hope.
Ab, me! what battles I Lave fought!
I would I knew the rune that lays
The swarming shades of weary days,
That take the lonely house of thought!
A restless rabble unsubdued;
A wild and haggard multidude;
Distorted shapes that spring from tears,
And torments bora of wedded fears.
Sometimes amid the changing rout,
A rainbowed figure glides about,
And from her brightness, like the day,
The whimpling shadows slink away.
I know that lyre of seven strings,
The seven colors of her wings;
The seven blossoms of her crown
There violets twine for amethyst;
Small lilies white as silkweed down,
Those myrtle sprays her locks have kissed,
And pansies that are beryl-blue,
And varied roses rich of hue,
With iridescent dewy eyes
Of bud3 that bloom in Paradise.
Come often, thou eternal child!
Now string thy lyre and sing to me.
Thy voice ecstatic, fresh and wild,
Enthralls each dark-browed fantasy.
Beyond the walls sho bids me peer
To see a future dim and dear;
Sweet faces shining through the mist
Like children waiting to be kissed.
A lovely land that knows not pain,
Atlantis land beyond life's main,
Where we who love may love again;
Ah; me! is this beyond the plan
Of God's beneficence to man ?
Daxske Dajtdeiege.
A DUEL BETWEEN HORSES.
N 1851, when I saw
the Rio Pecos Riv
er, which is the
right-hand branch
of the Rio Grande,
the Pecos plains
were a favorite
grazing ground for
vast herds of wild
horses. For years
later there were
plenty of wild po
nies on the western plains, but m the
days of which I write there were herds
of good, big horses, some of them stand
ing seventeen hands high and weighing
1,300 or 1,400 pounds. I went into New
Mexico with a Government surveying
party, which was of semi-military char
acter. A survey of that portion of the
Rio Pecos lying in New Mexico was to
be made, and there was to be a military
post located between Pope's Wells and
the Benita River. The country ..between
was a plain 100 miles long by 200 broad,
with many small streams and rich feed
ing spots. The herds of horses had been
seldom disturbed by white hunters, and
whenever the . Indians wanted a supply
they selected the ponies in preference,
believing that they were the soonest
broken and would stand the hardest rid
ing. We were well into the plains before we
saw any horses, and the first herd we saw
came very near bringing about a calami
ty. We wrere encamped in a bend of the
Pecos, and the surveyors and guards
had just come in for dinner. There was
a truce between the whites and the
Indians of that date, but our party was
a strong one, and the surveyors never
went out without protection, A truce
meant that the redskins would not kill
if the other party was the stronger. We
had two ambulances, three or four
wagons, and from seventy to eighty
horses. These last were staked out on
the rich feeding ground. With no more
warning than that we felt a trembling of
the earth-and heard a great clatter, a
drove of wild horses numbering at
least five hundred came charging
around a heavily wooded point directly
at our camp. The stream in front of
our camp was about was two feet deep
and ran over a bed of gravel, and the
horses .were probably in the habit of
coming here to drink. The herd was led
by a sorrel stallion of magnificent look
and limb, and was going at such a pace
that the leaders were amongour animals
before a man ; of us moved. Nothing
will rattle a domestic horse like the near
presence of his wild brother. A stampede
of buffalos simply terrifies him, and in
his terror he will act like a fool. The
wild horse excites and makes him forget
for the moment that he is man's slave,
and he will do his very best to throw off
the yoke of servitude and join the herd.
It was well we were all together. Every
man rushed for the horses, yelling and
shouting to drive the intruders away,
but when they went two of our mules
and a horse went with them. The horse
was a five-year-old stallion, worth at
least $500, and his, flight created in
stant dismay in the camp. The mules
would not be allowed to "chum" with
the herd anyhow, and could be picked
up after they had tried their legs
a little, but the horse might never
be seen again. A score of us mounted
in hot haste and set off to recapture him.
The herd had gone due west, in which
direction a rise of ground hid them after
a short run. As we reached this rise,
every man of us checked his horse. Be
low us was an almost circular valley
about half a mile across, and in this val
ley the herd had come to a halt. It
seemed that the presence of our .horse
had aroused the ire of the sorrel leader
of the herd, and that the question of
championship had come up to be settled
at once. The two stallions were between
us and the herd, and were already skir
mishing. Every one of the horses had
his head toward the pair, and was an in
terested spectator. At any other time
our presence would have put them to
flight, but under the circumstances they
gave us no attention.
Now occurred a combat the like of
-which few men have ever witnessed.
The horses were pretty evenly matched
for size. Our champion had an advan-
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tage in being shod, but to offset this
the sorrel was quicker. Their move
ments showed the broad disparity be
tween wild and domestic life. Our
horse was agile and smart, as the terms
go, but the sorrel had the suppleness
of a panther. As boxers feint for an
opening, so these horses skirmished for
an advantage. They approached until
their noses almost met, and then reared
up with shrill neighs, struck at each
other, and came down to wheel and
kick. The iron shoes of" our horse hit
nothing but air, but we heard the
double thud of the sorrel's hind feet as
he sent them home. They ran off to
wheel and: come together again and re-
Slim
peat the same tactics, and again our
horse got the worst of it. He was a
headstrong, high strung beast, and his
temper was now up. When he wheeled
the third time he came back with a rush,
screaming out in his anger. The sorrel
turned end for end like a flash to use his
heels, but our champion dodged the
kicks and seized him by the shonlder
with his teeth. There was a terrific
struggle before the hold was broken,
and then they backed into each other,
and kicked with all fury for a few sec
onds. Every hoof hit something solid,
but the iron shoes of our horse scored
a point in his favor. When they separ
ate we could see that the sorrel had
been badly used, especially about the
legs.
When the horses wheeled for the third
time both were bent on mischief. As
they came together they reared up like
dogs and struck at each other, and for
five . minutes they were scarcely off
their hind feet. Some hard blows were
exchanged, and our horse had the best
of the round; Indeed, when the sorrel
wheeled and. ran away he had his head
down and he seemed to acknowledge
defeat. He ran off about twenty rods
before wheeling, and as he stood for a
moment I looked at him through a field
glass which one of the men handed
me. His ears lay flat, his eyes looked
bloodshot, and there was bloody foam
on his lips. He had been severly handled,
but was by no means defeated. Indeed,
he had run away for the moment to
adopt new tactics. When he moved up
again he was the picture of ferocity.
He came at full speed, reared, and struck
right and left, and the second blow
knocked our horse flat on the ground.
It was a knock-out blow. The victor
stood over him for a moment, watching
for a movement, but as none was made
he joined the herd, and all went off at a
gallop. It was five minutes before our
horse staggered to his feet, and he
wanted no more fighting. He had three
bad bites on the shoulders, and his legs
were skinned in a dozen places, and it
was a week before he got his spirit
back.
Two or three times during the next
ten days I saw lone wild horses, and one
of the old hunters with us was asked for
an explanation. He said they were
"rogues" stallions which had been
driven from the herd in disgrace and
that they were always considered ugly
and dangerous. Ho had known of their
attacking a single horseman, but the
presence of a large party like ours would
of course' frighten them off. Two days
after this explanation we were strung
out for three miles along the river, on
the march and survey. Something was
lost by an officer, and one of the troop
ers was sent back to recover it. Ten
minutes later the article supposed to be
lost was found in one of the ambulances,
and I was sent back to notify the troop
er. He had galloped back to camp, a
distance of two miles, and was searching
around on foot when I arrived in sight.
I was about to fire a shot to attract his
attention, when from the cottonwood
grove beyond the camp a horse came
charging out. He was a "rogue," and
bent on mischief. The soldier's horso
was grazing, and the soldier had his
eyes on the ground, and I was so aston
ished by the sudden charge ot the rogue
that I made no move to stop him or to
warn the trooper. Indeed, a warning
could have hardly reached him in time.
His back was to the approaching horse,
and the rogue seized him in his teeth
by a hold between the shoulders and
dragged him twenty rods before flinging
him to one side. Then he started for
the cavalry horse, which stood with
head up facing him, and I got out my
revolver and spurred forward.
I was yet a quarter of a mile away
when the rogue reached his second vic
tim. He ran at full speed, with his ears
back and lips parted to show his teeth,
and the sight was too much for the do
mestic animal. He was on the point of
turning to flv when the other collided
with him. It was as if a locomotive had
struck him. He went down in a heap
and rolled over and over four or five
times before he brought up, while the
rogue took a half circle to bear down
upon the trooper again. The man was
on his feet" and limping off; but he
would have been 'a goner had I been
further away. I rode across the rogue's
path and opened fire on him, and after
shaking his head in an ugly way he
galloped into the grove and disappeared.
The trooper's horse did not seem to have
suffered any by the shock, but soon
after noon lay down and died. The man
was actually crying when I rode up to
him, although he had taken a hand in
several Indian fights and was reputed a
brave fellow. The danger had come up
on him so suddenlv as to overcome his
nerves. The horse's teeth had not bro
ken the skin through his thick clothing,
and he did not have a bruise to show,
but such was the sudden shock that he
was on the sick list for two weeks.
We were within two days ride on the
Bonita, and had been in camp two or
three days, when one of the hunters rode
in just before dark with some game and
announced that a herd of at least 1,500
wild horses were grazing about three
miles to the east, of in. This was n tbo
opposite side of the Pecos, which jast
here spread out over a roc ay leago, unci
was 200 feet wide and about a foot deep.
Below our camp was an bid grove .with
many dead trees in it. It was there we
got our wood. In all other directions
the ground was open. We had about
twelve tents in camp,aside from the wag
ons and ambulances. The best feeding
.ground was on the west of the camp,
and all the animals were staked out
there. Outside of the bunch of animals
was a guard of two soldiers, and two
more were between the animals and the
wagons. There was no danger appre
hended from the Indians, and the guard
was set to keep prowling wolves out of
camp and to assist any horse which
might get tangled in his lariat. It had
been a hot day, with "thunder heads"
showing in the sky, but when the sun
went down the sky wis perfectly clear
and all signs pointed to a quiet night.
It was just midnight when the sharp
est flash of lightning lever saw, folio wed
by such a crash of thunder as made the
earth groan, tumbled every sleeper in
camp out of his blankets. I say the
sharpest flash I ever saw, for I was awake
in time to see most of it. It was so
fierce that it seemed to burn our eyelids.
I was hardly on my feet before there
came another flash, followed by another
roar. I knew it was going to rain great
guns, and I jumped into trousers and
boots, and grabbed up the rest of my
clothes and made for a wagon only a few
feet away. The two wagons were . close
to each other, but the forward ends
pulled away from each other so that the
vehicles formed a V. While the space
between the off hind wheel of one and
the nigh hind wheel of the other was not
over a foot, the space between the
tongues was six or eight feet. The sky
was black as I rushed out of the tent,
and all the camp fires had burned low.
I flung my clothes into one of the wag
ons, and then hurried back and got my
weapons and some other articles, and
during this time the heavens seemed
aflame and the earth fairly rocked.
Men were shouting, horses neighing,
and the din was awful, but as 1 reached
the wagon the second time there came a
sound to drown all others. It was a
steady roar like the rush of great waves,
and it grew louder all the time. I could
not understand it for two or three min
utes. The noise came from the west,
and I stood upon the wagon so that I
could overlook the tents. A flash of
lightning was followed by a moment of
pitch darkness, and then came a long,
tremulous flash, lasting three or four
seconds. By its light I caught sight of
the herd of wild horses bearing down
upon us in a mad mob, and just as the
lightning ceased they entered the
stream.
The splash of the waters had the
sound of breakers, and though I shouted
a warning at the top of my voice no one
could have heard me twenty feet away.
Next moment that terror-stricken herd
was in camp, while the clouds opened
the rain came down in torrents. I
scrambled back into the wagon, and
what I saw during the next ten minutes
can never be forgotten. The frightened
horses leaped over the tents, or, ran
against them, fell over guy ropes, bump
ed against the wagons, and made clean
leaps over the ambulances, and all the
time each one kept up -a wild neighing.
I heard our own animals plunging and
rearing and neighing, but knew that we
were helpless to prevent a stampede.
As the first of the herd got through
our camp to the . wagons, two of them
entered the V-shaped space and others
kept them crowded in there. The
lightning was flashing and the thunder
roaring again, and the poor beasts were
appalled at the situation. There were
four or five lassoes and a dozen spare
lariats in my wagon, and when I saw
that the entrapped horses were making,
no move to get out I picked up a noosed'
rope, lifted the side caver of the wagon,
and had the noose over the head of one
in three seconds. . The one behind him
tried to turn when I sought to noose
him, but hit his heels against something
and twisted back toward me until my
hand touched his nose as I slipped the
noose over. Then I made the other
ends fast, got out the lassoes, and, stand
ing on the front of the wagon, I noosed
three horses inside of nve minutes. It
was no trick at all, for they were pressed
jjjjlj
right up to the wagon by the weight of
those behind, and the awful war of the
elements tamed them. -
The herd was ten minutes wortmg
through the camp, and as they cleared
it they took away every horse and mule
that we had. Every tent was prostrated,
much of our provisions and ammunition
destroyed, and one ambulance smashed
to pieces. One man was killed and
three were injured by the rush of horses.
As an offset a waggoner had lassoed two,
I had five, and two more had hobbled
themselves with tent ropes. In the
course of a day we got all our animals
back but one old mule, and managed to
repair damages. Our captives were the
finest wild horses ever seen on the plains.
Mv lot included three stallions, and I
sold one of them right there witii tuo
noose around his neck for 200. The
others I kept until our return to Texas,
taming theni a little every day, and then
got 1,000 for the four. The span of
stallions went to St. Louis after a bit,
and one of them proved himself the fast
est trotter of that decade.
THE LIME-KILN CLUB.
Brother Gardner Send a Man on a
Mission.
From the Detroit Free Press.
When the meeting had been called to
order Brother Gardner requested Whale
bone Howker to come forward to the
desk, and when he had him there he
continued: .
"Brudder Howker, I ar gwine to send
you to Toronto on a mission consarnin
de welfar' of dis club. Beio you go I
want to speak a few furder words to
you."
"Yes, 6ah."
"In gwine among strangers doan be
so dignified dat people will emagine you
own half of Detroit, an'yit on de odder
hand doan' be so free an easy dat any
one will dare poke you in the ribs. Seek
fur de happy medium.
"Doan' be too fond of talk. De less
you say de mo' you will be credited wid
knowin'.
"Many a man has broken his leg on
de sidewalk oekase he was ashamed to
take a safe path in de middle of de
road.
"Treat ebery man like a gentleman.
De cost is a mere trifle, an' tickles deir
wanity. t .
"Keep cl'arof argyment. If a stranger
wants to bet on his game turn from him
in silent contempt. If de kayrs run off
de track trus' in de Eawd.
"Be keerful of yer manners at table.
Our likin' fur a man kin be killed as
dead as a dooh-nail by de way he eats.
"De use of cuss-words ar' to be de
plored. A man wid a clean mouf will
be respected, eben among rascals. If
you fall ober a wheel -barrer or saw your
neck on a clothes line, devote five min
its to expressin' your f eelins. Den stop
short off.
"Doan' be ashamed to carry yer money
in yer shoe.. Many a member of Con
gress has come to grief by prancin'
around wid his wallet in his pocket.
"If you meet a man who says he
doan' believe in de f ucher state doan'
waste yer breaf to argify de matter. He
may be a pusson whom tie Lawd created
widout a soul, jist as an experiment."
Lee Gong at the Bar.
Lee Gong is an illiterate Chinese, but
he heartily upholds the traditions of his
race. He was before Judge Hornblower
yesterday, charged with carrying a con
cealed weapon. x
"What's your plea, Gong?" asked the
clerk.
"Me got five dolls, no mole," answered
the Mongol, at the same time holding
out the money.
"No, no, John, this isn't a five dollar
court; proceed with tue case," said the
Court. '
An officer took the stand and said that
he suspected the Chinese had a weapon
in his possession, and he went to take it
away from him, but the man ran away.
The officer followed and arrested him,
but found nothing on him. . He after
wards found the weapon among " the
blankets on Gong's bed.
At this point Lee Gong became some
what excited, advanced to the bench,
and held up his hands and cried: "No
guilty; me no sauvee."
"What! You plead not guilty after
offering me $5? This is disgraceful, sir.
You had better take care and not fool
me," said the Judge very sternly.
"The pistol was not found concealed
on his person, your honor," said the
prosecuting attorney, "and if he pleads
not guilty we have nothing else to do
but let him go and lose the 5."
This was what was ultimately done,
the door was opened and Lee Gong de
parted with just a faint smile on his
placid countenance. San Francisco
Examiner. -
The Covr.
f 'Does your cow cringe and curl, " asks
the New England Farmer, "and appear
nervous and fidgety when you sit down
to milk her?" Well,; not much she
doesn't?' She isn't that kind of a cow.
She isn't one of your shy, timid, bashful
cows. She just fixes her eyes on vacan
cy with a glare that will raise a blister
on an oak knot, sticks her tail straight up
in the air, stiff as a poker, plants three
feet firmly on the ground, and then feels
around with the other for the milk-pail,
milk-stool, milk maid; finds them; fires
them np somewhere into the blue empy
rean, and remarking "Ha, ha!" amid the
shouting jumps over a six-rail fence and
tramples down an acre of young garden.
Don't talk about cringing and curling to
a cow that has to be milked with a pi pe
ine and a pumping station. BurdetU,
In order to cure whooping cough in
Warwickshire village, Eng., they cut a
piece of hair from the nape of the child's
neck, chop it very fine, and spread ft on
a piece of bread and give it to a dog.
CATCHING a PiG
Valuable Points From one v-u
Performed the Fo;,0llM
Amii
mere are many things
that look coniparativelvej
'4'
a mai demonstrates calls forV
most serious efforts. We ha t5i
labored under the impression Vtl
pound pig could be grabbed bv t? VA
feg and carried off with
ease by a man of ordinarv sizo
crude idea, however, has loos 3
grip on us during the la&t 'S ?
Last Thursday we amble,! ut J
Club getting on dec k for a striS
reached for his hindW JuTth'
had to take a step we had nntirS
him to make and the leg was not t?
anymore. Several more rearheV
made, but they all fell short, and
whs the most surprising p:lrt of it
pig, which was so absorUsl in its V
incr that he never Wl-o.! .... S
happened to move just at the riht?3
to be missed. While recardb ;t
coincidence (for the animal ail ,.1
even know we were there, we sic1
so quietly,) it was one of those annnt?
coincidences that is not easy to
f or. If we were writing a treatise on
incidence we should give this a pro-
nent place. Presently we pot t'e
mal in a corner and, in order to he sV
fell down on it bodily. Again one"!
those infernal chance movements tick
place. The pig toot two steps to m&l
a potatoe, and we fell flat on the Z
where the pig had been. Then h
looked round for the first time, and, n
ceiving ns lying there, grunted his
tonishment and trotted away.
He was so astonished at seeing a iua
lying there on his stomach, smttzs
gravel out of his mouth, that he 2
off and stuck his head in a barrel to cit
his brain a rest. Then we slid np qj.
ly and by a finely calculated crypto,
gramus movement snatched him It &e
hind leg. This was probably
caused the barrel to rise up snddalj
and hit us on the nose. The wrestli
match seemed to begin at this pS
First we got a collar-and-elbow hold ct
the barrel and stood it on its hesi
Then the pig got a grapevine lock uj
threw us over the barrel. Then we got
a Cornish grip on the animal and thxi
him, and were in. turn downed by t
barrel. Then we got a half Kelsoa,
GrsBCO-Koman lock on -the pig's nfck,
but it got out with a half turn and m
ersault and grabbed us by the mi d
the trousers. Claim of foul cUsaIIot
by female referee on the front steps, ca
the grounds that the pig's tail had also
been grabbed in the turn. Then the
pig, with a new stylo of wrestling, her
tofore unknown to us, turned ut
somersault. If a pig blindfolded bj i
barrel could play this sort of gas4,i
occured to us that there was no tellinc
what he might not do with his ha)
loose. This idea, and the feeling (Lit
he might put his head ojit of the bzxl
or the barrel-head out, or get ns out d
our head, had a most de moralizing eject
Suddenly, by a coup de vvuk act, e
stood the barrel on end, with he pig's
hindquarters in the air, and thouglt
that we had the match won; but the
animal wiggled down in the barrel, and
as we lowered it on its side to prevent
his weight annoying him any fortheiLe
made an extraordinary movement He
smashed out the barrel-hoad, and, as a
had him by the leg, draped us afur
him into the barrel. When W
go, to prevent the nails in the barrel
from tearing our new clothes, we fouaJ
ourselves in the barrel and the pig in
field about half a mile from the hou.
A woman who had been sitting on the
steps to act as a referee, gave the match
to the pig:
A Few Statist
A recent speaker says that the negrx
in this country have multiplied
times in a century. - As they have
000,000 now, in 1980 they will amoK
to 192,000,000. If they maintain
same relative increase they will. 1"?
whites in 10 years by birth and mi
gration have increased 30 per cent
this rate there will be 800,000,000
and over 200,000,000 negroes-m 1 e
billion in the United States m
Who believes either of these statrtae
By that method one can prove that tw
Methodist Episcopal Church vJl g
have more communicants than the vo
will contain people. Last year it
5 per cent. net... This rate wflldosw
its membership every 10urtf'f'rin
Hence it 1902 it will have 4,ii00,W.
1916, 8,000,000, in 1930, IC,.'1?.
1934, 32,000,000 in 19SS, ;;;
in7(ip mo rvnn aaa tn n0Uiu
everv 14- -vAiir? in the vea?
less than 200 vears from the p:
date, there will be 32,708,000,
members of the
Methodist
EP:
Church in the
United States
Toil on, then, brethren. -Do not j
fact that, according to the
Wo1"-! U
the . speaker quoted above, t"",.-
only 6,400,000,000 negroes andl.C
000,000 whites-in all 19,,-',
of people in the United Stat .
time disturb you. Who cares
deficit of 3,168,000.000? Great is
tics. Of course every denomicu;wt
deluding itself. They think that
are increasing, but as'we aregois-
elude the whole population, and
thousand millions more, they j jf
to exist! The only trouble i 4
some of them continue to & . r3
present; the multiplication ucftr&
wipe us out in the same way.
Advocate. '
Cornelius (forgetting fJZr
will be a sister to me! ASIOV
this afternoon, a box at the 0 j
night,, supper at Delmonico s,
cab home! A sister to me? .jjtv
what kind of a fool human be"1
take a brother to be?
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