some rei B^ont an early wi nier and the, st rrr*ds, and then a?ked, "Thornes ?such milk ? day do your 4ows ^??^no:?aHsair.M / S??d tDe ?^otlemt figged wm3??mW?Skffl?m Thomas looked af ter him, son ftgfoultad out a abort to*hm^ to fiprnro on the wa*oh vmin& sows la ; nice; >.an4.. fcj?ktftffi? Ihat'e slx?y-three q?artCW^ told htm I sold ntoefey-one qa day? St*ly-three ;\ frou> ';. nine retvaa ?wonty-c?ght RQd acne to S^^IP^X gat theres* given myself ; away to ?fjg? Duromers, by ?ea?in?>Jbdki?ai thea* Quires to be filled w?feOi r, ?. it. riV.i. W Bi' a? , ...??.?m?,<r* y~r*% -in''-;, :B^f^rf^^?^4]:^^ Pas?i' g of the Dispensary. Uniese tho unexpected happens io the senate, the South Carolina legisla ture ?ill wipe out that abominable dispensary system before the present session has been concluded, which is a proceeding of more than passing in terest to other States so desirous of finding the best solution of tho liquor problem. The solution is not the dis pan&a.v-as a State institution at least-and its repudiation in the home of its birth is more than sufficient proof that it does not work for temperance or sobriety. It is merely a money makiog scheme and there wai muob money after all, tho feeling being gen* eral that the grafters and not the tax papers reaped the profits. The plan of the bill to abolish the system pro vides for general prohibition, although when one-third of the voters in any county sign a petition an eleotion may beheld to determine whether or not loeal dispensaries may be opened. The main thing to remember, however, is that the State is preparing to reform. It will get out of the liquor business and it will admit officially that the law '?rhioh bas brought bloodshed and riot and bitterness instead.of good feeling and less drinking was a farce from its inception. South Carolina has struggled with % handful of men who had personal politicalreasons tot demanding that it be retained. But a wonderful change of sentiment baa come over the people. South Carolina has struggled with the law for 12 years without persuading other States to oopy the plan and noue are likely to ad jpt it, now that it has proved a sig nal failure in every way. The defeat of the dispensary does not necessarily mean that the saloons will return, but it doss mean that a proud old State will be rid of the shame which has stung it bitterly and which has ,de graded the people and eliminated de oeooy for corruption.-Raleigh (?2. C?) Evening Times. Ko Such Article for Sale. After the newly organized band at Morrison bad desisted from practice fora few nigh to the B flat player found the valves on his cornet had stuck. Ho wrote to the factory ask ing what kind of grease to use on the salves. The house answered bim, saying that cornet playera used only saliva on the valves, and. never used any grease.of any kini. The B flat player than ..wrote:\ "Gentlemen: Please eend me 25 oents worth of saliva.L l can't get it at the atore h?rOc ?oolosed ?bd siamna for pay ment." Hie reply baa not yet been received.-Perry, Okla., Bepbulioan. paper .... L bath room WU. .v ero? carried in Aadersoa. ?ojtw matcb-au P^r^ _ on short nofioe. Threis ot the uancjers to tho city, :&E3NffiBLt* We also do w?r^r ut of the cliv. Phone No. 20 B. ? 'aol Sopot '?treat ? Vi,1 '','"ijiV'-'t?'L' ii' i|lui ?WH ' il l '?^?^;^>>?M??fa~ .? ow.?