Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-20
A REAL LHIIEIR0I[IIE
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would nave III lt an important cleneifg Of happiness. Such cases, vice versa. have Occurred-that is, woman who has shown herself heroic has lived Go ar old age in the enjoyment of her honors-
 During the American Revolution a small palisade fort erected on the site of the present city Of Wheeling was the center Of a small settlement. The dwelling of Colonel Ebenezer Lane stood nbout 200 feet from the pallsade aud irl it were kept many of the supplies o: the fort. One mOrning-it was Sept z 1TT7-a man rode up to the place, threE himself from his horse and eXcitediy announced that one simon Grty. with a large number of savages. was adyanc- ing to its capture, This man Girty was descended from the lowest order cf people, his father having been an out law and his mother a disgrace to her sex. Simon had inherited the worst prOclivities of both. Captured by the Indians when a boy, he had becom. one of them, and their. savage prac- tices were as natural to him as if he had been born an Indian. Such was the man who was advancing at the head of several hundred red men to murder the men, women and children within the palisade. The place was made ready for defense, and Colonel Lanes house, occupying d favorable position for resistance, was made q part of the inclosure to be defended There were but dozen men to protect the women and children who were hud- died together in the pallsade, expecting the worst possible fate.
 The party came up, and Girty da- manded the surrender of the foUE. which was of course refused. Then commenced a fire from bes.eged ant besiegers which was kept up till nigh0. when it ceased. At midnight the Hc.I4 cook sam, seeing q flicker of light through a creyice in the pal;s8le. looked for the cause and saw au Indian outside attempting to fire the pal.slGo. Sam shot the man dead and aYgrtcI the danger.
 The next morning the attack was re- newed with a hollow log bound Wiih chains for a cannon, but the log bu.ss at the first discharge and killed several of the besieSers. Enraged at the raa- ure, Girty attempted to carry the forc by storm, but the rifles within were true, and he lost many men WthouC accomplishing his object.
 It was now discovered that the sup- ply of powder in the fort was about exhausted There was q keg i'll the Lane house, but to procure it some one must go nearly POO feet and return with it exposed to the fire of the In. dians. The commander called for a volunteeB-to make the attempt, an at- tempt that would almost surely Tcsu!t in death. Eyefy man in the fort yoIun. teered.
 Among tie women was a delicate girl, Elizabeth I.ane-she was nic,L- 1 named Patty-who had recently re- turned from school in Philadelphia. From the refining influences of a school in what was then the first city in the land she had been trausp ported to wilderness and now was confronted with savage warfare. There is but cue position in which we can imagine Sucn a girl under such circumstances, and that is pale and trembling, eagerly scrutiniZing the expressions Of thOs;4: defending her to learn if there is any hope. Patty Lane was the very couc- terpart Of this. She stepped forward as a volunteer, volunteer to run gantlet of bullets that would bring a. most certain death Not only did slle volunteer. but pleaded to be allowed t0 go. arguing that the men were all needed for the defense of the lives Of the women and children; that not q mans life should be risIed in this way, but the life of a woman, who was not fit for hardier service. If she were killed, she would not be missed.
 It was not only the offer that was surprising, but the Spartan arguments by which it was supported. The men all knew that they were true. Reluc tantly the commander gave his con- sent. Patty, kneeling for a moment in prayer, arose ard, sallying forth, with the fleetness of a lawn cleared the space between the fOIt and the house before the savages noticed her CT had recovered from their surprise. Not a shot was fired at her. Placing the pow der in tablecloth and tying it aboli. her waist, she started on her return trip.
 This return was very different mat ter from the going. The savages had been warned and were on the aler: Besides. the bundle she carried wps sure evidence that she was transport ing some article contraband of war Patty ran as rapidly as she could ins- peded by her burden. Scarcely had she started when a bullet sang by her, then another and another. It wGs like shooting a bird on the wing. TE:i few seconds during which she was eE posed to fire were terribly long to those who were watching her from the fort There was every chance that she would not make the goal. Half, three-qSaF- ters, seyen-eighths of the distance was covered, yet she ran. Was she struck and ready to fall the moment she ar rived, or was she still unscathed? There was no time to answer. for witR the feetness of a bird she covered tbe