SULLIVAN REPUBLICAN. W. M. CHENEY, Publisher. VOL. VIIL AUTUMN. "With shy brown eyes she comes again, "With hair a sunny, silken skein A» full of light as golden rod; Love in her voice, love in her nod, She treads so softly no one knows The time she comes, the time she goes. The grass is brown, the leaves begin Their gold and crimson dyes to win. Each cricket sings as loud as ten To drown the noisy locust, when You come, O maid, to bid us cry To summer sweet a long goodby. And when you go the leaves are gone; The aster's farewell scent is flown; Poor Cupid puts away his wings, And close to cosey corners clings. The rude wind ushers, with a shout, The winter in, the autumn out. There's sadness in her shy brown eyes, Though gay her gown with tawny dyes, Love's in her voice—but telling most Of one who's loved, but loved and lost. She treads so softly no one knows The time she comes, the time she goes. —Pittsburg Dispatch. THE LODE STAR TRAIN. It was during the fall of 1865 that the Lode Star Mining Company sent an outfit from Nevada, in lowa, across the plains from Atchison to Denver. The train consisted of a dozen covered wagons la den with various materials, including a small engine, in parts, as well as other machinery. Each vehicle had four mules with a driver and keeper, and altogeth er the train embraced in its connections about thirty-five men. These men were generally armed with revolvers, and there was also distributed among them twelve Spencer repeating rifles, placed in the hands of the best men, designed to protect the train from the attacks of those buccaneers of the prairie, the red skins. The wagons were heavily loaded, it being necessary to carry grain for all the mules, as well as provisions for the men, in addition to the machinery. The outfit made but about twenty miles per day, and when night approached the teams were corraled—that is driven into a circle within which the men and ani mals were grouped to feed and rest. This arrangement formed a sort of fort, behind which the men could fight to advantage, if they were attacked by the Indians, which was pretty sure to occur some time during the long journey across the plains. The Lode Star Company's outfit had not been three days on the route before they caught sight, now and then, of Indian seouts in the distance, hovering first on one fiank and then on the other of the train, as it wound along the valley of the North Platte. The redskins did not come boldly in sight, but rode up within long-rifle range behind the favor ing shelter of some rise in the long roll of the prairie, and throwing themselves flat upon the ground, raised their heads high enough for the purpose of inspect ing the train. The outfit was in good hands, and under excellent discipline. There was no staggering, no lagging behind. The line was kept compact and perfect, and all hands always in call of each other. The Indians, seeing there was no chance to pick off any isolated members of the train by hanging on the skirts of the travelers, were forced to adopt some other tactics. But they were very cautious, for they were impressed by the watchfulness of the leaders of the ex pedition. The cunning redskins understand per fectly the character of those constituting one of these mining trains, after a few hours of following and observation. Nothing escapes their vigilant eyes. Any want of discipline among the men, or any carelessness in the way of exposure, is carefully noted and taken advantage of, while the train that is kept well in hand by its leader, and conducted with cool calculation and caution, if attacked at all, it is only by very superior numbers and under favorable circumstances of position. There were six or eight frontiersmen with the Lode-Star train who knew very well the Indian tactics, and who ere prepared for an attack at any moment, but, in the meantime, they steadily pur sued their way across the dreary and monotonous plains, appearing to take no notice of the scouts whose heads now and then appeared over the distant hil locks. By and by the scouts became bolder, and would dash up to within rifle shot of the train upon their little wiry ponies, take a good look and then return again. On the fifth day out from Atchison twenty-five or thirty redskins, early in the morning, came circling about the train just as it started upon the day's journey, and saluted the whites with a shower of arrows from a good dls ! tance. This onslaught was comparatively harmless, with the exception of a slight wound in the neck of one of the mules. Not so, however, as it regarded the Indians, for one of the frontiersmen drew a bead from his Spencer upon a Com anche warrior, and put an ounce of lead through his heart, while another shot a pony from under his rider. The red skins made a hasty retreat, leaving a dead pony on the plains and carrying oil their dead comrade. The train was not halted at all, but kept steadily on its way. However, the Indians had learned a lesson of caution for the future. As was afterward known, they had lost one of their besl chiefs in this useless attack, and though they had the additional incentive of re venge added to that of cupidity, yet they were held back by a wholesome fear of the Spencer rifles. Still day after day they followed the train, almost wearing out the whites by the incessant watchfulness which was necessary for self-protection, and oc casionally, when some favorable in equality of ground occurred, they would get near enough to launch their arrows and to send a few rifle shots into the ranks of the whites. One or two of the men and animals had thus been slightly wounded, but nothing more serious oc curred until the train had reached the ford of the Little Blue River. By this time, the ninth day, the In dians had increased in numbers so that the whites made out some fifty or sixty of them, and, trusting to the disadvan tage necessarily encountered in getting the animals and wagons over the narrow but somewhat swift little stream, the enemy here attacked the travelers in a very persistent manner, partly sheltered by the belt of Cottonwood trees which line the banks of the Little Blue at this point. But Captain Goss, who was train mas ter, had anticipated this, and while the drivers were getting their teams across the ford he stationed eight of his best marksmen to keep the Indians at bay. Each of these men sought the cover of the undergrowth and the body of sonu Cottonwood tree of good size, and from thence kept up such a steady and effec tive fire that the redskins dared not make the charge which the had planned. Five or six of the Indians had been sent to their long home, and several had been wounded by the time the last wagon crossed the ford. One mule and one white man had been killed by the enemy, and two of the drivers slightly wounded. But the train was soon again winding on its way, having fairly repulsed the pur suers for a time at least. Crossing the ford was hard work for the animals, and a halt was ordered a mile beyond the river and the teams coraled. Here another of the wounded mules gave out and soon after died, leaving but two animals to draw the rear wagon. The Indians had been severely pun ished, but they were very persistent, and on the following morning they were seen hovering about the rear of the train, which was now compelled to make fre quent halts on account of having but two mules in place of four attached to the last wagon. The load was lightened and divided among the rest to a considerable extent, but still it was heavy work for the two animals to keep up with the rest of the outfit. The Indians watched this rear wagon, hoping that the train-master would abandon it in his efforts to escape from them, and they were encouraged by this prospect of booty, pressing as closely as they dared upon the rear of the train. Now and then the best marksmen among the whites would get a good shot at one more venturesome than the rest, and would wound him or shoot his pony, and an Indian upon the plains without his horse is of no account. It soon became evident to Captain Goss that he must sacrifice the last wagon, and he, therefore, ordered a halt, and, shift ing everything of value into the other teams, took the two mules and placed them as additional leaders upon the heaviest wagons. Tossing into the wagon about to be abandoned a lot of comparatively valueless articles, he left in the centre a heap of blasting powder, for a sharp idea had occurred to the Cap tain. Something must be done to get rid of these banditti of the prairie, or they would worry out and one by one kill off his men and animals before he could reach • Den ver, at the foot of the mountains. He knew that the redskins would pounce upon this wagon in five minutes after he had deserted it, expecting to *e LA PORTE, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1889. cure the booty which he was compelled to leave behind. He therefore went very to work. He arranged a seven-minute slow match, which he connected with the bung-hole of the keg of powder. The train was once more or dered to get under wny. In the distance, just out of rifle range, the redskins were to be seen in full force, but afraid to approach within range of those deadly Spencers. They had lost eleven of their fighting men, besides several who had been left wounded far behind. This was a losing game, for they knew that they had inflicted but a comparatively slight injury upon the whites. Once more the Lode Star train was gradually got on its way, moving slowly forward. After it was fairly in motion Captain Goss himself returned to the wagon which was to be left behind and applied the match, then dashed off after his train. Rapidly as he rode away upon his little white pony the Indians more rapidly came onto secure the booty which was about to fall into their hands. It seemed to be a general race among them to see which should reach the prize first. There were forty redskins engaged in that mad race toward the deserted wag on. In the meantime Captain Goss had joined his command, and the train was urged forward by his orders with in creased speed, until at last half a mile or so had been placed between them and the abandoned wagon. Then the train war; halted. The whites were now all watching the headlong rush of the redskins in their race for spoils. They swept down nearly together and surrounded the vehicle on all sides, sev eral dismounting, endeavoring to effect entrance beneath the canvas covering, both by the front and rear. They swarmed like bees about a hive, and at the distance of half a mile looked like one solid mass. Hark! The catastrophe has occurred! The whites saw a cloud of smoke and debris risen hundred feet into the air and spread a hundred feet in all directions laterally, then came a shock that made the earth tremble under their feet as though an earthquake had occurred. It was a holocaust of men and horses. Limbs and bodies east in separate direc tions, heads and trunks severed. Twen ty lives were sacrificed in one instant of time and twenty more of the Indians were burned half to death! A few of the horses, which had escaped, were seen dashing over the prairie mad with fright and riderless. A few of the wounded were seen es caping on their hands and knees away from the terrible spot. "Let us return and finish them," said one of the frontiersmen to Capt. Goss. "No," was the reply. "They have been awfully punished; our way lies to ward Denver." "But there are six or eight of the red skins crawling away; they couldn't show fight." "For that very reason I would not at tack them," said Capt. Goss. "Chivalrie feelings are thrown away upon such vermin," said the frontiers man. "Forward with the team," replied the Captain, sternly, pointing to the west. This terrible experience by the Com al ches occurred about twenty-five years since, but its effects upon the tribes were lasting, and they rarely thereafter en gaged since in attacks upon the trains of miners crossing the plains. They will long remember the running fight with the Lode Star Company and its awful ending.— New York News. Value of a Life. Before our Civil War the money value placed upon the working force in a slave, a young negro field hand, was SIOOO and upward,and upon a skilled mechanic over S3OOO. Dr. Farr and Edwin Chadwick, both eminent sanitarians, practically con firm these estimates. Dr. Farr says that in England an agricultural laborer, at the age of twenty-five years, is worth, over and above what it costs to maintain him, sllOl, and that the average value of every man, woman and child is $771. Edwin Chadwick says that each individ ual of the English working classes (mere children ELIV EK KLiKCTIUC SHOCKS. The Methods Use