The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-19
bMETIMES FINDS A MAN.
|Brazos" Describes a Few of These
Animals.
Ne OF MARK TWAIN'S CHARACTERS,
lank Monks and His Vocabulary a
Thrilling Experience In the Mount
aims OF California.

Caldwell, Texas, January 11.-(Special
correspondence Houston Post.)-Men are
ery scarce animals, but nevertheless
Fery once in great while yon meet
be We used to see great many dur
Sg the war. OF these | remember Il
lajor Chapman, who suggested the
imp bales at the battle of Lexington.
e died standing on one of these bales,
Eingng his sword over his head within
IN PAGES of the enemy's works, i've min
ties before the word victory shook the
birth. And these are the only lines ever
fritten about that hero, for no man
hemed to know from whence he came.
4 Another was IL Colonel Porter. Knocked
own by grape shot, he sprang to his
bet, the blood streaming over his face,
fdered soldier to bind white hand
.erchief about his forehead, and contiu-
| ed TO lead his men in the famous charge
ganst the Anderson house redoubt.
few words have ever been written about
(im.
Another was gunner whom they
shlled Sehastopol. Stripped to the waist,
)e smoked a short pipe and thrust his
cannon between two hemp bales, it's
puzzle almost touching the enemy $
FORKS. He survived that action, but
fho ever heard of him afterward:
\ ~ uscu 70 see great ui"hs nich ~,
california. You see only the gods and
(he world builders got there; the weak
tngs and Stockings died on the alkali
~erts and in the mountain passes.
here were men out there who moulded
FOUNTAINS and made rivers run the
Pther way-men who forced great rivers
70 run through nozzle not larger than
-FOUR arm. 1t took a dozen men to hold
Ihat nozzle and the little stream of
water that came out of II would go
through things like ball from n
hrupp gun--mash down mountain or
ledge of rock.
There We're men who built fumes
hbovc the tree tops and wagon roads
round a dozen Cape Horns far above
The, clouds. Think of Adolp Sutro, with
pick and shovel and not a dollar, starting
',nsle'handed to dig tunnel four miles
Ihrongh solid rock in order to strike the
ower lodges of the Comstock lode. Did
Pc do itf He did. And today he is
mayor of San Francisco. owning nine
Ienths of the real estate of the city.
mink of two or three miners stand
h,s on the bank of the Sacramento.
Let MS turn that mountain over into
her and dam the huzZa," says one. I'VE
could get gold enough ont of the bed be-
ow the dam to buy old Pike and cut a
Out there the world first saw string
u twenty-five mules hitched TO Il train
u hve big wagons, all driven by one
man You would meet many of these
~ teams in the mountain passes about
sacramento. and it was a sight worth
'eins. The pony express, the overland
nal' ana the big Concord coaches drawn
Dy SIX flying thoroughbreds, every one II
TGcer-all were the creations of the brain
~ The old world builders. who threw
soo slugs on the bar and thought it be-
,eaih their dignity to wait for change.
anu the meanest of them were so very
rank. One said to n country store
Keeper: Say, pard, / have got to stay
around here all day. | wish you would
inter Keep an eye on me, for ! am a
I'VE se things in my pocket Can't help
n mere We're several Cape Horns in
,r, and Nevada, and the drivers
wa" neld the strings over the big teams
AZ 'he mail coaches We're well-known
,na racters, who stood high in the estima-
Ton of the public.
Sunding in the valley below and look
,hhs al one of these coaches flying around
bn Sue of the mountnin one felt as II
' suw something unrcal-something like
-, 'ute IN the clouds. Seated IN the
out the brayost hardly dared to look
"1t upon the backs of the eagles flying
= .he valley below. The passenger knew
h'ofe was only foot or more between
" outside wheels and precpice that
rrmpped into n gorge. the bottom of which
ra ae N another climate. Don't you lie
80 see there was any hesitation or slow
mere. The horses flew ana sparks
IL rom me brakes, especially when .
'' NE Monks held the whip.
ch.n at same Hank Monks was great
acter, but not at all the versatile