Show THE OVERLAND EMIGRANTS ITS their So Mering n 9 trials and the ilie dreadful trail they left POOR WRETCHES FOUND IN IH THE DESERT the dying apolo avid the bend A or sickness 1 he drope cure introduced tn bun as dioutt in ill 10 tho overland immigrants of 40 in m many any cases suffered terribly from ex e want of and waters but oftener in my opinion lor for t the he want of common sense lo ID 10 that as it may they alicy blayd blared tho the way across tile tho prairies mountains and deserts marking the road with mith elie logios of f tho the unfortunates who fill by the wayside many on arriving at su ball diego would bo be without supplies ol of any kind and often in a a starving condition conill llou SomO sometimes times provisions rould could bo be ob talked lu in tho the little town oat at other times money could not buy a men meal colonel weller hero showed ills his big heart ilia 1111 orders wore were immigrants to ou oil it if they hao haio money and can buy at the stores do not soil sell them anything it 1 thoy cannot procuro procure supplies soil sell to them what Is necessary it they are arc without means anti in need care lor for if them le in as our 0 onn n party until wo 40 can find 0 nil relief relict for or them and forward them on one morning when out on off tile tho border of these the desert jort I 1 saw a man at somo dif dij lanco anco and made my way to him ho hall hal on oil but little clothing clot laing that oil all ragged and the alio only utensils utensil for or cooking or other use that ho he lied haj were a broken and an air old battered pot ile had enado 11 little gro dro with twigs and was boiling something in the I 1 came up ho he saluted salu tuil trio me politely poll tol but kept oil OB cat eating ing irons from the pot with a flat spoon lie he had mado os a stick I 1 could not mako out what the hie menu called for and curiosity getting the better of trio ino I 1 asked him what be was eating alil its very goedl will you leave hava some and lie he massod run nia a split from his spiron to help belp myself I 1 took some rome from the pot it was barley par parboiled parboil eil an and d yet hard ugh L gh the day before via va v a rail had baited our hoi 1101 sol sea fit at tills this place to M aich this poor follow fellow had como come in the elie night arid and seeing sonjo scene grains la in tho the sand and refuse lie he lied had scraped them up and IS IN ills STARVING CONDITION CONDITI 01 he bo had found them very good it was not hot long before I 1 lad had him into the b a ranch but it hal as dovci of days before lie ho could eat cat a meal alth A ith a relish religh lie ile would RO go at his food but it a mouthful or two seemed to choke him ami a id lie ile could cat no more for hours somo anio two years after I 1 met fact him bill la I 1 Sar sacramento at tire tho lend head of ono one of taji be a largest restaurants in that city arid and ho he was noted as ono one of tho lion of tile the states bound to lave the best in the market for his customers end and especially tor for himself to mako up for time lost on the desert at at another iother time whon when out to the yuma wo we had bad passed a water hole about two miles villen nhen wo we saw at an old abandoned well a 3 naked man wandering round and round sometimes going down clovin into the hole arid and then resume his bis weary round wo was could licar hear him shout and a sing at a tar distance hurrying up we saw islas him fall all as ue came caino near I 1 had bad but little water in a leathor leather hostile bottle but poured that into his ino at the bottle like a tiger at his prey pray wo wet put him on ono one of our led mules and hastened to return to tho the we well I 1 1 sending a man mail lei in advance I 1 to 0 come back in haste basta with water but ut too loo late be gave a groan his li limbs tallis stiffened and ho he tell fell dead without a word mark or indication by which wo we might know him jig HE nad HAD A FRAME and features anti and mut must have been a young apollo but thirst shrinks shrink s UP tile the llesh flesh arid and a low few hours bours buffe suffering I 1 irig alters tire the appearance arid and produces Dro ducos a sadly badly wo we burled buried him la in tho the hot sands and wont our way cat bat our weird journey n cy was not ended A short distance after pas pasting pasing ing the fated water hole I 1 fancied that I 1 saw a ulu baulo 10 track out of tire road leading into I 1 hat one unacquainted with WILL the desert might think a ravine or depross depression water would bo be more likely to jo lt bo found knowing well the botito aud and my animals being fresh van no followed the track lor for aboul arvillo when we ive cal camo 0 to another body that of 0 a young woman her features gave evidence of suffering lor for water bill beat irom from the position of the body she hall been thrown front from the mulo mule and alighting upon her head lead had not strength to savo gave herself as nas burled burle d in the send sand icv several era I 1 articles were thrown about md nd from fraai the marks in tile the solid sand the animal land had ran oft off still farther into laito tire tho desert who ho noro these two so near each other and yet so tar far apart my men wore were rough follows fellows yet tears were la their eyes when they knelt by the lb side of that poor girl I 1 took from the poe pocket k ot in her dress a come common lion handkerchief there was nothing else ono of the men placed his hand on her neck as aa it about to search her bosoni bosom for some article by which to identity identify her bar th the 0 bosom of tho the dress being used for storage of small articles two revolvers centered on oil him I 1 in n a flash my god boys boya I 1 thought sio bolh t L ing wrong was ills his indignant cry the body was carefully placed on one of the and a man walked K at each side as wo slowly went back to tile the grave wo we had so lately made lando but few words were said it was not 11 time for talk we lye thought as we laid them together in tile the lone waste that stranger hands bands had I 1 laid lid the them an to rest far away front from the old homo home but we bad given answer to what would have been their dearest wish irs ID deaths they artt era oot not divided it after a time the immigrants camo came if la larger numbers and thon then there was wag a great deal of THEM I 1 think that the rather father allows groat calamities to corno come for among other purposes that true men boblo men may appear und arid prove that our race raca Is not all degenerate yet one of those me men n who now took his place in tho the front rank was dr summers burgeon in the army anoy Heintzel mans brother lii in law nothing that man could do was vas left etc it undone by him to aid those sick and 17 suf foring people and aad to him many owed their lives I 1 lied had been away awa from the town for a short iliac and on returning I 1 learned that ell p 11 our tents were note filled with the sick meeting the doctor he be told me youre lucky my boyford boy or the two men lu lei your tout tent will go over the tha river tonight to night and you can have possession in the morning I 1 laid had brought la in from the ran rauch e 11 a quantity of ripe grapes and had bid sav several oral ii at ke ge bunches with me giving one no to the doctor and nl another to his hl lady I 1 ird on oil to tier my lay tont tent of on ot terin which I 1 saw my two fellow pass passengers eagers their pale features hollow eyes and despairing looks cast a chill over ray my heart one poor follow fellow looked at my bunch branch of 0 grapes so wanting that I 1 broke it 11 into two saying would ou not 1 alho i n e grapes lako kaaa oo 00 0 oh 1 it finio you u cpr I 1 got out quickly for it wit wm too much for me to too see those big biff men thus brought to children I 1 ran across tire surgeon burgeon again in a few minutes minute N when hen HE BE TACKLED tor for having baving eaten tho the tig bunche of grapes crapes so an quickly I 1 explained bur bui that made matters worse morse why my boy you have killed them oh stop doc you to tell 11 mo me that they were evere to dlo die to tonight night how biow could grapes kill dead mena I 1 bad tire tho knife on the doctor still I 1 did not feel el 1 cry quiet BO ace about 9 in the ave averring I 1 went to the lent M where here ono one of my dead men was vial walking king in the renter center of the tent and the other soundly sleeping tho the patient told mo me they both felt elt much better and those grapes wore were the least st article ot of food that they had bad been ablo to retain ott on their stomachs rind that lio lie felt hungry for tho first time in a month I 1 wished waked up my spanish boy aIl miguol garel and got lim him to make inako some boina folks tea arid and toast and lord bloss bless you but those follows fellows least feast too tea NN nalto LIED sugar grapes lei in the midst of tire tho banquet summers put lei in his head and took iu in tile tho situation allu alion at is a glance and made trio mo give him ira all my grapes and promise to got get more for him all brokob doun don follows went on a grape diet next morning and all got well and so tho tha grape cure care was wai first introduced at sau san diego in 10 |