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SALINE, WASHTENAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN, MARCH 24, 1881.
YOL. I.—NO. 19.
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Important Intellignence from All Parts.
TJ. S. Senate Proceedings.
Mr-'Voorhees on the 15th called up a resolution offered by him the day before, calling-
on the Attorney-General for information as to
the names of Deputy United 8tates Marshals
appointed in the State of Indiana to attend
the polls at the election in that State in October last, and, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, an
amendment was adopted calling for any information in possession of the Attorney-General bearmff upon thenecessity for the employment of such Marshals, and the resolution as
amended was then agreed to. Mr. Pendleton
called up his reorganization resolution, when
Mr. Cameron (Pa. interposed a motion, which
was lost—3tto36—Mr. Davis (111.) voting with
the Democrats, and Mr. Mahone -with the Republicans. A motion to consider executive
business was also lost—34 to 37—when Mr.
Pendleton, stating that it was evident no
vote could be reached on the pending business, moved to adjourn, which motion was
agreed to.
The organization resolution was called up
on the 16th, when Mr. Cameron (Pa.) moved to
adjourn, but yielded to Mr. Test to offer a
resolution, which was' adopted, requesting of
the President the correspondence and accompanying documents between theUnited States
and Mexico during 1859 to 1861, inclusive, in
reference io a proposed treaty between said
Governments, and also the correspondence
during the same years between the State Department and. the United States Minister at
Mexico in reference to .any proposed convention or treaty between the .two Governments.
The m >tion to adjourn was lost^--28 to 35—
Mahone not voting: A motion to proceed to
the consideration- of executive business was
al30 l03t— 32 to 31—Mahone voting in the
affirmative. After the voting down of other
motions, Mr. Beck said that, as there was a
.Republican President backed by a Republican House, it might be better for
the Democratic party that he also
have the Senate at his back, and
have the oredit'of all that was good and the responsibility of all that was bad; therefore he
(Beck) was not in favor of attempting to hold
on to a few privileges, and ha thought the
Senate might as well adjourn, and he made a
motion to that effect, which was agreed to.
The credentials of Mr. Edgerton, of Minnesota, were presented on the 17th, and
he was sworn in. Mr. Pendleton said he
had received information which induced him
to believe that it would be impossible durinsr
the morning to obtain a Vote on the pending
organization resolution, and he therefore
moved to adjourn, which motion was agreed
to.
The credentials of Mr. Frye (Me.) were presented on the 18th, and he took the oath of
office. Mr. Pen "leton's organization resolution was indefinitely postponed—33 to 37—the
"Vice-President casting the deciding vote in
the affirmative. Mr. Anthonvthen offered a
resolution reorganizing the Senate Committees on a Bepublican basis, which was
agreed to— 38 to 37—the Vice-President casting the deciding vote. Mr.
Davis (111.) voted with the Democrats,
and Mr. Mahone with the Republicans. Mr.
Satulsbury expressed the opinion that in the
organization of the Senate the Vice-President
was not clothed by the Constitution with power to decide in a question of this character,
and that such action was an assutnotion of
power not warranted by the Constitution. Mr.
Logan sa'd the "Vice-President merelv followed
precedents, and quoted a similar case in 1S79.
Domestic.
A South Carolina lad, named John Carroll, while recently playing with some friends
on Table Rock, in Pickens County, lost his
footing fcnd fell twelve hundred feet.
Is a cell of the Eastern Penitentiary, at
Philadelphia, a few days ago John MeBride
and John Pfeifler were; found dead. Circumstances indicated that the former was murdered and tbe latter committed suicide.
It was stated on the 16th that the Executive Committee of the "World's Eair Commission had agreed to complete the first
$1,000,600 by the 15th of April, on condition
that the transportation companies subscribe
§1,000,OJO, and the citizens of New York not
represented by the companies and others
than those then on the books subscribe the
remaining ?1,000,000.
Bale Crockett, of Mississippi County,
Mo., said to be the head of a gang of counterfeiters, has been arrested by United States
detectives.
A pew days ago two lighwaymen attacked
the stage coach near Contention, Arizona,
killed the driver and wounded a passenger.
E. N. Paul, Wells, Fargo & Co.'s agent, returned their lire, causing the horses to ruu
away, and thus- saying the passengers and
treasure.
A deficit of S100,000 has been discovered
in the cash of the Ashuelot Savings Bank of
"Winchester, N. H., and the Treasurer has
assigned his property to make it good.
A Washixgtojt d spatch of the 16th says
twenty-six National Banks had deposited §2,-
525,000 m United State's, bonds as security for
circulating notes, halt a million of which
were issued on that day. '   ,
The N". T. Evening Tost of the 17th says:
"Respecting the reports floating about to
theeffeetthat the Treasury is negotiating with
the influential bankers for the sale to them
of §IC4 O'JO^OOO four-per-cent- bonds authorized but unissued, our information to-day is
that Secretary Windom declines to consider
the subject of the. sale of these bonds nntil
it has been _ definitely; settled whether or
not there is to be an extra sesssion of Congress."
A bot seven years old, named Elbert Keck,
died in Memphis a few days aao, of hydrophobia, the symptoms of which were fully
develo ed. He was bitten by a rabid dog
last Christmas. Several other persons were
bitten at the same time by the dog.
Secretary Blaine on the 17th telegraphed
to Minister Lowe'l at London and Minister
Noyes at Paris that there was no ground for
the sensational reports of British Consul
Crump, of Philadelphia, as to the existence
of hog-cholera in this country; that Crump
had been imposed npon by speculators; that
his figures were wholly untrustworthy; that
bog-cholera had prevailed in this country to
a legs exfent than ever before: and that the
scare in England and France about, trichinosis had originated from interested speculators.
A singular occurrence took place at Florence, if. C, on the 17th. James Best, while
under an -apple tree in an orchard at that
place, was struck by Ksrhtning, his grave dug
"by the bolt, and himself buried therein.
The steamer City of Peking arrived at San
Francisco oa the 17th, with 999 Chinese pas^
sengers.
^Hopson &SHEPAKD, of Utica, N. Y., wholesale dealers in crockery, have failed, with liabilities of $10i),00Q.
DoatNTG a scuffle with a burglar atYallcy
Forge, Pa., a few evenings ago Samuel
Clugston was shot twice and soon after died.
Marino Lipr, thelaofcof the murderers of
Colonel Potter, has been captured in New
Mexico^
The Bartlett mills at Newburyport, Mass.,
were destroyed by fire on the evening of the
18th.
The Pittsburgh molders gave notice on the
18th that they must receive an increase in
wages of ten per cent, on the first of April, or
they would stf.ke.
is an attempt to execute James Black, at
Marian. S. C, on the 18th, the rope broke
after he had been hoistei thirteen feet into
the air. He was restored to consciousness
by means of whisky, and hanged as speedily
as new hemp coulu be procured.
On the 18th a collision between a switch
engine and a" freigr^t train* at Parsons, Kan.
killed two men and wrecked two locomotives
and twenty ears.
Three of the alleged Northampton (Mass.)
Bank burglars were released from custody on
the ISth, the Grand Jury having failed to indict. Much indignation was expressed at the
result, and there were rumors that a compromise had been effected.
Five citizens of Arizona recently pursued
a band of Apache mule thieves f or seven days,
but were themselves finally ambushed and
murdered by them.
Mrs. Mart Rogers, of Terre Haute, Ind.,
while delirious from an attack of the measles,
sprang into a well on the 18th and was
drowned.
On the ISth the tow-boat John Means exploded her boilers near Osceola, Ark., and
immediately sank. Four of her crew were
drowned and four injured. Her tow of five
barges floated on for fifty miles.
La.te advices from the irontier represent
the White River Utes as securing all the guns
and ammunition possible, and there were
grave fears of an early outbreak. The troops
had completed a substantial block-house near
the agency.
The first overland train for the East by the
Southern route left San Francisco on the
morning of the 18th.
Just as they were coming down with the
small-pox, Charles Foster and wife, near Lexington, 111., were turned out into the storm
by the burning of their house on the night or
the 19th. Rather than endanger their neighbors, they protected themselves for seven
hours with bed clothing, and then traveled
eight miles in a lumber wagon to reach the
residence of a family already stricken by the
same disease.
Thomas Phipps, a twelve-year-old boy,
died at Hopkinsville, Ky., on the 19th, of
.ock-jaw, caused from a slight, wound in his
hand some days before with a toy pistol.
The snow and wind storm on the 19th and
20th equaled in severity any that preceded it
during the past winter, and extended very
generally throughout the Northwest, causing
considerable detention to railroad trains.
Vennor, the Canadian weather prophet, some
time ago predicted a severe snow storm on
the 20th of March.
A citizen of Indianapolis, named Charles
L. Ibach, died on the 20th, after suffering
torture for eleven weeks from trichiniasis.
A boiler in Tyler & Harrod's saw-mill,
near Frankfort, Ky., exploded the other day,
killing three persons aud wounding six.
Henkt Dillon, a young man emp oyedin
a Buifaio (N. Y.) confectionery, while unloading boxes in front of the place, was attacked by a large Newfoundland dog, which
buried its teeth in his throat. Gangrene set
in, and Dillon died a few days after, in horrible t gony.
A ten-tear-old Boston boy, named Frederic! c Clark, living at the South End, was on
the .9th held for trial on a charge which, if
pro'? ed, shows him to be an incipient Jesse
Pomeroy. It was aleged that a day or two
before he encountered little Albert Taylor,
nine years old, and, lassoing him with a slip-
noose, hung him to a lamp post. "When tired
of his cruel sport he let ^his victim down and
ran away. Taylor was badly choked, the
marks of the rope being visible on his neck
when he got home. The police had learned
of several; other instances where Clark had
abused small boys.
Ihe total value of exports from this country of petroleum and petroleum products
for the seven months ended January 31,
1SS1, was §22,839,326; during the same
months in 183J, §-5,931,159.
A Cincinnati boy, two and a half years
old, disappeared on the 17th, and nothing had
been seen or heard of him up to tha 20th. It
was thought he had been abducted by gypsies.
The training stable of J. S. OtTut, in Paris,
Ky., was destroyed by fire on the 20th, and
several valuable horses were burned to death.
The Comptroller of the Currency reported
on the 19th that the total amount of National"
Bank circulation then outstanding was §316,-
734,628; total amount of legal-tender notes
on deposit by banks reducing circulation,
banks in liquidation and insolvent banks,
f33,921,104,—leaving the net amount of circulation of the National Banks outstanding,
secured by United States bonds, $307,813,524.
The total amount of United State; bonds to
secure circulation was §347,63?,003, of which
$46,983,850 were sixes of 1881, §158,470,103
funded fives, and 8137,900,000 fours and four-
and-a-half?..
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture has
decided to hold the next State Fair in Columbus, beginning August 29 and ending September 3.
Personal and Political.
William P. Fbte has been elected by the
Maine .Legislature to succeed Mr. Blaine in
ihe United States Senate. The vote wa6 as
follows: Senate—William P.Frye (Rep.), £3;
Richard A. Frye (Fusionist), 15. House—W.
P. Frye, 82; R. A. Frye, £9.
The Democrats of the Seventh Michigan
District on the 16th nominated Cyrenius P.
Black, of Tascola, to fill the vacancy caused
by Mr. Conger's election to the United States
Senate.
The Constitutional amendments voted
upon in Indiana on the 14th were carried by
about 100,000 majority. The vote in the
State was very light.
Pjresidbnt Garfield on the 16th nominated 8. Dana Horton to be Secretary to the
Commission to attend the International
Monetary Conference at Paris.
Announcement was made on the 16th that
J, Stanley Brown had been appointed President. Garfield's private Secretary.   ."
The Arkansas Senate on the 16th defeated
the Prohibition amendment which had been
passed by the House.
The Michigan Senate on the 16th tabled
some resolutions of sympathy with Russia
because of the assassination of the Czar which
the House had adopted.
Senator Edmunds left Washington on the
evening of the 16th for Florida, Senator
Vance pairing with him for the remaiuder of
the session. Mr. Edmunds had- for some
time been troubled with a bad cold, and has
gone South to avoid the threatened danger of
its developing into bronchitis, or possibly
settling on his lungs.   •
George Jones, of the New York Times,
announced on the 17th that the ex-Presidential fund had reached the sum of $250,00:),
which will yield an annual income of $15,000.
E. D. Morgan, O iver Hoyt and George Jones
are made Trustees of the fund.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
decided that the law imposing on express
companies a tax of two per cent, on their
gross receipts is unconstitutional.
The Illinois Senate has passed a bill to
make the Illinois Central Railroad tax available forthe pavment of the ordinary expenses
of the State Government.
Washington ^specials of the 19th say the
belief was quite general that an extra session
of Congress would be called to meet in April
or early in May.
It was learned in Washington on the 39tb,
from what was said to be a trustworthy
•ource, that during a recent interview President Gj&rfield assur'etl  Gbvernor Murray, O'
Utah, of his determination to  use every endeavor to suppress po ygtmy.
JForeig-n.
On the 16th the British House of Commons
voted S2,50J,000 towards the expenses of the
Afghan war.
Austria has prohibited the importation
of hogs or hog products from the United
States.
In the recent pigeon-shooting match in
London, Dr. Carver, the American, won the
championship cup and §3,250 in money, defeating Scott by a score of 79 to 74. Scott
has challen red Carver to a second match for
a cup and $1,000 a side.
Recent events are said to have driven the
press of Russia into the unequivocal advo
cacy of a Constitution for the Empire.
The Pope has proclaimed a jubilee to November 1 for Europe, and to the end of the
year for the rest of the world.
On the 17th placards congratulating *the
Nihilists upon the murder of the Czar were
posted in Paris, and one arrest was made.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the 17th
• says it is a fact that, with the sanction of the
late Czar, a measure had been prepared
tending toward representative government
The celebration of St. Patrick's Day in
Ireland was an unusually quiet one.
At midnight on the 16th a policeman on
duty at the Lord Mayor's residence in Loudon found a wooden box containing forty
pounds of gunpowder, with which a fuse was
connected to which lighted puper had been
recently applied. The corporation offered a
reward of £100 for the discovery of the perpetrators, and additional policemen had been
stationed at the Mansion House and Bank of
England.
it was reported in London on the 17th that
the Boers had virtually accepted the British
terms, reserving one or two points for further
consideration.
Sir Charles Dilke declared in the House
of Commons on the 17th that Professor
Hind's allegations in regard to the fisheries
award were unworthy of serious consideration.
The Porte has amended its proposition as
to the line of frontier between Turkey and
Greece and has offered to cede Crete and retain a larger port on of Thessaly.
More than eight3'-seven pounds of dynamite was found in the Nihilist mine recently
discovered in St. Petersburg.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has requested
the British to postpone the evacuation of Can-
dahar-until he has arranged to take possession.
France has yielded to the request of the
United States that pork shipped before the
passage of the decree shall be subject only to
inspection.
Ihe Government of New South Wales has
voted §200,001) to assist emisrants to that region who are willing to pay half their passage
money.
The new Czar has authorized the announcement that he will first give his attention to
the internal development of the State, anl
that his foreign policy wid be entirely pacific
A Russian journal announced on the 18th
that the authorities were several months ago
advised that Nihil sts from Chicago had re-entered that country.
At the request of the Russian Min'ster at
Copenhagen, the editor of a Socialist journal
in that citv has been arrested for offering insults to Russia.
A large quantity of arms have been seized
by Austrian troops in the minaret mosque in
Bosnia.
Rochefort, the editor of the Par's Inlran-
sijeant, was on the 20th summoned before a
magistrate for advocating regicide.
In twenty-three of the provincial governments of Russia the payments due from
peasants for lands allotted io them on the
abolition of serfdom have been reduced from
forty to seventy per cent. The reduction
amounts to about 9,0JO,030 roubles aunually.
The glass-ball shooting match in London
between Messrs. Carver and Scott was on-
c.u led on the 19th, and resulted in the following total scores: Carver, 9,737; S?.ott,
9,735—Dr. Carver, the American, thus winning by two points.
IiATER NEWS.
In New York on the 21st a colored man,
delirious from small-pox, escaped from his
keepers and rushed through the streets,
shouting " small-pox" at the top'of his voice.
He was captured and taken to the hospital.
The journeymen tailors of Cincinnati on
the 21st demanded an advance of twenty-five
per cent, in wages.
The Arkansas Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
A joint resolution, passed by the lower
house of the Pennsylvania Legislature, expressing sympathy for Ireland and requesting the people of Pennsylvania to extend
pecuniary aid to the Irish, w.as referred by
the State Senate to the Committee on Federal Relations, and has been reported upon
negatively by that Committee.
The Directors of the Northern Pacific Railroad have distributed 200,000 shares of the
common stock to the original promoters of
the enterprise, bringing the capital to the
maximum l.mit of $49,000,000.
The Cincinnati lad lately repotted abducted was restored to his parents on the
21st, and Kate Fitzgerald, his abductor, was
lodged in jail. She says she was under the
jnflueuce of liquor when she  stole the boy.
Rochefort, the editor of the Paris Intran-
siffeant, admitted on the 21st that the Nihilist
telegrams, which purported to come from
Geneva, weremanufactured in Paris.
A St. Petersburg telegram of the 21st
says the police had discovered two dynamite
stores and captured a man upon whom was
found arms, poi^n and twenty thousand
roubles.
In the United States Senate on the 21st
the Chinese treaties were reported favorably from the Committee on Foreign Relations. Among the nominations confirmed
were those of Levi P. Morton, of New York,
as Minister to France, and S. Dana Horton,
of Oaio, as Secretary of the United States
Commissioners to the International Monetary
Conference at Paris.
Among the nominations made,by President Garfield on the 21st were those of
Thomas Wilson, of the District oE Columbia, to be Consul to Ghent, Belgium, and
Ronello W. Berry as Collector of Internal
Revenue for Idaho.
In Lake View, 111., about ten o'clock on the
evening of the 21st Willie Seymour, eighteen
year's old, went to the residence of Charles
H. Cram, of the Doggett, Bassett «fc Hills
Company, called him to the door and killed
him with a revolver, and then instantly blew
out his own brain3. A refusal by Mr. Cram
to permit the boy to pay attentions to his
daughter is believed to have been the cause
of the double tragedy.
A boiler in White & Russell's mill at Mid-
dlefield, 0., cxt'loded on the 21st, killing
Joseph Hamilton, Selden Sprague and John
Patehin.
It was stated on the 21st that the Boers
had been granted auothcr prolongation of the
armistice for a fortnight.
THE JPOOR MAW'S JPEfflTY.
A rich man walked abroad one day,
And a poor man walked the self-same way,
"When a pale and starving face came by,
With a pallid cheek and hopeless eye,
And the pallid face presumed to stand
And ask for bread from the rich man's hand.
The rich man sullenly turned askance.
With a gathering   frown   and a   doubtful
glance:
" I've nothing," he said, "to give to you,
Or any such rogue of a cantering crew;
Get to work—get to work! I know too well
The whining lies you beggars can tell."
So he fastened his pocket and on he went,
His heart untouched and his wisdom content.
Kow, this great owner of golden store
Had built aohureh not long befo e,
Aj lordly a fane as a man could raise,
And all the world had given him thanks and
praise.
And all who beheld it lavished fame
On his Godly gift and Christian name.
The poor man passed,  and the white lips
dared
To ask of him if a mite could be spared.
He stood a moment, but not to pause
On the truth of the tale, or the charity laws;
He was seeking to give, though it was small,
For a penny—a single penny was all.
Yet he gave it with a kindly word,
And the warmest pulse in his heart was
stirred:
'Twas a tiny seed his charity shed,
But the white lips got a taste of bread,
And the beggar's blessing hallowed the crust,
That came like a spring in the desert dust.
The rich man and the poor man died    .
(As all of us must), and were tried
Before the Eternal judgment seat above
For their thought of evil and deeds of love;
The balance of Justice there was true,
Bightly bestowing what rightly was due,
And the two new comers through Heaven's
gate
Stood there to hear their eternal fate.
The recording angel told of all the things
That fitted them both with kindred wings,
But as they stood in the crystal light,
The plumes of the rich man grew less bright;
The angels knew by that shadowy sign
That the poor man's work had been most
divine.
So they brought the unerring scales to see
Where the rich man's falling off might be,
Full many a deed did the angel's weigh,
Butthe balance kept an even sway.
At length the church endowment fund was
laid
With its thousands promised and its thousands
paid.
And it weighed so much that the angels stood
To see how the poor man could balance such
good;
When lo! a cherub came and took his place
By the empty scale with a radiant grace;
And he dropped the penny that had fed
Poor starving lips with a crust of bread.
The church endowment went up with abeam,
And the whisper of the Great Supreme,
As he beckoned the poor man to his throne,
Was heard in this immortal tone;
Blessedand holy is he who from great gain
May give his  thousands with  a reasoning
brain,
But holier far shall be his part
Who gives one penny with a pitying heart.
WEDDING GUESTS.
An Eyisode of Pioneer Life in Coloratlo
I.
All the hills were iaelting in the opal
dimness of the soft October haze,
through which, among the pines, aspen
groves shone like yellow flames. Day
by day the wine-colored fronds of the
sumach were scattered by autumn
winds. The air in its mingled brightness and vigor rekindled that pure joy
of living whose loss the effeminate
world bewails to-day. But it also reminded the miner that it was time to
bank his cabin, or leave for the valley—
a thing he was likelier to do earlier
than usual this year on account of
threatened Indian troubles. It likewise
set Mrs. Kent to making preparations
for her only daughter's wedding. Out
there weddings do not occur every day,
nor are they generally of great importance when they do. This, however,
was a special affair. Mrs. Kent, having
been widowed by an accident some years
before, had proved herself a brisk, capable woman, had opened a stopping-
place on the road to the mines, and
made it with Handy's help, so clean, so
home-like and popular that she was in
a fair way to become a capitalist. She'
owned several claims,named more or less
openly after herself or her daughter;
she had more than one present by which
to remember grateful guests; she had
her regular profits ancf her privileged
position. .  .
It could not be expected that such a
state of things would long endure without some matrimonial catastrophe,
though both were adored with that
general affection which is not very dan-
ferous in its results. Mandy's choice
ad at last fallen on a young ranchman
well started in life but no great favorite
of Mrs. Kent's. She would not have
welcomed Prince Arthur if he had come
to take away her right hand, but, seeing
there was no help for it, she determined
to give, in honor of the occasion, the
fraud " spread" of which only such a
ousekeeper was capable.
The poor, hearty, generous miners!
All the delicacies of Delmonico's cannot
so please the cloyed appetites of his
patrons as the prospect of a wholesome
4' square meal'' does them. They were
invited cordially—where indeed, would
Mrs. Kent have been without them?
She had her two hired girls tidy to the
utmost, the tidy dining-room that had
welcomed such various figures, from
the "tony" capitalist and his tonier
hireling^ to the last dead-broke adventurer, under her direction caldrons of
oysters, stacks of ham, bountiful cakes
and coffee were prepared to invigorate
the guests who, mostly masculine, might
be depressed by the ceremony.
At the. very moment, however, when
the minister was ready to unite George
Dickerson and Amanda Kent in holy
bonds, the young lady proved her womanly qualities by an, engaging fit of hesitation. She didn't know as she wanted
to get married at all. In vain her girlfriends soothed the sobbing bride-elect,
and urged her not. to disappoint every
one. She only retorted, half-angriiy,
"Just wait till you go to get married
and see if it isn't serious.*' Finding
that they could neither reason nor joke
her out of her whim, they left the held
to her lover, whose protestations finally
induced her to dry her tears and consent
to their union.
The patient preacher had just opened
proceedings in the orthodox manner
when a galloping horse, the western
signal of disaster, was heard without.
A moment after a red-headed youth
burst in the door, but no one resented
his want of manners as the new arrival
gasped:
"The Arapahoes is—is a comin'.
Hundreds of 'em, Isaw'em andi'un."
"Where? How fast? How many?"
were the questions hailed on the unre-
sponding herald, who pitching himself
on horseback, was out of sight in a
twinkling.
Of course it was a fine chance to make
a piece of border history, to die in de
fense of the ladies, and the dinner—but
no one happened to see it in that light.
Miners, so far from loving bloodshed,
are, in their daily lives, the most order-
loving people in the world. Danger
does not frighten them, but many had.
no fire-arms, many had little ones back
East to be left helpless. The house
was a wooden one, ten miles from town,
unfit for lack of ammunition to stand a
siege at all. So to the immense relief
of the women, they resolved to evacuate
the premises, or to use old Sand's expression, determined "to get out o'' this
as quick: as the Lord111 let you."
Helter skelter, not without a fierce
regret for the lost provisions, they
mounted and rode off. Mrs. Kent's
light wagon was filled, George and
Mandy were to ride behind, when the
girl suddenly requested him to wait a
moment. George, white as ashes, demurred, but she was resolute, declaring
that she would go back alone if he did
not wait. While she ran upstairs he
remained by the gate, shaking in every
limb as he looked at the low hills to the
East. The last of the fugitives had disappeared, still she did not come. He
pushed back his crisp, black locks impatiently. "Mandy, MancZee," he
called" rather faintly, then turned, and,
in a veritable paroxysm of terror,
dropped her pony's rein and hurried
away toward town.
In five minutes Mandy Kent came
down, a dark cloak thrown over her
light dress. Nothing living was to be
seen except her pony and the chickens,
who pecked away as tranquilly-as if
chicken was deadly poison to savages.
Long gray clouds, coming up from the
west, had already covered half the sky.
With a feeling of bitter and indignant
disappointment she tried to catch her
pony. The skittish beagt retreated up
a steep gulch; she followed it a little
distance, then looked back, and her
heart sickened as. she saw, coming tip
from the plain, a swarm of Indian ponies. She ran up the ravine to a little
cabin, put there, long ago, for calves,
drew^ out and examined the cause of her
delay, a handsome dagger she had
played with as a child, and crouehed in
the darkest corner of her retreat, her
heart beating till she was almost blind,
her nerves strung to the highest pitch
of excitement and terror.
upon them, blinding sleet and rain
drove across their track, and they were
obliged under penalty of losing their
way to camp in the stock-yard of a deserted ranche. Chill, damp and piercing blew the wind from the gray hills;
fires refused to light. All the romance
of the thing oozed away through the
shifting straw of their improvised counterpanes, Still more cheerless was the
dawn, breaking feebly through omnipresent clouds and bringing with it an
extremely scanty and undesirable article
of breakfast.
lt was with dismay that their leader
perceived that his men were getting into
the fighting humor, and if he did not
soon show them Indians to fight would
probably end by fighting him. Some of
the rear members of the undisciplined
brigade quietly deserted at convenient
points while the rest rode sulkily over
mud and stone. A Westener, unless absolutely destitute, never walks.
in.
ii.
If you do not know what an Indian
scare is, it is useless to describe it. No
civilized, understanding can conceive
the horror of dealingwith a foe apparently as subtle and as cruel as the evil
one himself. If you are acquainted with
the West you will be able to picture for
yourself the consternation produced in
I)—— by the startling news'. Brick
houses were in great demand. Women
gathered up their young ones and lied to
these fire-proof shelters. A lady possessed of twins dropped one of the little
innocents in her rapid career, and it
was found kicking and squalling on the
street corner by a gentleman* who at
first was sorely puzzled to know
what to do with it. Provisions were
collected, arms examined, dispatches
sent, and the local printers set up terrific headings for the bulletins, around
which gathered loud-talking and gesticulating men, even when the clouds dissolved in drops of cold rain as the day
wore on.
Mrs. Kent began to feel uneasy about
Mandy's non-appearance. She left her
friend's house and questioned the men
she met, but without success. At length
she saw George, sitting on a dry-goods
box, with his hat pulled over his face.
"Where's Mandy, George?" she
cried, "Why doesn't she come up to
Mrs. Blake's?"
He slowly raised his dull eyes to hers
as he answered thickly: "She stayed
behind.    I. couldn't wait, you know."
Mrs. Kent turned away, feeling horribly dizzy. She saw the coward had
been indulging extensively in " treats,"
andforebore to waste the fullness of
her wrath upon him. She had taken
but a few steps when she met old Jeff
Sands, a gray-headed Samson, who,
with his two sons, owned and worked a
promising mine in Gopher gulch. She
told him the state of the case.
"Th—e deuce!" he gasped," thoughtfully.
It was the only opinion he could give
on the spur of the moment, and stronger language than he had ever before
used in Mrs. Kent's hearing. For be it
known, that old Sands thought the
ground she walked on sanctified thereby, and she, oh, wicked little widow,
was not totally unconscious of the fact.
"Dash me if I wouldn't like to shake
that fellow out of his skin!" he muttered
savagely. His hearer had no call to reprove his profanity. She" was in that
state of mind when a woman needs some
man to do the swearing for her.
"But oh, Mr. Sands, what can we
do?" she exclaimed.
"Do?" he returned. "Why, get a
posse and go for the red devils as tight
as we can lick. It's queer they ain't in
sight already," he reflected. "But, I
'spose like as not they're trying to kill
'emselves on your oyster soup. I wish
we'd a thought to put strychnine in it."
Poor Mrs. Kent was quite beyond
making or taking interest in plans. She
went away, leaving to Jeff Sands such
a picture of distraction that he felt
capable of wiping every Arapahoe, man,
woman or child, off the face of the
earth. He went to the Postoffice and
set forth in a few strong words that he
wanted a body or men to go to Mandy
Kent's rescue. They were on ffre.
They were ready to follow Captain
Sands to the North Pole, or a hotter
place if necessary. Only the absence
of men of his stamp, willing to take the
burden and the blame of leadership,
keeps the frontier in danger of the wild
tribes. It is the saddest thing about
that border warfare that calling for the
greatest courage, decision and endurance, it gives no promise of glory or
pension, no revvard but the consciousness of saving civilized people from
ghastly and unutterable tortures.
When, however, there is a woman in
the case a kind of romance illuminates
the peril. Go? Indeed they'd go, and
didn't they long to take a universal
philanthropist with them, was tho general murmur. Sands, unanimously
elected Captain, would not wait a moment. So they all started out. not, I
fear, in the strictest military order, but
military order has not ever prove.d appalling to savages.    Night soon came
It is now time to return to the forsaken mansion. At the very moment
that Jeff Sands was addressing an excited crowd, that Mandy Kent was shivering in mortal dread and wondering
if she would have strength enough to
strike When the time came—a party of
white people within were indeed testing the soup and discussing the roast
chickens with the hearty enjoyment
only possible to a disturbed state of society.
If a timid voice protested at the free
and easy banquet, some one instantly
vowed to set it all right. Hadn't they
money to pay for what they took? What
business had people to leave the house
open and the table set if they didn't
wantto be hospitable? They had come
to the place, a large body of campers,
driving before them a herd of-ponies, to"
seek shelter during the coming storm
for a woman with a weakly child. Finding a deserted feast the bolder spirits
guessed the truth, and, treating the
matter as a huge joke, coolly helped
themselves, inviting all to participate in
the fun. In spite of considerable hesitation, they did so, unable to insist the
temptations of stolen fruit. Every moment the nervous women expected to
see the rightful owners put; in an appearance; every moment they raised
fresh scruples, finally starting a cheerful theory of poison, as if they had
some occult knowledge of Jeff Sands'
amiable regret. This suspicion vanished
when not indorsed by any fearful signs
of internal convulsion on the part of the
revelers, but it did not leave these
western Cassandras silent. When the
big fires had sunk to coals and the men
were exiled to find promiscuous resting-
places in sheds, under wagons, or where
they listed, they formed in doubtful
conclave.
Perhaps the people of the house were
robbers who had enticed them all into
their power. They had read of such
things. What if they were already
hopelessly entangled in some border
mystery. It was"too like an enchanted
house for these simple-minded folk to
feel quite easy in it. If its owners had
tied from Indians was the danger not as
great for them? O! these men, these
men, they never would take anything' seriously. With their travel-
stained garments, their weather-beaten
faces and weary eyes these women gathered around the dying embers. Looking into one another's dim-seen faces
they told ghost stories till neither dared
glance behind her, told of Indians till
their hair stiffened upward, and in every corner the shadows capered through
fantastic war-dances.
What pen can do justice to the nights
that women have spent on the frontier.
Even armies, tried and proven brave,
have yielded to panic in silent watches;
how much more terrible are they to
creatures often delicately trained in
youth and brave only for love's sake.
Semi-barbarous you call them? It would
be a blessing to think those words expressed the truth. No. They were your
neighbors, your equals, who found they
must struggle against barbarism or perish. There is still evil in the world,
after 1800 christianizing years; have
you ever thought how vast must have
been the stock of it in the possession of
primitive human nature? Well, let it
pass; leave philosophers to reason and
let us go on with our story.
The sleet still fell at "intervals; the
women, tired of talking, at length set-
tled'into a dozy condition, through which
they could hear the supernatural squabbles of the mice and the occasional rattling of the windows, without being excluded from indulgence in more or less
frightful dreams.
1 would like to say that the men endured similar torments, but truth is
stranger than fiction, and with one or
two cautious exceptions they jested
themselves into the slumbers of the
light-hearted, even snoring; graceless
wretches, the only comfortable sleepers
within a radius of more than twelve
miles.
IV,
Slowly, silently, the gray arms of
dawn waved aside the curtains from
the awakerfing world. Shrill notes
aroused the hen-roosts; from eaves,
bushes and grass-blades the sleet'of the
night before dripped into discouraged
little pools. On the hill tops the flaming spears of morning tipped the beaded pine-boughs with rosy diamonds,
then the royal light of day broke over
them all, in danger and out of it. Little children clinging to their mothers
and longing for heaven as a place where
there were no Indians, weary editors
polishing off, sanguinary items, determined spirits bound on vengeance,
women in fearful uneasiness, all the
cheering^ and cheerless phases of life on
the border.
The men at the ranche, while attending to their horses were startled by the
apparition of a mounted crowd which
they at first took for Indians,* then for
desperadoes, but soon recognized as
more terrible than either, the irontiers-
man in anger.
Riding up to the gate their lead#r demanded in no gentle fashion the meaning of this occupation and the personality of the intruders. His manner did
hot suit his hearers. " Cuss words"
came readier than explanations, weapons were cocked; one ungarded movement would have been the signal for a
bloody contest. The women looked"
down from the vvindows, some of them
sending up silent prayers.     One of the
campers stepped forward calmly. The
softest spoken, quietest man in the
party, he greeted the grizzled and
scowling giant before him with a deprecating smile.
"Sir,"»he apologized, "we are wining to pay for all we have consumed."
"Go to blank with your dashed
money. We don't want "it. Where's
the girl?"
"The girl!" repeated the puzzled
mild man. "I assure you we would
never have intruded but for the fact
that a lady with us had a siek child,
and "
"What's that to us? Where's Miss
Kent, 1 say!"   *    -
"Excuse me, sir, but thejee^was no
person here when we came. Was there,
boys?"
" Not a living thing!" was the answer. Some of the party inclined to
the belief that the opposite forces were
Mormons on the track of a runaway.
Sands looked up at the windows,
down at the ground, over the white tops
of the wagons.
"Look here!" he said, "this thing's
enough to make a man swear his salvation away. We heard the Indians was
coming an' cleared. Miss Kent, somehow, got missed and was left behind.
Here we come under the Constitution
of the United States, to send them redskins to eternal blazes and fetch back
the girl. We find white men using
other folks' things, making 'emselves at
home, and not so much as a trace of
Miss Kent. Your story's queer, to say
the least. Now we ain't to be bought,
nor scared off. Tell us where the girl
is or give up your shootin' irons and go
with us to town.    That settles it."
"Go to , old man," shouted a
voice, contemptuously. " What do you
take us for?"
The women turned white, there was
an instant of breathless silence. Neither
party wanted to give up, neither cared
to open fire, and each believed his op-,
ponent to be a villain. Suddenly a little girl at the window gave a cry and
pointed. There was Mandy Kent running toward them, her hair flying, her
whole, face radiant. Near the crowd
she faltered, till she got a good view of
Captain Sands. She ran up beside his
horse and caught her old friend's large,
rough hand. "I am so glad to see
you!" she cried, " so glad. Where, is
mamma?" •
The women craned theiiv necks, the
men ed^ed forward or leaned over Ihe
fence, the very mules projected their
enormous ears, and the true*situat on
flashed upon every mind. Simultaneously an immense chorus of laughter awe >ke
the echoes. The mules brayed enu-
lously and even the ponies whinnyed a
little as the more excitable riders almost rolled from their backs in transports of merriment. The worse the scare
had been the greater the revulsion of
feeling and Mandy laughed with the
rest.
Well, in the language of chivalry,
Glory laid aside his helmet and Peace
took the floor.
" Come in and take breakfast with
us," said the most defiant camper.
" We'll give you what's left!" The invitation was accepted and, over coffee,
fried bacon and hot biscuit the late warriors exchanged friendly explanations.
The women questioned Mandy curiously,
and mentally criticised the fashion of
her ear-rings. All the discomfort was
smoothed away. The scare, it seems,
had arisen from a silly youth's excitement at sight of the herd of ponies when
his ears were full of Indian rumors.
The troubles along the border decreased with the cold weather, but Mrs.
Kent—I beg your pardon ma'am, I
mean the late Mrs. Kent—no longer
keeps a stopping place, though she has
not lost thatkindly feeling toward the
miners noticeable in most of mountain
women. One, however, is all she makes
provision for in the ordinary course of
her domestic arrangements.
" Cap" Sands has been heard to defend even the red-haired author of the
scare from the unmerciful jeers of his
companions, but, on that subject he
is considered an unfair judge. As to
Mandy, I can only state that her interrupted wedding was never completed.
She did not want to see George again,
nor did that gentleman show any desire
for her society. The matter was dropped
by mutual consent, and before a great
while she married one of the very party
that had given her such a night of terror
as she hoped never to be called on to
live over again.—Marion Muir, in
Springfield (Mass.] Republican.
A Very Quiet Baby.
Children in arms generally enjoy exemption from customs duties, and even
the octroi officers stationed at the "barriers" of French and Italian cities are
wont to allow these innocent creatures
to pass free of duty. There are, however, exceptions to every rule. Only
the other day, among the passengers in
an omnibus undergoing the usual inspection at the Porte Garibaldi of Milan,
was a ruddy-cheeked nurse, bearing on
her lap an infantile treasure, carefully
swaddled, its youthful lineaments hidden from view by a thick white lace
veil. It seemed a baby of excellent conduct, 'by no means addicted to infuriate
screaming, and wrapped in a profound
and noiseless slumber, " That is a remarkably quiet child of yours," observed the searching officer to the nurse.
"Yes, indeed it is, dear little angel,"
rejoined the latter; "it hardly, ever
cries, the sweet poppet, and when it
does whimper a little I can quiet it in a
moment with a lump of sugar." "It
must be quite a treasure," replied he of
the oetroi; " just step down, there's a
good woman, and bring it into my office, will you; I should like to have a
look at it, being a family man myself."
The nurse,jrrew pale: she had, however,
no valid excuse for non-compliance with
the request, so she descended from the
omnibus and followed the fatherly officer into his bureau, where, strange to
tell, the extraordinary placidity of her
infantile charge was speedily accounted
for by the discovery that it consisted of
fourteen pounds of fine Bologna sausage, neatly packed up in the snow-
white robes of guileless babyhood.
.—Many old towns in .NewEngland
do not change much in their population:
There are 460 voters in the town of Sea-
brook, N. H., and 830 of them bear only
sixteen different" family names.
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