Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-12-13
A TRIP TO sPAvINA.

OotuUoi OO tOI tue puTpOoo va oAouuu-
ing the country 10 tie south Of as,
with view Of fiudiag desirable line
for the proposed Plt,sburg, Columbus
aud Fort Smith railway, may be VI
Interest 10 some / set myself 10 the
task Oi chrOnicling some things seen
and done upon that trip.
We left Baxter upon Dec. Sd at 2 p.
an, comfortably vehicled, and reached
Po0lcr's at abont 5 p. m. without any
mishsp. After fording the NeOshO al
POOlers we turned our hOrseg heads
toward the pleasant groves and stately
temples Of Falkland, which we had
lost Gas will more fully appear) and
which, with the assistance Of four no.
ble COW boys and our own indOmitable
Falstaff, brewer Of Pittsburg) we en-
desvOred to find. After we had trav-
eled about two hours toward ~
Falkland, aud the "shades Of night
were falling fast" upon US, we began
10 grow weary, cold and hungry, aud
there stole over us the unpleasant con.
seriousness that we were lost upon the
boundiess sea of prairie without star
10 guide us and our rudder Captain
Beadle) out Of fix. Beadle had lost
himself and as we were with Beadle,
ergo we were lost. All at once a
bright light shot its gladdcning rays
out toward us and we heard the
CHEEKY voice Of Capt. Beadle ring out
'Doys, there's Fairlan,l, come ahead y
and we went, "Sa.an leading on"
The application of that proper name
Just used may seem little harsh to
your readers, Mr.. Editor, but these Of
us who were in the "behint" vehicle
''are free to maintain" that IL is an en-
tirely just aud proper term to apply to
the man who abused our childlike
trust and confidence by leading us
then and there, and with malice afOre-
thought, into a bottomless pit, q faith
omless mud hole, a slough of des-
pond" as our cO-sufferer, Ira G. Per-
kline, called it, q blank blank, blamkety
blank blank hole, as our good Fal.
staff called II. Well, there we were,
in the mad. All around us lay that
shoreless slough; above US hung the
inky clouds; silence and darkness
hung like a leaden pail upon our
weary hearts; there was nothing to
relieve the soul.sickening surround
imgs of cold, darkness, silence and
mud, except the occasional sulphurOus
flames and Hadean runblings which
Fals,aff succeeded in stirring up.
There we were aud there we wOnld
have been TO this day but for the bril-
liant suggestion of some one of the
party whose Uranium was either a lit
lie thinner or little less bemuddled
than those of the rest of us, that we
get help from house that seemed to
lie near by, as judged by light that
could be seen. So Capt. Beadle and
the writer started for that light. The
writer was sent with Beadle to pre-
vent his getting scattered and lost.
We got within twenty rods OF the
house, but could get no nearer because
of two serious obstacles, viz: A dog
and skunk smell. There was also a
stream of wafer and mud OF umcer-
tain width and depth, but it was q
trifing matter, the most ettectual bar
rier 10 our further progress being the
aforesaid smell. Then the captain and
I raised our cold and nervous voices
and halloOed. Having leaned back
against fence so that our voices could
get outside of our anatomy diminish
cd in strength as little as possible
those voices Of ours actually succeed
ed in getting past all those obstruc-
tons, aud, getting through the cracks
in the door, reached the ears OF The
tensuts OF the house. An instant
later the door opened, and upon max
ing known our nisfOrtunes four noble
men, knights of the saddle, came out TO
help US. When we had returned To
the place from whence we came we
found that the horses bad been un-
hitched and made to swim to shore,
Falstaff was used as aOater aud we
got ropes tied to the tongues of the
vehicles and "all bands laying to" we
pulled the hack and carriage TO dry
land. II was but the work Of few
minutes to hitch up, to express oul
deep gratitude to our good friends, the
four cowboy knights, aud start fOl
Fairlaud. This time Beadle was tied
hand and foot, q quilt stuffed into his
mouth and he put into the back part
of the hack, his title a. guide and cap.
tain take from him, while we pinned
our faith to and drove our teams ac'
cording TO the directions of a true
guide, one who did not "keep the
promise to the ear and break it 10 the
heart" one who walked ahead OF u'
and led us into the suburbs OF Fair
land. Half an hour later, 8: 80 p. m
found us all sitting around the supper
table at the leading S4-a-day hotel Of
the city ''chucking the grub" into OnI
frames Il have since learned that the
proprietor made an assignment the
NEXT day, and that the hotel men Of