The National tribune., 1902-10-16

picked up the sign O. your trail. Read
ing that you were a white man, the chief
and opined that you were running into
a trap, whose jaws might piHch. In this
predicament, knowing there would be leetie
to do until the end O. the5lDng perambula-
ton, We concluded that while he should
follow the trail o the reds, l had better
pick up your tracks to look into your am
bushment. So the chief and l parted, to
meet up north at the water O. islands"
'.You must be familiar with this heather
wilderness to expect to meet at will an
other wherever you choose, there being not
so much as a track to guide you, to say
nothing of finger-bOards."
r'Aweel, nOws me, lad, sich speech is
language O. inexperience. The streams
| that ne'er fail to find their proper way, the
trees that brave the north wind, the
mountains even that defy the winds, be
| finger-boards that ne'er show the wrong
trail To him yarsed in natur's language
the wildwood reveals her secrets like the
printed pages o. an open book. Ay, many s
| the time have /, who has no call to
boast O his vanity, set out to meet a
friend at some trysting-place six months
forward, and never yet has he failed to be
on hand, il it be not that he was called
upon the long trail where there is neither
fixing nor knowing O. the goal. How my
old tongue runs on, when jedge you feel
1 tut uetu =1uOu, hht tut DUCK IudI Has
been hunt-driven from the sun to sun. My
wallet is low, which l low is poor jedg.
ment, but there be times when man can
ne'er be ruled by Judgment. However
while you mend on sich as have, l will
look around with Old Danger and see If
there be net some fat deer or bear to re.
| fill the wallet"
As he finished speaking the Forester
took from his stock Of cured meat that he
carried with him, and handed a generous
slice to the famished Eden HarwOod, who
seized it and began to deyour its savory
portion greedily.
"YOu be hungry, lad" remarked the
Forester, as he looked on with Z smile
But I've read in my book o. signs that
the jaw which gets tired o chewing q
Ieefle o. meat gives as much s0lace to the
stomach as the jaw that runs race with
much meat, and as the animal gorges it
self"
The young man, the first pangs of his
hunger somewhat assuaged, began to eat
slower, while his countenance grew bright
| er.
Il must start early in the morning tt
find her, AID TO save her from the wretches
that have carried her off. How l fear j,
will be too late, and it will be like looking
for needle in a haystack in this pathles.
Wilderness
Now you display the ignorance o. aI
unsophisticated person. The forest b.
bound by high walls, whose backgroun.
may be in dark colors, but which ar
frescoed in 1ivelier tints, as mark the gol,
and crimson around you, but it is ne'er a
painless as the country from whence yoi
have perambulated. In your big towns
I'm minded one might get lost withou
having taken discretionary bearings, bu
in the aisles O. the great green wood thi
, need never be. II my thoughts do no
ri tx-ifh es,,
, for the reason that you have shown your
r self novice in natures craft"
pray tell me how you may find thes
q captiyes with such ease as you profess
, ] must acknowledge / have small hope o
: finding her in lifetime, and, my God,
, realize how helpless ! am"
, Il can see there Is much for you t
. pick up. Where the reds lead it is cas-
to follow, as they have their regular patti
D ways, just as the whites O. the town
z have their roads and finger-boards, onl
e the highways O. the dusky sons be tn
e ponds and streams that connect 'em lik
n the links in long chain, and their fngel
e boards be the blazed trees. Where tn
4 links be missing in the chain they carr
g their loads even to their crafts o. travel o
|, their backs, and call these carrying
S places Thanks to the liberality O. natu
l. there be not many O these missing link
l. and they-be the shorter ones in the who
e chain from the highlands to the sea.
t "Now, while natur' gives back to yo
u some O. your vigor wasted in needle.
Is DECENTRALIZATION, SO you may 60 with me,
u will look about to see what Old Dangt
and can find to refill tho wallet. 1t I
D. lack O discretion to go on a long ira
y into the inemy's stamping-grOund with a
le empty wallet. 1 opine there be leetle ris
l. O. running across any o. the reds in tn
wedge-like valley, as this be forbidde
70 huntingground for 'em."
d Without further delay, notwithstandir
[f that he, too, must have needed rest, ii
n Forester silently disappeared into the wi
K ldemess below. In spite of the relief pron
,e ised him, no sooner had his picturesqt
d figure vanished from his sight than the o.
le oppression of the atmosphere returned {
the feelings of Eden Harwood, and
e. again realized his loneliness.
ul An odd man." he unused, "and thoue