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0 1 Tj J! A J7 pfnT H VOL. .4. LASKER, NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, X- C , THURSDAY, MARCH;. 7, 1S95. NO.-10. REMEMBER ALAMO. Story of One of the Most He roic Fights in History. MAGNIFICENT DEFENSE OF 175 M EN AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF 4,000 COLONEL BOWIE. UN ABLE TO STAKD, FOUGHT WITI TPI .T.I NO EFFECT UNTIL THE a. m - HREATII LEFT HIS BODY. It is a safe wager that nine out of every eleven boys who are pro ficient in the use of bowie knife have not the slightest idea where the instrument got its name. Colonel Bowie of Texasfame gave the knife its title. And when one writes of the Texas hero one must needs think of the battle of Alamo that hero ic fight of which our American hovs and oirls seem to think -' 'j $ so little and half of them know nothing whatever. They read how the brave sol diers fought and held the pass of Thermopylae but they seldom think of how a mere handful of men defended the Alamo mission how they dropped - lighting on their knees and then died facing the foe. If you should go to the histori cal city of San Antonio, in Texas, you will see the old mission build ing standing, with battered, bul let pierced walls, a monument to the 172 heroes of 1830. f Behind these walls the most important battle in the war between Mexico and Texas was fought That was when Santa Anna was president and the Texans were fighting for their independence. Here it was that Colonel Bowie ended his brave life, dying with his boots on and fighting under the most terrible odds. The story is this, and ev,- ery American child should know it by heart, that he may tell it with pride when other nations are talking of their great deeds: One hundred and forty -five men under Captain Travis, a young 'man of 28, were holding thertown of San Antonio against General Santa Anna and 4,000men. 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 Colonel Bowie, who was wounded and stretched out on his cot. Of artillery they had only fourteen pieces. Santa Anna demanded surrend er, 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 liot one of the Alamo heroes -was hurt , Patienceand strength, however, were being rapidly ex hausted. Some of the little band were falling sick; others were desperate. Re-eiiforcementshad been appealed for, but none had come. Colonel Lamein, with 300 men and four pieces of artillery, had started in answer to the ap ical, but had put in somewhere for fresh water and food supplies. At last Captain Smith (joined the exhausted band with 32 men. Tjjiree days after General Santa Anna ceased the bombarding, and taking advantage of this Captain 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 re-enforcements were on the way. He does not utter one word against Lainein for failing him. He simply gives them their choice of deaths. They can surrender and be shot down or be killed lighting out their revenge. The captain drew a line and said, "Ev ery -.man who is determined to remain here and to die with me will come to me across this line. Every soldier but one crossed at once. When they finished, Col. Bowie looked up, with his arm in a sling, and cried: t4Boys, 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 to tell the tale. And then came the ter rible day. Santa Anna brought all his forc: es to bear on the fortress. The scaling ladders were again and again raised, but those who placed them were shot down like grain. Four thousand men charging into 175 seemed easy enough, but it soon reduced the 4,000. At last numbers conquered,and the Mex icans climbed over into the Alaino. The little band of defenders were trampled on and beaten, but the dropped on their knee sand hacked and shot and pierced until the pile of the dead was awful. Colonel Bowie, too weak to rise from his cot, leans on his elbow and marks his man every time he pulls the trigger. Cut, bleeding, he con tinues to kill until the pistoldrops and the breath, leaves his body. lavy Crockett standing in a cor ner, fights like a panther, and the young captain, backed against the wall, surrendered 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 brav er or more tenacious, for they killed a22 of their enemies and wounded 500 more. Texas, though, was finally freed, and whenever great deeds thrill young boys hearts they should think of that snlendid niece of American dar ing, and sav, as Houston said to his men, "Remember the Alamo. St Louis Republic. Bread. Where ? How ? ANCIENT AMERICAN BREAD. (For the Patron and Gleaner. Our Puritan mother's bill of fare was frugal as well as whole some, with bread generally made from corn, barley or rye meal; and if the diet was rather farina ceous than animal, there was less demand for medecine, and a argel, long-lived growth of men and women han in these degen erate days of luxury, and namby- pamby views of life generally. A Delaware Indian taken cap ive in war, escaped and made a ong journey back to his own vil age, eating nothing on the way but a little loaf of corn bread. He was immediately re-christened, "Journey-cake." Mr. " S. P. Preston, of Lumber- ville, related "to H. C. Mercer, Ajiril 1st -1894, that he remem bered his grandfather, SilasPres- on, telling him how the latter, when a boy living on the farm now owned by Benjamin Goss, inBuck- ngham township, Bucks county, ra.y naa seen ueiaware inaians encamped in bark-roofed wooden luts near by, pounding corn in stone mortars with stone pestles. They mixed the meal with water, and patting the dough into flat- ened balls with their hands, bilked these cakes in the hot em bers of their open fires. He did not tell his grandson whether they salted the meal or what was more important if we should desire to try the experiment wliether the corn grains were pounded when old and well dried, which would Ije a difficult opera tion; when green and soft which would be easier, or after previous parching, which would be easier still. Franklin (Harshberger on Maize, p. 140) speaks of Indians, probably Dela wares, parching corn grains in dishes of hot sand and afterwards grinding them to a tine powder, which kept fresh a number of years. Cap. John Smith saw Indians roasting corn on the ear green, and when thus parched crisp, bruising it in ar "wooden mortar with a polt and kipping it in rowles in the leaves of their corn, and so boyling it for a dainty' M. H. Rice. Laliaska, Pa. TO BE CONTN'UED. THE ECLIPSE OF THE MOOX. SUPT. ASKE W, OF BERTIE, WRITES TO THE SCHOOL CHILDREN IN REGARD TO IT. .1 Dear Children: To vou of Bertie, who are between the ages of 6 and 15 years, I wish to talk a while concerning one of the won derful phenomena of nature, that of the Eclipse of the Moon, which will take place on March the 10th. uon t lorget the time. 1 say those of you under 15 years, be cause I shall presume that all ov- er that acre, if thev have made proper use of the educational ad vantages given them, already know, to a considerable extent what I shall-say, and if they do not then let them ask their teach ers, many of whom can describe these things better than I. I desire to make this Eclipse an object lesson to you, and I want you all to be on the bright lookout for the event. It will occur on Sunday night a fitting time to view it with a contemplation of reverence and love to the Good Being who cre ated the Heavens and all the won derful worlds that roll along theirillotted tracks through the immensity of space, with the speed of lightning and the exact ness of measured time. There are three great orbs,or worlds with which we have to do. The earth which gives us home, with all the blessings attendant therewith.' The sun that gives us light and warmth, by day andall manner of animal and vegetable life, and the moon that governs the night regulates the atmos pheric influences about us and otherwise acts as waiting maid to the necessities of mother earth I want to tell you, that, as to size this earth is about forty nine times larger than the moon, and the sun is so vastly larger than our earth, that we will not stop to mention its size. I will further tell you that the moon is about 240,000 miles from the earth, but that she belongs to our earth as her satellite or pet jewel. That she runs all around our earth once in about every 28 days, but turns on her axis only once dur ing this circuit Hence it is that the same side of her bright face is always towards the earth, with the old man looking tenderly to wards you. She may be ashamed to show her other side so far as we know. While she thus play s around the earth every four weeks, still she follows our Earth as being under her protection in the latter's great orbit or track around the sun once each year. We want you also to remember that our earth has two motions, one"!T rolling over once every 24 hours on its axis. The other a forward movement at the tremen dous speed of 68,000 miles an hour or over a 1,000 miles a minute. Remember also that as she thus runs- in her circuit around the sun, she careens or inclines i 1 i 1 Jl . v il. six monins towaras me iorm and six months 1 towards the South, like a great ship that rolls slowly upon a mighty wave. These rolling North or South res us the seasons or summer and winter. Now stop and think for a moment of this wonderful airship which we ride upon, thus rapidly passing along her orbit around the sun, at the same time rolling over from West to East every -4 nours, wun me origin silver faced moon all the time eeping up with, and ruuning so much faster, as to go around her every four weeks; then in our as tonishment and admiration we would but exclaim, O how won derfully great must be the Crea tor j)f the Universe, who fash ioned these worlds and put them n their places with such exact nicetv, that even nmte man can calculate all their wanderings with exact precision. Xow I trust you will bear close ly in mind what I have thus far told you. and don't forget it but try and add to this little bit of in formation from time to time. Now then, we will go back with you to the eclispe of the moon and help you to observe and study it so that you may the better un derstand this irregular arrange ment of nature. Kemeinber that this eclipse always happens when the sun. earth and moon are in. a direct line with each other; also that the moon always fulls at the same time I would tell vou, also, that the moon always changes at the time of an eclipse of the sun. Now look in your almanacs and! see if I am not correct i Then, when the sun is setting in the west and the moon at the same time is rising in the east you discover that our globe lies just between them, and the shad ow of our earth as made by the brightness of the sun behind the western hills runs away out into space, towards the moon, like a round pointed or cone shaped wedge, and it is through or across this dark shadow Of our globe that the moon passes which we call eclipse. Now, then, for the object lesson to be tausrht You are told by-your teacher that this world of ours is round like a big ball, and all you have to do is to believe it without seeing the evidence of the same. Now I ask you all on that Sunday night to keep awake with a bright look out and see who will be the first to discover the dark shadow of our earth as it touches the bright full face of the moon. I wish right here to tell you,-that just as soon as you see the first niche of it tell your mamas to go at once and set their clocks at 8:40 and they will all have exact moon time of night which will be per fectly correct Now keep your bright eyes up on the moon and watch as she passes into this shadow, and you will see the shadow, as it lies across the moon's face, has a cir cular or round outer edge. Now, then, children, you are looking squarely at the exact shape of our World. Remember it is no picture put on paper by man, but the real image of our earth just as the hand of God puts it before our eyes; and after this if any one tells you the world is not round let him know that you have seen to the contrary, that your eyes have beheld and not another. An now, in order that I may keep you awake, I want to draw upon your imagination while you look at this outer rim of the earth's shadow, and see if you cannot discover some object that exists, upon the surface of our earth, away yonder in the moon. If the -part presentee! to your view be the great ocean, look close whether or not you can see a ship or perchance an island, or if it be land, surface, perhaps you may see some peaks of a mountain or may be a man plowing in his field for the part jireseuted to your view will be exactly at sunset hour there. Now, how to know the part of the earth's surface you are looking at You remember I told you this world turned over from west to east once in every 24 hours; also vou must be told that it is'25.000 miles in circumference orarouud it. Then you will discover that if you live anywhere in the equator ial region, the. spot of earth you are standing on is turning ai a speed of over 1000 miles an hour. Hence as you live considerably to the north of the Equator, you do not turn quite so fast but we will say just 1000 miles per hour. Then if the sun sets at about 0 o'clock to us this will allow the earth to turn nearly three boars towards the east before the eclipse commences, which makes sunset hour about COOO miles to the west of us or near the west ern coast of our continent or pos sibly at or near the much talked of 'Hawiian Island in the Pacific, Continue to watch her and before she emerges from the shadow you will have presented to you, the eastern edge of Asia, or the coun tries of Japan and China, the two lands wh ich a re now del ugi ng ihei r borders in a cruet and bloody war. Now then you are at liberty to see wnatever you can as our great world passes, before your view across the face of the- in con. and often this wonderful event of na ture has passed. I would be very much pleased to receive at least a few hundred letters written by your own littltj hands, telling me what you saw and what thoughts passed through your inindsin re gard to the great God who made all these wonderful things, and then I would have you .say like the Psalmist "Behold the-heavens declare the glory of God and the firmaments showeth his hand iwork; day unto! day uttereth speech and night unto night showeth knowledge. " Then jump into your warm beds and Teel that the good and merciful Lord whose eye never sleeps, will take care of vou. V If space and time permitted, I would like to tell you something of ou r ea rth 's a tmosphe re. How dense and heavy it is, and why it holds all so fast and keeps us from flying Off into nothing. Also how the moon by its gravitating influ ence acts so wonderfullvand nec essarially upon our atmosphere, and how our great seas and oceans are all kept, in agitation and motion I by her. Also some thing, of the nature of the eclipse of thexsun. The difference be tween the total and annular eclipse. 1 . These things, it explained, might cause us to rejoice anew because of the. great and infinite mercy of our God who knows what is best for us. Take care of this until after the eclipse on Sunday night of March 10th. With best wishes for your growth and success in life, I am Yours truly, R. W.' Askew. Windsor, N. C. Slander. A person's character is tbe foundation for a rising- life and individual equality. Take a char acter and vou take a fountain from out a park of sjarkling life and activity, leaving in its stead a cold, silent silhouetteof the form er self. Take a character and vou commit a crime that cannot be undone. So beware what you say and do, being careful not to in any way injure a character for it is an everlasting tarnish. It is more what is said than done that does the injury. Talk in the form of slander has borne down many a brilliant character, humbling it in sorrow and unjust retribution. Words spoken with out thought may endangera char acter and come back to their source labeled "slander. . A sland erer should be despised as a de- stroj-er. tearing down what per severance and integrity-have la bored faithfully in building a character. Xevcr speak but in praise to whom honor and praise are due. Of whom it is otherwise nothing should be said." Then you may have the satisfaction of knowing no injury has been done. He that kec)eth his mouth keep- eth his life, but he .that opens his mouth and sends slanderous words flowing forth endangers lives, characters, homes and na tions. One word may totter what lias taken skilled workmen years to erecL Let us an tram ourselves to keep a quiet tongue aid speak as sken -to,"'-thereby building an inpemtratible barrier around our. homes, and, what is loftier, a tine character. Ex. PEELE'S REMEDIES. 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