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. r r . - A FKEAK INTERVIEW 4' QUAD TALKS WITH THE FAT WOMAN Aim Tut nARlPlEO MAN. 5'i v After Tears of Mental Tortare All His Doubt Sad Tun Arc Settled at Last. The Fat Woman Say It's All Bight and tha OMiflad Haa Backs Bar Up. Copyright, 1802, by Charles B. Lewis.1 ' More than twenty years ago I fell in with Professor Somebody or Other, who waa a Professor of Something or Other, and he brought np the subject of transmigra tion. We were traveling in a stagecoach, and expected to be held np at every mile, and I also bad the Jumping toothache, For these reasons I didn't argue the mat ter with him, and because I had no chanoe to argue I was more than half satisfied of the correctness of the theory as ex pounded by him. "Yes, gentlemen," said the professor, as we took a short cut over a windfall to avoid three "agents" waiting at a bend in the road with bated breath, "every one of us will simply take on a new form after, death. There is a man right here among us who will probably be changed into a fat woman or an ossified man, and you will see bim exhibited at a dime museum t" I knew he meant me. . Everybody knew it. He was looking right at me as he said it. I didn't believe it at first, bat as time went on the , idea became stronger and stronger, and for the last seventeen years I have felt that I bad that fate in store for me. I have dreamed that I waa a tat wom an advertised as weighing 750 pounds, and I have dreamed that I was an ossified man, with the public feeling of my toes and fingers and asking me for a leg or an arm as a relic to label and lay away in a parlor cabinet.' Many a morning I have awoke under the impression that I was ten min utes late for the first forenoon exhibition, and many aii evening I have, started up from my chair with a feeling that I bad been fined five dollars by the manager tor absenting myself from the platform before the show was over, However, I tm relieved at last I have ta .en more real comfort in the last week than for a doaen rears before. I went over into the Bowery, in New York, several days ago, with .a determination to know the worst and prepare for it, and the result was a gratifying surprise. I found the champion fat woman on a museum plat form. She looked exactly as I had dreamed that X would look. Those 750 pounds of tat wen draped about her in the most artistic manner, and a stranger from Troy was asking her how she managed to climb the trees in harvest apple time, for five 1 . W A, J. V JJ J 1 W minutes a jeis mas x nan uiou auu dw transmigrated. Then the Troy man went wandering around to see if he could find a Troy laundry among the cnrioev and I stepped forward and told the fat woman the whole story from beginning to end. "Don't yur believe itt" she emphatically replied when I had finished. "If such a thins were 'possible, how is it, with so many 'hundreds dying around us every nay, wnn an uuxj a&a vs iwguuiihmi fat women now in the busmessf " If there was anything in tha theory there'd be 10,' WO of us looking for engagements and sal aries would go down until a tat woman eouldn'teara her salt" ',- , I thanked her from the bottom of my heart, and she kindly 'continued: " ' - "But even 1f it -were possible, which I cive yon my word of honor1 It isat, you wouldn't be so badly oft. There's Jot of thing worse than being a fat woman at a humping bis salary, xou are the star at- tractknl The Zulu and tha anaaonda and the ossified, man are. not in it.,. U a! bit giddy yon can always have a flirtation on hand; If past (he, giddy age you have lots of time to do plain sewing and visit with the giantess. TJont be npset.'slr'. While ' fat woman, requiring nwholveat)to her elf when ahe travels, and whq has i ap-' ent occasions, if it should so be, then dont throw it over your shoulder. - Ton have got a good thing of ttandwUf never have a reoret'' . - I oouldnt ytW her how happy I felt, bet she had a sensitive nature and understood. Then I went over and repeated my story to the ossified man. He never onos Inter rupted me, but when I had finished he ouietlvsaid: ww,. , -i ir.KKr ,t a xu.i. -, "Ton have been, stuffed. While! ; no stock in stuffed specimens, ! agree the fat woman that it can never be. ; fled snon are born not tranetnigratef ' every Tom, Dick and Harry in thiaoof - could be turned into an. ossified .ma . dime "mijHeunis would' nave to go . ' natural fr-a ks wntdd be used for hop' ' If you'll UWe t word of 'a1 man wb been a star extrao" .a for thirty yean sMaestOtUN worrying." Itrledtomake him r Olse boK tl , , tul I was, and he smiled an- oseifled anl rpt'lled: ' 'tn'mif ' ,'s all .'righV' rm gUd yotiea t - 1 1 ; ynu ought to hunt dowt r r 11 "I Mow' laayleeas t. 'l-i :.lty itahouia w.4!- 5, ci-U Oeaifledilt j ....' i e t ' aondi.klclot v i cn t.mdayv;i i no - i i vttian-'twoTU i. an -vwvfw i to b atrrlMtt 'r arenaele- ani s 1 1 e an! t:. ore-are?. v t. ts 'eontent, . -Vai i'-wooI, ' 'J ' "...Jllilho,' ., ; .M -1 fvV- ..jiti '--te-kei i. ' t ,i si r f I ! w v . .: qpHB CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 24,1892. indecoll'd race to de guar' fut dan any odder people: on alrth. Many members of dis club cum to me wid delr trubblea an trlbulasKuns, an in nine eases out o ten I kin trace de cause back to Vanity." f ' t ' ' The Dresldent nauseA here to consult the thermometer banging near, and after not ing that it recorded Ida dega. above, he continued: '.' "Take de case of Elder' Toots, for in stance.' He had a steady Job at seven dol lars ner week in a lumber yard. He got up to dat elevated p'int whar he had eggs an "flwnnt TO BBOOMl A UfTlB." bacon fur breakfast, an whar he could drop ten cents into de church contrlbushun bor, an den Vanity stepped In to wreck him. ' He bought to' boxes of paper collars at one time;' he ordered ice cream fur Sun day;' he 'lowed his wife to gin a high tea en her birthday; he eben dun rented a pi ano at five dollars per month fur his gal 'Lisa to drum on. In jest six weeks de el der, as to' all know; was knocked out an appealin to dis club to lend him money to git his dawg out o de pound." ' The elder,' who occupied one of the front stools, blew his nose and wiped his eyes and evidently felt broken up, and Brother Gardner went om "Take de case of Samuel Shin. Nobody in dis world thought bim anything mo dan oommon. He was sort o' scrubbin around on two dollars a week an mighty glad to git a aquar' meal, when his aunt down in Arkansas died an left him twenty- seven dollars in cash. De minit Samuel got hold of dat money a great change dun cum ober him, . He walked up an down befo de banks; he talked of rentin a box in- the possoffioe; he priced obercoata as high as sixty dollars. I advised him to hide dent twenty-seven dollars in an oyster can till he had got ober de shock of sudden wealth, but Vanity wouldn't 'low him to. He plunged He reckoned dat he could buy half de alrth, He carried hisself as stiff as a poker, an he wouldn't speak to sartin members of dis club who doan' w'ar alligator shoes. Whar am Brudder Shin now Vanity wrecked him. He sits ober dar by de alley doah, crushed, broken an achin to ask Giveadam Jones to 'lend him nine cents to make a new start in life." , Samuel hung his head to escape observa tion, and several members acted as If they would like to get outdoors before anything further waa heard to drop. "Waydown Be bee, our secretary, am not yere dis eavenin," observed the president, as he glanced over at the ipot usually oc cupied by that individual "Am his wife deadf Am his cabin burned down wid no toanranoef b Was he called to Chicago Buffalo by de suddenness of a telegraph? No, sahl Six weeks ago while be was con tentedly peggltt along on seven dollars per week a white man told him dat he looked like Cloero. Brudder Be bee doan' know Cicero from Oinerai Jackson, but he felt proud nd flattered. He went ' right i out an bought real linen collar an a fifty cent necktie, an some ha 'r lie an a watch chain, an next day he quit his Job an walked aroond talkin .'bout free trade an tellin what ailed de kentry. ' I met him in a feed tore, ' whar ' I waa buyia ' stuff ' fur my ehickensi atfhetoldmehe was dun gwine to becum a lawyer.. Vanity was telimbin all ober bim. Hram not yere tonight; be- cnsir hei didn't like to enin ' b'artut,' an; his Wifs'sshoesam too small far bim. v He ant aflnanshnl, wreekof, de turst water) an Vanity am de eause oc. it. . lie was bon to raydown Bf bee; he itghed to be Ctoeto. PTnoi -r. n'V j.A ' ilonel Kvann Johnson: now. made a slide tor the dUjot, but oef ore i he reached it nrotner narunej- awjppeu nun auu aaiu: met MMrol Kwrntl' Johtmcu. A. month agode 'knrDel wasworkln In a wood yard up nigh mcabln. Hewasdoln so well dat heaps b folks, was, Joalous of him. Had he kept right on he would have becum 4m .Standard lis - company of ; dat nayborhood; bnt In-an evil moment some body dfitkivered defect datbUha'r was almost straight an his bates only No Wm Oat settled bim.' He quit his Joban walked around arm In. arm, wid Vanity. He let bis wife buy lace eurtalni and plush kiv ered cheers, "an he hung around de city hall an' gin his views on de Chilian queah un.M His ewreee was brief. If de dty hal was offered bim tomorrer for a dime he conidn'tTaise d cashi'' i The colonel got ap to make some sort of reply,, but , words failed him and he re sumed his seat with a bang and struggled with something' which, appeared liksemo- " - - '; all is Cex.. ary Dfsnlr?pa Of two i ' ' v fcev Li -ett'sssJ it - i i. is 4 i 4' two, l 1 1 Tm EicEJMwea i t to any. tlo.n ill tiwn-wei t i j.r'wo si n i if a-e-r of a stranger found dead about a week agoi returned a verdict that he eame to his death while fooling with a gun. While nothing is said as to who the gun belonged to, the verdict is a sensible ona j lnstaed of throwing any additional mystery over the case it makes it plain that he was rid ing off on a 4-year-old mule which didn't belong to him.' . , ', :'..: ; ;Mf ' , No attempt was made to find out , he stranger's name, or whether he had an uncle in Chicago or an Hunt in Philadel phia. The past tense has mighty litttato do with a chap who is eanght stealing a Clinch valley mule. He is sized up on the present tense and planted accordingly. We think the man called at Tbk Kickeb office the week before and offered to write us a five dollar leader on the Chilian, ques tion, but 'we declined and. he stole our toothbrush and departed. Not Needed. At its last meeting the common council passed an ordinance aimed at the dosen or more citizens who get drunk every evening and amuse them selves shooting at every stray dog on the streets. It seemed to be needed Just then, but wasn't two days later. His honor the mayor (who is ourself) broke up the prac tice in one evening, alone and single band ed, and saved the town at least fifty dol lars expense. Be discovered and kicked and disarmed fifteen different men, and the guns taken from them will be sold at auction Saturday. This town has at last got a mayor worthy of the name, and we congratulate the public on the fact. Thus tar bis ad ministration has been a grand success, and we haven't the slightest doubt that he will be governor of Arisona in less than five years, A Farewell. Monday night that large and massive duffer known by the name of Hank Pierson, whq has been trying to pom as a bad man among us, concluded to take our advice and change climates.,. His road lay past The Kicker office, and as a sort of farewell to us he fired three bullets through one of the windows. We got out as soon as possible and fired a charge of buckshot at something black moving off. Next morning Hank's left band ooattail i BaltE PIEHSOlT'S FAREWELL. was nicked up on the street 900 feet west of our office, and we shall 'add it to our stock of relics. We were after both coat tails, having twenty-seven buckshot in the gun, but it was too dark for straight shoot- Y.w............ -;j.;.' ; ; si , 'It's His WAT.-Onr oontempprary'down ths street piet with an accident to bis old rsjnahackle press , the other day sod ap pealed t t help him out, We cheer fully agreed to worlt off bis, inside pages on our new and elegant power press, and of course we counted the' copies to see what his eircnUtton was. ' It stiU stood at the samaold flgnra, 46s bat he had had the cheek to set np the claim in that very issue, "This paper has the largest dreola tion of any Journal in Arisonal" : 11 ' " "Poorold chkpV'HeWas A failure as an editor twenty years ago, and of ths thir teen different bullets he hasnred at ns not ana eame within three feet of head or heeL ' He has to use carpei tacks to eke out his supply of type, and it's a holiday with him when he haa roast coyote for dinner. , i.i a v v-.-t ' M,tTrAn. . ' rttBmisM QlsssslsesSi , : He had bis hands deep in his pockets and was wandering gloomily ; and aimlessly along the street when the cheerful little man 'stopped bim, and, asked what'the trouble was. :: , 'r: y "i V '-'-'A Xu?' ... ."Bad cold," he responded tersely. , .: , "Oh, youU get over that," said the cheer ful Utile man. "If that's all" . , "It isn't," he broke In shortly. " !' "Then what else troubles your" .. "Plred," .'-U--' S X "Flredl What fbrf" A ; ' -'hXi ""(''-'Mr-;-,;:-:.V;:V; ' 'v, ' "Oh, not Just tor aeoldf" ; -' s fa. ."Na vTwo colds." , . :iv ','; ' "What do ypu mean 7" asked the cheer ful little man, after vainly trying to figure the matter out. 1 "OoM makes a man eross, doesn't Itr . , "Yes.?. f) '; !! i . a a , ..-.i tti rirritable and quick temperedf" , "Yes. There's nothing more aggravat- .WelL'I'aad a bad &Wv:?.i; "Yes.? 'V '.;.t '.-v ' .-;';s.' , "And the boss had abad cold." ; "Yes." ,.Tht's alLnCnicago Tribune. ' lt) A'Ce'loeeH A 0. . V iYwiWoWtliaa-oWm'jftec one of the beat hotel clerks in the business) -onoCowned a hotel hi Denver.' Weill one fall , they were putting an addition U the house, and beforeU.py got tiieheaUng lap.' paratus in order a cold susp' eame. - Reotoe did the besi he oould to warmths place up, bat genial manner wont take the place of steam heat, and the guests began to. kick. Ons man cams down, bins and fV 'arlBAaiiAtaidt4.' 7,".. .-. ' " tsee here,' Keetnr PH have to have soms other toosq. , I'd treses to death up tv-e in another honn' ; - mj , ' . , 1 1 v "ta- 1,1s itf Bi 'lEecior, astaor.'hs vt re i a roam btlliS l it -- " .kj7(M 'MXintiMl 1 r smllC r-";v i to r"' i Itn s ' omss. j km r A WOMAN MAE00NED. v!. - ' '' ' ' -: ' - '-::' . r"":-. THRILLING STORY OF THE CAPTURE ' OF A BRIG BY DESPERADOES. They Base, Against tha, Captain and Put His WlfSAoa a. Jttaaert Island, Wkere 8hm Maid tor Thlrtoaa Months A Tale fBloodaheA. Copyright, MBS. by Charles B. Lewis. There is a sailor now employed by a ship chandler on South street, in the port of New York, who attracts attention by his walk on the street. His right leg seems to be attached to his body with a view of walking sideways instead of the usual fashion. - At the first glance you would call it a natural deformity, but it you followed him for a hundred feet you would feel quite certain that some accident had hap pened to bim and that be owed his condi tion to the Ignorance or carelessnese of those who practiced surgery on a broken leg. I will call his name John Lee, and 1 will reel off his story as he told it to me not a fortnight ago. In the year lotiS, after the government of the Japanese is'ands bad put down the re bellion which had been In existence tor two years, many heads were lopped off and many rebels banished from the coun try. Amoug the latter were a score or more of adventurers who were not natives, but Europeans. ' Some had gone in with the rebels for the sake of adventure and plunder, and others had been forced to Join by circumstanoes. The fear or being in volved with other governments decided the Japanese authorities to spare the lives of these foreigners and at the same time rid the islands of their presence. There was in the port of Yokohama at the time an Australian brig named the Robert May, commanded by Captain Henry Welles, and she was chartered to take fourteen of these rascally adventurers to the south and land them upon any one of the islands of the Bonln group which should prove the most convenient. - As all of tbem were looked upon as 'desperate men, the Japanese gov ernment was willing to pay a good price to get them out of the country. There must have been money in it, for the brig or the captain would not have meddled with such a dangerous cargo. The brig had an English crew of nine men and a boy, and the captain's wife was with him. John Lee, the sailor with the twisted leg, was one of the crew. The brig had part of a cargo of tea, and a space in her hold under the main hatch waa fitted up to receive the prisoners. A dozen mus kets were brought aboard, the prisoners guarded the same as convicts would have been, and Captain Welles set sail tn the full expectation of landing them accord ing to instructions. He was not, tha man to deal with such rascals, however, as events speedily demonstrated. Every man in the pen knew where he waa to be land ed, and that without shelter or provisions, and from the first going aboard there was a determination to rise on the crew and take the brig, it was on the night of the fourth day out and during a squall, which came near dismasting the brig, that the plot was carried out." There are many things to be said in fa vor of the desperadoes. They desired to capture the brig without bloodshed, and but for the ' dogged obstinacy of the cap tain this would have beea done. - He called npon ths crew to rally, and when he found himself unsupported he fought the gang alone and single handed until killed by musket ball.. Hs was the only one killed, though some of the crew were wounded in the first rush. John Lee was aloft at ths moment, and in his fright and confusion he met with a tall which broke his leg. The mutineers set it and gave him careful attention, but in the setting they twisted it around and the bone knit and left It in its present shape. Having got possession of the brig the desperadoes wars a time divided, as to wbab shbnld lis the next move. They had had enough of Japan, and no one had any idea of turning pirate in waters where man-of-war was to be met with two or three times a week. It was finally decided to run to the southwest and land npon 'some uninhabited island above Formosa and enjoyia free said easy, life (or a season,,. To this toe erew of the brig agreed, some pleased with the pros pect of such a life and others realising that opposition Would be of novae. ' i"! . Mrs. Captain Welles was a woman about thirty years of agei full of energy and res olution, x Her treatment by ths mutineers did mors than anything else to win the erew over to their side. The fellows wers led by an Englishman named Tom Joans, who1 Was no doubt' a thoroughly bad man, bat tn this case he should be aceorded all due praise. ,On the morning after the cap ture of ths brig Mrs. Welles was inter viewed. in.th cahuvShe was told that toe man 'had, catsrssjaa, and that it I was proposed tege her out of ths brig and out of harm's way whflrihey wers yet under' control. They did not" dare speak ship nor land bar at any port, but would set her ashore on some island and provide her with means to take ears of herself. : She agreed with tbem that this was ths i best they could be expected to do, and (for the next two days and nights she was sir en tirely undisturbed' in ths cabin. There was plenty of rum aboard, bat between the mate, who was now acting aa captain, and Tom Jones, who was ths leader, soth ing Hke drunkenness had occurred. The "good times" wers being put off until they could And a safe haven somewhere. John Lee was lying in bis berth with a broken leg, but was kepi posted sa to what was going on forward and aft' ; i On the afternoon tk third day the brig reached ths, island of Shangwen, one of the Loochoo group, and a boat was low ered and pulled ashore to investigate. It was only a small island, nearly circular and about three miles across, fend was found to heuainhablted. Jobs Lee says he bagged tor 1jh oaptain'a wife to, take him -along, but she probably either, feared that ne would prove a serious oast on bar bands or become menaoa ,to-her safety if he got waU, and she decided that she would rather gs alone. The boat which ,set her ashore carried all her. elothm , and ,the; personal electa of her husband, with beet, pork, bread;' wine,'. mosket and ammunition, soms books, and in fovt whatever , else she Ved "to "U allowed 6 take. Jones and Wt men' went afctiorV with bet, and they not only fan 4 good spot tor a earn p, a t constructed aenaiteBYfor thsrinnd put ail her gnoHs ander cover. No woman sou id tvw L..UA ui"o -t&aV kahkht'oA In dUp -r' r--and J"et nflWosaefnlJk taws tu supra "' ,v,wwd,,( ,Tebr,x worse than any of the others. There was nothing to do but sleep and eat and drink. The brig was plundered at will, and as pro visions began to grow scarce there was more drinking and less eating. : The first man killed was, the mate, and this took place about a fortnight after landing. ; Hi death was speedily followed by that of a second man, and after that there was no restraint on the evil passion of the living. At length, tired and disgusted with their orgies, the Jones party attempted to get the brig afloat and leave the Island. They were discovered, and a terrible Oght took place and five men were killed. The brig was likewise set on fire and destroyed, and from that time on until the British gun boat Foxhound touched at the island and took off the four survivors, the men did little else but hunt each other to the death. The island upon which Mm. Welles was marooned lies off the east coast of China, and is Btill uninhabited. On the day after she had been put ashore she made a smoke signal on the west side of the island to at tract attention, and it came near proving her destruction. A native trading craft, with a crew of four men, stood in to in vestigate, and the captain and a boy came ashore in a small-bout. No sooner was it discovered that she was alone than a plan was concocted to rob her of her possessions. Had this succeeded she would probably have been murdered as well. Thanks to the desperadoes who had marooned her. she waa armed, and the result of the affair was that she shot the captain dead and drove the survivors off the island. From that time on she was in such fear that she made no further effort to attract attention. On two occasions ships which she believed to be manned by Europeans came so near that she could have signaled them, but ahe let them pass without doing sa It was a real Crusoe life the captain's wife was compelled to lead, and while there were many drawbacks there was also a certain amount of enjoyment in the situa tion. She first set about building a house, and the men who inspected it when she was rescued were agreed that few men could have done better. It was a frame work of poles covered with one of the old sails given her, and from the stones along the beach she had constructed a fireplace which made her home comfortable in the bad season. From the first she discarded her own attire and dressed in her hus band's clothes, and when first seen by the rescuing party she was supposed to be a man. Her second adventure occurred after she bad been on the island about four months. A native craft put in one day and landed a man who was evidently a lunatic. . He was no sooner on shore than the boat hastened away, and the man's conduct soon proved that he was bereft of bis rea son. He began singing and shouting and dancing, and the woman hastened to shut herself up and prepare for discovery and attack. She did not hear from tha man. however, until next day toward sundown. Then he made a sudden and fierce attack upon her house, and in self defense she had to shoot him. She only wounded mm. however, and he ran down to the sea and plunged in and brought about bis own death. One must wonder what woman, situ ated as the captain's wife was, could find to do to pass away the time. After build ing her house and getting the interior to suit her, she captured and domesticated half a dosen parrots. There was also a species of dove on the island, and she built a cote and soon had half a hundred of them about her. Then' she transplanted Tines and flowers to make homelike sarround- -ings, and when, time hung heavily on her bands she cut away at the underbrusn or gathered firewood. There was a beauti ful spring of cold water about a quarter of a mile from her house and on higher ground. . Wtyh the ax left her, she cut down and hollowed out small trees until she had a continuous line of troughs from the spring to a point near the house, with a supply of water almost great enough to im i 1 , ,: -.-. i . .. .... rail a nuu wuocj. , - One toots startling adventors befell the woman before she was , rescued. In fair weather, when she had nothing to do about toe nouae, sue was in tne naoit oi taxing a musket and making ' ths circuit of tha Wand, whieh Was a journey of half a day. Bbe had returned from one of these excur sions when she, earns npon three, Chinese sailors from a junk lying off the shore. They had come ashore ' with an empty water cask in search at water, and having eanght sight of her house were plundering it. One of the trio had his arms full of goods and 'was 6d "bis way to ths boat when she earns ua Her sadden appear anee, coupled with ths discharge of her muske tumbled the fellows Into their boat empty handed and left ner ths water cask, as a trophy, , Ths Junk hung about the island for a day or two, evidently anx ious to land, bat mystified and afraid, and finally Sailed away and left ner tn peace. It was just thirteen months and a day from her landing before Mrs. Welles was rescned. It might have been far longer but for John Lee and his ' oompenlooe. When they Were taken aboard the Fox hound they told of the woman having been marooned, and after some time spent tn locating tha Wand she was round and taken off. ' -There were four men left to be tried and' punished by British law for what had-happened. ---When I asked the oM sailor about this he refused to explain. When I pressed him he became sullen and morose and would talk no more, t He waant hanged, of course, bat the reeolleo- tlon of a long term of imprisonment wouldn't be very soothing to him. '. ' IN CARTER'S PASS. Chased fcy ladleae a4 m nUsmemleas Ka- .-.... .: eass. . .. . corporal and' two nien, Just three of as and ws' left ' Camp Sheridan; at the headwaters of White river, Nebraska, to open communication Wits the -oc which was expected to be encamped on the Loup fork of ths Platte, seventy-five miles to ths soatneasaW'iif.'-r vr -.-r! !.-.; i The red man was making his last fight, and the agencies had been deserted by every buck who was olaaeed as a war-, rier.- Seventy-five aoiles to'theaootheast meant at least- seventy miles through,' a eoontry where Indians were likely to be met with at any moment The ehahoS of getting safely through wsngara a one in fifty That was terrible-odds,1 yea'll agree, bat whist aa-sffieer oowmands a private muat.ebay. h Utile s CIS ereae n won rake to the renaml eampalna wheOr'6i si aire wers premV and ' accounted for vW wurter earn,' or 'Whether they nad 'beeih hoopeA and; dried' and were ha-;. J 0l'Hsfc,'SOf.WS-kiir.w (,X:r In !'! 1''. up for ten minutes' rest. Then on again another brief . rest and when daylight comes we have covered over halt toe dis- tanoe and on horses are still fresh, Vs v-:v' i Ths east reddens shadowy across the plains we cni see the rocks and bushes to the right and left of ua. and day gradually dawns. The upper rim of ths blood red sun is Just showing above tne , ridges far away when we look beck to ths northwest over our tralL . i Indians! Like tigers they have kept the trail through storm and darkness; and are only three miles behind. They arebonched and we cannot count them. Irafr there must be a full dosen. We can hear a faint shout as they catch sight of us, but no one is ear- prised at the spectacle or startled by the shout. We had figured on only one chance in fifty. We now move on three abreast.. The -horses would go off at the top of their speed, but we pull them down and speak, soothing words. The gait Is just a bit faster than during the night, . The Indiana will make a spurt and gain a mile or more. We figure on that. Then will coma the -test. Scarcely more tUuu a mile separates us when the pace settles down to a steady gallop which would allow us to converse .. had we anything to say. Why talk! Miles ahead is Carter's pass beyond that the plains and the Loup. Behind are tne indl- lf our bones tire out there is nut one hope for us dismount and,, stand the red men off until help arrives er we are -wiped out. Words would be wasted. The corporal looks back to gauge ths distance, and as he increases or slackens ths pans we follow suit. , .t.-.i',:. The entrance of tha pass at lastl It Is a roadway a gully twenty feet wide, sep arating two long and barren kOla. It is five miles long, and U edges. I: en BUM have been cut by storms .untfl, tbey are bluffs, up which only an .active, .man sen clamber. Here and there, a, greaf bowlder has dropped down here and . there tons of earth have fallen and raised the natural bed a foot or more. Beyond the pass toe Indians will make another sport, and ws shall have to increase the pane. An hour more will settle the matter, j , . . There has been no shouting fat lbs last hour. As the corporal turns his faos after a look over his shoulder we read th news as from a printed page. They stall hang to the trail, of course. It would be folly to expect they had given over ths pursuit. They have even gained a tltu. AS ws enter the pass you might figure it one chance in sixty. Half way through you can make it one in st-venty. - 'IVrriotoodds, vou say. but we were even grateful.': Mow we hear for the first time the echo of their ponies' feet, and it is plain vnough that . they .are gaining. Every bnck , utters a long drawn yell, and the impulae is to m- crease the pace. A look from the corporal ; checks this, and after a minute tha heart beats regularly again. What's that? We are within aniu mus of the end of the pass when a black object suddenly appears ahead. Mors gndlansr Caught in a trapf Almost as speedily as we can ask ourselves ths questions a but- , falo bull, head down and tall up, rushes past us on the left hand, and he is followed by another and another. Without a word we check up and fall in behind thsoor porai single file, and hs increases the pace. , We seem to fly over the last hundred rods, hugging close to ths right band bans, ana we are only clear of the pass when tt is choked with affrighted animals. Bat (or the great rocks a few yards ta ths right we should have been picked up in that rush. A halt of thirty seconds would have been our doom. V From right to left rom the pass as far to the east and south as the eye coald discern was a solid mass of atempeding buffaloes. .The clatter of their horns waa deafening; the tramp of tha thousands of hoofs mads the earth tremble. As the rush contracted at-tbe' pass hun dreds of animals want down te ,bs literally trodden into the earth, while scores of others were lifted up by the squeese until they were carried along as chips on ua surf see of a rushing river. m ji. .i - By. and by there was a .rampart of dead sad dying so high that it could not be jumped over or broken through, and tha stamDede bore off to ths right.-"At- tha end of two boom the last animal oblate move had. passed out pf igbt!ad0wo,lidiova ahead for the camp on ths Leap, Next day wo rods through ths paei again, this time at a walk, There -were aeaa ouna ioes, savags.old.bulU with Jlipkan legs, ; patches of hair and blood and bones at In tervals,, spores of horns knocked off and flung into tha banks like so many (pears. Had the Indians escaped f 'Never nonet They had not caught ths alaswns soon as , we did. and seconds were .minutes, there, t To go back was the only choice, left them, but that meant a ride of four miles and a half before a stampede. Every pony had . gone down; every, rider hadt.haen toawil and trampled and u flung about until you could hardly believe that those objects had onoe been human beings. 1 11 M. QUAD. J '. yn ill. ii i o.i ' . ;,'.j'- seirt'siilv;.'?.; 1 I , A few years ago a little .girl, applied to a pastor in one of, our Urge, ctaor, admie sion into his 8unday school. She' was told that ths cissies were so full tfcera wot no room for her; ana' that the church waa ss small that no more classes could be orgaa ised. , Much disappointed, the, lltOs girl began to save pennies her family was poor for the purpose of ' enlarging ths church in order that she and other chil dren like her might. lie accommodated. She told no one of her ambitious purpose, however, so that when the patter of this okuren was called to her bedside a few , months later, to comfort her in ner severs illness, hs saw. nothing unusual, only a trail child of six and a half years, .., ; , The little sufferer died, and a week mter there wen found tn her battered red pooketbook, which had been her asvinr bankv fifty-seven pen nice, and a scmp of paper that told, in childish print, the s ry of her. ambition and th purpose cf Lar self deoinL. -, ii. -;'(-,-,.,--,-.(,;, i Ths story ot ihUttla.'red'poclr'.br,k and, its -oontenta, and., of the, nnf- ' " faith of its littla owner, got el.rv 1 i. touched the heart of ssio.t and sin - x Her, inspiration became pr" ' mep labored and Women s';' swred U aid in Its fuiflllme. . . 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The Semi-Weekly Citizen (Asheville, N.C.)
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