Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-06-18


lady's pet spaniel"
"Thcn what shall we do?"
''Find n hollow tree and hide our
traps in 1.-THE food we cannot take
with us, the ammunition we should be
foolish to ovcrburdcn ourselves with.
twill be short commons with us for n
time, fancy, but we must march
against the enemy with light baggage,
or we shall die by the roadside before
we can reach his lair, which fancy
lies some distance up this wooded
wilderness"
This being agreed upon, they put the
project into execution, and each man
carrying n rifle, pistols, limited sup
ply of ammunition and few days ra-
tons, they turned their footsteps to
the winding path, which led to I'M
known dangers.
Every step they took was frauSht
with peril. The forest and jungle were
alive with the distant cries of wild ami
mails, strange reptiles lurlcd in the
grass beneath their feet, and n thou
sand smaller pests retarded their prog
ress and drove them nearly to madness
with their persistent annoyance. Thus
myriads of ''eyc flies" no bigger than
pins heads, half blinded them, any
every now and then one of the party
would have to stop to pour oil on some
tick or lccch which had buried itself in
his flesh.
Oh, for one breath of fresh air; one
draught Of clear water! Days OF burn
ing heat, nights reeliing with malaria,
and not u drop of fluid for the parched
throat but the Shiny water they got
from some stagnant pool, which they
could only drink after straining it
through q piece of linen. and which
was warm and bitter to the taste, and
brought the strongest among them to
the threshold of deaths door. And the
strongest among them w. not Arthur
Dunbar, with his massive frame and
limbs of O Hercules, nor the two ma
%ives vino might have been expected to
endure the r1iseries with less suffering
than the Europeans; but Capt. Cam
pignon, whose stout frame shrank from
the exposure, but whose tread was the
most elastic, and whose CHEEKY words
animated his companions to fresh exer-
ton.
You bear a charmed life" Dunbar
said to him, fretfully, one day. LAS for
myself, feel as though this cursed cli-
mate was stealing my very manhood
from me. If we do not end our journey
soon there will be nothing left for me
but to lie down and die"
(which you must not think OF do
ing" Campignon observed, with smile
which showed every one of his gleam-
ing teeth, ''for if anything happened to
YOU, what would become of these
brave fellows who are trotting along
with their tongues lolling out Of their
mouths like dogs"
You would lead chem back again, /
suppose" was the weary reply.
"Assurcdly would for my own sake
rs we'll rs theirs; but you forget that
if we reached Colombo without You, our
chances of remuneration would be dis
agrceably curtailcd. You see, we arc
not undertaking the adventure for chiv-
airy, but arc selling our services for
vulgar currency"
II know it, Canpignon," Dunbar said,
"but | have provided against such a
contingency. have left your pay Sc
cured to you in the bank ut Colombo
and enough to make these faithful fcl'
lows happy for the rest Of their lives in
case anything happened to nc"
For few minutes the Trenchman
walked on in silence. Suddenly he
turned to Arthur and said, eagerly:
What made you tell me that? Have
you no fear that should play you
false? What is to hinder me from
abandoning you in tins wilderness!
Why, man, You cannot even speak q
word of the native language, while ]
could talk these natives into any plot
before your very eyes, and you be none
the wiser"
II know it, Campignon, but"
."Dut?"
''But, trust myself to you without O
thrill of misapprehension, for ! know
that though you would stoop to trickcry
and deceit in small things, you will be
true rs steel to the man who trusts you,
when once you have bound yourself &c
follow his fortunes"
Campignon's eyes glistened.
"And you have implicit confidence in
me" he said, with tremulous tone.
'Then, by the Lord, young man, you
shall never have cause to regret It."
There is a prevalent idea that most
tropical forests teen with wild fruits
which nature is supposed to produce
spontaneously. Nothing can be more
erroneous 1t is true our adventurers
sometimes found the gnava and lkatum'
billie, which served to slack their burn
ing thirst, the blackbcrries and the
acid goosebcrrics, and very rarely the
sweet mora" which grows in grape