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THE WEEK’S NEWS CANADIAN. . There are thirty cases of typhoid fever m the hospital at Winnipeg. Mn Adam Brown has returned to Ham- ilton, 113nm: competed his duties as But- 13h judge at the VVorhI’s Fair. At the Assize Court. at \Vindsor, Mr. Justice Falconbridge sentenced Vrooman, convicted of the manslaughter of James Hickey, to four years’ imprisonment in Kingston penitentiary. Cornwall, Ont., has now a. curfew bell, which 13 rung every night at nine 0 ’c ock, after which all children under fourteen years of age can be arrested If found' 111 the streets. Messrs. John Kelly and James Snell, of Ontario, swept the prize list m the Leices- ter sheep chass at the VVorld’s Fair, taking every premium awarded by the judges in that class. The Ontario Government has offered a reward of one hundred and fifty dollars for the apprehension of the murderer of M r. McLeod, and the Napanee Towu Council offer one hundred dollars. ‘ It is expected that the new gas company of Montreal will be able to furnish gas at. fifty cents a thousand feet. Armed men will accompany every train hauling express or mail cars from Chi- cago to any point east, west, or sough in future. A Sensational story comes from Gala.- unity, J.’a., that a. French-Canadian leazue The Stormont and Canada. cotton mills, 1 main line 0f th of Cornwall, 0nt-., which have been closed lwas opened on for repairs for the past two weeks, throwing route the distau fifteen hundred hands out- ofwork, have re‘ - Canadian line ‘ umed operations. Puget Sound 1 ,A--- __.“|...-. A tremendous rain and Windstorm visited Jackson Park Ton Thursday evening, and some of the buildings of the World’s Fair were damaged. The Northern Pacific steamer brought newsmVictoria, B. C., on Sunday night of the burmng of the Russian steamer Alphonse Zeevecke. with’tbe loss of sixty lives. ‘ The Pioneer, of Allahabad, referring to the inflammatory literature emanating from the leaders of the cow protection movement says these writings have already had a. marked effect upon- the ignorant Hindoos of Ben a1, Oude, the North-West provinces, and ombay, and that to prevent the agita- tion spreading prompt action is required on the part of the authorities. UNITED STATES. Brooklyn clergymen are up in arms against the proposed Corbett-Mitchell prize fight. Four more cases of smallpox are reported in New York, and two persons died of the disease in North Brothers island. McGill University, Montreal, has receiv- ed another splendid gift from its princely benefactor, Mr. W. C. Macdonald. who has given the sum of fifty thousand dollars to endow a. chair of' physics in the science faculty. A cablegram from Rome announces that th 3 Rev. Paul Larocque, canon of the wocese of St. Hyacintnc and parish priest of that town, has been appointed Bishop of Sherbrooke,to succeed the late Monseigneur Racine. - The Customs authorities in Montreal have seized the bmks of the Aucr Light Com- pany, claiming that the firm was getting a. fluid known as aathe fixing fluid at five pounds a. kilo, while the Customs were passing it at one p0 six shillings per kilo. Sen John Boy d was sworn in Lieu- tenant-Governor of New Brunswick in Ottawa. Friday. It is rumoured, on the one hand,that the senatorship thus rendered vacant will be ofi‘ered to Sir Leonard Til- ley, and on the other hand, to Hon. Peter Mitchell. The Committee on Territories of the Unit- ed States House of Representatives has de- cided to report a bill for the admission of Utah as a State. The directors of the World’s Fair have definitely decided that the Exhibition must beclosed‘ onNovember 31317 as originally intended. Mr.Fred.Campbell, junior member of the well-known Montreal paper firm of Boyd, Ryrie Campbell, against which the Cns~ toms Department brings some serious charges, committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart with a. revolver. A The Miner’s Association at Pontefract, in Yorkshire, where the strikers’ riots have been most violent, has passed a. resolution calling upon the Government to declare that all mineral deposits belong to the 118.- tion. Lt.-Col. Bacon, secretary of the D. R. A., has found that the competitors in the recent matches at the Rideau range using ammu- nition of Canadian manufacture were more successful as prize winners than those using the English ammunition. A special from Vancouver states that a. mass meeting was held there on Saturday for the. purpose of discussing the question of political separation of the mainland from Vancouver Island. There was a. general lack of interest and unanimity among the promoters of the movement, but delegates were finally chosen to the general confer- ence in Kamloops. The bullion in the Bank of England in- creased £686,000 during the past week. The proportion of the reserve to liability, which last week was 5:2. 56 per cent. ., is now 53.82 per cent. The British flagship Camperdown, which rammed the Victoria some time ago, causing a. fearful loss of life, went aground in Valetta harbour, Malta, and is in a. danger- ous position. The Miners’ Federation of England has asked the Coal Mine Owners’ Association to meet delegates from the Federation, with a. View to making arrangements for the re- sumption of work by the striking miners. Gen. Sir Henry Norman’s refusal to ac- cept the Viceroyalty of India. has placed the English Government in an awkward posi- tion. Owing to the Home Rule cleavage of the Liberal party, there are scarcely any suitable candidates among the higher ranks of the nobility willing to serve under Mr. Gladstone. BRITISH. Snow fell heavily in the north of England on Saturday. In \Vestmoreland the ground was covered to a. depth of fpur inches. 1 Part of the assets of ‘alvin Armstrong, 1 the $43,000 defaulting ‘eputy treasurer of Tipt-on county, Ind., hive been captured at St. LOuis in the shape o‘_.f a string of horses 5 at; the East Side track. : _-.-.. u-‘n proceeding to Canada. an blowing up the is in existence there, w ”ch the object of Government buildings _in _btawzg. Frank Sherclitf,-a.1-iés “Kid” MéCoy, who shot: and robbed a. New York drummer named Pollock of a large quantity of dia- monds, has been sentenced at Logan, 13., to seventeen years in the penitentiary ab hard «labour. By the caving in of a sewer at. the State Insane hospital at Indianapolis on Saturday J. D. White and Jackson Woods were kill- ed, and Thomas Langford and Peter Daly so seriously injured than their recovery is not expected. . .‘ 5.... AAA - 1 The last payment of the $75,000 indem- nity fund given by the Chilian Government as satisfaction for the assault on the Balti- more was ordered to be made by the Secre- tary of the Navy on Tuesday. This Was to a. seaman by the name of Freese, and his ahare of the indemnity was $1,200. v..â€"- _ - , The new “ 800” Pacific raiiway, extend- ing from Minneapolis to: Pasqua, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific railway, was opened on Monday evening. By this route the distance will be shortened by the Canadian line over its American rxvals to Puget Sound ports by one hundred and nineteen miles. u._-__ ,‘, There was a. terrrible accident on the Detroit. division of the Wabash railway at Kingsbury, Ind., at an early hour Friday morning. A brakesman Opened aswitch too soon, and an express dashed into a freight train, causing a fearful wreck. Eleven persons were instantly killed, and many were so seriously injured that death is Inevitable. GENERAL. The returns so far from the Swedish Par- liamentary elections Show that the Protec- tionists have gained five seats. . u I 1 Admiral Mello, commanding the rebel fies: of Brazil, has reneWed the blockade of Rio Janeiro, and in 0: gani7ing o. squadron to sail for northern ports. The condition of Prince Bismarck has so much improved that he has decided to leave Kissingcn on Thursday for his home in Friedrichsruhe. Emperor Francis Joseph has issued an order of the day in which he declares that he is entirely satisfied with the way the army manoeuvres near Guena were earned out. , The Pope in his recent encyclical to the Hungarian bishops urges the importance of the parish priests having full control of the religious instruction of the pupils in ele- mepmry schooxs. Fine fighters the Soudanese,they tell me, and veritable savages in their lust for blood. Not so very long ago, in one of their en- counters with the dervishes, they drove a dozen of them into a native house, and having set fire to it bayoneted them as they came running out. One of the Soudan- ese, a huge fellow, begged hard to take his stand at the door, for, said he, he hadn’t killed a man for a. fortnight. And when the next dervish appeared, he ran him through and hoisted him back into the burning house, like mud into a London mudcart. But the dervish, writhing on the steel, managed to bend and clutch the soldier’s mouth and tore his lip and check up as far as the eye. â€"[The Cornhill Magazine. The health olficers in Hamburg, while enforcing sanitary regulations, were attack- ed by a crowd of iguomnts people, and a. policeman, who was protecting them, was thrown down and trampled to death. t, is reported by a. demented sailor who was rescued at sea that; the Haytian war- ship Alexandre Petion, with a. number of diplomats on board, on their way to San Domingo, went down by the bows, without any apparent cause, and that eighty lives were lost. Beat Them Both Hollow. One of the big fortunes 'afiected by the present financial troubles at St. Paul is that left by Lyman‘Dayton. He was apioneer, and built a house in Minnesota's capital when the place was a. village on the hills and What is now the business district was a swamp. One day Dayton and two friends sat on a. bluff talking and gazing at the “mud hole.” It was suggested that if the town grew the lowland might become valu- able. Soon after the three separated, and early next morning one of them saddled his horse and started for the land office at Stillwater, eighteen miles away, intending to pre-empt the swamp. He had gone but a. short distance when he saw a. companion of the day before ahead of him, also on horseback, and with the same purpose in View. The two raced to Stillwater and finished even in front ofthe land office. . At the door stood Lyman Dayton smoking his pipe. “ You’re too late, boys,” he said; “I came over last night.” In the course of years the “mud hole ” made him amulti- millionaire. War, dusty and sun-baked, stands alert on the Nile mud walls of the intrenchment and scans the dreary desert hills. From in- side one hears the fantastic clash of Arab military music, and at the gate one sees a. row of Soudanese fifer boys curving their huge lips to Orphee aux Enfers. It is all border warfare, of the old hand-to-hand cold-steel order,very like what it must have been round about a. Roman camp in Gaul, when the Alemanni came down at all sorts of unlikely moments on Caesar’s soldiers out cutting brushwood. We went out under an escort of twenty men along the bumpy, rickety line to Sarrass, the furthest post held by the Egyptian forces, some-five-and thirty miles from Halfah. The line used to go seventy or eighty miles further, but has nearly all been rip- ped up by the dervishes. They make occasional descents, too, on what is still left in use, for about three weeks ago they came down in the cool of the evening on the railway bridge at Gemai (over which we trundled gingerly) and set to work to try to destroy it. They came down from the desert in their usual obstreperous fash- ion, howling and singing, even with an impudent bugle playing the Khedival hymn, While the Soudanese regiment under David Bey that had had news of their coming was lying in wait in excitable am- bush. Then, when they heard the pick- axes at work in the Clark, they opened fire, after dispatching a. Company to cut off their retreat. Only it seems that one of the blacks in his excitement loosed off his rifle, so after spitting fire at each other for a While, in which the dervishes lost seven men and some of the Soudanese had their rifles struck, the marauders got clean away into the desert and the darkness. The Second Cataract, Soudan. And Canada’s String; of Portzrosses- We Must Cease Arming. The New York Morning Journal, the orv gan of unrespectability, contains a. long article on “England’s V‘v’arlike Preparations in Canada,” which is very wild and funny indegd.‘ 1t, begins : ' “Cahada. is‘;ery far from enacting the role gt a. ‘ Quaker Shate’ just now. “ There is not a. more nvailitantfiggressive and pretentious little power on the face of the earth at the present time than this same Canada, which professes to be profoundly mindful of our interests while trying to thwart them at every turn. “ Coincident with the return of Sir Charles Tupper from England is the inaug- uration of a. new and vigorous policy of co- operation with England, which he has doubtless come over to superintend. “ Sir Charles Tuppefis the Canadian High Commissioner to Great Britain, and operates as a. connecting link between the two countries. In fact, he may be said to be the creator of the policy of an Imperial Federation,which would be little or nothing Without Canada. He is a. man of immense will and much talent,and has the ear of the moneyed and influential public in England. It is probably due to his influence that Great Britain is at present hedging Canada about with cannon as if she feared she might get away.” Then this giddy New York sheet brings a. gross charge against the Canadian news- papers. They are gloaters ! They gloat over the western fortifications at Esqulmalt and elsewhere. Canada, with the aid of England, is about to create a new Gibraltar on the Pacific command to build up not far from it; What Mr. Douglas Sladen calls the “Constantinople of America’hâ€"namelyl the Sprightly city of Vancouver. ' “y’l‘lus town of Vancouver is to absorb all the commerce from China, India, Japan and the eastern world, which Uncle Sam once fondly hoped was coming his way. If Sir Charles Tupper’s imperialism, backed by British armies and navies, succeeds, San Francisco can say goodâ€"bye to her greatness. The Golden Gate will be merely a. satirical misnomer. The real gate of gold, of teas, of silks, of spices, of all the multitudinous and picturesque commerce of the Orient, will be Vancouver. “ This is what we are going to get for not having vigorously pushed the policy of annexation: when England was busily en- gaged in other fields. “ When we said that we would not take Canada. as a. gift, the Canadian Pacific Railway had not developed Vancouver ; and England had not begun to send red coats in large numbers into Canada. once more, as we fondly supposed that, she would never do again. “ It is in the hope, and with the design of putting an end to all talk about annex- ation that Mr. John Bull is building fort- resses on the Canadian frontier, sending troops, compelling Canada to keep up her old and neglected engagements to supply yearly sums for fortificationsâ€"and other- wise acting in a. warlike manner. WHY PUT OFF ANNEXATION ? “John Bull would like to have us think that all these manwuvres are directed against some possible Russian or French enemy who may, at some future epcc, dur- ing a. war with England, desire to strike at Canada. But Americans are gradually coming to believe that they are due rather to a settled plan to strengthen his foothold on this continent, and some day to strike a decisive coup which shall make him master of the Pacific and put him In position to defend his northward frontier in case we should wish to attack it. Under the cir- cumstances, it seems foolish to Americans to allow this policy, so intensely hostile to us in its every manifestation, to go on much further. With a large portion of the popu- lation of Canada. willing and anxious to be annexed to the United States, why‘ should we see the Canadians pushed into a so- called ‘ imperial’ policy, and forced to actions hostile to us '3 M r. Sladen is so thrilled b the possibili- ties of Vancouver that he ecomes rhap- sodic. “I fancy,” he says, “that I can see Vancouver when her hour has come, as Melbourne’s came. Great docks lined with “The watchword should be: No Gibraltars in America. 1 No Maltas on the Atlantic coast! Canada. must cease arming or Canada. must cease to exist.” “ We have learned enough when we learn that Hawaii should be a British outpost in the Pacific. 1n fancy’s eye, the Canadian Imperialist alrealy sees the line of union complete from Vancouver to Honolulu, from the latter point to Australia ; Uncle Sam is blocked out : his steamships are run off the seas, and a. line of hostile war vessels, and of well-manned fortresses, can at any time be put in order at a. few days’ notice against him. Esquimaltr will have at its dock a. fleet as formidable as that now stationed in the English channel.” “ Today it has at least. 20,000 population and has absorbed two-thirds of the Orient- al trade which formerly went to San F ran- 01500.” “ Vancouver at the head of navigation ” writes Mr. Douglas Sladen, “ was designed by nature to be one of the world's great ports. Like Constantinople and New York it has an all-round frontage of deep water ‘ like Hong Kong it is the outlet of half a, continent. The Eonclusion of the article is devoted to Mr. Pouglas Sizzden. In‘was only in the spring of 1886 that pioneers began to build among the gigantic cedars of the forest between Burrard inlet and the False creek. 1n the north-west; it, is necessary for a. town to be burnt to the ground before it, can be of any account. Vancouver was lucky enough te secure this favor once. “ If 1t were possible for Canada. to be lost in the United States, there might be some risk of Vancouver’s future, for it would have to contest with places like Seattle, a. ter- minus of half a dozen lines of railway ; but while the Lion’s Gateway remains THL SOLE AMERICAN OUTLET of British commerce to the Pacific, from Alaska. to Cape Horn, its future is assured. Vancouver, at the head of navigation. well protected from assault, will always be the commercial port of western Canada, as Victoria, or rather Esquimalt, will be the naval port, lying as it does in command of the entrance to Puget sound, the Mediter- ranean of America, on the open sea, with no torpedo channels to run. THE F0911 YXNKEE A BAYENING MONSTER. W'E ARE GLOATERS. ocean steamers fill the mouth of the False creek, and front the future terminus of the Canadian Pacific railroad, in the heart of their broad transponbine grant, on which the tall will have given place to the huge chimneys of the manufactories of machinery, furni- ture, cottons, refined sugar, woodmre, hardware, fruit canneries for the produce of the Fraser delta, smelting furnaces for the reduction of the iron and copper ores of the islands, sawmills, foundries, yards for build- ing and repairing the iron shipping of the Pacific, and a score of other industries at present unguessed. I see the whole delta of the Fraser and its tributaries one vast orchard and hop garden, smiling like Kent or Sussex.” ~ “ Very pretty, and full of excellent admonitions for Unc.e Sam. Unless he wants 3. Liverpool at his doors, to compete with his home ports ; a. Gibraltar on his northwestern frontier ; 3. Malta. crammed with redcoats on his eastern border ; hostile lines of fortifications along his lakes, and people taking advantage of his magnificent opportunities who have no right to them, he must hit straight out from the shoulder, and smash the scheme of Imperial empire into a hundredthousand fragments. “ It; is directly hastilg to. us ; and it is folly to allow its development. No Gibral- tars at Esquimalb ! No British naval stations on the Sandwich islands ! No Maltas at Ber- muba. ! Dawn with Imperialism in Canada, and the worst foe of true democracy in America. now They Are Raised in Far Away Ice- land. In the recesses and holes and cavities be- tween the hummocks of Iceland the eider ducks may be seen sitting on their nests. Of these there are several scores, and the birds themselves when sitting are perfectly tame, some of them even allowing a. stranger to stroke them with the hand. They are not all hatched at the same time, and many are still in the egg when others are thatched and swimming about in the sea. The drake, as is so frequently the case with the male bird; is a. handsome. showy crea- ture, with much white in his plumage. He is exceedingly shy and wary, while the female, whose plumage is brown and glossy, is, on the contrary, tame and confiding. The duck lays from five to six eggs at the beginning of June, and it is no unusual thing to find from ten to .sixteen eggs in one nest, together with two females, who' sit either at intervals, or if necessary, both at the same time, and strange to say, seem to agree remarkably well with one another. The period of laying lasts some six or seven weeks and the birds are in the habit of lay- ing three times in different places. From the first and second of these both the down and eggs are taken away, but from the last it is very seldom that the farmer removes either. Should he do so with any degree of persistency the birds would de- sert the locality, and he is not such a. fool as to destroy the duck with the golden eggs. The nest is not as a. general ‘ rule, left untilthe little ones are hatched. There is not much callowuess and helplessness about these youngsters. About an hour after they are out of the shell they quit the nest together, when it is once more plundered. This down is divided into seaweed down. and grass down. The latter is generally considered to be the best in quality. The down is very valuable and fetches from $4 to $5 a pound. In some cases the owner resides on or near the farm. When he and his men ar- rive at the nest they carefully remove the female and take away the superfluous down and eggs. The duck immediately begins to lay afresh, and covers her eggs with her down, which she plucks from her own breast. If the supply is inadequate the male come to her assistance and helps to cover the eggs with his down. This being white is easily distinguished 'from the brown covering which the female supplies, amAl is not so good in quality. The German Emperor‘s favorite English novelist is Rider Haggard. The. three takes of down very consider- ably in quality, the first_ being superior to the second and the second to the third. The birds themselves apart from their down-giving capacities, are of little value. The down taken from dead ducks is value- less, as it has lost all its marvellous elastic- ity. “Yes, gentlemen, it’s the King’s army and the King’s navy, but it’s the national debt.” This inflammatory outburst of Cobbett’s represents a feeling which has, we fear, done an incalculable deal of harm to our warlike services. The notion that the fighting forces of the country are the Queen’s army and the Queen’s navy, and not the national army and the national navy, has been so much insisted upon that the nation has not taken half the pride, interest, and delight it ought in the men who defend it. 0: course, it is all nonsense, a mere matter of words, but none the less the sentiment we have described exists, and has done, we believe, a. great deal to create thatvsense of indifference to the army and its needs, that surly lack of interest among the voters which all our best officers deplore. Look at the smaller provincial newspapers. Not one of them would, we fear, ever think of talking of the army except to run it down, to expose a scandal, or to say it was ex- pensively managed. The writers cannot feel about it as a. purely national organiza- tion, in regard to which they are themselves responsible. It is the Queen’s army, not the nation’s.â€"[The Spectator. “ Ain’t it enough if I pay the bill?” That is the sort of way the ordinary, common- place taxpayer and voter is inclined to re- gard the matter. He may take pride in the borough policeâ€"they are “ our police”-â€"-but a. sort of churlish shyness and pride pre- cludesshim from taking or expressing inter- est in what he is always having rammed down his throat as the “Queen’s army,” and, as he thinks, with the addition, “ and that’s a. out far above you, my man.” In France, and even in America, in mo- ments of danger, the national forces are not only deer to every heart, but a. matter of intimate personal concern to every man, woman, and child in the country. ‘ With us, though happily the army has ceased to be actively unpopular, there is far too much indolent indifference. The army and navy are the forces of the Crown, and the Crown must look after them. FOREST PRIMEVAL ! The Queen’s Army. EEEDER DECKS. At 4o’c10ck in_the afternoon the Pawnee scouts, who were riding half a mile ahead of the column, gave the signal to halt, and pretty soon word came back that they had, struck the fresh trail of a war party. Two or three of them disappeared among the foothills and were absent-for an hour. When they returned, it was to report that the war party had gone into camp four miles away, and that the Indians had a white man with them as captiye. From his dress they be- lieved him/'9 a a. Government scent, and from certain pf arationsvbeing made they felt certain he ‘35 going to be put to the torture. There were a huxired troopers oi us, while the Indians nu ered only forty, but they had gone into at the base of a. mountain spur tron“? '~ they could note the approach of 4‘20 '60€ 0'! . ming within a. mile, except it 3‘9. - - . If we moved as a. body, they would hn\':pq; ‘nd away be- fore we were within rifle s "or. It was finally decided that one of the, Pawnees should conduct ten dismounted troopers- over the mountain to approach the camp in the rear, while the main command was to move up as near as possible without» discov- ery and be ready to dash at the camp when the signal was given. ‘ It was 6 o’clock be- fore we reached the crest of the mountain. It was 7 before we found the ravine which the scout said would lead us right into the Indian camp. XVhile we had only about one mile to go, it had to he travelled in darkness over a route which would have been perilous by daylight, and it was close upon 9 o’clock when we finally reached the fringe of bushes :growing at the mouth of the ravine. uhu Right before us and not 100 feet away was the Indian camp. There were three small fires burning, with a smell of roasting meat in the air, and from movements at the redskins we concluded that they had just finished their supper, late as was the hour. It was some little time before we made out the white man, as he was bound hand and foot and lying at full length on the ground. Fresh fuel was thrown on the fires, and as the camp was lighted up an Indian came forward to the bushes and hacked down a sapling with his tomahawk. While he cut and trimmed he was within twenty-five feet of us. Had we not crept back when we saw him approaching he would have run right over the line; The stake was sharpened and driven into the earth at about the centre of the camp, and while two or three Indians were engaged at that four or five were collecting fuel. Fortunately for us they gathered it to our left, rwhere a. big tree had been uproot- ed by the Wind. A cart load of dry limbs was conveyed to the stake and piled up, and then the feet of the captive were loos- ened, and two Indians pulled him up. He was bareheaded, and the mstant the flames showed up his face we recognized him as Charley Keats, the Government scout at- tached to Fort Wallace. He had been captured at daylight that; morning about thirty miles away. “ White man coldâ€"going tobuild fire for himâ€"make him warm. 5;" said the chief of the band as he pointed to the stake. “ WZaugh! You are a. pack of akulking cowards l” answered the scout; as he dre; himself up. “ Burn and be hanged ! I’ve got the scalp locks of six of your best men, and you won’t be very much ahead of Charley Keats !” A dozen warriors ran in upon him with raised tomahawks, but the chief shouted for them to hold on and ordered the prison- er led to the stake. A rawhide lariat, which had been soaking in the spring, was then brought along, and after the scout had been stripped of his clothing he was made fast to the stake by the lariat- being passed around his waist. He thus had the freedom of his arms and legs, and the fuel was so arranged that it did not come Within three feet of the stake. While they were thus preparing him for torture we saw him glance about as if he might have a. faint hope of rescue. but presently despair came to his heart, end he turned to the chief and said : Many of the crew of the wrecked Vic. toria. were teetomlers. A lodge of fin Independent Order of Good Template ‘3 held an board. For every death during persons are constantfiy sick. Belgium has a. mile of railway to every four square miles of territory. Persia has but twenty miles of railway. “ You are a. squaw, and these peop1e are children Whom I could drive with a stick ! There isn’t a. real warrior in your tribe. I have made the whole gang of you run like rabbits !” There was a. rush for him, but the chief drove the warriors back, and, standing with folded arms before the scout, he an- swered : “Howdy, boys ! Some of you cut thin thing and let me get a drink of water at. the spring: Sort of a. close shave, and it has made me rather thirsty E” The command came galloping up, but there was no work for ils. On she ground lay seven dead and two wounded Indians, with ten or twelve rifles and all their blankets scattered about. Seven of the eleven men had aimed at the chief in the first fire, and seven bullets had struck him. We turned to the scout as it was over, and he held out his hand and said : “ We know you. You are a. brave man. You speak truly when you say you have the scalps of some of our warriors. But we shall see how it will be with you when we prick you with knives, when we shoot powder into your flesh, when we thrust in these splinters and light them, when we cut off ears and nose and tongue ! After that we will light the fire and sit down and listen to your cries l” “If yoq hear one yell from me you may tell every White man in this country that I was a. baby !” shouted the scout. “Go ahead with your picnic! A feller can’t die but once, and I’ve been prepared for this sort of death for the last five years 3” There was a. yell from every Indian as he ceased speaking, but the crowd parted right and left, and the chief drew his knife and stood surveying the captive. W's got the word at this moment to open fire, and our ten carbines and the scout’s rifle rang out as one. We rose up with a cheer and fired again and again, but after the third volley there gas no longer anything in sight to fire at. The Indiah ponies, grazing a. little distance away, dashed off in a drove, and every warrior who could move rushed at the side- of the mountain and disappeared among the rocks_ and thickets.- .T THE 871383