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CLARg, MICHIGAN, FRim^:N0V^BER 21,. 1879.
NUMBER 29,
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The  Clare   County  Press.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY AT
Clare, Clare Countv, Mich.,
—-by—
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LAWYERS,
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prompt attention. C>'llceti»ns made am! Real Ee
tsite*iuughtiiud sold. Ufliue Maynard l!U>c.k,Muin St
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EO. J. CUMMINS,
Attorney-at-Law and XoWfor,
Gourt House Building, Farwcll, Mich,
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C. CASTERLIN,
Attorm-y-aiuM 'ounselor-at-Law, ancl
Counselor & Solicitor in ('haui't-ry,
Oourt House Building, Farwell, Jli'-h.
HC.  DODGE, JrsTK'E of the
• Pea. .k and Xiitary Pint if, Vikmn, bas
Good Faiimixu Lands for Sale
Cheap.   Titles Perfect,
Terms Easy,
H. 0, Dodge, Fbwell, Mich.
jp II. SUTHERLAND,
Notary Public & Insurance Agt.
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AUTUMN.
BV* I). It. LONO.
Oiico again Iho chilled hand o£ autumn
Sweeps from earth her beauteous robe of green.
Spreading o'er hor face a sickly pallor,
Lending to our oyes a solemn scone.
Solemn, not because the loaves are falling;
"Sot because the fields are greon no more;
Xot because old earth's bright coat is fading;
Not because the summer timo ia o'er;
For within old nature's secret chambers
Embryonic blossoms over bloom,
And the autumn's shade and freezing wiutor
Hold to thom no semblance of a tomb;
But because in life wo have an autumn,
Season of tho shmmer's fading time—
Season that makes gray of golden ringlets—
Period of tho ivy's frosted chimo.
Yea, 'tis solemn, for tho vivid pictures
Of our youth and childhood's happy days
Rise upon onr fainting, fading eyesight-
Holy stroakings of life's morning rays.
Solemn, for we see on earth no longer
1'aces of the loved ones, gone before:
Falling on our ear tho sad, sad warning'
That our lives on earth will soon be o'er;
That the winter's breath is softly stealing,
And the locks of gold aro growing gray;
That the sevoring car of dissolution
Soon will waft us from thin house of clay.
But, when death's dark, frigid night is over,
Will thero bo another springtime then?
Will tho flowors that faded in the autumn
Bo revived and quickened once again?
Will those cherished souls that lost their luster
When tbe faded leaves began to fall
Spritig, refreshed, anew within God's garden,
In the springtime, at tho Maator's call?
Will those hearts that loved and that wero loving,
Beat within the realm of Paradise?
Will those eyes that beamed with radiant luster
Beam where soul's existence never dies?
Will those hands that wero always doing
Deeds of kindness to the -weary ones of earth
Still keep doing in that spring eternal,
When the eyes behold that nobler birth?
Applbios, Ohio.
sides of tho head, tho face looked as
peaceful and natural as in life, but blood
was running from the mouth. I stooped 'fi'foif-.be aet free, war or no war.   Her
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OUT OF THE JAWS OF DEATH.
Harness, Whips, Robes, _ Blankets.
Th'.- "-"-st assortment of Trunks and Triveling
bags iu t >u-u. and prices the lowest.
TIIE REST OF MATERIAL VSED.
:i5.tly
All worV
I will
warranted     Repairing .'".-i
,ell t:h* aper than can be h -;,
where in Saginaw Valky.
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T3UBEN SMITH,
XOTARV PUBLIC.
Real Estate and Insurance Agent
MARK, MICH.
Particular attention |>.tid t" h >Vi:n l.i
in^ pine timber, adln-tin^ trt:spst^-,,v
taxes f.r n< 11 residents.
Matih.itt.,u,Kire Ins-.ir..!:. •■■■ t'.nipui.y cf New York
Str  fig and s,,j;i:d, with 1"W rates.
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R. JEFFERIES,
DEAMK IN
FRESH & SALT MEAT,
Fresh and Cured Fish,
Fine Groceries and General
Farm Produce.
Cheapest TEA in Town!
fas/i paid for hides.
MAIN STREET, CLARE.
HOTELS, LIVERIES, &C.
■^mT~VVlijSmFliE,   .NEWLY
Rcjitted, jXtv Proprutor.
ST.JAMES HOTEL,
v. k. brow:**, Prop.,
MOUNT PLEASANT,   MICH.
First Class A<-c(>mrwjd.itions.    ()<--n-'l Sample Rooms
for Agents.  Good Uarn.
HARWELL BILLIARE HALL,
FARWELL, MICH.
FINEST-CIGARS,
Pure [vines, Liquors, A les, Beer, Porter, Cider, Etc.
Those desiring a pure article arc invited to nil!.
:   HENRY  NEWTON*.
QUMMERS & NEWTON,
F AR W ELL 'LIVERY.
FORSKSSTCARRIAGES
TO   LET.
Partial t'o/irci/iil ivirj/whcre  in  this
scr/ion fit'l vicinity,
jCfc-Terms reafi nablc-.
jgAGLE HOTEL,
Coral, Montcalm Co., Mich.
A.FRED GOODENOUOII, Prop.
A Temperance House.
This ir, a new h<iu-.>, neatly furnished, convenient
to the trains, with g:,<jd acr.timr.imlations at reason-
iblc prices.
GOOD   "CIVKHLY ATTACHED.
3Irs Meeker's Story ot the White River
Agency Massneru ; Together with 11 Narrii-
tive of Her Three "Weeks' Captivity.
On the morning of the massacre,
Douglass came to the agency, andspoko
of soldiers coming. My husband said,
" Let them come. They will not hurt
any one. But *we -will send for all the
chiefs and head Captains, and hear
their complaints, and talk the matter
over." Douglass did not say much, and
went away. I was in the kitchen with
my daughter washing dishes about 1:30
o'clock. Some of the Indians h-^d
eaten with us, and Ohief Douglass had
been peeking around the table and joking with my Josephine while we were
washing the dishes. Then came a volley
of flresanns. ■■^ewindo.^were.sliofcin,
S f Go/ tirs't move Vas to git tinder the bed'
m Josephine's room to avoid the bullets. Josephine had the key of the
milk-house, and proposed to go there.
The bullets were liying like hailstones,
and we looked ourselves into the milk-
house. We stayed there all the afternoon, and heard no sounds but the crash
of the guns. We knew all the men
were being killed, and expected that the
Indians would finish the day with
the butchery of the women. Frank
Dresser came in shot through the leg.
He killed an Indian just as we let him
nto the milk-house.
About 5 o'clock the firing ceased, and
all was still.    Suddenly we heard the
low crackle of flames and smelt smoke.
vt.mat ! Then we saw it coming through the
y..y.r.z I cracks in the ceilings, and knew that
j the destruction of the agency buildings
i had begun.   We left   the   milk-house
i cautiously,   and   Josephine   reconnoi-
i tered the enemy.   " It's a good time to
i escape," she  said.   " Tho Indians aro
j busy stealing agency goods."   We went
| around in front of the Agent's office and
1 found the doors open and things undisturbed.   We saw no one, living or
dead.   We ran toward the sage brush
so as to keep the buildings between us
| and the Indians, but we had not gone
far before we were discovered, and the
1 Indians made for ns, firing as they ran.
The bullets fell all around us, and one
j struck me in the thigh, plowing through
the flesh just under the skin.   It stung
! me like a wasp, and I thought it time to
drop.   I fell to the ground.   The In-
I dians caijtured Josephine and Mrs.
j Price, as" they were "behind me -with
j Mrs. Price's babies. A chief came to
: me and said he was " Heap sorry." He
i asked me   if I could get up.   I said
" Yes." He then asked if I would go
i with him. I said " Yes." He said he
j was " Heap mad; soldier killed Indian."
i He saw them shoot, and he was " heap
j mad." They would kill women aud
i children. The Indians had so ordered
! it. He said that he would take me to
■ Chief Douglass' house, and he asked if
II had any whisky.   I answered " No,"
and he asked if I had any money.   I
I answered that there was some in my
j room    in    the    building,   then   on
I fire.   The Indian told me to get it and
j he would wait for me. I got the money,
the Indian urging me to hurry up. We
j went to Douglass' camp, and the Indian
made   me   count   the money.   There
was  $30.   The Indian  took,   it,   and
gave it to Chief Douglass.   I had two
silver dollars, and Douglass gave them
to the Indian who captured me.  Douglass sent an Indian named Thompson
i to the burning building with me, and I
! got a hood, a shawl, and a blanket.   1
i handed around bedding, etc., among
1 the Indians, who took them, and I at-
terward saw them in camp when I was
suffering for the want of blankets to
keep me warm.   I went to the house
again, and got a copy of   "Pilgrim's
Progress," and a box of medicines. The
box was so hea*vy that aa Indian refused
to carry it.   It was lost, but he took the
book.   In going back this last timo I
saw the body of my husband stretched
out   on the ground   in front of  the
Warehouse.   All the clothing was gone
but the shirt.   The body was not mutilated.    Tbe arms were extended at the
to kiss him, but, just as my lips 'were
near his, I saw an Indian standing
stone-still looking at me, so I turned
and walked away. Douglass afterward
said that my husband was shot through
tho side of the head.
Preparations to leave immediately
were made. It was dark, and Douglass
lost no time in getting started. Being
ame, I asked to ride behind Douglass".
Douglass' breath smelt strongly oi
whisky. He said: "Your father dead?
I had a father once. Ho, too, dead.
Agent no understand about the fight
Indians make." Douglass sang an obscene song to a very pretty melody in
slow measure. When he had finished, he
asked how I liked it. My limb ached
so terribly that I could scarcely get on
the horse. Douglass held it awhile.
Then he strapped it in a kind of a sling
to his saddle. I asked if I should seo
my daughter Josephine. Douglass replied: "Yes." As wo rode, a villainous-looking Indian trotted alongside
and slapped me on the shoulder, and
asked how I would liko to be his squaw,
and ho made indecent proposals. Chief
Douglass listened and laughed. He
said the Indian was an Arapahoe,
and I would kill "Utes if I married an
Arapahoe.
Wo left the trail and came to a littlo
canyon in the mountains. Alldismount-
ed, and the prisoners were searched,
even to our shoes and stockings. They
stole my pocketbook and a handkerchief.
They tallied indecently to us, and
made shameful proposals. They were
drunk. They even threatened me with
death if I did not submit to their bestiality, Fortunately I escaped outrage,
but had to submit to terrifying threats
of violenco and death. Douglass went
through the farce of imitating the employes in keeping guard at the agency.
He mocked the soldiers, walking up
and down with a gun on his shoulder,
and sang. My face was partly covered,
but suddenly I heard Douglass' voice.
I turned and saw Chief Douglass standing close by me with the muzzle of his
gun pointing directly at my face. I involuntarily cried out. Josephine heard
me, and her voice came, saying, " I am
all right, mamma. Don't be^ afraid."
Douglass lowered his gun,, nosed ,it
again, and took aimr ,1 sua:nothing,.
ho only playing soldier." After resting
half an hour we remounted and rode
until midnight, when we reached the
Ute women's camp. I was so lame that
I could not move. He took my hand
and pulled me off, and I fell on tho
ground because I could not stand. An
Indian and a squaw came and helped
me up, and led me to a tent. Douglass
and his wife covered me with blankets.
Douglass awoke me: "Runner just
come; Indians killed heap soldiers;
, Douglass go to front; gone five days,"
btt-fBt into.the lodge in a magnifi-
wt-vtap, i»nd demanded that the oap-
jlfcther had.' tib ordered, and she took
JfiB-^embly by storm. She told the
'wiotio slory of the captives, and ad-
V|*3^tiio Indians to do as Ouray re-
qwested, and trust to the meroy of the
< i?*r**iiunen>. . ■   .   i.
i $*en, Adams said he must have a de-
c wop. at onco, as he would have to
l »v*>. \ That settled it, and we were all
stfi-free.
"iSTexfe morning, when we were about
tft\irfart, tor the wagon, which was a
<!»'•'»' journey to the south, Ohief
jMmuon,' who was slightly cool toward
ii*,;ihrew out a poor saddle for me to
ndp^iipon. His wife Susan caught
sight of it, and was iurious. She fltmg
if|f*?jy» and, went to a pile of saddles
awn^iokqd but tho best one in the lot.
3h$&jlA&-':al good blanket and gave
b<i*t%.to',tae.' Thon she turned to the
oLjM'-and 'poured,u^iit her contempt
wm* fittoh effect inttt lib was glad to
sucSt away. So long as I remember the
te^twhicb. this good woman shed over
thdjchildren, the w-ord/*! of sympathy
wjjich she gave, the kindness that she
showed to us, I shall never cease to re-
sijsat her, and to bless the goodness
of,lifer brother Ouray, the Ohief of tho
So-nth,.
Jitx*. I'-rice'ii Narrative of Ucr KxpcrJeuco :m
" "■' . an Indian Captive.
tHistbofore noon Monday an Indian
m^gij^came from whero the" soldiers
Utrk.ptfMill creek, and we supposed
WO*Hjou0ht news to Douglass they were
heating and perhaps had killed some
figfiS'j
"pOuglass and several other Li dians
ca^"|idn, and at dinner Douglass was
veisgliuniliar, laughing and joking in
sn-®ft,jnanliej; one would not havo
thoSgp* any tiling was the matter with
hing^; j—e was laughing and joking with*-
Mf.fe'Jtle'elier, Josephine and me. Suddenly, he went out-doors. Mr. Price
atrd'-Thompson and Fras.kDresser wore
working on a building a fow steps from
tho lipase,* I had just returned, and
bcJWlwashing some clothes, when the
Indians jhred. I saw about twenty "D tes
arouM .tlie .houses. Tho firing party
ws:'* down it the barn. Frank Dresser
sail ■£*18,aw„ono "Ute—I don't know his
rifK^flr- find at* Price; and Thompson,
-*$' 'fiflhrtk''*', I *aw Thompson- either CUI
'■~^--^'jjf'kvihiBQ Tfitti' the purpose,-!:-**  {,«
_   i-.i wr- dr j—_.-i.  loM
mEnTd in, tobk'my'b'aTJy, ancTrfe toSii^-
room. Prank Dresser went to tho boys'
room, when he found the Indians had
stolen all their guns.
Ho ran in aftor Pric e's gun and came
out and shot, through tho window,
Ohief Johnson's brother, who died in
two days afterward. We then ran to
Josephine's room. In a few minutes
after twenty or thirty shots crashed
through our two windows,, and we
crawled under the bed.   The Indians
t were shooting all around.   I could hear
; and ho said I must stay in his tent and j reports of guns in  all directions and
could not get off the horse nor move,
until a kind woman assisted me to the
ground.   I was too ill and exhausted to
eat, and I went to bed without any supper.   We stayed at tuis placo several,
days.   As the soldiers approached, the ,
Indians moved further south, until they
reached    tho   pleasant   meadows   on,
Plateau   creek,   below   Grand    river.,
Before we reached this last place, Doug-1
lass permitted Josephine to como to seo ]
me every day, and the long hours were
endurable.   The courage of ihe brave |
girl cheered me very much.    My life ;
would not have beensafehaditnotbeen
for hor influence with tho Indians.' She
could speak some of their language, and
she made them cease terrifying me with |
their  horrible   threats   and  indecent
stories.   Sb.e finally forced Douglass to .
give me a saddlo, so tbat in the ^laat
days of the journeying I had something
besides a bare-back horse to ride upon.
It gave me groat joy to have her, as we
passed each othor, sing out cheerily,
"Keep up good courage, mother; I am
all right.   We shall not be killed."
The last evenings of our stay were
devoted to songs and merry-making.
Mrs. Price joined in some of the choruses, because it helped us and made the
Indians moro lenient. They told a
great variety of stories, and cracked
jokes on each other, and on the white
men. They had dances and medicine
festivals. However, tho Indians were
troubled and anxious about the troops.
Runners were constantly coming and
going. The least movement of
soldiers threw the? Indians into a flutter. Chief Douglass began to realize tho
peril of tho situation. Ohief Ouray did
not want tho White River Utes on his
domain. Douglass spoke of tho agency
as gone forever. He said it would have
to be built up again. The Indians had
lost all, and with a sigh he exclaimed :
"Douglass a heap poor man now."
When he had time he loll to abusing
the Agent, and said that if ho had kept
the troops away thero would have been
no war.
That afternoon Mrs. Meeker came
over and told us her troubles. They
had threatened to stab her with knives.
Mrs Meeker felt as though she might be
killed any night. Josephine seemed
down-hearted, though plucky. L tried
to cheer her. Tho Indians would not
lot us go alone any distance from the
camp.   They threatened if T attempted
run -flw»V  •'iioy would   fhoot^me    „,--,„' .
THE CONSCIENCE AND li*0rUKI*l JUDGMENT.
I Bat alono witli my consclonco
In a place where time had ceased,
And we talked of my former living
In tho land whore the years increased;
And I felt I should have to answer
Tho qucaUon it put to me,
Aud to face tho answer and question
Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions I
Came floating before my sight,
And things I thought wero dead thinge
Wero alive with a terrible might;
And tho vision of ail my past JIfe
Was an awful thing to face—
Alono witli my conscience sitting
In that solemnly silent place.
And I thought of a far-away warning,
Of a sorrow that was to ho mine,
In aland that then was tbo future,
And now is the present time.
Andl thought of my formor thinltinff
Of tho )udgmont-day to bo,
But silting alone with my conBCioncc
Seemed judgment enough for me.
And I wondered if there was a future
To this land beyond the gravo;
Hut none gave me, an answer,
And no one came to save.
And I folt that tho future was present,
And tho present would never go by,
For it was but the thought of my past life
Gro.vn into eternity.
Then I woke from my timely dreaming,
And tlie vision passed away,
And I knew the far-away warning
Was a warning of yesterday.
And I pray that I may not forget It,
In this land before tho gravo,
That I may not cry in tho future,
And no one como to save.
And so I havo learnt a lesson
Which I ought to havo known before,
And which, though I learnt it dreaming,
I hopo to forgot no more.
So I sit alone with my conscience.
In tho placo where tho years increaso
And I try to remcraber the future,
In tho land where time will cease;
And I know of the future judgment,
How droadful soe'er it, be,
Tha' to sit alone with my conscience-
Will be judgment enough for mq.
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I'lTII AND POINT-
Tue latest thing in boots—Stock'
ings.
L*kt a man who is without shins'
throw tho first stone.
If you lot a man a loan ho will let
you alone for a long time.
Theodore Tilton has completed a?
volume of poems.
At a spelling match ono man spelled;
"pasnip," and got beet. "   .
A post in the ground becomes decade
wood at the end of ten years.
The Zulus, in battle, keep working
their jaws, for what good /nobody ever
knew. The same phenomenon sometimes happens in the An;«rican Oon-*
gress.
A\.celebrate*d Ge*anaJ\^ahenu8*i^-to(- „*•'
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•mo^nb"would   kill'nie.   ;I 1»3t*,
"Shoot away.   I don't caro if I   die.
Shoot,   if you want to."  Ho laughed
then, and would say: "Brave squaw.. ,    , , .    ,
Good squaw.   No scare." Coho pointed ! *** yot W(fr0 not furimsed.
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his gun at me and threatened to lull me
[ pihcli'of ii phi
of water."
The  Ozar of
wait  until   he   relumed.     Douglass'
\ squaw treated me very well for one or
; two days.   Then she began to ill-use
me, and gave me nothing to eat for ono
; day.   While Douglass was gone his son-
| in-law told me frightful stories.   He
said  the Indians " No shoot mo, but
j would stab mo to death with knives."
i One squaw went through the pantomime of roasting me alive.   Josephine
| told me that it was only done to torment me.   If Douglass had got killed
I would probably have been punished.
Many of the squaws looked very sorrowful, as if some great calamity were
many times.
Ohief Johnson said he shot Thornburgh in the forehead three times with
his pistol, and then got off his pony,
and pounded him in the head, and
smashed his skull all in.
Tho Utes said they were going to
kill all the soldiers, and tho women
should always live in the Utes' camp, I
excepting Mrs. Meeker.   Douglosssaid '
she could go home by-and-by.
made me do moro drudgery than they
did Josephine; made her cook and me
carry water. Ono day we left camp
about 3 o'clock in the morning. Had
no breakfast, and rode all day in thick
dust, without water. We reached
Grand river about sundown, where we
camped    in    the   sago-brush.       Tho
glass falling from tho windows.
When we arrived at the camp that
night a squaw came and took my little
boy from the horse and cried over him
like a child.
Next day we moved from that place
to another camp. It was a very nice
place, with grass two feet high, and a
nice brook of clear, cool water flowing
through it. The Indians had killed
many soldiers, and were praneingaround
in their coats and hats, putting on airs, j Indians said they were going to take us
and imitating the soldiers and making ] to the agency.
fun of them, going through a burlesque ] We were very near a large mountain,
drill, and making believe they were the j Johnson had field-glasses, and all day
about to happen. Preddie Douglass, j greatest warriors in the Y/est. They , with his field-glass was watching the
the chief's son, whom I had taken into I took a great fancy to my little boy and soldiers, and would only come down to
my house and washed, and taught, and | wanted to keep him. When they found ! his supper. The Indians took turns
doctored and nursed, came to me in my j they could not steal him they offered ! watching during the night, and during
captivity and mocked me worse than all three ponies for him. In the after-! the day covered the hills and watched
the rest. The blood was in Inm and he noon, about 2 o'clock, they cut a lot of j the soldiers throug.li their glasses. Run-
was bad. He said I was a bad squaw, j sage-brush, piled it up, and spread over ners came in with foaming steeds con-
it the clothes they had stolen from the ! stantly. At last news was received that
soldiers. Pour Indians then began to ! the soldiers were on White river moving
dance around them, and at intervals ! south. At this Johnson was very angry,
fell on their knees before them and i In the morning tho ponies were uneasy,
thrust their knives into them, and went! and they could not catch them. John-
through a mimic massacre of soldiers., son's young squaw did not get around
Other Utes kept joining the party that J to suit him, so he took a black suake-
<-?as dancing, xini\ h ring was made as | whip, caught her by the hair, and gave
big as a good-sized house. They would j her a severe whipping. He then went
first run away, then turn and dance ; to help hiq other squaw, Susan, Ohief
back the other way, yelling and halloo- j Ouray's sister, pack up. They put us on
ing like frenzied devils. They had war ; one horse and strapped my little girl m
suits, fur caps with eagle feathers, and ; a blanket behind Josephine.   I had my
Russia is melancholy.
It would:
mako most men feel that way to bo*
taken for a target thirteen months out
of the year.
The barber's razor took hold of his-
beard with a vengeance, when he looked
up and said, apologetically: "My dear
sir, I came in to got shaved—not to get
a tooth pulled!"
A little girl, on being told something  which   much  amused   her,   ex-
t claimed, emphatically: "I shall remom-
They j ber that tho whole of my life, and when
and an old white squaw
Ono clay I was told that a white man
named Washington would come soon.
At last an Uncompahgre Ute came from
Ohief Ouray and spoke very kindly to
me, and, as he sat by the' fire, said:
"To-morrow five white men coming
and some Indians;" among them would
be '* Chicago man, Sherman; a great
big peace man," Gen. Adams. He said
they were going to havo a talk, and the
captives would go home. The Uncompahgre said that a wagon would be
waiting at a certain place on the Plateau.    Next day we were   washing at
looked strangely hideous.   They wanted Miss Josie and me to   dance with
the creek, when Ohief Johnson came
■ them.   Wo told them we could not.
baby in front of me.   Johnson was very
mad, and pointed his gun at each one
j and said a big council was to be held, |
j we must not come up to the tents until j
j the end of the meeting. Dinner was
sent us by the squaws, and we began to
have hopes of release after being de
luded with false predictions many times
before. Finally we saw the foremost of
tho white men on the top of the hill by
the tent. When I first saw Gen. Adams
I could not say a word, my emotion
was so great. We had borne insults
and threats of death, mockery and ridicule, and not one of us shed a tear; but
Douglass returned from fighting on
I forget it I will write it down."
Tiik donkey is a pr, tty bird,
So gentle and so wise;
It has a silky little tail
With which to frisk tho flies.
Upon its head two cars it bears,
H') silky, long and soft,
That, when its tail can't reach the Hies
The ears can whisk them off.
A good woman, after the death of
her husband, had married the brother
of tho departed. She preserved, nevertheless, in her dining-room, a picturo
of her first spouse. One day, a guest
at tho table, noticing the portrait, asked
her if it was a member of her famihv
"Yes," replied the lady, frankly, " itis a-
por trait of my poor brother-in-law."
A Paris omnibus, one of the very
large three-horsed kind, recently broke
exactly into two pieces. The first half
went off with the driver, who was unconscious of what had happened. The
hind part remained poiseu on its two
wheels—it is not said *?iow long—but
all the passengers had time to get-
down. Fortunately there were but
few. Only one was seated irf the exact
middle of the vehicle, an old lady, who,
when the division of the omnibus oa-
curred, was deposited somewhat suddenly on the pavement.
"Can you cure my eyes?" said a man
to Dr. Brown. "Yes," said the doctor*
"if you will follow my prescription."
of
were coming to treat for our releaso.
Saturday night. The next day his wife j Next day the men came. Soon aftor we
went back to the agency.    Douglass! met   Gen.   Adams,   Capt.   Cline,   Mr.
At last we heard white men | "Oh, certainly, doctor," said the patient;
was morose, and had little to say.   He
did not seem to be satisfied with the
situation, but thought the Indians would *
annihilate the soldiers.   Large numbers
of head men came to consult Douglass.!
They were making speeches and discussing tilings.   Douglass often asked j
us where the Agent was.   I said  I did
not know.   Mrs. Douglass treated me |
spitefully, and her chief was not much
Sherman, the Los Pinos Agency clerk,
aud their party. They spoke to Mrs.
Meeker first and said, "How do you do ?"
with a deep and pathetic emphasis.
Thoy then shook hands with us until
our hearts burned.
An Old Puzzle Revived.
It is said that a gentleman in Paris
has offered a prize of 20,000 francs to
the sight of GenT Adams CarTt Oline,!better-   ^ a day or two Johnson be-1 "as oneroc a prize oi au.uuvi irancs to
uuo wfeut oi urcn. Aaams, uapt. onne, j moraine i anyone who   will   draw   the annexod
Mr. Sherman and their men was too  cam.e very cioss.   J^aily one morning       j ™fi„-,„f lift.
Mr. Sherman and their men was too        ... .
much for me, and my gratitude was we oegan to move again. It was a long
greater than my speech. We owe much , and terrible journey that day. I rodo a t
to the wife of Johnson. She is Ouray's I P°ny with neither saddle, nor bridle, i
sister, and, like him, she has a kind |llor, stirrups. Not a single halt was ;
heart. Ourav had ordered us to be ! ™ade, and my pain was so great that;
well treated, and that we should be al- i $he cn°W drops stood on my forehead, j
lowed to go home. iI coultl ouly cll"g to the P'"1?^ i'i«iuS ,
The council was a stormy one.   Yari-1 ustnde.   Josephine ancl Mrs. Price rode ;
ous opinions prevailed.   The war party I a}lead', Ono of the mountains was so
wanted us held until peace should be ; steep that, after making part of the as- •
made   between  the Indians   and   tho | CP^> Douglass' party had to turn back ;
Government.     They wanted to set ltd  alul 8° around it.
against the guilty murderers, so as to      We reached a camping-ground half an
save them through us.   After   a few. hour after dark, and pitched our tents
hours of violent speeches, Mrs. John-1 in the valley.   I was so faint that I
figure with a pencil or pen without lifting either from tho paper or interfering
with any lino or portion of a line, previously made. "The thing can bo
done,'1 and the doer has only to go to
Prance, prove his ability to conquer the
puzzle, and take the reward:
The historian, Georgo Bancroft, is so
deaf that he can scarcely hear a word.
"I will do anything to have my eyeo
cured. What is your remedy, doctor?"
"You must steal a horse," said the doc-1
tor, very soberly. "Steal a horse, docj
tor I" said the patient, in amazement/
"How will that cure my eyes?" "Yotj
will be sent to State prison for five
years, where you could not get whisky;
and, during your incarceration, your
eyes would get well," said the doctor.
The patient looked somewhat incredulous, but he did not adopt the doctor's
remedy.
"You play poker, of course," said one
gentleman to another, who was shuffling
a pack of cards in such u scientific manner as to betray an intimato acquaintance with, the articles. "No, I never
do," waa the response. " Indeed," exclaimed the questioner, " I thought everybody in Eureka played poker." " I
am the solitary exception." "And how
is that?" " Well, you s-.ee, I got into a
big game; had an ace full and lost
| $300; then I held four queens and got
| beat out of $600 more. I then said to
myself,' Old boy, this ain't your game;
there's no money in it; you'd bettor
stick to -solitaire; it ain't so reciting. •
but it's safer;' and so I've stuck."
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