The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-07

Forty-ninth Regiment, about is
militiamen and a small force of Six
Nation and other Indians, under Cant.
William Johnson Kerr and Dominique
Ducharme, TO surprise and attack the
enemy at Beechwoods Tor Beaver
Damn, and after short engagement
capture Colonel Hoerstler of the T.
s. Army, and his entire force of 542
men, with two fieldpieces."
as our little party of tourists ap-
preached Fort Erie's sleeping caretaker
walked with start and asked: ..Wbat
was that noise? Did I hear ANYBODY
shoot?' And then a smile rippled among
the wrinkles on his scared old counte-
nance Il remember now; 1 was dream
Ing. l was dreaming of the battle of
Lake Erie, when your Commodore Per-
ry-you are from across the border.
aren't you. Yes, / knew it. There are
no other girls as pretty as American
girls-but as 1 was saying, l was dream
Ing of the battle Of Lake Erie when your
Commodore, with boats that he had made
himself. captured and destroyed our
feet. 1t was September TO- 1913, and
relative of mine-long since dead
served one of the guns on a British ship
that went down. He often told me of
that battle, and In my dreams 1 saw
him training his gun and lighting his
fuse for one last shot before the water
should run into the nozzle of the gun on
the badly careening ship. Just as he
fired I woke up. and l thought that the
noise of the shot had awakened me.
But the battle was fought too long ago
and the scene of the engagement was too
far away for me TO have heard the shot
1t must have been something else | am
an old now and things are not al
ways clear to me. This, ladies and gem
tlemen, is old Fort Erie. Here we see
remains of the old British storehouse or
bullet-proof retreat, and there are the
earthen breastworks thrown up at angles
attacking force with terrible fire. Here
on the other side you see"
And so he wandered through the
intricate mazes of lecture long ago
learned by heart, while we sometimes
listened and sometimes lost ourselves in
pleasing % conjecture as to what the
place might have looked like in the days
that he told about-in the days when
frontier fights, revolutions, international
squabbles of all kinds and numerous
bands of treacherous Indians made the
tenure Of life all too uncertain
To properly inspect all the points of In
terest-all the battlefields, scenes of am
buscade and terrible slaughter along the
banks of Niagara River on both sides
should take about a week. The Niagara
frontier fairly breathes with historic in
terest. From the days of the great ex-
plorer, La Sale, and the time of Father
Homeopathic first white man to see
the falls of Niagara, down on through
the years that witnessed the war of 1872
and the burning of BuHalo-the shores
of the river have continually been trod-
den by the makers of nations. Blood let
ting there was, too, and here the British
and French have FLASHED, redman has
fought and scalped his white brother and
Americans engaged In revolution have
srappled in deadly conflict men of their
own flesh and blood. Soldiers of the
mother country have engaged the Indians
TO swoop down upon the settlers along
the shores of Niagara River and raised
no hand to stop the savage cruelties upon
men whose blood was as red .f their
coats were not as scarlet, as the hire