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THE BANNER TIMES, UREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17,1893.,

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I the morrow with the cry, “Remember the i Alamo!” They then alept. He said to his colleague*, “I will tomorrow cornuu-r, slaughter and put to lUgiit the entire Mexican army, and it shall not cost me a dozen of my brave men.” He kept his word, and on the field of San Jacinto a new nation was born April ’JO, 1835. After it was all over, the Mexicans driven beyond the* Rio Grande and Texas enrolled among the powers of the earth, Houston was made president of the republic by acclamation and delivered up bis sword. A new era was before him, and he added to hiM well earned titles of pioneer and soldier that of statesman. A brilliant example of physical and moral courage, united with diplomacy, was given in the crisis brought about by the necessity for disbanding the army. There were no funds for an establishment and no need for one. The war was over and the ranks filled with clamorous adventurers, many of whom i

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A HERO IN BUCKSKIN. » SAM HOUSTON, THE TEXAN PIONEER, SOLDIER AND STATESMAN. A llor.ler Hoy’. Kiutc Life, » Yount; Wall'. Traicto Career In War unit riihllc A flairs, ami a Veteran’* Splendid Achievement*

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OUSTON indulged h pet folly in the Held and in the council hall that contrasted strongly with the simple, I direct nature of the man. While general of an army

| /V_g , of patriot volun\LtyTj / teers battling for ( j political freedom 1 -» f ' - or president of a

republic of democratic citizen* striving to win a place among civi-

lized nations, be clad himself in a buckskin hunting shirt, knee breeches and leggings, adding on occasions an . Indian blanket. Xapoleon held that a hero should l>e permitted one folly without being judged by it; much more, then, Houston, who came b«raestly into buckskin, and wore it with the air of one to the manner horn. Sum Houston was not a creature of ncci«leut affecting a strange way in order to suit his environment. The Scotch-Irish blood in bis veins was just the heritage needed for the role to be played—that of a lighter in the war against rude nature, against ern battled enemies and against political evils. His father was a soldier of the Revolution

the Horseshoe, where Jackson’s Tennesseeans punished the Creek Indians. Knsigu Houston scaled the rude Indian pali-

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GENERAL SAM HOUSTON, slides with his comrades, and just as ht leaped down into the inclosure with drawn swonl a barbed arrow sunk deep in his thigh. He tried in vain to draw it out and asked a comrade to make an attempt. The latter made two torturing efforts and failed. Then Houston, ivith his sword uplifted, called out, “Try again, and if you fail I’ll strike you to the earth.” The ar row came out, followed by a stream of

blood.

While he was having the wound bandaged General Jackson saw him and or dered the surgeons to remove him to the rear. Hut Houston begged to Is-allowed to see the fight through and rejoined his company. The Indians clung ton detached palisade from which they cou]d not be dislodged, and Jackson called for a forlorn hope to storm the place. No order was given, and not a man stirred. Waiting a

and died when the son was a lad of 1-t. The suitable time for his captain to art, Hous-

ton ordered his platoon forward, stepped iu front and asked the men to follow him. The soldiers hesitated, and their leader seized a musket from one of them and brandishing it started toward the palisade. He advanced to within five yards of the portholes, which were bristling with arrows and rifle barrels, and raised bis musket to fire as a signal for his men to do the same when lie was struck by two rifle balls in his shoulder. He continued to animate his men until he sank exhausted to the ground. His heroism at the Horseshoe was the beginning of a lifelong friendship from Jacksfln. The surgeons despaired of his life, but he traveled to east Tennessee on a litter and reached home a mere skeleton, so worn that his mother alone recognized {jim and that by a peculiar feature about

his eyes.

Two bullet holes and an arrow wound punctured while charging the works of hostiles constituted good capital for any western young man iu those times, even if he hadn’t much else. But Sam Houston had in him something his fellow citizens would have called a heap more ’ for a start in life. Added to the aggressive nature born in him, he had progressive ideas.

boy’s education watt snatched up during breathing spells from hard farmwork. If be finished his stint in time, he was permitted to run to the wayside schoolhouse for spelling, which was the closing exercise

of the day.

Major Houston’s death in 1807 compelled the family to abandon Virginia and make ia new home in t he wilderness of east Tennessee. The emigration was followed by a chain of circumstances that doubtless changed 8am Houston’s whole life. He got possession of some classical works of imagination, among them Hope’s “Iliad,’’ which he learned by heart. He also attended an academy and acquired ambition to study ancient languages. His teacher opposed the idea, and the l>oy quit school, declaring that he would never recite a lesson In any other study so long as he lived. His elder brothers liegun at this most unfitting time to manage and domineer the boy’s fortune and finally compelled him to cm/gate as a store clerk. He served long eflougKo prove to himself that the life was nc to his taste, then suddenly disappeared from me Country. His 'oVoiilelS kunte»hini up and found him wit h a wild Jndiat,triiie beyond the Tennessee river.

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preferr| “measuring deer tracks to tope find like the wild liberty of the red men

tletter tli.ii t he tyranny of his brothers, and if he entM not study Latin in the academy he covl at least read translations from tb Greek in the woods and read them in

peace.”

If the fut-re general did not read Greek history to some purpose in his forest exile, then he was n geo* us of the lirst order. His tacticsnt the butvie of San Jacinto, which made Texas a nation, were precisely those of the great Miltiudes at .Marathon. Even the council of war held on the eve of Marathon, which decided against attack, and whose advice Miltiades ignored and won a

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deuce of a trained commander. Surely if he hud never renuol Marathoii, then soidit-i* are horn, not made, for Miltiades was a brilliant soldier of Ai hens When be fought 1 lie uni lie v, nli n i'TiaioITiT’iiiif’effi/i-t? ft.,’’*’

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mission, which was in the regular army, and began to study law. His instructor told him to prepare for an 18 months’ siege of Rlackstone, but at the end of six months he was admitted to the bar at Nashville. He was soon elected district attorney and appointed adjutant general of the state. At the age of 28 he was chosen major gentral of a division, at .’itl he entered congress md at 33 was governor of Tennessee. Then followed another circumstance affecting his future career. He married into an estimable Tennessee family and within three months separated from his wife without any explanation whatsoever. Under the stress of public condemnation for this b" - i--.iloust I lit- -OVt-i-lllirvIlin : till uoje) ly made bis way to iii- old Indian haunt,

it* judgment with the con fl- i m t.he wigwam of Ids adopt/vl father italn-

atekii, king of the Cherokees iu Arkansas. Hotlstdn at once cuumpiourd the red men and in redressing their wrongs came into collision with u congressuoui HewasarYesfSl,*l\ ffu'ir! in t» af*..ugWS l.iid aci|llliu-d.

ancient western world. | Passing through Teniiessee he met with an Houston Ihed among the Indians the ovation, but he pressed ton and joined the adopted son of a chief until he was 1H. His I..»■ * c- u...

conduct'toward the saragetl hsd lx*en humane and philanthropic, and his sentiment run him into debt at his old home. In order to pay up he returned and o|>eiied a school. About that time the recruiting flergeer’ for til* w*r of 1812 marched dirough the village with fife and drum. ^in Houston was the first to enlist, at Aich the wiseacres said, “I told you so,’’ for it was a common saying that he would disgrace himself somehow, and his relatives lifted up their hands and rolled their eyes in supreme disgust, that he should go as a Ciguiuuu "Vtdiei. Then Iloustou, Out of patience at last, made his first speech. ' And what," said he, “have you craven sob!* to say about the ranks? I would •noth souusr honor the ranks than disgrace an appointment. You don’t know me now,

but you shall hear of me.” Army life was another grj-a. stance in Houston’s develop

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At the beginning of 1893 the number of women who had entered their names in the British medical register amounted to 158, of whom nine have died since registration. About 50 are in practice in India and other parts of the east, chiefly as medical missionaries; gome of the younger women—jierlmjis 30—are still engaged in study :it various schools and hospitals, chiefly on the continent, and the remainder are in practice in various parts of Great Britain, more than half of these having settled in London. The number of posts thrown open to medical

CAVALRY Itt'SIt AT SAN JACINTO, nou never fired a gun ror icxas. i hey demanded pay, ami certain turbulent spirits proposed to march to the capital, over throw the council, assassinate the leaders and set upas u Pnetorian guard. Houston was keen eyed and learned of the bold programme. Without consulting any one he quietly ordered various companies transferred to separate puiiits and furloughed indefinitely, subject tocall to arms by proclamation. Once scat tered and free, tlie men were of a kind not tosigb for orders and left the state never to ret urn. When armies were again needed, new blood had come to Texas, and she had no lack of men to bear arms iu lawful war. Houston was twice elected president of the Texan republic. He favored annexu lion and was one of the two senators first chosen to the l’idled States senate fiom the Lone Star State. He died in the midst of the civil war, and to the last was the sworn friend and champion of the red men who first won him to the life of a borderer Geo rue L. Kilmer. Where Hawthorne Lived and Wrote. In the village of Concord, where lived Emerson and Thoreau and the other immortals of the coterie which ha* made the old town fariious, there still stands, exactly as he left it, the house in which Hawthorne lived and wrote. It is a wooden house, with many gables and a veranda painted outside in a yellowidli tiht. In front and at the sides is a small garden with green palings, and at the back a low, steep hill, like a clitT, where grow the larches brought from England. Within there is the still and formal parlor, the dining room, with its old fashioned fireplace, the library and two small rooms filled with bookcases. Up stairs in a kind of wooden tower is his study, the desk, the chair, the rack for papers, all as he left it, and his motto over the door, “Ail care abandon ye who enter here.”—New York Sun. Triconpis ami His Dog. M. Triconpis, who may be regarded ;ta the foremost statesmen in King George’s dominions, and who has repeatedly held the office of premier, is distinguished for the store set by him on canine friendship. One day when he was crossing from the Pineus to Constantinople on board an English steamer, his dog fell overboard. Triconpis, who was not in office at the time and a stranger to the captain, entreated the latter to stop the vessel in order that ho might rescue the hound. “Impossible!” replied the Englishman. “My orders are very strict. 1 dare not stop, even were it a man instead of a dog drowning.” “Good!” laconically answered the Greek, and at the same time ho sprang over the ship’s side and swam toward his dog, although sharks abound in those waters. The sequel may be guessed. The English captain could not resist such a spectacle of pluck, and in spite of his strict orders to the contrary he istopped tlit slop and saved both mu. and dog.—New York Tribune.

Ill Rolicnila. I’d farther live in Bohemia than any other land. For only there ere the valnee true. Ami the laurels gathered in all men’ll view; The prizes of traffic and state are won By shrewdness of force or by deeds undone. But fame is sweeter without the feud. And the wise o» Bohemia are never shrewd. Here pilgrims tn am, with a faith sublime. From every rdhsu ami clime ami time. Aspiring only t • be enrolled With the names that are writ in the book of

gold,

And each one bears in mind or band A palm of the dear Bohemia land. A scholar first with his book a youth Aflame with the glory of harvested truth, A girl with a picture, n man with a play, A boy with a wolf In* has modeled in clay, A smith with a marvelous hilt and sword,

A player, a king, a plowman, a lord i ^ And the player is king when the door is passed, | J The plowman is crowned, and the lord is last! 0 I’d rather fail in Bohemia than win in another

land.

There are no titles inherited there, No hoard or hope for the brainless heir. No gilded dull-rd native born To stare at his fellow with leaden scorn. Bohemia has none but adopted sons; Its limits, where fancy’s bright stream runs; Its honors, not garnered for thrift or trade. But for truth ami beauty men’s souls have

made.

To tin’ empty heart in a jeweled breast There is value maybe in a purchased crest; But the thirsty of soul soon learn to know The moist less firth of the social show; The vulgar sham of the pompous feast. Where the hea iest purse is the highest priest The organized c darity scrimped and iced, In (lie nameof inc autious, statistical Christ; The smile restrained, the respec table < ant. When a friend in need is a friend in want; When the only aim is to keep afloat And a brother may drown with aery in his throat. Oh, 1 long for a glow of a kindly heart. And the grasp of a friendly hand, And I’d rather live in Bohemia than in any other laud. —John Boyle O’Reilly.

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SOMcIHING GAVE WAY. Remarkable Story of How a Mexican’s Dullet Accomplished Its Purpose. A remarkable story is recalled by the exposure through a landslide at Fort Tulerosa, -N. M., of the skeleton of a man who was buried there three years ago. His name was Richard Delong, but he was known among his associates as Long Dick. When the Mexican Central railroad was first constructed, Dick was employed by the company as it carpenter, and the wages being rather good ho rapidly accumulated ii stake of several hundred dollars. Tliij done, ho started back for the States, and as luck would have it was in a train that was held np by bandits. That is to say, a number of bandits boarded a train nt a station and started through the cars, two to each car, to rob the passengers. Dick hud been in Mexico long enough and tinder such circumstances as to acquire a violent prejudice against the ordinary inhabitants. It riled him greatly to have one of them get the drop on him, and he sat with his hands up under the muzzle of the bandit's revolver at pale as death. When the thief who was taking the valuables came to his seat, he noticed Dick's pallor, but mistook it for a sign of fear, and so, having been very successful so far. he lost his caution for a moment and turned his head to call the other bandit's attention to Dick. That was a very bad mistako for the bandit. The moment he turned his head Dick’s big fist caught him under the ear. Dick was as strong ns on ox, and the blow killed the bandit—broke his neck,

they say.

Nevertheless, in falling, the thief’s revolver was discharged, and the bullet struck the seat and glanced thence into Dick's side. But Dick was game, and picking up the revolver opened fire on the bandit who was on guard. That sent the rest of the gang flying off the train, and then the passengers gathered around Dick. A surgeon found the bullet was lodged somewhere in the muscles of the back, but had no instruments to cut it out. So he dressed the wound, and by the time Dick got up the road to Sorocco, where he intended to stop, he felt so well that he decided not to have the bullet cut out at all. He eventually recovered, to all appearances, and coming to the Tulerosa region became a cowboy. He had been here a few weeks when a man came along breaking bronchos for the cow outfit. Dick watched one man through two mounts and then said he could break one of its desire to pitch in less time than the professional could and backed his offer with |5. Both meii liioiituwi uc the word, and both got a good shaking. The two ponies pitched as only plains ponies know how to tl“. but W’M' were coHrpj'Wed in rpnees of time so nearly equal that the contest was declared a draw and a new mount for each man called for. But Dick was out, of tlie game. He had downed his pony’s spirit, but when he had done so his head was rolling from side to side because of dizziness, and he was groaning with pain. ... - ... “Something gave way.” he said, “and it must have been the lead of that infernal Mexican.” He was right in his diagnosis. He got off his pony, but soon fell to the ground

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Texas colony of Austin at San Felipe. lie wns urged to u’.r>.!:<' Texas his home and to enter a convention that was soon to meet and deliberate upon Texas nlTiiirs. He did so, and from that time until the outbreak of the civil war he was the dominant soul

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During the exciting days of revolution his voice was for moderation and for peace until tiie enemy struck; then his hand was on his sword for war. He was appointed commander in chief and put on a general’s trappings and sword over his fringed buckskin garb. His voice swayed the council ui state, liie llfiliin In inn niiitjijit-|-u Man another plume of Navarre to rally and inspire the soldiery, his sword a terror to Mexican minions and to white and Indian renegades who ravaged the border.

Could Lift a Ton him! a Half. JUvcotciflfRui, said to be toe last ot the Stuarts, was possessed with an extraordinary strong’n, from which circumstance he got*.he byname of Jemmy Strength. Among other feats, he could carry a 24 pounder cannon anti had been known to lift a cartload of hay weighing a ton and a half upon his back. Many a iin,^ >•.. 1 vp 2 jncltrvss, ttnd varry ing it on .its shoulders walked through the tollgate.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. f areleNHiirKH. Little Miss—I’m gping to have a birthday party next week. Mr. Nktefellow—The members of your family always celebrate their birthdays, I believe?

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The Alamo horror camo and paralyzed I got to careless she’s beginning to skip

all hearts. Houston, with impassioned elo- hers*—Good No

quence, implored the council to sit calmly in deliberation and rflakc laws to found s state and lie would |wttle accounts with the Mexicans. He gathered np 700 men, headed off Santa Aniw||^hB ,, ‘ l column of ovi

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In digging a well in Carroll oo utty, Mo., recently, a farmer claims to have found at a depth of 18 feet a stream of water in which were flijbing numbers of white walnuts, together with 1 aves from the tree!

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cemetery near the fort.—Exchange.

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