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D.. 1057 2d Ave, New York. **From personal knowledge and observation I can say teat Casto ria is an excellent medicine for children, acting as a laxative and re:ie*ing the pent u > bowels and general system very fnmek. Mi.ny mothers have told me of its ex ?attent effect opon their children." Da. G. C. Osgood, Lowell, Mass. SB Cesta Company, 77 Murray Street, . Y. L MEAL ma mm ACAOKWY. Tjaaaiajf if .Univ. of Va, ?&talofue addreee Acad<uc7,V, TWO SOLDIERS. By Capt. GEABLES EL?G. fCopyrighted by J. B. IippmcottCompany, Phila delphia, and published through special arrange ment with the American Press Association.] SYNOPSIS. Chapter ?.?In a recruiting office in the "Queen City" Lieut. Fred Lane, ?. S. Av, receives two letters?one informing him of his promotion to the rank of captain, the other a brief note from Mabel Vincent. Chapter 2 ?Gordon Noel, .a lieutenant in Lane's cavalry regiment^ succeeds, through wheedling the wife~of hie* colonel, in being appointed to the vacancv caused by Lane's promotion. He is dishked by his brother officers, as he has in the past several -times dodged active service io Indian campaigns. Chapter 3 ?Capt. Lane is desperately in love, with Mabel ' Vincent. He prr pares, to turn the recruiting over to his successor. Chapter 4.?Lieut. Noel arrived to take charge of the recruiting offi e. Re is hand some and agreeable and succeeds in cren ling the impression . that he was a very gallant officer au4 done brave service on the plains. It is discovered ?hat a clerk named Tai tor bas embezzled some of the fondj of the re cruiting office (forging Lane's name} and' decamped^ Noel professes an enthusiastic friendship for Lane. Chapter 5.?Lane writes to Mabel's father asking permission to pay his addresses to her. This is granted. Vincent is .on" the brink of 6Mancia! disaster. Lane proffers his services. Chapter 6.?The transfer of the recruiting office to Noel is made by Lane, who bas or ders to return to bis regiment in the west Lane makes good the deficit in the accounts out of his own pocket. Chapter 7 ?Lane furnishes to Mr. Vincent the money which saves the latter from ruin. Before Lane starts for the west Mabel prom ises to marry him. The engagement is to be kept secret at her parents* request. Chapter 8?Noel succeeded in making him self a social favorite by telliog false stories of his own bravery. Be becomes a<qnainted with the Vincents and is io vi: ed to their bouse because of bis professed friendship for Lane. Chapter 9 ?Lane arrives at the frontier post whither he bas been ordered and takes command of bis company, f?e wri?es often to Mabel, and ber replies contain frequent reference to>i?oel who is very at ten ave. Chapter 10.?Mrs; Vincent is worried; by Noel's constant attentions to Mabel. ^The Vincents go to tbe mountains, where Noel visits Mabel. Chapter 11.?When Mabel writes Lane of Noel's visit he is somewhat annoyed. . He advises ber not to encourage these visits. Tbe Vincents announce the engagement. Lane receives a letter from Mr Vincent, begging bini to come east at once. Just before L*ue starts he learns that Mr. Vincent's partner has defaulted and that Mr. Vincent has died endden?y. He goes as rapidly as possible. Arriving^at the Vincent mansion be enters.un announced, and fiada bis fiancee clasped in Gordon Noel'S-arms Chapter 12 ?L?ne returns to his post after a lone illness. Mabel has thrown him over and becomes engaged to Noel Mrs. Vincent writes a long, bear!broken letter to L?ne, begging forgiveness for her daughter A few months later >el and Mabel are married. Line's health fails again, and be is sent east on sick leave While there be discovers h s defaulting clerk, Taititor. News is received of an Indian uprising, and Lane start.;, post haste to j >in his regiment. CHAPTER, . Noel opened the dispatch Huit had been handed him. The Morning Chronicle, a most valua ble sheet in its way, in its Sunday edi tion contained lie following interesting item: "l?o event in social circles has eclipsed of lato the banqnet given at the club last night in honor of Capt Gordon Noel, of the Eleventh cavalry v on the eve of his j departure to take command of his.troop, 'nowhastening to the scene of Indian hos tilities in Arizona. As is well known to our citizens, the news of the murderous outbreak at the reservation was no sooner received than this gallant officer applied instantly to "be relieved from his present duties in our midst and ordered to join his comrades in the field, that he might share with them the perils of this savage warfare. "Covers were laid for forty. The table was decorated with flowers and glistened witn plate and crystaL The most con spicuous device was the crossed sabers of the cavalry, with the number 11 and fiie letter K, that being the designation of tie captain's company. His honor j Mayor Jenness presided, and the Hon. Amos Withers faced him at the other end of the banquet board. The speech I of the evening was made by Mayor Jen- j aessin toasting 'our gallant guest,* which was drunk standing and with all honors. We have room only for a brief summary of hU remarks. Alluding to the previous distinguished services of the captain, he I J said that 'In every territory of our broad 1 west his saber has flashed in the defense of the weak against the strong, the poor ? settler against the powerful and numer ous savage tribes too often backed by official influence at Washington. And now, while cheeks were blanching and hearts were still stricken by the dread news of the butcheries and repine which marked the Indians' flight, when others shrank from such perilous work, where was the man who could suppress the fer vent admiration with which lie heard that there was one soldier who lost co time in demanding relief from duty here, thai he might speed tc the head of the gallant fellows already in the field, who had followed him in many a stirring charge and through all 'the current of many a heady fight:' whose hearts would leap for joy at sight of their beloved leader's face?the man whonever yet had failed them, the man who never }-et had faltered in his duty, the man whose sword was never drawn without reason, never sheathed without honor?our sol dier guest, Capt. Gordon Noel?" "Much aifected, it was some minutes before the captain could respond. Tho modesty of the true soldier restrained his eloquence. 'He knew not how to thank them for this most flattering testimony cf their confidence and regare!; he far from deserved the lavish praise of their honored chairman. If in the past he had succeeded in winning their esteem all the more would he try to merit it now. No soldier could remain in secur ity when such desperate deeds called his comrades to the fray; and as he had ever shared their dangers in the old days so mustne share them now. His heart, his home, his bride, to part from whom was bitter trial, he left with them to guard and cherish. Duty called him to the front, and with to-morrow's sun he would be on his way. But, if it pleased God to bear him safely through, he would return to them, to greet and grasp each friendly hand again, and meantime to prove himself worthy the high honor they had done him.' "There was hardly a dry eye at the table when the gallant soldier finished his few remarks and then took his seat. "Besides winning the heart and hand of one of the loveliest of the Queen City's daughters, the captain,has niade hosts of friends in our midit, and we predict that when the records of the campaign are written no name will shine with brighter luster than that of Gordon Noel." This doubtless was delightful reading to Noel and to Noel's relatives. Doubt less, too, it was some comfort to poor Mabel as she lay pale, anxious, sore at heart, on the following day, while her husband and lover?as he undoubtedly was?sped westward with the fast ex press. But there was a great deal about the Chronicle's account that would have elicited something more than abroad grin from officers who knew Noel well. An entire week had elapsed from the time that the first tidings were received to the moment when he finally and most reluc?lntly left the Queen City. The first intimation was enough to start Capt. Lane, despite the fact that bis health was far from restored and that he was yet by no means strong. He felt confident that the Indians would be joined by some of the Chirisahuas, and that the campaign would be fierce and stubborn. Telegraphing to the regi mental adjutant and the general com manding the department that he intend ed to start at once, and asking to be notified en route where he could most speedily joit?the troop, he was on his way within sii hours. That very night, although no mention was made of this in Tbe Chronicle ac count, Capt Noel received a dispatch from the adjutant general's oiUce at Washington oriefly to this effect: "Yon become captain of company, vice Raw lins, murdered by Apaches. Hold your self in readiness to turn over the rendez vous and join your regiment without de lay." No news could have been more unwelcome. Despite his many faults there was no question that Gordon Noel was very much in love with his wife; but he never had been in love with the active part of his profession- That night he telegraphed Jo relatives who had stood by him" in the past, and wrote urgent and pleading letters informing them that his wife's health was in so delicate a state that if he were compelled at this moment to leave her and go upon perilous duty in the Apache country there was no telling what might be the effect upon her. If a possible thing, he urged that there should be a delay of a fortnight. He calculated that by that time the Indians would be either safe across the Mexican border or whipped back to the reservation; then ho could go out and join with a flourish of trum pets and no possible danger. But a new king reigned in the war department, who knew Joseph rather than knew him not. In some way the honorable secretary had become acquainted with the previ ous history of Capt Noel's campaign services, and, though the influential gen tleman referred to made prompt and elo quent appeals, they were met by courteous but positive denial "Every man who was worth his salt" said the secretary, "should be with his regiment now." An officer was designated to proceed at once to the Queen City and take over Noel's rendezvous and property, and peremp tory orders were sent to him to start without delay and to notify the depart ment by telegraph of the date of his de parture??a most unusual and stringent proceeding. This correspondence Noel never mentioned to anybody at the time, and it was known only to the official i records for some time afterward. As soon as he found that go he must, he dic tated to his clerk a letter in which, gal lant soldier that he was, he informed the adjutant general that the news from Ari zona had now convinced liim that an outbreak of alarming dimensions had : taken place, and he begged that he might : be relieved as at his own request and permitted to join his comrades in the j field. To this no reply was sent, as the j order directing him to proceed had al ready been issued. Perhaps a grim smile played about the mustached lips of that functionary when he read this spirited epistle. Noel left the Queen City a hero in the eyes of the populace. He was just six days behind Lane, of whose movements the Queen City had no information whatever. And now came an odd piece of luck? a slip in the fortunes of war. The cav airy stationed in Arizona were so far from the reservation at the time that they had long and difficult marches to make. Only two or three troops that happened to be along the Hne of the railway reached the mountains neigh boring San Carlos in time to quickly take the trail of the hostiles Except the one little troop of cavalry on duty at the reservation none of the horsemen in Arizona had as j*et come in actual conflict with the renegades, and oddly enough -it was the Eleventh that first met and struck them. Old Riggs him self had not taken the field, but the bat talion from headquarters had been whirled westward along the railway and actually reached the pass through the Chiricahua range before the Indians. Expecting just such a possibility, these wary campaigners had their scouts far in advance of the main body and prompt warning was given, so that only the rear guard of tbe Indians was reached by I the eager cavalrymen ; the bulk of the Apaches turned eastward and s%vopt ! down like ravening wolves upon the de fenseless settlers in the San Simon val ley, burning, murdering, pillaging as they went, full ?fifty miles a day, while their pursuers trailed helplessly behind. When they r?*.d succeeded in crossing the railway most of their number were mounted on fresh horses, and the section hands, who saw them from afar off, tele graphed from the nearest station that they had with them six or eight women and children whose husbands and fathers doubtless lay weltering in their blood along the route. Full seven days now ? had they been dodging through the ' mountains and swooping down upon the j j ranchmen, and so skillfully bad they ? ! eluded their pursiiers and defeated their j combinations that now they had a com , man ding lead and actually nothing be I tween them and the Mexican frontier? : 1 nothing in Arizona, that is to say. But ; look just across the border. There, spur- : ring steadily south westward until halted ? for the night in San Simon P;u?. conies a little troop of cavalry, not more than \ thirty-five in number. All day long since earliest dawn bad they ridden across the burning sands of a desert re gion; hps, nostrils, eyelids smarting with ! alkali dust, throats parched with thirst, temples throbbing with the intense heat; Twn-?Mii uwi-HMaiiiiii'iiiwiwiiii mhiii?g?: several men and Horses used up and left behind were now slowly plodding back ; toward the railway. Look at the letter j one of those leaders wears upon his worn old scouting hat?D. Yes, it is the ! "Devil's own D's," and Lane is at their j bead. ( At the moment of the outbreak both companies from Graham, and D. or strong detachments from both, were j scouting through the country ? one j through the northern Peloncino range, j the other far up among the head waters of the Gila. Not a word did they hear of the trouble until it was several days old; then D troop was amazed by the sudden appearance of their captain in their midst?Lane, whom they supposed to be on sick leave far in the distant east, it was then for the first time t y learned how their comrades of troop had lost their popular old commander, and that the great outbreak had occurred at San Carlos. Stopping only long enough to cram their pouches with am munition and to draw more rations, the troop hastened away toward the rail road by way of Graham, and at the sta tion, just at dawn, Lane sent a brief dis patch to the commanding general saying that he was pushing with all speed to head the Indians off via San Simon pass. He had then forty-five men and horses, in fair condition. troop would reach Graham that evening, and he urged that they be sent at once to re-enforce him. This dispatch "the chief received with an emphatic slap of his thigh and an ex pression of delight: "Bless that fellow Lane! he is always in the nick of time. 1 had not hoped for an instant that either D or would be available, and now look,** he said to his aid-de-camp, "he has started for San Simon pass, and will probably throw himself across their front. Only I wish he had more men." "Shall I wire to Graham to have rush after him, sir?" "Yes. Order them to start the instant they can refit, and not to take more than an hour in doing that They have been having easy work on their scout?prob ably taking it leisurely all the time; they ought to be in first rate trim. D, on the contrary, has been making long and rapid marches to get down from the Upper Gila Where was at last ac counts?" "Couriers had gone to the Upper Pel oncino for them several days ago, and, as Lane says, they are expected at Gra ham this evening. Lane himself rode after his own men two hours after he got to the post from the east, and Noel, who is K's new captain, is due at Gra ham station to-night** "Then send him orders to lead his troop instantly, follow and support Lane. Tell him not to lose a moment on the way. Everything may depend upon his promptness and zeaL" And so it happened that when Capt. Noel stepped from the train that after noon at the old station the telegraph messenger came forward to meet him, touching his cap and saying, "This dis patch has been awaiting you, sir, since 11 o'clock this morning. I have just had a dispatch from the post, and Troop got in two hours ago and is already start ing. Lieut. Mason says an orderly is coming ahead with a horse and the cap tain's field kit Shall I wire for anything else?" Noel opened the dispatch that had been handed him, and read it with an expres sion that plainly indicated perturbation, if not dismay. He had not been in sad dle for an entire year. "Why, I must go out to the post!" he said to the operator. "I am not at all ready to take the field. Let them know that I have arrived, and will come out there without delay. Better hate the troop unsaddled and wait for my com ing." "Will the captain pardon mer said tip operator; "the orders from the de partment commander that went through this morning were that the troop should not take more than an hour in refitting at the post and should start at once. I thought I could see them coming over the divide just as the whistle blew." The captain gave no sign of enthu siasm as he received this news. He was still pondering over the contents of his dispatch from the commanding general ?its tone was so like that of his order from the war department?so utterly unlike what his e imiring circle of rela tives and friends woul d have expected. Stepping into the telegraph office he took some blanks and strove to compose a dispatch that would convince the gen eral that he was wild with eagerness to ride all night to the support of Lane, and yet that would explain how abso lutely necessary it was t?iat he should first go out to the post. But the fates were against him. Even as he was gnawing the pencil and cudgeling bis brains tl' operator called out: "Here come some cf 'ein now, sir." And, lookmir nervously from the win dow, Noel saw three horsemen galloping in to the station. Foremost came a lieu tenant of infantry, who sprang to the ground and tossed the reins to his order ly the instant he neared the platform. One of the men had a led horse, com pletely equipped for the field, with blan kets, saddle bags, carbine, canteen and haversack; and Noel's quick intuition left him no room to believe that the steed was intended for any one but him j The infantryman came bounding in: I "Is this Capt. Noel? I am Mr. Renshaw, I post adjutant, sir, and I had hoped to j get here in time to meet you on your ar rival, but we were all busy get^mg the troop ready. You've got your orders, sir, haven't you? My God! captain, can't you wire to the fort and beg the major to let me go with you? I'll be your slave for a lifetime. I've never had a chance to do a bit of real campaigning yet, and no man could ask a bullier chance than this. Excuse me, sir, I know you want to get right into scout ing rig?Mr. Mason said his 'extras' would fit you exactly; but if j*ou could take mo along?you're bound to get there just in time for the thick of it." And the gallant little fellow looked, all eager ness, into Noel's unresponsive face. What wouldn't the hero of the Queen City club lia ve given to turn the whole thing over to this ambitions young sol dier and lot him take his chances of "glory or the grave!" "Very thoughtful of you all, I'm sure, to think of sending horse and kit here for me, bnt I really ought to go out to the post. There are things I must at tend to. You see, 1 left the instant I could induce them to relieve me, and there was no time to make preparations.'* "Lint?you can't have heard, captain: your troop will be here in ten minutes. Capt. Lane by this Ihne is past Pyramid mountain, and will strike the. early in the morning. There won't be any time to go out to the post: you've got t.> ride at trot or gallop most of the night a.; it is-" "Capt. N > d, pardon me. sir." inter posed the operator. "The general i ; i:i the office at Wilcox station. He wan' ? to know if you have started from here." "Tell him the troop isn't here yet. I? Hm waiting for it." "Yonder comes the trop-), sir," called out Mr. Renshaw, who hal rait to th? door. "Now let me help you off with your 'cits.' Bring that canvas bag in here, orderly." Three minutes brought a message from "the chief:'* "Lose not a moment on the way. Report here by wire the arrival of your troop and the moment yon start. Behind time now." Poor Noel! There was no surgeon to certify that his pallid cheeks were due to impaired heart action, no senatorial cou sin to beg for staff duty, no Mrs. Riggs to interpose. He had j ust timo to send a dispatch to Mabel announcing that he took the field at the head of his troop at once, another (collect) to Amo3 Wilders, Esq., of similar import, and one to the general, saying that at 4:45 they were just on the point of starting, when the troop, fifty strong and in splendid trim, came trotting in, and Mr. Mason grimly saluted his new captain and fell back to the command of the first platoon. "Noel to the Front!" was The Chron icle's head line on the following morn ing iar away in the Queen City. CHAPTER XIV. Lane finds himself confronted one instani by a savage 'warrior. Not an instant too soon, although he has ridden hard since earliest dawn, has Lane reached the rocky pass. North and soufh the Peloncillos are shrouded in the gloom of coming night, and all over the arid plain to the eastward dark ness has settled down. In previous scouts he has learned the country well, a??? he knows just where to turn for "tanks" of cool water for horse3, mules and men?the cavalry order of prece dence when creature comforts are to be doled out. He knows jure where to con ceal his little force in the recesses of the rocks and let them build tiny fires and make their coffee and then get such rest as is possible before the coming day; but there is no rest for him. Taking t wo veteran soldiers with him, and leaving the troop to the command of bis lieuten ant, an enthusiastic young soldier only a year out of the cadot gray, the captain rides westward through the gloaming. He must determine at once whether the Indians are coming toward the pass by wiiich the San Simon makes its burst through the range, or whether, having made wide detour around the little post at Bowie among the Chiricahua moun tains, they are now heading southward again and taking the shortest line to the border before seeking to regain once more their old trail along the San Ber nardino. How often have their war parties gone to and fro along those rocky banks, unmolested, unpursued! And now, secure in the belief that they have thrown all the cavalry far to the rear in the "stern chase" which no Apache dreads, well knowing how easily he can distance his hampered pursuers, the renegados, joined by a gang of the utterly "unreconstructed" Chiricahaus, are taking things easily and making raids on the helpless ranches that lie to the right or left of their line of march. Fortunately for the records these are few in number; had there been dozens more they would only have served to swell the list of butchered men, of plun dered ranches, of burning stacks and corrals, of women and children bome off to be the sport of their leisure hours when once secure in the fastnesses of the Sierra Madres far south of the line. Death could not come too soon to the re : lief of these poor creatures, and Lane ! and all his men had been spurred to the utmost effort by the story of the railway hands that they had plainly seen several women and children bound +o the spare i animals the renegades drove along across I the iron track. Among the passengers in the pillaged stage coach were the wife and daughter ! cf an Indian agent, who had only recent ly come to this arid territory and knew Ktt?^of the ways of its indigenous peo pie. Nothing had since been seen or heard of them. Capt. Rawlins and two soldiers, going up as witnesses before a court martial at Grant, were found hacked almost beyond recognition, and the driver, too, who seemed to have crawled out among the rocks to die. Verily the Apaches had good reason to revel in their success J They had hood winked the bureau, dodged the cavalry, plundered right and left until they Avere rich with spoil, and now, well to the south of the railway, with a choice of either east or west side of the range, their main body and prisoners are halted to rest the animals, while miles to the rear their faithful vedettes keep watch against pursuers, and miles out to the west the most active young warriors are crying havoc at the ranch of Tres Her manos It is the red glare of the flame towards the sunset horizon that telk Lane the Apaches cannot be far away. The instant he and his comrades issue from the gorge and peer cautiously to the right and left not only do they see the blaze across the wide valley, but northward, not more than half a mile away, there rises upon the night wind a sound that they cannot mistake?the war chant of the Chiricahuas-. "Thank God," erics Lane, "we are heve ahead of them!" Half an hour's rocoimoissance reveals to him their position. Fai* up among the bowlders of the range, where pursuing horsemen cannot rush upon them in the j night, they have made their bivouac, and ? are having a revel and feast while await-1 big the return of the raiders or news ? from the rear that they must be moving. The range is rugged and precipitous j north of the gorge; cavalry cannot pene- j trate it; but Lane's plan is quickly laid, j He will let his men sleep until 2 o'clock, keeping only three sentries on ! the lookout, one of them mounted and j west of the gorge to give warning should ! the Indians move during the night. Then. ; leaving the horses concealed among the ' rocks south of the stream, with two men j to guard them, he will lead his company : up the heights and as close as possible to the Apache camp, lie in hiding until it is light enough to distinguish objects, then dash down into their midst.rescue the pris oners in the panic and confusion that he knows will result from the sudden attack, send them Lack as rapidly as possible, guided by thre*' or i >nr me:', to where Bis horses are corraled, while he and I h?L: little band interpose between them and any rally the Apaches may make. J Knowing well that they are armed with magazine rifles and supplied by a paternal bureau with abundant ammu nition, knowing that they outnumber him three to one, knowing that by sun rise the whole tribe will have reassem bled and must infallibly detect the piti ful weakness of his own force, it is a desperate chance to take: but it is the only one?absolutely the only one?to save those tortured, agonized women, those terror stricken little ones, from a fate more awful than words can portray. By 8 or 9 in the morning, he argues, troop must certainly reach him; he knowB them to be fresh and strong; he knows that they have had only short and easy marches and therefore can easily come ahead all night long and be round- J ing the Pyramid spur by daybreak. He knows Mason well and can count on that young officer doing his "level best'* to support him. Alas! he does not know that Mason is compelled by this time to fall back to second place and that the last man on whom he can possibly count "in a pinch" is now in command of the looked for troop. The night wears on without alarm. Well nigh exhausted, Lane has thrown himself at the foot of a tree to catch what sleep he may, and he feels as I though he had not closed bis eyes when Corp. Shea bends over him to say it is 2 o'clock. Noiselessly the men are arous ed; silently they roll out of their blan kets, and obedient to the low toned "fall e" of the first sergeant, seize their arms and take their place in line. There Lane briefly explains the situation: tells them I of the position of the Apache bivouac: f details Corp. Riley and four men to search for, secure and hie away with the prisoners, and orders all the rest to fight like the devil to drive the Apaches heiter skelter into the rocks. "Let not one word be said nor a trig ger pulled until we are right among them. Wait for my command, unless we are detected and fired on. If wo are, blaze away at once; but never stop your rush: get right in among them. Let Riley and his men make instant search, J be sure they leave neither woman nor I child behind, and start them back here, j The rest of us will fall back slowly, keeping between them and the Apaches all the time. Never let them get near those prisoners. That is the main object j of our attack. Once back here with the horses, we can pick out places in the rocks from which we can stand the Apaches off until troop comes. Rest assured Lieut. Mason and his men will be along by 8 or 9; and it cannot be that the cavalry now pursuing the Apaches from the north will be more than a few hours behind. Now, do you anderstand? for there will be no chance of orders up there. Leave your can teens; leave anything that will hinder or rattle. Those of you who have on spurs, | take them oft Those of you who have I Tonto or Apache moccasins, take off your top boots and put them on; they are all the better for going up these hill sides. Now get your coffee, men; make no noise, light no additional fires, and be ready to move in twenty minutes." Then he pencils this brief note: \ "Commanding Officer Troop K, Eleventh Cavalry: ? "We have headed the Apaches and will attack their camp the instant it is light enough to see, rescue their cap tives, then fall back here to the gorge of the San Simon. They far outnumber us, and you cannot reach us too soon. 1 count upon your being here by'S in the morning, and hope with your aid to hold the enemy until Greene's command ar-1 rives. Then we ought to capture the I whole band. Do not fail me. ! "Fredeeick Lant?, "Captain Eleventh Cavalry." This he gave to Sergt. Luce, with or ders to ride back on the trail until he j meets troop and deliver it to Lieut. I Mason or whoever is in command, and in half an hour Luce is away. 1 And now, just as the dawn is break ing and a faint pallid light is stealing through the tree tops along the rocky range, there come creeping slowly, 1 noiselessly along the slope a score of j shadowy forms, crouching from bowlder to bowlder, from tree to tree. Not a word is spoken, save now and then a whispered caution. Foremost, carbine J in hand, is the captain, now halting a moment to give some signal to those nearest him, now peering ahead over the rocks that bar the way. At last he reaches a point where, looking down the dark and rugged hillside before him, he sees something which causes him to un sling the case in which his field glasses are carried, to gaze thither long and fixedly. With all ?;"cs upon their leader, the men wait and listen; some cautiously try the hammers of their carbines and loosen a few cartridges in the loops o? their prairie belts. A signal from Lane brings Mr. Royce',- the young second lieutenant, to his side. It is the boy's first experience of the kind, and his heart is thumping, but he means to be one of the foremost in the charge when the time comes. Watching closely, the nearest men can seo that the captain is j pointing out some' object nearer at hand than they supposed, and the first ser geant, crouching to a neighboring rock, looks cautiously over, and then eagerly motions to others to join him. The Apache hiding place is not three hundred yards away. Down the mountain side to the west and up the range to the north their sen tries keep vigilant guard against Fur prise: but what man of their number dreams for an instant that on the south, between them and the Mexican line, there is now closing in to the attack a little troop of veteran campaigners, led by a man whom they have learned to dread before now? Invisible from the valley below or the heights up tho range, their smoldering fires can be plainly seen from where Lane and his men are now concealed. But nothing else can be distinguished. Far over to the western side of the valley tiro faint red glow tolls where lie the ruins of the ranch their young war riors had destroyed, and any moment now their exultant yells may be heard as they cj:ne scampering back to camp after a night of deviltry, and then every body will be up and moving off and well on tho way southward before the sun gets over the crest. Lane knows he | must make hie dash be l'ore they can re- ? tum. There would be little hope of j rescue for the poor souls lying there ? bound and helpless, with ail those fierce j young fighters close at hand. Tho word is passed among the men:1 "Follow closely, but look well to your footing. Dislodgo no stones." Then,- ? slowly and stealthily as before, on they go?tliis time down the hill towards the faint lights of tho Indian bivouac A ; hundred yards more and Lana holds up his hand, a si;mal to halt; an i here ho gives Mr. Royce a few instructions m a low tone. The youngster nods his head and mutters to several of the men as h? passes: "Follow mo." They disappear aiuor'.g the rocks and trees to the right, ?feid it is evident that they mean to work around to the east of the bivouac, so as to partially incirclethem. Little by lit- ! tie the wan light grows brighter, and close at hand- objects far more distinct, j An Indian is just passing in front of the ? nearest blaze and is lost in the gloom among the stunted trees. One or two1 forms are moving about, but they can 1 only dimly be distinguished^ Lane1 argues, however, that they are getting, ready to move and no time is to be lost". "Spread out now," is the order, "well to the right and left, and move forward. Be very careful." And once more they resume their catlike advance. Nearer and nearer they creep upon the unsus ry-riing foe, and soon many a form of sleeping Apache can be made out, lying around in the grassy basin in which they are hiding for the night. Lane motions to Corp. Riley to come close to his side. "I can see nothing that looks like pris oners; they must be among the trees there, where that farthest fire is burning. Keep close to mo with your men. Pass the word to the right, there. All ready." And now they are so near the Indians that the voices of one or two squaws can be heard chatting in low tones; then the feeble wail of an infant is for a moment brought to their straining ears; then far : out over the level valley to the west there is a sound that causes Lane's blood to tingle?faint, distant, but unmistaka ble?a choras of Apache yells. The raid ers are coming Kock; it is time to strike the blow. Now or never seems to be the word as the men glance at their leader and then into each other's faces. "Forward! no shot, no sound, till they see us; then cheer like mad as you charge." Come on, meni" Quickly now following his lead, they go leaping down the hillside. Thirty fifty yards without mishap or discovery. Sixty, and still no sound from the de fense; then a sudden stumble, the rattle of a carbine sliding down the rocks, a muttered execration: then a shrill, pierc ing scream from the midst of the bivouac; then "Charge!" In they go!?the "Devil's own DV The still air rings with their wild hur rahs and the crash of their carbines. The flame jets light up the savage scene and show squaws and screaming children rushing for shelter among the rocks; Apache warriors springing from the j ground, some manfully facing the rush ! of the foe, others fleeing like women i down the hillside. | Never halting an instant, the soldiers dash through the camp, driving the dusky occupants heiter skelter. Lane ? finds himself confronted one instant by ' a savage warrior whose eyes gleam like tiger's under the thatch of coarse black hair, and whose teeth gnash in fury as he tries to force a fresh cartridge into his breech loader. No time for Lane to reload. He clubs his carbine, and the ? hammer comes crashing down on the In- ? dian's skull just as Corp. Riley drives a bullet through hi.Sjh.eart. "Look to the captives, man!" shouts Lane. "Don't follow me! Drive them! drive them, Royce!" are his ringing or ders, as he himself dashes on past the fires and into the feeble morning light beyond. Bang! bang! the carbines are ringing through the rocks and trees; cheer upon cheer goes up from the little command, j mingled with Indian yells and the screams of the terrified children. "Riley's got 'em, sir," he hears his boy trumpeter call. "Some of 'em, anyhow, j There's two white women." 'Never mind, lad, " he answers. "Don't sound the recall till I tell you." And again his ringing voice is heard i among the tumult: "Forward! forward! drive them! keep them on the run, men!", And so for five minutes longer, firing j whenever a savage head appears, inflict ing and receiving many a savage blow, but still victoriously forcing their way onward, the little band follow their leader down the rocks until apparently not an Apache is left in the' immediate neighborhood of the old camp. Then af last the trumpet peals out its signal re call, j And slowly and steadily, watchfully guarding against the possibility of leav ing some wounded comrade among the' rocks, the little command finally gathers once more around the fires in the camp; Riley and his men have disappeared. I A shout from up the rocks in the well known Irish voice gives the glad intelli gence that he has brought with him all the prisoners he could find in camp, "There are three women, sir, and two little ch?ldren^-two- g?r?s; they're so frightened that I can hardly find out' much from them, but they say there was no more left." "Very well, then. Now, men, open' out right and left, and fall back very slowly. Sergeant, take six of the men and move up so as to be close to Riley in case they attack from the flank. Are we all here? Are any wounded or hurt?" He asks the question with a little stream of blood trickling down from his left temple; but of which he seems perfectly unaware; either an arrow or a bullet bas toni the skin and made quite a furrow through the hair. "Murphy, sir," says one of the men, "is shot through the arm, and Lathroti has got a" bullet in the* leg; but they're only flesh wounds; they're lying here just back of us." Lane turns about and- finds two of his men looking a little pale, but perfectly plucky and self possessed. "We'll get you aloug all right, men," he says; "don't worry. Now, lads, turn about every ten or fifteen steps, and see that they don't get close upon you. Look well to the left." Then slowly they fall back towards tlic pass. Every now and then a shot comes whizzing by. as the Apaches re gain courage and creep up to their ab?i> doned camp. But not until they arc weil back over the ridge, and Riley and his little party, fairly carrying their' res cued captives, are nearly out of harm's way, do the scattered warriors begin tc realize how few in number their assail ants must be. Rallying shouts can be heard among the rocks, and then there come the thunder of hoofs out on the plain below and the answering yells of the returning raiders. "Run to Corp. Riley and tell him tc make all the haste he can." Lane orders his trumpeter. "Tell hint to gcr backte the horses, and then, as soon as he has left Iiis women in a safo piace there, tc throw up stone shelters v?ercver it is possible. Royce, yon look out for this front. I will go to the left. If any of your men are hit. have them picked up and moved rapidly to the rear: of course, we can't leave any wounded to fall into their hands: but, where possible, keep your men under cover: and keep undei yourself, sir; don't let me see you expos ing yourself unnecessarily, as I did a while ago." And once again the retreat is resumed. Lane looks anxiously among the rocks down the hill to his left, every instant expecting to see the young braves bur ning to the assault. But now, as though in obedience to the signals of some leader, the Apaches cease their pursuit. Lane well Knows that the mat ter is not yet concluded, but is thankful' for the respite. Still warily bis Kttle* force continues the withdrawal; and, without further molestation, reaches the gorge of the San Simon, and soon comes in sight of the dip among the rocks where the horses are still hidden. Here; too, Corp. Riley and his men are busily at work heaping up little breastworks of rock, and Lane directs that while the wounded?there are three now?are car ried down to where the rescued women1 and children are lying, the other men fall to and help. In five minutes there are over a score-of them at work, and not one instant too soon. Corp. Donnel ly, who has been posted, mounted, at the western entrance to the defile, comes clattering in to say that at least a hun dred Indians are swarming' down the ridge. And now the fight that opens is one* in which the odds are greatly against the defenders. Lane has just time* ?. to climb to the height on the east and take one long look with bis glasses1 over the fiats beyond the pass, praying for a sight of a dust cloud towards the* Pyramid Spur, when with simultaneous1 crash of musketry and chorus of yells the Apaches corne sweeping down to the attack. [TO BE COHTTSURO J" Some Interesting Figures^ From proof sheets of Comptroller General Verner's annual report to the general assembly, the following figures and statements have been published The report discusses the new system* of bookkeeping introduced by act of the general assembly at the he* session* and shows the infinite superiority ovetf the former method For the fiscal year ?8S8 89 the totafs* charged against the county treasurers* were ?776.444 57, and the credits* $52 048 78* leaving a net amount of ?724 395 78. The pHocphate roya?ty a-nounfed ftf $237.144 06, which is $2?,04?7.10> more than has ever been collected here tofore insurance fees collected, ?>.640 75 ? secretary of state fees,. J2,4"39 19 sinking fund commission, ?7.484.8?$*; department of agriculture, piivilege taxy $42,569.85. The total receipts amount to ? . 129',-? 918.63, including escheated property,, borrowed money and loans. The b ilance in the treasary on Nov. I, 1889 was ?60,142 82'; total amor?* for the fiscal year is $1.190.061.45 ? total expenditures ?1.153 920 34; balance suhject to comptroller's draft, ?36 140 11 ; balnnce unreported by* state treasurer ?77,494 93 ;? balance* a'cording to comptroller's cash book, $26.141 11. makiug a difference of ?41.802 82, which is accounted for by outstanding warrants. The total amount of county taxes W?t$ ?1001 747 94; school taxes $605,^ 293*84 The assessed value of property fct 1889 90 is ?150,602 45? which is an iocrease of about five million over pre vious assessments.- At the same rate of taxation this will make more than* t?irty millions over previous yearn pensions1. There were issued pensions of aBotf? ?23.50 each to 2 015 persons, leaving: ?5 80 not disbursed, out of the ?50," ?00 appropriated. the state bebt*. Here is a very interesting statement in regard to the state debt, prepared by Mr. W. J Lnval, for the annual report. it is not given verbatim,, but somewhat abridged. The reported' state debt on* Oct. 3?,. .1890, amounts to $6.992 9?9 49, and is in five classes, as follows : First?Agricultural scrip, nerpetual,. ?191.800? I Second?Blue 4? per cent, bonds and; stocks, due 1928, ?400,000. Third?I>cn\*ienoy stock, due 1888* and not yet surrendered for redemption ?759 95. Fourth?Principal old bonds andl stocks nofr yet surreadered, $389,429 - :2?. Fifth?Omsol bonds and stock, $6V 010 930.32. These are in two classes* ?brown consols, ?5.442.019.18 ; and green consols, $568.9?1 14 There is1 ,ar> invalidity of ?450.103 87" leaving the t?tat amount of valid outstanding consols to Se paitf in 1893, ?5 560, 826.45. The old debt scaled at 50 cents ?tf the dollar gives ?280,173 55 which must be added to the consol debt, giving" the total state deof to be redeemed in1 1893, $5.841,000, with scrip, blue bonds and deficiency added. The total? valid debt then is $6,433,559.95. Picking Cotton by Machinery. The other day, at the Memphis Cot ton Exchange, a bate of co?ton was placed on exhibition which was the first' ever picked by machinery. The in ventor asserts that k wHr do the work of fifty oieo. And if he be correct, the Memphis Avalanche says that "the uegro question ie solved, and he will bave to seek for employment elsewhere.* The popaflaf valid objection against the colonizing of the negro has beer/ that he was essential to the gathering of the cotton crop It would be a remarkable fact if the century that began with an* invention which doomed the negro te slavery should end with another thai makes his l-rbcr valueless. The conclusion of the Avalanc?e> ? howev>i*, is too sweeping a generaliza ! tion. laborers will still be wanted ini ! the cotton States, even rf cotton picking ! should be done by machinery, and there ! is the other fact that the attachment to' j the soil on the part of tnrs particular laborer rs very close and clinging. Th? deportation of a great and unwilling free population is not a reasonable pro posit vim. Since the war there has been no obstruction to the exodus of the oe^ro from his home if he desired to go. But there has been no such exodus, and no sign of a general dis position to go. Poverty, has, of course, detained him, but not against his will. Nevertheless the (act recorded by the Avalanche is very interesting and sug gestive ? Harper's Weekly. j A DUTY TO YOURSELF. It is snrpriMiig thai ??<> ?? \\ii> ?.-o c"r?r rao?i, ordinary piti when they can secure a valuable English one ii?r the -ame m>ney Dr. Aefcer S" Knglrsh v\?\f are a' p-?i>:>ce <--re* for sick headache and all liver it ouWee. They* are small, sweet, easily taken an I do not gr-?e. For sale by J. F.*V\ DeLorae. $