Show DISCOVERY ill f j > Y fI Seated with my family and a neighbor neigh-bor on the porch chatting pleasantly onthe future prospects of the country we were startled by the Hallowing of someperson across the valley probably two miles away All nature seemed wrapped in sleep not a stir in the air The moon was just touching the opposite oppo-site mountain with toning of silver All ears were strained to catch a repetition repeti-tion of the voice from across the river Ho billow hi hocame again and as plain as if the individual were but ten rods away It was repeated severaj times growing more appealing and lainhveand dyingaway as to be scarcely scarce-ly audible then the shouts would be repeated in lull strong tones Some one must have fallen into the river and is calling for help BUg gested the lady of the house It dosent sound exactly like a person I per-son in that conditioneither remarked another It must be some of the sheep boys come down to water put in a third Just at that instant a slight move in the air brought the hollowing more distinct dis-tinct and more plaintive than ever and apparently half a mile farther down the riverI knew it was some person that had fallen into the river Listen he has been washed down ever so far On he will be drowned You can get down there Go at once hurry urged the good lady as all were on foot about to rr h start to the rescue Then up sprang the angry howl of a packof wolves seemingly in the direction direc-tion in which the voice was last heard The howls were renewed with greater anger and mingled with the voice of the drowningman Oh I for heaven 1 sake go The wolves have just found him and are just tearing him limb from limb Oh listen go go I repeated the good woman Joined in by a chorus of children chil-dren The wolves are just eating him up hear them By this time a half dozen men and boys were stalking over the plain at a doublequick rate armed with pitch fork hoe rake stakes and other missiles mis-siles The howls continued without the human voice Jumping over a pasture fence we came suddenly on to the pack of prairie wolves or coyotes fighting and tearing away at something black on the ground I hope it isnt a person spoke one It cant be its too big suggested another The cavotes discovering dis-covering us scattered in all directions snarling and snapping at each other We found they had been feeding on a dead coltnot a human being But the voice was heard up the river and not down as before We hurried on to the river to the point from which the voice proceeded in the same appealing tones and as if some one was beating him In a few minutes we were opposite a ranch house We yelled over to some one we heard talking on the other side What in the world is the matter with that man over there Oh nothing only this crazy felloe weve bean trying to make him dry up but he wont was the returned from a boy about fifteen years of age Oh thats Sandersons crazy boy said one of the boys of our party We returned somewhat disappointed agreeably probably to most of us The young man went on reiterating the circumstances cir-cumstances of the crazy boy Vhom lIe had seen some time before Well the crazy boy when he was a baby his parents were tossing him up to the ceiling ceil-ing and be slipped through their hands and injured his brain so that he is crazy and his folks keep him shut up in a pen away from the house so they wont hear him yelling He has nothing but a pile of straw and a few old dirty quilts o sleep in The place is too dirty to keep a pig in You should see it Dont they let him come into the house I inquired No He dont seem to have any use of the lower part of his body He can hardly stand up They feed him in a little trough and they dont let him have any fire in the winter for fear hell burn himself or the placehe is insaid the young man Oh aint that brutal said my neighbor That beats my time I declare de-clare How large a person is he Well if he stood straight up he would be about as tall as I amabout 5 feetlO and he has a fine round red face as if he was in perfect health and stout build If he wasnt crazy and stood upright he would be a fine looking man was the answerJ Well that is too bad Have they not doae anything to get him better said my neighbor Well they are rather poorly off and are not able to send him to the asylum They think it would be of no use anyhow any-how He would never get any better replied the young mansomewhat apologetically apolo-getically At this point we arrived home and the hundred questions put us stopped the narrative which questions were answered in according with facts given before This is one of the unfortunate human creatures that are withheld from the asylum out of the many found scattered scatter-ed throughout the Territory Poor creatures that ought to draw sympathy front cannibal It appears the trouble with the above described person was in the spine or small of the back He was at one time able to do some labor but has grown worse and worse in his lower limbs It is hoped if the county in which he lives has done nothing for this unfortunate unfor-tunate already it should not be neg lcted any longer because he wouldnt git better anyhow Yours C |