Show romantic incidents of the frontier brulc lle V e arc reviving recollect ions of a hundred yearn ago when alio country struggling to throb off the yoke of england bunker hill trenton ILir lein saratoga the great battles hae fixed the public attention as centennials centen nials camo round but there were individual exploits eliat not to tny buried in oblivion the frontier had its great deeds durin e alie siege of fort glenry at in 1777 the fort where elizabeth osine acquired deathless renown major mcculloch rode through the indians inventing the place with forty mounted men and reached the fort the men thoutle closely beset by tho made their way into the gate chich open ed to receive them but a bearo officer was the hast ann ami he nas cut oh rom ins men ami nearly sun by the he gAlloi wJ toward a lofty fiill in the fear behcet lie wiy ty who inie ht have killed lum but as ono of trie and n ih to take him tenil theay all revenge b him to ilio ic rait ue to along alie and elins making liia w to short creek lut on gaining the toy hs found himself headed by a hundred savages while ha main body wera in keen pursuit in his rear lie was hemmed in on all aidea but trie east where alie wa and alio bed of alie berk lay like a gulf acir two hun dred feet below him this too would hive been protected by the cautions enemy butcho jutting ernes forbade his climbing or even mg foot and to attempt it on inevitable death to bogli rider and steed but with it iiii but a canco of death and a burrow chance of life Ito choso liboa bravo man setting himell bick in iaia sadolf and his foot firmly braced in the with his dihe in hw left hand and tho reina in the sight ho cast bucs lak upon tho push cil his into hi boio s aluik and mado the decisive leap in ft few alio diw their mortal foe during act they beheld astonishment emerging from the valley below still safely boated on his noble and shouting detunco to his pursuers alter tho locapo of tho luit ions set lire to tine cubing and cubed alio siege the defense inid baen admirably conducted I the garrison in the fico of an enemy thirty timea number in the hottest of the fight even the females showed great intrepidity employing in bullet pro paring alho infusing new lito into tho iol dior by ivonis of cn of tle fort itol a wa and only ono the loss of tho enemy diw from six buu |