Show l Ii i1f k = tfM + t t + t + t + t + t t t t + Flttc ana debenture f + f t + f + f + + + + + + + ft BRAVE PATHFINDERS 4O HE following excerpt Is H r ji from Georgo Bird Grin O T 0 miens reminiscence of Ire J > niontH Expeditions now WOW miming In Forest und Stream Fortunately Fremonts party was ahead of the nnnual Santa Fe earn F vans which Insured them good grass nt the cninpIiiK places They had not gone far lioforu they mot parties of Mohavo Indians who seemed friendly enough but Oil the day following two finnnlards a man ami n lad canic Into nip telling of their party of six having hav-ing been attacked by Indians about eighty miles beyond the encampment They bad with them about thirty gorses and tern suddenly nttnckcd by n party of Indians who bnd pro ylously been In cnmp and seemed friendly Tho horse guards tho two Jvho bad just como into Fremonts tamp drove their animals through the I Attacking party mud escaped with their horses which they had left about M twenty miles behind on coming to XrcuiontH camp When tho whlto men came to tho place whero tho horses had been left It appeared that time animals had been driven off by tho Indians Carson and Godot with I the Mexican Fucntes started after them but In tho evening tho Mexican returned his horse having given out In tho afternoon of the next day n m i wnr whoop was heard such as Imllnns make when returning from a victorious 1 enterprise and soon Carson and Go dey appeared driving before them n g band of horses recognized by Fucntes to bo part of those they had lost Two bloody scalps dangling from the end of Godeyo gun announced that they Lad overtaken the Indians ns well as tho horses They Informed us that after af-ter Fucntes left from tho failure of 4I j Ills horse they continued tho pursuit U I alone and toward nightfall entered the f mountains Into which the trail led After sunset tho moon gavo light and fl i they followed tho trail liy moonshine url until Into In the night when It entered a n narrow dcllle and was dllllcult to i i follow Afraid of losing It In the darkness of the dcfllo they tied up 11 their horses struck no lire and lay down to sleep In silence and In dark t ness Hero they lay from midnight I till morning At doyllght they resumed re-sumed tho pursuit aid about sunrise discovered the horses and immediately r immediate-ly dismounting and tying up their own they crept cautiously to n rising ground rtvhlch Intervened from the crest otc 1 ot-c l they perceived the encampment tof four lodges closc by They pro a h Acceded quietly na mid had got within E uuttjr or forty yards of their object 11 1 When ft movement among time horses disclosed Uicfll tp file l fndlans Glvlng I ljL 1 ilU shout they Instantly charged Unto 1 Ih dihTJp igBOriUcss gf tho lIUll t herwhich 1 tho foiif todggS 1lll Imply f m to TltiIiiJ I i 3 r c1Y 1 WciiJ with n flight of arrows i shot from their longbows long-bows ono of which passed through Godeys shirt collar barely missing I time neck Our men fired their rules m upon n steady aim and rushed in l Two Indians were stretched upon the ground fatally pierced with bullets S i thfr rest fled except n lad that was F captured The scalps of tho fallen were instantly stripped off but In the prpcess ono of them who had two m balls through his body sprung to his feet tho blood streaming from Ids skinned head and uttering a hideous up howl An old squaw possibly his mother stopped and looked back from the mountainside she wns climbing tit threatening mind lamenting The frightful spccntclo appalled the stout hearts of our men but they did what humanity required and quickly tel initiated the agonies of the gory say age They were now masters of the camp which was a pretty little recess i in the mountain with n fine spring and apparently safe from hivnslon I C J Great preparations had been Tunue to feast a hirge party for it I wits a very proper > place for iTrendexvous iiTid Jor the celebration of such orgies ns robbers rob-bers of the desert would delight in Several of the best horses had been killed skinned nnd cut up for the Indians In-dians living in mountains tumid only coming into the plains to rob and murder I der make no other use of horses than i to cat them Largo earthen vessels were on the fire boiling and stewlug tho horso bent and several baskets containing fifty or sixty pairs of moccasins moc-casins indicated the presence or expectation t expec-tation of u considerable party They released tho boy who had given strong evidence of the stoicism or something else of the savage character lu commencing com-mencing his Breakfast upon a horse bead ns soon as ho found ho was not to bo killed but only tied as a prisoner prison-er Their object accomplished our men gathered up all the biirvlving horses fifteen in number returned upon their trail and rejoined us at our camp in the afternoon of the same day They rode about 100 miles in the I pursuit and return mill all in thirty I hours The time place object and l i numbers considered this expedition of Carson amid Godey may be considered among the boldest and most disinterested disinter-ested which tho annals of western adventure ad-venture 80 full of daring deeds can present Two men In a savage desert pursue day nnd night nn unknown body of Indians Into the defiles of an unknown mountain attack them on I Eight without counting numbers nut I is I defeat them In an Instant and for what To punish the robbers of the desert nnd to avenge time wrongs of Mexicans whom they did not know I repent it was Carson mud lode y who did this the former nn American u born in the Boonsllck County of Missouri Mis-souri the latter a Frenchman born i in r St Louis nnd both trained to western enterprise from early life A little later tho parry came to the place times the Mexicans had been nt lilt lil1 There were found tho two men of the party both killed by arrows ar-rows but of women there was no trace they having evidently been carried car-ried uway Journeying onward making mak-ing short marches and some that were very long they kept on along the Spanish Span-ish trail May Jthe longest Jourtipy of nil between llfly nnd sixty miles without tiny water the skeletons of horses were constantly seen along the tall Hourly expecting to Und water wo continued to press on until toward midnight when after n hard and uninterrupted un-interrupted march of sixteen hours our wild mules began running abend amid In n mile or two wo came to n bold running stream so keen Is the sense of that animal In these desert regions In scenting nt a distance this necessary of life ATTACKED BY AN OCTOPUS My first experience of the octopus writes Frank T Bullen In Creatures of the Sea was In n little bay in Stewart Island New Zealand A small river flowed into this boy notable for ltd line flounders and the crew of the ship In which I was then n sailor soon discovered that the easiest way of catching them was to wnde about on the fine sandy bed with bare feet the water being only up to midthigh and when they felt the Hat body wriggling under their soles to tread firmly and stoop groping in the sand until they bad the flounder safe between finger nUll thumb They they would raise him and put him In the bag strapped across their shoulders By and by wo discovered that the ncnrer the sea the liner tho flounders and so one sunny afternoon I was wadIng wad-Ing in the bay near the mouth of the rivulet and picking up some fine specimens speci-mens Suddenly I trod upon something some-thing like a blob of Jelly Fearing a sting I made to step off only to feel both my legs gripped In several places by something that clung as It it would eat into the flesh I stooped mind felt a long whiplike tentacle twisted round my right leg I tore it off and felt a nausea which made me quite giddy But no sooner had I removed one snaky thing than another held me and another amid another Tho water was shallow but I began to feel ns irn I must bo dragged down drowned and devoured by this horrible thing Fortunately I retained some presence pres-ence of mind and drawing my sheath knife I reached down cautiously to where I felt the main body of the thing and avoiding my bare feet I stabbed steadily into tho central part of the bend I was successful for hm ouhit i felt the clutch of the tenta eles rouiid ill Teg l relttsi 1 saw the Wafer stained with senja mil i smelled the oifor of Btlo musk7 which all cuttlefish uTiiTt when dlsdirtifth + I felt quite certain that had I been laid hold of In water out of my dentil by Sio of these creatures only n miracle i mira-cle could have saved me from drown Ing 7 < twn < twnW < < W ROUTS BEAR WITH A SONG One of the oldest Inhabitants of tho Catsklll section of New York had a terrifying cxpcrleifce on the old Mountain Mount-ain House rood ou a recent night The oldest inhabitant Is a venerable and rusty black bear who bus been dodging dodg-ing the bullets and kodaks of huntsmen hunts-men amid tourists for years and years There was a picnic nt South Lake nnd Just at sundown the Rev Dr G M Rockwell pastor of Cntskllls Baptist Bap-tist Church with his wife and n load of SIIIIIU38 boot children drove homeward home-ward over the old Mountain House road There la little travel on this road and the old black bear was dozing in tho middle of the dusty highway Suddenly the worthy pastors voice raised In religious song smoto bruins car It was a new and terrifying noise The erotic of the rule nnd the bay of hounds were familiar notes of menace to bruin but the strains of Greenlands Icy Mountains rumbling among time tree tops threw him into panic wdd = lll SJ > Just then tho pastors faithful horse work up and snorted warning night nhcad in time deepening gloom the startled pastor and his little charge saw an awful shape upright oil n pair of huge hind legs It was bruin externally ex-ternally formidable but quaking within with-in There was n terrified squeal from the children and n wild whirl of tho pastors pas-tors whip With a raft of fright the old hear lowered his forepaws and galloped gal-loped Into the underbrush with the speed of a Suburban winner Greenlands Icy Mountains had wrecked his nerve Students of bear elegy think that the terrified animal Will probably run himself to death New York World UKAVKUV OF SEUGKVNT BIIYAN Travis Bryan a Sergeant in Cum pnny A of the Twentysecond Infan try is It soldier whose jinino will be remembered by the troops In Mlndn limbo Philippine Islands Sergeant Bryan won his Certificate of Merit on January ± of last Hill With his company hu was on guard garrisoning a captured Moro fort on the banks of the Uamlen Itlver On this occasion Die lotus made a desperate attempt to recapture time fort nnd in the action two of his company officers wen wounded nnd foil In the doorway of the fort They lay In time direct line of the Moro aim Bryan put himself In front of the worst wounded of the otlleers shielding shield-ing him from tire and In tho meantime making it possible for tho other nlllcer to crawl to a place of safety Bryan Mood his ground until a nvsoulng party urriud and when the smoke cleared away the number W dead Moros In 1 front of tho blockhouse showed what a 1 marksman the Sergeant was I I |