HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1892-10-27, Page 3IIR01)2ING IN THE ROOKIES.
A. ralbattall Store tn. 4 'Western Witderness.
I ant going; to the Rocky IVIountains to do
my shopping! If any one in the East heard
4 Indy say that he would certainly take a
aseeend look at her. But he would seemly
lie more surprised than I was to be in the
thick of the' Rockies with Lieutenant Ahern,
IJ. Ss A., for a. companion, hearing his
modest recountal of adventures in the most
ma.gniticent wilderness in our country ;
and then on the westward slope, among the
foot -hills, to step from the oars to a store
like Whiteley's Necessary Store in London,.
or one of our `shopping stores" on the Sixth
.Avenue, New York, That was ono of the
surprises of my experiences in the far
West. It was in Missoula, llontenee that
I found the unexpected great bazar. It is
cnly fair to say that Missoula has had sly
hopes that she might become the capital of
the new State of Montana—if the rivalry
between Butte endHelena, and Great Falls
necessitates a diplomatic tendency toward
the choice of some place apart from these.
But Missoula, though beautiful and kept
almost evergreen by the soft winds from the
Pacifica is rather the capital of the thorough-
ly un -Eastern strip of Montana on the other
side of the Rockies than of the imperial
eastern half of the State.
When I left the cars at this place I found
it a typical Western town, with one street
of shops, with a fine hotel, some business-
like banking -houses, a club, and a great
scattering of dwellings, sufficient for e popta
lepton of about 4000 or 5000 souls, if my
memory serves me right. I noticed one
block of stores in particular. They were
distinctly "citified" in appearance. They
had great plate -glass fronts, and the win-
dows were shrewdly and attractively used
for displaying the goods within. Ono was
a dry goods store, the next was a boot and
shoe store, the next was a grocery, and the
last was A hardware and agrioultural imple-
ment einporium. 'All were brilliantly illu-
minated by electric lamps. Recovering
from the first surprise at finding such mod-
ern shops in mob, a place, I next noticed
that all of them were alike and of a piece,
and then I saw that they lacked the usual
sign -boards of different merchants over the
windows.
They were, in fact, but a few of the many
departments of the Missoula Mercantile
Company's stores, and before I tell more
about that, I will intrude a note with regard
to such places in general. The Arab of these
great trailing companies' stores that 1 saw
in the West were in Butte, the great, mining
town of Montana, and the liveliest, " wide-
openest" town it has yet been my lot to
run across—one in which tho barber shops
never closed, and sixteen licensed gambling
saloons flared open on the main street. Two
of these great trading establishments have
their headquarters in that city, and a tour
of either one reveals an enormous stock and
greet variety of goods, "cash railways,"
lines of young men and gir:s behind
the cptinters, crowds of elbowing a.nd goods -
handling shoppers, end more of the atmos-
phere of Sixth Avenue than one feels in
any stores in the generality of Eastern cities
that deem themselves quesametropolttan.
Those who have done me the honor to
follow the reports of my wandering will re-
call that I found great general stores of the
kind in Winnipeg and 'Victoria, British
Columbia, and that they marked the de-
velopment of the original trading -posts of
the Hudson Bay Company, wherever .great
townshavogrownuperoundthelittleorminal
forts of the corporation. These alontana
emporiums are not of the out -growth or fea-
ture of any fur trading operations, but they
ttee the result of the same necessity that
Kos developed the fur -trading posts. Here
in Montana, have come big lumbering com-
panies, mining camps, army pests, IndIan
reservations, railway divisional headquar-
ters, and ono form or another of settle-
ments by or collectione of men to be supplied
with food, clothing, implements, and what-
ever. The more enterprising traders have
extended their business, until sucth a bulk
of trade has come to them that they can
buy its enormous quantities at large dis-
count, and have no competitors except one
another.
This Missoula Mercantile Company is
capitalized at a million and two hundred
thousand dollars. Ie transacted a business
of more than two millions of dollars last
year. It has four branch stores in addition
to the great central one at Missoula; ono
being at Corvallis, one at Stevensville, one
at Victor, and one at Demersville, at the
head of navigation on Flathead Lake,
in northwestern Montana,nsar Kalispel,
a divisional point on the route of the
Great Northern Railway, the last trans-
continental trunk -line that is being pushed
to the Pacific Ocean. The Missoula com-
pany does a large jobbing business with
etorekeepers and lumbering and mining
camps. ibis a country A. T. Stewart con-
cern, wholesaling and retailing all neces-
saries and luxuries to the people of what
may be called Montana -west -of -the -Rockies.
This whole territory is in one county of im-
perial size—about 300 miles wide and 600
utiles long, with a population of 20,000
souls. Not satisfied with reigning supreme
in that field, the Missoula company does
business in the Omar d' Alene mining region
in Idaho.
Mraela B. Hammond, the president of the
compatty, was horn on the St. John's
River in New Brunswick. He went
West as a young man, and worked' as a
wood -chopper for a time. He reached
Missoula in 1863 as poor as he was am-
bitious; but to -day, at forty-four years of
age, be is a wealthy man, with spare time
enough to have become a student and a
lover of literature. Indeed, it is said of
him that when he had his fortune to make
"he used to work all day and read all
night." He is more than past to his em-
ployees; has made presents of stook to those
who have displayed the most enthusiasm
and enterprise, and now numbers among the
stockholders twenty-. rie who are employees.
Each of the many departments of the big
-concern is managed by its own headman,
who has sole charge ot it, buys all the goods
sold in it, and reports upon its condition
, once a year.
The stores or departments are nearly all
. together in one long two-story block, and as
all are thrown together by communicating
passageways, the reader will understand
that the effect naon a visitor is that of one
general shopping store. 'The -various stores
or ,departments are these: a gentleman's
furnishing and clothing store; a wine and
, spirit, tobacco and cigar depexttnent ; a
dress -making and tailoring department; a
dry -goods and carpet store; a boot and shoe
store • a grocery store; and 'au extensive
deparlmene for the sale of hacclware,outlery,
agricultural, mining, and lambermen's im-
plements, harness, saddlery, wagons, car.
riages, and blacksmiths' supplies. I noticed
that there were displayed large assortments
of crockery upholstery, furniture,. anil
made up gowns; wraps, and cloaks for
the women, so that, speaking widely,
eucl at this, distance in space and
memory, I do not recollect that
these trades left unclocapied any
geld of barter in Missoulasexcept. jewelry,
businesa must include a trade in drugs,
since they would be demanded in the min-
ing and lumber oamps and by the retail
dealers at a distance. The purchases of the
company are upon stioh a scale, and it buys
so shrewdly, that the profit must be very
considerable. It is an indication of how the
11eW Western cities are cutting into New
York's trade to know that all that the
Missoula Company buy e here are carpets,
dry -goods , gentlemen's furnishings, cloth-
ing, hats and caps, and some cigars. Its
imported wines and liquors and its groceries
are bought in Chicago, its sugar and canned
fruits in California, and its teas in Japan.
One hundred and twenty-five clerks.
salesmen, workmen, and department head,
comprise the force of attendants and
managers of this astonishing country
store, and the capital it "swings," to use
O Western phrase, finds outside chances
for multiplication by investments in the
Blackfoot Mining Company, a land com-
pany or two, and in a national bank. I
have mentioned this concern by name and
described it, but it must be remembered
that it is but one of many such trading
venturee where one would least expect to
find thenn—Pilian Ralph, in Harper's
Weekly.
Dishes For Fall.
One advantaga of our four seasons fit the
necessity they create for a cheap of food.
The dishes given below will be found agree-
able in early fall.
CALF'S TONGUES FRICASSEED . —Boil the
tongues until done—about an hour—take
off the skin and tion neatly, then cut into
slices half an inch, thick; roll an flour and
fry for a moment or two in hot dripping,
place them in a saucepan, add parsley,
celery and sliced unions end cover with
gravy, broth or water ; simmer, closely
covered, for thirty minutes, slightly thicken
the gravy and pour it around them.
NEW TURNIPS. —Peel and slice a quantity
of turnips and cook in salted boiling water
to which you have also added 0. teaspoonful
of sugar; when done drain in a colander
and press as free as possible from water,
then press through the colander, add a
spoonful of butter cut in tiny bits and rolled
in flour, a spoonful or two of cream and salt
and pepper to taste.
CHIGKEN Farrrens.—Trint every bit of
meat from the carcasses of a pair of roasted
chickens—that is, after you have made one
dinner from them; put the bones on with a
quart of cold water, an onion and parsley
and stew for an hour and a half, when ie
should be seduced to one pint. Chop the
meat fine, wet with the gravy, if any, and
one.third as much breed crumbs or cold
boiled rice, season to taste and mix with a
beaten egg, If there was no giblet gravy
left from the day before use any kind of
stook or gravy, failing any of these, cream
or milk to moisten the crumbs and meat.
Make a thin better with two eggs, a gill of
milk and prepared flour and having made
up the mince into tiny balls, dip thein in
the batter and fry in boiling dripping. Pile
them on a dish and pour around them the
gravy made from the bones which has been
strained, thickened and seasoned.
BROILED POTATOES. —Serve these with the
firet sausages of the Roane. Cut largo cold
boiled potatoes in thick slices and brown
on both sides over a clear fire, laying them
between the bars of it double oyster boiler.
Season with salt, pepper and 4 little melted
butter. Broil the sausages, splitting them
if too thick and sprinkle each with it few
drops of the juice of an orange.
Bear Sour.—A very good and cheap soup
cap be made from a pound of lean soup meat
cut into small pieces; fry it with a little
dripping made very hot, add a teaspoonful
of sugar; fry at the same time two onions
cat in rings. The meat and onions must
only get nicely browned and must not be
allowed to scorch. Then add three quarts
of hot water, a couple of small turnips cub
In dice, a few stalks of celery, if et hand,
outting them in dice, and the used soup
herbs, Cook slowly for an hour and a half;
add six tomatoes peeled and sliced and. two
large tablespoonfuls Of rice; simmer an hour
longer, season to taste and. turn all iuto the
soup tureen after skimming it free from fat,
which spoils the appearance and tasto.
CUCUMBERS FRIED. —Peel and cat in slices
lengthwise, and about an eighth of an inch
thick; fry tender, brown in butter, and dish
each slice on apiece of buttered toast. They
are also nice fried as above, seasoned with
salt, and laid on a hot dish, under a broiled
steak or a nice mince of beef or mutton as a
substitute for en plant.
A STORY OF A BLACK BAG,
SY D. .1. SULGRAVE.
lam a private detective, a calling which is
just now the object of a good deal of abuse.
Still I don't think society could get on
without us. If Scotland Yard is to do our
work they will have to get rid of a good
deal of red tape, and make their men some-
thtng better than mere promoted policemen.
There are black sheep amongst us, but I find
evidence, and never undertake to manufac-
ture it,
Many of my cases are of a very private
character, which 1 could not write about
without giving pain, however carefully I
try to wrap up the real names and persons.
Others are of a more public character, and
then, as in the case which I always teak and
think of—the "Case of the Bleak Bag"—I
have engaged -myself in the investigation of
public crime, and beaten the police at their
own game,
There are some mysteries which contein
all the elements of a great sensational crime,
and yet for 3010e reasons fail to take hold of
the public imagination.
Such a case happened shortly after I set up
business for myself ase. private detective.
The body of a man was found in the
Thames under circumstances that clearly
pointed to murder. The men heel been run
through the heart with whet the doctor,
who gave evidence, suggested was the blade
of a sword stick, Nobody identified the
viotim. He 'was a. middle aged man, dress-
ed in a well woru blue serge; there were
certain marks on his body, bat on his
clothes there was nothing that would lead
to identification, except that the shirt he
wore had the name and address of the dealer
—Box, Vine Street, Melbourne.
This mystery never, to use a theatrical
expression, " eaught on." The publie per-
haps is so used to the idea of unknown
bodies being found in the Thames. I
thought a good deal about it. It appealed
to my detective instinct, and once or twice
the idea came iato my mind of -what &score
it would be for some one in my line of life
to wipe the eye of Scotland Yard men in
some such case as this where they had fail-
ed to find out anything. I had ceased to
think anything about the case, in fact elle
or two of the same sort, in whieh the police
were at fault, had occurred since, when it
was recalled to me.
A tobacconist, whose shop I used as it was
near my office, told me one day that a mat-
ter whioh sometimes troubled him was the
disappearance of a lodger of his.
"Owing rent?" I asked.
"No, he owed no rent," said the tobac-
conist, "for he had paid in advance. It
was a °Minus case. He left a bag behind
him, and I should like to open it."
I suggested there was no time like the
presen
The tobacconist lett his shop and came
back with a black hand bag and a bunch of
hie own keys. Without much difficulty w3
opened the bag. There was not much to
reward us; four old pairs of socks, some
underclothing,. some tobacco in cakes, a
very old pa= of trousers, and three
flannel shirts. I can't say what intpulso
made me do it, but just as I was
going to shut up the bag, 1 took up one of
the shirts, though they were not inviting
things to handle, and saw that there was a
maker'sname on it —Box,Vine Street, Mel-
bourne. That was, I romeinberea the name
on the shirt of the men found in the Thee. s.
That set my instincts to work. I asked a
lot of quest's='and learnt that the man
was very silent and close, that he gave Ins
name as John Smith, and that he had. dis-
appeared a day before the body was found
in the Thames. 1 had another look at the
beg, and found, under the lining, two let-
ters in envelopes.
One was to Mr. John Smith, 104, Blank
Street, London. Inside there wee just one
Huse." Meet me to -morrow at 7, Thames
Embankment, near Waterloo 13ridge; I
will bring what you ask for." The post-
mark was the day before the man disappear-
ed. Thesecond was addressed to Miss Fan-
ny Waring, 10 Federal Road, St. Kilda,
Melbourne. ID had an Australian stamp on
it. The date on the post -mark was 11th
Juno, 1887, just one yeax before.
The letter ran : "Dear Fan, I will call to.
morrow evening —Bob." Both letters Wel'a
in the same hand -writing. I think as soon
as Tread them I guessea the whole story.
The letters were both written by the mur-
derer of the so-called John Smith.
That the murder was committed to get
back that. letter—which obviously had some
extraordinary interest or John Smith would
not carry it about with him—or to shut the
The Ohief Thing.
For every person there is some one thing
in life whieh is paramouut, and this absorb-
ing, dominating thing, whatever it may be,
comes at length to write itself all over the
man, in face, habit, aetion, in his mental
and moral constitution, in everything that
he thinks, or says, or does.
After one gets to be forty years old, it is
not hard to toll what is the chief thing in
life for him. If it be money, you see the
grasping money -greed in every expression
of the face, every glance of the eye, every
action of the body. If it is pleasure, or
self -gratification, the fact is written in weak
uncertain lines upon the countenance and
shows itself in the unconscious selfishness
of the slightest acts. Bat if, on the other
hend, the chief thing in life be something
high and worthy, it will be reflected in a
face full of lofty character, and a demeanor
which bespeaks the sincere and noble mind.
It has been well said that a man's face is
the only necessary ticket of admission to
heaven. Character is written there in lines
which cannot be mistaken.
What is it that is molding each one of us
—this paramount thing in life, by the con-
templation of which character and deseiny
are being determined? If the object of life
be base and unworthy, nay, if it be even
temporal and worldly, it will surely degrade,
belittle and deceive us. It will consume
soul and body in the pursuit of an ideal
whose very realization is a mockery and
disappointment. But if it is the spiritual
life which affords our ideal, the chief aim
of all our efforts, a new and ever widening
world of divine possibilities will open before
us. That life is the only truly 'progressive
life. There are no reactions and retrograde
movements in spiritual evolution. The thing
attained never exhausts the possibilities of
development, but bead on to higher and
better things forever. Earthly crowns -crum-
ble, earthly prizes fade, earthly pleasurea
pall. Attained, they are neither in them-
selves what we dreamed, nor do they lead on
to better things. What a failure is the life
which has mane such things its chief desire!
But, how joyous, how rich, how noble, how
eternally progressive is the life which has
been fixed upon eternal things I Make the
love and service of God the chief thing in
your life'and your face will be glorified with
the beauty of saintly character, your deeds
will breathe the und5ing fragrance of sin-
cerity and truth,, and your soul will rejoice
M the consciousness of eternal rectitude and.
eternal progrese.
Yon can riot do wrong without suffering
eleugea aid fretth meat, An11 fancy thee Wrong.—[Emerson,
^
to beat for I believed my fluke was going
to come off, I thought ho was nob trying
his hardest to get away. He had a stick in
his hand.
"There is a blade in that stick, my cleri-
cal friend," I said to myself ; "and if I am
not mistaken, you put it through John
Smith."
Ire get to the nark—was be going to stub
off and run? No; he stopped and doubled,
and let me get within a few yards of him.
What should I do, for I had no power to
arrest him ? but 1 hoped my fluke would
come off. "Yes, it had ; for, like a flash of
lightning, he was on me, bitting at me with
his stick, and grabbing at the bag with the
other hand.
I had no stick, but I am not at all a bad
man with my hands for an "old 'un" In
fact, though I . am rather what a pugilist
would call stale, 1 am better than most
young men for inc round. Though I was
bothered with the bag, I stopped with the
hand in which I held it, and let out with
the other hitting him under the jaw.
He staggered back but did not go down,
and then he drew that cowardly blade.
I had a friend in my pocket, and as soon
as he drew I had oat my revolver and
fired, hitting him in the /mord arm. We
closed, and in a minute or two, as I hoped,
a 'policeman came up, who was soon sein-
ed. by a comrade. Of course there was
only one thing for him to do, namely, to
take as to the police -station. Whett we
got there I sent for a lawyer whom I
knew. and sent off& telegram to Melbourne,
to the head of the police, asking if they
knew anything of Miss Fanny Waring,
Federal Rod, St. Kilda.
I had very ittle money in those days,
but I was ready to °hence it, for 1 believed
that I was going to make a great stroke.
After I had sent my telegram off, I set-
tled myself for the night in my cell. I did
not bother about bail, and was contented,
for I knew my astailant was next door,
The answer to my telegram mile the
next morning " Waring found stab-
bed in her house one morning, the 12th of
June, 1887. "
I sent for a Scotland Yard detective,
who I must say looked rather pleased when
he saw ine in the cells. However, I soon
took the swagger out of him when I told
him I had got tho murderer of the man
who was found in the Thames, in the next
cell. Then I told my story. He tried to
make little of it, but enquiries proved that
my theory was the correct. one.
The sham Parson, alias Bob, of the
letter, was the son cf a very rich Anstral-
ian. He had Inade a disgraceful marriage,
and Fanny Waring was his wife. He
bad murdered her to keep the story of
Ids marriage quiet. "John Smith," who
was a friend of the murderea woman, knew
the story, and had got possession of the
letter which would have brought hcme Bob's
guilt.
The Scotland Yard and Australian people
worked up the case very well, and if Mr.
"Bob" had not been convicted at the old
Bailey and been hung in Newgate on the
English charge, he would have been con.
vieted in Australia.
At the trial they tried to keep me in the
back ground, but they all heal to admit
that. I had distinctly scored.
se
A Basket Gracile.
Babyhood furaishos an account of a novel
cradle used by a mother who is especially
bright- in thinking of convenient ways to
tend her babies and keep them well and
happy.
'She bought an oblong, splint clothes -bas-
ket, and laid a hair pillow in the bottoni
few a bed, and a small flat pillow et the
head. When the baby was fed it was laid
in the basket.
The best feature of the baeket cradle is
its portability, for it can be carried by the
handles into any room where the mother
must be at work; or it may be taken out-
doors aud set down in some corner to give
the little occupant a breath of pure air, then
into the house and put safely on a bed in a
darkened room for nap -timer.
By the use of the basket the babies be-
come accustomed to going asleep without
reeking, and by the time they are too elate
sleep in or be satisfied with life in a basket
they are content to be put in a crib for a nap
or for the night's sleep.
This mother furnishee beds for the chile
dren's cribs and cradle by inking ticks of
coarse cotton cloth and ffiliug them with
good straw or clean hay. Square quilts of
white cloth, with a thick layer of cotton
batting between, and tied with white cotton
yarn, are made to lay over the ticks. The
small quilts are easily washed, and the ticks
are frequently re -filled.
In this way the children have sweet and
wholesome but inexpensive beds. Soft
feather pillows and beds &repot fit for small
children, as they cause perspiretion and are
apt to be used long after they should be
discarded, even when they have had the
best of care,
A geranium leaf applied to a bruise is
said to be healing.
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Ease and Cord
7,177,
Last to Leave.
The feeling which leads the captabi of a
wrecked ship to wish to be the last to leave
her is one easily understood. In the inter.
esting volume of reminiscences of the Siege
of Lueknow recently given to the public, by
Lady Inglis, wife of the general whom the
death of the heroic Sir Henry Lawrence left
in command, an anecdote is related of the
abandonment of the British Residency,
in which a similar feeling is manifest-
ed. It was the Residency or Bailie
Guard of Lucknow which was the strong-
hold of the besieged during their wonder-
ful defence of eighty-seven days against
au enemy overwhelmingly superior. It
was there that they repelled the burrow-
ing foe mine for mine; there that again and
again a resolute few turned back the ad-
vancing thousands trout the riddled and
shaken walls; there that they suffered,
hoped, despaired and never faltered; there
that so many of them died and found graves.
It was from their flag that Tennyson caught
the refrain of his stirring poem of Luck -
now: and there alone, during the crisis of
the mutiny, that "Ever aloft on the palace
roof the banner of England blew."
But after Havelock and Outram had
broken through the enemy's lines and
brought reinforcements, it became evident
that the Bailie Guard, shattered and ruin
-
mouth ot the man who had it, who knew a • ed as it was, could no longer be occupied.
great deal more. The letter was probably
harmless enough to its writer now that
John Smith's mouth was shut. Yet I could
not help hoping that he would try to get it
back. I believed that Ile was a man likely
to play a bold, reckless game. I could
fancy him passing by the house where Smith
Jived and. knowing that the fatal letter was
there. He ovorad make one bold attempt
to get it I hoped. That was my one chance.
I ought to have taken the letter to Scot.
land Yard, but I should have been only
mobbe(1 and put in the background; on the
other hand, without means to make an en-
quiry in Australia, I was a good deal handi-
capped.
I did not tell the tobacconist my suspic-
ion, for he was a talkative sorb of man, but
I asked him not to give up the bag without
letting me know.
For some days af ter that I had business of
my own—after all the black bag mystery was
not my business—which took up my time
and attentien.
A few days afterwards the tobacconist's
son came to my office and said his father
wanted me.
" Well, the lodger has turned up," said
the tobacconist, who was standing at the
door of his shop with the black bag in his
hand.
" What, have you seen him?" said I
thinking that I had discovered a mare's
nest. ,
I was not particularly surprised or humil-
iated, for one is always doing that sort of
thing in our business. It is not the detec-
tive who never follows the wrong due,
but the one who never leeves one who is no
use.
"No ; but he has sent for his bag; he is
sick in the tountry, and the clergyman of his
parish has come for it. There the reverend
gent is."
He pointed at the clerically dressed in-
dividual who was walking towards us.
I had not taken the shopman into my
confidence, so I could hardly blame him,
but his conduct seemed fatal to me; for the
clerically -dressed man, on seeing he was
being pointed at, turned and walked away.
I should never catch him up for I had no
police to call to my assistance as a Scotland
Yard man would have. Then an ideit 'se-
cured to me which was rash and unlikely to
succeed, but *brilliant flakes 'soore in sle-
tective work. -took the black. beg from
the tobacconiswith &mord of explanation,
and followed the parson. I could just keep
him in- sight, for Blank Street is not Very
crowded. Atter taking several turnings,
he got into Baker Street. Myeltheat began
OE N TRAL
Drug Store
Alo7S0N'S BLOOK
ITH poor soaps ana old fasleioned
of washing, it is cruel and hero.
women of adve,nein yeaxs to a
January work. But with the Wo
famed, labor-saving
Sunlight $o
Anybody cau, de a Wash with ce
Parative ease byfollowing thesimple direct
"With "SUNLIGHT" there's; no ha
rubbing, sore knuckles, hot steam, or tis
hack% A. trial will astonish you.
Worlos :Ps. Sunlight Lever I81,e0..1,insite
Near Ibiriaenhead, Toronto
It was decided to eviecuate it in the night,
—a most difficult and dangerous undertak-
ing,—and to remove the troops, the wound-
ed and the imprisoned women and chibiten
to another position at some distance, which
was already held by &portion of Hevelock's
men.
At midnight precisely, in silence and
darkness, the movement began, the garri-
son nearest to the enemy first quietly with-
drawing, and the others then falling in be-
hind. them—like the turning of a glove in-
side out. At the Bailie Guard gate'watch-
ing them defile past, stood Generals Outram
and Inglis with their staff. It was a bitter
moment to Inglis, who had defended the
piece so long and so nob]y. He had pleaded
that the flag might be kept still flying upon
the ruins, volunteering to remain and de-
fend it with but a single regiment ; but he
had been overruled.
As the last company passed by, General
()Aram signed to him courteously with his
hand to take preceaence in following them,
but he hung back, desiring to be the last.
Outram smiled and held. out his hand, say-
ing, "Let us go out together." So shak-
ing hand's, tho two generals came down the
slope side by side.
Their staff followed, and here again the
place of honor was disputed. Captain
Wilson wished to be the last; Captain
Birch, aide-de-camp to General Inglis, was
determined to he The two boyish young
officers put it to the test of strength, and
Wilson, being weak from hardship, as his
opponent modestly admits, "could not stand
the trick of shoulder to shoulder learned in
tho Harrow foettall fields." He was
thrown and rolled down the hill, and
Captain Birch triumphed.
But a doubt arose whether ell the troops
had left ; those who had kept count differ-
ed, and Captain Birch was sent back to see.
This duty be performed, though with no
enjoyment of it, far the danger was great
and the silence and loneliness of the familiar
squares oppressive and terrible. He
thought, however, that now beyond all
doubt he was the last Englishman in the
°ale. was mistaken. Another °Seer,
Captain Waterman, had fallen asleep from
exhaustion while the garrison was marching
out, and was left behind. Weak and ill,
the shock of waking and finding himself
alone was so great that though he succeeded
in escaping ancl rejoining hie comrn.des, he
was for some time delirious; but, he,
though quite against his will, was the last
man to leave the famous Bailie Guard before
it fell into the bends ef the enemy.
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