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Highest of all in Leaveniflg Power.—TCatest U. S. Gov’t Report
LIEUTENANT PEARY'S HOUSE.
Powder
absolutely pure
\
Camden, N. J., Jane 24.—The house
in which Liatenant Peary and his party
will make their winter quarters ha* been
in course of construction on the river
front just below Kaighn'ePoint for sev
eral months. It is now almost com
pleted, and will be taken apart and
stowed on the Falcon’ after she leaves
Philadelphia. It will be used on the
east side of Inglefield gulf, Greenland.
Particular attention has been given
RailroadCoiuniission of Georgia.
CIRCULAR No 227.
fcrif tf Ounce & Western Railroad Co.
From and alter the First day of July, ISM, the
Oeo. ee ft Western Railroad Company will be
allowed to charge, as maximum rate*. for the
A Wood** Leg end a Dog.
A wooden leg and a dog nearly changed
the course of European history. In 1885,
just prior to the war between Prussia
and Denmark, Bismarck waa staying at
Biarritz. One morning, accompanied
by a huge dog, he was walking along a
road which runs along a cliff, protected
by a low wall, when he met an ©Id
French naval captain with a wooden
leg, but powerfully built, and of a quick
temper. The dog became unduly atten
tive to the captain's leg, and the French
man struck at the animal with the butt
of his fishing rod. Bismarck used a
rorgid German oath, and the sailor fol
lowed with nautical emphasis. From
• 'words the two came to blows, and in a
few minutes Bismarck found that, strong
as he was, the Frenchman was lifting
Mm bodily upon the top of the sea walL
Another moment and he would have
been ha the sea below,-and the whole
course of history would have been
changed. At the critical moment came
help—by the irony of fate—in the shape
of an equerry of Napoleon, who rescued
the German from his terrible opponent.
If that equerry could only have known
for what he bad saved bixpt—San Fran
cisco Argonaut. >
GENERAL NEWS.
The Washington correspondents all
say that Hr. T B. Gibson is sure of a
good appointment.
A gen alas in Bawklnsvillois manu
facturing bicycles oat of wsgon wheels
with hickory spokes.
It is rumored in Brunswick that a
to protection from the cold. The dwell- I tra sportatt not isase. gcraa-.d freltht,asfol-
ing affords room for the 12 men who
are to comprise the party. It will be | raweng r-Tlsrs B.-(« Cents per Wle )
181 feet from the gronnd to the top of I Freight -On Cl sacs E, H
the glass dome, 35 feet long and 16 feet „ d W^ndsr?T«ii“^ h so
wide. To keep off the Arctio blasts I p .reset, added
A TEXAS NO
Lieutenant Peary has decided to con
struct a stone wall 5 feet high and 2
feet thick around the honse.
Corrugated iron plates and hot bed j
sashes will ho placed alternately from
the top of the wall to the roof of the
honse all the way round, thns forming j
acorridor and compelling those desiring
hi 1 will be filed to er join the city 'r© n I to leave or enter to pass through thres I A. c *
On Claves G.L.JI.N sad R, Commissioners'
Staadird Ts iff, with 0 per oant added.
On Classes C.D, F, J and P, Commissioners*
Stands’d Tariff. .
On Ro.ln, CUas K. less SO per 'eat.
Br order of he B ard:
I. N TRAMMELL,
Chatman.
selling her sewer bonds.
A great majority of the people of At
lanta an opposed to the increase of the
street tsx faom $1 to $3.
The trial of Miss Jolla Voroe has been
set for Monday in the Fulton county
criminal superior court.
Dallas, a email town on the Bast Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia road, suf
fered from a eyolone yesterday. Several
houses wen badly wrecked bat no lives
lost.
An anusasl state of affairs is likely to
exist in the pension department for fls-
oal the year ending Juno 30. " Instead
of the ngnlar deficiency in the appro
priation then will he $1,000,000 sur
plus.
The First National bank of Birming
ham, Ala., had a small sizsd ran on hand
yesterday, After $30,000 had been
doors—the inner door to the honse. the
outer door and the gate in the stone
wall. The honse may be entered at
either end in thifi manner. Tar paper
between the floors, an electric light
E lant and photographic apparatus will
e among the featuresof the equipment. '
Secetary.
THE BASE BALL RECORD.
Standing of the Teams.
Clubs.
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Praise For New lofk,
I arrived in New York this morning
about 10 o’clock. When I got to Broad
way, I heard the bang of the gongs on ^ j
the new cable cars. By gum, I thought | ou t7and many times that amount
being depoated, the run collapsed.
Bandits atempted to holdups Mis-
I was In a live western town. It remind
ed me of old St. Louis and Kansas City.
Tm glad to see that New York Is catch
ing np with the march of civilization.—
Cor. New York Advertiser.
Proof. / '
“Annabel,” he said in tones of min
gled sorrow and severity, “yon forgot
to write to me while I was away.
“No, no,” she protested, “I did not. I
can prove it. I have the letter on my
table now. 1—I forgot to mail it.”—
Harper’s Bazar.
Fortunate.
Forrester—My wife isn’t satisfied un
less die has my last cent
Lancaster—Well, yon ore fortunate.
Mine isn’t satisfied then.—Truth.
BUCKLKNT1AKNIU SALVE.
The Best salve in the world for Guts,
Bruises. Sores-Ulcars. Balt Rheum, Fever
Bores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posit
ively cores Piles, or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or
v aey refunded. Price 35 cents per box.
aoi rale by John Crawford * Co. and
PSl A Ktn-uriuww .
souri, Kansas and Texas pusenger yes
terday morning near Stringtown Tex.
The train did not stop and the robbers
fir. d at the engine, crew, but hit none
of them. The plunder would have been
great, as the train was a rich one.
The State’s money will be counted
this week by a legislative, committe. It
generaly takes about ten days to go
tbrongh the books. The
composed of Senators Corput and Per
sona and Representatives Render ot
Meriwether, Stapleton.of Snmttrand
Thomason of Morgan.
Jack O’Byrne had a narrow escape
from death at Augusta Saturday night
A ball from a pistolgdiacharged by Lie
THE FOREIGNER’S FUNERAL.
Lowenthal grazed his forehead. The I poisoning, either intentionally or acci-1
shot Was fired by Lowenthal it is as-1 dentally, placed in the family dinner,
sorted, with the intention of hitting I John McKibben died at St. Lake’s, hos
ier rv Rnmo h.A I pital. Two daughters, Mrs. Charles
Mr. O Byrne. There had been a quar- | tewartt age<1 28, and Mrs. J. C. Rig
rel and inoipient row between the men **** 25 years, are seriously ill 1
daring the afternoon. When they met I fact that a younger daughter had en-
at night on the Campell street bridge deavored to purchase arsenic at a noigh-
nmrtiwihini boring drug store has caused the coro-
over the third level of the oanal the ner investigate the matter. I
quarrel was resumed. 1 "
Blah Mass Was Celebrated Over the Re
mains of the Brasilian.
New Yobia Jane 24.—Funeral i
vices over the remains of the late Mar
shal Simo de Olivers, president of the
Brazilian commission to the Columbian
exposition, were held at the Hotel Sa
voy. Only the family and immediate
friends of, the deceased were present
After the services at the hotel the Bra
zilian government, tbrongh its legation,
represented by Hon. Salvador de Me*
concia, cetebrated high requiem mass
at St. Patrick’s cathedral Secretary
of State Gresham tendered a military
escort from the hotel to the cathedral,
which offer was accepted. The body
was taken on board a French steamer to
remain until it is conveyed via France
to Brazil, where the interment will
take place.
Yka Princess Keeognlsea Merit.
Washington, Jane 24.—Princess Eu
lalia has presented hm Mr.' Robert A.
. Parke, passenger agent of the Pennsyl
vania, with enthusiastic commendations
on the service of the company, a beau
tiful and costly dagger, highly orna
mented and inlaid with jewels. Mr.
Mr. Parke represented the company,
and had personal charge of the train in
which the princess traveled while in
this country, all details of the trip hav-
. ing been delegated to him by the secre
tary of state.
•- A Naw Southern State.
Milan, Tenn., Jane 24.—It is said
that petitions are being secretly circu
lated and a well developed movement
set on .foot to have a new state formed
ont of west Tennessee, west Kentucky,
•oath Illinois, southeast Missouri, ease
Arkansas and north Mississippi. The
scheme is to have Jackson, Tenn., the
capital There is talk of bringing the
natter before the next congress.
- -. Verdict Azftlnut tlia Central.
MaOON. June 24.—The jury in the
case of Mrs. B. M. Brantley vs. the Cen
tral railroad, rendered a verdict for
$8,000 for the death of herhusband who
was yard conductor of the Central rail
road at Macon, and was killed .by break
ing his neck against a plank in jumping
from a track to avoid being crushed to
death by an engine.
The Band Slav Come.’
Paris, June 24.—The decision of the
military authorities against allowing
tho band of the Garde RepnUique to go
to Chicago may be reconsidered. Gen.
Loizillon, secretary of war, now has the
•qbieot ujider advertisement and is
likely to approve of the proposed trip.
Charleston
Memphis 5\
Savannah 53
Atlanta 53
Montgomery 54
Birmingham 54
Macou 54
Chattanooga 54
New Orleans 53
Mobile 53
Nashville 54
Friday’s Games.
At Atlanta—Birmingham, 3; Atlan
ta, 1.
At Savannah — Savannah, 9; Mo
bile, 8.
At Charleston—Charleston, 7; Mont
gomery, 0,
At Macon—Macon, 21; Memphis, 0.
At Augusta—Augusta, 21, New Or
leans, 3.
County seatof Oconee conn
ty, on the Macon & Northern
Railroad j fine Schools and
Churches, and pure cool wa
ter. . The cheapest place to
live in Northeast Gemria.
For Sale.
An Eccentric Man’s Will.
New Haven, June 24.—One of
ths strangest gifts ever madeTo Yale
college is that of Minot Boothe, of Mon-
ree. Conn., an eccen.rio farmer who
died recently. He owned several valua
ble granite quarries. These he left by
will to Yale in order, as the will reads,
“that the professors of the university
committee is I may have full and ample opportunities
“ ~ 1 to collect geological specimens
and study geological formation of
the rocks of Connecticut.” The will
has been admitted to probate and the
Yale corporation has accepted the pe
culiar donation.
The following described pro
perty in the above named
place.
6 acre lot on Hutcheson ave., loca
| ted thereon nice 6-room dwelling,
servant’s House, stables and _ crib
Also 4 two-room tenant houses. All
for $1600 00.
2 stores, 70 x 200. $500 00.
3 room tenant house and lot, 3-4 of
an acre, adjoining colored Baptist
Church. Price $250 00.
St.
A Young Girl Suineeted.
Louis, June 24.—As a result of J
APPLY TO
IB & JOD,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
No Ul, Broad Street
This I* Ke nnmy.
EXAMINATION. I Washington, 'June 24.—Paymaster
All applicants desiring to be ex-1 General Stewart has completed the
JSI statement of the expenditures of the
public schools of Clarke county, Will | nava ; review. The total expense of the
review was $76,800, and the appropria-
meet the undersigned at the* court I
boose at 8 o’clock a. m., on Jane 24th.
H R. Bernard, C S. C.
LIZZIES LETTERS.
tion was $350,000, leaving a balance of
$273,000, of which $250,000 will be cov
ered into the treasury on June 80,. leav
DEAFNESS CANNOT SECURED
By local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way to cure Deafness
and that is by constitutional remedies
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con
dition of the mnoous’ lining of the
Enstacblan Tube. When tbis tube gets
inflamed you have a rambling sound
or imperfect hearing, and when it is
Mies Borden Needs a Secretary-Her
Ma'I Prodiglodlgous.
Fall River, Mass., Jane 23.—L’zzie
Borden’s dally mail is something ex-
traorainary. At least two
letters were taken in her home tills
morning by the lone man who resides in
the honse, and he makes fre qnent visits
to the postofflee during the day. ’A
Christian Endeavor and Woman’s Chris
tian Tempeanance Union societies
throughout the county, nearly all of the
large cities being represstrd. The girl*
have not stirred out since their arival
home, bat are kept busy receiving cal
lers.
folii
to meet any contingent expenses which
may be reported later.
Three Prisoners Burred in the Jail,
Duluth, Minn., June 24 —It is ru
mored that three men were put in the
hundred 1 j a ii a t Virginia on-the evening before 1 faces.
“ ‘ the fire. They were never released ”*
from jail, and theiu- charred remains
were found among the rains of the
jail.
and nnlefs the inflamation can be taken
out and tbis tube restored to its normal
condition, -bearing will be destroyed
forever; nine cases ont of ten are cans*
ed by o&tarrb, which is nothing bnt an
ioflamed condition of the mnoons sur-
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
(cr any case of Deafness (caused by
catarrl) that cannot be cured by Hall’s
Catarrn Core. Send for circulars, free.
F. J. CHENEY A CO.,
Toledo, Ohio.
aySold by Druggists, 75c.
The following item, dipped from the
Ft. Madison (Iowa)Democrat, contains
information well worth remembering:
“Hf - John Both, of this city, who met
with an accident a few days ago, sprain
ing and braising his leg and arm quite
severely, was pared by one 50 oent bot
tle of Chamberlain’s Pain Balm.”
Naval Stores.
WiLUiNOTON. June *31—Turpentine steadr
atm; rosin firm, strained 8: good strained
80: tar steady at 9U crude turpentine
steady, hard, 61.00; yellow dip, $1.00; virgin,
$1.50.
Sj.van»ab. Jnne' 4 -Turpentiney quiet at
' • "ned $!,’0. r
984: rosin Arm: good strains
Produce and Provisions,
Knr York. Jnne 24 Foi lt is qnlet but
steady, n es*. new. t' 0. ? OUST'D 0>: mri, Sl»o .
Id dies quiet but t'rm: s-liort clear, $0.6714.
Lard firm but ouief wrotern steam. 19.' it
$10.00; city stejun —: options,. nne, 9 93; July,
10.on; September. 10.85 v -
Cincinnati. Jnne 4 —Pork In light de-
This remedy is without an Pn nnl fnr I rnand nt 9 9.50. Lard firm at $0. 94. Bulk
H0RSES,
Mules,
Horses
S lace in every household. For sale by I
ohn Crawford & Co.
Chicago.
follows:
$983*9.
Dry emit
easy:
line 24.--Cash onotations were ns I
Nerve
Tonic
Blood
Builder
i: Mess pork $l9.8'<ft$l9.8T14 Lanl.
i.67U. -Short ribs loose. MS.SIMiiS. 0.
It shoulders, boxed. $ >.75QlQ.Ou; short j
Br. Edward P. Halstead,
Dry salt shoulders, boxed. $>.7
clear sides, boxed, $0.50 .i $ > 75.
PRACTICAL
Chicago Market.
- Chicago, June 24
Wheat-Cash.—; Sept.WJ4 JulyStJi.
« orn—Cash, Sept t’-tfc nly. 4TJ4.
Oats -■ ash—; Sept. nly. <■
Ports—Cash —; Sept, -0.33; July. 10.51,
Ribs—Cash, - -; 8ept, 9.£; July. 8.1*
Lard—Cash, ; Sept., 10.30; May, 9.6;.
mum sun.
FROM HEREFORD, ENGLAND.
ovc. >
per MX.
• far S3.M.
■. WILLIAMS’
MEDICINE CO.,
Schenectady, N.Y,
aodBrOCkrlllCjOaL
Just &a sure as hot weather comes
there will be more or less bowel com
plaint in this vicinity; Every person,
and especially families, ought to have
some reliable medicine at band for in
stant use, in case it is needed. A 25 or
Liverpool Cotton Futures.
LivxRpr OT- - nne :‘4 —Sales T.nOO bales. Tone
quiet and steady. Middlings, 4 7-16.
Jannarr and Fsl’iuary 4330IJ1
February and arch 4'. 431
March and April 4k
April and May
May and Jane......
June and.)nly : —
July and August „.4M<I42B
August and September.......” V’6<«4 £
September and October LSI»4-a>
October ahd November ; 427 **■-)
48 >£498
43JAL3U
■JgEGS to inform the public generally that
he will attend Athens, Ga, and
VP
fa
Oan be found at the Commercial
Hotel or some of the Stables,
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.
November and December.,
rand January
For the Treatment ol
Lame and Sick Horses & Males
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is just
what vou ought to have and all that you
wouldjoecd, even for the most severe
A bargain, California Fears, Peaches, and dangerous cases. It is the best, the
Al rioots ana imported Pine Apples 3 most reliable and moet successful tre&t-
■* cans 25c. I ment known and is pleasant to take.
J. P. Feass & Bovs, l For sale by John Crawford A Co.
New York Cotton Futures.
New Vouk, "nne 24
Tone. firm. Sale?, 87,100 bales. Middlings to.
ami ary o,14-fc 8.31 |
50 cent bottle of Chamberlain’s Colic, I jfarciu* -
7.85» 7.8
7. 1 A 7.*
7.»J '
N. B.—Boney and ether Enlargements
long standing successfully removed.
TERMS MODERATE.
November --
Reference ss to ability, Ac.,
Feq , Attorney si law, Washington, Ga
We were riding along
of the Cpncbo, Lieutenant Ward of
Tenth cavalry, Caswell chief clerk
the poet sutler’s, asd myself. We had
been ont after antelope withou)jniccees
and late in toe afternoon found ourselves
some 20 miles from Fort Concho, men
and mounts tired with a day’s pounding
over the plains. Private Bitkins, whom
the lieutenant had taken along to spread
our noonday lunch and lead the pack
horse, rode at the rear, his big gray fol
lowing with the faithfulness of a troop
horse, while the-pack animal bore no
heavier a burden than a pair of jack rab
bits which Caswell had ignominiously
potted.
A blast of air, so cold that it seemed
almost freeze one’s blood, rushed over
ns jnst as the sun was hidden on the
horizon by the advancing clond. A band
of cattle, 208 or more in compact mass,
plunged madly past, their heads near
the gronnd and their long horns shining
in the glow of the false twilight. Crash,
through the underbrush, splash,.through
the stream, and then wildly on toward
the southward tore the cattle.
Over a swell of the plains came other
herds all running like race horses. An
telope, whose fleet feet and farreaching
vision had been their own protection and
the cause of onr failure all the day,
skimmed the gronnd, their white tails
bobbing with their nimble bounds. To
the southward, always to the southward
fled the creatures of the plains as if in
flight lay safety from the blast, as if
flesh and blood could ontspeed the ice
wind.
She’s coming I” exclaimed the lieuten
ant. Inelegant, perhaps, but save in its
unwarranted designation of a meteoro
logical gender entirely truthful. Turn
ing onr horses sharply to the right and
restraining at the beginning their sym-
toms of a desire to bolt, we rode into
the thickest of the timber and then east
ward at a gallop which lacked little of a
lively run. Colder blew the north wind.
Blast driven drops of rain began to slap
onr cheeks with their stinging picket
warnings that the storm was nearly up
on ns, and we were anxiously looking
for some embankment along the stream
which wonld partially shelter ns under
its lee when BiHrins wantonly broke the
rules and regulations of the servicer by
treating his superior officer in a most
flippant and unmilitary manner. His
big gray bounded by, the packhorae
keeping noble time to giant leaps.
Come on,” yelled Bilkins. There’s a
honse”
He doubtless added something more,
bnt his .words, like the cattle, went to
the southward. We overtook Bilkins in
60 yards and in 50 more ended a wild
race to a miserable shanty which the
sharp eyes of the soldier had seen.
Before we could dismount half a doz
en men came ont, and the cheery voice
of Captain Hall was heard: “Just in
time, liehtenantl Boys, help the gentle
men with their horses."
Five minutes later the animals were'
safe .in a corral near the shanty, from
which they could not escape during the
storm, and we were in the honse, where
Captain Hall and a detail of state rangers
had taken ref age. A fire was soon roar
ing in the old fireplace, for the fierce
wind without caused a magnificent draft
Darkness and the storm. Men rolled,
in saddle blankets and sleeping on the
dirt floor. The dreary drip of drops
which came through the leaking roof.
And the roar added to the blast, and the
gronnd trembles as a herd of bellowing
cattle thunders past.
What a night and what a storm!”
said Captain HalL “I pity any cowboy
who is caught ont tonight No man
could live through such a norther un
less he was muffled like an Eskimo.”
We didn’t know it then, bnt later we
learned that all alone a woman was rid
ing tlurongh the night, while we hnddlei
in the shanty. The bitter wind, rain
which froze where it fell, even death in
the darkness, were defied by a love which
j>are a woman to warn as worthless a
scoundrel as lived in Texas.
A long time Captain Hall gazed at the
fire, his big eyes looking biggor in the
blaze. Very innocent eyes were his,
mild and liquid tike a maiden’s. This
leader of the rangers, captain of a dar
ing band of reckless riders whose mis
sion was the capture of desperate out
laws, bad the face of a poet and the eyes
of a schoolgirL At length he said, un
consciously using the local vernacular:
“Yon all better see this thing out We
are after a man who is wanted for some
score of crimes, big and tittle.. Life*at
Fort Concho must be rather dreary.
Get np, guard, mount, drill the sunset
gun, taps, go to bed. Isn’t that about
the routine? Cpme with us in the morn
ing and see ns catch Jack Brown. He’s
at a ranch some four miles from Johnson
stuti*"* and about eight miles from here.
Well surround thg ranchhonse as soon
as it’s light, and if there’s any shooting
you can watch it from the timber. Then
we’ll all go back to the fort together.
Well have breakfast at the ranch, and
thft will he worth staying over for. Bee
ns capture Brown and get your break
fast”
“You forget I am a soldier,” replied
Lien tenant Ward, somewhat nettled,
“and wonld hardly hide behind a tree"
while a dozen men captured a single out
law."
“Pshaw,” said Captain Hall “It isn’t
in the line of your duty to expose' your
self to the ballets of any cattle thief the
rangers may arrest. I don’t suppose
there will bo any resistance, bnt I never
could forgive myself if any of yon gen
tlemen came to harm. I reckon I was
thinking as much of your breakfast as
of onr own mission. It’s a long ride to
the fort on an empty stomach.”
I remembered this Jack Brown as a
long haired, ignorant product of tho
mesquite; a drunken loafer, a cheap
gambler and a swaggering bully, hut
really dangerous; a man who was ready
to shoot on small provocation and proud
pf his repntation as a second class des
perado. While Captain Hall was talk
ing I had a vision of a swarthy, black
haired map dressed like ft cowboy, who Stories.
Wows,
kr A
offered
I
but ere I
the dance *
hall. Five minnii-s uru-rward the girl
was paying for his liquor at the bar, and
I was congratulating myself that I bad
escaped from perpetrating one of the
most foolish acts of my lifo.
The girl was known ns “Press,” a half
caste Mexican creature, who gave Brown
the larger share of her earnings, bore his
blows with meekness find wonld have
driven a stiletto into the man who con
quered him in an encounter. But Hall
was saying:
We learned at San Angelo yesterday
that Brown was at tlio cattle ranch.
Sergeant Watson got quite thick with
the girl Press, hut she knew nothing
about Brown or protended ignorance.
We intended to reach tho ranch at sun
set, bnt the norther stopped ns.
“That girl Press is devoted to Brown
and would raise money some way to
bribe a Mexican to warn him, bnt money
wonld not hire a Mexican, or any other
man, to face this norther, so there is no
danger that he will be on guard. He
cannot escape unless he was caught ont
on the range in the storm and is now at
some other ranch.”
There was only a faint glow In the
east when we mounted onr horses next
morning. The norther had spent its fury,
and toe promise of a pleasant day was
borne on the soft winds of the south.
Only a faint tremor, a lingering chill in
toe early air, as if the trees and grass
were shaking off the oddness of the
night. A sharp ride to the westward,
and jnst as the scarlet banners of the
son was seen in the horizon we drew
rein in toe Wood some hundred yards
from toe honse where Jack Brown was
supposed to be hiding. The ranehhotue
was a wretched thing constructed of up
right poles, the erodes being filled with
mud. At toe rear a shed with aaloping
roof. The honse had been built within
a few feet of toe stream where the bonk
was some 12 feet high. A door in the
front room opened to the southward;
one in the shed to the north.
Like Indians surrounding toe cabin of
toe settler, the rangers stationed them
selves in toe form of a horseshoe around
the honse, toe “points,” or “heels”' of the
shoe resting on toe bank of the stream
when toe rear door could be commanded
by a cross fire. I confess I felt, as I
watched these preparations, very much
as I imagine a robber most feel while he
reconnoitero a dwelling when intent
upon some nnlawfal undertaking. Ev
erything was ready. Captain Hall, Lien-
tenant Ward, Caswell and four rangers
rode to toe front of toe house and
stopped some hundred feet from toe
door. Then, foj the first time, we saw
a horse tied to a post near the doorway.
Steam was rising from its sides; low
drooping head and hollow flanks showed
that toe brute had been ridden long and
hard.
“One of toe men has just got home,”
whispered Captain Hall as he dismount
ed. Accompanied by three of the ran
gers, while the fourth held toe horses, he
walked to the door.
“Hello!” was the response to his knock.
A short parley, a demand for admittance,
a profane reply and then toe nharp re
port of a rifle. One of toe rangers turned
his back toward the house, took one step
and fell heavily on his face. Crash! A
dozen winchesters sent a dozen ballets
into toe honse. Some struck the poles,
but a few found their way through the
mud mended cracks. No order to seek
shelter of a tree was needed now. In
two minutes Lieutenant Ward and Cas
well had added their rifles to toe fire,
and after it was all over I found that toe
magazine of my own winchester was
empty.
The passion of a man hunt conquers, as
it always will until in toe evolution of
time toe intoxication of battle is out-
bred from human nature. I don’t know
bow long we fired or how long the
answering shots came from toe shanty,
bnt suddenly toe door waa flung inward,
and a man stepped boldly ont
An instant toe rifles cooled. I saw
Jack Brown’s gaudy sombrero, its,wide
rim and massive crown glistening with
silver ornaments. Black hair hanging
to the shoulders, toe leather “chaps” of
a cowboy, and then—straight outward
shot two army, gleaming black eyos
sighted two heavy colts, and at their
report a ranger dropped his rifle because
a bullet had shattered an arm. Thcu a
volley.
The broad hat slipped downward over
the black eyes, straight up in the air
two pistols sent their harmless lead and
to the ground in a heap sank the body.
The rangers on guard at toe rear ran 9
toward toe front when their ears told
them the outlaw had braved his fate.
We gathereclaround toe fallen ipan, all
honoring in our hearts toe hopeless dar- •
ing of his death, and Captain Hall lifted
the sombrero from his face.
“The devill” he yelled. “Bun to the
rear, boys!” . . •
Too late! Idle to beat the bush. Use
less a hasty hunt through the timber.
Long afterward we knew that from the
limb of an oak, around which a wild
grapevine had woven its dense foliage,
Jack Brown saw a sight which would
have redeemed a being worth, in the
broad economy of eternal time, toe trou
ble of redemption.
Love had faced that awful storm.
Love had done its best to bring a warn
ing. Love laid down its life that a mis
erable and worso than worthless man
might spring ont of a door, plunge over
an embankment and hide in a tree.
As tenderly as if her life had been all
purity and her soul all untouched by
sin we bore her body to the fort, and the
next day, decently dressed in the gar
ments of her sex, the body of Press was
consigned to an unmarked grave on a
barren hill not many yards from the s;>ot
where Brown used to beat her.
And no larger funeral had been seen
on the frontier,—C. W, Hunter in Short