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•`Captain Graham, the men were sayin'
Ye would want a drummer lad,
So I've brought my boy Sandie,
Tho' my heart is wofu' sad.
But nae bread is left to feed us,
And nae Biller to buy more,
For the gademan sleeps for ever,
Where the heather blossoms o'er."
"Sandie, make your manners quickly,
Play your blithest measure true—
Gie us 'Flowers of Edinboro'
While yon fifer plays it too.
Captain, beard ye e'er a player
Strike in truer time than he?"
`Nay, in truth, brave Sandie Murray
Drummer of oar corps shall be."
"I gie ye thanks—but Captain, may be
Ye will hae a kindly care
For the friendless, lonely laddie.
When the battle wark is eair ;
For Sandie's aye been good and gentle,
And I've nothing else to love,
Nothing—but the grave off yonder,
And the Father up above."
Then, her rough hand lightly laying
On the curl-encircled head,
She bleesed her boy. The tent was silent,
And not another word was said ;
For Captain Graham was sadly dreaming
Of a benison long ago
Breathed above hie head, then golden,
Bending now, and touched with snow.
J. J. EtIIFFMAN
"Good-bye, Sandie." "Good-bye, mother,
I'll come back some summer day;
Don't you fear—they don't shoot drummers
Ever. Do they, Captain Gra— ?
Ono more kiss—watch for me, mother;
You will know 'tie surely me
Coming home—for you will hear me
Playing soft the reveille."
* * * * *
After battle. Moonbeams ghastly
Seemed to blink in strange affright,
As the scudding clouds before them
Shadowed faces dead and white ;
And the night wind softly whispered,
When low moans its light wing bore—
Moans, that ferried spirits over
Death's dark wave to yonder shore.
Wandering where a footstep careless
Might go plashing down in blood,
Or a helpless hand lie grasping
Death, and daises from the sod ;
Captain Graham walked swiftly onward,
While a faintly beaten drum
Quickened heart and step together:
"Sandie Murray ! See: I come !
"Is it thus I find you, laddie ?
Wounded, lonely, lying here,
Playing thus the reveille?
See—the morning is no.t near."
A moment paused the drummer boy,
And lifted up his drooping head:
"Oh, Captain Graham the light is coming,
'Tie morning, and my prayers are said.
"Morning! See the plains grow brighter,
Morning and I'm going home ;
That is why I play the measure.
Mother will not see me come ;
But you'll tell her, won't you, Captain—"
Hush, the boy has spoken true ;
To him the day had dawned forever,
Unbroken by the night tattoo.
—Scottish American.
A horrible scene lately occurred
at an execution in Woodstock, Cana
da. A blind man, named Thomas
Cook, who murdered his wife in a
drunken quarrel, was hung. The
fall was a very long one, the rope be
ing nine feet nine inches in length.—
The fall being so great, and the man's
body being in a diseased condition,
the vertebrae and muscles connect
ing the head with the shoulders gave
way, and, terrible to relate, the head
rolled off while the body fell with a
heavy plunge into the interior of
the scaffold ! The life-blood of the
criminal poured out in living streams
from the headless trunk, while the
torn muscles and gaping arteries
presented a sickening spectacle.
The report of J. D. De Frees, Su
perintendent of Public Printing, giv
ing in detail the transactions of his
office for the year ending 30th of
September, has just been printed.—
The demand for printing blanks, oc
casioned by the war, &c., has been
very great. Tne report shows a
saving to the government of $205,506
since the establishment of that office
in March last year.
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.—It is said
that in New York the money ex
pended this year for Christmas gifts
exceeds by far, that which has gone
that way in many years. A promi
nent jeweller on Broadway sold at
retail, on the day beibge Christmas,
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THE DRUMMER BOY.
AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR
Scene at an Execution.
Government Printing Office.
WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1863.
Bisallantrato. t/
The Execution of Thirty Indi-
ans—Thrilling Incidents.
Our telegraphic dispatches several
days ago stated that thirty-eight of
the forty condemned participants in
the Indian massacres in Minnesota
were executed at Mankato, Minneso
ta, on Friday, December 26th. Ota
kia, alias Godfrey, a negro, had his
sentence commuted—in consequence
of having turned State's evidence—
to ten years' imprisonment ; and
another of the condemned, Ta-ti
mams, was respited, as serious
doubts of his guilt were entertained. *
To show the nature of their crimes,
we quote the offenses of a few of the
culprits, which are essentially the
same as those of their associates :
Te-he-do-ne-cha—Engaged in the
massacres ; took a white woman
prisoner and ravished her, Tazoo,
alias Plan-doota—Convicted of par
ticipating in the murder of Mr. Pat
ville, and of ravishing a young girl.
Wysa-tan-to-wah—Confesses to have
participated in the murder of Mr.
Francis Patville, and to have been
engaged in three battles. Hin-han
shoon-kos-ag-ma-ne—Convicted of
the murder of Alexander Hunter,
and of having taken and bad Mrs.
Hunter a prisoner until she was res
cued from him by another Indian.—
Muz-za-bom-a-du --Convicted of the
murder of an old man and two chil
dren. Wah-pa-du-ta—Confesses that
he was engaged in the massacres, and
that he shot a white man.
From a very lengthy account of
the execution in the St. Paul papers
we condense the following: Grounds
wore selected on which to erect the
gallows on the levee. The gallows
was twenty-four feet square, with
posts fifteen feet between joints, and
so arranged as to form room for the
hanging of ten Indians on each
side. On Monday, the 22d, the death
warrant was read to the prisoners.
They received their sentence very
coolly, several of them smoking their
pipes during the reading; one, when
the time of execution was designa
ted, quietly knocked the ashes from
his pipe, and filled it afresh with his
favorite kinnekinnick ; while anoth
er was slowly rubbing a pipe full of
the same article in his hand, prepar
atory to a good smoke. At the con
clusion of this ceremony, they were
informed that eac h should be privi
leged to designate the minister of
his own choice, that a record of the
same would be made, and the minis
ter so selected would have free in
tercourse with him.
PARTING WITH OLD ASSOCIATES
On Wednesday each Indian set
apart for the execution was permit
ted to send for two or three of his
relatives or friends c)nfined in the
prison, for the purpose of bidding
them a final adieu, and to carry such
messages to absent relatives as each
person might be disposed to send.—
Each Indian had some word to send
his parents or family. When speak
ing of their wives and children al
most every one was affected to tears.
Good counsel was sent to their chil
dren. They were in many cases ex
horted to an adoption of christianity
and the life of good feeling toward
the whites. Most of them spoke
confidently of their hones of salva
tion. Several of the prisoners were
completely overcome during the
leave-taking, and were compelled to
abandon conversation. Others again
—Tazoo was. one—affected to disre
gard the dangers of their position,
and laughed and joked apparently
as unconcerned as if they were sit
ting around a camp fire in perfect
freedom.
On Thursday the women who were
employed as cooks for the prisoners,
all of whom had relations among the
condemned, were admitted to the
prison. The interview was less sad,
but still interesting. Looks of hair,
blankets, coats and almost every
other article in possession of the
prisoners were given in trust for
some relative or friend who had been
forgotten or overlooked during the
interview of the previous day. The
idea of allowing women to witness
their weakness is repugnant to an
Indian, and will account for this.—
The messages wore principally ad
vice to their friends to bear them
selves with fortitude, and refrain
from great mourning. The confi
dence of many in their salvation
was again reiterated. On Thursday
night they wore all fastened to the
floor, two by two. Some were sit
ting up, smoking and conversing,
while others were reclining, covered
with blankets, and apparently asleep.
The three half-breeds and one or
two others only were dressed in citi
zens' clothes. The rest wore the
breech-clout, leggins and blankets,
and not a few were adorned with
paint. The majority are young men,
though several are quite old and
gray-headed, ranging, perhaps, to
ward seventy. One is quite a youth,
not over sixteen. They all appear
ed cheerful and contented, and seem
ed scarcely to reflect on the certain
doom that awaited them.
IPINIPAALIPUNIOUI FOR TIM Naklarlos
=)‘itett
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P • •Timedelf eight Whet=
ever addressed by the clergy, they
listened with marked attention. The
doomed ones wished it to be known
among their friends, and particular
ly their wives and children, how
cheerful and happy they all died,
exhibiting no fear of this dread
event. To us it appeared not as an
evidence of Christian faith, but a
steadfast adherence to their heathen
superstitions. They added some
fresh streaks of vermillion and ul
tramarine to their countenances, as
their fancy suggested, evidently in
tending to fix themselves as gay as
as possible for the coming exhibi
tion. They commenced singing their
death-song, Tazool leading, and near
ly all joining. At half-past seven
all persons were excluded from the
room except those necessary to pre
pare the prisoners for their doom.
The irons were knocked off, and one
by one were tied by cords, their el
bows being pinioned behind and the
wrists in front, but about six inches
apart. This operation continued
till about nine o'clock. In the mean
time the scene was much enlivened
by their songs and conversation,
keepingnp the most cheerful appear
ance. As they were being pinioned,
they went round the room shaking
hands with the soldiers and report
ers, bidding them " good-bye," &c.
White Dog requested not to be tied,
and said that he could keep his hands
down, but of course his request could
not be complied with.
After all were properly fastened,
they stood up in a row around the
room, and another exciting death
song was sung. They then sat down
very quietly, and commenced smok
ing again. Father Ravoux came in,
and after addressing them a few mo
ments, knelt in prayer, reading from
a prayer book in the Dakotah lan
guage, which a portion of the con
demned repeated after him. During
this ceremony nearly all paid the
most strict attention, and several
wore affected even to tears. He
then addressed them again, first in
Dakotah, then in French, which was
interpreted by Baptiste Campbell,
one of the condemned half-breeds.—
The caps were then put on their
heads. Those were made of white
muslin taken from the Indians when
their camps were eaptured, and
which had formed part of the spoils
they had taken from the murdered
traders. They were made long, and
looked like a meal Pack, but being
rolled up, only came down to the
forehead, and allowed their painted
faces yet to be seen.
They received these evidences of
their near approach to death with
evident dislike. When it had beon
adjusted on one or two, they looked
around on the others who had not
yet received it, with an , appearance
of shame. Chains and cords had not
moved them—their wear was not
considered dishororablo—but this
covering of the head with a white
cap was humiliating. There was
no more singing. and but little con
versation and smoking now. All sat
around the room—most of them in
a crouched 'position, awaiting their
doom in silence, or listening to the
remarks of Fattier Ravoux, who
still addressed them. Once in a
while they brought their small look
ing glasses before their faces, to see
that their countenances yet preserv
ed the proper modicum of paint.—
The three half-breeds were most of
all affected, and their dejection of
countenance was truly pitiful to be
hold.
THE PROCESSION TO THE GALLOWS
At precisely ten o'clock, the con
demned were marshalled in a pro
cession, and marched out into the
street, and directly across through
files of soldiers to the scaffold, which
had been erected in front. They
wont eagerly and cheerfully, oven
crowding and jostling each other to
he ahead, just like a lot of hungry
boarders rushing t‘.) dinner in a ho
tel. The soldiers who were on guard
in their quarters. stacked arms and
followed them, and they in turn were
fbllowed by the clergy, reporters, &c
As they commenced the ascent of
the scaffold, the death song was
again started, and when they had
all got up, the noise they made was
truly hideous. It seamed as if pande
monium had broken loose. It had a
wonderful effect in keeping up their
courage, One young fellow, who
had been given a cigar by one of the
reporters just before marching from
their quarters, was smoking it on
the stand, puffing away very coolly
during the intervals of the hideous,
"Hi-yi-yi," and after the
cap was drawn over his face, he
managed to get it up over his mouth
and smoke. Another was smoking
his pipe. The noose having been
promptly adjusted over the necks of
each, all was ready for the fatal sig
nal.
THE AWFUL FINALE.
The scene at this juncture was
one of awful interest. Apainful and
breathles3 suspense held the vast
crowd which had assembled from all
'rarters to witness the execution.—
hree slow, measured and distinct
beats on the drum, and the ropes
was cut, the searbld fell and thirty
,seven lifeless bodies were left (hag
, Div between Jiea*en sod each:--
;One of the ropes lIPaS broken, sod
the body of Rattling Runner fell to
the ground. The neck had probably
been broken, as but little signs of
life were observed; but the was im
mediately hung up again. While
the signal beat was being given,
numbers were seen to clasp the hands
of their neighbors, which in several
instances continued to be clasped un
til the bodies were cut down.
As the platform fell there was one
not loud, bat prolonged cheer from
the soldiery and citizens who were
spectators, and then all were quiet
and earnest witnesses of the scene.
For so many, there was but little suf
fering; the necks of all, or nearly
all, were evidently dislocated by the
fall, and the after struggling was
slight. The scaffold fell at quarter
past ten o'clock, find in twenty min
utes the bodies had all been examin
ed and life pronounced extinct.
THE BURIAL
The bodies were then cut down,
placed in four army wagons, and at
tended by company K, as a burial
party, were taken to the grave pre
pared for them among the willows,
on the sand bar nearly in, front of
the town. They were all deposited
in one grave, thirty feet in length
by twelve in width, and four feet
deep, being laid on the bottom in
two rows, with their feet together
and their heads to the outside.—
They were simply covered with
their blankets, and the earth thrown
over them.
The other condemned Indians
were kept close in their quarters,
where they were chained and not
permitted to witness the executions.
During the awful moments, when
they heard the death songs of their
companions in guilt, they crouched
themselves down with their blankets
over their heads, and remained in
perfect silence. They were much
dejected all day. Some few squaws
witnessed the scene.
OLD AGE AND NATURE.
In Blackwood for February is an ar
ticle by Sir E. B. Lytton, "On the In
creased Attention to Outward Na
ture in the Decline of Life," from
which we;make a few extracts :
"One of the.most common, yet, con
sidered, one of the most touching
characteristics of receding life, is
its finer men who, in youth and mid
dle age,:seemed scarcely to notice the
most striking features of some unfa
miliar landscape, become minutely
observant of the rural scenery around
them when the eye has grown dim
and the step feeble.
"I was acquainted in my school
boy days with an old man, who, after
a metropolitan career of noisy. and
brilliant success, bad slipped away
from the London world as from a
vulgar mob, and found a Tusculum
the reverse of Cicero's, void of books
and remote from philosophers, in a
dull, lone house, in a dull, flat coun
try. To me no scenery could be
less interesting than that amidst
which I met him in his quiet rambles;
a trite monotony of level downs—
neither wood, nor brook, nor undu
lating hill-top, that enlivens solitude
with the infinite play of shadowi. I
was then at the age when we all fan
cy ourselves poets, and this man who
had but slight esteem for poets, was
yet the first in whom I found that
close observation of natural objects
from which poetry takes the same
starting-point as science.
"I was bound to respect this man,
for when I was a boy and ambitious,
he was old and renowned He was
kind to me, for he had known one of
my iamily in a former generation ;
and would suffer me to walk by his
side, and enconrage me by indul
gent, possibly contemptuous silence,
to pour forth my crude fancies and
my vague aspirations,—he who could
have taught me so much, content to
listen ; I, who could have taught
him nothing, well pleased to talk.—
And so, one day. when he had more
than usually provoked my resent
ment by devoting to gossamers and
ants tne admiring interest I was ur
ging him to bestow upon bards and
heroes, I exclaimed with abrurt can
dor-4f ever I win a tenth part of
your fame, sir, I don't think I shall
run away from it into the count's,
in which one has nothing to look at
except ants and gossamers !'
"The old man stopped short, and,
leaning on his stick, first stared at
me, and then, musingly, into space.
Perhaps my rude speech set him
thinking. At last he said, very qui
etly, and as if more to himself than
to me : 'I shalt soon leave the world;
men and women I may hope again
to see elsewhere, but shall I see else
where the cornfields and grass, goss
amers and ants ? Again he paused
a moment or two, and then he added:
'As we lose hold of our five senses,
do we wake a sixth, which bad before
been dormant—the sense of Nature?
or have we certain instincts akin to
Nature, which are suppressed and
overlaid by our reason, and revivs
only at the age when our reason be
gins to fail us ?' "
-THE THREE WillaEs.--The apostle
Paul had three wishes--that he might be
'sad in Christ, that he might be with
Christ and that he might tillpsify Christ.
—Luthet.
A PRAYER BY 110138IITR.
The following prayer was offered
by Kossuth while kneeling amid the
multitude, at the grave of the Mag•
yar heroes who fell is the battle of
Ranoylna, and was originally pub
lished in the Opposition, a journal of
Pesth :
Almighty Lord ! God of the war
riors of Arpad ! Look down from
thy stately throne upon the implor
ing servant, from whose lips the
prayer of millions ascends thy Heav
en, praising the unsearchable power
of thine Omnipotence. 0 God, over
me shines thy sun, and beneath me
repose the relics of my fallen he
roic brethren; above my head the
sky is blue and under my feet the
earth is dyed red with the holy blood
of the children of our ancestors. Let
the animating beams of the sun fall
here, that flowers may spring up
from the blood so that these hulls of
departed beings may not moulder
unadorned. God of our fathers and
God of the nations ! hear and bless
the voice of our warriors, and while
the arm and soul of brave nations
thunder to break the iron band of
tyranny as it forges its chains. ♦s a
freeman I kneel on these fresh
graves by the remains of my brothers.
By such a sacrifice as theirs Thy
Earth would be consecrated were
it all stained by sin. 0 God !on this
holy soil, above these graves, no race
of slaves can live. 0 Father of our
Fathers ! Mighty over myriads! Al
mighty God of the heaven, the
Earth, and the Seas ! From these
bones springs a glory whose radi
ance is on the brow of my people.—
Hallow their dust with thy Grace,
that the ashes of my fallen heroic
brethren may rest in peace ! Leave
us not, great God of battles ! In the
holy name of t'ie nations praised be
Thy Omnipotence. Amen.
CONTENTS or AN INDIAN MOUND.
Some young men, in Charleston,
Massaehasetts, recently explored an
Indian mound in that place—the
burial place of Ninigret, the last of
the Pequot sachems—and found the
remains of his daughter, his only un
married child.
"They dug four feet, and came to
three very large flat stones, weighing
perhaps a ton each. Raising them
out of the way, they continued dig
ging four feet deeper, including the
thickness of' the stone. They then
struck a large iron pot, filled with
smaller pots, kettles, and skillets.—
They found also a large brass kettle
filled with porringers and other kitch
en ware, and bottles. On removing
these, they found under them decay
ed wood in the form of a large log,
and an iron chain surrounded it.—
On one side were hinges, and on the
opposite side a padlock, made fast
to the chain. It appeared that the
log had been split in two halves, the
inside of each half excavated so as
to receive the body of an adult. On
removing the upper half, they found
a skeleton enshrouded in a silk robe,
and on the head a cap or bonnet of
green silk. Extending from the top
of the head was a chain like a watch
guard, down to the sole of the foot,
and there fastened to the outside
sole of the toe. The leather of one
of the shoes was decayed; the oth
er partly remains and indicates a
very delicate foot. Surrounding the
waist was a belt made of wampum
peag, and covered with silver brooch
es as ornaments; around the neck
was a necklace, and at the wrists
were sleeve-buttons. They found al
so two coins, one of silver, dated
1650, and a copper farthing; also in
side the log was a set of Dutch
spoons, some metalic Dutch pipes,
and ladies' thimbles, and other arti
cles."
These articles were deposited in
the Numismatic Society of Boston.
METHODIST STATISTICS.
The statistics of our Church-mem
bership for the year have been gath
ered up. They show a total in socie
ty of 942,906, which is a decrease
from last year of 45,617. The num
ber of deaths is set down at 10,622.
Of the 942,906 in society, 843,401 are
members, and 99,505 are probation
ers. The decrease of members is 22,-
045--of probationers it is 23,573.
Such an amount of decrease in or
dinary times would inspire alarm.—
But when we see where it had chiefly
occurred, and consider how much
there is in the course of events inju
riously affecting the interests of the
Church, we cannot but admit that
some losses were to be expected.
Death of a Patriarch.
Jseob Leidy, of Greenwich town
ship, died a few dayssince at the ad
vanced age of ninety-six years, seven
months and eleven days. ills de
scendents number two hundred and
sixty-six persons, viz : eleven chil
dren, ninety-seven grand children.
one hundred and fifty-one great
grand children, and r rpn great
greatgrand children. -
NEW SERIES.--VOL. 4, NO. 31
FOR THE WAYNESBURG MENERIKER •
In Memory of James Lindsey
Who Fell a Martyr to_his Flag atl=
ioksbarg, Deo.l.3th, 1862 .
Oh, hushed be all gladness, for sorrow and sad.
El=l
Now reiga in its stead ;
Hearts are breaking with aching, hearts rend
ing with agony
Over the dead.
Breathe the name sadly, speak it not gladly ;
He lies with the slain
Think of him lying 'midst dead and dying,
Scattered over du pima, - •
Brave martyr ! and can it be that to thy mem.
These lines are inscribed ?
Has Death enslaved thee ? Oh, to Save saved
thee,
We could have died.
What fond hopes were thrilling, what dark
fears were chilling
Thy warm heart that day !
Whilst rushing to battle, 'mid dm Vim can•
non's rattle,
In fiercest array!
Thine be the glory, but aura the sod dory,
Rehearsing thy fate :
How en thou wert rushing o'er life-bleed out
gushing,
With victory elate !
And how usweserving thy life thus to yield•;
No braver nor tower e'er fell on the Said.
We shall ne'er-forget thee, nor once cease :o
regret thee.
No, no, lost one, no !
A jewel so rare, so priceless, so lair,
Yet lying ea low.
Fond hopes have been crushed, their utterance
hushed,
No brighter to-morrow, stow lirtgersin
thought;
The last hope on the altar, let fewberemarori faker,
To see what she has wreuen_i
Dear, honored dead, while the ditges areteid
-Sadly said—
May angels be twining a wreath o'er Airy-brew,
And Heaven be thine--e'es mu.
No blot on thy none, emblazoned thy lime,
Yet the more
We ponder tby virtues, we think of thy worth
O'er and o er.
We whisper it sadly when the story we lett ;
Peace, Peace to lay *emery Farewell, ea, Ararat /
JEFFERSON, Dec. 15th, 1862.
NEWSPAPESB.
The unexampled extent of news
paper issues in the United States
has often excited the astonishment
of excellent observers; but it is
doubtful whether the whale ef dim
enormous truth could have been
fully appreciated without the wheel
figures which reveal it. Aceording
to the report, published by the Hon.
J. C. G. Kennedy, the ceases super
intendent, it appears that the annual
circulation of newspapers and per
iodicals is no less than 927,951 Q,
or at the rate of 34.36 for eves
white man, woman 'and poptdatimu.
The annual value of all the printhig
done in the United States, fir 1860,
is stated at a fraction less than thirty
nine and three quarters millions of
dollars.
These numbers are sufficiently as
tounding; but the rate of increase
since 1850 is, if possible, even more
so. In that year, says fr Kennedy,
the circulation amounted to 420,409,-
978 copies ; and the rate of immobile
for the decade is 119.61 per cent.,
while the increase of the white pop
ulation during the same period was
only 38.12 per cent. If the circula
tion should continue to grow in the
same proportion for the new ties
years, the number of newspapers
and periodicals in 1870, will be
little over tw.) billions.
In addition to these domestic pub
lications, no inconsiderable number
of foreign Journals is introduced in.
to the United States. "The British
Almanac and Companion," for 1808,
states the number in 1860 to have
been as follows : From Great Brit
ain 1,557,689 ; from France, $70,665;
from Bremen, 41,171; from Prussia,
83 349. These figures comprehend
only the foreign newspapers : and
not the periodicals, some of which
are republished in the United States
The Traitor .Floyd Whinol.
Thirty-seven prisoners captured
by our troops duringthe reoent
scout in Western Virginia arrived at
Wheeling on Wednesday. Our Ames
marched one hundred and sixty miles,
and fell in with Floyd, whim they
drove across the Big Sandy into
Kentuoky. They also burned die
town of Logan, along with the resi
dence and other buildings of the late
Secretary ; broke up a gang of btu&
whackers, and finally returned with
thirty-seven prisoners and about a
hundred cattle.
In Love with Morgan.
The Albany Journal is hi4ol4lllth
the rebel Morgan. It ear: 'The
guerrilla Morgsa is in luck. A vier
and a Brigadier Geaeralahip in Mei
same day—the one gives brake.
Polk and the other by J -
ou*ht to satisfy the most erdenielillit.
bitmn. And, what is better t Atio r
low deserves his lauralt. r .. i .
he is a thief, outlaw anil at
of thing, bet he does his lirti*y
tit
true artiste. If we fine ' ' Jr ' °
wouldn't swap hint filo noweener'' Ai"
ment of commonplace brigadiers.