The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-03-04

Hurd, with scarcely less loftiness "Mauy
folks talk as though 1t is a wonderful
thing TO outwit the red men, forgetting
that the race is an inferior one by nature,
and all we Caucasians have to do IL to use
our brains"
This was said with posiiiveness which
showed that the speaker felt no misgiv.
ings as to his own supply of that article.
II agree with you," added Macarthur,
"for II Is by brains we hste bssn saved,
where others have failed and gone down"
The doctor, as the head of this mutual
admiration society, deemed IL proper to
add:
II have heard 80 much about the dan
gers of the Yellowstone region, and about
the necessity of having a guide Why,
we each and all would be competent to
guide any expedition through the coun-
try, no matter how dangerous. don't
believe the most stealthy Indian could
get within gunshot OF our camp without
every one of us detecting bis approach"
The physician paused in rounding up
his period, for, just then he saw. in the
gloom behind the Campfire, the figure of
q bent Indian, as he reached out and
gently cenfiscnted the doctors rifle, lean.
ing sg7inst the tree.
Macarthur, quietly smoking. was await
the conclusion of the doctors observation,
to add something in the same line, when
he became aware that the clump Of bush
es Immediately beyond, and upon which
he was absently gazing, partly sheltered
several warriors, while Hurd did not mis-
take the outlines of the sinewy form
which, slowly rising from the ground,
obtruded between his vision and the star
lit sky beyond.
While the three sat spcechless. seven
fully-armed Indian warriors came forth
from the darkness and made them pris.
oners.
The latter, who were SO disposed Ia ad-
mire their own precautions, had left their
four guns in such positions that that the
red men had only to pick them up with
out struggling for them.
True, each tourist carried pistol, but
they did not use them. The Indians had
not yet done anything for which they de-
served instant death.
But the seven wise aborigiRes meant
business from the first. for they robbed
the captives of everything excepting their
clothing. They took their guns, pistols,
ammunition, game (of which there was
not great deal) and horses, leaving the
owners in most sorry plight
This was bad enough, but rather singu-
larly they spared the lives of the white
men, turning them loose, hundreds of
miles from home.
Then, having made the robbery as COM
plete as possible, the captors withdrew,
and left the others to their meditations.
1t is safe to add that, from that point,
their conversation took different turn,
and there was little said in the way OF
self recommendation for skill and caution
on their part.
Turned thus adrift, doubtless all three
would have peri,hed in that wild region
but on the second day, when they were
tramping along and ready to sink with
despair, two Indians rode up and deliv.
cred to them their horses, arms, ammun.
ition. and everything that had been tax.
en- from them.
As one of these good Samaritans wat
the warrior whom the physician had at
tended, the cause of the kindness was
understood, and Doctor Felix was justi
fed in claiming that he received a good
fee. after all, for his professional services
in the wilderness.