Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-01

Alamo-that Texas fortress which, man.
ned with less than two hundred men, with
stood the triple armies of Mexico for thir-
teen days, and only fell into the enemy's
hands with the death of its last defender.
In Crockett's records, John Luther Long
and Edward Childs Carpenter found in
spiration for the THE Dragon-Fly."
One of the most characteristic of Crock
ett's entries recounts with modesty a feat
of arms which even astonfshed the crack
shots of the garrison. The entry reads
thus:
spirits at the prospects of being able to
give the rascals fair shake on the plain.
This business of being shut up makes
man wolfsh I had a little sport this morn
ing before breakfast. The enemy had plant
ed a piece of ordnance within gun shot
during the night, and the first thing in the
morning they commenced brisk cannon
ade point blank against the spot where
was snoring
II turned out pretty smart and mounted
the rampant. The gun was charged again,
a fellow stepped forth to touch her OFF. but
before he could apply the match L let him
have it and he keeled over
"a second stepped up. snatched the match
from the hand of the dying man, but
Thimblerig, who had followed me, handed
me his rifle, and the next instant the Mex
lean was stretched on the earth beside the
first.
"a third came up to the cannon. my
companion handed me another gun, and l
fixed him off In like manner. A fourth,
then a fifth seized the match, who sboth
met with the same fate, and then the whole
party gave it up as a bad job and hurried
off to the camp leaving the cannon ready
charged where they had planted 1t. L
came down. took my bitters and went TO
breakfast
GIGGLEs FROM "HIGGLEDY-PIG-
GLEDY Nothing more effectively Illus
trates the difference in the written and the
spoken sentence than to study in cold type
the things that make us laugh when said
upon the stage The following extracts
from the dialogue of "Higgledy-Piggledy,
the Joe Weber travesty may not invariably
produce ordinations as displayed in type,
but as heard across the footlights they are
said to be Irresistible:
Philopena Marie Dressler)-"As / recol-
lect that girl, she would have a hard time
to work up a Irritation In blind asylum"
Philopena-"If dIsagreeable wives were an
excuse for dining out with typewriters, you
wouldn't be able to get table in any res
taurant after office hours"
Gessler (Sam Collins)-"An assassin is a
man who is waiting for you. and you don't
know it,"
Sandy Walker Charles Bigeiow) to Mimi
CTrixie Friganza)-'It will be reward enough
for me to know helped you and him to
get married. You can invite me down to
the cottage next summer. and when / see
you throwing plates across the table at one
another l know there Is one scrappy little
home where I'll always be welcome.
Stringham ernest Lambert-"Yes, Philo-
pena is the daughter of a mustard manu-
| facturer, so / fancy she has face like a
pickle"
Philopena says to Stringham, TO whom
| her parents have engaged her: "Ah. isn't II
| jolly that we detest each other so cordially?
virtues and good qualities adinged into me
until l have learned to hate you with a
| hatred that even marriage could not i'm
prove upon.
Philopena to the waiter-"Have you any
! thing good today?'
Waiter-'Pm q waiter. not a tout"
| NELLIE AND THE MINSTRELS Miss
/ Nellie Beaumont, the Coincidence who APP
| pears in the Serio-Comic Governess at the
| Lafayette Square Theater gives an anus
| ing description of an amateur minstrel show
| she once attended.
| THE entertainment was given In the town
| hall of the village where / once spent a
| summer" says Miss Beaumont. land 1t was
as enjoyable as professional performance
I only IN different way. After the usual
| Introductory overture and the conventions
saiaam by the intermediate Psychologist,
l as the interiocutor was termed on the pro-