The morning news., 1894-11-26

ed on lCIusiOu, and that IOngfellOw's
poems imm0rtalizei things that never Oc-
CURED The Scotch lass did hear the
slogan. I almost heard it myself as /
stood inside the Residency. while my es-
Cort told of the coming ON Of the Sey-
enty-eighth Highland regiment. "W ere
you present when Havelock came in2''
asked, for J could suppress the question
no longer. His answer came; II was not
at the moment present, but with some
other young fellows I saw soldiers dancing
while Two Highland uiDers played, and
1 said what i- AN this excitement about"
Then we came mp and saw that HavelOck
was in. and Dutram was in, and the regi-
ueuts We're pouring i'm.
SHOW us where they came in"' l ex-
claimed, for ] knew that they did not en-
ter through the gate Of the Residency,
that being banked up inside to keep the
murderers out. Here it is" answered
my escort Here it is-the embrasure
through which they came"
We walked up to the spot 1t is now
broken-down pile of bricks a dozen
yards from the gate. Long grass now, but
then bood-spattered, bullet SCARED
opening in the wall.
As we stood there, although the scene
was thirty-seven years ago. ] saw them
come in, Havelock. pale and sick, but
triumphant; and Outram. whom all the
equestrian statues in Calcutta and Europe
"What then happened?'' / said to my
escort. oh he said, that is impos-
s,ble to tell. The earth was removed
from the gGte and soon all the army of
relief entered, and some of as laughed,
and some cried and some prayed and
some danced. Hghlanders so dust-cov-
cred and enough blood and wounds on
their faces to make them unrecognizable,
snatched the babes out of their mothers
arms ana kissed them, and passed the
babies along Tor other soldiers to kiss,
and the wounded men crawled out of the
hospital to join in the cheering and it was
wild jubilee, until the first excitement
passed, the story of how many of the ad-
Vanctng army had been slain on the way
began TO have fearful effect, and the story
of suffering that had been endured inside
the fort, and the announcement to children
that they were fatherless, and to wives
that they were widows, submerged the
shouts of joy with wailing of agony"
But were you not embarrassed by the
arrival of HaveloCk and l. 400 men who
brought no food with them?" He an
SWereu. or course, we were put on
smaller TatiOns Immediately, in order
that they might share with us but we
knew that the coming of this reinforce>
ment would help us to hold the place un-
til further relief should come. Had not
this first relief arrived as it did, in a
day or two at most, and perhaps in an
hour, The besiegers would have broken
in, and our end would have come The
Se1oyS had dug six mines under the Resi-
dency, and would soon have exploded ALL
After we had obtained few bullets that
had been picked out of the wall, and a
piece of a bOmb-shel, we walked around
the eloquent ruins, and put our hands into
the scars of the shattered masonry and
explored the cemetery inside the fort
where hundreds Of the dead soldiers await
the coming of the Lord of Hosts. at the
Last Day and we could endure no more
MY nerves We're all a-tremble. and my
emotions were wrung out, and / said Let
us 60 had seen the Residency at
Lucknow the day before with a beloved
missionary and he told me many interest
ing facts concerning the besiegement of
that place, but this morning l had seen it
in company with one who in that awful
1887 Of the Indian mutiny with his own fire
had fought the besiegers, and with his
own ear had heard the yell of the mis-
crcants as they tried to storm the walls
and with his own eyes had witnessed a
scene of pang, and sacrifice, and endur-
auce and bereavement, and prowess, and
rescue which has made all this Lucknow
fortress and its surroundings the Mount
Calvary of the nineteenth century.
ON the following day about four miles
from the ReSidenCy [ visited the grave Of
HavelOCk. The scenes of hardship and
W passed
were too much for mortal endurance. and
a few days after Havelock left the Resi-
denCy which he had relieved, he lay in a
tent a-dying. while his son whom / saw
in London on my way here, was reading
to the old hero the consolatory Scriptures.
The telegraph wires had told all nations
that HavelOck was sick unto death. He
had received the message of congratula-
ton from Queen Victoria over his
triumphs and had been knighted and such
reception as England never gave to any
man since Wellington came back from
Waterloo awaited his return, But he will
never again see his native land. He has
led his last army, and planned the last
battle. Yet he is to gain another victory.
lie declared il when, in his last hours he
said to General Outram. Il die happv and
contented. ! have for forty years so ruled
my life that when death came | might
face it without fear To die Is gain In
deed, this was no new sentimentality with
him. lie once stated that in boYhood wit
-four companions he was accustomed t.
seek the "seClusiOn of one of the dOrmi-
tories for purposes of devotion though
certain in those days of being branded as
Methodists and canting hypocrites." He
had in early life been immersed In a Ban
tist church. He acknowledged God in every
victory, and says in one of ais dispatches
/ that he owes il to the power of
the Enfield rifle in British hands
/ to British pluck, and to the blessing Of
Almighty God on "A most righteous cause"
He was accustomed to spend two hours
/ every morning in prayer and Bible read
/ ing, and If the army was to march at 3
/ O'Clock he arose for purposes of religious
/ devotion at o'clock, and if the army was
to march AT o'clock he arose at O'Clock
Sir Henry HaveloCk, the son, in whose
arms the father died. when came through
London invited three Of the heroes of
/ Lucknow to meet me a his table, and
told me concerning his father some most
/ inspiring and Christian things. He said:
My father knew not what fear was He
would say to me in the morning as he
came out OF his tent Harry. have Won
I read the book? Yes Have Won said
your Urayers% Yes Have YOU had
your breakfast Yes Come. then. and
let us mount and 20 out to be shot at
and die like gentlemen" The three
other heroes Of Lucknow at that table
. told of Gen. Havelock other things lust
as stirring. What a speech that was
. laNeloch made TO his soldiers as he
T started for Cawnpore, India. over 200
of our race are still alive In Cawnpore.
. With Gods help we will save them from
death. ann trying you severely. my men.
/ but l know what you are made Of" The