%lJj mmm pJ* mmB^mmm ~KW-%f**%***1 *3" He was prostrate with exhaustion his best to brace up,' but his nerves jp We killed twenty-two and the rest' Ex-Senator Tabor's Divorced All Old Letter. and fear, and when I spoke to him, were dreadfully shattered, and after broke out of reach. Seven or eight Wife. which act the Indians seemed rather An old letter, written in Chicago, three or four "minutes hebegan crying old men, nine or ten young fellows and We-call him strong who stands unmovedCalm October 29, 1835, by Mr? Lambert Denver Letter to Utica Observer. to encourage, he began crying and again.^^This had just the effect I predicted. six squaws were likewise killed. We as some tempest-beaten rock sobbing like a child. I was lifted up Hitchcock, a chairmaker, of Hitch, Half a hundred boys were When some great trouble hurts its shock A tall, fine-looking, well-dressed woman captured ninety-two ponies, a great '^Wesay of him, his strength is proved behind a warrior and off we went at a cockville, Litchfield county, has been sent off to cut switches, and when was sitting near the fare-box in lot of powder and lead, several -hundred But when the spent storm folds its wings, gallop, riding to the west and keeping preserved, with other old letters, by they returned they were told to go a broad-way street-car as Ientered it. dollars' worth of robes, and How bears he then life's little things? close to the river until we had made his son, Mr. Henry P. Hitchcock, merchant ahead and apply them to the engineer. She had a high forehead, dark-brown dealt the tribe a blow it never recovered at least fifteen miles. Then we catne taijor, of this city Extracts The idea was to whip some courage hair, black eyes and remarkably intelligent from. What we could not carrv & About his brow we twine our wreath upon an Indian village as it was growing from this letter will be interesting to into him, but it was a flat failure^ featnres. A friend &at beside Who seeks the battle's thickest smoke, away we burned, and not an article davlight. our readers. It was written on foolscap, Almost at the first blow the man Braves flashing gun and saber stroke, her and to him she talked pleasantly. they could make useful was left. And scoffs at danger, laughs at death postage 25c, marked on the out-' My feelings during that ride were cried out like a woman, and, his feet Her tones were low and her English lMK We praise him till the whole land rings, ?"4' i side, and paid on delivery. Had it anything but agreeable, I can assure not having yet been tied, ne danced was of the purest. She was apparently But is he brave in little things? Bill Arp's Portiere. been inclosed in an envelope the postage you. The fact that I was not killed about like a puppet. I called out to about forty years of age, and mv great who does some deed k"n ca would have been 50c. It was, at the moment of my capture had a him to kick his tormentors, but he I had rather work on a hot day attention was first attracted to her -tV That echo bears from shore to shore doubled so as to make the last page a significance which I well understood. paid no heed to my voice, and after gdifr$iJ by the fact that she had overpaid her than play cards or base ball or read Does that, and then docs nothing raoie blank for direction, and sealed with a |p I was just as certain to go to the stake a time he stood stock still and let the fare, putting in a dime ior a nickel. I a sensational novel. It is fortunate SL-v,,, lTet would his work earn richer meed, red wafer. The following are extracts for torture as I remained a prisoner, boys whip him until blood was drawn made this even by giving her my fare for me that I love work, for I'll always A hen brought before the King of Kings, from it: and I did a heap of thinking in hopes in a score of places. All this time he instead of putting it into the box. [q Were he bub great in little things? have a plenty of it to do as long as to get a plan for escape. Mounted behind cried like a boy four or five years old, As she left the car I learned she was a Mrs. Arp lives and her children are "I arrived in Chicago from Detroit an Indian, my arms tied so tightly and I heard some of the old warriors woman with a history, and that she nearly as bad. Right now they are after a journey of thirteen days, winding that I was a constant sufferer, and say that he was the most cowardly was no other than ex-Senator Tabor's SOL. TAYLOR'S ESCAPE. waiting for me to make some octagon through the territory from one obliged to keep my balance by the use white man that they had ever met. first wife the woman who made his point to another. A month had passed of my legs alone, there was no earthly He may have lacked courage, but 1 big strike for him by taking boarders steps to put their flowers on, and if since the time set for writing still show for me to carry out my always believed his conduct to have and keeping the store which supplied "New York Sun. there is any more troublesome 30b I I found no letters from home. The scheme. Sewell was mounted on the been the result of his shattered mental the feed for the prospectors who I came West when I was seventeen don't know it. mail arrived every other day from horse just ahead of me, and his conduct and physical condition. struck the Little Pittsburg mine. It takes mathematics and science .years of age (said old Sol. Taylor, Detroit. I saddled my pony at Detroit went far to distress and unnerve This was the woman from whom Tabor After the boys had switched him for and lots of work to make these hexagons of Georgetown, Colorado, the and took my departure for Chicago. me. He kept up a constant lamentation, got his divorce, and it was this ten minutes they were galled off, and and octagons. They saw^one other day), and now I'm a bit over I will give you some account of and was continually beseeching woman he left to marry the present couple of warriors advanced with somewhere and so I've got to fix it. the territorjL through which I passed. me not to let the Indians do him Mrs. Tabor, whom he first wedded at sixty. You can figger that up and see their muzzle-loading rifles and began I ordered a single door from the parlor The territory of Michigan (about to harm. Drink had lost its effect on St. Louis, afterward another marriage to fire charges of powder into the how long I've been skirmishing with to the new dining-room, and while become a State), so far as 1 have seen him, and to come out of his spell and ceremony was solemnized at Washington. poor fellow's flesh. Does it hurt? I was gone they juggled with the carpenter Indians, grizzlies, and panthers, rattlesnakes it, is remarfably level. Nothing like find himself in the hands of the relentless She does not look like a disappointed Well, sir, hell can't be any worse., I've and made him put large double and the other pesky varmints what we have in New England should redskins had taken all the pluck woman, and she is by no had a dozen charges fired into me, and doors with whinnadeddles all around call a hill is to be seen. The rivers and out of him. He was doing the very means one of the frail reeds of the of the mountain, plain and prairie. I never felt any pain to equal it. I'll and a fine mortised lock with gilded creeks are for*the most part slow and worst thing he could have done, for I fair sex. I don't think she would have take two bullets in preference to one There hasn't been an Indian warfor the knobs, and of course I surrendered. sluggish, and this is one cause of bilious" heard the Indians gloating over the disgraced her husband at Washington, charge of powder every time. The The carpenter found out the very first last half century that I haven't had a fever and fever and ague. The prospect when he should come to the and I find that here at Denver her first charge set him to dancing and day who was running this domestic hand in, and I recon I've had as many rivers I crossed were the Rogue, which stake. There was considerably hurrah standing is very good. She is in good screaming, and at the third or machinery, and he acted according. empties into the Detroit River the when we rode into the village, and stand-up fights on my own hook as circumstances, the property which fourth he kicked one of the warriors Not long after these double doors Hudson, which empties into Lake had I not been able to understand a Tabor gave her having largely increased over, and became so savage that they any scout or hunter you can name. were finished there was a small, long Erie the headwaters of the Kalamazoo, word of the dialect, the looks and actions in varae. She is worth at least had to fully bind him to the stake. box come from New York by express. I have been captured and put to the which empties into Lake Michigan, of the Indians would have been $500,000 to-day, and she lately sold They fired thirty-four charges in all, If quilting frames had not been abolished "torture twice, and been captured and and St. Joseph's, which empties sufficient to tell me what fate they intended sixteen lots out of a piece of fortv and by the time they had finished you I would have thought they were into the same lake. I crossed" the ,got away without torture three or to mete out to us. Sewell which Tabor gave her for $60,000. She could not have tbld that Sewell was in the box, and so when it was sent last-named river several times, the was placed in one lodge and I in another, has left twenty-four lots and a house a white man. His agony was something four times. In times of peace I have up with the charges all prepaid I was last time at Niles, fifty miles from its and the war party were soon upon them that cost $45,000, and awful, and he writhed about with told that it was a "portiere"and lived with the Pawnees, Kiowas, mouth, the head of the steamboat engaged with breakfast. It was not she still owns the La Veta property. such strength that the stake had had cost me nothing but was a present Apaches, Sioux, Cheyennes, and Blackieet, navigation. Small lakes, from half a yet fully daylight when I was nulled This last consists of fourteen threestory twice to be diiven deeper. His shrieks from one of the boys. I stood off and in times of war I have fought mile to two or three miles in length, are off the Jiorse, and therefore had houses, built in the best manner, ank screams, as I afterward knew, at a respectful distance and watched frequently to be seen. The lands may be not yet been recognized. I was pretty and forming good renting property, were heard a distance of more than -all these tribes. Mebbe I am, therefore, them open it for I had never seen a divided into about tour different kinds generally known to all the tribes, worth about $200,000. two miles, and yet this was only the portiere and had some dignified curiosity. a purty good judge of Indian nai first, the heavy timbered lands and they had named me "The Long beginning of what they had in store It proved to be some contraptions ur', and when you ask these are but a small portion of the Death." I got the name by killing tor him. for that double door, and after jne which tribe of redskins has the whole, and are for the most part some of them with a rifle which knocked The next move was to apply the they had it all fixed up and suspended Wages in 1800. found on the nvers and creeks, but them over when" the supposed -most honor I reply that I never yet burning sticks. Some green sticks had to the long rod with silver hooks and Master's History. not exclusively so, and embrace most themselves far beyond range. My been put upon the fire on purpose, and parted in the middle with silver -saw an Indain whom I would trust a ^J**. The condition of the wage class of kinds of timber common to the Western only hope was that no one in the crowd three or four warriors applied the chains, it did look mighty pretty. srod. The only reason that some of country, with the exception of would be able to identify me, as I had that day may be well examined it is burning ends to various portions of They said it was made of shekneel or ''em have served the Government as pine, of which there is very little. lately had my hair cut close and my full of instruction for social agitators. the engineer's body. The pain fairly some such material and was all the Next is the so-called oak openings, whiskers entirety removed, but daylight In the great cities unskilled workmen -scouts and traitors is because they drove him crazy, and in a short time style now. I notice that when we land covered with oak trees from one had only come when three warriors were hired by the day, bought their he tainted. Water was brought from .happened to hate their own kind just have company to dine or take tea, to lour rods apart. Perhaps three looked on me, gave a start of own food, and found their own lodgings. the stream and dashed over him, and and the company is on the piazza, 'then a little wuss than they did the fourths of the land I saw was of this surprise, and one of them called at But in the country, on the during this interval many warriors they are taken through the portiere white man. However, you want some description. Then there are prairie the top of his voice: farms, or wherever a hand was employed crowded around me to see how I was every time, though it is nearer through lands, very level and free from timber of my own adventures, and I will give on some public work, they "It is the Long Death' We have bearing up. the hall. When the big doors are open and brush they only require fencing were ted and lodged by the employer got him at last. Here is the white .you one: and the portiere drawn gracefully "Dogs! Do you think you can and plowing to prepare them for a and given a few dollars a month. On hunter who has killed so many of aside they say it presents a beautiful make The Long Death cry like that?" Before the days of railroads in the crop. There are a few small prairies the Pennsylvania canals the diggers our people." vista to look clear through the I shouted at them. "Here, pull up of this kind from one or two to fifteen 'West a man who was spilin' for an ate the coarsest diet, were housed in dining-room window. They alluded The cat was out of the bag, as the my trousers and see where the cowardly miles across. Next is the marsh land, the rudest sheds and paid $6 a month Indian fight could eet it within rifle to the vista several times, but I have old saying goes, and I stood there and Sioux shot powder into my legs. small patches of which are found all from May to November, and $5 a been unable to find it. An old dilapidated faced them and knew that 1 was doomed shot of Port Kearney, and this state Pull off my boots and find where the through the country, from half a mile month from November to May. Hod kitchen that we don't use is the to the most horrible tortures they Cheyennes applied the fire sticks. of affairs continued up to 1866 and to five or six miles in length. They carriers and mortar mixers, diggers sight from that window, and that is could invent. Did I weep like a woman? Go ask have the appearance of once having later. The last time I was captured and choppers, who, from 1793 to all the vista I see. Women have an them. And when you ask that, inquire They did not keep me long in waiting. been the bottom of small lakes. They was on the Smoky Hill fork of the eye for the beautiful, and I reverence 1800, labored on the public buildings who killed the Black Eagle, Red The knowledge of my identity yield a coarse grass, from which the their taste, but sometimes it takes me and cut the streets and avenues of Kansas River, and it was while the Horse, Big Mountain, Great Buffalo whetted their savage appetites, and new settlers cut their supply of fodder a week to discover the aesthetic and Washington City, received $70 a year and Black Feather. They will tell railroad was being pushed across the while the warriors who captured us tor the Winter. Much of the land in fall into raptures over it.Bill Arp in or if they wished, $60 for all the work you, The Long Death. were eating breakfast the rest of the Michigan is rich and productive. State of Kansas. A railroad through Atlanta Constitution. theycould peiformfrom March 1 to December village were astir with preparations. But for the presence of four or five Tbe road from Detroit to Chicago, the Indian country meant good-by to 20. The hours of work were The camp wasin a bit of valley on the chiefs I should have done for on the called the Chicago road, runs through game and good-by to the Indian. The invariably from sjunrise to sunset. bank oj Smoky Hill Fork, Oil Wealth of Pennsylvania. spot, so excited were the young men. two the lower counties of Michigan is an Wages at Albany and New York were Tedskin realized this as forcibly young trees were cut down, trimmed By this time Sewell had regained his Oil City Derrick. much traveled, but bad condition. 3 shillings, or, as money then went, to a proper length and then driven into senses, and was sobbing and wailing as the I traveled higher up in the territory, white man, and he As a basis of work tor those who 40' cents a day at Lancaster, $8 to the ground in the centre of the vil* again, and they went back to their and also dropped down to the upper love to revel in amazing figures we was on hand $10 a,month elsewhere in Pennsylvania, to fight the lage. The one intended for me was sport. A warrior approached him counties of Indiana. The settlers lived may state that statistics show that workmen were content with $6 progress of the road. He was almost in front of my tepee, and I with a sharp knife and slashed him in principally in log houses, and even 53,000 wells have been drilled in in summer and $5 in winter. At Baltimore stoon at the entrance and saw the fifty different places, each cut being foolish enough to suppose that the the taverns and stage houses are ol Pennsylvania and New York since the men were glad to be hired at young men drive it into the earth. deep enough to be painful, but none killing off of a few scouts and surveyors this description, except in the county discovery of petroleum, at a cost of 18 pence a. day. None by the month, More than that, I sung out to them of them very serious. The gush of would stop all work, and by the towns, where one or more good framed $200,000. These wells have pioduced asked more than $6. At Fredericksburg in a steady voice in their own dialect. blood soon turned the man into a time the road was half way across houses are found, answering the 310.000,000 barrels of oil, which the price of labor was from $5 to horrible looking object, and several *he State of Kansas every Indian double purpose of tavern and courthouse, were sold at the wells for $500,000,- $7. In Virginia, white men employed "A stake like that to hold The times he would have fainted had they Tvho had any patriotism about him which, with a log jail, consti 000. This represented a profit to the by the year were given 16 currency Long Death! You shall see how he not had water at hand to throw over was m. front of it and doing battle. tute the county buildings. The immigrants producer of $300,000,000. The slaves, when hired, were clothed and will tear it up!" him. He had screamed so loud and "The contractors had to employ a of this Territory are fiom amount of oil exported is placed at their masters paid 1 a month. A long that his voice was now entirely great many scouts and fighters to My words were received with shouts all the Eastern States, but most ol 6,231,102,923 gallons. In the pool pound of Virginia money was inifederal gone, and the only sound he could ^protect the advance men, and I was of satisfaction. No people on earth them from New York and Ohio. Very in Washington county alone- $3,200,- money $3 33. The average rate of utter was a groan. He had long seemed on of those thus engaged. In the respect courage in a man as much as few inhabitants have been in Michigan 000 has been expended in machinery wages the land over was, therefore, unconscious of my presence, and I *five months of my employment I killted the Indians. There are no less cruel more than three years, and perhaps and drilling. This does not include was glad of this. I do not think he $65 a year, with food and, perhaps, thirty-nine Indians and brought to a game man, but his gameness will most of them came within the the many millions that are represented was in his full senses after the burning. lodging. Out of this small sum the thirty-nine scalps to camp, and there shorten his torture. Feeling that my past eighteen months. All is new and there in the natural gas industry. After the warrior had cut and woi kman must, with his wife's help, -were other scouts who did as well or time had come, and hoping to provoke in a rude state. Some of their buildings Independent of the oil business slashed with his knife he fell back to maintain his family. 'better. We did not lose near as some of them to shoot or tomahawk finished, with a small piece of theue is about $50,000,000 invested give place to another. This second if-- -manyt entirelin men onproportion, defensives a we me, I called out the names of land under cultivation, are beginning iough the and in natural gas plants in Pennsylvania. one meant to do finer work. He meant, half a dozen of the tribe whom I had to be comfortable A Diamond Woman. These are majestic figures, as a first move, to cut the victim's had all the advantage. sent to the happy hunting grounds. others are living in a half-finished log and serve to show the magnitude of tongue out, but as he reached for it My capture occurred one morning in From the Jewelrji News. Some of the young men fairly i*aved house others have just arrived and the oil and gas business. with his left hand Sewell snapped at September. One of the engineers of to get at me, but the order of the chief live in a small tent or sleep in their The costliest necklace of diamonds him like a dog, got the black hand the road had been on a spree, and was to wait. I boasted that I could covered wagons on the place where ever owned in this country was worn firmly between his jaws, and then while verging on delirium tremens had outshoot, outride and outrun their they intend to build a log hut. Most by Mrs. Mary Jane Moigan. She had Died Like a Gentleman. there was a grand uproar. Everybody lett camp and wondered off. He had best men, and offered to fight any of the Indians have left the Territory, a real passion ior diamonds and wore enjoyed the fix the Indian was been gonetuoor three hours before Cincinnati Times-Star. six of them if they would turn me yet In the Western part, on the St. them in hairpins, brooches, bracelets in, and whenever he motioned as if he was missed, and at midnight of One of the most interesting incidents loose, but all this talk only gave them Joseph's river, is a tribe of 300 or and rings as well, but her special pet he meant to use his knife they shouted "a rainy, gusty night six of us of the late war is that told of General the more satisfaction in thinking of the 400. They cultivate their lands and was a necklace, a riviere of diamonds, to him to give the victim fair play. started out on foot to hunt him up. Lytie just before he received his fatal torture in store for me. On the same hunt. Deer, wild turkey, geese, ducks which cost her originally perhaps $30,- Sewell held to him for fully five minutes, As no one knew the direction he had -t's, wound at Chickamauga. He had principle that people eat their pie and prairie hens are- found in abundance. 000, and to which she had various lacerating the hand lfke a taken, each of us went his own way. made his biilhant charge into the last, the Indians led Sewell out first. additions until its total value was bulldog, and then three or four warriors ~There were plenty of Indians around midst of the enemy, where all His condition was such that but little In coming here I found only Indian $200,000. One day she astonished a seized him and made him let go. us, and a scout had been wounded chances of retreat were cut off. Suddenly fun could be anticipated from his trails for miles together, the roads generally clerkat Tiffany'sby buyingac'iamond The bitten warrior relinquished the that afternoon within half a mile of he thru&t his hand into his coat torture. He was a large, fine-looking are bad but 1 occasionally fell in for $48,000, and ordered it tobe set knife to another and during the next tour camp. Each man of us who went pocket, drew forth a pair of kid gloves, man, but the result of his spree and with Eastern men oo horseback, and her riviere as the centre stone. quarter of an hour Sewell suffered the Gu took big chances of being captured, and began putting them on. Asked of his capture was to break him I accompanied two young men from Diamonds that once glistened in her' loss of his nose, ears, fingers and lips. but there was no hesitating or by an aide the reason for his movement, down. He had no more courage than New YorK State* who were going to brooches, hairpins or bracelets' were He shrieked out in agony when his hanging back on that account. Our so unexpected under such thrilling a child, and it was pitiful to see him Chicago, a part of the way. An Indian transfered to this necklace, and diamonds nose was sliced off, but after that he -camp was close to the river, and my circumstances, the General answered. weep and hear his"lamentations. I on horsebaok overtook us and by k+ that no longer pleased her in never even groaned, and I consoled first move was to cross the stream. "Don't you see we are surrounded begged of the Indians to let him go, 'signs offered, to carry our valises. But the necklace were reset in the brooches, myself with the nope that he was The water was no more than waist and that there are but two stating that he was a civilian who had we declinedita'trust him. He blew a hairpins or bracelets. To her it wa3 dead. The Indians finally becamesatisfied deep, and I had no trouble in reaching alternatives left usto d*e or surrender? never injured them, and was so broken shrill whistle audi was off. a perpetual pleasure to see the magnificent that they could get no more the other bank. The engineer, For my part Ipiopose to die down that he could not live long, and Chicago is called by some of necklace increasing'its magnificence. "fun" out o* him, and he was scalped! 'whose name was Sewell, had gone off like a gentleman." He drew on hisgloves but for the hot-headed young men in the people here the "London When she died the largest? and the faggots at his feet were lighted jin his shirt and trousers and boots. and soon after fell. Those the tribe I should have got him off. of the West." The lands in tCie of the stones were sold singly, but the to consume the body. who knew Genera! Lytle in Cincinnati ^He was bareheaded, out of his senses, They urged that he was assisting vicinity of this-village are not improved, necklace without them was so valu knew him to be the most punctilious and had no weapons of any sort. to build the railroad which and nothing prevents riding out My time had come. There was a able that Messrs Tiffany bought it for about the appointments of a gentleman, .My only hope of finding him was that was driving the game and the Indian in any direction, over the prairies. gjand yell from every warrior as the $60,000. Soon afterward they but no one ever supposed him. ~,!he would become exhausted before out of the country, and that There are more buildings here than I two guards led me to the stake. How broke it up, an '1 for many months-it capable of such incomparable cook ugoing far and sit down. the white men never spared a warrior expected. tose* but they are poor did I feel? Well, I was recklessly desperate. has ceased to exist. ness. Once across the stream, I held to because he was ill. Such talk as this wooden buildings. It is a place of I hated to go without having yfcbe north for about a mile, and then settled it, and the engineer was led considerable business, with 4,O0C or revenge on some ot them, and, as returned to the left and kept on until out, stripped of his clothing, and tied 5,000 inhabitants. It has about there was no other way, I gave them A Li of Adventure. Daddy Williams' Bible Tricfc* had described a quarter of a circle securely to the stake. Had I refused seventy storesy twenty or twenty-five a tongue lashing. I called them women tand come to the river again. I to look on, it would have been taken From the Chicago News. lawyers, but they study speculation and cowards I cited fictitious From Harper's Magazine. R. P. Concannon, depot operator at sthen went back to the starting as an act of cowardice on my part. more tha-ni speeches there are twelve cases, when one hunter had licked six There lived in Alexandria*, in VH^ -point and bore to the right, and it Emerson, Nebraska, although, only Reading this I stepped outside the physicians, six clergymen, and a general of them 1 dared and defied them to ginia sum old colored man and woman was while on my way to the river that lodge and stood within ten feet of the assortment of mechanics, among twenty-nine years old, has had an adventurous do their worst. I had them worked whom, thea acquaintances called Daddy lour Indians suddenly rose up from stake. Sewell wept and begged while which are threechairmakers. William up until they fairly screamed for my H5s for one aow sopeaceably andi mamma WiHiams.. He- had the grass at my feet and seized me. being made fast, but when they stepped V. Smith is here in the grocery business, blood, and I reasoned that had educational advantages and employed. When niaeteen he joined %he torture I can't say that I was off my guard, back he suddenly grew, calm and and I think is doing very well would not last long."*"* I was could! vead in a fashion peculiarly his theBritisharmy and saw life Africa. but it did seem a bit queer to me as I asked of me: and I find! a few other acquaintances stripped of every vestige- f clothing, own but his wife, although lacking as He iought Sour months inBaantolaads, thought it over afterwards that I "Taylor, what does this all mean? from the east, Perkins, from Wiasted, bound hand and foot to the stake, regards eruditiony possessed great and afterwards wsh the Zulus. Hewas should let the skunks get such an advantage What are they going to do with me?" is now in Chicago, and will probably and, as in the engineer's case, two force of character, which she often in the fight w&en Priace Eugene over me. I could see fairly -They are going to torture you, Mr. remain. I shall pursue my way dowra warriors made ready to shoot powder displayed in a manner that was very was killed. Then he took part inputting well for twenty feet or more around the- Illinois river to St. Louis. into me. They were loading their guns Sewell." j., 2 irritating to her husband. When she down the Boar rebellion and was ane, but the fellows hugged the earth "Are you a prisoner, too?" \\Si when, out from the heavy growth of ~m. *-"&S#MB became particularly fractious Daddy taken prisoner, Suit was- released in *so closely, and I happend to walk so "Yes, and they will torture me after cottonwoods behind the camp, came At a Boston bote? the head waifce* would take the bible and open to time to help capture Alexandria. He straight into the trap, that I was done finishing you." a line of forty men on a run, and just came out of the office and ihioimed the that chapter in Revalations beginning, lor before I knew what was going 'My God! but this is awful. I have followed the fortunes oi war seuth of the rear of them seventy-five army "And there appeared a great learned and cultured clerk that a man on. Not a yell was utterednot $800 at the camp. Won't they take troopers. I saw the men before any Can and was*oundet in the famous wonder in heaven," a woman clothed was raising a disturbance because he word spoken. Two of them tripped that and release us?" one else in camp. Indeed, they were battle ot TeVel-Kebir. For distingvashedbravesy with the sun, and the moon under her eould not have his accustomed seat at ttie up, and the other two piled on to frepliedthatif we were worth a million not pistol shot away when the alarm in this battleand saving feet," etc. the tabic. "Go in again," said th dollars a piece we could not purchase was given. It was the quickest and me and disarmed me, and in less than the life oi a commanding officer be Browning saturated clerk, "andpropitiatehim With impressive solemnity he would ffka, minute my arms were jerked behind our liberty under the circumstances, bloodiest fight on record. Six of the was decorated with a modolby Queen in some way I lave it to you." read as follows: "An dere 'peared a ime and made fast,, and away we went and advisedhim toca'l up all his courage dismounted men pushed straight' for Victoria, one ot four benow wears. His Back went the waiter to tne dissatig. great "wonder in hehen, a woman!'* to the northwest on a trot. This and seek to die like a, man. Any me, knowing I was likely to be killed fast taste of civilizing warfare was in fied boarder and said: "Ifyoudon'tlik Slowly closing his book.be would gase was maintained for abont a mile, sign of weakness on his -part would by some savage, and 1 was cut loose the tcuittess hunt of Lord Woiseley after when we came upon a party of fifty sternly at his now subdued wife, tor the way things is done here you can excitecontempt andincreased torture, and a revolver was given to me before* the Fa.ls.9 Prophet and General .iountft jeaskins, and in the passage never failed to produce and the better way was to defy them just get right out or I'll propitiate you the fight was hardly on. In ten minutes Gordon. the desired effect. do their wors -X believe he tried not a livingjbuck was left in camp. pretty quick," $ fa