San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-02-08

far and squar."
Brent gave the greasy man fling.
He went down. Then he got up, with
trace of Bridger's claim ON his red
shirt.
"Yer needn't be so blame harsh with
feller," said he. 81 didn't mean no
offense."
every well. Learn to talk like
man and not like brute!" said Brent.
The two men walked off together with
black looks.
"You look disappointed, Shamberlain,"
said /. "Did you expect battle?"
"There's no fight in them fellers, said
Jake; "but eff they can serve you mean
trick they'll do it; and they're ambushin
now to look in the dixonary and see
what it is. You'd better keep the lariats
of that black and that gray tied round
your legs tonight, and every good horse
thief night while they're along. They
may be jolly dogs and let their chances
slide at cards, but my notion is they're
layin low for bigger hauls."
h "Good advice, Jake; and so we will"
By this time the head wagons of Eide
Sizzum's train had crept down upon the
level near us. For the length of long
mile behind, the serpentine line held its
way. On the yellow rim of the world,
with softened outlines against the hazy
horizon, the rear wagons were still
climbing up into view. The caravan lay
like slowly writing hydra over the
land. Along its snaky bends, where
dragon wings should be, were herds of
cattle, plodding beside the trailing
footed" teams, and little companies of
saints lounging leisurely toward their
evenings goal, their unbuilt hostelry on
the plain.
Presently the hydra became two
headed monster. The foremost wagon
bent to the right, the second led off to
the left. Each successor, as it came to
the point of divergence, filed to the right
or left alternately. The split creature
expanded itself. The two wings moved
on over broad grassy level north of the
fort, describing in regular curve great
ellipse, third of a mile long, half as
much across.
On either flank the march was timed
and ordered with the precision of practice.
This same maneuver had been repeated
every day of the long journey. Precisely
as the foremost teams met at the upper
end of the curve, the two hindmost were
parting at the lower. The ellipse was
complete. II locked itself top and bot
tom. The train came to halt. Every
wagon of the two hundred stopped close
upon the heels of its file leader.
A tall man, half pioneer, half deacon,
in dress and mien, galloped up and down
the ring. This was Sizzum, so the by.
ISLANDERS informed us. At signal from
him the oxen, two and three yoke to a
wagon, were unyoked, herded and
driven off to wash the dust from their
protestant nostrils and Craze over the
russell prairie. They huddled along, a
great army, thousand strong. Their
brown TANKS grew ruddy with the low
sunshine A cloud of golden dust rose
and hung over them. The air was loud
with their lowing. Relieved from their
drags the herd frisked away with I'M
wieldy gamboling. We turned to the
camp, that improvised city in the will
derness.
Nothing could be more systematic
than its arrangement Order is welcome
in the world Order is only second to
beauty. 1t is, indeed, the skeleton of
beauty. Beauty seeks order, and be-
comes its raiment. Every great white
hooded, picturesque wagon of the Nor
mon caravan was in its place. The
tongue of each rested on the axle of its
forerunner, or was arranged upon the
grass beneath. The ellipse became a
| fort and corral. Within, the cattle
could be safely herded. Marauding
redskins would gallop about in vain.
Nothing stampedable there. Scalping
redskins, too, would be baffled. They
could not make dash through the camp,
| whisk off scalp and vanish untouched.
| March and encampment both had been
marshaled with mastery skill.
"Sizzum," Brent vowed to me, soto
voce, "may he blind guide with ditch
ward tendencies in faith. He certainly
knows how to handle his heretics in the
| field. have seen old tacticians, Mare
chales and Feldzeugmeisters, in Europe,
with Ell Dorado on each shoulder, and
Golconda on the left breast, who would
have tied up that train into knots that
none of them would be Alexander
enough to cat"
No sooner had this nomad town set
tied itself quietly for the night than a
| town meeting collected in the open of
| the amphitheater.
Snow, brethren" says chamberlain to
us. ''ef you want to hear exhortin as
runs without stoppin. step up and listen
| to the Anossle of the Gentiles. Prehaps,"