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thg 4 * Eeeelaeeeeeeeeeee ie en Cns sn s nateeneiis Cl __ * _ Cepyright by Rebbe--Mervili Compan» 1 CAPTAINS OF | mwwcw Bperdy, he used to carry a whole breadside of 'her cannon bally in hbis pocket. He had fAfty--four men when he laid his toy boat alongside a Span-- Ish frignate with thirty--two heary guzs and three hundred nineteen men, but the Spaniard could not Are down into ie hie fhoble shotted J uw with his popgans. Leay-- ing only the doctor on board he board-- ed that Spaniard, got more than he bargained for, and would have 'been wiped out, but that a detachment of his sailors dréssed to resemble & castle head. The Spaniards were so MedthtMW For thirteen months, the romped about, --capturing in all Aft; ships, one -- bhundred and, twenty--two guns, five hundred prisoners. Then she In 1800, Cochrane, beiig a bit of a chemist, and a firstrate mechanic, was allowed .to make fireworks--hulks loaded with explosives--with which he attacked a French fieet in the anchor-- age of Aix. The fieet got into a panic and destroyed itself, _ ° : "} ./: And all his battles read like fairy tales, for this long--legged, red--baired Bcot rivaled Lord Nelzon hbimself 'in 'genius and daring. At war he was the hero and idol of the fiket, but in péace. a demon, restless, fractious, fendish in humor, deadly in rage, playing schoolboy jokes on the admiralty and the parliament. He could not be bhappy without making swarms of powerful enemies, and those enemies waited their chance. ~~In February, 1814, @'French officer landed at Dover with tidings that the Emperor NXapoleon had been slain by became a triumphal procession and, amid public rejoicings, he entered Lon-- don <to deliver his papers at the ad-- His news was false, his dispatch a rane's uncle, a stock. specu-- lator, to contrive the 'whole black guar lly hoax, Cochrane knew nothing of the plot, but for the mere lending of that suit of clothes he was sentenced to the pillory, a year's imprisonment and a fine of a thousand pounds. He was struck from the rolls of the navy, mm$m\mmm of Hengy VII's.chapel at Westminster. AIn the end be was driven to disgrace-- ful exile and hopeless ruin, miralty. Belis-- pealed, cannon thun-- dered, the stock exchange went mad with the rise of prices, while the mes-- the lodgings of an acquaintance, Lord mand'ng the Chilean nevy, from v.mm'hlflfi,b' a l'lt. Running away from his mother, a £o8 of his--Tom Cochrane, jurilor--aged. Ave, contrived to sail with the admiral, and in his first engagement was spat-- tered with the blood and brains of a "I'm--not hurt, papa," said the imp; "the shot didn't touch 'me. . Jack says that the bail is not made that will hurt mamma's boy." --Jack --proved to. be right, but it was in that engagement that Cochrane earned his Spanish title, *The Devil." Three times he attempt d to take Callao from the Spanlards, then, in disgusted failure, Gispersed his useless squidron and weflflw% his Aagship to Yaldivia. For lack afficers, he kept the deck himselt unti he dropped. 'When he went below for .-..mn-m-uug-uqu command, but the middy--went to saleep and the ship was cast away. 3 Cochrane uthrtlnt:tl:" all his gunpowder wet, went with his sinking wreck to attack Valdivia, The place was a Bpanish stronghold, with Afteen forts and one hundred and Afteen guns. Cochfrane, preferring to depend on cold steel, left the muskets behind, wrecked his boats in the surf, let his men swim, led them straight at the Spaniards, stormed the batteries and seized the city, So he found some equip them for his next attack on Cal-- a signal, "Please don't hit me." "That's good enough for me," sald Cochrane, and copled those lights which protect-- 'the nedtrals. When the bewildered 6 «aw his Aanterns also, they nitacked the neutrais, Bo | stole away with his prize. thigh before he took possession of the epened fire, but El Diable noticed that two neutral sahips protected themse\tos with a display of lanterns arranged as He had a fancy for the tfrigate, K# meralda, which lay in Callao--thought whe would suit him for a cruiser, . She happened to be protected by a Spatish: ensed the minds of the Spaniards by sending away two out of his three their men, and all their small boats, a detail not observed by the weary on emy. His boarding party, two hundred and forty strong, stole into the anchor-- age at midnight, and sorely warpriaed the Kameralida, Cochrane, first on board, was felled with the butt end of a musket, and thrown back into his Fosk Ertevousty hurt,. in MANHM® is which he had a through his hundred guns, but Cochrane did not by A. D. 1812 and met with a Te _ «.. "Avywiay. he was -- mémmc--m attend to the Vberation -- of Buazil from the Portuguese. . Reporting 'to "the eighteen guns, seventy merchant ships and a gartison of smcveral thousand men. El Diablo's blockade reduced the whole to starvation, the threat of his Breworks~ment them into convulsions, and their leaders resolved on fight to Portugal. So the troops --were em their treasure, and the squadron es corted them to sea, where Cochrane grinned--in the offing. For Afteen days he hung in the rear of that fleet, cut-- mnl\l-unutwnw He Bad not a to spare for charge of Nils prizes, but when he caught a ship he staved her water casks, disabled her inigeing so that she could only run be fore the wind back to Bahia, and threw mvuponovuburd; He captured keventy odd ships, half the troops, all the treasure, fought and optmaneu vered the war fleet so that he could not be «aught, and only let thirteen wretched vessels escape® to Lisbon. cartridges, fuses, guns, --powder, spars men an incumbrance, he 'dismar» tted a squadron to Ond equipmert for This he mauned with British and Yan kee adventurers,. He had two other small but feirly effective dhips when end, found him a resting--place in the Abbey., On his father's death he gue ceeded to the earidom of Dundonald, and down to 1860, when the old man went to his rest, his life was. MM] to untiring service.--He was among m( first inventors to apply coal gas to light English streets and homes ;. he de signed the bollers long in use by the English navy; made a bitumen con-- crete for paving, and offered plans for the ~reduction of W which would have averted the horrors of --year he was apt to shock and terrify allpersons, and when he was buried in the nave of the Abbey, Lord Brough-- Like the patriots of Chill and Peru, the | Brazilians -- gratefully rewarded their liberator by cheating him out of his pay; so next he turned--to deliver Greece from the Turks. Very soon he found that even the Brazilians were perfect gentliemen compared with the Greek patriots, and the heart--sick man went home. men. For the whites were only a little tribe among thers, a wandering tribe ot trappers and traders, who came from the Rising Sun Land in search of Puvq'tm. 'The begver skins wete 'wanted for. top hats in the Land of the lm'n- «€ + England was sorry for the way she had treated her hero, gave back h paval rank and made him admiral} with command--in--chief of a British fleet at sea, restored his banner as a Khight 'of the Bath in Henry VIl's chapel, granted a pension and, at the -A--,.'ln;ho m-dmm:ll_&m-nr = : spread their settlements to the : and that river was their frontier. 'The great plains and deserts beyiind, all speckled now with farms and glittering with cities, belonged to :.fi-fi*fltfib'l.whomm buffalo, farmed their tobacco, played Such. a deed of war has never been matched in the world's annals, and Cochrahe followed it by forcing the whole of northern Brazil to an abject buffalo, farmed their tobacco, played their games, worshiped the Almighty Spirit, and stc e one another's horses, without paying any heed to the white am pronounced his strange obituary. "What," he exclaimed at the. grave side, "no cabinet minister, no officer of state to grace this great man's fuw cared of the poor old hero, These white men had strange and potent magic, being masters of fre, and brought from their own land the them welcome amohg the tribes. Some-- times a white man entered the tribes and became an~Indian, winning his rank as wartior, marrying; setting up hplda.-dov-rto&l-uh of chiet. Of such Jim Beckworth, part white, part negro, a great war-- rior, captain of the Dog Soldier regi-- ment in the Crow nation, + His lodge was full of robes; his wives, by whom he allied himselt to the leading famil-- Me#, were always well fed, well dressed and well behaved. When he came t,'umlibbocmhm weturned in triumph, with bands--of stolen horses, scalps in plenty. Leng atterward, whon he was "An old man, Jim told bis adventures to a writer, who made them into a book, and in this volume he tells the story of Pine Leaf, an Indtan girl. She was little more than a child when, in an aitack of the Cheyenngs upon the vil-- lage, ker twin brothet <was killed, 'Then, in a passion of rage and griet, ake cut off one of her Angers as a sa¢-- rifice to the --Great Bpirit, and took eath that she would avenge her broth-- er's death, never giving herself in mar-- Th: whe es wiree Amoch -- Inm, who 'had already A# became his position, sulked for this ringe until she had taken a hundred traphies in battle. . The . warriors lnaughed when she asked leave to join them on.the war--path, but Jim let ber come with the Dog Soidiers. Rapidly she learned the trade of war, able as most of the men with bow, spear and gun, running lke an antelope, riding 'gloriously; and yet withal a woman, modest and gentle ex-- cept in battle, famed for Uthe grace and unusud! beauty, "Pleaso marry me," sald Jim, as the yode beside him. "Yosu, when the pine leaves turn yel-- Jim thought this over, and com @oprease t he said dA J 16) _ _ A TAI.%"OI" VENGEANCE D. 1840 =© ence when apowerful Blackfoot bad nigh felled Jim with his battie--ax, Pine Lenat upeared the man and saved her chief. In that engagement she killed mm&nu-muu k builet® cut his crown of cagle plumes. "These Blackfeet aboot clone," "ualid Pline Leatf, "but never tear; the Great Bpirit will not Jet them bharm us." * In the next fAght, a Blackfoot's lance Axed his horse, pinning to th mal in its desth agony. , Leat ummmmqn&h "I sprang upon the horse," Jim, "of a young warrier who was The heroips then joined me, we dashed into the conflict, Her horse was immediately after killed and J dis-- covered her in a handtohand encoun ter with a dismounted Blackfpot, her lance in one hand and her battloax in the ether. Mclfl-fi: my steed brought me upon her a) onist and, striking him with the breast of my hborse when at full speed, I knocked him to the earth senseless, and before he could recaver, the pinned him to the earth and scalped him, When I had overturned the war-- rior, Pine Leaf called to me, 'Ride on, I have him sate now.'" Bhe was soon at his side chasing the fiying enemy, --who left m--on killed in the feld. ; In the next raid, Pine Leat took two prisoners, and offered Jim one of them to wile.. But Jim had wives enough of the usual kind, whereas now this girl's presence at his side in battle gave him increased strength and~cour-- age, while daily his love for her famed higher,. _ * t y s\ At times the girl was Bulky because she was denied the rank of warrior, shut out from the --war--path (::ent, the hidden matters known only to fighting There is no space here for a tithe of her battles, while that great vengeance for her brother piled up the tale of sealpse. In. one victorious action, charg-- ing at Jim's side, she was struck by a bullet which broke her Jeft arm. With the wounded arni nursed in her bosom whe grew desperate, and three war-- rlors fell to her ax before she fainted from loss of blood. i Before she was well recovered from this wound, she was afield again, de-- spite Jim's pleading and in defiance of his orders, and, on an invasion of the Cheyenne country, was: shot "Well," she said--afterward, as she lay at the point of death, "I'm sorty that I did not listen to my chief, but I gained two trophies." The very re# eue of her had <ost the lives of four While she lay through many months t palg, tended by Jim's head wife, her bosom friend, snd by Black Panther, Tim's Uitle Son, the chief was awiar fighting the great campaigns, 'which made him famous through all the In dian. tribes, Medicine Calt was his title new, and his rank, head chief, for he was one of tiwo sovereigns of: equal standing, 'who reigned over the two tribes of the Crow nation. While Pine Leat sat in the lodge, her KBeart was erying, but at last she was able to ride again to war.© So came a wmmm,mm Munter 16l1, the lhndhddfl die with him,. Halt the Crows tliin; and still the Blackfeet préssed hardly upon them. Medicine Calf was at the rear when Pine Leaf joined him. "Why do you walit to be killed?" she asked. "If you wish to die, let us re-- turn together. I will die with you." disastrous ~expedition, in which Medi cine Calf and Pigte Leaf, with Sfty Crow warriors and in American gen« They escaped, most of them wound-- ed who survived, and aimost dying of celd 'and hunger before they came to the distant village of their tribe. ---- Jim's next adventure was a horse-- stealing raid into Canada, when he was absent fourtgen months, and the Crows meourned Medicine Calt for dead. On his triumpBant réeturn, mounted on a plebald charger the chiet hadmtedtohe.!lulmtrm with, him 'once more in his campaigns. PDuring one of these raids, being afoot, whe pursued and caught a young Black-- foot warrior, then made him her prig-- .-'.h:u-ohadtw.hcm ar by law, and rose to eminence as her private warrior, Jim had founded a trading post for the white men, and the United States pald him two thousand dollars a year for keeping his people from slanghter-- Ing ploneers 8o, growing rich, he tired of Indian wartare, and left his tribe for a long journey, As a white man bhe came to the house of his own sisters in the city of Saint Louis, but they seemed strangers now, and his heart began to ery for the wild life. Then news came that his Crows were slaying white men, and in haste he Mohmh:h.fim besieging Fort Case. .z:l&c them, their --head chief, Calf, black with fury at their misdeeds, so that the council sat bewiidered, won dering how to sue for his forgiveness. Into that council came Pine Leaf, "Warriors," she cried, "I make.sacri--« fice for my people}* |She told thems of her brother's death and of her great vengeance, now completed in that she had sglain a bundred men to ba Ais servants in the other world. _8Bo. she Inid down her arms. "I1 have hurled my lakt lance; L--am a warrior no more. 'Foday Medidic»s Calf has re torned.. He has returned angry at the toilies of-- his people, and they fear that he will again leave them, -- They bellere that he'loves me, and that ®iy derotion to him will attach him to the natlon. I, therefore, bestow myself fim{'uhnh will be eontent. ed with me and will leave us no moare, Bo Jim Beckworth, who was Med!-- ting Calf, head chief of the Crow na-- taon. was wedded to Pine Leat, their ~-- Mina for Jim's morale, thiy Ald not Hve happily ever after, for the scalmy to become a mean trader, 261 of the warrior tribes, left them n 'uunumtd.nh: Ping® and her kindred are away into the--shadows, apd over their mmnmmtm-uk. .. Far back in the tong ago time New Lealangd was a crowded happy land. Big Maork fortress villages crewned the hilitops, broad furmg covered the hilisides; the chiefs kept 4 good table, "m«m So many in the cours yun.melhbhd' their tribes to a distance before they could a nice fat edible vil-- lage, 'but the individual citizen felt crowded after meals, and all was 'Then came the Pukchas, the white men, h# with muskets for sale, and the.tribe that failed to geta trader to deal with was very soon wiped out. A musket cost a ton of flar, and to plie up enough to buy one a whole tribe must leave its hill fortress to camp in unwholesome fax swamps. . 'The peo-- ple worked: themselves thin to buy guns, powder and iron tools for farm-- ing, but they cherished their Pakeha as a priceless treasure in special charge of the chief, and if & white mar way eaten, it was clear proof thit he was entirely useless alive, or a quite de-- testable character,. 'The good Pakehas became Maorl warriors, a little par-- ticular as to their méat being really pig, but otherwise welimannered and has left a book,. He omitted his name from the book of "Old New Zealand,"* and never mentioned dates, but tradi-- tion says he was Mr. F.C. Maning, and that he lived 'as a Maorl trader for forty years, from 1823 to 1863, when the work wak published. In the days when Mr. Maning reached the North island a trader was valued at twenty times his weight in «muskets, equivaient, say, to the son total of the British national debt, Run-- away sailors, <«however, were quite cheap. ~"Two men of this description by a chief, a particular friend of mine, who, to pay himself for his trouble nJ _ln!!fi.dd."'l-vdo'muf But then came a powerful chief, by name.. Relation--eater. "Pretty work this," he began, "good work. L won't stand this not at all} pot at alll not at all!"" (The last sentence took three jumps, a step anda turn round, to keep correct time.) "Whe killed-- the Pakeba? It was Melons, You are a nice man, killing my Pakeha .. . we shall be called the 'Pakeba killkilliers' ; I shail be sick with shame; the Pake-- ba will run away; what if you had killed him dead, or biroken his bones" « » . (Here poor' Melons burst out cry-- Ing like an infant), '"Where is the bhat? Where the shoes? The Pakeha !Is robbed! he is murdered!" Here a wild howl.from Melons. The local trader took Mr. Maning to Iive w'th him, but it was known to outliy, ate one of them next morn a warrior by the name of Melons, who eapsized in an tbb tide running like a sluice, at which the white man, diz pleased, held the native's heid under water by way of punishment, When they got ashore Melons wanted to get even, so challenged tne Pakeba to a pink of condition, the Maor!, twenty-- mm.'tfi.ndabuw-"w the other & boy'full 'of animal spirits and tough as leather, -- After the battle Melons sat up rather dozed, offered his hand and, 'vehting his entfire stsck of tm Tribes that the newcomer really and truly belonged to Relation--eatgr. Not leng bad he been settled when there eccurred a me ting between his tribe and another, a ame of bluff, when the warriors of bi..h sices danced the splendid Haka, most blood--surdiing, bair--lifting of all ceremonials,. After-- ward old Relation--eater singled out the horrible savase --who hr *' begun the war--dance, and there two € ed individuals for a fm seated on the ground hanging on each other's necks, gave vent, to a chorus of sakilifully modulated howling. "So there was peace," and during the cere-- monles Maning came upon a circle of what seemed to be Maort chiefa.until, drawing near, he found that their nod-- ding. heads had .nobody underneath. Raw heads had been stuck on slender rods, with' crose--sticks to carty the asked an Engliiah eSaLOF. . _ LGS was werry scatco--they had to' tattoo a slave a bit ago, and the villain ran awar, tattooln' and all!" ; "What * p h f "Bolted before he was ft to kill," said the sailor, mourtiful to think how Once the hend chief, having need to punish a rebe'ilous vasseal sent Rela-- tiongater, who pundered and burned the offending village. "The yassal de: camped with hty trike. '"Well, about three months after this, about daylight, I was aroused by aA N"ooocm'__'{"_"'" vassat who . . . wias taking this means of . reventing himaselt for the. rough handling he had received from our chief, Men were rushing in mad haste doors, londed with everything they could lay hands upon. . . . A large ca noe was foating near to the house, and was being rapidly fAilled with plun: dee. Tmw a fat old Maorl woman, mmmmm along the grouind by & huge fellow who wasn trying to tear from her grasap aone of my shirts, to which she clung with pertect desporation. 1 portelved ab a glance that the faithful old creature Now of these Pakeha Maorls, one Maning came ashore on the back of THE SOUTH SEA 'CANNIBALS -- aF Sz wites, Atked by" ths rabolifoos by the rebelllous a heap. before: my Sriend's door, and sisxty ~othera: badly>wounded, and my friend's house sand store blown up and burnt to ashes, ~~ < lt by hundreds of friends who came is targe parties to condole with him, and who, as was quite correct in sueh cates, shot and ate all his stock, sheep, pigs, 'ducks, geese, fowls, ete., all in high compliment to bimself; he felt proud, . . . He did not, however, sur-- vive these honors long." * would have sent most people heels over head. ; . --. But, quick as lightning . . . he bounded Trom the ground, fung his mat away over bis head and struck a furlous blow at my head with his tomahawk. I caught the tomahawk in full descent; the edge grazed my hand ; but my arm, stiffened like a bar of iron, arrested the blow. He made one furious, but ineffectual attempt . wrest the tomahawk from my grasp; and then we selzed one another round the middle, and Atruggled like maniacs in the endeavor to dash each other against the bearsded Aoor; I hotding on for dear life to the tomahawk . . . fastened to his wrist by a strong thong. of leatber. ... . --At last he got a lock: round my leg; and it not been Tor. the table on which we both fell, and which, in smashing to pbm our fall, I might have been digabled,. . -- ; We now rolled over and --over oA the foor like two mad bulldegs; he Aghting three men at once, while bis hung proudiy on the feuke. | : . 'Then came' enr--mob to the rescue and the assailants £ed. "Soime time after this 'a little incl dent worth noting bappened at my friend M~--'s place.. Our chisf had for sor'e time back in sort of dispute with 10, to balance things, I knocked down exnother! and thep felt--myselft seized reound the waist from behing. "The adds were bUt $ . . 1 nt once Soored a wlghe uho wad ralt Ing by me. . . . L ed that man's place as trader, and earnestly studied native etiquette, on which his comments are always delicliously fun-- ny.-- ITwo young Australians were his img his washing, called out, m.....,.am'..fl'.fi minutes |! 2 guests when there arrived one day a Maori desperado who wanted blankets; and "to explain his views more clearly knocked both my friends down, threat-- ened to kill them both with his toma-- hawk, then -- rushed into the bedroom graggea out aii the Degciothes, and burned them on the kitchen fire.' --, A few weeks later, Mr. Maning be-- ing alone, and reading a year--old 8y8-- ney paper, the' desperaC@ called. "He made no answer but a scowl of @efiance. 'I am thinking, friend, thi.. this is my house,' said I, and, spring-- ing upon him, I placed my foot to his shoulder, and gave him a shove which to be off. _ "Up again; another terrifie tussle ,or th._tou"uvi; down again with tn? to bite, and I trying to stun him by dashing his builet head agalost the foor. Up again! another furidus strug;Je in course of .which both our heads and half our bodies were dashed through the two glass windows, and every-- single article of furniture was reduced to atoms. Down again, rolling like mad, and dancing about among the ruhlhh---wreckdthom? Buch a Uhttle it was that I can ha: fAy describe * "By this time we were both covered wltmy.dmn,nrlulmdc.... My frignd was trying to kill me, and I was only Arying to disarm and tie him up . .. as there were no witnesses. If I killed him, I might have serious difficulties with his --tribe. ~ It. a crash ; and so this life--and--death bat-- tle went on . . . for a full hour , . . we had another desperate wrestling match. J tifted"my friend high in my arms, and 'dashed him, panting, fari-- ous, foaming at the mouth--bat beaten deserted him. ~*"MHe mnro for the fArst time. Enough ) I'am beaten ; let me riszse.' "I, incautiousiy, let go hls left arm. Quick as lightning be snatched at a large carving fork .. . which was lying among the dehris; his fingers touched the handle and it rolled away aut of his reach; my lite wes saved. He then struck me with all bis remaining Are on the side of the head, cauting the blood to ow out of my anouth.© One _m.:p;mu;hnlh'u" "But now I had at last got angty , . . T must kil! my man, or sooner--or '.:".i."?..."'"""":w ' up 8 'h'l'-flh& € the tomabawk the ; coup de « At this iInstant a thundering sound of feet .. .A ~wholo tribe --coming 4. } my friends! ;. .. He was dragged by mmm"""': "'m. e Jn dead into % . ,u_nmu-.womu:fimt a little stave imp of a boy belonging to cunde 'with my goods and chattels. . & . These were now brought b--ck." In the sequel this deésperado -- »mmit-- ted two more murders "and-- also killed in Thit fight, with his own hand, the 'Arst man in a native battle .. . which L witnessed. , . . At last, having attempted to murder another native, he was #hot through the heart . «. #o thete died." AUr. Maning was never again molest-- ed and, making fuoll alowance for their folibles, spoeaks--with a very tender lo¥e for that race of warriora. "An old m.m--------"'" l;m here M.M_flh ten miles. me: Wa what the darn litle cuss does sald I, 'my advice to you is wman defertd turias, had the condgescension to play at tennins with a mere colonial ; and pand was king, the colonial challenged hh*n'-&mm stake was the --Amer'can éme-- pire, --but: played Bolivar, and again the: won. "Now tel} me,".a Indy said once, "what animal reminds: one most of the Senor Rolivart | k Ang Boltvar thought be heard some one say "monkey," whereat he dew into an awfol passlog, until the o# "sparrow." -- He stood five feet sis inches, with a birdli¥e quickness, and a puckered face with an odd tang of monkey, Kich, Invish, gaudy, talkin, Oncee at the satlited court of Hpain young Ferdinand, prince of the As the latter won. ways on the strut unless he was Bolivar; who heard liberty, as he thought, knocking at the door of South America, and opened--to let in chaos, "I don't know," drawled a Spaniard dmm.mchudm these --South : belong." © --These Spanish ¢olonials were treat ed as dogs, --behaving as dogs. When they wanted a university Spain rald they were only provided by Provid ce to labur in the mineg, They were not allowed to hold any oflice or learn the arts of war and government,. Spain sent officials to ease them of theit surplus cash,; and keep them out «. mischief. 4 'They were loyat'as beaten dags un til Napoleon stole the Spanish crow1 for brother Joseph, and French armies promenaded all over $pain closely pur sued by the British, There was nc Spain left to love,. but the colonials were not Napoleon's dogs. Napoleon's envoys to Venezvéla were nearly torn to pleces before they escaped to sea, where a little Pritish frigate came and gobbled them up. The seai Le-- tonged to the British, and so the coloni-- als sent ambassadors, Bolivar and an other gentleman, to© King: George. Please would he help them to gain their liberty? George bad just chased Napoleon out of Spain, and said he would do his best with his allies, the Spaniards. In London Bolivar unearthed a coun tryman who loved liberty and had fought for Napoleon, a real profession al soldier. General Miranda was able and willing to lead the armies of free-- dom until he actually saw the Venm ezuclan troops. Then he skhied bard. He really must draw the line some where, Yes, he would take command of the rabble on one condition, that he got rid of Bolivar, To get away from Bolivar he woul4 go anywhere and do anything. Bo he le4 his rabble and found them stout fighters, and drove the Spaniards out of the central of 'the eastern' Andes, the earth rvolled Uike a sean in a storm, and thea Are down in heaps of ruin. 'The barracks buried the garrisons, the marchirg troops were totally destroyed, the pot 'ator; writing pro. 1mations; commit-- 'ting magsacres. . "L order you," he wrote to the governor of La Guayra, "to m:x'm prizonets in those _dnngeons, in the hospital, withovt 'amy. exception' whatever." wirk Wiking & feuerst gpops . When & . Thig: way ready eight hondred ot them were broight up in batches, butchered with axes, bayonets and knives, and _ The politicians were alitting down to Craft the first ot many comic--opers hundred twenty thousand people per-- ished, The only thing left MQ. in one church was a pillar bearing the arms of Spain; the oniy districts not wrecked were thoke still loyal to the Spanish government, 'The clergy point-- ed the moral, the ruined people re pented their rebellion, and the Spanis forces took heart and closed in fror every side upon the lost republic. 8 mon Bolivar generously surrendere General Miranda in chains to/the vie-- torious Spaniards. Ho far one sees only, as poor Mi-- randa did, that this man was a sick-- ening cad,. But he was something more, . He stuck to the cause for which he had given his life, jJoined the rebels in what is gsow Colombia, was given a small garrison command a.d ordered to stay in his fort,. In deflance of orders, he awept the Spaniards out of the Magdalena valley, raised a large Lorce, lberated the country, then marched into Venezuela, defeated the Spanish forces in a score of brilliant actions, and was prociaimed Hberator and absolute power in both Cplombia and Venezuela,. 'One beginse to marvel islanders!" he wrote, "reckon on death even if you are neutral,; unles® you will work actively for te.liberty of Amer-- lea, Americans! count on life even if you . are-- culpable." Bolivar's pet A»: 'bles were three in freshed himself .v:t: hime: by A « Mumflnucm Spaniards. ' Houthward of the Ortnoco river there ln"hfl.ll!nmm a 'cattle country, +by wild: horseman known as the Haneros. .In Bollvar's time their leader called him-- self Boves, and he had as# second in vommand Morales, Boves said that Movales was "atrocious." _ Morales aaid that "Boves was a man of merit, but tte blovd®thirsty." The Soaniards calted" Thel¥ <biftimand "The Infefof Division." -- At first they fought for the revolution,; afterward for Spain, but they were really quite impartial and'szpared nelther age nor sex. This was the fipulll"mm"z awny the second Veneznclan almughtering the whole population save QW"!" bles were three in < his job as lber-- as a peacock, and crossed the Parame at & ewept by an icy wind in blinding 1og ----hard going for Venesuelans. * manded the British continpgent,. "Al},* he reported, "was quite well with hiw mw.m;hdhu.ficmm march" through the gorges and Great was the astonishment of the royalists when Bolivar dropped on Serving in Andrew Jackson's force was young Sam Houston, a hunter and a ploneer from childhood. WM be apprenticed--tc a trade be ran angy and joined the Cherokees, and as the adopted son of the head chief be came an Indian, except of course dur ing--the holidays, when he went to ee his yery respectable mother,--, On one of these visits home he met a reetult ing sergeant, and enlisted for the '"'4 of 1812, At the age of twenty--one ha the Spanish fag, which your en leney lost at Carabobe." mu::.-mm:a:' was rather & Aght, mm-.:.o-h- in the middle, At times Bolisar like a rabbit, at times he was gr harn ar in min mu migae "I the battle of --Boyace they were put to rout. Nexst day Colonel m': his arm cut off by the surgeons, + ing them about the beautiful }iwmb he was losing. He died of the operation, but the British legion went on Wom victory to victory, melting away Wke spow until at the end negroes and Jm "It was true," sald Rook, "but it really was a very good thing, for thae men who had dropped out were all the wastrels and weaklings of the foree."* The Creeks held a line of breast« . works, and the Americans were charg-- . Ing these works when--an arrow struck -- deep inte young Houston's thigh,. He . tried to wrench it out but the barb . held, and twice his lieutenant failed. . "Kry again," said Houston, "and if . you fail I'll knock you down." -- The . leutenant pulled out the arrow, sand . streaming with blood,. the: youngster' . went to a surgeon who. dressed his wound, General Jackson toid bim not * to return to :the front; --but the lad . must --needs be at the Neadiof his men, -- no matter What the orders.s > ~~ _ __| ~Hundreds of Creeks had tatien, mul---- titudes were shot or drowned attempt» . ing to swiin the river, but stilll a large . party of them held a part of the breast-- . work, a sort otrootlpannllglmff from which, through narrow port--holes, . they kept up a nmflgln. --CGone -- could not be placed ty --bear on this position, the warriors fiatly refused all terms of Surrender, and when Jackson . called for a forlorn hope Housten alone responded." Calling hbis platoon . to follow him he scrambled down the steep side of the gully, but his men . hesitated, and from one of them We seized a musket with which he led the . way: Within five--yards of the Creeks he bad turned--to rally his--plateon for a direct charge through the. holes, when two bullets J&'* right shoulder. For the Jast E he : implored his men to c§e--ge, then in despair walked out of nm months went by before ~the~three wounds were healed, but &2 time, through very stormy :gg, had the conftant friendship of his eld :x' fought his way up--to the--rank--o£ go, serving_with Generat Joc'kq: at the battle of Horseshoe Benmd. $ leader, Andrew Jackson, President o4 the United States. * o . Houston went back to the West and ten years after the battle was Macted general of the Tennessee 0K In-- deed there scemed no JHiriit 1 fi future, and at thirty--Ave be wak govw ernor of the state, when ~db veloped in his married life . hils wife left him. -- Throwing h carcer to the winds he turned Pulan, not as chief, but. as a tribesman of the Cherokees. Th ie . ) _ It is quite natural for a man to hay two characters, the one ¢ anding whilo the othep rests,. Within a few months the eyes of Houston the Amerk can statesman looked out m the painted n? of the Cherokes. From Arkansas hd looked southward & 2,, the American frontlersmen, the ° ',?, plonecrs, trying to eard a Uxing un der-- the comle opera nme ' the Mexicans. 'They woud soon aweep away that anarchy it only they found in his dreams saw uel Wouston leading the Texa®--cowboya . BHH dressed as an Indian warrior be wenl to Washington, called on his old | riend Prssident Jackson, begkged for a j0b, talked of the liberation of Texag»-- as If the YTankees of the K woold ever allow another slava state .f a South to enter the Unfon! --._> _ _ _ It was the first time Micharos I ther had seen ber and they w\ ,' e ing things over. ". _' [ 0 "8o my son has , sald, "and you've ted. think yon might have seen "I did, bot 1 think I pref Flour or He thought it safer girl's father for heg ardent lover, but'&A his note ran : :*I 1 --the flour Of "The four of repiled the old ! lna't am» done® Copfright by Bobba--Merrill Company CAPTAWNS OF | SAM HOUSTON By Roger Poceck ith Bovées FePOrttd to-- neral, "I have recovered nunittion, -- and the bonor , 0M#