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|jumorou$ |Jrpartmrnt. Needed Protection. After he had fallen upon his knees and kissed her hand "she said: "Before I answer yes or no there are some things I would like to ask you. Do you ever drink or gamble?" ' "No," he eagerly replied. "I do not know what the taste of liquor is. I have never dehled my lips with tobacco. I have never uttered a profane word In my life. I have never even played eucnre wnere a. pnac ??v stake." She looked at him thoughtfully for a moment, drew a long sigh, and then asked: "Have you ever broken a woman's heart?" "Ah, how can you ask me that?" he almost reproachfully answered. "If I had ever spoken a word of love to another I would not deem myself worthy to touch the hem of your garment. I have never cared for any woman except my mother. I have never given any girl cause to utter a sorrowful sigh. Yours Is the first dear, soft little hand that I have ever held in my own. Never before tenight have I looked into any girl's eyes as I am looking into your deep, soulful eyes. Never"? "Oh. dear," she impatiently Interrupted, drawing her hand away from him. "It's after 8 o'clock, and you shouldn't be so far away from home at this time of night. Wait a minute, please, ana 111 see u i can i get ui; brother Tom to go with you. Your mamma must be terribly worried."? Chicago Record-Herald. Reaustic Game.?The youngsters had been consigned to the nursery, says London Answers, and strict injunctions had been laid upon them to "pay a nice, quiet game." In a few moments, however, sounds as of a thunderstorm, with a dash of boiler factory, issued from the room, and mother rushed up. "Mercy on us, children," she exclaimed. "Whatever are you doing? You must not make such a terrible noise." "But mamma." exclaimed one of the darlings, "we are only playing v theatre." "Theatre?" "Yes. This scene is the storm at sea, and all of us except Tommy are shipwrecked people calling for help." Mamma's attention was then directed to Tommy, who, crouched in a cor"?? "*?? amlt(lr? riolpfnl howls. "And what is Tommy doing?" she asked. "Tommy is the scenery." "The scenery?" "Yes. He is the ocean shrieking in the teeth of the storm." Hjs Ambitiok.?A new vicar was being shown round the parish by his warden. "The natives are a hardy lot, sir." he said, "but you haven't seen Peter Sparks. He's the quaintest character in these parts." This individual turned out to be the sexton, and he was discovered ringing the church bell. "Is not this bell ringing almost too much for you, my friend?" asked the vicar sympathetically, noting the bent figure of the old man. "You must be a great age?" "Yessir, yesslr," mumbled the old fellow. " 'Ow many years I've tolled the bell I can't tell ye, but It's beginning to tell on me. 'Owsoever, I've tolled the bell for five vicars." "Dear me!" ejaculated the clergyman uncomfortably. "And," continued the sexton, "I'll be happy when I've made up the 'alf dozen. I think I'll retire then!"? Glasgow Times. Madk thh Boar Work.?Bill Winters uses his wit to save his strength. During a camping trip in the Maine woods Bill was easily the laziest man In the party. Finally his exasperated comrades told him that if he did not kill something beside time they would pack him off home. The next morning Bill borrowed a rifle and went off up the mountains. Two hours later the men In camp saw Bill running down again as fast as he could come, and close behind him was a bear. The men watched the chase, with loaded rifles reaay. un reacmng camp mu turned and shot the bear. When the men could stop laughing one of them said, Bill, what on earth possessed you to run that distance with the bear so close when you might have killed him on the hill and saved your breath?" Bill smiled slowly. "What's the use of killing a bear in the mountains and lugging him in when you can run him in?" he asked.?Boston Herald. Every Inch a Kino.?The last king of Hanover, before that state was incorporated into the Prussian kingdom, was for many years blind. There was living at the court an English lady, Mrs. Duncan Stewart, who, with her wit and learning, entertained his majesty. The blind king delighted in her conversation, and for many years she would save up every Interesting story she heard so as to tell it to him. It is remembered that one day she was telling him a story as they were out driving together. Suddenly the horses started and the carriage seemed about to upset. "Why do you go on with your story?" said the king. "Because, sir, the carriage is just going to upset." "That Is the coachman's affair," said the king. "Do you go on with your story." All Right in His Cask.?The teacher was giving the school a little lecture on good conduct. "Let me caution you on another point, children," she said. "Avoid criticising. Don't make a practice of finding fault with other people or picking flaws in what they say or do. It Is a very bad habit to form and will make your own life unhappy." "Why, teacher," spoke up a little boy, "that's the way my father makes his livin'." "You surprise me, Georgy. What is your father's occupation?" "He's a proofreader, ma'am." The teacher coughed behind her fan. "Well, Georgy," she said, "I will make an exception In the case of your father." The Judge and the Lawyer.?In an altercation between counsel and the judge the judge, after several attempts at conciliation, remarked, "Well, I have done all I can to promote peace, but the result reminds me very much of the fable of the old man and the ass." The counsel, with visible irritation in his countenance, wished to know which of these entities applied to him. "Neither in particular," was the reply; "but, considering our respective ages, you cannot object to my saying that I am the old man." ittistrlianmis IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. News and Comment Clipped From Neighboring Exchanges. CHESTER Lantern, June 1: Mrs. W. R. Brown left for Bethel neighborhood in York county this morning to spend until Monday with relatives. Mrs. S. D. Russell of Yorkville. who has been with her sister, Mrs. Mary Pearson, j accompanied her to her home j | Mrs. J. C. Jackson, with her two! granddaughters. Misses janie wray and Eliza Thomasson of Yorkvllle, came yesterday to spend several days with her son, Mr. P. A. Jackson A house on Mr. W. Holmes Hardin's place, on the Sandy river road, occupied by Dora Johnson, was burnt Wednesday afternoon. A boy about five years old was burnt to death and a child one year old was burnt but was rescued and Its injury is not thought to be fatal. An older boy was there but must have been asleep when the fire started, as is supposed to have been the case with the one that was burnt to death. Hands were working near by. The fire appeared to have started about the bed Coroner Leckie was called to Landsford yesterday to hold an inquest over the body of Mr. Wm. Reighley, who died suddenly in the field. The evidence showed that two negroes, Dennis Cole and Ed Bailey, had induced Mr. Reighley to take into his mouth some cocaine, which one of them had purchased at Fort Lawn, and the result was death. There was evidence that he had run around a good deal over the field before he entirely succumbed to the drug. It is said that one of the negroes had been administering the drug to persons in Lancaster, apparently for his own amusement, and the same motive may have actuated him in this case. Both of the negroes are in jail Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Darby. Mr. W. F. Strieker, and Miss Nettie Strieker, Mr. John H. McKee and Miss Sadie McKee and Mr. H. W. Hafner went from here on the excursion to Edgemont Wednesday. An extra engine was aitacnea ai ijasiumu uuu nacn fully made up the train was composed of eight coaches and two engines. Mr. Hafner says the country is very rugged and some places where the train was winding around curves the engines were almost opposite some of the coaches and some places looked very dangerous. Mr. Darby was the only one from here that bought a lot. The train left here at six o'clock Wednesday morning and returned at four o'clock yesterday morning Mrs. Nancy Ford of Blackstock, died yesterday in her eighty-eighth year. The Rev. G. G. Mayes conducted the funeral service and the remains were buried at Concord yesterday. Mrs. Ford was a native of Fairfield county. Her maiden name was Craig, and she was the last of a family of eight. She was quite active for her age until about a year ago, when she had a fall, after which she was never able to walk. She - - i u* it? r?A/x nr leaves two auugruers, ?n?. ucu. u. Boyd and Miss Mattie Ford. GASTON. Gastonia Gazette, June 1: It was 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a newspaper man ran up with Mr. Frank Pegram under the blazing sun on York street, and wondered if the heat was causing the troubled expression on his countenance. No; it was not that. He was troubled about something else. "I'm thinking," he said confidingly, "that they'll have to withdraw fellowship in the Commercial club from my friend, Dr. Sloan. I saw him chopping stove wood awhile ago, and down In Fort Mill it was a regulation that no man could belong to the club who chopped his own stove wood." Aunt Polly Stroup, a maiden lady about eighty years of age, died at the home of her sister, .Mrs. Emily Robinson, yesterday morning, after a lingering illness from cancer. The funeral will be conducted today at the Chapel T ..iUyvMn? nkltHAk A Dnl lir Hou j_iumeraii liiuii.ii. auiu i ulit >>uo four sisters and two brothers living. They are Mrs. Emily Robinson, Mrs. J. C. Hoffman. Mrs. Dicey Griffin of Gaston county, and one sister in Cabarrus. The brothers are Messrs. Cephas and Wesley Stroup of Lowell. Col. Robert L. Abernethy's fine registered race-horse, Mary Lead, died rather suddenly yesterday. She was turned out In the pasture as usual in the afternoon and was found dead a few hours afterwards The Fourth of July promoters did the proper thing in placing the Gazette's gunner's mate, Mr. Claude A. Eury, on the committee to secure a mounted gun with which to fire salutes at the big county celebration now approaching. He was a gunner's mate for two years on the U. S. S. Indiana and two more on the Iowa, and is by no means unskilled in handling big guns. Mr. Eury had the honor of firing the salute to the governor of Missouri at the opening of the World's Fair at St. Louis. A PLAGUE OF TIGERS. Chance For Hunters of Big Game In the Irrawaddy Valley. The British shikara need not leave his battery idle, even if big game in Africa has become too scarce to be worth the cost of pursuit. He has only to turn his footsteps to the Irrawaddy valley to secure quite an amplitude of that most heroic of all field sports, tiger shooting. For some reason or other Mr. Stripes has begun to colonize that locality on quite an extensive scale, even invading villages at night and taking heavy toll of the inhabitants. The natives, much to their credit, offer all the resist ance in their power, but wretchedly armed as they are, the intruder takes little harm from their fusllades. Here, then, is an excellent opportunity for the well endowed British sportsman. Burma is more accessible than the African interior, and also a far pleasanter and healthier country to knock about In. And who will deny that tiger shooting affords more exciting sport than potting wild elephants or hippopotami? Those who pursue on foot the gnat cat carry their lives in their hands every moment, while even from elephant back or from a "maehan"?a platform constructed in a big tree? there is always the possibility of a combat at close quarters. The strongest argument for the intervention of the British Nimrod is the humanitarian; it rests with him and with him alone to save the lives of hundreds of unfortunates.?London fJlobe. I*' Many a girl marries an old man because of the cloud's silver lining. NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES. i Crooks Ready to Rob Crooks Says a Detective. , "Some time ago I saw a story in the Sun which sought to puncture the erroneous notion that there Is any such thing as "squareness among gamblers," " said a detective of extensive experience. "I thought then that it was about time a fall should be taken | out of another one of those bogus . maxims?the maxim that there exists such a thing as 'honor among thieves." "I never yet knew a crook who ( wouldn't do a fellow crook with as lit- ( tie comDunction as he'd eat a plate of , ham and eggs, and I'll just run over a story or two to prove this. "Five or six years ago three class A cracksmen bf New York framed up a promising bank Job in Trenton, N. J. The Job went through on greased skids?up to a certain point. The cracksmen put the bank's watchman under the gun when he stepped to the bank's front grating to get a* breath of fresh air?It was In the summer time. He had to let them In and they had htm cordaged up and gagged before he knew where he was. "The vault safe was an ordinary combination affair, without any time lock contrivances, and it was easy for experts with the nitro and the blowpipe. They got her open after an hour's work. Then It looked pretty soft for them, for there was about $40,000 In new currency in plain sight, lot tv,n metal mnnpv alone and made a leisurely job of dividing the swag into three equal parts. "The lookout or outside man abandoned his post in front of the grating of the small bank to be in at the dl- , vision of the loot. The three cracksmen were sitting inside, stuffing the currency into their kicks and planning for their different hiding places, when two cops suddenly appeared at the entrance to the vault and covered the three of them. It was all so sudden that the hands of the three cracksmen went straight up. "While one of the cops kept the three covered by the gun fanning process the other went behind them and deftly removed their shooting tools. Then he quite as deftly abstracted their bundles of swag. This done, 'March,' said two of the cops to the disarmed cracksmen. The three were marched to the basement, where the watchman was still cordaged up. Then the two cops executed a walking backward stunt, still covering the three cracksmen, got out of the steel door at the back leading into the allov olommoH the rlnnr which closed with a spring lock and the three cracksmen were neatly imprisoned. "The imprisoned cracksmen had no tools and so they couldn't pry their way out. They untied the watchman and ordered him to turn them loose, but they had collared the watchman's keys upstairs before dragging him to the basement and the keys were still upstairs. So the three cracksmen and the watchmen were found together in the basement at opening up time the following morning. "The cracksmen's story that they themselves had been stuck up by a pair of cops was scouted, and when the watchman chimed in and stated that the story was true he was Immediately suspected of being himself in cahoot with the blowpipe men. The watchman had a hard time to square himself and came mighty close to going to prison. He stuck to the cop story so persistently, however, that the policeman on the bank beat and the one on 1%** .wl Irtlnlnur KtiOt h?l/l t A trt-it t n thA IUU aujviiitiig, ?/v?i mw. vv o ~? ? front with all sorts of explanations as to where they had been while the robbery was In progress. To^ square themselves both of the cops had eventually to own up that they had been taking naps at the time and they lost their badges. The three cracksmen got their bits In Trenton prison. "Now, those two chaps In the rlgout of cops were Chicago bank burglars. They'd sailed east to wait for their graft to pick up a bit in their headquarters town of Chicago and in some mysterious way they'd learned of the details of this proposed Trenton job. It looked like ready money and no work worth mentioning, and so they went to one of the fence costumers of New York and got themselves diked out in cops' rigs. "Then they went to Trenton on the appointed night and Just waited around til their moment arrived. Then they made their play, and it was a neat and profitable one at that. They got away with the goods, and the story didn't get out for four vears afterward. Then one of the Chicago cracksmen got drunk one night and blew the yarn. Now if there was ever anything in this 'honor among thieves' fake you'd naturally have supposed that these two Chicago cracksmen would have been ostracized by their pals who heard of their profitable masquerade as cops In Trenton. Nothing of the sort happened. Their pals patted them on the back and called them smart fellows and ha-ha'd over the picture of the three trapped cracksmen locked in the bank basement with the watchman. "Spark grafters are very rarely on the level with each other, even when they're working as a team. I recall one case of this sort particularly well, because one of the crooks involved told me of the incident most picturesquely. "A pair of topnotch Philadelphia spark grafters got on to the fact that the proprietor of a certain Walnut street restaurant started for his home on a Walnut street car every night about 11 o'clock and that he generally had a souse on him at this time. They had sized this restaurant man up because he always wore in his four-inhand tie a huge, flashy four stone diamond pin. The stones were the white boys, as the crooks call them, and each of them looked to weigh about four karats. "The old restaurant man, as they noticed, was usually pretty well lit up when he took the car to go home, and he looked good to the pair of spark grafters. So they arranged a night to get that pin. They boarded the car in which the restaurant man sat half dozing, in the enjoyment of his regular going home bun, and waited for the car to till up with folks from the theatres. "The old restaurant man, very gallant, got up to give a lady his seat. Then one of the spark grafters gave him the elbow in the small of the back, and when he turned to put up a growl the other one neatly copped the dia inond pin. "It looked like a good two thousand worth, anyhow, to the crook who had done the elbowing. They got off the car and made directly for the plant of the fence with whom they did business. The crook who had the pill handed it over to the fence and named his smallest figure with a confident grin. The fence took the pin, looked at it just once and remarked: "'Nothln' doin' In the Ice line Just now. Stop your klddlnV "The crook who hadn't collared the pin looked tremendously surprised, and the crook who had collared It simulated a look of equal surprise. " 'D'you fellers mean to hand It to me that you don't know that this is a phony?' said the fence to them, holding up the pin. "Well, sure enough, the pin was a bogus, just fairly well sawed Brazil hrlllinntc The rrnnk who hadn't swln ed the pin looked disappointed and gloomy, and said that his eyesight must be failing?that he'd never been twisted before in piping off the real thing in rocks. The other crook chimed in, and added that he'd never felt so cheap in his life. Then the two spark grafters separated. "The one who had collared the pin, and" wno had it in his kick all the time, took it to another fence and got $1,I?00 for it without a hitch. You see, he'd had a bogus of the genuine pin made before the job was pulled off, and the bogus was the one he ran In on the first fence when he went there with Ills pal. The pal tumbled after a somewhat prolonged period of thoughtfulness. When he found out that his suspicions were correct he chased af :er his ingenious pal and demanded his bit. All he got for his was the mirthful hoot, and that partnership was dissolved. The crook who had been done by his pal passed the word around about it among his friends in the profession. They handed him the long chuckle, and the other spark grafter was looked upon as the real thing lor his foxlness. "If there's any honor among thieves it exists in about the ratio of gold to sea water, and you can figure out that for yourself."?New York Sun. FEAT3 OF HORSEMANSHIP. Long Distances Covered In Short Times by European Riders. For combined speed and endurance It Is probable that two riding feats of some centuries ago have never been eclipsed. When Queen Elizabeth died Robert Cary set forth on the long journey to Edinburgh to carry the news to her successor on the throne, James VI of Scotland. Riding out of Whitehall between 9 and 10 o'clock on a Thursday morning. he reached Doncaster, 155 miles away, the same night. On the next day he travelled as far as his ov.'n house at Wltherington, where he spent some time transacting business, and starting early the next morning, he could have reached Edinburgh by midday had not an accident by the way delayed him. As it was, he completed the whole journey of 400 miles within three days. Nearly a century earlier the great Wolsey, then a royal chaplain, made a remarkably quick Journey to the Low Countries to interview the Emperor Maximilian. Leaving London at 4 o'clock In the afternoon, he travelled by boat to Gravesend, rode through the night to Dover, and, crossing to Calais, finished his journey on horseback, reaching .Ma>imliian the same evening. On the fc 1lowlng morning he rode post haste back to Calais, and was at Richmond by sunset, after travelling to Holland and back in little more than tv.'O days. To find anything like a match for these feats, says the London Tit-BUs, we must come down to the last ce 1tury, when South Africa was the scene of two astonishing performances. In one, Sir Henry Smith. Just after the outbreak of the Kaffir war, seventy years ago, carried the news from Cape Town to Grahamstown in six days, riding a distance of 700 miles over a wild and almost trackless country; and again Richard King is credited with a notable feat of endurance in riding 600 miles, from Durban to Grahamstown, in ten days, through a country infested with enemies and over a multitude of swollen and bridgeless rivers, every one of which his horse had to swim. In recent years the most famous of long distance rides was that inaugurated by the German emperor thirteen years ago, when 200 officers essayed to ride from Berlin to Vienna., a distance of 680 kilometres. The winner was Count Starhemberg, who completed the long Journey in seventy-one hours and twenty minutes, thus securing a silver bust of the Kaiser, in addition to a prize of ?1,000. His unfortunate horse did not survive the contest. A little later Capt. Spillberg covered the 840 miles between Saarbrucken, on the frontier of Lorraine, and Rome in thirteen days, crossing the St. Gothard Pass, and spending twenty hours each day on horseback. A few years since five lieutenants of the Twentieth Hussar Regiment of France accomplished a wonderful font T.unvin v Ornv at 3 o'clock in the morning, they rode seventy-two miles to Belfort, arriving at four in the afternoon. They then dismounted, put on civilian clothes, and walked to a town twenty-four miles away; here they dined, then walked back to Belfort, saddled their horses, and completed the journey to Gray which they reached the following afternoon at 3 o'clock, .having covered 192 miles In thirty-six hours on horseback and on foot. A very memorable performance was that of Cowper Thornhlll, host of the Bell Inn at Stilton, in Huntingdonshire, who made three journeys between his house at Stilton and Shoredltch church?a total distance of 213 miles?in twelve hours and seventeen minutes, thus winning a wager of f>00 guineas; as was also that ride of Bernard Calvert of And ---1 OU-.n,.,! :t,*U r. ? O uvfi leaving piiui cuii^u uv u o'clock In the morning:, rode to Dover, crossed to Calais and back and remounting his horse arrived at Shoreditch at 8 o'clock the same evening, after covering 142 miles on horseback. Squire Osbaldeston once covered 200 miles at Newmarket in eight hours and forty minutes, using no fewer than twenty-eight horses; Mr. Wilde rode 127 miles at the Curragh in six hours and twenty-one minutes; and Leon, the Mexican rider, whom many of our readers will remember, rode 50f? miles in less than fifty hours in February, 1877. In 1754 Jennlson Shafto won a substantial wager by riding fifty miles on Newmarket Heath in one hour and forty-nine minutes, usiiik ten nurses. In November, 1798, an officer in the Ayrshire Light Dragoons put 100 guineas in his pocket by riding fifteen miles on the Chelmsford and Duitmow road in sixty-nine minutes, with his face to his horses tail; and as a finish to these riding feats a jockey cleverly piloted a donkey over a Journey of 100 miles at Newmarket in twenty-one hours, though odds of 100 to 10 were laid that the ass would not do the distance in twenty-four hours. BOTH FOUGHT AGAINST SIOUX. . Old Indian Fighters Will Again Serve Together. Brlg.-Gen. J. W. Bubb, who has < been ordered to St. Paul to assume command of the department of Dakota, and Major Fredrick W. Sibley, the commanding officer of the third squadron of the Second Cavalry, now stationed at Fort Snelllng, saw service together against the In dians during the campaign of 1876 against the Sioux. Both were at that time young lieutenants. Gen. Bubb had been promoted from the ranks during his service in the civil war, while Major Sibley was then a young officer out of West Point. They served throughout Gen. Crook's Big Horn and Yellowstone expeditions, and Gen. Miles' campaign through Montana?Gen. Bubb with the Fourth Infantry and Major Sibley, then, as now, with the Second Cavalry, says the St. Paul Pioneer Press. One little incident of Lieut. Bubb's bravery Is related by the famous war correspondent, afterward Congressman John F. Flnerty, in his book, "Warpath and Bivouac, or the Conquest of the Sioux." The Incident occurred in Wyoming in May, 1876. It is thus described by Mr. Flnerty: "Some officers informed us that the ferry between the camp and Fort Fetterman had been broken down, and that we could not get our mail or send dispatches. The river at that point is so rapid and so full of whirl pools that few men care to swim it and most horses refuse to do so. A wagon driver, together with a sergeant and two private soldiers of the Second Cavalry tried the experiment of swimming their horses over a few days before and all were drowned. It was absolutely necessary for us to cross the river. "When we reached the ferry we found that It had been patched up in a temporary manner and concluded to go across. When near the Fetterman bank the rope broke, and we should have been swept down the stream at the imminent risk of drowning but for the heroism of Lieutenant and Commissary Bubb, who plunged into the river on horseback, caught a cable which somebody threw toward him and towed us In safety to shore amid the plaudits of the spectators." Gen. Bubb was engaged in nearly all of the celebrated engagements of that war. The "Sibley Scout" is famous among Indian fighters as having one of the narrowest escapes from savages now on record. It was In 1876, at the time of the Custer massacre, when Lieutenant Sibley was ordered out with twenty-five mounted men to look about the country and see what was going on. Frank Grouard, a half breed and chief of United States scouts, accompanied Sibley. The vouner officer was fresh from West Point and rather Inexperienced In frontier warfare, so cautious Gen. Crook bade him heed the scout's advice should emergency arise, and off :he trooper started almost at the same hour when Custer, a hundred miles away, was being cut to pieces by the cutthroats of Sitting Bull. Mr. Finerty was also on this expedition. He tells first !;i his book of his meeting with Lieutenant Sibley . and later has a page portrait of Lieutenant Sibley and devotes a chapter to "The Sibley Scout?A Close Call." In describing his introduction to Lieutenant Sibley he says: "Capt. Sutorlus introduced me to two officers of the Second Cavalry, Capt. Wells and Lieut. Sibley. Lieut. Sibley, with whose career I was des lined to be linked under circumstances which subsequently attracted the attention of the continent, and which will long live In the tales and traditions of our regular army, was a young West Pointer, who had distinguished himself under Gen. Reynolds in the attack upon and capture of Crazy Horse on March 17 of that eventful year." Joe De Barthe in his "Life and Adventures of Frank Grouard, Chief of Scouts," also has a full page portrait of Lieut. Sibley and a chapter called "A Miraculous Escape," describing the incident of which Major Sibley was the hero. The incident was as follows: The scouting party traveled two days without incident. As they neared the mountains Grouard, who always traveled ahead of the soldiers, suddenly signalled to halt. Signs of Indians were seen. From an eminence commanding a vast area of the rolling country little specks could be seen here and there. The glass proved that each speck was a squad of several Sioux In war costume. The specks began to concentrate. They moved toward the trail made by the troops, but without discovering it for a long time. They were entirely ignorant of the presence of the soldiers. After holding a powwow one of the Indians chanced to ride toward the telltale irail. He found it and returned to the other braves, waving his blanket and gesticulating. It then seemed to the young cavalry officer that Indians fairly sprang from the earth in all directions to see what they had discovered. There were swarms of them, but happily they were miles away. Then began the race for life. The horses were urged up the mountain. On came the Indians. '1 hey were seen occasionally, along the canons in the rear. The band had divided and was trying to head off the soldiers and surround them. Suddenly as the soldiers ascended the side of a gulch and gained a small plateau, a party of redskins sprang at them firing their rifles and yelling. The men scattered like sheep. Lieut. Sibly ordered the men to fire even if they did not aim at the enemy, for a rifle made a noise like a cannon amid those hills. Finally the men got together and Lieut. Sibley ordered a retreat up a slope to a bit of wooded ground which protected them from the fire of the Indians. This was about nine o'clock in the morning. Mr. Sibley describes the situation as follows: "The Indians began to gather about us more rapidly. The situation was growing more serious every minute. My men were doing good work with their rifles. It pleased me to see one man shoot a noted Sioux chief right ihntiiirh the heart. The old sinner never twitched a muscle after the lead hit him. We never knew how many we killed because when an Indian Is shot his comrades keep him out of sight. Well, we held them off for four hours, and they were four hours of hot work, I can tell you. My scout then told me that the Indians were on three sides of us. We had one chance left to retreat, and this chance was fast lessening be cause fresh Indians were coming." Both Flnerty and De Barthe relate the story with much more elaboration and both say that Lieut. Sibley hesitated at taking to flight even under those circumtaneef, but Grouard convinced him that it meant a terrible death to all and no good could possibly come of It If they stayed. "I did not like to abandon our horses," relates Major Sibley, "but it was that or die. So the retreat was ordered. I Inspected each man personally to see that his equipment was right, but owing to my inexperience and the excitement of the moment I forgot the rations. Only one man In the command took his rations. It was an hour or so before the Indians discovered that we had fled. By that time we were upon the mountain in places so steep that one man had to help the other up. The horses could not follow us. So for the time being the Sioux would not strike us. Grouard took a mountain trail which we followed for fifty hours without a mouthful to eat. Such fearfully vigorous exercise without food nearly killed us. "Toward the end of this perilous march we all became so weakened that we marched for ten minutes and then would lie down and rest. Several of the most robust men became insane, and one or two never regained their wits. When we reached Crook's camp I slept for twentyfour hours without waking, and during that time the camp was sharply attacked by Indians. Even the roar of the musketry did not disturb my sleep in the least. Not a single man was lost on the trip." Remarking on his experience of plains life, Major Sibley said that it seemed wonderful to him what remarkable instincts the halfbreed scout possessed. A scout had led him across a trackless waste on a dark night when the snow was falling and the wind blowing. The horses were continually drifting to windward to get their faces away from the cutting blast. There was not a landmark to guide the scout. Yet in the face of all these difficulties the scout would lead the troopers, after marching all night, to the exact spot for which they started. Brain and Mubcde.?The superintendent of a factory went into the storehouse one day and saw the storekeeper tugging away at a big case of goods. His face was rad, and the muscles of his neck were bulging out. "Hold on there, Jack," cried the superintendent "allow me to demonstrate to you the power of brain over muscle." He then grabbed a hook that was on a shelf and stuck it In the case, gave a quick Jerk and toppled over into a pile of rubbish. He got up and looked at the storekeeper and said, "Blame it, the handle was loose." "Yes, sir," replied Jack, "that's why I didn't use it."?Houston Post. ....OUR NEXT INTE THE R A Story of the and Hi BY JERE This will be the ti story to be publishe RER, and the first pear in our issue of The story is one < triotism and ambitio The leading charai and Alexander Ham and Hamilton the vi Although in the i largely historical, th fined himself closely out. Jeremiah Clemens story was once a rr from Alabama. Thi pearance in i860, w! lished by J. B. Lipp at once recognized a interest and great p light in which it pt ton, the disciples ol said to have used ali in their power for its cious purchase and The book, we und had now at any of t Indeed there are fe> sellers who have ai existence, not more ever having heard oi This story will r or two months, an with the opening ch read it to the end b they have finished, t that they are enjoyi treat. Watch for the o Tuesday, June 12, ; installment. L. M. GRIS Publishers Yorl I SOUTH I ! RAILR 1 ? THKOUGI 2 EVRRV DAY > $ ? 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A similar anecdote was reiatea ny Oelrich in his "Dissentatio re Bibliothecarum et Librorum Fatis" (1766) of an Austrian general who had signed a note for 2,000 florins and when it fell due compelled his creditors to eat it. The Tartars, when books fall Into their possession, eat them that they may acquire the knowledge contained in them. A Scandinavian writer, the author of a political book, was compelled to choose between being beheaded or eating his manuscript boiled in broth. Isaac Volmar, who wrote some spicy a cro Inat RtrnirH rillkp of Sal - ony was net allowed the courtesy of the kitchen, but was forced to swallow them uncooked. Still worse was the fate of Philip Oldenburger, a jurist of great renown, who was condemned not only to eat a pamphlet of his writings, but also to be (logged during his repast, with orders that the flogging should not cease until he had swallowed the last crumb. 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