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I THE TELEPHONE-REGISTER would be foolish for us to resist. If we ' they blocked up the only way out, and Bismark and Andrassay. We Want Subscribers To would surrender we would lie sure of • when rame to investigate we could not People knew that at the congress of M c M inn Vll.f.K, < >REG<)N. good treatment, and would probably lie I find a wounded man in the heap. Out Berlin Andrassay was the greatest sent to the fort very soon. I turned ! of eighteen ponies in the jam six were 10. 1890 the tables on him by saying that I was killed, and only five escaped being among all the diplomatists outside of Germany, and that he was the chief, ■"-¡W in their camp the night lietore, and had ; wounded. the only real confidant of Prince Bis ; counted them and made less than 200. The affair was wrtten up for some of mark. He was also the man who ex PERILS OF THE PLAINS. If the misguided brethren would sur- the Eastern papers as “butchery,” and cited at Berlin the greatest curiosity, Some Thrilling Adventures of a render their arms and horses, we would there were demands that it be investi- liecause it was known in a general way Government Scout. i let them depart on foot. If not, they 1 gated. If it had lieen the investigators that there existed between him aud the The position of government scout and must abide the consequences. He went would have found the fresh scalps of great German Chancellor a kind of port rider in Fort Wallace in 1887 may | away looking at me is if he thought me seven white men attached to the gir- common action which could not remain be judged from the fact that nolens than i crazy, and ten minutes later we were I dies of those dead warriors. They unnoticed, but of which the final ob four attacks in force were made by tlie ! encircled and the tight began. My | would have further found stages rid- ject was not suspected. When the Cheyennes on that fort during the sum ltorse was the only one at the station I j died with bullets and spattered with ques.ion of Bosina and Herzegovina mer. The place was a small collection i caused him to lie down, sheltered him blood—corpses shot full of arrows, Bet was brought up no one was surprised of small huts with nothing whatever in as much as possible with the means at ¡tiers’ homes destroyed, and women to see that Prince Bismark, by a kind the shape of a fort, and for a distance of hand, and then retired to the dugout in and children carried away—skeletons of diplomatic artifice, and no doubt in 200 miles the stage stations were wiped company with the others. Each of us of soldiers and civilian“ blenching along conformity with a plan agreed to with out, one after another, and the post thus had a port-hole, hut the Indians had j every mileof a route two hundred miles Count Andrassy, was ready to concede isolated. In May, 1867, when the cam fired more than 500 bullets liefore we ! long. It was this blow which cleared Bosina and Herzegovina. Prince Bis paign opened, there were seven of us, tired our first. Then, inside of ten see- the route of savages, and it was those mark even seemed to compel Austria- says a writer in the New York >Su»t. onds we killed seven anil wounded j which followed it the next season on a Hungary to acquiesce in this conces When the first snow came in the fall I three. There were not 150 Indians in large scale that put an end to Indian sion. was the only one left. The other six the party. As soon as their fire slack- . warfare in the West forever, In fact, from that period the alliance had been wiped out in the line of duty. ened we knew what to ex|s ct and we of Germany and Austria-Hungary had We were not only required to scout the got ready for it. A band as large as The Chicago of South America. already been concluded. In that alli country about Fort Wallace, but some | that would be retain to charge us be- ance the part of Austria-Hungary was Buenos Ayres letter in the New York found in the Balkan Peninsula, while times to take a ride of 200 miles toother I fore giving up the tight. This dugout towns or forts, and to keep ojien the was in the shape of an out-door cellar, Tribune-. This is Chicago reduced to the concession of Bosina and Herzego line of communication lietween tAe I having a bullet-proof door and the top southern latitude. When one goes to vina formed the earnest given by the temporary camps. The Indians were i was covered with two feet of earth. the Boca and see t he shipping jammed future ally to the defeated of Sadowa. making their last fight and they were The door had two port-holes, and tlie and wedged into the Riachuelo he is The purpose contemplated, it is true, only way the Indians could get us was reminded of the Chicago river. When was not realized till later, but during never so vigilant, cruel and cunning. When the first attempt was made to I to ensconce themselves in the barn, he returns by train along the water’s the congress of Berlin, Prince Bismark re-establish the stage route a small I sid y thirty feet in front of us, and then keep edge and goes out to Belgrano, passing said, “After the victory over Aus of soldiers was left ¡at each station. up a fire until hunger and thirst drove two riverside parks, lie recalls again tria every’ one pressed me to take Each station was provided with a dug us to surrender. Tn this ease we were the metropolis of the west, with its rail territory, but I obstinately refused. I out, whicli was an excavation or pit. fixed for a week, but, of course, they ways, palatial residences, along the wanted to act so that if ten or twelve roofed over and provided with provis knew nothing of our condition, and lake shore. The sun rises over a river years afterward I should go to Austria ions and water. Port holes left for fir had wrongly judged our numbers. Had so broad that it is like Lake Michigan. I should not only he received, but re ing, and four men ensconed in one of they divided their numlier their charge From that river liase ttie city has ceived with acclamation.” And in these pits, often proved too many for a must have been successful, but the I n- shot out north, south, and west over a fact, scarcely ten years had elapsed after hundred blood-thirsty red-skins. I had dian always charges in a body or not at broad and level plain, doubling its pop the battle of Sadowa when Bismark en ulation within a decade, and develop tered Vienna and was received with ac a route covering three of these stations all. The force had to approach over open ■ ing an immense volume of business. It clamation, for some weeks, and there was not an hour in the twenty-four, nor a mile of ground, and at the first sign of a charge is the most important railway center of The Austro-German alliance was the the route which did not have its own we sprang out of our dugout, ranged in I South America, It is the outlet for the result of this visit The alliance it line, and began blazing away. The agricultural produce of continental clearly appears, was virtually concluded peril. One afternoon al salt the first of June, moli was checked liefore it hail covered reaches of wheat belt. It is the chief at the congressof Berlin between Prince about two hundred Indians appeared half tlie distance, but before it could re- saladero, or slaughter-house, for the Bismark and Count Andrassay and if within a mile of the fort, indulged in turn to shelter, we had killed thirteen I ; stock-raising pampas. It command « a ltere and elsewhere the death of the Farmers take ad extravagant demonstrations of defiance warriors and wounded three or four fluvial system exceeding in volume th» hitter produces a deep impression, it is vantage of this and contempt for the few soldiers guard more. Ten minutes after flit- charge: water shed of the Mississippi. Its com-« Us-ause his retirement which took place was made all the living were galloping | mere? has expanded into enormous iiumediatelv after the alliance was re- chance to secure the ing the post, and drew off just before dark. This was before the stage sta off to the west, not even making an eff- compass. The city i« fairly pulsating allzed which he had conelmieil by the best paper in the tions had been abandoned, and at dark ort to recover the bodies of their dead, with vitality, enterprise and ambition, treaty of Berlin, seemed inexplicable. county and a McCor I..S. r....i X.. manifest . ¡q'|u, of Jjjg qI1(.stjo|| O|- in after years I met a warrior who was ■ TS It I has absolute faith ......... in its I was posted off"to warn the first two T_ mick or Deeiing that the enemy was out in force. It there, and he explained that his band destiny as one of the chief commercial aud Herzegovina,” Count Andrassay got the idea that forty or fifty soldiers j centers of the world, Not to put too was a calm, starlight night, with a crisp said at the Berlin’ congress, lies Binder. The lucky air and frost, and a horse andj rider were concealed in the dugout and stable fine a )>oint on it, Buenos Ayres is not entirely in the Agrarian difficulty. person can have his could be seen pistol-shot away. I be-| and that lie himself counted over twen particularly modest. In all these res- When we have solved it we shall have i choice. If he wants peets as well as an intensity of local removed all sources of trouble, am i we | the McCormick bind- lleved the whole tody of Indians to lie ■ ty of us. One cloudy afternoon I left a post of pride, it strongly resembles the Chicago shall have in our hands pacific and fer between the fort and the first station, er complete, it is his and the only precaution I could take the Seventh cavalry on the South Platte of the north, tile provinces, the prosperity of which to hitch his horses to was to bear away and make a quarter to carry dispatches to headquarters. No The progress of BuenosAvres iswith- will react upon the whole empire.” Indians had been seen for four days, out prieedent or parallel in tlie history and take home. eircle, hoping to flank them in that He Made the Shot After All. way. Six miles from the fort as 1 and, as the first fifteen mile- if th, of South America. r lie population was brought my horse down to a walk on route was full of w ashouts and gullies, I 78,000 in 1857: 177,800 in 1809; 295,000 in Doc Baldwin was in St. Paul yester reaching a stretch of broken ground, I wanted daylight to make anything like j 1882, and it is at least 530,000 to-day. day, says the /‘ioneex Prr*». In Ne-; progress. I bad gone twelve miles and Rio «le Janeiro has lieen distanced in braska he is quite a local character in j rode right in among the Indians who were strung out across the stage route was riding at a walk along a sunken tlie raiie for supremacy, and at the eild the central portiou of the state. The way, when an Indian on horseback of another ten or twenty years Buenos first time I ever saw him was in the > for half a mile on either side. I came upon the line as it was de 1 eiossed it on horseback not over 200 feet Ayres may be close liehind Philladel- winter of 1877-8. He was playing bill bouching front a dry gulch, and so sud ahead of me. He had come out of an j phia and Chicago. Tlie development of iards with a deputy sheriff in the bar- ! denly that I saw the horse close ahead other gully which intersected it. While the commerce of tlie city has lieen as room of the hotel in Lone Tree. The of me before I caught the slightest I was going north he crossed from east remarkable as tlie growtii of population. sheriff was eating peanuts by the bar, sound of their near presence. Owing to | to west. I halted as soon as I saw him I in 1850 the import and export trade of ami tlie prosecuting attorney of the Ju the nature of tlie ground the line was and sat there on in.v horse while seven the country which mainly centers in dicial district was playing sancho pedro very irregular and the ponies on the teen mounted warriors followed each this port, amounted to $21,770,000; in with the county clerk. walk. For a long ten minutes I rode other in single file across the gully, 1870 the aggregate was $81,450; and it Suddenly the proprietor of the hotel within fifteen feet of three Indians who which was there fully fifteen feet wide. is now $288,524,031. The house valua mounted a -tep-ladder, fumbled arour.d were on the right of the line, and who Any one of them had only to turn his tions from $37,000,000 in 1857 increased among some pasteboard boxes on the had only to turn their head to discover head half way to the left to see me, and to $240,000,000 in 1884; and in wealth top shelf behind the bar, found an old that I did not belong to their party. yet all passed and left me undiscovered. and resoitre»* the city has rapidly risen ,’2-enliber revolver, took it down, brush They were smoking and talking and I ascertained the reason as I moved up front and inferior position to the tore- („j ,,(p j|„. (hist and shot at Baldwin, gave me no attention. When we came to the crossing. They were following most place in South America. This The latter was just squinting for a dif to a rise 1 cheeked my horse and let the trail of a cavalry horse which had phenomenal progn has naturally had ficult earront, and when the hotel man them pass out of sight, and then I «ear escajied from the camp on tlie Platte a tiie effect of stimulating the imagina fired and missed, Baldwin lowered his ing off to the right, I made a detour few days before, believing that he car tion of the town. It has the largest cue without making the shot, leaned possilde ideas of its own importance against the billiard table and asked non- and gained the trail ahead of them and ried a ridei’. In the latter part of the summer when and its manifest destiny. The traveler chahalantly: pushed on. A month later, when passing lietween the stage route had been partially re-es- i is abruptly informed that Buenos Ayres “What’d you do thet fer?” stations, I had an csciqie which seemed i talilished, I set out one night to carry is tlie biggest handsomest and most “You think Ed Parker will make the to show the hand of providence. The I j orders to the officer at one of the stn- prosperous city in the Southern Hemi riffle for representative from this county stages had then ceased running, but I tions. I was two miles off the trail and sphere, Melbourne, Sydney, Rio de don’t you?” the dugouts were then being held by 1 travelling parallel to it. anti my horse Janerio, Montevido and Valparaiso “Yes; sir, that’s what I think;” said the employes, and I was carrying or was going at a lope when lie suddenly having been outrivaled. As there is no Baldwin. ders and extra ammunition. We had came to a standstill. This was the sig- city in North America that receives “Then I‘m going to shoot again!” seen no Indians during the afternoon, ■ nal that danger menaced, and as I sat proportionately as many immigrants, “Shoot and be d---- d,” was Bald and the night came on dark and rainy. quietly in the saddle and jieered around she is warned that the iiosition of New win’s reply. T had got away as soon as darkness had me I heard a white man cough. I dis York as the largest center population The sheriff continned to eat peanuts, come and keeping to the left of the trail mounted and crept forward, and found on the American continent is insecure. the deputy sheriff got to one side, the did not attempt to go beyond a walk. two white men wrapped in their blan Admission is reluctantly made that prosecuting attorney and the county I had covered aliout half tlie distance kets and asleep on the earth. I awoke Melltourne, Sidney, and even despised clerk not being in range, continued tlie when I heard the movement of the them to learn that they weir de^rters i Rio Itave each a greater volume of com game. It was, altogether, a novel The distribution of horses in front of me, mid came at from the Seventh. They bail left camp i merce than Buenos Aares; but the fact sight. But tlie hotel man finally con the premium s offered one« to a halt. In about two minutes three days liefore, got lost, and were so I is explained on the theory that the Ar cluded to refrain from shooting and will take place on the I was surrounded by Indian ponies, glad to see me that they shed tears.' gentine Republic is a country of unde- turning away, threw the pistol into the Fourth of July. 1890. which had been turned out to graze on I Each hail his carbine and revolver and veloped resources, and that twenty cash drawer. the scanty feed, and some of which ■ plenty of ammunition, but they had years of additional progress anil immi Baldwin and tlie deputy sheriff con in this city. This were hobbled. Had if been a clear had nothing to eat for three days. They gration will make the city first in ex- tinued their game, and Baldwin made gives the lucky sub night, they would have moved away ' had seen Indians all around them that | ' port trade, as it is already the first in tlie difficult cusliion-earrom which he scriber time enough from me, but the dampness and dark i day and it was the greatest wonder in , population of the Southern Hemi- was planning before he was interrupt to use his binder dur j sphere. the world that they had not lH>eii dis-I ness seemed to have taken all the spirit ed. Nothing followed this event in a legal way. ing the coming har out of them. I at once dismounted, covered. Tlie Odor of Old Books. and had scarcely done so when the , As the men were determined to go on vest. A Point for Smokers. herd wedgwi me closer, an<i I heard the | with me, I had to proceed at a walk, One of the assistants of the British voice of an Indian on my left call out I and thus when daylight came we were Museum tells that visitors to thain- “Lots of advice has lieen given to in Cheyenne dialect: : still five miles rom our point of destin- stution frequently haven hart time get smokers, but 1’11 tell you something “Are you trying to drive them over | ation. Luckily for us we were in brok ting “acclimated” to the place. An that has never been written up, and me while I catch a little sleep?” en ground, and as soon as the day had hour spent in the rooms invariably ought to be known.” “They move liecause they are hung i fully broken I left the men and my gives the visitor (for the first time) a This was told a reporter in the Grand ry!” replied a voice on the left of me. j horse in a gully and ascended a ridge headache. ¡Sometimes it is only after Pacific last evening by one of the big These were the sentinels of the herd. _ to look about me. To the left was tlie repeated visits that one is able to iudulge gest tobacco dealers in New York. The war party were no doubt in the I stage route. Two civilians named Ar in his researches without carrying away “Come into the cigar store,” he went basin ahead of me, and lietween me nold and XVeblier had left the station I a headache with him. Women seem on, “and you will notice that two out and the station. I stood there holding five miles away liefore daylight to push to be particularly sensitive to this curi- of three men will cough while lighting my hors» fully ten minutes, and by on to the fort. As day came they al- i ous malady, which Is said to arise from cigars.” that time I was quite alone, for the po most rode into an ambush of Indians i tlie peculiar odor created by the storage The first person who set fire to a cigar nies had no sooner got my scent than | a huge washout commanding the road. of old books. You can get some idea of coughed violently. they began to draw away. I passed to > | The accidental discharge of a gun in 1 what this islor is bv going to your own "Didn’t I tell you so?” exclaimed tlie the right step by step and almost foot ' the hands of one of the concealed Indi- liookcase, that has been closed for twen- lecturer, “Two out of three will do by foot, and when I had gone half a i I ans discovered their presence and the Ibur hours, and opening one of tlie doors that.” mile I got into a gully and followed it [ citizens turned short to the left and and immediately your olfactories will "It’s caused by the smoke.” up until I felt that I must lie beyond I j broke across the country hoping to find be greeted by the mustiest smell imag- “Never. When you are about to the party to whom the party to whom cover and a place to make a stand. ■ inable. Biblotnaniaes profess to love smoke cut off the mouth end of the the ponies belonged. Much proved to 1 These men were only half a mile away this odor, and many declare that they cigar, put the smoke end in the mouth, be the case, as I reached the station away when I ascended the ridge, and a cannot value a liook unless it has about and then blow. This expels all the fine without further incident. I found an quarter of a mile liehind them were it that unmistakable and ineradicable particles of tobacco and dust inside the adobe house and barn and a dugout twenty-three Indians, all on horseback. I smell whch infects a volume when it cigar. When you have done this re and there were five employes of the I called to the men, and it took but a once lias crossed tlie sea in the hold of verse the ‘torch,’ and you won’t cough stage company. Each had a Spencer word to place us in position. when lighting it. Those little bits of a vessel. carbine and two revolvers, and the am The two men, who were riding for : | tobacco get down your throat and are munition I had brought put the men their lives, came straight at us, aiming ! injurious. More people have been in in good spirits. They hoped the In to get tlie cover of the gullies, and they 1 jured by swallowing those little specks dians would make an attack as every went over the ridge and down into the ; The Duke of Aosta is probably more than you have any idea of, yet they thing was now ready for them, and it gully almost upon my horse. They, widely and sincerely mourned than think they were hurt by inhaling the was hardly sunrise when the hope was caught on in an instant, and liefore the were any of those who preceded him. smoke.” gratified. The red men could approach i pursuing Indians were upon us with j He was immensely popular in Italy, us within half a mile under cover of their rifles. I heard but did not see and espeeialy in his native city of Turin. the gulches and washouts, they first them. Not a word was spoken as the He was an exceedingly stately and ele tried trickery, as the Indian always i Indians came sweeping up. They were gant-looking, but in spite of the prince When Bahy wm siek. w* ra*s h.r Cartsrt», does when he fails to surprise. A war i spread out on a line about ten roils long liness of Iris liearing he practiced none When ahewas a Child, she cried forCastoria, rior advanced with a white handker j and while tlie pace was fast it was not i of the haughty exclusiveness of the When she became Miss, she clung to Caetoria, chief tied to a stick and iris right arm | furious, they doubtless believing that a < iennaii royalties, delighting in taking When she bad Children. she gave them CasU’ria >?< >?< >?< held up. He came boldly forward j long chase was before them. The line long walks through the streets of Turin, within pistol shot, and I went otit to j was within 1(10 feet of us when we fired,; accompanied only by one or the other meet him. He proved to lie a sub-chief and as we rose up we had to dodge the ' of his oldest sons. I once saw him What in Castoria? named Little Feather, and as we met I horst*. The redskins were paralyzed when lie was enjoying one of these he extended his hand and said in very with the suddenness of the attack, and promenades, and I was struck by the Castoria is Dr Samuel Pitcher’s prescrip tion for infants and children. It contains good English: three or four of their ponies fell and blended affection and reverence testi neither opium, morphine, nor ithcr nar “How, brother, how? Are you well?" rolled into the gulch with their riders. fied towards him by every one that he cotic substance. It is a barmless/substitute “1 am well and scare all my brothers Only two warriors fired a shot. Their met. There was a great deal of genuine for paregoric, drops, soothing syrups, and cas-or oil. It is pleasant. Its guarantee back there," 1 replied, pointing to the only anxiety from tlie frst was to get manhiMMl in this scion of a kingly race. is thirty years’ use by millions of mothers. station. “Does Little Feather wish to away. Five succeeded in this, although He would have lieen remarked any Gas ton a destroys worms and allays fever- ! sihness. Castoria prevents vomiting Sour aurrendet to us?" two of them were wounded. The others where for what for lack of a better term, . curd, cures diarrhoea and wind colic Cas He was disconcerted and emltarmtwed were killed inside of four or five min I must call stylishness of his aspect. toria relieves teething troubles, cures con- and flatulency Castoria assimi- for a moment, but finally said lie had utes, and that without the least liazzard He was not handsome, but he looked 1 i stipation lates tne food, regulates the stomach and come to offer us terms. We were but I of ourselves. We had them right lie- tlie prince bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. and „ gentleman in every line . Castoria is the chiiciren’s panacea — the three, he said, and they were 500. 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