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VOL. XVIII.
ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY MORNING AUGUST 21 1886
PRICE FIVE CENTS
ARP AT HOME.
1 ACOOUQt C! III.
Visit to Andereoe. South Corotloa-A
Bcootltul Town and Good People.
The lore of homo it not an art nor an ae
complieiioient. It doth not como from ear!?
training or education. It ia tho instinct of
huiaanlty. It ia tha gift of God. It la a para
emotion and bringa joy andcomftntto the ham'
hie and tho great. “Be it ever ao humble,
thero ia no place like home." No wonder
thatthe simple aong of John Howard Payne
endeared him to the world. The world felt
its tondhing, tender truth and wept a sympa
thetic tear. It ia the want of a home
that makes tramps and vagabonds and
dorpeiate men. Sometimes I think the nation
conld well afford to give every father and
mother a home. Besides the lore of those who
sue dear to na there la something in the local,
ity that sheets na—something In tho familiar
Beenes, the trees, the delda^the branches, the
gqnning spring, or the generous well. We lore
tha trees and vines that have borne na fruit or
given na shade; the open fireplace that gives na
- welcome on a winter night; the bed that gives
os rest and sleep, and the ever pleasing
- prospect of the distant hills and mountains
ghat seem as if reaching np to God. Sven the
beasts and birds are conscions of this love' of
home, “The lowing herd winds slowly o'er
the lea." ss they seek their accustomed place.
The fkithlbl loving dog will travel miles and
leagues lo reach it,and tha eat cannot be osslly
weaued from tho chimney corner. Han has
mado uto of this never-foiling, never-ceasing
loro of thecarrior pigeon, and it commands
onr respect and admiration whoa we
see it released from its unwilling prison in a
distant land and watch it ascend and circle
and take Its bearings, and then with swift and
5 . .tireless wing make for its homo by tho nesr-
catllno.
Wo aie home'now again and aro happy. It is
very pleasant to make a little visit off among
onr friends bat there is always something left
behind that like a magnet draws i
back again. When we i
away onr dally habits are broken np
sHi
oyonrsel . . . ..
how could I and be respectful. I conldent
takeoff my coat and rest my foot upon the
railing. I conldent litrctch myself upon tho
sofa for nn. evening nap. Ctrl and Jeeslo woro
not there to follow mo around and make mo
do their bidding. My dug was not thero to I
wng his tail. Tho affection wo lisvo for ovea
tho inanimate things about onr homos Is a
partbf nature and is stronger than wo lm
agine. A good old mother, wbo now lives in
Home, removed fromCcdartown to Arkansas
about thirty years mgo. Hor husband sold his
,: furniture to tho nabors, for ho conld not move
ltro great a distance. A few weeks ago she
made a visit to them and found at ono home
the sofa—the same old sofa—and at another
tbs bedstead and at another the table—
the dear little mahogany tabic that
oho sewed by and her lamp was upon it every
night as she read her evening chapter in tho
Bible, She told ms about it in her own sweet
way. and said:
“I bad a good visit and my hsart was fall
all the time. I stayed among tbom two weeks,
which was longer than I intended, bat they
were so glad to see ms and were ss kind I
didn't want to come eway. I almost cried
When I saw those dear old things we had to
selland leave them behind ns when wo went
west, fori felt llko they had boon our friends
inh -
and _
much trouble.” I
I had a good time at Anderson. Of coarse I
did, for Anderson Is in Soath Caroline. It Is a
beautiful town and Is full of good pcoplo. The
Calhouns and Perrys and Ores and other noblo
men left their mark upon that region. It la
astonishing how long the infloenoa of a good
man lusts. Not long ago a follows cam” to
our town and traded honoa and got badly
chatted, and ho was abasing onr ptopio for
lotting such mean men live among ns. An
old gentleman heard him and said. “My
friend, I know that wa havo soma mean men
among us. You will find them hero and tharo
in every community. lint I used to lire In
the vesy region that yon como from, and my
recollection and experience is that op there
the good men are very lonesome, bnt tho moan
ones go about in drove*." When I was In
Florida I yiaited e littlo town that was settled
by a lot of folks from Nan Clair, Wisconsin,
and they were pretty close on a trade. Ono of
onr folks got need up among them, and ho aid
one day, “I'm going to leave this town. I’m I
going to move." “Where are yon going," said
replied, “I think
here are yon going,”
htnk I shall go to Ban
Clair, In Wiaconain, for my opinion is that
every doggoned rascal has lift there."
I met asms old schoolmates in Anderson,
and we exchanged memories, pleasant memo,
rice. I conldent keep np srith Rocker—Elbert
Backer—for ha ntver forget* anything and
never tires. He had a moat wonderful
memory when a young man, and
it has inot faded yet. I used
to envy.blm his gift of memorizing ina few
minutes what it took mo an hoar to half way
learn. Thorny it te dangerens to start him
on Uilton’a Paradise loot now. After vacation
on* ottb* boys cam* bask late. Ho was two
weeks behind and asked Backer whet we were
atndying Backer mischievously told him
we were in logarithms and bad to get them all
. by heart, and thawed him tha next lesson of
two pages. How tha poor fellow did sweat
' over it: We watch'd him as ho tried it in his
chain than on the bed, then stalking the floor,
then heaving a elxh of despair, and af last he
laid, desra on tha floor, face foremost, with tho
book open right undor hit eye*, and hlafia*
gen Inhif ears. There waa column after eil-
• umner figures. There wen decimal a without
• number, and his lip* moved norvonaly Bom
line to tin*. “Booker," aaid he, pitoongiy.
“did yon gat thle lteeonr' “Oh, yea,or course."
aaid Pucker, “bnt yon ought to go back to tho
begtnnian. Yo* are thirty page* behind the
due." Ilia look of mat* despair was dia-
Berne, bat I can safely eiy It was not
phi ey’s and had the seat of honor by tho gen.
fal hostess who sat fronting an old fkshlonod
chicken pie. What a privilege. When a
lovely refined yonng matron grace* the fee-
tlve board with a cklckonpio In front, and yon
to near to both, wbat more it wanted? Es.
petite. I said so at Mrs. Crayton's and ahe
eald so too and then gave ns a recital of tho
trouble about cooks. The same old trouble
that tho north always knew but ihe south
never experienced before tho war. Mrs. 0.
said she was trying white ones now-sdeys, for
she couldn't got a •■ • ■ ••
seemed tehsmedol
all they can. They wear their snnbonneta and
utterly refuse to wait upon the table. “The
cooking and eating absorbs ns," she said, “and
gives no time for anything else. The stove
is always hot, the fire is nevor out, while at
tho not th It is but a small part of tho day’s
duties." Now that Is a sensible, candid ad,
mission. We do cook too much and we
too much, especially in summer,
Wa complain about the excessive heat of then
summer evenings, and we fan and perspire
and taka on, when in fiut, it ia main! ‘
the tired, overworked stomach that i
log away to keep np with the food
poured in the hopper. We ought to have a
cold lnnch for dlnnor with plenty of fruit—
finit Is the food for summer. Dame Nature
makes it to ripen for ns Jolt at tho time wo
need Ik Randall gavo ns an essay on it tha;
was charming. Yon too Bsndall got loft ant 1
so did Davidson. They ventured to take an
_ . napped a little too long.
They harried to the train and waved thoir
hate and handkerchiefs and screamed am
evening nap and napped a little too Ion;
— ' train and wavod
d screamed
shouted £wott (piteously, but tho erne) trail >
jnst went off alltho same. Slowly and sadly
they returned. They out one longing, linger*
log look behind, and then laid down on tho
verandah floor. Bsndall wepk Colonel Cray*
ton heard of thoir desolation, and wo wont
after them. Davidson was holding
up pretty woll as ha paced tha floor
with rapid strides, bnt Bsndall had not apokea
n word, and tho water wu in his dreamy eyes
uhe gazed lovingly towards Angnsta. A wife
and eight children and cne at tho breast wer i
expecting him, and thero would bo a light ii;
tho window and a nice rapper awaiting him,
and how the good mother and her bairns
would bo disappointed! I thought of Way*
cross, where I wu left, and sympathised. .80
wo took them np and assisted them to tha oar*
tiage, for Bsndall was wuk, very weak. Colo
nel Crayton began his jokes,and I put In with
nil my might:
“Romo np, my Maryland,'
. “The despot's beet la on
Bis torch la at thy tempt
“It is very diitroulng," laid he. “It makes
ire sick—sl{k at heart and aick in body.”
“I tell you,” aaid Davidson, "what wo can
do. Wo can hnnt a ysllor Jackot’s nwtand
Gp bt it. Tj .t angoed I’dnir to kill blues.”
“To aims, id anus, for the south needs help,
And a craven la ho who llcec.”
Stretching forth my arm, I added:
“Thou wilt not cower In the dost,
Thy [learning sword shall never rust.''
These efforts soemed to bring him to life.
Bis pallor left him. His oye* brightened as I
exclaimed.
“I see the blush upon thy cheek,
For thou wut even bravely meek,
My Maryland.”
Colonel Davidson shook his ambrosial locks
tad fired up with recovered vigoruherecltod:
'There’s faith In the streams, there's hopo in tho
hill*.
There's Ufo in tho old land yet. 1
What a blessing it is thst mtsory wears oat,
It weara itself out. Oar wobegona friends
were soon all right, and u we walkod around
among tha herd of Jerseys this srar-renownod
poet was seriously discosting bis ability to
light and conquer a belligerent bail who wu
pauing dirt In tha air.
After tea wa discoursed on children and how
to rtiee them. Bsndall bad discovered many
improvement! and noveltlea upon tho old
methods, and among them a now food for In*
fonts which wu superior to tho mothers’ milk;
for it sru already digested. He bad ordered a
esse of it .from Now York, or a carload per*
bapa, I am not certain, and whan I wu ap
pealed to for my opinion, I uid that I was re*
minded of a Dutchman who wont about soil
ing n powder to kill bedbugs. “Shut catch do
pcapng end open bis month and pnt do
. .. .. .. . . . j,f mw | tIl
png and
his month and pnt da
>pen
power in,”isld he.“But why not mush
* “ sit
gootv
But we all bad a
My Maryland and Colonel D,
hour ahead of time that
id kissed
warn
year foot,” uid an old lady. “Ab, veil," uid
he. “dat is a soot vay, too.”
it we all bad a good time at Colonel Cray,
ton’s, and enjoyed hi* family and their goner.
out hospitality. Hy
wtre at the train an
evening and wavod thoir Uate
their hands ss they wont steaming bom*.
I met Mrs. Arp and Jessie in
Atlanta. They visited all the pretty stores
on Wbitsbsll and looked at n thonund pretty
1 hlrgs and bought a fan—ono of thoan palm
! eaf fane. Jessie looked ont of tb* window at
the Mai kham home and uw tho line of osr-
liases sieitlngatthecarshed end exclaimed:
“Ob, papa, do como hore and eon what a funer
al procession." Wo are homo now end have
enough to talk about for a month. From all
I can learn my wife paraded around Ltw-
rencovlll* like aha bollt ovary horn* and
planted every ihado tree then and tha whole
concern belonged to her. Jessie uya hor
mother laughed and cried srith everybody
•he met, white and black, and when she left
slow, very slow.
lifts*
Hewn
safely ny
ard nor John Grant nor
Lrxy
Beverly Thornton norjoe Ganahl—nor my.
aelr. Wt were not even inspects.
I met Bandall there—“My Maryland’’ Bin-
dall, and Colonel John Davidson and Jos
~ M, of August*. They, worn among thi
ant the railroad banquet and filled the
Demosthenes and Cicero were never
. mots eloquent at a railroad banquet than they
were.,’. In fact all Aognata wu eloquent, and
It wu aiov* feast all around. Colonel Ci
ton KITC Bf ft rtCCDtlon
SsKsmJ.xSSre I I
8,'S,kT!‘ wb *"
. and they s
The mlich
wu going to
dined with 1
uw morn Jersey catt.'e
». Thera ware near a
« and sleek end gentle,
a larger breed than nsna'.
were very large. Aogosta
us that evening at foor. I
of them at Gsacral Horn*
the old plantation for Suwaneo etatlon aha
stopped co oflen to talk with the old darklu
who used to call hor “mistis” that the train
went off and left thorn and
they had to go back to tha
plantation again. She brought n basket of
beautiful grapes home srith bar, a preaent
tbom Mr. Gotleb Wanner, of Walhalia, a
German, who enclosed a note in German toxk
“Mr*. William Arp and her yonnsslen: From a
onion sol Her o('«■’«, bnt now a lover of the
sunny south and her people.”
Thetis right-all right. Hr. Wanner is
welcome, and see prill greet nil such sensible
men. Let them come in droves. Mrs. Arp
made no gashing demonstration over th*
the moves aronnd the room the hnms a quiet
tone, which Is a ears sign of content—*
sweat content.. Bill A*p.
Lire or a Gua,
There is a peculiar Idea In the commnnlty, save
the c.'emmcrclal Bullttln, that a gun will last for
an indefinite period, and no doobt the statement
that the Mg sun at Fenij Hook has a great re
cord tecaure it wu fired 1:7 times will strike peo
ple is fitraordintry. Vet a gun, like sny other of
man'a handiwork, can only do a certain amount
or work, and when the cnonnona shocks and pres-
mrc which a sun U compelled to stand Isoonstd-
ered. the amount or work it really does is surprla-
’ ’’ — the limit oT work or a
_jd reaches when HIM
1 d tod thb, too, when tbe
cbtxge wu only?# pounds of powder and a A»
•/- ““ *”7upp *ana are
the principal
of the ccmtrcctlon of the gun or tlw material of
the gua ia not neceaeartly condemned. Recently
an KngUab ittel gun a* large aa the aua at 8aa-lf
Book, on the eteamer CoUlnfwood, bar* after fir
ing three round*, aod the government h*« prohib
ited tbe firing of tbe other goos tuka actually at*
tacked by tbc enemy.
lug. Luring the civil war U
isincbirtm wu coniiderol
rounds had been fired, and
charge waa only S# pounds or
pouiid projectile, la Karope tl
uc' mlog wcltM all tha time,
BORDER LIFE.
The Career or Hurt KoOlane, the Oetperado-A C*t-
tle-Steallnir Expedition end It* XUiultt-K*-
tred of Tftzsa* tor Oruoore, and the
Chance*. for War With Mexico. 1
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
“Bent McClana Is In town.”
“Is he?”
"Yes; I wu talking to him in Nolan’s sa
loon last night.’’
“Who is thlr, yon uy?”
“-Boot McClano. As good-hearted a boy as
aver breathed, although he hu ml ways boon
crooked,”
“Did yon know
ben Tuoursoir. the Ausrr.-r desfebado,
who was murdered In 8sn Antonio?’’
“Did I? Mo and my friend here and Bant
were in the variety dive the night Bon wu
shot. That wu a nd night for Bent, for he
and Ben had been qnite good friends, and ha
mourned in his sleovo all that night, and
barreled np to got over It qolekor. Ae I asid,
Bent wu a good-hearted hoy, and when ho
took a liking to anybody they conld oonnt on
him for a solid friend. Bent carved a term of
five years In the Joliet (111.) pen for soma
dirty work in southern Illinois, where he had
a wife and two or three children.”
“If yon havo over been
DOWN THBOUGH TBE CHIHUAHUA COUHTnY,
yon will, perhaps, remembsr an old tumble-
cosra hacienda that stood on tha I’reeldlo del
Norte road, at that time about half way bo*
tween Conyeme and tho Conohoa river. It
sat wall hack from the road, majestically
wrapped In ita own solitude, and, judging
from tho mode of iogreu and egrou-a nar
row footpath—bad been for yean considered
an hoisted and out-of-the-way place by tho
ranchorea in that part of thn conn try. That
wu my first impression or the place, and I
due sey it was tbe ume aa all other* wbo for
the firat timo beheld It. Thooe who gathered
np enough courage to force themselves
through the tall weeds to tha bnlldlugrtf not
halted and ordered to leave, found, upon a
. near approach, a long, low, ramshaekli house
itar wu always met by a little, old. driod up,
eeddlo-colored Spaniard, who ievo tho uim
of Sc-nor Jaral, and, if invited t,
heard by tho visitor irhlio ho remained.
THE YOUHG LADY
wee not sostriklj
as it may fee to, ah'
and flaxen hair and*
to and fro about tho houro that was vory at"
tractivo. I wu Introduced into tho homo by
Bent, and evidently made a favorable Im
pression upon the reelnte Scnor, u ho always
made me welcome.
“In November, 1883, Bent and I found oar-
selves in El Paso broke. Wo had been hold
ing down Silver City for sovetal wcoks, bnt
luck went against ns, and we saw onr last
dollar go acrou tho green cloth of tho taro-
dealer. Bent wu desperate, and 1 wain’t
much hotter. We determined to mako a
break lor onr old quartern In eonthwoet
Texas. In Doming I mot a friend and mado a
raise, so that we went loto El Paao in shape,
and luted for a wcok. Bnt wo couldn't got on
top any more, and Boat had about decided to
shoot a Chinaman “to change his lack” whon
A PAL or HIS CASTE lit
from Esgls Pais. They hobnot-bod together a
day or two, and suddenly told me ono dav
they were going to ran down to Chovallto anil
Chlhnstbna.
They were either trying to deceive me,
-owevir, or changed their minds rather sud
denly, for they left town over tho Toxu Pa-
ctflc, ran down to Colorado City, thence down
Into Tom Greene county, by following the
river, to San Angelo. A yonng fellow namod
Golden, hailing from near Carney, III., was *
driver on tho etage lino that ran from Abl.
leno to Fort Concho, end Boot evidently got
some pointera from him, for In a few days
there wuabigaansatlon created throughout
that country by tho report that a ion* high
wayman bad robbed tho Concho stago. Tho
stage wss stopped about a mils from
tho Colorado rtvoron th* Bonnets aide, tho
ss soon u ho had relieved them of their vain,
shies. That thahlgharaymaawu acquainted
with tho country’wu evident, for again, with
in th* week, the performance was reputed,
except that this lime tiro men madotb* do-
end to
’THBOW CP YOUB HAKIM.’
“It la unneorsury for me, to tell you who
them modern Claude Dnvala were, for yon can
guru u easily u I did whan I read a report
of it.
11 The boys laid low aronnd Buffalo Otp for
while until the talk died down. Luckily
the officials In that direction. This
highwayman did nnt cover his tracks as wail
as onr boys, for he wu nabbed down near
Port Mason, and daring thn excitement Bent
sLd bis pal palled oat without cresting com-
ruent. In a fur days I cos * latter to Join
at Uvalde. Hastening there I found
Bush and playing gentlemen of leisure.
Bentwu acquainted with Major Smith, in
command at Fort Clark, and would occulon-
a bit clerical dads sad ran down to
Bnt there wu method In bis msd-
nfir, for he told ns one day that if wa wanted
to bain the saddle fora few days wa conld
make some money, and explained to ms bis
scheme. I wu to ran down todisglo Pan and
tring np tom* men Whose names he gav*
me—men who had “been there” before, and
could be relied upon; and wa were to ran a
“drive” of cattle over tha Grand* and briog
back hones. I can’t explain to yon the dim-
cnltles of such an undertaking. It la timply
a breach of tb* iawa of both countries, u wa
intended smnsgUag them across between Pil-
are* and Praafills del Norte, and if spotted by
' I officials mssnt imprisonment, or hy tiro
...ilutu hemp. Mounted and sccoitero I,
wo wer* amattor of two or three days reed
ing the range from which the eattle were to
be “nipped”—the town Pecos-and wa kept
scattered ont u well a* wa conld so u not to
attract attention. I and one of th* Alls na i-
ol were deputed to do th* advuca recon :o:>
enrg. and u easy Job it wu up to tho Urns
we sighted tbe river. It wu
—- V1», V IHTatSTTKI
- XAXLV Iif THE AVTgUEOOX,
When w* looked down from ulemtaeoee aud
beheld the Bio Crude. Tha river wu noth
ing, however, and wa won Id have forged ahead,
thankful that eo much of oar journey hid been
pasted safely, when my attention wu attracted
tea null body of horsemen hiding spnth along
tbabuk of the river, appaieUly eogagad in
a search for something, and I didn’t need to
ask what. Th* cattle had ban missed, and a
posse of men hid come la pornnlt. By eoae
chance they bad pused the mala body of ont
gang and had beaten ne to tho rivor. They
were new engaged in searching the fords to
see if wo baa crossed tho river. Oar only
churn of sacceasfuUy crossing now lay in
our waiting until nightfall, and hoping
thst onr pursuers might go on down tho river.
I and my companion waited until the men
csmaupwlth tbe cattle. It wu then near
di.k, and, instead of camping on this aide, wa
cot,defied wo had batter try end get across that
night To ehow yon the dare-devil that al
ways animated Bent, I have only to tell yon
ofwhatbodld that night Calling the mon
together, end giving them explicit diroctlou
wont to do in cate ho should fell to return, he
declared hie inteutlon of riding Into tha camp
of tho nngera, which conld now bo eoon la
tho diituce u darkness closed In, and try to
entertain them, while we got the oattle serosa
and safely Into tho interior. With tho parting
admonition to ms to bo careful,
and If snccettfol In crosatnf, to drive
M fut | u we poulbly could to
Ecnor Jaral’s, ho rode away. Pooling only
.long enough to eat n bit of dried hoof, wo
drove tho cattle u rapidly as we could In a
south-westerly direction to a deep ford Bent
bad pointed ont to tu, knowing that a littlo
etrim would refresh both tho horses ud cat
tle, determined to make hay before tho sun
shonntgsln. What Bent did In
THE CAMP 0P THE BAHQEBS
Ho never told to uy one bnt me, and I still
consider it his secret hut ho had a tip to hia
left ear when ho left ui that evening thst no
one ever uw again. We'woro snocotiful in
creasing tho river ud some two or three
miles In the country, ud woro congratulat
ing ourselves that wo had ao oanae for farther
alarm, ud wero discussing tho question of
camping where wo were for the balance of
tho night and drive tho remaining twenty
or twenty-five mliu the following day and
evening, when we heard tha aonnd of rapid
hoof beats in our rear. Listening, wa could
only dietlngnieb tho clickolsok of ono horse,
ud concluded It wu Bent returning. Bnt
why wee he In such a harry ? Wo waited hie
spi roach with anxiety, and I doubt not tho
reins trembled In several of tha poor devils’
bands. Bent drew rein only when ho wu In
thomidetef the men,'ud quickly ehoutod:
‘Scatter tho boneti in tho, ohappual and tike
care of yonreelvesu best yon oan; they hero
crossed and are after ue. llow many aro
aimed V Ho might as well havo uked, r How
many dneka can awim ?' fur a cowboy with
out hie navy alx would bo thought a curiosity.
Even while be spoke we conld hoar tho boot
bests of tho pursuers' hones.
“They had ignored
political aouifDAnrits,’
And wore after uo still, determined to havo
their property, It not revenge. tVo scattered
the eattle u quickly aa we conld In tho brash,
and in doing so separated ourselves from oaoh
ether. Before we conld get together again
the rangeis were upon ns. A skirmish took
jloco tot ween tho two gangs, with littlo or no
" til they spotted Bent. 1!
®euu ns mey tmy in;::, leaving ten uatau.o 01
ue Unharmed, ud, Ji seemed, tin cured tor.
Tho herder boys, who dally are called upon to
protect tlielrlivoe, never think of calling on
anolhar for assistance, and I, headless of the
trounce of half* dozen treaty boys, who
would willingly hare helped mo hid X uked
them, pnt apnn to my hone ud dashed away
In the direction Bent bad gone, with tho ran
gers Id pursuit. I followed tbam only by Uu
sound of the horn*’ hoofs ud
AW OCCASIONAL SHOT
for sight or teu mlles, when ths thought sad-
dcnly esmo to mo thst Bentwu going directly
toward tho old Spaniard's hacienda, line*
there, he la ufe, I thought; yet before the
thought had framed Itself another fluked
through my brain; Will Bent jeopardise
THE 0L1> MAW AMD HIS LOVELY DAUUHTKE
by seeking protection u a fugitive? 1 duhed
spurs to my horsosgiln, determined to over
take them, but tha bout, already tired by bis
long day’s travel, wu clearly nnahla to move
fester. They wonld reach the plaoe Iduothor
hour at tho rata thoy wore riding now, ud I
tumbled u I thought of the conaaqouce* to
tho old senor and tbe charming scnorlta.
The miles flow by. We appeared to be keep
ing shout thn nine diitancn apart they not
gaining on.But nor I on them. I can give
jon no idra ot tho excitement under
which I labored daring that rido of twenty
miles. It wu with But clearly a matter of
Ufo ud deuh, and I trembled lost soma of the
ocruionsl allot* 1 heard ahonld taka effect
either In him or hie bene. I passed a hors*
with r.n empty saddle, bnt it wu not Bent's,
ud I know ho had not boon thn only Raman
tnigot during that rawing fight Inowbtgu
to recogaisa th* scenery ud my surroundings
u I flew out and knew wa wore approaching
tbe Sonora. What conld I do to help Bent?
wu thn question thst contlnnstly surged
th rough my brain. But I had reckoned with
out my hut when I thought he wu anabl* to
rare forblroeeH nehaqnickly proved. When
within* mile of the hacienda ho pat on a
sport, leaving hla
l-UBSUEIt* SEYKUAL HURDMD YAEO* IW THE
BEAK,
Duhed np to tha Sonora stable, transferred
,! OUR SILENT JOE.”
A Vouos Man Made Slsiple and Insaoslbla for Two
Years and Than Ctirad bj neleg Haarlp Kdlsd
. -Siupeeled or Bobbins Be is Pursued
and Jumps Off of a Cliff,
bis uddl* to* largo rou chargor eluding
' u if it had uw But bo'
pon him,
da
there, that acted ae If It had a*w~B*nt before
and no doubt it bad, leaped upon him, and
link hla
(UU UU UUUUV lb UfiU. It
amid ft foiijadc, dashed iinv
pursuers far ia tho rear. Daring ths sxcite-
meat at the stable I had duhed into th*
crowd, recklessly shooting right ud loft, un
til 1 got thin (pointing* finger to bis bond)
and fell from my boras. In their haste to bo
after Best they pronounced m* “quiet,” and
left mo where I fell. When my senses re
turned I found myself in a room In tha old
hacienda, my head to nearly covered with
bandage*, that 1 scarcely had room left for my
ito take in th* form of my friend and is-
, Bent seated at an opposite window, with
the lovely eenorita’a hand In his,conversing In
a low tona^nd I’ll bat UI* hotel* of boar,” con
cluded tho talker, “that there isn't another
man In tb* United HU tea or Mexico that conld
have done It That may b* a queer ending to
a story, bnt I will have to go now or I shall
bo locked out of my hotel.”
“Did I onderttud yon to uy that h* it la
ths Mtyr ’
“You did, I hallave.”
■“ Where is h* stopping?”
"1 could tell you If 1 wanted to, bat—’’ ud
i gave * failing inflection to ths word as If
• bad finished.
“I don’t wish to appear Importunate, of
“That’s all sight; but it would bo fanny if
Best wu to go took to Toxu sod do vsluht*
srrvlcofer the muntry In which’hn it out
lawed, wouldn’t It?”
Tile Mata of Trade.
Firm tbe New York Herald.
The crops, on the wbota, are turning ont hatter
than wu aiptcud, lb* movement of products and
From the oalveeton News.
In Ihe year 1807a young mu named Charles
Miller left Hartford, Conn., for tho west At
Buffalo ho fell In with a man catling himself
Henry Davison, and ths two traveled toChlcogo
together. Miller had sbont 3300 In oasis with
him, while llsvlion had only a few shillings
left when they reached Chleagd. Tha former
Intended going to Colorado, while the latter,
wbo aaid be was a hatcher, decided to remain
In Chicago and work at hla trade for a tlm*.
They took quarters at a cheap hotel, ud to
foitber seduce expenses they ooenpled one
bed.
On the night before Hiller wu to leave for
the far west, ud u they were about ready to
go to bed, ha took ont and counted his money.
He had $200.80, and knowing thst hla com
panion had bnt a dollar or two, hahuded him
a (10 bill.
“I won’t taka U from you oxoept as a loan,”
utd Davison,
“That’s all right” said Millar. “I shall write
yon, ud whenover yon can spare It you may
Mud it along.’’
“Bnt yon don’t know me; wa have been
together only a few daya.”
“lean tell a square mu on eight Pat this In
yoor wallet”
While Miller wu rolling np hie money, Da
vison get np ud passed behind him. All of a
sudden Miller leet coneclousncss.
In the summer of I860 the writer wu on* of
tbe Inhabitants of a mining camp on the Purge-
toiy river, In southern Colorado. One day a
Under foot reached enr camp. H* wu a vert-
tai lo scarecrow In general appearuoo. He
hadn't a shilling la money nor an ounce of
outfit and when we] oame to qudatlon him It
was discovered that ho wu only “half hiked.’
He gave his name u Joe. bnt had nothing elu
to tell. When uked what hla other nuns was,
where he came from, how he reached us, etc.,
he looked from lace to face In a vacant way
and shook his bead. We were not the kind of
men to tom n chap Ilk* that loose to bescalped
by the Indians or to perish of starvation. Wo
made him wuh ap. pat on garments wo con-
minted,and after ho got a square meal lie
looked and acted like a different man.
One of my two Icntmatcs was anoldsur-
S con from Ohio, and,an wehadroomy quarters,
e suggested that wo take Joo in. Tno >ug-
gotiou was adopted, and ha wu Instilled u
and laundry nun. Ho wu a Tory willing
whan he wu, whst had occurred, and why
Davison wu not there. Thu we all knew
that onr Joe had get hla right mind back.. It
was a week before wo queetioned him. Then
we learned all I told yon at the ontaet Tha
lut thing he remembered wu coanting that
money in Chicago. For two years he had been
like a man in his sleep, When the camp got
held of all thn particulars everybody wu Hitl
er’s friend, and particularly so u the real thief
wu finally discovered and punished. Hiller
remained with ns nntll spring and thon he set
ont for the mines on the Upper Arkansas
srith some of onr boy*. In a camp not twuty
miic-'frcm Uf| h* uw ud Identified Davison,
who had beu than fora year. Tbe miners
wonld have lynched the fellow, bnt he cat
Uy, an
1 In n l _ _
away, where the Indiana had tumbled it after
securing his scalp.
sue oLDiutr HGOtrr.
One Who Was on the . Frontier for Fifty
Years—Jim linker'll Ilemlotaeonooe.
From the Denrer.Trltmne Republican.
“There lajaat one man living now that I
remember M being here when I first came into
thin country,” said old Jim Baker lut evening;
“that Is old Horrel, a Frenchman, who lives with
ths Indlua down on ths Wind Blvar. Ha Is
abontmytgn, Yon soo I esmo here whon I wu
vary yonng. I’d bn a yonng nun new if it
wun't for tbe fact that I wu Mowed all toplteea
by the bursting of a gun at a Uto camp about
twenty-five miles np Chorry Creek In 1881.
And then I’ve lately had both shoulders free-
tnred trying to drive tome of my bronchos to
sx r
■ Bnt I'm getting better nil tha time,
think I ought to bo a hnndred years old.
I’va been hero eo long. I didn’t Ilka to go to
school beck In Illinois when I wu a boy, so I
ran away and went over to 8t Louie and loin-
ed Drlpps’s party In tha employ of the Ameri
can fur compuy. I enlisted for eighteen
months. Wo were not enlisted as soldiers are,
to so Into battle regardless, bnt wo agreed to
defend the company's property, and fight In
diana if neceaury, looking ont for nnmber ono
first.
“There were sbont eighty men In onr party
ud w* began hunting and trapping beaver
over In the Teton bulo. This wu in W, and
tU this country wu Mexican territory then.
I served my Urns out and went back to Illi
nois, ud came ont again In '71 ai a “skin
trapper” fop Frappo ud Bridger. My outfit
wu token care or—horses, traps, etc.—and I
was paid SO apiece for beaver skins. They
were worth ahont $5 a pound. It was ad—d
poor man then that couldn't make $:!0aday
on an averngr, IVhnS did svu do with tho
raonej? Well, we got rid of It, yon hot Al
cohol was $32 a gallon, hut wo pnt In a gallon of
water and brought tho price down to $1(1.
Every thiog at tho rendezvous—that was what
the headquarters wero called -was sold by the
pint, l'owder was $3 a pint, coffee $l.hO, sugar
tiro sumo prico, and so on. But a man's grub
> price, a
bar d, an-i wlim l.is work at Dio hpuso -tu then was in bis ammunition supply. Wlmn I
ijn;shed hn itoed ready to liolp'us at tho mlno. ------- - -
-Vo far c.i spocch wcril we get n-j inoro nut of
him after a month than on llio that day. He
exiled eviry rural supper. Ho •sllo.l every
urticlo of wash a shirt. Every day In tho wook
"hire Jot, fetch a pall of water,” and ha would
take the pall and hurry awny. I.ut if I said,
•■now, Joe, what etato do you Ii ill from?" lio
would stand and atnre at me with opon month.
Tim miners played many a Joke on him, and
•cine ot tlem wero pretty rough once, but no
one ever saw him ever get mad. When we
found that he would not answer qi
to him verbally, we tried him in v
for Instance, wo wrote ths query,
you lire?” he weald tako tho pencil, as if
ahont to reply, hut before bo conld makn n
mark th* Idea wonld slip away from him, ud
he would sadly shake his bead ud tans away.
One day, when bo had been with ns about six
wriks, I entered tho trot ud saw tho turgoon
cut ting Joe's hair, which waa very loagud
unkempt.
“8ay, I am right ahont thl* fellow," an
nounced the surgeon.
“How?”
• Why, I’ve bad tn Idea for a month put
that be itet bb memory through som* Injury
to hb brad. Here’s tno trouble. Ho hu re-
calved n blew right hers, and a portion of th*
shall Is pressing an the brsln. 11) warrant
be was ss quick-witted u anybody before tbb
hurt.”
* How lopg ago wu It Inflicted?"
“A year or more. An operation hy is skillful
eroeen wonld restore him to hb right mind.”
While tha might hero, the chances for It
wt re extremely dubious. We were ehsriteblO
» Tar u our means would allow, hat wo were
I poor. When Jo* bad been with ns ahont
two months* miner one nlght wu robbed of
hla little heard: then a second was robbed of
hie provisions; a third had hb revolver ejoleej
and men cams to ne ud declared their ’
that
net!
wl.ilo ho did not leave th* cabinanotkorthefl
was committed. For a month we were oom<
n nprat by the myetarionadolngs aronnd
i two occasions eome ono prowling
around at nlsbt wu fired on. bnt hegetufely
a* ay. In spit* ot *11 wo conld uy thotui.
pl> mu kept growing that our Jo* was the guilty
petty. We let man Into th* cabin to see that
he -i d not leave his had, bat it >0 happened
tbet on thou particular nights ns deviltry
wss committed. It was suggested thst b* bn
driven eat of the,camp, and when WP refilled
to countenance any each step two-th|rds of
the camp held aloof from us,ud reports wars
circulated to our detriment
Onemornlng a miner, who wu supposed to ha
the richest mu In the camp,wu found welter-
ing in his Hood. He had discovered a mu In hb
tent the night before and bod boldly clutched
lllui. In the Straggle ho had boon ttabbed In
three places sndttas Mvcrcly though not mor-
— '* jud.lodnsa
tally nonnded. The surgeon evaj ca|1„ —
his bur to, and In hb presence and thatof a dozen
others tha wounded man declared that he had
recognised bli would bo uu-niii u onr Joe. All
of us had slepteoandly that night and while w*
believed In Jce'e Ipuoccnco, waconldnet b*pos
itive that he bod not left tbe cabin. Thomlncrs
kuorkedoffwork ud weot growling around,
ud about 10 o’clock In Ihe forenoon a rash wss
made for our cabin. They had determined
tu hang Jot. The throe of ns getont onrre-
Tuiveistodcfend him, and thougrymob wte
held at hay on thaelopo forefew minutes. We
had placed Joo inside, aad had noticed that h*
did not team a bit alarmed. While wa were
held ing tha mob and pulay! eg. Joe climbed out
of a window on the other aldo ud was rnnnlng
easy whan they caught tightefhim. 8nr.hu.
Iron iretned cenclneivc ofhta guilt, and pursuit
nee Instantly mode and a hot fire opened. Joe
ran straight for a cliff about 30 feet high,ud
sake reached the brink he threw up hb trail
end went over. We picked him up off the rocks
btbwttemlngly dead, and the revenge of the
crowd wu satisfied. An hour later, when the
snrgeow announced that Jea still lived, there
wu seme growling, bnt no on* interfered with
oa M we boro the bruised and broken body to
onr cabin. It seemed to me that ht wit com-
iletely smashed, although he had no Urge
(Jn'thetblrd day after ths accident Jos open
ed bb ajci and w* saw that b* wa* eonsdona.
Twenty-four hours later ho asked the itufooa
started ont, no matter whether for threo days
or threo months, i never took any grub along,
1 abet and trapped alii wanted to cat. Why,
I’ve come near starving coveral times since tho
gsiuo tan out. WolJ, as I was saying, tho boys
would gel rid of their money, drinking ami
gambling, and then I’ve known somo of them
to pay as high as ffoO for a squaw.
“Shortly after 1 canio out hero the second
time wo were camped on tho vory crook where
I live new—8nako Kivcrwo callod it thon—
ud thero welrad a lively fight with a party of
about 800 Slonr. Ubeyonncs nml Arapahoe*.
Tho Arapxhoes didn't do much fighting, Imt
they urged the ethers on. Thera wore twenty,
thro* In onr party,and I can glvo rive you thn
names of every one of them. Old nappe wt*
In command. The Indiana mado shout forty
coming r
Atd so some of ns kept loaded all tho time.
We mode breastworks of onr horses and hid
behind stumps. Old Frappo wu killed, ud ho
was the ugliest looking dead man I ever saw,
and I bars sou a good many. His face wu all
covered with blood, ud he had rotton front
teeth and a horrible grin. When ho wu killed
bo never fell, bnt sat breed up against the
stump, a.right to bsbeld. Wall, when the fight
waa over there were about one hundred dead
IhIubs. - There were throe of our party
killed.”
Baker Is on* of the most modest men in ths
world, constufly holding hlnuelf In tho back-
gnund. Itbssldthathewssooeoftbsgrit-
lest of the defandenof tha camp In tbe aliore
battle, and played no small eart In tho success
of thoday. lie admitted killing four redskins
thst he was positive about.
• thero any othar noted mon who par-
greeifl
After the reporter hod mode profuse apologia*
the aid man waa ladnced to continue. "Wall,
after that I wont off down to Arisons. There
wss lotsof beavers In Arinas in them days. For
the firat fifteen or twenty yours I was ont hern
I ntver stayed more than a week or so In is
pbce. I never settled down nntltso when I
wut to forming ever hero on Clear creek. I
knewasmnehabontfsrmlng as thederitjdeew
shout rnnnlng usawmill. I opened spaced
bukud brought in the first eoal that wu ever
teamed into lienver. It sold then for from $ IS
to $20 n ton. In ’881 was ehelf scut with old
General Harney In the first wu tha United.
BtetCf troops had with th* Blonx Indiana. In
*731 wut np on Snake River where I live
sow. My ebonldcre ue a little ont of shape
ao that I can’t hold a gnn to my shoulders, but
I’ve gets greyhound that Ita pretty good
hunter. Ha will go ont and ran an antelope
down every time I give him tha word.
The old mountaineer la tteppln.
friend, D. C. Oika, Curtis street, for whom ho
ng with hla
MHP pipft ‘or whom ho
acted ai* Indhur interpreter when Mr.Ojkes wu
Ute Indian Agent.
The old man hu participated Inlndlanac rim-
mages innumerable, hut waa never seriously
ra»g<«
WlaMBPP
fund to. He got
r, .,<!> t.1 die tUeu, and wav
proceeding to make hla will, when eemo of hia
friends cheered him up witli tiro remark that ho
ihcnlden’t give up.
’ “Doyen think I’d better live?" heukod.
“Why, certainly,” wu tho reply. “You era
rr.cd fur ft loot time yet." •
"Well, then, by—I’ll live," eald tho eld
frontlcnman.ud he dld.thoogh he still huo
dt furmed J\vr, somewhat hidden by hie stubby
*'t^c eld man ia n type of the frontoiramtnjof
tho Leatherstocking order, a class often rood
about bet seldom seen in these days-honest and
ttedett, perfectly unassuming. His parting
admonition wu: “Now, don’t go and write mo
np u one of tho greatest man In the conntry for
I ain’t. DontmaJc* ad—dfoolof me,fori won’t
stand it. I've never bad uy Snndaja or holi
days. When I’ve feit like doing anything, I’va
don* It, regardless of days. Now I am resting
Ud taking It easy.
The eld mu will remain In the city for
ae viral days.
no Deceives No One.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A dodging politician, like a man who dye*
his mustache, dwfitres no one but Msuem ~
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