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Araons the mo.t rbn.plcuon* and iouble of the ranfftT. and IndUoDEhteni who "blaze.1 thrtr way" alcm* a 100 trail* between the Rio Orande and the Colorado 70 year* ar> were Rexln and Janie. Bowie—to whom, jointly, belonsi the questionable honoo cf the Invention of the bowieknife. Thete ener*rtlc and Intrepid lad. were the sons of Rezln Bowie, who had migrated from Maryland to Georgia, where the boys were born In Burke county. There were three other ji rot hers—DavU. John, and StepheiLjn 1802 the family removed to Catahoula'parluh. Louisiana. On the 10th of September. 1827. James Bowie was engaged on t bar of the Mississippi in one of tbe bloodiest affrsys recorded In the lighting annals of the southwest, in which two men were killed and Bowie wounded. Soon after this sflsir Jsmes with his brother Rezln. made his way Into Texas, where a career as dramatic as It wa< characteristically American awaited them—nt first among the hostile tribes, and later In desultory encounters with predatory bands of Mex-

icans.

In 7831. on the 2d of November. Jsmes and Resin Bowie with seven comrades and two boys as servants set out from San Antonio la search of the old Silver-mines of the San Saba mission. They made their way without notable adventure until tbe morning of the 18th, when they were overhauled by friendly Comaachcs. who warned them that they were followed by a war party of 121 Twowokanss and Wacos. az well as by 10 Caddos. making In all 161 well-armed braves, who bad sworn to take the scalps of the white men then and there. The Comanche chief inrllcd the Texans

to join his party, and offered to -maki a stand with them, although he h:. but 16 men. badly armed and -short

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^ t on tin before night the ‘Texans declined the generous offer and pushed boldly on. But they sc an came upon rocky roads, their horses' feet wera worn, and they were compelled to encamp for the night In a small grove of live-oaks of the girth cf n man's body. To'the north of these, and near by. was a thicket of young treci about 10 feet high; and on the west. 10 yards away, ran’ a stream of water. On every side was open prairie, tiitersperaed with rocks and broken land, and here and there a clump of trace. ’ Here, having prepared for defense by cutting a road IhslJe the thicket and clearing out the Kjekly’ pears, they -hobbled their hoerfs and posted sentries. Tbit night they were not 1 molested: In the morning, as they were preparing to start for the fort, they discovered Indians cn their trial, with a footihan 50 yards In advance of the party with hie face to tbe ground, tracking. All hands eflw to arms: those who were already In the saddle dismounted, and the saddle and pack horace were tethered to the trees. Tbe hostile* gave the war-whoop, halted, and' began stripping for action. Seme mounted bucks rcconnoltercd the ground, and ameng these were a few Caddos. known "by the cut of their hair.” who until that dav had been counted among tbe friendly tribes. In consideration of the dlsprcporf tion of numbers—1C1 to 11—It was agreed that Rezln Bowie should go out to parley with them, to avoid, if possible, a fight so uniq&al and so desperate. He took Davl^-Bucbanan-wlth him. walked to within 40 yards of the enemy's llhe, andllnvlted them to send out their chief to talk with . him. He addressed them In their ov\ tongue, but they replied with a “How'do! How do!" followed by a dozen shots, one of which broke Buchanan’s leg. Bowie responded with tbe contents of a double-barreled gun and a pistol, took Buchanan on bis back, and started -for the camp. The Indians opened fire again. Buchaiiah was hit twice, but not mortally, and Bowie’s buxtlcg-shirt was pierced by several ■hots. Seeing that they tailed to bring-him dowa. eight of tha Indians on foot pursued him with tomahawks, and were close upon him whan his own own party charged them with /■" rlfleq and - killed four, putting the others to flight "We then returned to ocr position." wrote Reala Bowie, “and all was still for five minutes." Then from a. hill red wttb Indians,

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the voice of a moantila men to the charge

could be heard plainly, came yells and a vicious volley. "Who is loaded?” cried James Bowie. ”1 am." said Cephas Hamm. "Then-sboot that chief!” And Hamm, firing. Broke the Indian’s leg and killed bis pony. The chief went hopping round the horse, his body covered with his shield; four of tbe Texans who had reloaded fired and tbe man foil. She or eight of his tribe advanced to bear away tbs body, and several of these were killed by tbe-Texans. The

Presently, however, they covered the bill again, bringing up their bowmen. for the first time In the fight. There was rapid shooting on both sides; another chief advanced on

him down. , Meanwhile, a score of Caddos who had succeeded -in getting under the bank of the creek In the real- sf.the

Texan party opened Are at 40 yards, j and shot -Matthew Doyle through the breast. Thomas McOaalln ran forward to avengo him, and was shot through the body. The firing became general from all quarters. Tbe Texans. finding their position In the trees too much exposed, retreated to the thicket, where they dislodged the riflemen under cover of the creek, who were In point blank range, by shooting them through tha bead as often as they showed above the bank. In the thicket, where they were well screened, they had clear views of the bostlles on the prairie. “We baffled their shots.” wrote James Bowie. "by moving six or eight feet the moment we had fired, for their only mark was the smoke cf our gun*. They would put 20 balls within the space of a pocket-handkerchief In the spot where they saw that spoke." In this fashion the fight was-kept up for two boars, and James Correll was shbt through the arm. Seeing that the Texans were not to be dislodged from the thicket, the savages resorted to fire^-for the double purpose of routing' the little party and of carrying away their own dead and wounded under cover of the smoke, for the rifles of tbe rangers had brought down half a dozen at evenround. They set fire to the dry prairie grass to the windward of the thicket; the flames flared high and burned all the grass as far as tbe -creek; but there they bore away to tha right and to the left, leaving a clear space of five acres around the camp. Under cover of the smoke the hosttlcs carried away their dead: while the Texans scraped away the dry grass and leaves from their wounded comrades, and p!l& rocks and bushes to make a flimsy breast-

work.

The Indians re-oceupled tbe trees and rocks in tbe prairie and renewed their firing. Suddenly the wind shifted to the north and blew hard. Tbe men were quick to see tbe advantage and seize tha chance.. One of their braves crawled down the creek and set fire to the high grass. Robert Armstrong killed him—too Is,tc. .Down came the flames. 10 feet high, straight for the camp! The shouts and yells of the Indians rent

ad yeL_ the air. and they fired 23 shots In a

Behind the screen of smoke the Texans held a council of war. If the Indians should charge them under ir of the fire they could deliver but one effectual round. Even then, the sparks were flying so thickly that no Qian could open h|s powder-horn at the risk of being blown up. Bowie's men determined if the Indians charged “to deliver that one round, stand hack to back, draw our knives, and fight as long as one was left alive." On the other hand, should tha Indians not charge, and should the Texans still stand their ground, they might be burned alive. !n that case each man would lakp care af himself is well as by oocld until the fire reached the ring of cleared ground around the wounded men and the-bag-gage;* them they would smother It with buffalo-robes, bearskins, deteskins. and blankets. And this they did. the hostile* not charging. By this time tbe firs had left so little Of tbe thicket that ‘.he small group of fighters took refuge in the ring they'bad made around the wounded end the baggage, and begun raising their breastwork higher with loose rocks and with earth that they dug with their knives. The Indians had succeeded In removing their killed snd wounded under cover of the ?mcke. Night was approaching, and they had beta fighting since sunrise. Hie Indians, seeing that the' Texans were rtill alive znd d?ng*rcue, drew off and encamped for the night with their dead and wounded.' By 10 o’clock the Bowles has raired their clumsy ramptrt breast high; thy ora filled their vesseli and skins with water, and waited for the attack which they supposed ths* morning wculd bring. All-night they hcerl the red men wall lug oyer their dead: and at daylight they shot a mortally wounded chief, as the customs cf CTi tribes prescribed. A llttlfe l.-ter they retired with their dead and wcunded to a mountain abo".r s tnti? away, where a care served them for shelter and for tomb. '. 8 o’clock two.of the Texans ventured ent from the little fort, and made their way to the encatnpmant where the lull •ns Vrd lain the night before, and there they counted 48 blosdy spots on the grass where their braves bad fallen before Texan rifles. "Finding ourselves much ent up." wrote the Bowles, "having one man killed snd three wounded’, fire horses killed,and three wounded, we resumed lie rtnasthsnlng cf our little fort. i*r worked until l v. m.. -when 13 Indians appeared, but retired again as toon as they discovered that we were still there, well fortified and ready for action.” the Texans held tholr ground eig1}t days, and then retraced their march to San Antonio, where they arrived safely with their wovndsd and their korse* la 12 dav*.

It was proper to th» ghastly "fitness of things” that ths mas who directed this wonderful fight, and wax the heart and ejs and arm behind every rifle and every keifs, should go to

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3. Travis drew a line with his sword across the adobe fleur. and railed on all I hose of that desperate 1 title garrleon who would stay with him to ths death to come over that line to him. Crockett sorang across merrily, waving his cap. and every man of "those about to die" followed htaL saluting: "Te mjrlturl salutamus!” James Bowie, fast bound In raging fever, tossing and muttering on bis cot "In the little north room of the Alamo." heard the rail, and cried for two of Ms comraJes to lift the cct and carry him over that line. It warn done, and then they bore him back again to the

little room to die.

It Is Madame Candelaria, the Mexican woman who nursed him there, and who alone of all that Spartan band survived, who tails the story. "It is not true." she says, “that Col onel Bowie sms 'brained with an ax.‘ He died In wild delirium 1c the height of the awful carnage, several hours before the Mexican horde burst Into the Afsmo. . . . They broke In tbe door where I watched with Colonel Bowie. I cried out. in Spanish, that I was a Mexican worn a had nursed a man who One knocked me down, and another stabbed me In the cheek with a bay onct. Here D the scar! . . . Colonel Bowie’s cold body was dragged from tbe cct—dragged down the stairs by the hobllng mob of soldiers, and thrown upon a b*op of bleeding dead."—The New Voice.

QUAINT AND CURIOUS. For the first time for 1003 years an ordination service in 8L David's Cathedral. Cardiff. Wales, has just been conducted In Welsh. The most curious cemetery Is situated at Luxor, on the Nile. Here repose the mummified bodies' of millions of sacred ckts. Their remains side by side with the bodies of kings and emperors In mausoleums.

plank on which were scratch*! tMe testamentary dispositions of a shipwrecked naval officer. The board, with Us r^ugh carving, was held to be a will duly executed. In 1015. at Novgorod, at that time the capital of Russia, It was .the la»w that any one plucking a hair from any individual's beard should be four times more severely punished than though he cut off his finger. In this connection all men wore compelled to grow beards The supposition was that the beard was the main source

of manly strangth.

An Indian dentist, who at his graduation Is raid to bare raptured all the prises offered by -a Boston college of dental surgery, extracts all teeth with a gentle pull of thumb and finger, a method which has been practiced by the Chinese for 30 centuries. He believes Chet once • the simple morels of thumb and finger, by which most firmly-rooted tooth may be drawn, shall be learned, forceps will be considered a barbarism. Tbe Quakers hare the distinction of haring built the first meeting-house In Boston. It was In Brattle street

suffered every species of cruelty esthelr faith--In Boston; scourging and imprisonment were the

All have heard of white elephants, but few know that there are also In cxletence white rhinoceroses, constituting a distinct species. These are almost extinct, and probably not more than a dozen or so arc left. The Revue SclesUfique says, of a small herd of there animals in Nttal. that fortunately they are protectid by law and. fonmrtely also, the narty that met the nntmalr Included the governor of the colon'-, cthnrwlae th® species might have been now more nearly extinct than . ever before, for hunters arc net scrupulous In such matters.

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Freldl and Felix Kopstcln. aged 15 and 13 years respectively, were walking along a street in tbe Austrian capital, when they came across an old woman staggering along under tbe weight cf a heavy package. Moved by pity they offered to carry it for the old woman, a proposition to which she rcadllrjscccJodr The.kind h-.xrtcd children had not gone far before they wore ar^' rested by a policeman for carrying parcels without a license. The children were taken to a 'pollcv station, where the officer In charge lectured them upon the enormity of thjtr' offence. Thny were kept under arrest for six hours and then released with a r-arnlnr-It seems that there D a corps of ‘’Messengers’’ In Vienna, to which a municipal statute grants the exclusive right of “carrying” inside the city. Hie boy find girl had violated tbe law b^ carrying tbe old woman’s burden, and under such an Interpretation of tbe

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