Morning journal and courier., 1884-12-01

steadily toward the enemy. He was, o course, conspicuous object for the sharp shooters of the-rife pits The air around him twittered with minie-bu1lets Erect al if on review, he rode on, timing the gait or his horse with the movement of his colors A soldier said: T was nearly scared to death but I saw the old mans white mustache ovel his shoulder, and went on.'
 fOn to the abatis the regiments moved on without hesitation, leaving trail of dead and wounded behind. There the fire seemed to grow trsbly hot, and there some of the men halted, whereupon, seeing the hesita- ton, General Smith put his cap on the point of his sword, held it aloft, and called out, 'No finching now, my ladsl-Here- is the way! Come onr He picked 8 path through the jagged limbs of the trees, hold ing his cap all the time in sight; and the effect was magical. The men swarmed in after him, and got through in the best order they could-not all of them, alasl On the ether side of the obstruction they took the semblance of reformation and charged in after their chief, who found himselves then between the two fires. Up the ascent he rode; up they followed At the last moment the keepers of the ri1e-pits clambered out and fled. The four regiments engaged in the feat-the Twenty-fifth Indiana, and the Sec ond, Seventh, and Forteenth Iowa-pIanted their colors on the breastwork And the ereyhaired hero set his cap jauntily on his head, pulled his mustache, and rode along the front, chiding them awhile, then laugh ing at them. He had come to stay. Later in the day, Buckner came back with his division; but all his efforts to dislodge Smith were in vain.''
 Selecting A Guide.
 From Hunting the Rocky Mountain Goat,' by William A. Baillie-Grohman, in the December Century, we quote the follow ing: ''The first was known as the fellow man in the territory, or, in other words, was supposed to be the laziest man in Montara a. The second man was reputed to be decidedly bad man, an old-time Virginia city vigi- lante, known throughout the country as Judge Neversweat,' on account of the equan- imity of mind exhibited by him st a,certain most critical moment of his life, when he held at bay, with an unloaded revolver, fou1 doomed and desperate men, thirsting for his life and their liberty. Judge Neversweat evinced much anxiety to act as our guide abross the Bitter Root Mountains, every foo of which he professed to know from his
 prospecting days. ftWe'll have a blanl good time-you bet your bedrock Hume or that he said, adding, sotto voce, anyhow as long as the whiskey don't peter out. His indignation when informed that this wa: not likely to occur, for the good reason that on principle we never took whiskey on ou1 shooting trips, was at first rather amusing then startling to behold. The mere idea o1 a good time without unlimited whiskey was a dire imposition an insult to frontier man hood. He was too angry to give vent to the usual imbridled flow of bad language; his eyes glittered, his form grew erect, his whole being assumed an austerely dignified air; il one word, Judge Neversweat became polite It was moode the half dozen mountaineers silent witnesses of this scene, seemed tC understand and to fear, for they all suddenly discovered they had business elsewhere, leav ing us, as I heard one mutter, to our owI funeral Then spoke up the judge: Gen tlemen let Judge Neversweat politely in form you, on the first call of his hand, tha this var camp ain't lost no goat; and if thi! var straddle aint going to find your approve ment, Judge NeveTsweat's record aint ont that'u stand second call' Our egregious exhibition of insular prejudice cost us some odd dollars. Judge Neversweat had not, WI found, included a call to the nearest salooI among those incompatible with his record. Of the three men of whom we decided tC pick our guide, the third man enjoyed more harmless reputvtion-none else than that ht was the biggest liar this side of the Rocky Mountains Him we chose, for his idiosyn crasy was decidedly the most harmless Aside from the fact that his qualification to act as our guide was about the biggest of al big lies he had ever fabricated, he proved a willing fellow and good cook; so while we did his guiding he did our cooking, combination satisfactory to both parties"