Show HE QUIT SMOKING how a quiet ottlo man subdued burly kough fellow A correspondent who recently visited jeff davis at his home at beauvoir relates this on a table was a short dusty sword that had been recently sent from mexico and attached to it was a card which said that the weapon had been found on tho spot where lieutenant dams made his famous charge at the battlo of buena vista and the tide of victory in favor of the americans I 1 touched the rusty old sword and almost unconsciously mr davis drifted into talking of the heroes of the mexican war of bowie and houston and crockett henry clay once told me said mr davis with a smile of bis first meeting with bowie it was in the early days and clay was traveling in a stagecoach stage coach where the only other passengers were a pretty girl a big rough looking countryman and a limp little figure in a great coat with the consciousness of his own perfect physique clay said he was congratulating himself on not being tho limp little figure bundled up in the corner when became conscious that the pretty hi was beggin tr the rough countryman not to smoke as it made her ill the follow replied with a savage oath that be had paid his fare and would smoke when bed d pleased mr clay said he was just trying to screw his courage up to the point of remonstrating with the country giant when the limp little figure itself lika magic and with a quick movement reached down its collar brought a knife that in the excitement of the moment lobed a yard long and with another cat aiko movement seized the fellow by the throat throw that out of the window or ill A comprehensive sweep of the murderous looking blad finished the sentence and senetha pipe shattering on the ground in another minute the knife had again disappeared down the capacious collar and the limp figure had resumed hs former condition but the rest of tho journey baider clay 1 I spent in wishing I 1 was the lettla man in the great coat who was nono other than bowie with hit camou ya |