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Show i ENCHANTED WOOD. Tt-i- difficult to discover me out there on will not be compelled to suffer from d nonsense, the desert as it would le to find the your stupidity and d e I said I, losing all patience. needle in the the midnight "Well, partner, made down my blankets and went to sleep with n feeling of absolute se- horseman replied, in an injured and disappointed tone, but free from all curity. Some time about the middle of the offense, I don't- - like to le unsociado nuthin when you night, as I could determine by the ble, and wontI can wait till mornin stare, I awoke without any apparent says no. and reason, lxjoking about me and for my coffee and bacon. Man, 1 listening attentively, all seemed don't danger myself or nobody. A quiet. Sinking back to rest, and little fire in that wash there couldn't lie seen ten yards by a Injun or nowhen in a condition lietween and oblivion, I noticed body else, and w hen I tells you there's to us than five miles, that my pony had quiteating. This no Injuns nigher again aroused me, and soon the per- I know what 1 am talking about. I fect silence was broken by faint I was born in Western Missoury, sounds of horses feel in the distance. twenty-nin- e years ago, when the In"If it Indians, I thought, my juns was tryin' to burn oi.r cabin, caution has been warranted, for they and my good mother leastwise, I cant find me for some time at least,1 never seeu her died two hours after I came into the world. Doyou think and no matter w bat their number, can rench Vulture before they harm thats for nuthin? Do you think a me; if white travelers, they do not good woman gives up her lile for a concern me, and will camp at the boy who prow's to be a man and give . No. tanks, where I will se? them in the up whites to the Injuns? I could kill 1 I wish nnd hates'em, morning." Notwithstanding my confidence, I sat up and listened. every one of 'em, for the whole lot of The sounds of the hoofs became em, ten million times over, is not so as my mother. I can feel em plainer, nnd I was soon able to de- good termine that a single animal inace if they is nigh, and have had (me of her them, nnd that it was being lmrd them for every hair that waswasin like ridden. Wonder and alarm took pos- poor head leastwise, if she session of me when, at a point on the other women. Travel with me, pard, trail directly opposite from which I and there is no danger to nobody. was sleeping, the gallop broke, and I s a friend to every man ns had a and an enemy to all at a much slow er pace the horse came white mother, to you! in my direction. I reasoned that it Injuns. Good-nigh- t The simple and earnest maimer in could not bean Apache, for n solitary Indian would select an open place at which these few words were uttered some elevated point to sleep, and caused me to regret that 1 had dewould himself drink and also water nied the lellow the privilege of buildhis horse at t lie tank. It followed then ing a fire, although I knew it would that the midnight tiderwns white and have been imprudent. Theyliealso an a strangertothe trail. Not knowing convinced me that he would the proximity of water, lie had selected acceptable companion for the rethe dump of mesquitos ns a good mainder of my trip, if he was going far. place at which to rest for a few that 1 woke first in the morning, made hours, nnd fiis approach was nothing more than a chance. This rea- a tire, and was getting coffee ready, soning was completely upset, when, when the stranger got up. He wasd in a loud voice, the strange horse- tall and slender, with a round, face, black eyes, hair, and man, now quite near, sang out: several Hello, stranger! where is you? mustache, and appeared Dont be tall alarmed; its all years younger than the ago he gave the previous night. His eontenance right! How the man could possibly know was frank and open, and his actions that I was in that vicinity was some- simple and modest. He greeted me1 nnd we shook hands. thing passing my understanding, cheerfully, but I answered his salute, although noticed nt that time that his grasp in a low and more cautious voice, was what we term hearty, but the nnd when he came up to me, pro- sensation which I experienced in my ceeded to inform him in language hand was not that of a fierce squeeze more forcible than polite that we but rather of an indefinable and pewere in an Indian country, and that culiar nature. He gave the name of people who went riding over it yell- Dick llarbert; was going to Santa ing like Comanches were likely to Fe a very dangerous trip at that lose a lock or two of hair; that this time and was glad to have company. might be a trivial matter with him, So, after our breakfast, we saddled hut for my part 1 considered my up and started off together. met I learned little of my strangely tresses valuable. Beg pardon; but that's all companion during our ride that day. In fact, his conversation never relatright, partner, be coolly replied; ed to himself. He was a good rider, there ain't no Injun in five miles of here; tlint I can bet. But its excellently mounted, and well armed, lucky for me you camped on the and the only physical peculiarity I side of the trail, or I noted was that he was decidedly right-hanHis right arm and hand wouldnt. hne found you Wheres well have been of wood for as water? may your I handed him my canteen, nnd I the uses made of them, yet they were was thoroughly vexed at his impru- apparently sound and uninjured. dence in exposing us to the danger of Without being able to assign any an attack hv making known the lo- reason, I became more and more cation of our camp, as well as nettled mystified with the manHeevery hour we traveled together. rode along, at the ease with which he found me so I could ns without far see, giving the all I had taken after precaution his surroundto prevent such a thing, I inquired, the sligliesthisattention to peculiar confidence was in a manner not at all intended to ings, but and illustrated, whenever expressed tnv feelings: disguise How in the devil did you find me he detected me inspecting the counwith especial care, by some such anyway? Were you hanging around try here watching me make camp and remark as: There's no Injuns here: waited until this time to make your never you mind, partner, I'll tell yon when they is around. presence known? We had a good, hard wagon-roahe answered, in an undisNo, for the greater part of thedavstrav-el- , he turbed manner, as took his lips as water was plentiful, made and, from the canteen. I know you did not trail me. My good time. We entered Ieeples Valhorse must have attraeked you by ley toward evening and intended to make the old station, a few miles some noise? No, partner, I did not hear your further up, for the night. Harbert riding slightly ahead of me, when hose, I reckon I was fifteen or twenty was I him drop a switch which he noticed on out miles the desert, seeing the time of night it is, when you spread carried in liis right hand and extend arm in front of him. A moment your blankets. I didnt trail you that two afterward he turned to ine or felt I me either; you. Its lucky for side of nnd said, with a smile which I that yonr on the right-hanold-tim- 'rum tk outward orM ,vou paMt Jafl h hen theioivft thejlam A a uHn book lie on the gnu. Ai ii there lor jears uutuui lo'd b.ifl lain. A Th- - Wave are yellow now with Ae, But one may read in letter free. he wind torn the rattled pane, The blotted namelTuloMphy. A aid a etndent one day stood utei'ie the bound her on him Tu- - mystie power of that wood, .d Love rant over him a spell. T k r. But fell ionr be etrore to enter there; euunlian epirirs m array lhveiitei him. until despair And made him throw the !koL away. xhenhe at length had east The atem 1'hyloeophy aMie hade him enter, held him fast ote Had then. I 1 onqueror of elf and Pride. d now in dun. en hunted nooks, k i (I ii Love that never tails, He Mks no nympathy of hooks ovi w uimjch to him fairy tales. A I i I . sir-ee- by the wind nnd rain, J'!uiiHO hv. nncaied for, lies; luiije, "1 enter Lott ;n maut is not Mines in 1,,'u domam; Paradise. Harpers Weekly. for 1 THE ELECT 11IC HAM). ; bile I am not disposed to ques-:u- n the dogma that man possesses senses, I am never surprised abnormal the It development of dd v Mirticular one, or nt the expansion f m uscular strength to such a high leg roe as to surpass the understand-nof that stage of psychological science which has yet been obtained. n future ages, such powers as were lOssossed by the late Washington rving Bishop and other prodigies of .his era may be far from phenomenal, iml exercised as generally as we now lo those of determining between col-- s jrs or tlie notes of a musical instru-nenI am certainly entitled to his belief, for an apparently super-tatural power possessed by an undoubtedly saved my life one occasion, ipon jiarly in the summer of 18GG,I was ent out from Yuma with dispatches d or the commanding officer at IYes-i- . ott, Arizona, being at that time in ) he employment of the government is courier and scout. This wasshort-y after George H. Leigliy, Indian ,h uperintendent, had been ambushed 'd md massacred, and all the tribes in Mit five g , , t. 1 d j Territory, except the Iimas In pa goes, were, hostile, and aost of them were on the warpath, ,r- lie decided, therefore, that it would be a ?ss dangerous for me to cut across iw he country- than it would to follow - he usual roads or trails on which .he md r" - v- an revelers were being daily killed, and a heavy rains had fallen during the he wedinir two weeks and filled the lolated water-tanks- , it would not be at iflicult to cross the deserts. Istruck h v ut in a north-eas- t course, and ,f 1l& fol-8-- that direction as nearly as the figuration of the country would erinit. The weather was hot scorcliii nd boiling hot. Even the lizar ought protection from the sui ays during the middle of the di nd the rattlesnakes took shelf nder a cactus or mesquitt bush ai id not move till ufter the ardent o ink in the west. The gaunt, gia ictus on the mountain-sid- e ai jflert plain seemed to give for aves of heat, while the scantfolia flhepalo verde and the prick I'S nches of the mesquite-tre- e afford at little shelter for myself or lion was necessarily compelled to ta le full force of the suns rays, ns as impracticable to travel ght, for the reason that I hi ever crossed (he country that wa ad , besides were somewhat likely de into an Indian camp unawan msequently, my speed was n iwed T ,j0 ut v. d. d: it- - nd he ed nd in- - vy y- - US, die oo id- die ice res a nts A ted ret an reat. ted be-- ed. ;en-h- at it this rter me, lext and icV' the no-o- afternoon of the third da lortlv bei are sundown, I struck t ail from Woolscya Agua- Calien inch to Wickenbucg, nnd, followi: for two miles or more, came 1 was then nbo me water-tank;enty miles west of the Yalta ine, and, by way of travel, me an one hundred and thirty fre aina. As I was getting into t dian country, 1 resolved to ry cautious, as in two days mo nothing happened, I would be e end of my journey. After p bring nnd eating my supper, re fully extinguished the small fir. vl made and scattered the emb( id ashes about so as to leave ace ol it. After having given r On tin? .Kir ut fter-th- er last by a ked. her i her iter ears sent orty arlv. died, sold. York my n good drink at the tank-sorte-d to tactics with which eve out and mountaineer is familii aving ridden forward on the tr ltd 1 found rockyground where t iofs of my pony would make pressior-.- , I dismounted and putt afflers on his feet.' I then turn nnd and rode hack, and passed t iter abouthalf a mile, where, ai int some five or six hundred yar m the trail I found go Uetta grass for the horse and ma tnp. 1 was on the east side oft ti and safe from observation fre Of the tanks, through the f I was behind n thick clump isquite-treeAs these manneuvi re executed after dark, I felt si they could have been witness no one, and that it would be s. f hay-stac- good-naturo- d. d d d the trail. He felt me at a distance of five or six hundred yards! The reply convinced me that I had been overtaken bj- a lunatic, but as my nnknown companion had so little difficulty in finding me, I did not see how I could easily be rid of him. Before 1 had a chance to speak again he inquired: Wheres nighest water? I told him where the tank was, and with the assurance that he would be right back, lie rode away. That I confounded at the strange visit and nonplussed with the travel, freely expresses my sensations nt the time. That he was a stranger to the trial was evident from the fact that he did not know the location of the That he was a greenhorn in the country was equally plain, for the reason that he did not appreciate the existing danger, and by his noise needlessly exposed himself; yet the mysterious manner in which he found my camp, saluting at the proper time to avoid all chances of receiving a was completely water-tank- rifle- -ball, was contradictory of the latter proposition, as was also his positiveness when he assured me no Indians were near. After the unknown traveler bad returned from water, he unsaddled and staked out his horse, and I heard him gathering up twigs ol the mesquite. Divining his intentions, I asked: What are you going to do now? Build a little fire, partner, and have a bit to eat; havent had nuthin since mornin'. Well, if you areaneseaped lnnatic and desire to commit suicide, I am not. l)o you want to ring a hundred or more Apaches down here within the next hour and have us both killed? This is my camp nnd you shall not build a fire here You can wait until morning to eat; if not. go some place else and rnuke your fire, far enough away so that I t. thought unsuited to the situation: Theres Injuns about here. I could not see the slightest thing to justify the assertion, and we rode on for about fifteen minutes before Harbert drew up his horse nnd said: Yes, they is to the north of us and not norn ahead of us. They think theyll sprise us, but they wont do nuthin ol the kind. How's half-mil- e yoift guns, paitner? I took a careful look at my weapons, while Harbert examined his pistols, handling them with his left hand, but did not take his rifle out of the holster. My curiosity had l3' this.time overcome all other considerations, nnd I could not refrain front asking my companion how he knew that Indians were in that vicinity-. Know? Why, I alius Didnt I tell you before? knows. k u Keeping the Cate jurNo, sir. .. . Then yyhy Because I attacked, but, while used to keep on a turn-pikin tlie South. You are a disharged. said the Here take this dollar. Judge. The judge was a wiseman. lit knew the nature of a toll he kneyv that the most active and industrious man in the yyorld, if put would become a at toll The sloth incapable of town constable is lazy, andtheeoun-trr is not given to nil line exertion but tlie toll is the head waiter (we can think of nothing more suggest ive of indolence. r The old toll was a sort of news budget, lie had nothing in detail, but held the paragraphic gossip of several neighborhoods. I11 season fie had a little weedy garden back of his house, and in it yelloyy cucumbers could be seen, withering under the fierce rays of the sun, but no one ever saw him chop down nny ot the weeds or gather any of the cucumbers. Near bis bouse there was a yyell, from which water was drawn with a long pole set in a seesaw, and with a heavy yveight on one end. It would be risky to say that there yyas any worse yvuterin the world. It was blackish, and lmd, in connection with its other monstrorities, a taste. But how the old fellow did delight in handing out that water travto the thirsty and eler. He had a gourd that lmd boon broken and sewed up yvitli a twine string, but the wound had never healed, and through it the water poured down the way furors sleeve. As a rule the old fellow lmd seven children and several grandchildren. His daughter, a woman, with large, sad, brown eyes, bad buried her husband away over the hill under the persimmon tree. The oldest of the grandchildren, a chubby little rascul, with a daub of molasses in his hair, would toddle, out to collect the toll. The old felloyv does not keep the now. He lies under the nersimtnon tree on the hill. toll-gat- gate-keepin- - A cyyiiANY has leva formed in New York to nianufect ure and deliver soup in bottles, regularly or to order, from houhe to house, ns is done with milk. St ankw's report lias given public men who abhor the interviewer a tip ns to w here they can secure absolute conclusion. It that Hon. seems G. II. Pendle- ton suociimfied to a stroke of apopHis two daughters were pres- lexy. ent when lie died. t. y school-teache- yyithia close gate-keepe- was nearest to him, pulled up his weapon, but the pistol in the left hand of m v companion cracked, nnd the Indian fell over dead. 1 could see that II arberts horse bad a free rein and that it understood the yvork in band as well ns its master, for in another moment, it was alongside tlie Indian. No shot was fired this time. Ilariiert clutched tlie Apache by the neck with his right hand and threw him from the pony lie was riding, scarcely pausing in his mad chase after the third savage. Thinking that the Indian who had been pulled from bis horse was simply stunned, I rode rapids toward him, but yyas surprised upon reaching the body to see by the distorted features and protruding tongue, that life was extinct. By this time, Harbert had come lip to the last wretch; again his right arm yvent out and his hand clutched the throat of the Indian, who rolled from his horseasthough hisskullhnd been cloven. Again turning into the road and shouting to me to follow, Harbert started in the direction we had yvork? gate-keepe- r; range, did not attmpt to shoot. Just at this moment, a buck, who been previously' Tm. poorer classes of Berlin ttn horses a day. Meanwhile Bismarck is keeping American beef out of the country-- . seventy- 55 dont you e - OF INTEREST. ITEMS mail who was recently arrested an a charge of vagrancy wa? asked bv the magrestrate w liy he did not go to work. I cannot, the man replied. You cannot? liv i haven't seen a more strapping fcllovr in many a day than you are. Doss anything ail A traveling at a speed yhieh my PO113' could not begin to maintain. The entire fight, if light it may bo called, did not last over five or six minutes. Although not unfamiliar with such things. I was completely bewildered. Iloyv did Harbert kill the two Inst Indians? He surely did not strangle them to death, for he did not take sufficient time, and ho certainly did not possess th, strength to dislocate a mans neck while using but one hand. Why did not lie shoot them, like an ordinary man would have done? Was he a wizard, and what unseen powers did he possess? While trying to settle these and other questions of similiur nature yvhjeh rapidly eame to m3' mind, I overtook my companion, who lay writhing on the ground in apparent agonv, while his horse was quietly grazing on the grass near I13. Believing that he had been wounded, I sprung to his side to render what assistance I could, yvhen he turned his face toward me and fairly hissed: For God's sake, man, don't touch gate-keepe- burnt-leathe- r dust-covere- pale-face- d d r Tiik largest body of fresh water on tho globe is Lake Superior. It is 400 miles long. I GO miles wide at its greatest breadth, and has an area of GljOOO square miles. Tut: Egypfian obelisk in Central rapidly going to drear, notwithstanding the efforts made to preserve it. The climate is Turk, New York, is too severe. Skcketaky Tracy lias made nr rangements bv which the navy will be furnished with brown prismatic pow der for large guns and the new smokeless powder for smaller guns. A ran a pump near Boise City, Idaho, recently brought up a flint idol from a depth of 5120 feet. It is claimed to be the oldest mark of human life on record by Professor AYiight, of Oberlin College, Ohio. It seems odds that nny man, wlmt. ever liis faith, election, or calling, l should speak of our system ns one of the great evils threatening tho destruction of the puhlic-Bchoo- republic. Some one suggests that New Mexico bo called New Grenada. As the abreviation of this name would be N. G. it is not likely that tlm New Mexicans will lall in with 4 TZ toll-gat- e The young ladies of tluy school ot Ada, Ohio, were boV Calm in the Face of by the appearance of a stafv A tradesman of Lyons, in Fra are, Apollo that they had it dresBeu' of the name of Grivet, a man of mild Vis'vet bv the town? and simple manners, yvas sentenced tniloYV during the French revolution, yvith a black bear JrsT while a number of others, to die next morncan do in tho way of hugging yvas in were the who Those already' ing. cave pressed around the newcomer demonstrated in Mninoashort lime to sympathize with and to fortify ngo, when bruin seized a barrel of it a squeeze and crushed beef, him. But Grivet had no need of con- it in gave pieces. It was estimated to be a solation; he yvas us calm ns if lie lmd squeeze ol power. Come find been in his own house. is tlie this said yyith us, they; 6up A drawn from tliecenterofthe last inn in the journey of life; to- heel line center of the great toe is tho to morrow we shall arrive at our long me; it'll kill you! Grivet accepted the invita- called the Me3'ers line. It shows His jayvs set, his e3res rolled, and his home. features gave evidence of the most in- tion and supped heartily. Desirous that the range of the feet is scurely tense pain; great beads of perspira- to sleep ns well, he retired to tlie re- ever the same in two individuals, tion stood out on his brow. His motest corner of the cave, nnd, bury- and, therefore, to ex pert a fit from limbs were twitching and his agony ing himself in his straw, seemed not uniform lasts is to expect the imas Harbert did for the next five or to bestotv atlioughton bis approach- possible. six minutes, and when the throes be- ing late. The morning arrived. The other came less violent, he sat up and beA IIanmbal, Mo., man picked up a gan rubbing and beating his right prisoners were tied together and led $0 bill which belonged to a poorwid-oivan- d arm, repeating, over and over ngnin away without Grivets perceiving kept it. This is straightforin a moan, Oh it'll kill me; it'll bust; anything or being perceived. Fast itll break; some time Ill cut it off--cut asleep, enveloped in his straw, lie ward, to say the least. Some men it off! It was fully half an hour neither saw nor was seen. The door take money from poor w idows by the before the suffering man yvas able to of tlie cave was locked, nnd when he roundabout chattel mortgage methmount his horse nnd ride to tho sta- awoke, alter awhile, he was in the od and charge exorbitant interest tion, butin the meantime, he assured utmost astonishment to find himself beside. me that he had not been wounded b3r in perfect solitudo. The day passed no new prisoners were brought into the Indians. QriTE n complication of relationWe reached rreseottthe next even- the cave. Tlie judges did not sit for two days. Grivet remained all this ship results from a recent wedding ing without any further encoundurtime in solitude, subsisting on some in Iodiigh County. Penns3'lvnnia with ters the Indians, and ing the day Harbert explained to me scat terd provisions which lie found The Stepmother of the bride is the night sister of the groom, so his sister reluctantly for be was averse of in the cave, and sleeping every as on the liis motlier-in-latalking on the subject the nature of with the same tranquility nnd his his peculiar gift or ailment. It seems first. On the evening of the fourth brother-in-la, liis and new in a that he had possessed it since child- day the turnkey brought yvife his niece. The bride married his hood, and lie was inclined to prisoner, and became as one thunder- her uncle and her stepmother became it to the tho painful circum- struck, on seeing a man, or, 11s he her stances attaching to liis birth. It w as almost believed, a spirit, in the rave. He called the sentinel, w ho instantnever developed until lie came into The number of species of animals Who are you? said he found Indian the ly appeared. countn', yvhen came liow and whose he track have been found in tlie to Grivet, you that b3 the sensation in his right hand lie was nble to detect the pres- here? Grivet answered that he lmd Trias of New England nnd New JerDoubtless, ence, nt considerable distances, ofhis been there four days. by I)r. Edyvard Hitchcock and inherent foe, and that of other peo- lie added, when my companions in sey C. II. Hitchcock is now 1G5. Prof. 1 led death to away ple if tlmy were to the right of him. misfortune yvere When unduly excited or angry, his slept and heard nothing, nnd no one including one marsupial, thirty-fiv- e electric hand, ns llarliert himself thought to awaken me. It was my birds, although they are, called it. became on instrument of misfortune, since all would now have Doubtless, more reptilian than avian now lived I in their character; twenty-eigh- t certain death, instantaneously killing been past, yvhereas have death always dinosaurs; twenty-severepiles and any one upon whom it yvas laid. Alt- yvith the prospect ofmisfortune now amphibia; sixteen batrnchians; six er such occasions he invariably suf- before me; but the fered the agony I had witnessed the will undoubtedly be repaired nnd I cbelonians, besides artliropoda nnd shall die. mollusea. The two great collections day before. Grivet was summoned before the are nt Amherst College nnd Mt. e After Harbert left me nt Frescott, Fern inary. on his trip to Santa Fe', I learned tribunal. He was interrogated anew. in It was a moment of leniency with the that fie had been a guide and scout New Mexico lor General Canb3- - dur- judges, and lie was set at liberty. Professor Yon Bergmann, of ing the war. Many had heard of liis is reported to have performed Berlin, tlie Mount Ararat has this autumn, strange power, yet fyv believed remarkable surgical operation. a He him. was, concerning reports considered been ascended by a as lieing sligla-I- for the first time, Two patients were simultoneously generally A forester, girl. in accompanied unbalanced bis mind, althouirh 3oung brought to him for operation, one nil agreed that he yvas a remark- by hie daughter, ouly seventeen, nnd requiring amputation of the thigh at ably skillful and reliable Indian his son, a boy of fourteen, undertook the hip joint, the other needing a scout. the ascent in the company of three of the humerus removed on Poor Harbert never reached Santa kurds. The boy was obliged to stop portion Fe alive, his dead body stripped of at the height of 14,000 feet, nnd the account of the bone being extensivediseased. Tlie first operation was its flesh b3 the coyotes having been father gave out at 1G,7o0 feet. The ly the amputation, and then the surfound near Navajo Springs some girl and the three kurds reached the the detwo months niter our meeting. The top, 1G,917 feet, but the girl was geon proceeded to excise of the humerus. This cause of his death still remains a overcome ly cold and had to be as- ceased portion made a gap in the bone, but a piece xnyRtery', and his premature demise sisted back by the kurds. of the thigh bone was taken from unfortunately closed to the medical the limb which lmd just been ampufraternity nil opportunity of ascer14 years tated and fixed in tiie gap, by which William Belangwski, lie cause and determining taining was through the hopper the continiuty of the numerus the nature of the strange power old was drawnbarlev-biat a Milw au- completely restored. Perfect union which I saw him exercise in such a of a monster and the patient recovered took tragic way. Charles Lnne Mosher kee brewery and suffocated by the with aplace, useful arm. grain. in the Argonaut. knee-breech- full-grow- n two-hors- e le-com- es father-in-law- te eister-in-ln- d n I feelem. Listen. With this, he held his right hand close to my ear, and my astonishIf is fingers, ment was complete. which were slightly trembling, as I first supposed through fear of excitement, gave forth a very faint yet distinct metalic sound, more closely approaching that made by a tuning-forthan any I had before or have since heard. it alius goes Its my nlarin-oiocthat way when lnjunss nigh, said he, in answer to the look of perplexity which he noticed in tnv counteNow ii is read3-- , well nance. from We'll cut the road to goon. right and give tho Apaches a long shot. You use the rifle and Ill make my pistol count at short range, if need be; leastwise, I wont waste no ammunition you can bet. We started down the gentle slope at a long, swinging gallop, nnd, sure enough, when he had covered about half a mile, I saw na Apache raise his head from behind a rock, on the hillside to our left. As I drew up my k; Winchester to shoot, a volley from four or five rifles was fired at us, but the range was too long and we suffered no injury. I returned tlie tire, and although there was no prearranged plan of action, both llarliert and m vselt wheeled our horses and started toward tlie Indians. They broke from their shelter and scattered, all endeavoring, however, to pass bevond tlie ridge nfthehill on the side of which they had made their ambush. I followed several up the hill in the direction from which we came, firing eight or ten shots and having the satisfaction of seeing the murderous fiends lull to the ground. As I had not heard a shot from Harbert, I turned around to see what had become of him, and thus witnessed one of the most extraordinar3- and inexplicable occurrences in mv life. Harbert was pursuing, in a diagonal direction from me, three Indians who were endeavoring to cross the ridge at a lower point than those whom 1 IIol-3'ok- 3' 1 n i |