Enshrined on Honor’s deathless scroll, A nation’s thanks will tell thy fame; Long as her beauteous rivers roll Shall Freedom’s votaries hymn thy name. For bravest of the Texan clime, Who fought to make her children free, Was Milam, and his death sublime Linked with undying Liberty! =Fannin= (James W., 1800-1835), a Texan colonel, born in North Carolina, who, with nearly four hundred men, was shot down in cold blood at Goliad, on the San Antonio River, after he had surrendered at the battle of Coleto Creek. =Millard= (Henry), a Texan lieutenant-colonel. =Lamar= (Mirabeau B.), the third president of the Republic of Texas, a Georgian by birth. He had command of the cavalry at San Jacinto. 15. MONTEREY. By Charles Fenno Hoffman. Charles Fenno Hoffman, one of our most versatile and voluminous writers until his brain became affected in 1849, was born in New York City in 1806. He died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1884. Monterey is the capital of the Mexican State Nuevo Leon. The famous battle was fought on September 21, 22, and 23, 1846. The place was defended by ten thousand men under General Ampudia. The American force is estimated to have been about six thousand five hundred. 16. THE DEFENSE OF LAWRENCE. By Richard Realf. Richard Realf was born in Framfield, Sussex, England, June 14, 1834. He emigrated to America in 1855, and was connected with John Brown and his men in Kansas and Iowa during the two years following. He served with the 88th Illinois Volunteer Infantry throughout the Civil War, and then became a newspaper writer and lecturer. Unfortunate domestic relations led to his suicide in San Francisco, October 28, 1878. The lyric “Indirection” is usually regarded as Realf’s finest poem. “The Defense of Lawrence” commemorates “the resistance made, in September, 1856, to the last pro-slavery attack on Lawrence, Kansas, when a small number of Free State men successfully held the place against twenty-four hundred armed Missourians, and drove back their advance of three hundred men.” =Stanza 6.= =Gideon.= See Judges, chapters 6, 7, and 8. =Stanza 7.= The river referred to in the last line of the stanza is the Wakarusa. 17. BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER. By Wallace Rice. Wallace Rice, a Chicago critic and poet, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, November 10, 1859, of American parents temporarily resident there.