The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1898-09-08

affirmative
How do you want to voter" he next in
quired.
Against secession" 1 promptly re-
sponded.
Where do you liver" he asked.
"In Waco"
Then, why didn't you vote theref
Without giving me time TO answer, one
of the armed men came up ana addressed
me with
You was afraid to vote there, was YOU"
IF / was afraid to vote there | am not
afraid TO vote here" | said, initiating ms
tone and manner as much as possible
How is it that you want to vote hereE
asked the clerk.
Because ] am Ranger, and by law
have right TO vote anywhere at state
election, | answered.
| When they found was in the frontier
service there was no further parley, ana
my vote was taken, and my name regis
tered. But when ! started for my horse 1
was followed by the armed crowd, and as
| | mounted they seemed inclined TO enter
into a conversation. But knowing that
any further parley with them would only
result in n collision or a dIShonorabie re-
treat, put spurs to my horse and lett.
AS | was going out of the town heard
a voice shout "0-yes, Dyes the polls OF
quired that they should be kept open from
a. m to D. M, but these had not been
kept open more than 40 minutes; per-
haps not that long.
OUT IN THE WILDERNESS
This was the last village had to pass.
and i was soon far away in the solitude o.
the Wilderness, where political contests
are unknown. Game was plentiful. Far
out on the Jim Ned Creek | found new
settlement, made since my last visit to
that part of the country. 1t was built by
man named Hunter, who was a hunter
by occupation. lie invited me to make
my home with him while | remained in
that section, remarking that as the In
dams were pretty thick we had better
hunt together. / accepted his hospitality
His family consisted of a wife, two
daughters, and a son-ln-law, one Of the
ladies being single. One evening as was
returning to the house after a lonely days
| tramp through the woods, / CHANGED to
meet the younger of the two daughters
nearly two miles from the house, carrying
with her a rifle and a pistol. She asked
me il had seen her cows, but regretted
| to say that had not. / then asked her
| If she had any idea how far she was from
home, and she answered correctly and
with perfect coolness, regardless of the
danger from the savages who continually
| infested the ncighborhood Nor did she
seem i'm the least disturbed when | in
| formed her that had seen at least ha If
GOZcf lIidt DiL quietly
what sort of a hide is that you've got?"
II was the skin of panther nine and a
half feet long. She examined it closely,
but expressed neither surprise nor fear
when told her that | had killed it within
a quarter of a mile of the spot where She
then stood. / then went with her till She
found her cows, when i drove them home.
and frequently after that we went COW
hunting together. She always carried
her rifle with her, and could bring down n
deer at distance of 100 yards as well as
man could do it. She bad never vet
been attacked by Indians in her lonely
rambles, and If she had been more than
one would have been required to get off
safely.
She had been at neighbours house
some time before when it was hemmed in
by savageS, and besieged for several
hours. There were several men in the
house to defend it, but she was the ONLY
female save the wife of the owner OF the
cabin. The men were only there nv
chance. They were hunters, and being
pressed by Indians took refuge in the
| house. otherwise she and the lady owner
would have been there alone.
During the attack Miss Hunter nodded
| bullets Tor the men, and rendered every
| assistance in her power, keeping perfectly
calm and collected all the time, though She
| full well knew the terrible doom that
awaited her If the savages succeeded in
carrying the house by storm or in setting
| II on fire.
! We could often kill deer by standing in
the door OF the old mans house, and his
dogs almost nightly had a row with a cata-
mount or some "<bey wild animal which
| was cssaying TO carry Of his Figs or
| chickens from his very door.
| l remained with Mr.. Hunter several
| weeks, when. having accumulated all the