Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 January 1895 — Page 7

FEGWVW- | Ll L L ‘f‘;:;f?-iw Papged=mm )I ) AN Ny 56 : *——‘%—-—-@u‘ g . . [ICoPYRIGEE, 1804] _CHAPTER XIV.—CONTINUED: The director appears to have been a pragmatic Englishman, without the tact of prudence. There was, at the time, 'a.g million dollars in specie on temporary deposit in the St. Mary’s bank, heing the two payménts made by thé government fora large contract for copper gun-barrels. This money should never have reached St. Mary’s in coin. But there had been a loud outery from different partsof the country that all the profits of the company went -to #ngland, and the disaffected ‘men of ‘“‘The Junta” had reechoed it ‘bitterly. This director, therefore, whose name was Matlock,; had advised the company to: use the money at St. Mary's in paying off the indebtedness on the improvement scheme. He appeared to think it would have a good effect. On the night after the strike three of thé new houses built by the company were burned. The striking workmen were c¢harged with the in.cendiarism, but;denied it. The next day there were three or four thousand men ‘out of work in the town and a very angry feeling. : . Director Matlock injudiciously expressed an opinion about the origin of the fire which made the better class of striking workmen indignant,-and they sent a delegation to the office of the works to get a statement from him directly, and they encountered at the door of the office six men, armed with clubs and pistols, who ordered them away. An altercation ensued. Two of the delegation were knocked down -and oné¢ had his skull fractured. The remainder of the men went back for reinforcements and in an hour there was a mob of five hundred men before ,the ‘office. They demanded that the perpetrators of the outrage should be handed over or they would enter the building by force and take them. Matlock refused to give them up. The mob then broke into the office, seized the mien and took them into the stzeet, where they were beaten to death, The director then sent for the sheriff at Paducahand telegraphed to the governor that the. English company’s property was in danger and he demanded the protection of the state. At this juncture a large number of ‘the remaining workmen who had taken no part in the strike protested against the action of the director and went out with the others. . * The whole town was now in a ferment of excitement, and that night " Mr. Matlock began to take imeasures 10 have his gold transférred. The next day .an event occurred which is unprecedented in the history ~of strikes. In order to understand it in its extraordinary details, it is necessary to exjjlain the topography of St. Mary’s. Ly . The town is built on the first and - second of the natural terraces and covers in a scattered way an area of perhaps three square miles. To the southwest and. overlooking the town is what looks like a portion of a third and larger terrace, but which is the level of a long: stretch of tableland that extends south and west with a steady fall for fifteen or twenty miles. It is a poor and sparsely inhabited country covered with secrub oak and gum trees and answers in many respects- to the southwestern land of Kentueky which is still called the ‘‘Barrens.” There are few roads and these are very bad. All local travel skirting this region follows the Llark river on the line of the Paducah

g Re A R 1 SR TN AT 1727777 NN | N N T 5N 7\ o oL R || R ;.4"/{4{':_j§_ : - //\ HENDRICES SAT UP ALIL ONE NIGHT READING THE PAPERS. railway. Itisnot at all inaccessible from St. Mary’s. Itis simply uninviting. Abouta mile out there is an old kousec standing half hidden in the gum trees and brush near the one road. It was built ten years before by a man wwho manufactured potash and tannin from the osk stumps and is said to have done quite a business there in a drudging way. About six weeks before the troubles broke. out at St. Mary’s the place was hired from an old negro, into whose possession it had fallen by a man who gave out: that he was going to fit it up for-the manufacture of emery paper, a jgreat deal of which was used at St. Mary’s and material for which had” been found in a crude state somewhere in the neighborhood. He had been receiving his stock of machinery andeimplements over the Paducah road. A - On the morning to which reference ‘has been made, Bt. Mary’s was ina wery demoralized condition. ‘The news had gone out over the country and hundréds of strangers had poured in ‘across the Ohio and from Louisville and. Cairo. It was expected by everybody that a eollision would take place ‘between the workmen and the colony which theg English company had planted on ,ae"bank of the river. The sheriff of the county had arrived, but the governor had declined to interfere at the present state of affairs. . . ~ Such was the condition of inatters 'when at nine ¢’clock, to the astonish-

ment o 7 everybody, a regiment of infavtry, ome thousand strong, in full maréhing order and armed with magazine guns, made its appedrance at the edge of the town on the Paducah -railroad, and came @own the main street as far as the bank in fine order, preceded by a drum corps of four pieces. ’Md’%flt@hio}ifie&hm& execitement at this sudden invasionwere increased ten fold by the banner which spread out to the morning breeze, and which had inseribed on it legibly: “First Battalfon A:;cricun Workingmen. No Tyr- | ny of 1 ey. N bnofC - Tealm LBaTTR how far it had marched or what

it did not . take long for the rumor to form and fly that it was a workingman’s regiment, and would not take the side of the employers.

When it had reached the little square where the bank stood it was drawn up. A skirmish line was thrown out, pickets stationed and the crowd forced back. : “The colonel and his staff then went into the bank. The disposition of the men in the street was such that aceess to the bank was impossible, and as the doorway was on alevel with the street it was impossible for the crowd to see what was going on, save that there was @ constant fluctuation in the ranks of the men. .. :

The regiment stood there quite two hours and a half. In the meantime there was great commotion at the company’s works. The sheriff set off in a carriage with Mr. Matlock, followed by half a score of deputies to reach the bank, but were stopped by the pickets. The officer protested and threatened, but in vain. When asked if the governor.had sent them, .the goldiers replied: ‘““You must talk to the colonel, but you cannot pass the lines at present.” - i . ; ~ “If the colonel desires to protect the bank, he will confer with me,” said Mr. Matlock. ' ‘I don’'t kinow what his orders dre,” said the soldier. ‘‘Better wait till he calls on you at the worlks.” . The sheriff, in high dudgeon, then rushed to the telegraph office. Itisan hour before he gets an answer from the governor at Lexington and it is: “Have not authorized use of troops—miist be mistake about regiment. What do you mean?”’ ‘Then followed several of the absurdest of dispatches. “No mistake,” says the sheriff: ‘“‘Regiment, one thousand strong, armed with repeating rifles.” / “Impossible,” says- the governor. *“Your feéars or your condition has made you wild. There is notsuch a regimental formation in the state. If you cannot preserve the peace will send,, the Louisville Lightguards—-ninety-four men. The law must be upheld.”” ' :

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‘“‘Regiment of armed men in possession;of the bank. Must have the protection of the state at once, The sheriff is helpless.” . ,To this the governor still incredulously replies: ‘‘Regiment must have transportation. How did if come? Answer at once if it invaded the state from Ohio.” X ;

“Impossible to tell was the answer. “No one knows how it got here. It is drawn up on Main street at present. Have failed to communicate with officers.” -

After some delay, the governor sent this word: . “Will arrive fn the morning with Adjt. Gen. Luscomb. Do nothing till I get there.” i . While this was going on an hour was lost and it was three o’clock. At half past three o’clock the regiment was moved from the bank to the vicinity of the company’s works. 1t proceeded in fine open order and was cheered along the route by the peoplé. A strong guard was left at the bank and no one allowed to enter. : , :

On the company's common it was again.drawn up-—a strong encireling line of pickets thrown out and the following note sent about five o’clock to the director: - : Hadlie “Sir:—The first batallion of the workingmen’s advance guard will protect property until the state takes possession. I shall encamp my men on the outskirts until to-morrow. Let the citizens retire to their homes till that time.” 0 :

After several attempts to see the colonel, the sheriff sent a communication to him: _ BT

- “Sir:—Will you inform the authorities of this county by what right you invade this state. As the legally constituted officer of the county, I demand +hat you appear before me and explain your conduct under penalty of arrest.”

To this the colonel made no answer.

It was six o'clock in the evening when the regiment was marched to an. open tract on the southwest terrace overlooking the town; strong guards were thrown out in all directions and apparent preparations made for going into camp. As there was nothing for the town to do but wait the arrival of the governor in the morning, it slowly quieted down. The camp fires of the military burned in a long row on the far terrace. The regular beat of the drum was heard far into the night, which was an uhusually dark one, and at twelve o’cloek all was still.

But as soon as it was light the streets were thronged. There were the fires on the terrace smoking as if with preparations for brealkfast and the white tent of the colonel could be plainly seen. The early train brought in a erowd of idle men, but' the railroad officials denied having seen any regiment. ]

As soon as the day was fairly arrived | crowds began to make théir way to ! the edge of the camp. The gunard had been withdrawn from the bank'in the | night and at seven o’clogk Matlock received word thatthe regiment had disappeared. He went iramediately to the bank with {he sheriff. At the same time the news of the disappearance spread like wildfire. Crowds over-ran the camping ground, but not a sign of the soldiers could be found except the | smouldering fires, the remaining tent fragment of clothing—a cartridge or &

Then it was that the director dis ¢overed that all the specie had been removed from the bank. A great crowd had gathered round the entrance. He got upon a chair and in an excited manner conveyed the information. It was received with incredulous jeers, cries of “Served y.u right. Wedon't believe it. You brought the soldiers, etc,” and the wildest excitement ensued.

. The sheriff was paralyzed and lost his head. He|sent telegrams to Lomnisville and Cairo calling on the author ities to arrest all soldiers in blue shirts and duck trousers armed with Spencer rifies. He arrested the agentsat the Paducah railroad and held them for collusion. Armed parties were sent out on the highways and discovered nothing but straggling men drawn to the town by the news. : ' Every other subjest was now swallowed up in the robbery of the bank, and upon the arrival of the governor and his_adjutant in the afternoon, there ensued a scene of incredulous indignation and fussy officialism. The adjutant, an old-time veteran with purely Kentucky prejudices and Kentucky dignity, immediately framed a.theory that there had been a raid from southern Indiana, and was for calling upon the governor of that state to make good the loss and to return the raiders for punishment. - In Louisville, Cairo and Cincinnati, ‘the most extraordinary accounts were published in the papers. One of the sheets announced in its head lines: “The English syndicate at St. Mary’s makes away with a million and a half of money belonging to the workingmen.”’

A paper in Louisville announced that Kentuckyhad been invaded by an army of Indiana free-booters, and its head lines were startling. ‘‘Are we to have another civil® war?” they asked. “Shall an invading army desolate Kentucky while our apathetic officials are ‘dickering with the bloated barons? Let there be a call to arms.” : One fact alone was clear to the people of St. Mary’s. The money and the regiment had disappeared together. That the astonishing circumstance

did net at the time betray to the country some of the real facts was owing to the muddle which the incompetent Mr. Matlock and the pig-headed sherift and governor had produced 'in the minds of the; peopk?. There was a widespread suspicion ‘among the workingmen that the superintendent was in some way implicated in the removal of the gold, and nothing could eradicate from the governor’s head the notion that ‘the regiment was an exagerated ruse which had been brought about by a descent of invading villains from southern Indiana. cn

Hendricks had counted ca this very result. His motto was: ‘**Audacity that bewilders—and then, energy that disorganizes.” :

' CHAPTER XV. Bkl It is necessary now to keep in mind two orders of events. Oneis the slow focussing of public suspicion about the operations at Laran. The other is the extraordinary relationship of the principal personages at the headquarters of the conspiracy. A week passes and men are straggling back to the Laran from all over the country. They come in through the woods at night singly or in -little groups. They arrive at the Wash bayou, coming down from St. Louis and crossing at night from the Ar kansas shore; they come up from Memphis looking for work and some of them ride in from the mountains of East Tennessee. : :

Hendricks watches the reassembling with cool calculation and appearsito have been satisfied of the main results. Abeut fifteen per cent. of the men never reappeared. This was necordipg to his calculations. But the rest, actuated by the fear of individual peril, the esprit de corps of military organization, or the desire to go on with the: war which a master-spirit had planned, had, in great part, revarned at the end of the week. At that time there were by count five hundred and fifty men of the regiment back in the cave. : '

Hendricks sat up all one night reading the papers that had been brought him from Memphis. Ile went over all the accounts carefully. There was.not in any of them a surmise as to the truth. The regiment had got away and it had accomplished its purpose, but the further away from the scene the comments were, the less seriously the newspapers regarded the occurrence. InNew York there was some kind of enormous western practical joke suspected. ‘‘How,” said one jour nal, ‘‘a regiment of a thousand men can come and go without observation, can dismantle a bank and then depart with a million dollars in specie without being detccted or interfered with or ‘tracked, remains for the imaginative west to explain. - It looks very much at this distance as if the English company had been operating in ,phantoms to bearits own market.” :

.. An angry official correspondenge had ‘talzen place between the governor of Tennessee and the governor of Indiana. The town of St. Mary’s and the city of ‘Paducah swarmed with newspaper ~men and detectives. - But it was plain E*to Hendricks that fresh troubles at St. [Mary’s between the director and the men - thireatened to draw attention ; from the search for the soldiers. " . [0 nm coNTINUED.} - : .. Intensely Happy. S . Husband—And are you happy, dar Wife—Yes, indeed; an happy as ¥ 1 | had never been masried.—Hallo.

'THE SUGAR TRUST. A Tyrant That Should Be Speeily Dethroned.’ The sugar trust has ordered its refineries in New York, Philadelphia and Bostonto be ¢losed. It professes to be losing money; and that for this reason it is throwing 50,000 men out of employment at the beginning of winter, saysthe New York World. Henry O. Havemeyer, the trust’s president, who testified to bribing both politieal parties, pretends to be sorry for the workingmen whom he turns out on the streets. e o I s ‘The sugar trust is shutting down for the purpose of intimidating congress and the wholesale grocers. Mr. Havemeyer confesses the principal motive of his monopoly when he says: '“The last congress is responsible for the present situation, and if they pass the free-sugar bill they will kill the industry completely.” The working men in the refineries are to be thrown out of work in order that congress may be deterred from passing.the free-sugar bill and in order that the revolt of the wholesale grocers against the trust may be put down. S

There is no truth in the assertion that the trust is losing money. It has glut@d the marked with sugar refined from raw material imported in 'enormous quantitiesunder the McKinley act and can shut down for a tippe without loss. The price of granulated sugar has advanced from 3.86 last April to 4.35 cents a pound a month ago, while the refiner’s margin of profit a pound has increased from .709 cent in 1890 to 1.15 cents in 1894. Refining is done more cheaply in the United States than anywhere else in the world. Lo ' To anyone familiar with the labor employed by the trust Mr. Havemeyer’s profession of philanthropic sentiments is naturally nauseating. The refineries employ the cheapest labor in the country and treat their men| most harshly. They pay at the rate| of 10 cents an hour, equal to 80 cents? for a day of eight hours. - The work is done in an average heat of 125 degrees,which sometimes rises to 150 degrees.| Men are killed by the heat, and last summer the ambulances were kept busy carrying victims of the awful temperature from the Brooklyn refinery to neighboring hospitals. . o These facts controvert Mr. Havemeyer’s assertions. The trust |/is not losing money. If it cared for its men it would not pay them starvation wages for their trying .toil nor turn them on the streets simply to add to its ill-got gains. It is shutting down to preserve the enormous profits it is earning on $75,000,000 of water and $lO,000,000 of investment. Congress ought to answer these cruel bullies by passing the free-sugar bill within a weelk. —Chicago Times. ; -

WHAT THEY ONCE THOQGHT. Some Extracts Which Show How Present Protectionists Once Stood. | But I am told we must so-legislate as to furnish a home market for |all our agricultural products, and this can only be done by high tariff. Ahy one examining the subject will see that our agricultural products increase more rapidly than our populatiofr, sp that, if we do not export these productsin their natural condition, we must do so by converting them into manufactured articles, and export those articles. But this cannot be done under a high tariff, for all nations will buy manufactured products where they are the cheapest, and the nation selling the cheapest will control the market.—Hon. W. B. Allison, Mareh 14, 1879. - i We ought to be able with our resources to produce all our éwn food here, but if anybody in Canada or anywhere else can sell us wheat, or oats, or oatmeal, or -corn, or corn meal any cheaper than we can produce it, we ought to buy there.—Hon. J. R. Hawley, in U. S.:Senate, June 15, 1894. During the entire war, when we were seeking everything on the earth, and in the skies, and in the waters under the earth, out of which taxation could be wrung, it never entered into the conception of congress to tax breadstuffs—never. During the most pressing exigencies of the terrible : contest in which we were engaged, neither breadstuffs nor lumber ever became the subject of one penny of taxation.— James G. Blaine, in House o_fl Representatives, June 10, 1868. i

A few years of further experience will convince the whole body of our people that a system of national taxes which rests the whole burden of taxation on consumption and notentirely on property or income is intrinsically unjust.—Hon. John Sherman, i 872. The tariff of 1846, although confessedly and professedly a tariff for revenue, was, so far as regards %all the great interests of the couytry';, as perfect a tariff as any we have ever had.— Hon. W. B. Allison, lowa.

BELIEVE IN FREEDOM.

The Late “Slide” Does Not at all Dis- " hearten True Tariff Reformers. . There is no weakening among tariff reformers on account of the recent reverses. In Massachusetts the old “Tariff Reform league” at a recent meeting resolved to change its name and will be known hereafter as the “Free Trade league.” There is no blinking of principles. A few years ago it required some courage to declare one’s self a believer in trade freedom. It isnot so now. The New [England tariff reformers feel that there was a possible chance of misconception of their real attitude when they were called tariff reformers. All equivoeationis put aside by their designation as, the ‘“‘FreeTrade league.” This league includes in its membership many names conspicuous 1 the earlier and better days of the republican party and in the anti-slavery agitation. Wil--liam Loyd Garrison (son of the old abolitionist), Henry L. Pierce (an old republican congressman), and many others of their class, are active members of the league.. The democratic party is a free trade party, in its main membership and aspirations and asks no one to forget the fact. Democrats believe that the right of freedom in the great domain of trade is inalien-: able. The taxing power should never have been invoked for the enrichment “of private individuals or corporations. It 'is the right of every man to buy ‘and ‘sell where his own individual profit will be . best promoted. Taxation should be ‘limited to the needs of the government economically ‘idministprad,” as well urged by a republican president. 'The profession of these true and radical ideas is consistent with moderation in legislation for. the reform and correction of the trust. resding system. A complete change ‘The return to normal conditions will

ness of the country must have oppor: tunity by degrees to adjust itself to more liberal trade conditions, but the right of trade freedom must finally be conceded every citizen, modified only by such import taxes asare required by the revenue needs of the government. Democrats stand where the republican president, Gen. Garfleld,. did when he gaid he was ‘‘in favor of a tariff leading to ultimate free trade.”—Quinecy Herald. G o

THE PRESIDENT’'S TARIFF.

The Recommendations of the Executive . Essential to Prosperity. " The starry flag of tariff reform is still flying. . The president bravely urges congress to strike outof the tariff “every particle of differential duty in favor _of refined sugar,” and to abrogate the odious duty against sugar imported from countries paying a bounty on its export.- He also well says: . - ““The tariff act passed at the last session of congress' needs' important amendments if it is to be executed effectively and with certainty. In addition to such necessary amendments as will not change rates of diity, I am still very decidedly in favor of putting coal and iron on the free list.”

The amendments to the tariff and the supplemental.tariff bills now before the senate, t.Q passage of which Mr. Cleveland urges, are indispensable to the business and manufacturing interests of the country. Not a day should be lost in carrying out these important recommendations and redeeming the tariff reform pledges of the democracy. If the new tariff is to commend itself it must be speedily amended as the president suggests. Excepting free wool, no provision in the original Wilson bill was as important as free coal. When the bill was mutilated in the senate this, with many of its best features, was stricken out. But it is not too late to repair much of the mischief done by the senate. : After the many rebuffs which the president’s tariff policy has received from democratic senators he naturally says little now on the subject. But if these senators wish to save their party from utter wreck they will make haste to carry out his suggestions, both in their spirit and letter.—=N. Y. Herald.

MANUFACTURES OF WOOL. Facts That Protectionists Dislike to Hear : . or Read About. " In reviewing the dry goods market for the weéek, the Wool and Cotton Reporter of November 29 says: - . “‘Some agents for mills making men’s wear report that they have received reorders on spring . stuff from the clothing trade during the past week, although of .course the inquiry is not very pronounced as yet. Most of the mills find that they have got all that they ean attend to for some time to come in getting forward their goods which were sold on initial orders. There is the same complaint over the delay in getting goods and the same hurrying and nerve-straining exertion on the part of manufacturers’ agents to make good their contracts.: It is re= markable, at. first thought, that there havenot been more cancellations. Many manufacturers have been positively unable to live up to their contracts. They cannot make the goods and deliver them when wanted, for the reason that they cannot do six months’ work in three. .The buyer, whois grumbling because he cannot get his goods,knows that he is ‘himself to blamein not or-/-dering earlier, and he realizes -that i¢ he cancels his orders he stands no betiter show of having them filled else'where more expedifiqusly. He has to ‘wait. ~ Cancellations, therefore, have been very few and ‘are likely to continue so.” ot g :

Reports didn’t read like this one during the dark days of McKinleyism. Will any republican dare advocate taxed wool in 18972 - P

OUR MERCHANT MARINE.

Congress Should Act Promptly in Passing a ‘Free-Ship Bill.

The partial liberation of our foreign trade from the shackles of high “‘pro. tection,” which was eifected by the new tariff law, is an earnest of better times for the American commercial marine. But after thirty years of decadence our ocean-going shipping can be revived and built up only by granting our own merchants freedom to buy ships where they choose and to 'sail them under the American flag. . The clamor for congressional subsidies to shipping ought not to be listened to. Subsidies and boynties are worse than-useless devices f(g- building up a great merchant marine. When subsidies were. proposed in Germany the Hamburg merchants vigorously protested, saying: e : ‘“‘Governmental measures, whether they consist in throwing artificial obstacles in the way of foreign competition or in direct support of the national flag, may here and there bring temporary advantages to individual enterprises, but they will never be able to permanently raise and . elevate the shipping interest. On the contrary, as experience has shown in France, they paralyze individual ewmergy, endanger the spirit of enterprise and effect the decline, if not the ruin, of trade.” " i Let congress immediately pass a free-ships bill, and we will not have long to wait for a grand revival of the American merchant marine.—N. Y. Herald. o T i

Afraid to Act.

It is not at all likely that Reed, ' Dingley, Sherman, Allison and other } republicans who will return to Washington in 1895 are sorry that they will have no opportunity to propose a tariff bill for more than one ‘year and probably will not have to assume responsi- ' bility for a new tariff bill before 1898. ‘The fact is that they would not know what kind of a bill tomake if they had the power to make one now. They prefer to suspend both judgment and action until they are more certain what the people meant at the last election. They couldn’t have means ‘‘yes, we want McKinleyism,” for they have twice said ‘‘no, we won’t have .McKinley duties.” About the only republican authorities which are so foolish as to expeect a return to McKinyism, dutiable wool and all, are Me nley, the New York ‘Press and the tective Tariff league; and none of these will be at Wfihitjgton in 1895. Those who will be in power will be glad that they will have to rest on the Wilson bill until 1807. Then, if the republicans should still have the floor they will be compelled not only to accept Wilson bill' rates but to lower ‘them.. It will be a ‘‘come-down” for ‘the high tariff. republicans to follow the lead of the democrats, but public ‘opinion must Wmmwfiw M fakach (g Bs TIRRE SN

; “BRAVE AND. TRUE.” = _ Once, in my happy childhood days, A mother kind I knew, e . Who gave her boy the rarest praise; ' She called him “‘Brave a?d True,"” He was my chosen mate at play, - - 1 Joved his bright, young face, Eoa His pure, high brow, that ev'ry day : Shone with some added grace. -=i He was so quiet, fair and mila, - ; Yet had so brave an air, ° : 3 The neighbors grew to love the child, And kissed his golden hair. ~ % Boys, love the truth and follow it,” ' - ¢ Qur teacher often said, % As Willie does; your lives 'twill fit For station just ahead. s‘ MR '@ And ever dare to do the right, ' Be patient, earnest, true; These are the mottoes, wreathed in light, | ' That Willie keeps in view. g % And this is why all love him so. - ‘ It wins his mother’s kiss; iy ‘ It shows his-young feet where to go, »And fills his heart with bliss.” ' Years since I left that old schoolroom, - Butlhave kept in view, . - 7 Come days of light or days of gloom, 4 The motto, “Brave and true."” . ~—George B’ Grifith, in Golden Days. GOLDEN RULE ARITHMETIC. ftory of Two Small Boys and a Cirdas ~ Ticket. . i, SSPRY > whispered little ‘Kenn,etli Brooks, ‘‘l've got a secret to tell you after school.” L s “Nice?” asked Phil. e “Yes,” was the answer, ‘“nice for me.” ; L :

. “*Oh!” said Phil, and his eyebrows fell. . He followed Kenneth around behind the sclhioolhouse after school to hear the secret. :

“My Unclé George,” said Kenneth, “has given me a ticket to go and see the man tg’a't makes canary birds fire off pistols and all that. Ever see them?” *‘No,” said Phil, hopelessly. 3 “Well, it’s first rate, and my ticket will take me in twice.” said Kenneth, cutting a little caper of delight. - ‘“Same thing both times?” asked Phil.

“No, sir-ee; new tricks every time. I say, Phil,” Kenneth continued, struck with the other’s mournful look, *“‘won’t your Uncle George give yoti one?” - “I ain’t got any Uncle George,” said Phil. ol

“That's a fact. How about your mother, Phil?” ;

_ *‘Can’t afford it,” answered Phil,with Lis eyes on the groufd. : e

Kenneth took his ticket out of his pocket and looked at it. It certainly promised to admit the bearér into Mozart hall two afternoons. Then he looked at Phil, and a secret wish stole into his heart that he hadn’t said anvthing about his ticket;, but after a few moments’ struggle, ‘‘Phil,” he cried, *“I wonder if the man wouldn’t change this and give me two tickets that would carry you and me at one time?” - ' %

Phil’s eyes gréw bright, and a happy smile crept over his broad little face. “Do you think he would?” he asked eagerly. e “Le#’s try,” said Kenneth, and the two little boys started off for the office windoyv at the hall. e e a s “But Kenneth,” said Phil, stopping short. ‘‘it ain't fair for me to take your tßket.” e e ; It is, though,” answered his friend, stoutly, ‘‘’cause I'll get more fun from going once with you than. twice with myself.” This settled the matter, and Phil gave in. .

“So you. want two tickets forone time?” said the -agent. Seilebe ‘“Yes, sir,” said Kenneth, taking off his sailor hat; ‘“‘one for Phil, you know.” i

“You do arithmetic by the golden rule down here, don’t you?” asked the ticket man. :

“No, sir, we use Ray's Practical,” answered the boys; and they didn’t know for a long time what that man meant by the golden rule.—Southern Churchman. St R

THE SEA. ELEPHANT. Largest Representative of the Seal Species o Is Almost Extinet. ° , . The California sea elephant isan animal with a fearfully long Latin name, but a very short stay on this earth, writes W. T. Hornaday in St. Nicholas. It is the largest of all the seals, its average length when fully grown being from twelve to fourteen feet, while it sometimes reaches the astomishing length of twenty-two feet, including the hindflippers. 'lt is ‘still an open question whether this animal is of the same species as the sea elephant of the Antarctic ocean. Our animal, like the’ other, derives its popular name from the lengthened, tapir-like proboscis, or snout, of the old males, which sometimes projects six inches or more beyond the end of the muzzle. - ~ The hair is exceedingly short, very stiff and hars_h,[and when clean and dry is of a dusky yellowish color. .'This species once inhabited about two hundred miles of the coast of California, from Point Reyes south, but it has

; T TT——a "_':;égwwfl)hw-wmfig,;:‘ ' , — == F N ) S e e = = . CALIFORNIA SEA ELEPHANT. been practically exterminated for the sake of its oil. 1n 1884 Mr. C. H. Townsend visited Santa Barbara island for the express purpose of preserving for the National museum the skins and skeletons of what- were supposed to be the last survivors of the species, then aboiit to be killed by a seal hunter for their oil. »The result was that at the eleventh hour a number of very valuable skins and skeletons were saved for the zcological museams of the world, - - oo About the same time an enterprising ‘collector actually captured five young specimens alive and shipped them to New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Cincinnati—which was the first and only time the species was. ever seen alive in the eastern United States, and will doubtless be the last. But I am glad to be able to state that these seals are not absolutely extinet, for a short time ago Mr. Townsend assured ey T NG progpers” . s

. THE ALAMO MISSION. ' How It Was Defended by a Handfnl of .~ Herolc Texans. Ly It is a safe wager that mine ount ¢f every eleven boys who are proficient in the use of a bowie knife have not the slightest idea whene the instrumens got its name. - Gl Col. Bowie of Texas fame gave the knife its title. ey e . And when one writes of the Texas hero, one must needs think of the battle of Alamo, that heroicfight of which" our American boys and girls seem to think so little, and half of them know nothing whatever. : g They read how the -brave soldiers fought and held the pass of Thermopylae, but they seldom think of howa mere handful -oé #aen defeated the Alamo mission. ¥ How they dropped fighting on their knees and then died facing the foe. . : " If you should go to the historical city 'of San Antonio in, Texas you -vill see the old mission building standing with battered, bullet-piereed walls, a monu-_ mernt to the 172 heroes of ’36. Behind

R iy A : . b . e, 5/Q ) \“(. s L 2TI ' : I \fi \\gl,flf; fl[m‘fi\ : g: Lo ——*v‘ A 1;. \ \ 1 R e\ o ‘Y.Jn\ } . & > 77, J\ S ! \.\Q a /J ( o TN\ @RS )1 &8~ E 5 777 T & ) el Wl "‘ { 2Ry (S e 2h «_j;.{\. cff <>’_] f’,’ it /_".;;y,//,,:,g ; o MABSACRE. OF THE ALAMO. 4 these walls the most important battle in the war between Mexico and- Texas was fought. This was when Santa Anna was president and the Texans were fighting for their independence. Here it was that Col. Bowie ended his brave life, dying with his boots.on and fighting under the most terrible odds., The'story is this, and every American child should know it by Hheart, that he may tell it with pride when other nationsare talking of their great deeds

One hundred and forty-five men uns’ der/Capt. Travis, a young man of 28, tvere holding' the town of San Antonio against Gen. Santa Anna and 4,000 men. They were the only defenders of the town and were ensconced in the old mission of the Alamo. Davy Crockett was also with them and Col. Bowie,. who was wounded and stretched out on his cot. Of artillery they had only ~ fourteen pieces. : ; "

- Santa Anna demanded surrender; but the little garrison held-out for ten days, skirmishing secretly for food and water. Every shot sent out of the mission’ house told, but not one of the Alamo herces. was' hurt. Patience and strength, however, were being rapidly exhausted. Some of the little band were falling sick, others were despers ate. Reeénforcements had -been appealed for, but none had come. Col. Lamein, - with. 300 men .and four pieces of artillery, had-starfed in answer to the appeal, but had put in somewhere for fresh water and food ‘supplies.. R S ;

At last Capt. Smith joined the exhausted band ‘with thirty-two men. Three ‘days after Gen. Santa Anna ' ceased the' bombarding, and; taking “advantage of this, Capt. Travis called his men into line and frankly owned that there was no earthly hope for them; that he had led them into this thinking that reenforcements were on the way. He does not utter one word against Lamein for failing him; he simply gives them their choice of deaths. They can surrender and be shot down, or be killed fighting out ‘their revenge. The capfain drew a, line and said: ‘“Every man who is de: termined to remain here and die with me come to meacross that line.” Every soldier but one crossed'at once. When they finished ‘Col. Bowie looked up, with his arm in a sling, and cried: “Boys, don’t leave me. Won’t some of you ‘carry me across?’ And the only" backward step they made was-to /go over-the line and carry the colonel to the young captain’s side. The man Rose, who was a coward, dropped over "the wall into a ditch, and was verily the only man who escaped totell the the tale. And then came the terrible day. i :

Santa Anna brought-all his forees to bear on the fortress. The : scaling ladders were again and again raised, but those who placed them were shot down like grain. Four thousanhd men charging into 175 seemed easy enough, . but it soon reduced the 4,000. At last numbers conquered, and the Mexicans ‘climbed over into the Alamo. The lit-tle-band of defenders were trampled on and beaten, but they dropped to their kuees and hacked and shot and pierced until the pile of the dead was awful. Col. Bowie, too weak to rise {from his cot, leans on his well elbow, and marks his man every time he pulls the trigger.” ‘Cut, bleeding, he. cggtin- , ues to kill until the pistol drops : and the breath leaves his body. Davy Crockett, standing in a corner, fights like a panther, and the young captain, backed against the wall, surrenders only when run through and through: The great battle is over. The Mexicans have won. Out of the 172 Texans ‘are 172 dead. .No Spartans were braver or more tenacious, for they killed 522 of their enemies amd-wounded 500 more. Texas, though, was finally freed, and" whenever ‘great deeds thrill young boys’ hearts they should think of that splendid piece of American daring, and ' say, as Houston said to his men: “Remember the Alamo.”—Claire Claxton, # in St. Louis Republic. = L ——— e . Freddie Has an ldea. . / “What are-you doing with that key, Freddie?” - B AEmaat ©“l’'m goin’ to try and nfia the baby | walk with it. Seems tome ifakeyis ‘smart enough to malke a doll that ain’t alive walk, it qught to be smartenough tomake a live baby doit."—Hiber's Young Poople. = “ “ - Here is the record of two brave girls: = Ammfismmw bay, B. C., killed with o Winchester a O Bomn O LA Ve ”"*w youn pig— | iT G oy (R RS W ?firfi:‘g@mg@amqw‘irmf;‘* ‘ AR b LS A e