THE GLORY OF TEXAS. CELEBRATION OF HER SEVEN- TIETH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE. ———— Every Defender of the Alamo was Slain-Characteristic Messago of Old General Housten to Mexican General Santa Ana. The State of Texas, born some sixty years too late to assist in the revolu- tionary events of 'T6, has its own In- dependence day in addition to the na however, with its sister states. This patriotic state celebration occurred on April 21, the seventieth anniversary of the fight at the San Jacinto, where 800 Texans gave double their number of | Mexicans one of the completest drub bings in military history. Every schoolboy knows the story of San Jacinto as told in the books, But there is in the Southwest a fire-side tale about it which deserves to he bet- ter known. It is that the night before the battle, the Mexican general, Santa Ana, sent a flag of truce to the Texan camp with a summons to surrender and an offer of pardon. Grim old Sam Houston, the “father” of Texas, heard the message and said to one of his aids: “Tell him to go to hell! Put that into Spanish.” And the aid, trans lating the answer into the language of Spanish military diplomacy, made or ation as it appears in the books: “General Houston prays that yon will have the kindness to present his compliments to General Santa Ana, inform him that General Houston re grets to be constrained to reply that if General Santa Ana desires our com pany it will be necessary for him to condescend to give himself the trouble of coming and getting us.” The biggest celebration of San Ja cinto day was at San Antonio, for there is the Alamo, and there was the fight which came before San Jacinto and turned the blood of every Texan | drank | pleased | snow little, but the jeers of the people he engaged to fire and his nerves to cold steel. The defenders of the Alamo, though bound by no law like those of Ther mopylae, disdained to surrender. They knew too well, from the fate of Nolan | disliked | Gen tional Fourth of July, which it shares, | oS ORDERED BY GOVERNMENT. Little Italy bas two mysteries cleared up, and breathes more frecly. One is why Angelino Pascalinl worked 80 hard and spent so little, and the other is why Angelino Pascalini al- ways insisted on seeing the papers that are printed in English, which lan- guage everybody Knew Angelino could not read, Angeline 48 now married-- and the two mysteries deal with this marriage. In order that it may be known who Angelino Is, let it be stated that he hailed from Genoa, in Big Italy—from where the sun shines brightly and the sky is tinted blue and red; where men work slowly and live easily, the money Is very scarce. In the course of the eighteen years which had rolled over Angelino's head before a far-seeing padrone packed him into the steerage of a very uncertain ship and sent him sailing over the hilly water to America, it may be doubted if Angelino had seen altogether of his own as much money as the equivalent of five dollars, Nevertheless, he had heen happy In Genoa until he met Nina-—Nina, whose mother came from Spain. ® After he met Nina, by his own ace count, Angelino was no longer happy. He realized then how very poor he was, and how far away was marriage with Nina, He worked as hard as he could, and ate even more sparingly than was the wont of his countrymen of the black bread and garlic, and less of the bitter red wine, Nevertheless, his hoard increased but slowly, and Angelino grew desper- | He sought Nina, and told her of | ate. the padrone. He would go to America. She looked at him wonderingly with her big black eyes, and promised to walt, Angelino, having made and stuck one last candle portrait of his patron away to America. His welcome in this country Angelir. He liked fee his adiecus under the salni, went and liked even less, True, the land was discovered by one of his country- named Columbus, four hundred before. But Angelino know this, and it would not have made much difference if he had, Those who had profited by Columbus’ discovery Colu:abus’ countrymen, and Angelino was like. However, h and in other the padrone men, Years work g on VAY uutil his debt was paid, and to then he and his hunters a generation before | began to work for himself. Despite his oF Rg {(F™- Ah THE OLD ALAMO. and a score of later butcheries of ) utmost efforts and eareful economy, he prisoners, the character of their foes For twelve days they held their post against thirty times thelr number and then they died, still fighting. How they died—how Travis fell a- cross the eannon--how Davie Croe- kett lay in the courtyard in a ring of foes—how the intrepid Bowie, the In ventor of the terrible bowie knife, fought to the end on the bed from which he could not rise—how not one man, by the testimony of their enemies, even tried to escape—how the half dozen that were overpowered and dis armed were then cut down—is a tale with which the world still rings and will ring so long as dauntless courage is admired. It was a deed from which no man among its Texan doers came to tell the tale. It is a tale whose truth is as sured by the fact that it could be told only by the victors whose shame It was, and not by the vanquished whose glory it was. It ranks above Ther- mopyiae in the annals of manly fortl tude. As has been wall sald: “Ther mopylae had its messenger of defeat the Alamo had none!” Texas Is indeed fortunate that her history, as all the world knows it and as it lives in the hearts of her own and all the American people, began with the Alamo. As a battle, the Alamo was a defeat. As an Inspiration to brave deed and patriotic achievement for genentions of Amer yet un horn, it Is the splendor and the glory of Texas. ins nt WIFE LEADS BLINDSCHAPLAIN, One of the Touching Sights in she House of Representatives. Few who, on visits to the Housn of Representatives, see Mrs Henry N. Couden, wife of the blind chaplain, fail to be Impressed by her gentleness and dignity, With anfall ing fidelity she accompanies her hus band to the door of the House, and after resigning him Into the hands of a page she waits in the lobby until the end of his prayer, Then she ace companies him home Mr. Conden seldom lingers in the House after his prayer Is finished, but few of the legislators, from the speaker down to the youngest recrnit, fall to salute him and his gentle little wife, Mrs, Couden resembles nn Dresden figure in her flowered silk and old-fashioned bonnet, EBhe cares not for changing styles, but year after year she wears a simple gown of silk, with a black bonnet tied under ber chin with flowered ribbous, persons, pti ————— The Wise Rudyard, If only myself could talk to myself As | knew him a year ago, I could tell him a lot That would save him a lot Of things he ought to know, Kipling. There are 407 mountain peaks in Colorado of an altitude of more than 10000 feet It 1s computed that the amount of water wasted In New York amounts to 850,000000 gallons a day, | savings i Twice a year he walt He booting ma hs grew rich but slowly yrote to Nina, bidding her had at length secured a gtand of his own, and was a free But Nina, In far-away Genoa, no desire to wait She had alre waited too long, by her own caleula- tion, and wanted to comge to America ind wed her Angelino. "She wrote to Filadelphia, as the name is spelled in Genoa, and told Angelino that life was short, and that it 1s wise to make the most of it while it lasted. There is no real way to lengthen It out, though Nina didn’t say so In those words: probably that is how she left. At all events, Nina, who had becomea 1 in Genoa, eventually had pportunity t come to or patroness hadn't arrived and so she came, expected her, and he had $40 In the bank, where the vaults are just bursting with money Often when he went to deposit his dollar or two, Angelino looked longingl at the vaults, and wondered why he, to could n and earn 87 or and live in a just what he wanted thought of Nina, ar and went back to w Nina arrived he hs ver, he had learned that is not much n However, he was Nina agai and she she saw him She place of employment 2 to up his the latter hould ha it was determined they Tal hefore She, and Angeline Angelis when she $8 a week, every week, large house and have eat. Then he became patient rk And so when $40; and more. that In America I ¥ rioyed to see vas radiant when remained in her while Anes no earnings. When grown to should nr too, hincked boots tre the S106 still far vay {ine day a big, red-faced American h boarded in the hotel at the corner, sat down In Angelino's to have his boots blacked, and the while Angelira work All at the big, fat Americar and then roar Angeli ind gazed him Mite “Binnick going to mary He's old enough to eat hay.’ Angelino being Interested In anything that related to marriage, asked in his broken way what was the cause of the merriment. The to the list of marriage llcenses paper and sald See that-that's RBinnlek-old nick, that keeps the paint store he's going to get married, old Pinnick™ Arngelino knew old Binnick. * Hegot a hundred dollars?’ he ankel “A hundred dollars. Why, he's got a barrel of money-—a barrel” “How you know he get married ah? asked Angeline And then the man whose hoots were blacked explained that old Binnick's name was on the list of marriage leohsen issued at the Clty Hall, "Then he get married,” sald Angel. ino. Angelino asked no more, Here was a fresh complication. What If his name were to appear in the paper be. fore he had $1007 The thought caused him anxiety. Nevertheless he knew the Government was omnipotent, and that if it ordered him to marry, marry he must, money or no money, Bo Angeline worked on and worried not a little over the ibility of his name appearing In list of those doomed to whether they had money or not. On Sunday he visited NI who noticed his abstraction the reason. ove EAVeE rr YAges and amt of chair read d once rurpr “That loud mn at Ld all,” aa Ha, in the Rin Ard You know ot be an American millionaire | dis- | did not | made to suffer their dis- | have concealed {t, but with n woman's skill she extracted it from him, Then she consoled him and bade him have courage, Perhaps the Government, she suggested, did not even know of thelr existence, There were 50 many people in the great city, and how could the authoritie: keep track of them all, she said. Angelino took hope and went back to his work. Every day he sought the paper and read the list of marriage licenses, breathing freely when he found his name was not among them, But Nina, whose mother came from Spain, thought of the list, too. Oniy, unlike Angeiino, she sought an ex- planation from her employer, who was one of the Italian consular officials, He told her that in America people to get married must h ve licenses, and that to get licenses they .aust apply at the City Hall, Nina asked no more, A short time afterward Nina, who had studied and as! d questions, and learned that marriage licenses could railroad station, by any one oid enough to marry who could convince the Gov- ernment that all w s right, arrayed herself in her most precious goods and raiment, all from Genoa, and with a friend who spoke English she went to the City Hall; and there she at length received the ornate document author- izing her and Angelino to be joined in matrimony. Nina went back to her employer's house and her mistress and those others who saw her observed that was radiant, but thoughtful all that day. It was late the. evening that there and Nina, whose hear. could not keep still, sent one of the other servants to open it. A flickei.ng gas jet shed its uncertain yellow light over the rear wall; but, poor as the light was Nina observed, when Angelino entered, that his swarthy countenance was w er than she had ever known it since the day he embarked for America And | she then knev' he hao read the lis What if he had learned her perfidy? | What if after all he was not deceived? Nina realized now, for the first time, that she had wagered everything on a single cast of the die, and might lose, There was a sudden pressure heart, as If it would .urst instant she regained her self-control and went to meet her Angelino. She smiled and held out her *rms. Angel- ino looked at her soberly and kissed her almost fearfully; but even as he bent forward she saw the white Eng- | lish newspaper In his pocket. raliroads, | | silent and | | | and for what am | i | and, : ady | They sat on the bench on the back | and fir porch talked thoughtful talked, or rather Nina Angelino was silent and At last »° te became anxious, At length Angelino arms and with a paper from blame me, “but t has “You babe * wy whew “Do t sobbed, | deep sigh his pocket Nina,” he almos coms , cried Nina: I to blame ¥ the | not | “blame you, nm, my chila™ Angeline slowly unfolded the paper and at length found the Iittie list at the bottom. He laid it out on his hand ! Nina. “There,” he said, “there read, my Nina" " protested she sweetly “You my babe, that I cannot read the ean read this" sald brave." "Your name.” she What can it mean?” "Can you bear it, knowing we Angelino, said, “and mine. have in erfi- go little money : “It ms ment has orders 8 101 Nina was silent Then she arose, turning her eyes upon Angelino, looked into his eyes with the Heght of It I= the will of she cried. “We torment NAarTs HE Courage y Father, when y ad us next day church the dq far less thar even less than th had they are happy.—Philadel- ¢ But phia Record i nn, sss tI —— America | i began to laugh Czarevitech Alexis, i looked up in known, was born on August 12, 1004, | 1 the American | fortunes of Heir to Russian Throne. A portrait of the son and heir of the «100 Czar of Russia recently made public seems to belle the statements isshed saved her from abroad that the imfant Czareviteh is a deaf mute and an idot. The baby prince is unusually bright and has never had a diy's illness In his 22 months of existence, though many paper Papers have often reported him as be ing In an extremely eritieal condition, ns he Is officially at the moment of the Russia during the war with Japan. Notwithstanding the trouble sometimes through which the Russinn government has passed, the Infant who will some day suceeed to very darkest customer pointed the throne of the Russian government, has thriven In adversity, The ae companying portrait was taken at the Russian Palace at the express wish of [the Empress, _— Fond Memories, A hard-headed old Pittsburgh manu [facturer who made his fortune, as he foapresses it, “with his coat off,” was Induced by his daughters to accompany them to a Wagner concert, the first he had ever attended. The next day be happened to meet an acquaintance who had seen him the night before, who asked: “1 suppose you enjoyed the concert last night, Mr, Brown?" “Yeu: it took me back to the days of my youth" the old man sald, with a reminiscent Sg. “Ah, summer days In the country girl In a lawn dress, birds singing and h haty da o, t y# when IT worked In a boller shop In Seranton.” Success. nd a EP EA EE be had at the great bullding by the | she | very silent and very | came a timid knock at the back gate, ! at her | But in an | unfolded her! {gamut of possible shapes, | usun imade up of frills, pla £10, | LINGERIE FASHIONS IN LEAD. — Frivolous Coats of All Which are Considered Just tHS 1 hing. By MARTHA DEAN. + Lingerie fashions have quite taken the world of fashion by storm and made the craft of the dress cleaner an important business of the day. It is due largely to the evolution of the original “tub” frock into most elabor- ate creations. Everything in the ward: robe may belong to this class except, perhaps, footwear and gloves. The little French girl Is finding her handiwork at the top of the scale Just now, though little good it does her for It Is the wodiste, her employer, who profits by the fashion for baud ew broidery. Handwork is the keynote of lingerie fashions, all costly garments being made by hand so that sewing machines play little part In the making | {of a gown. This means, to be sure, | [that fashionable gowns cost money | lingerie blouses alone selling at $40 | and up when hand-made. With the | thin materials in use, machine sewing is often out of the question. Among the materials provided for lingerie frocks are handkerchief linen, batiste, embroidered Swisses, cotton cliiffon wvoiles, and a host of others, while for trimming the Irish crochet and Valenciennes laces are still most popular. Besides these thére are the Venetian lace galloons, the embroid ered Swiss galloons, Insertion and medallions, Irish crochet motives that may b bought separately, and a great variety of embroidered linen novelties which may be had to trim these gowns. One of the most attractive uses to which these laces have been put is for the making of the little jackets of all | sorts which are to gdrnlsh summer {frocks and lingerie waists on nice oe {easions during the summ r. These little Jackets are for the most part of much abbreviated Eton length with flowing sleeves terminating above the elbow, jor in long box or Pony shape. Such garments of lace and embroidery are very dressy little affairs costing any- { where from £8 to J100, while some {simpler ones of lawn and Valenciennes come as low as $2.25. The Iatter may be tubbed like the lingerie blouse while the finer lace ones require the more {eareful handling of the expert cleaner Many of these jackets are so elabor ate as to beggar description and espe- cially this true of the ho acket | which would seem to mportant as the out-of-door wrap by its frequent appearance upon house and evening This garment runs the whole an 1%e be ax EOWNS, | an event.” It is made without sleeves and resembles fn jacket only in having armholes. In the short waisted gowns which sug gest the modes of the Empire, these | little jackets often act as garnish ment for girdle and walst and usually fasten at the back, They are made of silk daintily embroidered with metal and silk and bordered with velvet and lace. Rhoulders are broad but not exaggerated. Many of the Etons, bol eros and short, hip:length are ted or shirred. lapels straight or falling Into ripples; embroidery, buttons, bows and lace all | gathered Into a harmonious and capf)- | vating whole. Then, there are little mantels of nameless variety and shape that just cover the reaching barely to mostly of cloth, for wear with smart “ik gowns. Dressy cloth costumes de- mand jackets of silk. 1¢ Ny Jackets 10 Beats Carncgie’s Spelling. “Say” exclaimed the girl at the handkerchief counter. “Wotsmatter asked the girl at the ribhon counter, “Aintchoogittin nuftoet?™ “Woljaskin thatfur>” “Yooralookinkina thin” “Alntneether.” “Yartoo. Betterficksher back hair, Sceummin down.” “Quitcherrubberin. Mine jeroan bis.” “SayhL” “Saychersef!.' “Jevvergitcherforchua told? “Yeh-—wunsertwice. Ever git choors ¥' “Yeh. Ootole juh “Erdkitsmith sayinse, Cumtroo?” “Notchett.” “Thinkitwill ¥ “Lykaznot. Letchoono fit does” “Sayjen. Juno cumpny “Awka mofl.” “T'roo sima stanniueer.” “How jeerit “Saliright. Yooleerabout it soonuff. Sayjen, canchooketeh on" “Say, there, you giris.” interrupted the floorwalker, “Go back to your | customers,” now 7 We will gladly sed you as a full size, for family use, high voring E os that t nner ame wo pay frofght the shoulders, | the elbow and | Kittenbills keepin- | HINTS FOR YOUNG GARDENERS P—— Boston Public Library Trustees Issue a Valuable Free Pamphlet. For the purpose of assisting amateur gardeners, and especially boys and girls who, at this season begin to feel an interest in plants and flowers, the trustees of the Boston Public Idbrary have printed a little book for free dis- tribution, It is called “ A Brief “List of Books About Gardening.” Its con- tents are classified under the heads of “The Making and Care of a Garden,” magazines thataretobeseenin the li-| brary which aredevoted especially to! gardens: a collection of books containing | descriptions by famous writers such | as Homer's “Greek Garden,” from | “The Odyssey;” Pliny's “Tusculan Garden; Sir Francis Bacon's “Eung- | lisk and French Gardens:” thorne's “American Gardens” and! 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