The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1892-09-15
The Making OF . Warrior.

Cloudless, the turquoise sky limits the
burning plain. Drifted heaps Of glis-
tening sand. show from what direction
came the last fiery gale that uncovered
those discovered polished bones-mute
witnesses of unQuenched thirst-and
with rough hands rcadjusted the wind
ing sheet that covers the blunted feat
ures Of the desert.
Black rocks, remnants OF long dead
volcanic fires, raise their riven crests
above the sea Of sand-fit home for
half-obliterated trail.
From the wavering horizon emerged,
slowly approaching and takirg form and
color, a man leading a pack horse with
| n prospcctor's belongings slung to the
saddle, rifle awaits the owners hand.
Slowly the tired man leads the tired
4; beast; at the cliffs they STOP. The
| wafer keg is unlashcd from the pack,
the miners hat serves for a pail, and
with many a kindly word the journey is
I resumed.
Friends these two alone in this waste
| of mud and sky.
Listen! What vibrant sound? What
hiss stirred the dead air? No snakes
alarum, that arrow quivering in the
fallen form-that bronzed figure among
the rocks with tense brow and ready
shaft-tell the brief story.
The man lies mOtionless. Soon the
| pack -horse is unloaded, and the little
all that a few moments ago belonged to
the motiOnlesS one is scattered on the
sands. With grave curiosity the Indian
boy examines the unfamiliar things and
selects these that please his fan y. The
rife lies across his knees. Then the
hunter examines his quarry. and leaves
it, reft of the Indians token of con-
quest.
His work Is done; when the sun ros
he was an unnoticed boy, armed with q
bow and arrows; now he is an Apache
warrior. created by his own at, his title
parchment q scalp.
Up the canyon disappears an Indian
boy, beating the exhausted horse that
he rides with the bow he no longer
values. Cut on the lonesome desert the
drifting sand has resumed it's reverend
ing task OF covering and uncovering.
Dying Made Ea.y.
It is said that the guillotine has re-
Gently been introduced by the French
into their colony OF Tonquin, says the
London Globe. Cur neighbors, as all
the world is aware, have had, and still
have. plenty Of work to do In the way
Of discriminating piracy in that vast and
as yet unremune rative possession. And
the method by which they endeavor to
exterminate the pirate when they catch
him, which, as rule, they do not il
that OF decapitation. That ceremony
has hitherto been performed in the prim-
! tive ard rather bari arous native way.
The culprit, being placed in a conven-
lent position, used TO light a cigarette
and wait for the execut;oner to take a
shot at his neck with big sword Some
times the headsman aimed straight and
sometimes he did not, and feeling had
| long existed among the gentlemen OF
the piratical profession that an execu-
ton thus executed was distinctively an
unpleasant process for the patient
Consequently the introduction of the
wood of justice" has by no means pro-
duced the effect which the French au-
thorities desired and expected. Instead
| of being impressed with the horror Of
this mode OF execution, the natives OF
Tonquin are said to be highly delighted
| with it. In fact, they regard the guiuo-
tine as most ingenious article de Paris
and they have already witnessed one
execution with every demonstration of
enthusiasm. Dying, they say, is made
60 delightfully."- easy by this admirable
invention of the superior European in
| telligence. The result is that consid-
cradle satisfaction is EXPIRE ,sed in pirat-
! zeal circles, and it is confidently antici.
rated that pray will shortly increase
very considerably, as nobody in Tonquin
would mind being abbreviated instan-
taneously by the guillotine. Death, in
short, has lost most of its terror because
the process Of dying has been rendered
SO simple.