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kIreTresence OF Mm
ui OF NERVE UNDER
p CIRCUMSTANCES.
Sergeant— A Young Mexi
A Prompt Shot—Killing
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S f i'f i. a noble misapplied, and an admirable and when qnal- we
lty ,f even*" admire and respect it the
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* wTsteito'-e™ blood shall ° me fail to ‘0 tingle a sorry to such pass
rSdS a Pen 7 our that had of Mrs. arrested Caster’s a deserter brave ser- of
He took him in to
g character and a
town in Nebraska. While ‘bey
iif the Sergeant’s be blinded face officer, and started even for in the the
r T anguish of the moment,
inconceivable Sought only Of his orders to bring in the
prisoner alive or dead, and, listening for
th^footsteps dropped of the his fugitive man. fired to the
sound and example of “pure
As striking an nerve
came under my own observation two
auo. Valencia County, New Mexico,
e ars disgraced by long series of
had been a
cowardly and awful assassinations done
bv one young Mexican desperado and his
peons a series which culminated on the
14th of February in my own receipt of a
leaden valentine in the shape of two loads
of midnight buckshot. The question
whether ” these influential murderers
should be punished had entered into local
politics and the campaign was a very the ex¬
citing one. At some of the precincts
judges of election and the voters were
alike armed with Winchesters and six
shooters. active in the
v Among those that were
to overthrow the evil men
Bwho had for years exercised a reign of
terror over “Bloody Valencia” was gen¬
tle, generous Dumas Provencher, one of
the pioneers of the Territory, and he was
one of the dozen of us whom the assassins
[had marked after for midnight death. of election day
Shortly still
the ballots of that precinct were
being counted by a flickering lamp in a
long, low room in the plaza of San
Rafael, and poor Provencher was there.
He had just received news of a plot to
kill the judges and seize the ballots at
three precincts and leaned over t.o the
United States Deputy Marshal, Martin
Gallegos, to whisper a warning. Galle¬
gos was hardly more than a boy—a com¬
mon, illiterate Mexican youth, at whose
awkwardness and ignorance most of us
[would turn up our noses. But that he
Ihadin him the stuff of meu he showed
by the most gallant act I ever saw.
At that very instant there were six
hired murderers crouching at the open
window, and while Provencher was yet
speaking one of them thrust in his old
Springfield and fired. The great half¬
inch ball struck Provencher in the arota,
and from that chief life fountain the
blood leaped out in a tall, broad arch.
The stricken man gave one low cry and
fell dead against Gallegos, whose face
| and body were drowned in the spurting
j I deluge. The click of another rifle came
from the window. There were still six
living targets in that lighted room for
the marksmen secure in the darkness
without.
I To shoot at the assassins was vain—
I they were invisible, and could kill every
I man in the room before one could lift a
I finger against them. There was but one
I thing to be done—to put out the betray
I lug lamp. But that was thirty feet away,
and before the nearest man could reach
I|r j OW ree s l° t e ps toward it it all would be corpses,
n g seems, now that I come to
tell j about it—how long it seemed then!
ut from the sound of the shot that slew
Provencher to the ring of another that
[left pants the in room safety in darkness and the occu¬
seconds. One was really less than two
could scarce discharge
caa mbers of a double action revolver
uaore closely together than those two re¬
ports came—the crash of the assassin’s
nfle and the lighter crack of heroic Gal
g°s s six shooter.
The young Mexican absolutely taken
\ J runk uprise from as he was, had not even
i- the poor clay that wasspurt
p S has % flood in his face and
L L m , ln S an fl choking him, but snatching
L; f eay y out revolver —all in from his belt had shot
C™ mot ion one swift, indistin
and without apparent
L ” ure nerve that in one second saved
uEo Up..; ^i ^ lm fle baffled hlic assasins fled, and
geudeed , P u wrath aroused bv
their puta temporary check upon
murderous employers. ‘
Lervp e ' 1U ^ ' l th ;! y 6 remar eXploit kable of General display of pure
Bontn brnS i° , Edward
lr L a ad V pass in Southern Cali
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a A quiet, gentle voiced,
uju ^ ered man
: ^n P v > one w °uld hardly
>roa hiwT tne re ckless daring which
ftesnpJ? dlstmctl011 m . some of the most
It fir e f ag ! gements General of tbe Civil War.
L n Sheridan said
La k dariDg Brigaaier we
iitrea- NXt? 7 ;. 1 ’' 9 ’ S he h h "'l *? occasion «»j« to visit
s “
was fh The coun
Mexican and with notorious
Iravelers bouton went f’ mencan 8 armed bandits, General and
toner and P ar ^ ner - driving
the m^n own r ’were
tasked 1 f ° reSt road when ^ee
ushes and“4S R n 8 " uddenl fr the
rust * their y °m
^ 111 faces a double
barrelled shotgun and two six shooters,
at the same time seizing the horses. It
was understood that the General was
carrying $18,000 to buy a flock of nine
thousand sheep, and this the highway¬
men were after.
They made the travelers dismount and
fastened their hands behind them with
chains, closing the links with a pair of
pincers. Another chain was similarly
fastened about General Bouton’s neck,
and oue of the desperadoes, a cocked re¬
volver in hand, led him along by this,
while the other two held shotgun and re¬
volver ready to shoot at the slightest re¬
sistance from the prisoners.
So the strange procession started off—
the highwaymen desiring to march their
prisoners away from the road to some se¬
cluded spot where their bodies could be
safely concealed.
Their intention to rob and then mur¬
der—fully established by later develop¬
ments—was perfectly understood by the
captives, and the General decided that if
he must die he would “die trying.”
As they trod the lonely path in si¬
lence he felt along the chain which se¬
cured his wrists—with utmost caution
lest the bandit behind with a cocked
shotgun should perceive his intent.
Slowly and noiselessly he groped till he
found a link which was not perfectly
closed, and putting all his strength into
a supreme effort—but a guarded one—
he wrenched the link still wider open
and managed to unhook it.
Without chauging the position of his
hands perceptibly, lie began to draw his
right cautiously up toward his hip
pocket. Just as it rested on the “grip”
of the small revolver concealed there the
highwayman behind saw what he was at
and with a shout threw the shotgun to
his shoulder. But before he could pull
the trigger Bouton had snatched out his
pistol, wheeled about and shot him down.
The desperado who was leading Bouton
by the chain whirled around with his six
shooter at a level, but too late—a ball
from the General’s revolver dropped him
dead- The third robber made an equally
vaiu attempt to shoot the audacious
prisoner, and in turn was laid low by the
same unfaltering aim. It was lightning
work and adamantine firmness —three
shots in half as many seconds, and every
shot a “counter.” That was pure nerve,
too.
One of the minor events in a long life
crowded with great heroisms furn.shes
an example of a different kind. He who
figured in it was Don Manuel Chaves,
the matchless New Mexican rifle shot and
Indian fighter.
In 1864 news came to his lonely ranch
at Los Ojueos that a band of twenty
Apaches had swooped down upon the
Rio Grande and stolen two hundred head
of horses and mules, with which they
were fleeing toward the Manzano Mount¬
ains. A force of settlers were
in pursuit, but the Indians had
a long stait and were well armed
and mounted. Should they once reach the
Sierra further pursuit would be simply sui¬
cidal. Hidden behind rocks and trees
they could pick off their pursuers with
absolute safety to themselves.
There was no other man in the house
save his dying son-in-law; but without
a moment’s hesitation Don Manuel sad¬
dled his swift pet mare, and with his
deadly rifle across the saddle bow gal¬
loped off alone to meet a score of the
most fearful of all savage warriors. Rid¬
ing southward to the top of a wooded
ridge, he soon saw the Apaches coming
directly toward him. When they were
near him he charged boldly out at them,
signalling behind him as if to a force
hidden in the timber. The Indians, un¬
able to fathom his audacity, and suppos¬
ing that of course he had a strong force
at his back, so that they were in danger
of being caught between two fires, scat¬
tered like quail into the mountains, leav¬
ing the stolen animals to be recaptured
by the pursuing Mexicans who were close
behind.
In returning home from this adventure
—wherein his nerve had saved $10,000
worth of mules to his friend Don Cristo¬
bal Armijo—Don Manuel’s mare stepped
into prairie dog hole and fell upon him,
crushing his leg frightfully. He was
three months in bed, but ultimately re¬
covered full use of the leg, and the cour¬
age and coolness which had so long dis¬
tinguished him still made him a terror to
the hostile tribes of the Southwest for
more than a decade longer .—New York
Herald.
WISE WORDS.
Nature never pretends.
Time stands very close to eternity.
The sun is always shining somewhere.
He who does nothing is very near do¬
ing ill.
Pride can come nearer making a per¬
son a fool than a wise man.
Next to the virtue, the fun in this
world is what we least can spare.
Great hearts alone unaeistand how
much glory there is in being ood.
Men show their charac 1 in nothing
more clearly than by wha they think
laughable.
Above all things always speak the
truth; your word must be your bond
through life.
Next to laziness the hardest thing on
earth to resist is the impulse to take3
sides in a fight.
We swallow at one mouthful the lie
that flatters, and drink drop by drop the
truth that is bitter.
Whatever else may be wrong, it must
be right to be pure, just and tender,
merciful and honest-
Royalties.
The king of Holland got a divorce from
his first wife because she used musk for a
perfume.
Queen Victoria has five maids to assist
at her toilet—three dressers and two
wardrobe women.
The Archduchess Elizabeth, mother of
the queen of Spain, celebrated the 60th
anniversary of her birtbbay in Madrid.
Ex-Iviug Milan is now a resident of
Paris, having taken a house on the avenue
of the Bois du Boulogne. He is very un¬
popular in Paris society.
The Archduke Francis Austria, Ferdinand, the
heir to the throne of is a tall and
very distinguished looking educated, man. He has
been very carefully has consid¬
erable talent for art and music and is a
fine soldier.
The presents which the sultan of
Turkey has sent to the imperial family of
Germany since the accession of the young
emperor are almost endless in number.
He recently sent three Arabian horses to
the three oldest sons of his majesty.
The king of Italy has three separate
studs of his own on his beautiful estate
of San Rcssore, near Pisa, which is fam¬
ous in Tuscany for its miles of splendid
primeval pine forests, and these studs
contain upward of 2,000 horses and also
a large herd of pure bred camels.
Ex-Queen Isabella’s daughter, the
Princess of Paz, is happily married to
Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria. The
prince is distinguished as a medical stu¬
dent, and his own and his wife’s charities
have made them noted throughout Ger¬
many for their philanthropy.
Things to Remember.
Wash mirrors with warm suds, dust
with whiting in a muslin bag, and polish
with chamois skin.
Out a piece from the top of an old kid
shoe and insert it inside the ironing
holder you are going to make.
Two apples kept in the cake box will
cause moderately rich cake to remain
moist for a great length of time if the
apples are removed when withered.
Boys, never forget that you stand as a
protector of every girl into whose society
vou may be thrown, Remember that as
you treat her, so may your nearest and
dearest be treated. Hold her as sacred
in thought and actions as you would
have your mother and sisters held by
others. Remember, too, that rea-on and
right make it incumbent upon you to
bring as clear a record of your life to the
woman you would marry as you demand
of her. —Ex.
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ill health, giving new energy and
Tubs will not warp or crack if a pail¬
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using.__
Heamcss Can’t be Cured
By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way tional to cure deafness, and that is by constitu¬
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destroyed caused by catarrh, forever; nine cases out of ten are
which is nothing but an in¬
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Send cannot for cure circulars, by taking Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
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Many people are troubled with dizziness, dullness, un
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manifestations of
Bmpure Blood
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It cures scrofula, salt rheum and every other evidence of
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¥e Malaria.
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Jk Or Consumption? Remedy of
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