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>f?P. - * ' . WHERE TEXAS Rflf GOT \ HARDY FRONTIERSMEN SAVE FRIEND AND HIS FAMILY. Were Besiegred by Apaches---I Warlike Tribes Burne JN a grove near the Rio Grande River, thirty-five years ago, was camped a body of fifty men in the loose uniform of the Texas Rangers, says a writer in the Chicago Record-Herald. The grove was about half a mile in diameter, and nearly circular. The rangers sought rest after a fruitless search for bands of Apaches known to be on both sides of the river. It -was customary for the rangers and the Mexican rurals to help each other when near the border line. The rangers were a stalwart, bronzed and'hardy set of men, of intelligent face and quiet in conversation and manners. They were maintained by the State to suppress internal disorder and repel external invasion; thefy were selected from the better class of citizens who were endowed with civic virtues and governed by patriotic pur4 poses. Long service had given them the mastery of-every kind of warfare with tne aesperaie, mwiess anu piun-os Indian. Their discipline was perfect, either in camp or field. They were equipped in picturesque garb and armed most effectively, as taught by experience. Each man carried a huge bowie knife for close fighting, a carbine for range ? fighting, two six-shooters each and a saber for the charge, and they were more expert in the use of these weapons than any other body of men living. Great care was shown in the choice of their horses, for they were invaluable in service and in fact, made the rangers' work on the vast plains of Texas possible. Speed, endurance and - courage, with intelligence, were * the qualities of the steed, which under kind training, made the soldier and horse a modern Centaur and irresistible against the wild tribes of the West. Each man held twelve lives in his holsters, one in his carbine, and all jvho came within the deadly lunge of the . knife or sweep of the saber perished. So prepared and arrayed' for stirring * adventures and ruthless war, the. ranger went forth as the knight errant of a boundless domain to protect and defend life, liberty and property dependent upon his chivalric mission, against legions of the cruelest foes that ever cursed any portion of the human race. i SLAYING WOMEN AND CHILDREN Around the grove from the river to the staked plains on the north -was a level prairie extending far and wide Into Texas and Mexico, the abiding place of many primitive homes and more pretentious and wealthy ranches. A great horde?of Apaches in their annual August foray were slaying, burnings and driving away women, young ? girls and boys, while infants and children too feeble for flight to the mountain villages of the invaders were at once slain without mercy. This hellish work was going on In old Mexico some mile? west of the river. There was ' s much less hard fighting and more plunder here than in Texan territory. And thus the red fiends reveled to surfeit in their saturnalia of crime, with none to oppose but the helpless victims. The rurales were in hiding or hunting for the rangers to help them. At midnight, after the second day of encampment, a vaquero was brought in by i guard to Major Wiard, the officer in command. He told a most distressful tale of attack upon the ranch of Don Morales Eleardo, his master, a rfeh Mexican of aristocratic | lineage, his family of wife, boy of twelve years and beautiful daughter, the Senorita Dolores. It was vigorously defended by the owners and sixty vaqueros against an overwhelming > . i ? > * WFW YflRK A CITY OF ISLANDS /oa>e of Them Here Dots, Others as Big as Separate Cities. No large city of the world has so many islands within its municipal boundaries as New York, says the Sun. of that city. Some of these islands are v mere dots. Others are large enough > to have almost the dimensions of cities. Governor's Island, with an area of seventy acres, is the property of the Federal Government, and is assessed at $5,600,000 by the city, which is $S0,000 an acre, and, as land values go within New York, that figure is low. i Blackwell island, which covers 124 acres, is valued at $12,000,000. which is at the rate of nearly $97,000 an acre. - Ward's Island is valued at $9,000,000 ..-and Randall's at $5,OOO.OGO-.- North Brother Island is valued at $220,000, Biker's Island at $537,000 and Hart's Island at $350,000. The most important of the islands included within the boundaries of the Greater New York is, of course, Manhattan Island, the value of which is practically incalculable. It is at least ? $5,000,000,000; how much more is conjectural. The Borough of Brooklyn includes Coney I^iand. The whole of the Borough of Richmond is an island, an island valued by the city for tax purposes at about $50,000,000. The area of Staten Island is 36,600 acres, which is al most three times the size of Manhattan. The laborers in the rice fields of Italy Jive on less than seven cents a day. vMestf and fresh, vegetabes they never tee. i > IGERS FAME FOR VALOR THE LIVES OF A MEXICAN * I I ? acident of the Frontier When ;d, Pillaged and Slew. ! body ofc red devils, who had burned the corral and outbuildings, but the stone ranch house and high, thick surrounding walls resisted. The vaqnero, being away with a drove of horses, | had not hurried into the ranch and kept beyond the reach of the redskins ! until the idea struck him to find the rurales. In doing this he blundered into the grove. The romantic feature of this tale of war is involved in the fact that the Major and his brother officers had often visited the home of the don and enjoyed his hospitality. The Mexican dons are noted for their genial and generous freedom in social life to Americans of the fiigher grade. The deadly peril aroused the officers and men to instant action. The trumpet call of boots and saddles brought promptly the squadron into form for advance. They knew not the number of their enemies nor cared for consequences; the only thought and ' -n AVA'A mon cry 01 in III sujjcru uuuu ui uciuiv u\.u : was "To the rescue!" And they sped onward over the dry bed of the river ! across the prairie to the scene of conflict. The light of burning buildings indicated the locality through the darkness ten miles in the distance. In less j than an hour the rangers were within 1 hearing of yells, shouts and wild war cries, and, halting here, they formed for the attack, resting their horses for a spell after the swift ride. The Apaches were all unconscious of I danger and mad with the excitement of battle and its changing fortunes, for the gallant don and his men still held the rugged walls of the ranch house, while the frenzied savages in hundreds raged around and assaulted with horse and foot time after time, but they were , always baffled and driven back in im1 potent fury. Yet numbers must at last prevail, other things being equal. The 'don and his force were fighting with despair in their hearts, while laying a mine of powder to blow everything into the heavens as a final escape from capture, torture and a fate worse than Kloof crunrlarl utuin, w litrii JX 11 UUJ^CI uiuoL ouunuw. the charge of the Teias Rangers. Every living thing along the border, line far and near had heard those ringing and terrible notes of coming battle. It sounded like a voice from the skies to the despairing Mexicans and a warning of direful wrath from their angry gods to the panic-stricken Apaches.' They knew the exterminating power of their awful foe by many a deadly trial. Confused, dazed and scattered in groups, they were struck as by a thunderbolt in that cyclonfc charge that passed over and through them as the besom of destruction, leaving in its wake dead, dying and wounded in heaps and fragments here and there upon the field. Forming anew like lightning, the rangers cut lines of carnage through their helpless foes again and again, until they were tired of the harvest for the grave, and paused, reformed and rested on their horses until the fugitive remnants escaped upon the plains and in the nearest mountain ranges. It was a fearful visitation upon the Apaches and long remembered in joy and peace by" the Mexican people in those-regions exposed to the murderous raids of the mountain tribes. It was a heavenly redemption to Don Morales and his family, for it rescued them from the valley and shadow of death that followed in the footsteps of captivity by the vilest, cruelesVxand most barbarous race of Indians on tbe continent of North America.?J. Hildrup. ? . * VAST SPREAD OF TELEPHONES Increased in United States in Two Years Over l.OOO.OCO. Over a million more telephones were in use in the United States at the beginning of 1905 than two years before, according to a report just issued by the Census Office. In round numbers there were 2,315,000 in the country at the end of 1902 and 3,400,000 at the beginning of 1905. That this country is far ahead of Europe is told by figures showing Europe's entire equipment January 1, 1905, to have been less than 1,500,000, Jess than half the number in ,the United States. There were over 5,000,000.000 'phone calls in 1902, of which nearly 121,000,000 were "long distance." Obio led in the number of messages, although there were more "long-distance" messages over Pennsylvania telephones than in any other State. San Francisco, with a telephone for each nine persons, was the best equipped city. The report speaks of the effect of the telephone in reducing or checking the amount of telegraph business. It says the rates of the two systems for medium distances d6 not differ greatly, and for very long distances they are overwlielminslv in favor of the tele graph, if the message be taken as * unit. But, if the number of words exchanged'be taken into account, as as the time required for getting into communication, the telegraph is at a disadvantage. Norway exported about GS,000.000 pounds of fresh cod and more than half that amount of salt cod last year. Cake-Making Hints. The fruit in solid cakes will sink to the bottom if they are put in a slow oven. 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