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Show OlTV Back Of Frlfjhtful Torture . O ,.11 v-o Inflicted by a OUll : Indians (Special Correspondence) In aiming contrast to the netting experiences lie underwent In hit younger days Is the quiet manner In which Capt :ko lackson. whose name li familiar all through the southwest, I pasalng the evening of his lite. Now lie llrus on his well-stocked ranch on tie Pecos river, In western Texas, and whilo a Jolly, sociable, companion, under un-der all conditions, Is at hit let whilo perilling the Incidents of his life on the frontier when the Indians were ltentirul. Ills entertaining turn! ot reminiscence he Is always ready to draw upon and never does ho talk to an uninterested audience. One ot his tales Is of nn eicltlng event which led to bis marriage. As ho tolls It, tha story Is as follows: Attnrkail by toillani. "I was playing the fiddle one night nt a dance In a little log cabin on the extreme frontier. There had been rumors ru-mors of an Indian raid, but the people were fearless, and everybody In the neighborhood was at the dance. Suddenly Sud-denly an arrow whizzed through tha tipen door and struck a young girl on the shoulder. It was followed by a fchowor of arrows and a few shots. Women shrieked, and the men seized their arrows and began to barricade tho house, I kept on plnyjng the fid-dlo fid-dlo as It nothing had happened. "That's right, Ike,' whispered old Col. Chrtsmnn. 'Play ns If this devil was after you and I will save tho women nnd children,' I turned looie on The Arkansas Trawler,' and I made the old fldd'e roar. Wlillo some of tho boys were opplng away In tha dark from the front of the cabin tho old colonel managed to slip out tho Lack way and escape Into the woods with the women and children. Then 1 laid the flddlo down and got my gun nnd Joined In tho defense. The red devils were too many for us, nnd after killing four of our boys they set fire to the cabin and succeeded In capturing captur-ing me as 1 was trying to cut my way through their lines with my bawlo knife. "They bound mo hand nnd foot and tied me on n pony. After raiding the Kettlemcnt and burning the cnblns they started back toward a Upan vll-lago vll-lago on Devil river. When daylight came I was congratulating myself that the red men had not captured any ot tha wives or daughters of the settlers, but In a moment I heard a cry of distress dis-tress and upon twisting my head around was amaicd to see a beautiful young girl whom I well knew lasted to, an old squaw who was riding a v mustang. Tho Indians .had found a ''t demijohn ot brandy In a cabin, and It eEL"was not long before several ot the tynr-nHBBrlora,3tr.drunltaHniey tynr-nHBBrlora,3tr.drunltaHniey mean totyell """Wemdjcavorfabout on tbclf ponlrai apparently ap-parently Indifferent to the likelihood that they might bo overtaken at any moment by tho enraged settlers. While crossing tho San (fabric! prairie they circled around a herd of wild cattle nnd roped several or the fat animals. Ily tills time the old chief In command was almost too drunk to rldo, and they halted In a grovo on tho banks ot San Gabriel and prepared to have a feast. , A lllitorlnal llmliralla,. An Intorostlng historical relic, namely, name-ly, the first umbrella of which mention Is made by French wrlters.hat, a Paris correspondent states, Just lieen sold by . l auction. It fell out ot the royal car riage In the famous (light to Varennw, was picked up by a villager and taken to a newly created mayoralty, whero It was kept for yoars The umbrella It of great tlze and strength, nnd resembles resem-bles the article used In tho old coachings coach-ings days by the outside traveler. The Ilk ts royal blue, with a border of China rose. Tho riot which support whalebone are In gilt bronze, round, nnd have a corkscrew ornament twining twin-ing round them. As to the handli, It would bear without bending the stiff-est stiff-est galo. This umbrolla Is spoken of In a report on the light of Louis the Sixteenth and his family. Louis , rhlllppe cot Into the habit In Eng- I We were tied to a tree, and the old squaw told us that we would be burned burn-ed alive later In the day. The girl was the daughter of Col. Munroe, a noted member of Austin's colony. I was closo enough to speak to her, and I bade her to bo of good cheer, telling her that our friends would be sure to rescue us Boon The Indians feasted nnd drank until nearly sunset, and by that time many of the warriors were furiously drunk and esger for some fiendish work. They roped a monster Mexican bull, and the old squaw said to the girl 'White face heap frald of bull. No like to ride him?' .tint On let Ike Hall. "The savage no sooner heard thlt remark than they bevan to yell with delight They ran toward the glrl.and threo or four drunken warriors seized and dragged her to the bull. Other Indians cut me loose .from the tree and lorctM me along by the ttdo of the terrified ter-rified girl. They threw us on tho back of the bellowing beast, and lashed ut securely to his body. "Ily this lime the wholo camp was aroused and eager to witness the tortures, tor-tures, Sqaws clapped their hands and the drunken warriors bowled like Incarnate In-carnate devils. They cut tho bull looe with us lashed to his back, and he sprang nway bellowing, with blood and foam dying from his nostrils, The Indians ret out after the maddened beast, mining arrows and musket balls at ut. The girl swooned with terror, nnd I abandoned all hope. Fortunately Fortunate-ly It was Into In tho evening, and th frightened bull ran so fast that the drunken Indians soon lost sight ut him. When I realized this nil my energy en-ergy and courage returned to mo an I determined to mako a desperate effort ef-fort to save my own and tho girl's life, 1 called Balllo and was glad to find thai sho had recovered her sense. Tugging with nil my strength at th ropns I managed to get one hand loose At this moment a new terror sprang up. Tho bull had been wounded and ho was leaving a trail ot blood thai had been scented by a pack ot wolvet. Tho hungry benst howled and yelped as If there were n thousand ot them, and It was not long before I could hear them gnashing their teeth. ltaaeu.il from ft Nw Hungry "It Is likely that the bull would have fallen on the pralrlo from exhaustion ex-haustion and tho wolves would havo deourcd us before wo could have released re-leased ourselves had It not been that tho bull bad run back directly ovet tho trail the Indiana had made. Animal Ani-mal Instinct led him back to the locality lo-cality from whjch ho had been taken, and he ran right Into a column ot set-'tiers set-'tiers who were pursuing, thqllndlans. EaJllesaw'tbehbrson)cn and "when tho began to scream her father, who was In command of persuing party, recognized rec-ognized her olce. The bull, being nearly exhausted, was easily captured. cap-tured. "I don't think thnt I told Salllo that I loved her wlillo wo were on the back of that bull, but I did fall In love wltli her while the arrows wero rail-Ins rail-Ins about ut. Not long after we were married." THEY CUT THE DULL LOOSB WITH US LASHED TO ITS HACK. land of walking along with an umbrella, um-brella, ami was nicknamed "Lo Itol ParaplUe." |