Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-06-04

hOOfs. Their noise and stir started q
herd down the nearest hill, and we
saw host of them como tearing
down the slope with long, lunging
jumps, some of them flinging their
heels and tails high III tho air, jump
ing sidcwisc and bawling in a mad,
freakish way, just a. cattle some
times plunge down "a hill, half in
play, hnlf in IA state of nervous ex-
element. There was now a perfect
bcdlam of noise, and clouds of dust
were rising on all hands. The chief
motioned 10 ~" to shoot.
l carried short, thick barrolcd
buffalo gun-it was before the days
of brccchloadors-which threw an
ounce and half slug. aimed at q
bull sumo 80 feet away, who offered
broGdsidc shot in his paving. The
heavy ball knocked him off his feet.
and the next moment he was at the
last gasp
The chief also fred his rife, with
what effect ] did not see, for our
shots did not startle even the near
est animals, so great was tho noise
OF their own Rawlings and SO thick
the cloud Of dust they had raised
A mad craze seemed suddenly to
have possessed tho whole herd. for
a great crOwl had pressed down out
of the ravino, and hundreds were
plunging down the bluffs. The stu
alton had suddenly become startling
and dangerous.
The chief in alarm sprang 70 his
feet and threw the wolfskin from
his head. did the Same. He had
evidently counted on scattering the
buffaloes and frightening them off
by our first shots.
Instead "a tumbling mass of them
had gathered about the animal
which i bad shot, and, excited to
creator frenzy than ever by the
smell of blood, were filling the air
with hoarso, deep, quavering rOars,
which made the ground tremble un-
der us.
Tho dust from the multiplying
mum bers which surgcd in toward us.
pcrvadcd IA il was with alkali, set
mo into parOXysm of snecZing and
coughing III spite of my intense
alarm. 1t now developed us in SO
thick a cloud that we could practi-
cally see nothing. Suddenly the
chief seized me by the arm. Come"
he said, I'VE go quickr' and we
started at n run. We lodged hither
and thither To get out of the way of
plunging, bawling animals, many
of which lungcd past within arm
reach.
The dust had grown continuously
thicker, and my eyes, filled with the
smarting alkali, failed me utterly
before we had run so yards. was
again seized by violent fit of
coughing and snceZing.
l shouted to Little Bear between
my coughings that l could not see.
He answered only, 1--WE go quick
quickV and, keeping tight grip
upon my arm, jerkcd me this way
and that as. we rushed ahead.
But, active and powerful as he
was, he could not save me in nv
blindness from collision. was hit
by one of the huge animals and
knocked over. The creature struck
mo on the left side, and / was
wrenchcd from the chiefs grasp and
sent rolling over and over in tho
dust. In fact, l was knocked breath
less, half stunned, and could not
have arisen at once of my own &C.
cord. should have been run ovor
and crushed but for the chief. AS it
was just had sense enough to know
that l was jcrkcd from the ground.
tossed upward and borne forward
upon his shoulders
He ran like deer, carrying mo as
II / had been IA papoose, jumping
and lodging this way and that
among the throng of animals, whose
rumbling tread sounded in my ears
like the muttering of thunder.
Twice he was run into and thrown,
and we both measured our full
lengths, but he WAS on his feet again
In an instant, and, lifting mo as be-
fore, darted ahead, seemingly IN
hurt How nc managed to keep his
eyesight and his bearings in that
choking cloud and among that excit-
ed mass of animals is and always
will be a mystery to me.
But he did it.
He carried mo out of that below
ing, crazy crowd of animals, and set
me upon my feet upon the hill
above them, giving utterance to a
hugo grunt of satisfaction when he
found that ! could stand. Frank
Welles Calkins IN st. Nicholas.
Cocoanut butter.
A company has boon formed in
Paris, 1t Is stated, to make butter
out of cOcoanuts 1t has q plant cal
oulatcd to produce 1000 pounds of
butter day. Surely the most pro-
lific plant on record! The bread fruit
troe is fairly productive, but this
butter plant" entirely overshadows
1t. Perhaps careful grating might
produce a bread and butter tree,
which would clearly be boon to
society. Exchange.
If it required an annual outlay of
$4,000 to insure family against any
serious consequences from an attack Of
bowel complaint during the year there
are many who would feel it their duty
TO pay 1t that they could not afford to