The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-04-20
F'dOTREST ROSF,
A TALE OF THE FRONT. EAR.-sY CARP. 2
copIed Purse1

Logan liuIieu NlrBOlOWry, WI nnl
6 been trying to woo her ever since sh
II had become resident of Tarhetowr
;, The fame of her beauty bad reached
! Logan very soon after it came +
l Tarhetown, and several of the youny
l braves Of Logan had soaght to vii
her favor. Virgelowry had beel
among the first, and held on ever
e after all the rest had found that i
g was useless. Rose admired tn,
! young Mingoite, but her love was il
the keeping of Albert haywood, ont
, no other could work on her aiTec
/ tions. Still she allowed VirgelowrN
to'recline at her ieet and smiled up
! on him and pittied him. When tht
tide of emigration from Tarhetowr
set in toward Mount Pleasant, Rose
borrowed Virgelowry's opera glass
and looked long and earnestly at the
top of the hill where the hunters
were standing in plain" view. Pres.
emily, after her eye had become prop.
erly focused, she recognized Albert
and she sent up long, sad wall, that
would have melted the heart of most
anything but an Indian. Albert
heard and recognized his darling s
voice, and he answered it with the
lplaintive note of whip-poor.
which he happened to have among
some other notes on various persons
In the inside pocket of his fur lined
circular. Rose heard and answered
back again with her wall, and thus
they communicated for some time,
and until her wall slipped II cog and
got out of order, and Albert's whip
poor-will note became barred by the
statute of limitations.
In the meantime the savages had
begun firing at the hunters. The
distance was so great, however, that
very few of the besiegcd were killed
or wounded. -....sf.
| Wetzel was now in his element.
There was nothing he enjoyed so
much as brush with the red Skins,
! unless it was to get mixed up in a
Spring election where all the. defeat
ed candidates for nomination claim
that it was mistake to nominate the
other fellow, because he never could
be elected, and to prove it and at the
same time show spirit of loyalty to
the party, do their lovel best to help
elect tho opposition candidate. OF
course this was very exciting. AL
most rs exciting, in fact, as it is dis
reputable. But Wetzel liked it next
to killing red skins and he laugh, d
gleefully as he sent savage after say
age to the happy hunting grounds,
with his unerring rifle.
Being above the Indians, his rifle
would carry down, while the Indian
had to shoot up and could not reach
him. Albert did n little shooting, of
course, and some execution, If the
story he told afterwards about it was
strictly true. According to that
story, he killed in the neighborhood
of ten or twenty thousand savagcs,
and IL he had not been afraid of rum
ming out of ammunition he might
have doubled the number of his vic
Tins. AS there were Lot over or @
hundred savages, all told, when the
slaughter began, the feat was really
quite remarkable.
After ten or twenty thousand of the
original five hundred had been kill
ed by the besieged hunters, the bal
ance of the Indians concluded that
it would be the part of wisdom to
change their tactics. Therefore Jim
Wilcox called special session of
the council and after Frank Oger,Cy |
Mechling and several others of the
sachems elocuted, and each member
had hit the pipe, the whole force was
withdrawn from the battle field and
all retired to their wigwams In the
village. .
"Wall If that don't look Gurus, I'll
be dingsquashed," calculated Wetz-
ell as he watched the enemy with
draw. ...
"What do you suppose is the Oh
ject?" eagerly asked Albert.
wall. l. opine that 1t is ruse.
The red nIggers think mebbe, we
will be sich tarnal fools as to think
that they are retreatin' and thet we
will foller them like n victorious
army with banners. But they are
countln' upon the wrong kind o.
chaps if that is thar scheme. At all
events the scrinmuge is over for to-
day, but after 1t gifts dark they will |
come sneakin' up here and expect to
catch us nappin'. Thar is but one
way fer the heathn' to git up here
and now we will close up that avenue
while we have daylight"
Leading the way to the narrow
defile through which they had pass,
cd In coming up, the old hunter
selected several large stone weighing
fifteen or twenty tons each, and |
telephoning out to Neeb's stone
qnarry, they had him send over to
them a crane, block and tackle and |
about dozen hands, and the stones
were soon safely deposited in the de-
file, thus effectually closing UP the
only wny Inv which tba snvapnS |