THE KING OVER YOU. Your king and your lord is the man who Knows; Numbers are futile; buffols are vain; Your freedom lies in your soul and brain, Hands w o Bl Back to the past, though higher and higher off the bludgeon; hands to the book! y to the future; turn not to look In the Seldoms von leave mounts the flame of heaven's fire! Trust not to bal Who lots: trust not to laws; masters himself God his ballot® with man who WHITE AGAINST RED. BY M. QUAD. I'n te i the year 1850 the Comanche In- diang boasted that they had defeated in a battle with They were arrogant and war wi They tribes, but wagzed constant and vindictive warfare on white and red alike. were rich, strong in numbers, and best horsemen in the world, and made war | oy ed the ture of it. never been white men. and bloodthirsty, th all 1} it make peace with other at orld. ¥ id 3 vould 1i¢ were in WwW hey the they becat tl 1 1 : vecause tt 10V aayen wd a Texan 5 3 vio w learned that there Wichita Mountains of This chain of in ol rin boundary o as an oiqg was mountains the Great nenes forms the easte NStaked Plains, as far west as the Rio Pecos River (rord | the gol fitted was Del until wore ors to Ay 'y one n revolver loan of two ia orew to work forty i pany was stro wuagh te itaelf 80 lot nder any circu r in getting ready tha tho tt st tad linns would wait an § enter the x co Mi ft was a iss nat JHE) must ' the n 11 For ommanas n a distan not over two miles hugged the base of the A nt id in the ive miles above on a June 1 natural series sundown day ot xo'ected was sink on 0 two mound taking in an area of Of a or no about wns n wall around this Once occu Of of 11 lad if a small lake Foo the 3 per basin, had . north was a still large enough to fing =o horses, men could strategic There plateau with sca for three frordon’s to attack him I A ren gade white man named Gerry, who had served in the reg- ar cavalry and to the red- skins, had drilled them in cavalry tactics and he was with them ut this time ut in the open 480 Comanches, vach armed with a weapon they ow to use with murderous effect would have proved too strong for the gold hunters. Behind the dofences the case would be different There was only one place where the sink could be approached by horsemen, and that was on the south side. There vas a clear road 200 feet wide, and the cannon were posted to cross fire over this. They had been kept covered on the march, and the Indians had no suspi- cion of their presence. Just at dusk Eagle Feather sent in word for the white ten to go to sleep without fear, as he should not attack until next day. This was no ruse on his part, for he made his camp two miles away, and that of the gold hunters was undisturbed by even a shot. During the night Gordon's men threw up further defences and cleared the sink of every incumbrance, Twenty men were told off to guard the animals, and when the sun rose again every one was ready for what was to happen. Eagle Feather was in no hurry. It was $f o'clock before he marshalled his warriors on the prairie, a mile to the south of the plateau. He then sent in word that he hoped the white men would fight. He did not demand a surrender, and he wanted it plainly urderstood that he would grant no quarter. His firm Jarposs was to wipe out every man in the expedition, and thus deter all thought of future invasion of his terri. tory, From the way he disposed of his forces ho must have been confident of hat nn a at a lew was a big spring on gress: enough to last the hh days, and Capt. i idea force the Indian a wosition deserted a twelve. foot lance new } speedy success, The mounted warriors were marshalled in lines having a front of thirty men. They were oight lines deep, making 240 horsemen. The re {| mainder of the force was held as a re. | serve. Not a warrior was dismounted, and no attack made on the men | gunrting the lower basin, Tho Coman- | ches, under cavalry tactics as taught by was lances, and they had won a victory every time. The chief had never fought a large body of white men, and perhaps on them. He was a brave general but ou poor strategist, When that ! would be made on the herd h fifteen of the twenty men to assist in re- { pelling the charge. The two field pieces were loaded with eanister, and ready on the plateau. nl the body The first line was ha ground I'he gold hunters were or- fire until the fiel pices were discharged. This did Ho happen until the first was within fifty feet of The charge was checked in an instant, horri lo. As was determined by actual count, i i were left behind when and returned t Feather had posted hi The five pi ' it ity two rounds apiece. and no attack called over (sordon maw Ata of warriors i1¢ ii thing was given si charged away, and obstruction. R a miie lear of the wis ¢ dered to reserve their i * t f warriors oastworks, ts in 9 the bn and the sinughter was something bi { ponies oe drew off ty-three warriors dd seventy ag tor o the spot where } | himself to wateh and dire 5. men only got in ene shot, Within halt bac) Feather he was glad the white much bravery, ns the them would be gr that Hl i cagle men exhibite honor of *0 defeating riors bad been unsucce share, the sed win the victory formed ng vhile the snmaoe ir murder 3 ‘x +1 iesson tl tin an killed and past twel nimost WAR Cons: fined to the Fhe whi ¢ men wore ore nlso mors therefore had the ans had appeared in goCure rout hour named. for n ne inst t gaan to gather rush guns was turned upon he shell with which it i it Hi Ke two of the kegs of powder, was espiode i wise exploded How One many and wounded no could #8ay, because t were kil © i he fe rrific« xplosion hurls of down the high banks and filled the ra- hundred feet. A dozen or more bodies were found, and parts of vine for a others were blown into the upper bas Pl The calamity in the ravine ended the attack on the part of the Indians, and Gordon at ance assumed the in Agressive The ponies of the Indians had been loft on the prairie, and just out of rifleshot, guarded by a few warriors. He opened on the herd with shell. and in three or four rounds had scattered it. Whenever the redaking attompted to bunch in any considerable number he shelled them, and such horses as galloped within rifle range were shot down by the riflemen. Fagle Feather had more than enough be fore the sun went down, Once he rallied his’ warriors as if for a last desperate charge, but they were so thoroughly whipped that they refused to advance As darknoss fell he began his retreat to the pass, and he made no halt of con. | sequonce until reaching his village, a hundred miles away. None of his dead was removed, but all { the wounded were taken away. Threo | years lator he gnve his figures on the | fight. Ont of his foroe of 450 men he reached home with only 199 who had escaped scot free. He lost in killed 141, and had 140 woanded more or less severely, Of his 480 ponies he lost at least half. Gordon's Jury picked up enough lances and rifles to load a wagon. They also got a large amount of amma. nition and other plunder. Among the Indian dead were two famous medicine men and fom sub-chiefs, and Gerry was also among the slain. He had not been killed by the white men, but Eagle Feather slew him with his own hand as he retreated. It was not his plan to open the fight as he did, but Gerry had as. i . { sured him that the mounted | could ride over all opposition {| The direct bad enougn i for the tribe, but dissensions followed to {make mn tors worse, Eagle Feither wus { deposed, and he became a renegade, ana the tribe divided into three or four fac- tions which could never again reu nited. The Kiowans, to the east ‘ak every advantage of the split, snd the { Apaches raided in from the west with great vigor, and within three 0 tribe which had ranked as the richest and most powerful in the West was scattered and broken. Had not { stopped in and taken care of the remnant the Comanches woald have minated. New York Sun results were be Vears the Government i HUNTING FOR APPARITIONS. The Ghostly and Ghastly Work of the Boston Society of Psychical { Research, [It may not be generally known that an important part of the work of the Society of Psychical Research, which had its annual meeting recently, is the tracing of the origin of the mar. velous tales that are shed fire to time the newspa- Tris ript, in the w publi some of pels, Boston I'l pondent and sou VIO, ven time invest § § inveutl startling ion) +BY ny the Tes time SYS ere are of ure IDE Dale: and other deta which give un ail probab N thie soc Richart Lary thint Pri Was written it thie and mado Case, tory was vias Chain western ranch of a by a the thut from D., printed a MoCloud's catt . Sy in je ve le visitations house went tel ows, slamming tatnping hard in the entry, upstairs like one possessed, throwing chairs around, and in gen. eral making life miserable for the in- mates, Occasiounily during the still night the sleeping ranches would be awakened by a most unearthly yell, { which would make their hair stand on end, Uv sucked the house, for they sombody was playing a them. But the perpetrator ever be found, One night the ghost appeared, With chattering teeth and trembling kuees the ranchmen stood before the figure of a woman clothed in the habiliments of the grave, A rifle was brought, the boldest man took it, almed, and fired straight at the heart of the woman, After the smoke had cleared away there she still stood, gazing ut them with her large sorrows Fulhing believed J ke on could DISEASE OF THE EAR. Its Unusual Frequency Attributed to the Grip. “The frequent occurrence in the LOW Years of net suppuration of the midd & ear,” said Dr. H. 8. Weusthoff, nt. tract ng attention Woe attribute this unusual frequency directly to tl widespread influence of the grip and to the peculiarity of this poison, ina it attacks the membranes, The middie lined with connec d in can 13 simuch us particularly Mucus ear, or drum cavity, is smbrane, and in means of the ith the throat, and thus #8 wi mitcous mm dircetly by 0 custachian v suffers more le th ever: of the throat. ity ordinarily called ROTOLIEONS Externally the drum cave ly ¢losed by a membrane, the drum! pens that through atmospher is comple fe i yery seidom hay COMPS discussed uenees t is also not likely that ary inflammation takes Most every onse of rece ling or ble. ae ompul iy laboiing the » ip posed benefit to be « from depended upon its size, “Physicians as well as the | markably indifierent fo this disease, and vet it ison rich always endangers lifs and even if an apparent from ite attack take place and nothing more be done for the trouble « hie atient to ali ih. Peer reco ery the ae is exposed all the annoying snd J: gerousr oog juences ol the disease ¥ Rupy alio nolvpl. de ippurats hn, poivpi, ded of the mastoid process, » ith such 8 Chronic pinoss, suppuration and necrosis, extension of Health issue l ressed to the physicians ind midwives containing regulations for that dreaded Recently the Board of 1.4 aaa ber of victims for the blind asylums, namely, puralent ophthalmia of new. born infants, and vet this threatens wily the sight, and never, or very seldom, and then gradually disappeared and wus never seen again, The edi- tor of the newspaper in which [story was first printed was asked to tell the name of the writer. He did [tacts of the case. He replied that | the story originated with some of tie 'hanchmen, and that nobody had | beard the yells, seon the ghost, or been bothered at all, HE i LABOR-SAVING DEVICES, | Mamma-~I wish you would go to Mad. cam Modestte’'s and tell her that dress is foo tight, and 1 want it altered. Small Som (complainingly)-Madam Modestto's is so far off, and I'm tired playin’ ball. Mayn'tl go to a nearer dress-maker? a 3 Anather dress.maker won't do. Small Son (after refloction)—Waell, mayn't I go to th’ drug store around th' corner nn you a bottle of Anti-Fat! «{(Giood News, he disease of which I speak is alwavs a nenace to life, as tho matter is separa. ted from the brain only by a very thin plate of bone, often not thicker than pap r.sometimes perforated and at times wanting altogether, so that the inflam. and thus lead to A brain membraues, a ciren- amiss. | Baltimore San. nA Little Transactions in Books. —" The man who goes exploring in old book shops sometimes makes discoverios which prove of value finally, Many keepers of these old places not only are ignorant of the value of many of their books, but do not even know what stock thoy have in trade. A man who ‘picks ap’ good bargains frequently, found a edition of a certain history ina basement book shop the other day. “What is the price of this!” he asked, holding fast to his dissovery. “Oh, I don't know,” replied the owner. “What do you think it is worth? What will you give me for it?" e would-be purchaser hesitated. | He was human and did not want to pay 0 thon wus necessary ‘Will the bookseller “Yes, nnd Yanded £] it 1 163 ‘ bis Vaitime of You give me n doll are’ asked the other, vorod Over hin doin HN prompti sna Ye hie On Hslory, Four days later he received a ens from fn stranger. “| was in a book shop to-day,” # id the i { nllor * and the owner naked fries 8 I 10id him “ und then he Lad sold it to vou give you £11 history wus worth he confessed that Now, I'll you take it? 4 . tor i, _ s satisfied to make i He nna } «1 third lew ower consented, if the in £10 80 casi Ww h 81 fF wou ering @ i hnser has dis; of #0, how much he has | You can’t alw New Y Ors AVE DO 8 Iribune, A RARE POEM, It Was Written by a Poet Who Has Sinee Won Fame. Ia the house of man th 8 Dispatch, i fly in savs the Kokomo, ud We saw n prog fn wr en i Notiein bott om, had run o & owner of know His Koo fron. BOOK i icing There ; ‘4 assent wa jis on can be h ive who « Who %. for teil it eb one can 2h of | HNetV-8ix Yours aro s been born on the ’ ut FULry as iea 1 a simil missing dates is now nd indeed there are. no doubt. some readers of this page who will fo nearly twelve years to come, The solution of the puzzle is to found in the fact, which does not appear to be very widely known, that the vear 1500 was not a leap year and 1900 will not be. The February the vear had twenty-nine days, but in all the years intervening between 1506 and 1904, as well as in the three be. tween 1802 and 1896, that month have only twenty-eight. (St. Nicholas, : 3 have only one birthday celebrate for be of present sven will To the inquiry why the leap-vears are so called, there appears to be no satis factory answer. What connection, it may be asked and has been asked, was the vear or the added day supposed to have with a leap or with leaping? Were these vears regarded as coming with leaps or bounds, as contrasted with the | stops or paces of other years? Did days or years leap over something, or were they themselves somehow leaped over? All this seems matter for conjecture, and | there is nothing left for us but to fall | buck on “The Century Dictionary’s” | statemont, *‘The exuct reason of the | name is unknown,” —[St. Nicholas. SS Negroes Wi h a Brogue, It is well known that Cromwell ban. ished many Irish people to the Wes Indies. Most of the white people of the island of Montserratare of Irish descent; and even the negroes of Montserrat make use of a rich brogne in Spuaking. There ought to be some valuable dialectal sur. vivors in this interesting old colony. {American Notes and Queries. wha Ts ot Jou ein meat bill amounts A Curious Adventure, Alabama duck-hunter CUrious aavenvare, one on the water before had n day, while our skill, Some year g in a ral y had beer ute, usefu! preventing except in as he wai always when, it in his his le ihe he nad lost i ¥ toad accident, ml 1 pg 1 sesil Wow «2 749 replaced Dy A cork substi for ordinary purposes, bit wing game, asion, he Da RN, § . ‘1 him from follo boat. On an expert i Lhis oc d loaded the reaching Bird, 1 boat 10 invert ifler strug- Lime, bh and Te iin eany Cr Wis Btub Funds of Thought. 8 ( as i A it DOEREE- end or see r Vass { time, and Than ever The (ood Health Mi Alabastine are io heer amin el w 2 as) We CRE wild a with the landlubber when be Hap” takes his first sea voyags A Brilliant Discovery in $ t Dematelogy. air Ani be pen i without nieres jrovers ha cently been West £34 iy for the OT RIRT « hair fol sx designed ta & said i par. remedy which is oh appuication wring hod iy it i { superfin uy 1 which is applied 4 an electric needle is cen to the discoverer. There are 208 sindents from North America gt the Berlin (Germany) University GUACOBS Off, ~CIATICA A Aches NEURALG! A HAs No EQ CRKILMER'S
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