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GLOOMY PREDICTIONS
Mme. De Thebes' Horoscope Caster Plays to Pessimists.
[Special Cable to The American.]
Paris, January 1. --- A gloomy outlook for the United States in 1911 and the next few suceeding years was today given the United Press by Mme. De Thebes, champion horoscope-caster of Europe. The madame received the United Press correspondent in her residence in the Avenue Wagram. The only ray of hope she held out for Americans -- white Americans -- was that Jack Johnson was going to get a wallop about the size of a mule's kick from a mysterious Westerner that would lay him upon the pugilistie shelf.
Theodore Roosevelt and Jack Johnson are both on the eve of crushing defeats." she said. "Big capitalists are going to get Roosevelt and he has no chance for election to the Presidency in 1912 as a consequence. Jack Johnson, like Roosevelt, is too confident, but a big white man is now being prepared in the West who will whip him."
In the future -- how far she wouldn't say -- the madame professed to see the United States put down and out by South America.
"The reason for this." she said, "is that the South Americans are Latins. North Americans are brick masons who build houses. South Americans are the clever people who decorate the houses. Money-mad, the United States will go to ruin in pursuit of the dollar."
Floods, too, are in the crystal for the United States. There are to be seven years of them, mixed in with bloody labor troubles and a frightful panic, more disastrous than that of 1909."
Mme. De Thebes meant the panic of 1907, but she who reads the future without a wobble or a quiver had clean forgotten the past.
GLASS FOR BEDROOMS.
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BAKED HASH.
Two cups of meat, 1 tablespoon of butter, 2 cups of potatoes, 2 cups of stock, seasoning to taste. Melt the butter in the frying pan, add the stock and when heated the meat and potatoes well mixed. Season to taste and stir occasionally until well heated. Turn in to a greased baking dish and bake 30 minutes in a moderately hot over.
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Please give an account of the massacre of the Alamo at San Antonio.
MEXICAN WAR VETERAN.
The siege of the Alamo was one of the most picturesque struggles for liberty that has taken place on the American continent. Unwilling to be dominated by the Mexicans, the Texans valiantly resisted and finally succeeded in throwing off the yoke and gained their independence and held it for nine years, under five different presidents, until annexed to the United States.
One hundred and forty-four Texans had taken refuge in Alamo, in San Antonio, an old Spanish building combining a church and a fort. They were besieged by a force of 4,000 Mexicans. The siege began on February 23, 1836. It lasted 11 days, when it was taken by storm and every Texan killed. In the Statehouse of Austin, the capital city of Texas, on a monument made of stones of the ruins of the mission fort, are inscribed the names of the men whose death gave the Anglo-American race eternal reason to "Remember the Alamo."
The final assault was made on March 6 - Sunday. Travis, who was struck in the head, had fallen beside his gun at the northwest corner. Bowie was precipitated from a scaffolding by the walls, and was unable to move from the bed where he had been laid in an upper room of the convent barracks. He was still able, however, to die as he had lived - firing the pistols which had been place by his side before he was finally run through with a bayonet.
The church was the last to be taken. Its defenders, too, fell back inch by inch, fighting till each man was slain. Davy Crockett was among the last to fall. In less than an hour all was over. Thus perished the last man, the defenders of the Alamo.
1. Thomas Nast, the caricaturist, was the first to represent the Republican and Democratic parties as the elephant and the donkey, the elephant for the Republicans because of its huge bulk and the donkey for the Democrats because of its kicking propensities and stubborness.
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