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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 ~ INDISTINCT PRINT 5