Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-02-15

solemn oath wherever and WHENCE:
saw an indian would shoot hil m r.
q Wild beast: / rebuilt this ranc ,i'u lke
" roughly No yOu see, but secn ,., pret
can resist a whole cloud of rasy.
Tor twenty-four hours, and n,c, Sus ~
on through these loop-holes + t taen
as you see. plenty or aru,R" no, aave
to half-dozen Spencers eva po as
ers, and as many excellent rave euoot
hanging In a rack on the wo,l. 1--WE" UaVen
never SO about without a pair ~ a .aa
Fellows, pointing to his belt in wh sss
We're q couple Of Wesson rifled rans,
vers. 'e'ot |
"They will pick me or one Of A..
days, but / am making minced n mess
OF them In the meantime, and S,u ussI
will sell her life dearly when tha .,a'
comes. You saw her shoot inst n NIUE
I have taught her SO that she can f Svs !.
rifle or q revolver better than mo. =
marksmen; and last fall, when thu I ros
skins made raid upon us. and ' o..
some fine practice before thew haots o'
retreat, she shot chief dead in his s.s
die out of that loop-hole. Su
~ vain WcAc eAe uolul lX1OMS al
duced, and the arguments TENDING "
show that Vengeance is mine, saith Nv ~
Lord" In vain pointed out to tn tn
man his better duty to the brave o ~,
Intelligent child, whom he was rr,r Tra
under such terrible auspices Thonos
1 really felt and seriously so, what
said to him, it was worse than useless
seeming only to confirm him In th,
course he had laid out for his fixed MN
In life. His prOvocation was terrible
but his present career seemed to mo ~
be more so.
1.-THE redskins are getting scarce
about here. They know that viii
shoot them at sight, and that can kin
farther than any man west of the Mis-.
souri, with my rifle. This was their IA.
vorite ford, but they abandoned it alto.
gether some three years since, after
losing, at different times, over thirty
Of their chiefs at the crossing. They
have paid dearly, but they haven't hall
paid yet for the murder Of my wife and
children"
The deep large black eyes of the from.
tiersman had been all on fire while he
told his tragic story, which is well
known to travellers by the North Platte
route. His checks We're sunlen and his
body extremely thin, but he was all
muscle and vigor.
will you take little more punch,
strarger"
"No, thank you.'
won't you have some dinner, stran.
ger?'
"My people will be expecting me back
to camp at noon," I said as prepared
to depart.
AS I went by the small narrow coun.
ter, which formed the bar of the ranch
I observed a long pine stick hung up by
a string against the wall, and nicked
apparently by a pocket knife. Hawk.
Eye Jack noticed that 1 regarded It
curiously. and took it down and handed
it to me. After moment he said:
"You observe those notches cut in
the stick-each one represents the life
Of a redskin. When I shoot one, cut
a notch If you count these notcheS
you will see they are rising seventy in
number. call it my Indian Death
Tally"
Wear and Tear of London Bridge.
What is the cost Of London's toilet?
No statistician has yet attempted to
estimate it. and. indeed. the whole sub.
iect has been neglected. This is pity,
since there are some wonderful figures
about cleaning the streets Of the me.
tropolis. The most startling, perhaps,
are those relating to London bridge.
1t is computed that about 200, 900 pedes.
trians and 10000 vehicles cross that
structure every day. Each leaves be-
hind little shoe leather or little
iron-iust a trifle. But when litter and
dust are added to these minute losses
the whole fills between three and four
carts. The most surprising fact Of all,
however, is that the incessant traffic
across the bridge reduces to powder
about twenty-five cubic yards Of gran.
lite every year.--Newcastle ENG Chrou.
lcle.
"Hello, Charley" I said, as l took
the three-year-old up on my knee
where's your mother?'
CUP stairs in her ROOM"
"What is she doing?"
"Frizzing and kinking up her hair"
"And where's the girl?"
(Which one, Dinah?"
Eyes"
"Oh, she's up stairs in her own room.
"Well, what is she doing!"
"Oh, she's trying to get the kinks ana
frizzes out of her hair. "-Arkansaw
Traveller