The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-16

eight broke the bayOnetS or three more and two ran away.
 He was about to leave the country when President Guardiola, Metizo h. dian heard of the exploit in the 1ailyard and made him general and Q faVorlte to show his gratitude. Munstery fought the strong man" of Honduras with Toledo blades before an audience of twenty thousand folks and won. The plain people rooted for the native strong man and bet eight thousand cop per dollars on him, all there were In the country, and lost. The followers or the president got the copper. That gave Guardiola his ng-sought oppor- tunity of retiring the copper and re- forming the currency.
 Nothing in Honduras was toe good for Munstery after that. until he began to think too much of the president wife Then he was sentenced to fight a bull in the arena. He had week to prepare for the fray. With the aid or the American friend, pr, Wells, Nuns tery bought six bulls at two dollars each and went into the country to pfac- tice the matador death stroke. He killed g bull a day in training and then won the big fight in the arena against bull with filed horns, and that after all the picadores and banderilleros had deserted him. Dr. Wells emptied three six-shooters into the air for joy with out leaving his seat and died of deliri- um tremens four days later while still celebrating Munstery's victory.
 But Guardiola was still jealous. He sent Munstery to fight wild tribe on 1 the frontier Munstery was captured and tied To a tree over night to be butchered in the morning. One of the tribe, who had been valet to the late Dr. Wells, cut the thongs and Nuns tery escaped to the river. He jumped In and went over a cataract without in jury. Then he made his way to San Salvador where he became so popular that Gerardo Barrios, from jealousy, condemned him to death. Munstery es- capped with twelve followers to ChiapaS where he was made chief of cavalry in a war against Miramon and Ortega i He was separated from his men in a skirmish and had to fight alone against ten of the enemy, He killed them all and got one hundEed thousand dollars | NOIlu Ol ollESri D olOiCii u ''-A~A' he hid. That was his last real fight One of the ten men wounded him so se- riously that Munstery came to this l country and settled in Chicago as q maitre d'armes. From time to time he needed that hidden gold, but couldn't find his maps.
 In Chicago the old campaigner's spec ialty was training actors for sword play on the stage. Among his pupils were Forrest, the elder Davenport Junis Brutus Booth, Edwin Booth and Fran cis Wilson.
 The generals only motto was: He who lives by the sword lives long. v He was eighty eight when he died and he had full head of his own hair and all his own teeth. He was six feet tall and weighed one hundred and sixty pounds His Hanks were thin, his shoulders broad, his chest deep and his arms long He smoked twenty cigars a day and never hissed a drink As a literary critic he condemned Alexander Dumas for making his heroes fight with their backs against the wall against odds
 "How could I have killed my six men in Honduras or my ten men in Chiapas with my back against wall?' he asked 'The swordsman must leap and lunge and leap about. He must thrust here, ltnge there and spring like the panther. Dumas didn't know that
 Munstery was principal in twenty duels and a second in thirty-three. Thirty -odd years ago he trained Colonel Gansey for his duel with General For | delli on Long Island and Colonel Gam sey won.-New York Sun.