, 1874-07-26

dNQ 0au A1T8DE6Q ~ Edfd4 WILL lAEHl
noticed, however, when the party left he did nos
so with them, but remained IN camp: did not
ask him why, but, In some surprise, spoke to q
member OF tic party whom met BY himself. He
seemed at loss to reply but, looking around
uneasily, he finally, wleh some hesitation, said
TINT they did not liiAe to travel with that man-
They could not tell why. but there was some
thing about him tha. threw dread upon them:
WHICH they could not shake of. So they had
told him they preferred to travel alone. He DID
not look surprised, but simply bowed his head,
as though be hal expected it, There WIS look
in tho eyes Of o.3 who felt himself tho grasp
OF fato against which he could no. even stEug-
gie-a look Of abject, hopetesa submission
Thought Of the voice OF tho Bic1 mau reading,
"a fugitive aud va.aboud bhalt thou DO IN the
earth!"
Tho party 1cf. without him. He vent tho next
day n1one. Tho third day, two other men went
Oh the same road. 4 week afterwar1. a squad OF
cavalry, patroling the roai found tic stripped,
mutilated bodies of both tho first and tho Last
parties, murdered by the Apachcs. His body
they did not find. Many months afterward,
when tho hostile indians had gouo upon reser-
yation. one OF them told Of war party waylay-
ing tho road and killing small baud Of travel
ers. The next day, be said, single white man
rode by, but they laid quiet and did not naolest
him. Tho third day thoy killed two more uel,.
When asked why they spared the man who bud
passed by their ambush, travelling aono, le said
Lo did NOT kuoy; only, Eonathng~
sonE STRANGE FEELING
they co1ld not understand, had held them back,
and Ecpt thcm from harmin5 him:
Had lLo Lord set mark u!,on him, - Lest any
finding him should xiii him ?"
mot him l.aln, year I..er, at Camp Bowie.
Apache Pass, whoce WAS theu stationed. was
asked to go 2uI sec sick rlati down upon the
Hat below tue lill, whera small party were ca
camccd near tho spring. He Sas lying in TIE
ellade OF Q wagon, sleeping. stood and watched
linl-
Whom was l. child. used to hear, among old
nslsery-talcs, one, that g murderer always alter
| wards slept with his eyes partly open. Children
will hear md relate 8uch odd fauclcs- AZ grew
older OF course knew better, and thls eharcd
tho fato Of my many other childish delusions.
stood and watched him or he slept. Strange!
shivered it vas foolish, but could not help
| were not turned up, Oh one often sees in sleep,
| showing only the wLitcs- Tho dark pupils
glatel out with dull, glazed, stony stare. Do
the desd stare 30 in their grnves2
Foolish! I know it is foolish. have 6eon
sick people in hospitals sleep With tho eyes only
| partly closed-Eeopia vino were near death. lkIow
] It il foolish ye. it WAS strange how these fuu
eyo-balls glared into tho day with that dead,
| stony stare.
saw MIN once again. I Was settled in Los
Angelica. I sat ono eTeuiug in the dusky tSi-
| light in nay office. The sun had gone down be-
| HAD fog-bank in tho West AID the dark
/ shadows we're falling from tho hilla. sat and
| looted out into the gray gloom. Ihcn-ths emu
| turned and looked The evening gloom had
| grown thicker. Low fog-clouds drified quickly
by. In The open door, against the cold, gray
| SKY as background, lie stood-stood as one
| palsieG.
Then over tue haggard face creps asain
| INV God can ever shut it out from my
sight f)-over the hollow checks, tue starting
eyes, the distorted, ciammy brow, creps again
| tho
! STONY, HOPELESS HORROR.
/ I never SAW him again.
! In the porthTa corner Of San Bernardino
County lying partly also in Inyo County, and. u
tue newiy-suIveyed line. partly also III tho State
OF Nevada, Is rosien paralleed by few other
spots upon the face OF tue earth We say, the
world is instinct with life. Here, il the phrase"
oloey may be pordoned, is piaee instinct With
death. a huge basin, whose rim il the ancient
E! hills, stricken with the barrcnness OF eternal
| the desort. trceless, shrubless, and waterless,
save a fov bitter pools like tho t3e OF potash
water surrounded by mountalna that tower
thousands Of feet above the sea-leYel, itself IT.
ing 30O feet below the sea. It is very - Gehen-
na "-a place Of death aud bones- B!Eda 90 nos
1y over it, Animals do not enter it. Vegetation
| cannot exist in it. The broad sands abaorb the
heat. the bare mountains reflect it, the uncloud-
ed sun daily adds to it. Ninety degrees in the
| shade (articlal shade, there il no other) means
gross, thai is summer.
The bot air grows hotter, wRvers, tremb1ee
with heat, until nature, goaded to madness, car
endure no moro; and then tho burning bias
rouees itsclf-rousas in it's might; 1ouses as 81
nBgry beast, with hoarso, ominous roar; sweept
mule after mile, on, ever on, over the broat
reach OF tho desert, bearing in its black, whi1l
| ing boscn-black aa the midnight-
| DUST. SAND, AIKA1I, AND DEATH
Sometimes mu1ky cloud gathers upoa the
| mount aims above; then there il rush.
| warning sigh On the winds, "a low 1unablinS N
tie air the hills quiver, the earth trombles, and
! a torrent, half water, half mud, bounds from tho
| hills, leaps into the dosa1t, ploIing CHAINS Like
riyer-beds in tho loose saud. The clouds scatter,
the sun comes again, the eternal thirst Of tha
desert is not quonched. Tho raging river was
| only dream.
tho basin. Day after day they toiled op.--.
| thirs.ing, dying. Tho pitiless mountains walled
| them in; no escape One by one they dropped
end died. A few, abandoning everything. scaled
| the mountains aud escaped. The others lie "a
they fell, dried to uummies, no birds even to
| tevour their 1eah, no beasts to prey upon thotn.
| Nagon-ti1cs uurusted, gun-barrels BRIGHT un-
| tartIished. Such Ia the place. Mile after mile
| silence 1eigns silence-ana death.
/ Walled bv the mountains, doued with bra-en akS,
| League utter League the neyer-eaatng ssud
Al aged, weary, long-forgo:ten land:
As cursed In wrath, aud slnit with GODS herce manu-
| M cooling mist s1enches the endless thirst
That r,,les supreme tha boundess stretches grand;
g5es W;eh 1su hn1rynr Ies:. Il is land aceursed
Il is IS though Nature had gathered all Of the
| curses-heat, thirst, alkali, barrenness, death
ali in one huga mass Of hatred, and hurled it,
TERRIBLE ASATHEnA OF EEEASAL DEsolAr1os,
| upoa the shuddering earth. She has made OF u
q Golso:ha-a place OF skulls. After giving to
other lands her blessings. the waving Of green
trees, the cooling flash Of waters, soft breezes,
| gentle sunshine, sle comes here-hke mad-
man, when the fit is on him, going away BY him-
! saif to foam at the mouth, to rage, 70 gnaeh hts
| tecth-she comes hore, With FIRE. with tempest,
with th9 dread simeon, and lashes the elements
into fury. shc hurls the blazing heat like tire
bolt, licks up tho last trace of moisture with a
tongue OF flame, scars the groauing mountains
with burning winds, rides upon the relentless
esnl-Eto7m-Ruin best1iding red-mouthed De-
! yaaintion fo1 q charger.