Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-26

smaller rations Immediately In order
! that they might share with us, but we
knew that tho coming Of this re-enforce-
ment would help us to hold the place
until further relief should come. Had
not this first belief arrived as it did in
n day or two at most and perhaps in
! any hour Il . besiegers would have bro
ken in, and our end would have come.
/ The sepoys had dug six mines under
the residenny and would soon have ex-
plodod all. "
After wo had obtained few bullets
chat had heen picked out of tho wall
and pieco Of bombshell we walked
around the eloquent ruins, and put our
hands into tho scars Cf the shattered
masonry and explored the cemetery in.
sido tho fort, where hundreds of the
dead soldiers await the coming Of the
Lord of H-Jsts at the last day, and we
could endure no more. My nerves were
all a-tremhle, and my emotions were
wrung out, and said, Let us go" ]
had seen tho residenoy at Lucknow the
day before with beloved missionary,
and he told me many interesting facts
concerning the bcsiegement of that
place. but this morning / had seen it in
company with one who in that awful
1857 of the Indian mutiny with his own
fire had fou ght the besiegers, and with
his own eaI had heard the yell of the
misoreants as they tried to storm the
walls, and with his own eyes had wit
messed a seine of pang and sacrifice and
endurance and bereavement and prow-
ess and rescue which has made all this
Lucknow fortress and its surroundings
the Mount Calvary Of the nineteenth
century.
HOnors For the Hero.
On the following day, about four
miles from the residenoy, / visited the
grave of Havelock The scenes of hard
ship and self sacrifice through which he
had passed were too much for mortal
endurance, and few days after Have
lock left the residency which ho had re-
lieved he lay in a tent a-dying, while
his son, whom saw i'll London ON my
way here, was reading to the old horo
the consolatory Scriptures. The tele-
graph wires had told all nations that
Havelock was sick unto death. He had
received the message of congratulation
from Queen Victoria over his triumphs
and had been lighted, and such re-
ception 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. Ho declared it when in his last
hours he Eaid to General Outram; II
die happy and oontented. have for 40
years SO ruled my life that when denth
came might face 1t without fear. To
die is gain" Indeed this was no new
sentimentaiity with him. He once stated
that in boyhood with four companions
he was accustomed to seek the "seclu-
sion of one of the dormitories for pur-
poses Of devotion, though certain in
those days of being branded as Metho-
dists and canting hypocrites, " He had
in early life been immersed in a Baptist
church. He acknowledged God in every
victory and says in one of his dispatches
that he owes it ito the power of the En-.
field rife in British hands, to British
pluck and to the blessing of Almighty
God on most righteous cause T" He
was accustomed to spend two hours ev-
cry morning in prayer and Bible read.
ing and il the army was TO march at
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 4.
Sir Henry Hayelock, the son In
whose arms the father died, when !
came through London invited three Of
the heroes Of Lucknow TO meet mo at
his table and told me concerning his
father some most inspiring and Chris.
tian 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 you read the book?'
Yes Have you said your prayersP'
YES. Have you had your breakfasti'
: Yes. Come, then, and lot us mount
and go out 10 be shot at and die like
4" The three other heroes
Of Lucknow at that table told Of Cen
eral Hayelook other things just as stir
ring, What q speech that was Hayelook
made 10 his soldiers as he started for
Cawnpur, India; "Oyer 600 of our Faoo
are still alive in Cawnpur, With Gods
help wo will save them from death.
ann trying you severely, my men, but
know what you are made Of, g." Tho on
thusiasm u his men was well suggested
by tho soldier lying asleep. snd, Have
lock riding along, bis horse stumbled
oyer tho soldier and woke bin, and tho
soldier recognizing tho general cried out
oheedly' make room for the general
God bless the goneral"
Ilayeiosk's Grave,
A plain monument marks HaYoloGk's
grave, bat tho epitaph ia ~ beautiful
and comprehensive aa anything J have
eyer seen, aud ! copied u dion ana
ihore aud u IL 40 followsl "Ii0ro rest
tho mortal remains ~ Henry iiaYeloek,
maiF general in tbe British army and
knight Commander " tho Bath, who
died af Dilko0sha Lucknow u dyseuigy
produced w the baTdsbips ~ q cam
paign lu which he achieved lmm0rial
laule. ou fl0 24fh Of E0yeulb0T. lk8q