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THE RE-ENFORCEMENT.
An Incident in tne Siege of the Alamo,
BY EDGAR MAYHKW BACON.
' Travis, with his little company of Ame
army of Santa Anna, led by Castnhon and
ipired by romantic courage, cut their way
Alamo, only to die with its defenders. Ay
cans finally overcame the little garrison
turrender, out they were .afterward killed
. See! what gallant horsemen ride
Jb'rom the poplar's dappled shade,
, 'Ina swift, unswerving rankr
Fleet as flows the crested tide,
Sun on belt and naked blade,
Empty scabbard at each flank?
Now, Castrillon, hold .your jplace
v 'Lest that wave's relentless flow
Sweep you from the trembling plain,
""Perjured Cos, what hope of grace?
Ye who keep the Alamo
Wonder and rejoice again.
, Crash! Brave steed and rider fall
In that hot, accursed hail.
r Itiiiging .drops the nerveless sword:
' Crumbling bends the advancing wall.
'. De ith is guarding with his flail
Santa Anna's Mexic horde.
.. Cheer! They xlose their ragged line.
Cheer! Red spur to spur they ride;
Cheer! They meet the battle's brunt
1 'And their keen blades brightly shine,
; 'As with long unstaying stride,
' Keep they still a steady front.
Like a froth the wind has torn,
Half to right and half to left,
Falls the Mexican array;
As a vessel, tempest-borne,
Dashing through the crimson cleft
The invaders held their way.
A PERVERSION OF
JUSTICE.
BY EDWARD DOBQOM.
HE man' Teas in a reminiscent
mood. He was touched with
gray, and his eventful life was
filled with strange happenings
that afforded many an interesting tale
to those he honored with his reflec
tions and confidences.
We were seated in the sitting-room
waiting for the call to dinner. The
occasion was a family reunion, or, at
least, a gathering of as many relatives
as . could be present. All the family
news had been told and discussed,
and a silence prevailed. It was then
that the man of reminiscences related
one of his many. unusual experiences.
: "I do not believe much in justice,"
he began, cynically. "At least I have
never seen it throughout my life. The
law is on the side of the biggest pocket
book, and the poor, often ignorant, man
who has the misfortune to have any
thing to do with either lawyers or the
law pretty generally becomes the
worse off for the connection. How
ever, a case of the perversion of jus
tice, in .which I was mixed up, has
just occurred to me.
"The time was about twenty years
ago, the place was the village near
New York where I had my farm. A
heavy fall of snow had covered the
roads, making them in some localities
impassable. We had finished our
week's work and were preparing for
Sunday. Chris Johnson, an illiterate
German, who could not speak English,
my farmhand, was told to go to the
village, about a mile and a half away,
for some supplies. He received two
dollars from me and set forth on his
errand. It was about half-past nine
when he left the house.
"He trudged along the middle of the
road, where travel had packed the
snow so that walking was not very
difficult. He carried an old cane, a
keepsake from his father. When some
distance down the road he heard sleigh
bells behind him, and side-stepped into
deep snow for the vehicle to pass with
out turning aside. As the sleigh drew
near Chris, the driver swerved the
horse toward him, and before he was
aware of danger, the fellow in the
front snatched the cane from my man's
hand, grabbed him by the lapels of
liis overcoat, and belabored him about
the heaoV He was stunned as a result
of the assault, and his assailants went
through his pockets, taking the two
dollars and a few cents which were
therein. They also took his hat and
cane, and drove off, leaving him lying
in the snow. Chris, however got a
good look at the wielder of the weap
- on. But it did not stand him in very
good service, when it should have
been of the greatest assistance in send
ing the fellows to jail.
"My man soon recovered conscious-
ness sufficiently to grope his
way
home. He stumbled into the hou
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w uu uiooa streaming down nis injte,
and with lumps on his head almost as
big. as one's fist. It was with some
difficulty that I got him to relate just
"what had befallen him. He told me
that the sleigh had large runners, and
that the horse was white. That wag
a good clew, as I. had noticed such
a vehicle, containing three men bent on
having a hilarious time, traveling about
the. vicinity,for the past three days.
Moreover, I had recognized these men,
and my suspicion was directed against'
.: them. But my man was positive that
there were only two men engaged in
the assault upon. him. '
"Securing a revolver apiece, we went
over the trail made by the runners of
the sleigh. They left a very wide
track which we had no difficulty In
! XollowiDg. We saw where the men
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ricans was holding the fortress against the
Cos. A devoted oand of young men, in
through the Mexican lines and gained the
hen the overwhelming force of the Mexi
only ix of ,the Americans were alive to
on Saata Anna's orders. 1 .
Ou the fort deep silence fell
Over Travis's hero band.
No eye sought a neighbor's face;
Chained, as by a potent spell,
lanting stood they, steel in hand.
For a leaf-fall's tardy space.
Then rang out the plaudits deep , ;
As upon the hither side, .
lake a sunburst after rain,
From that fearful furrow leap
Horse and horseman stride to stride,
Coming down across the plain.
Those who smiled, unmoved, at fate,
Dauntless in the face of death,
Men of iron ran amain,,
Shouting, to the fortress gate:
Laughing, sobbing, in a breath,
-When at length the troop drew- rein.
From his post the leader came,
Met them with untroubled face
"It was nobly done and great."
Then he added,' smiling grave,
"111 the prize for such a race,
Help from San Filipe comes late."
"Life or death, what odds?" they cried.
We have ridden fast to-day
(Ask Almonte how we came)
Just to fight at Travis' side.
There is nothing more to say:
Room to die is all we claim.' '
Youth's Companion.
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turned in, where the horse stopped,
where the' scuffle occurred, where one
got out and went through my man's
clothes, where they threw his body,
and where they continued their jour
ney. We then returned home, when
I cleansed Chris's wounds and dressed
his head, cautioning him to remain as
silent as the Sphinx about the assault
I promised to do what I could for him
on the morrow.
"Early on Sunday morning, a clear,
crisp day, I began the search for in
criminating clews. The trail was as
fresh as though it had been just made.
While half way to the village I met an
old acquaintance, who facetiously com
mented upon my being out so early. I
told him the story ot the assault, which
brought from him the remark that he.
too, had noticed the trail left by the
wide runners of the sleigh. We com
pared notes and reached the conclusion
that the two assailants were no less
than the son of a nearby village hotel
proprietor and the son of a local hos
telry keeper. They were on a pro
tracted, vicious skylark, and, it seemed,
stopped at doing nothing that would
supply them the wherewithal ito keep
it up. My friend, who was in a sleigh,
agreed to join me in a hunt for evi
dence against them. So. taking a
seat by his side, the horses head was
turned toward the village.
"The first place we visited was a
resort we knew the men frequented.
We were'. well known to the proprietor.
My friend remarked in a casual way
that the two men, mentioning them
by name, appeared to be havinga
great time lately. The fellow replied
affirmatively, and volunteered the in
formation that they had dropped in on
him last night and carried-on some
what. After an exchange of pleasant
ries, which would leave no other, im
pression than that we had only an
ordinary interest in the actions of the
men who had become our quarry, we
left the place and proceeded to another
resort some distance off, which We
knew to be, more or less, their head
quarters. Entering, the usual friendly
greetings were exchanged with the
proprietor and the others there. Abkl
ing the opportunity, I got mine host,
with whom I was well acquainted.
aside, and I laughingly remarked that
that wras a great game, to mention
names, Wilson and Clark, had played
last night. He started quickly, then
smiled and significantly said, 'So you
were in it, too, eh?' I replied, Yes,'
but I did not inform him just how I
was in it. I then said that the stolen
cane was a highly prized keepsake
from the victim's father, and gave my
nearer the impression that I woul
e to return it to the owner, who, I
had found, was a favm-hatul. 'Snv'
iJsald, in a confidential tone, 'what
id Clark do with the poor fellow's
hat and cane?' The man hesitated a
moment, then he replied, 'Clark broke
the stick in pieces and burned it with
the hat In that stove yonder. I saw
him do it just before he and Wilson
left here last night.' , Cautioning the
man to secrecy, my friend and I soon
started for home, and on the way
thither ve decided on a plan of ac
tion. "We told Chris the result of our
sleuthing trip, and . persuaded him to
accompany us to the 'Squire and swear
out a warrant charging Wilson and
Clark with highway robbery and with
assault with intent to kill, hoping that
by making the charge as strong as
possible, . we would secure the punish
ment of the accused men. We did not
forget that their friends were all-powerful
'roundabouts. They were ar
rested' on the following day, and at
a hearing the 'Squire set a date when
the trial was to be held. In the mean
time we made out a perfect case
against the . men, and were confident
that we could convict them. Alas, our
faith in human nature and justice was
to be rudely shaken! -
At last the day of the trial. My
man was sure that he could identify:
the person "who assaulted him.- My
friend and I were Interested in the
case only to get justice for Chris,
whose confidence in us was almost
child-like. We mado the mistake of
not hiring a lawyer t&dook after the
Interests of Chris. The accused were
represented by well-known Jocal law
yers, their friends packed the court
room, and even the 'Squire was a
close friend of the prisoners' families..
Before the case was called, and while
the accused inen were within our sight,
I got my man, unobserved by any one.
to Identify the man who dealt him
the injuries. He made a perfect iden
tification, and my belief that the pris
oners would be convicted was strength
ened. The case was called, the pre
liminaries were gone through, and
then Chris was requested to identify
the man who assaulted nim. I watched
him nervously, as I saw that the man
he wanted had seated himself in a
chair and had burled his head behind
a paper. In fact, he w'as the least
conspicuous person in the room. Chris
glanced around and a look of disap
pointment overcome his features. Again
he surveyed all present, and to my In
tense astonishment pointed to a man who
somewhat resembled the accused, and
said, 'There he is!' Clark then dropped
the paper from his face. Chris threw
his hands up excitedly and exclaimed,
My Got, I haf made mistake! It Is
he!'
"Then the 'Squire took a hand in
the proceedings. 'That won't do,7 lie
said to Chris. 'You have upon your
oath identified this man (pointing to
the innocent stranger) as your assail
ant. Now we shall see whether you
have made a true identification At
this point my friend and myself, as
being witnesses in the case, were or
dered from the court-room. Not know
ing the law then, and thinking that a
trap had been set for my man, we
refused to go. Whereupon the 'Squire
gave orders to the constable that if we
remained in the room during the hear
ing he was to arrest us for contempt
of court. We decided to retire, but
fully expected to be called as wit
nesses. We left Chris, who could not
understand English, to face a hostile
crowd alone. An interpreter was pro
vided, but he twisted the replies in the
favor of the prisoners. The rulings
of the 'Squire, too, were such that tne
evidence of my man was declared in
competent. "Well, we ha'd waded outside for
an hour when Chris appeared witli a
very dejected countenance. 'Well, I
said to him, Ms it our turn now?' He
shrugged his shoulders. 'It's over.
Made mo sign paper know nothing
who robbed me. Gave me $2.70, but
my cane gone for ever!' WTe realized
what thejr had done, Chris had signed
a deposition absolving the prisoners
of any complicity in the. highway rob
bery, and he had received a paltry
sum of money to compensate him for
the amount taken from him. The
'Squire, whose duty it was to adminis
ter the law justly, had compounded a
felony. A wilful perversion of justice
had resulted, but I don't know but
what our ignorance of ,the law was
partly responsible therefor. The evi
dence should have been presented for
the consideration of the Grand Jury,
who, had it been sufficient,. should have
Indicted the two men accused. The
'Squire really-had no jurisdiction over
the case. -
"My roan, however, thought that my
friend and I were in league "with the
others, and all that we did was for
tlte purpose of clearing the men of
the grave charges of highway robbery
and assault 'with intent to kill. Our
dcrire was to befriend Chris. He never
had the same faith in in c, and very"
shortly loft my service. Wilson be
came a prosperous hostelry proprietor
nearby.. As for Clark, two months
later he was , appointed a constable by
the 'Squire. . ' A number of burglaries
which aroused the neighborhood were
proved to the satisfaction of a few
citizens to have been committed by
Clark during his rounds in the per
formance of his duty. They knew,
however, that his trial and conviction
were impossible, as . his friends were
all-powerful, and that persecution
would be the reward for any gction
they might take with that object in
view. Not long ago Clark, who had
remained constable, died a respected
citizen, and at his funeral he was eulo
gized as a faithful public officer. But
my faith in human justice received a
mighty jar.
One Indian Families Means.
Thirty-four of the Choctaw Indians
who arrived at Ardmore from Mer
idian, Miss., are of one family. T. B.
Griffin, eighty-four years old, was the
er or grandfather of them all.
Each one of them getsv the eauivalent
of $5000, including 320 acres of land.
; Conversational Art.
The art of conversation is not know
ing what dne ought to say, but what
one ought not to say. New York Press.'
: It takes ar sharp tongi': to rnako cu--tisg
remarks. - - .
SOUTHERN
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE PLANTER, STOCKMAN AND TRUCK GROWER.
Cottonseed or Cottonseed Meal?
There is much difference of opinion
and consequent discussion among farm
ers who grow cotton as to the manner
of feeding and relative value of cotton
seed and cottonseed meal. The tend
ency always is to utilize for feed the
products of the farm and this is gener
ally a safe and desirable practice.
Cottonseed meal is one; of the pro
ducts resulting from the manufacture
of oil from cottonseed. Oil, hulls and
linters are the othei products. The
short cotton that sticks te the seed is
first removed, then, the hull is separ
ated and the resulting hulled seed , 13
ground, heated and pressed. After all
of the oil obtainable byj heavy pres
sure is secured the cakes from the
presses are ground into j the product
known as cottonseed meal. It is not
cottonseed meal in the same sense that
ground corn is cornmeal or ground
Kaffir corn is Kanir meal. ( The cotton
seed meal produced by the oil mills dif
fers greatly from ground cottonseed,
and this fact should be kept in mind
when discussing the uses! which may
be made of this feed. The only differ
ence between corn and cornmeal is that
of digestibility. The chemical compo
sition of each, if from the same lot of
corn, is tlie same. But cottonseed and
cottonseed meal are entirely different
in composition. Cottonseed contains,
in each 100 pounds twelve and one
half pounds of protein! and nearly
sixty-nine pounds of carbohydrates and
fat, and has a nutritive ratio of 1.1.2.
Cottonseed meal contains jin each 100
pounds thirty-seven pounds of protein
and forty-four pounds of carbohy
drates and fat and has a nutritive ra
tio of 1:1.2. The term nutritive ratio
means the-proportion existing between
the protein and the carbohydrates and
fat in a feed or ration. For general
purposes the grain ration which is fed
should have a nutritive ratio some
where between one to six and one to
seven. ' '.'
Thus neither cottonseed 'nor cotton
seed meal is suitable to feed as an ex
clusive grain ratio, but should be fed
mixed with some grain richer in carbo
hydrates, such as corn, Kaffir corn, or
wheat If cottonseed Is fed at least an
equal amount of one of these other
feeds should be mixed with it. Both of
the feeds will' then be utilized to bet
ter advantage than either alone. Cot
tonseed meal should never be fed alone
except possibly to stock cattle that
have plenty of roughage and are not
receiving other grain. In general cot
tonseed meal should be mixed and fed
with about three to five times as much
corn, Kaffir corn or wheat, i -
Whether to feed cottonseed or cot
tonseed meal depends on the market
prices of each and of corn. Kaffir corn,
wheat and rough feed. These prices
vary so greatly in different localities
that no general statement which will
apply in all cases can be made. The
tendency appears to be toward feeding
cottonseed without inquiring into the
possible advantages of selling the seed
and buying cottonseed meal. Pound
for pound, when fed in connection with
other grains, cottonseed meal possesses
far greater feeding value than cotton
seed and can be used to advantage
where cottonseed cannot. ' r
Lighted Lanterns in the Barn.
The safest kind of "safety lantern
is not sufficiently safe to carry into a
barn in the night. Accidents will oc
cur. The lantern may be set down on
BOX FOB LIGHTED LANTERN.
the floor for a moment and accidentairy
knocked over. It is a wise rule that
keeps all lamps and lanterns out of the
barn entirely. It is often necessary,
however, to go into the feeding floor in
the evening, or in the early morning
and a way of lighting the floor must be
provided. The illustration shows how
this can be accomplished. A box with
its bottom replaced by a pane of glass
is fastened against the boarding of the
barn door, or elsewhere, and a hole cut
through the boarding, so that a lantern
can be set . into the box from the but
side, its light falling through the pane
of glass onto the feeding floor
If a reflector is attached to'the little
door, as shown, it will throw a strong
er light into the barn. So easily is such
an arrangement made - that one could
well be provided for the feeding floor
nJ2f De the door IeadinS int the
cattle stalls. The lantern then heed
ARM fJOTES.
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never be carried into the stable, but
the interior lighted at any time Vith.
out any danger. Where the position
of the box would make it desirable to
throw the light to both sides as Well as
straight ahead the two sides of the
box, as well as the back of it, can be
provided with1 panes of glass. Thi8
would be especially desirable rhen
lighting a Vtie-up" for milking time.
The box could be arranged midway be.
tween the ends. American Agrieultur.
ist.
Grass or Grain Cutter.
The man who cuts the grass will re
; member, that- every time he let th&
work go too long it was necessary to
run the mower over some parts of the
lawn several times, before all the Ion?
blades were down, or else leave the
lawn with a .ragged appearance. - The
principal advantage of this new ma
chine is that, no matter how long the
grass gets, the first cdtting will bring
it all down to the common level; R
fact, the longer the grass the better the-
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BOTARY KNIVES ON THE LAWN II OWES.
cutters will work. As will be seen, the
cutters are circular, toothed wheels,
revolving in horizontal planes and act
uated by gear wheels set on the inner
ends of the drive-wheel shafts. These
cutters arc in reality nothing but a set
of circular saws, and their action is
exactly the same, sawing the gnis
blades off as the mower is pushed over
the lawn. The saw spindles are pro
vided with ball bearings, thus reduc
ing the friction to a minimum, and by
doing away with the necessity for run
ning the mower ever high grass more
than once this machine should save
much labor for its owner. The inven
tor - Thomao F. McDonald also ap
plies the same principle to a machine
for cutting grain or hay.
What Intensive Farming Is.
We sincerely wisn that every reader
of this paper would read with care the
following article on intensive fa rmins
from the Indiana Farmer:
Intensive farming is a very plain,
simple matter, and there is no reason
why any one should not pursue it more
and more. Sometimes the phraseology
used in connection with this subjec t
is "scientific farming," -for that is in
tensive farming. Scientific, or inten
sive, simply means the observance of
known laws of agriculture. The most
primary definition of science is some
thing ascertained, or a known: truth.
As a further application of the idea
scientific, or intensive, farming consid
er what has been ascertained or ac
complished. in, the growing of corn. By
observation and experience it has been
found that the corn plant as it ad
vances in growth throws out numer
ous fibrous roots, a little below the sur
face of the ground, extending" from
row to row before the period of culti
vation ceases. It was the old method
to use the deep cultivator' to the end.
Later experience showed that it -was a
mistake to do that, and shallow culti
vation, at least after the plant Is nd-
l yanced somewhat in growth, has be-
fome nearly universal, and has result
ed in a greater yield of corn. Here
was an ascertained fact, or truth,
about growing corn, or in other words
the application of science in agricul
ture, for it was found that the com
plant required soil nutrition gatherer
by these numerous fibrous'roots to per
fect it, and so deep cultivation has
ceased as the plant advances ia
growth. That surely is a very plain
matter, and yet very scientific in its
application to corn growing. Again,
by observation, experience and som
experimentation, it has been found
that careful selection and corn breed
ing for a series of years will produce
a purer and more prolific seed, that
whereas there is now a very consider
able per cent. of. barren stalks-stalks
without ears-as a result of the old
way of selecting seed corn. When the
pure bred seed is used there are rarely
found any barren stalks in the field".
The concentration of soil nutrition is
not wasted in growth of stalks without
ears, but is used in ear-bearing stalks
nearly universally, and so corn produc
tlon has increased under this method
twelve to fifteen bushels per acre,5 and
in some Instances reported at even
twenty bushels more than -when such
care was used in the use of pure seed.
This is simply another application of
xu, cum growing, or, if you
please, more intensive farming.
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