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Bio Lumber Contract.

Beaumont, Texas, october 11.--Mr. L. Il.
pipkin OF the Mona Mnls company, limited,
announced today TO The Post correspondent
that the Mona people and three other con
Germs mad just captured S5,uUO,uUu-toot
order Tor long lear yellow pine from the
Frisco road. The bill Is FOR timber and
ties and the prices received are regarded
ms excellent. The delivery Is to commence
at once and VIII be made 10y way OF Poteau
and the Kansas city Southern for the most
part The mills that took II are nearly AT
an the line ct the Kansas City Southern.
Speaking further ot lumber conditions MIR
lhpkn says that the tone OF the MARKET
as pertains 10 all kinds OF lumber is mucn
better than 1t has been during the last
sixty days and he thinks that the improve
ment vii, last through the winter ana III
tact Indefinitely.
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The ladies are invited to our store
to try our coffee. IT'S FREE.
Is. F. BLAIR & co.
G5zzsSsz7zi7szlza
tons secured sE n,Oasy refunded. cAtaloEas YSes
CROWLEY. la.

Mrs. D. r. January left Monday for
ThioodeauI to visit relatives and friends.
Miss Gussie oleson spent last Sunday In
Lake Charles with relatives.
Misses Meta and Wayne Duson arrived
home Wednesday night from Asheyille. n.
G The many friends Of Miss Meta will he
deiighted to learn that she has almost re.
covered from her recent Illness. Her sis.
ter. Miss Lola, will spend few days in
New Orleans with friends before return.
Ing to Crowley.
William A. Gull and daughter, Miss Mar
strctltei OF new Orleans, We're the guests Of
past week. tn'
Mrs. A. Kaplan and son, Master Irving.
eIe eAptcleu nome today from a visit Of
NO weeks w New Orleans at the home Of
stein. ~ AAcnten
One Of the most delightful lmnrornntr
uops mat has occurred In Crowley Tor say,e
i tl,le too6 place IN the rooms OF the Crow
icy Social club Wednesday EVENING ~,
nnhmner OF young people enjoyed a inost IA A.
usnuul time, participating In the fScino-
lions OF the dizzy whiri The dane, NJ. M
fo,,ns;i i'en en-, oy the club, but merely an IN.
5ShlhW nuGif ~ a number Of Tho 49,, ~ -
he music was excellent and the LIZ, ,IiSisloers.
y, ~ every way suitable Tor such sm,,ue-
mehts. Those Who euioyed the -ioa lust
go - rtSnihS We're Misses Cecell9 1l,ylo,.
az. Suldry, Hula Lyons. Lillian ~,
S.,. i,enTefon, Fannie Dupre. Nfs5sa
Sccost, feline FremeaLx, Fttie w sasuse
S n Leg Hill 81 Nachitoches. ATass ssson'
Fren uonten9t Gnary B, Brooks. George
raenieauS John Carter. Louis Barrv JTe a,se
ggarteI, John r. Gray, Morpsn 2 nalle
nJi6t, n - Lawrence, Charles q Jan,' usat
p E FldFlpe, Willsm Hoilins and iuI nS
M MF. j e9S Mrs. J. ". Myers and Mr.. ana
SftuHiiey Tuesday 10 attend EtnwNSge ~
horsc performance at the Grand oner =
,,5 Dy w 7, Patterson and f.mpr 10.
, s,,'s.suay Tor Abita Springs. MIS- lett
httls boys eue OF the Doctors
non hHtie Hetrlck returned Fr,d,- ~.
fives a. 49, = Visit with friends aSd 49, r,i.
CroT;lo,n MIS- McAyael have rat,,.-..
parlor, GO Visit OF sonis time ~
Omite NVigta9q points lo IN
so-ie1, 4 lpple was caused 4, r,
yifatis, LIS week wher tho 5aiio,-i,v,,"s KY
chlh. were issued bg the rrov,,s,. ~,
the onons,u,.. IRE cor tally Invited ~ S9ela,
WsS, i,'nins ball Of the ,'rowlet, ~ attend
o'cloet IVY evening. October 30 o ,oGa eiin,
coali9iitess s ,H.e de ligeur. Enterfsi.,ssIe
Jane Mill,am Holllns. Aaron 'sinil YIN
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will build docks and terminals In the east
end OF Galveston.
One Of the Rock Island party who re-
Gently visited Houston gave out an intnr-
view a day or 30 ago In which be said
that bis road could hardly handle ita I'M
mcnse traffic during tho next six months;
that Il IL working night and day. with In
creased equipment, and stu Is handi-
capped. and that all Indications point 10
the largest movement Of cereals In the
history OF the Rock Island. but not one
word about the plnnB OF the road and its
Galveston extension.
II 10 now reported and not denied that
the ROCK Island has acquired control Of
the FL Paso and Northwestern, running
from Santa Rosa. N. ~. TO FL Paso, go
miles. II Is now n part OF the Rock
Islands III paso route.
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NE MYsrERY nEEPENs.

Rock Island Officials Still Reteent About
South Texas Extension,
Tho Posts recent interview with Mr.
Warren, President Leeds assistant, Of the
Rock Island and deductions thercfrom
have been widely copied by Eustern pm
pcrs aud many agree IN calling the Gal
weston extension project bluG. Fort
Worth contractor gives the following
opinien In tho New York Commercial: Il
am firmly OF tho opinion that the Rock
Island wants TO force the Houston and
Texas Central into It's own Kind Of trade
The Rock island wants an outlet TO the
coast and 10 Southern Texas, but building
Is expensive and takes long time II,
by The bluu being made, the road can
force tho Central into tho belief that the
Rock Island VIII parallel the tracks OF
that limo through the rich agricultural re-
glons OF the state aud thus make terms
Tor purchase or traffic agreement, Il viii
nave accomplished It's purpose and be-
lieve that II VIII be DONE
The New York Commercials railroad
editor ngures out the situation In a similar
manner
The latest interesting development In
connection with the preparations OF the
Rock Island for an entrance into Calves.
ton is the statement that n contract has
been entered into with the Santa Eo to
build into that city n line that will come
from Dallas on bee line through Hous.
ton 30 Galveston
Maps made from the surveys OF the
Rock Island show this line through Dallas
TO Galveston aud continuation 60 con.
noctlOn with the Choctaw. The relations
Of the Rock Island and the Santa Ice have
always been OF close and friendly char.
ucter especially In having due regard 10
territorial rights In the present instance
they are understood TO be working To har-
mony toward common end, In the pro
lection OF Joint interest In getting q
foothold In Gould Hartman territory.
Such q line would insure to the Santa
Fo direct route between Dallas and
Houston. IL Is also intinated aud has
been variously published In The Post for
the past six months, that the Santa Fe
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Scarcity OF coal and the high prices Of
fuel mean cold homes and much sickness.
while I don't mean 20 recommend the
use Of ~ Instead OF nrewood, l do know
that Its use prevents and breaks up Colds,
prevalent even now, aud promise TO be
more 50 ga the season advances"
Your office OF shop may be cold, your
home poorly heated, but il you take ''T7'
you Win he frecr from sickness, anu re-
cover sooner than your nelgAbor.
Tho use OF Dr. itumphreys' ''z7'' restores
the checked circulation. starts the blood
eoumins through tho veins. ana breaks IN
Cold.
81 all Druggists, % cents, or mailed on
receipt II price. Doctors hook mailed
free,
Humphreys homeopathic Medicine Co
Csrne- william and John streets, New
A"rA'
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Notes and Personals.

Passenger executives are buslly engaged
formulating plans for the Worlds Fair
at ST Louis In 1904.
The Denver Enid and Gulf is to be
opened on October 10 10 Junction City aud
Douglass, Okla, and on the Both instant TO
Marshall, Okla.
Railway superlntendents OF bridges and
buildings will hold their annual convention
at Minneapolis from the 21st TO the 23d
instant. Walter O. Berg OF the Lehigh
Valley ia chairman of the committee on
subjects.
The meeting OF the Western passenger
committee is to he held az st. Louis on
October 2S. The idea that radical action
will be tnken Is not meeting with general
acceptance.
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Partial Report on Tesas Earnings.

Austin, Texas, October 11y-grom the
monthly reports which have been hled with
the railroad commission by all Of tho big
roads In the state, the following figures
are gathered:
Gross earnings show an increase OF S2s3,
SyO31 or O.4B per cent, freight earning 3
show net decrease OF SSSa, 076 90, or
Ida per cent; operating expenses SHOW i
net decrease of S4,o59,811i3, or 1855 per
cent; income from operation also shows u
net decrease Of Si,216,0l5,3b, or 1888 per
cent
The above is taken from the monthly re.
ports OF about twenty-five roads, and Is in
no way comparison TO the annual re-
ports which have been received 10y the
commission from the sixty-ono roads In
Texas.
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Riehstd 900 q 60 L.stc,.

Houston. Texas, October ll--Nith heavy
rains east Of the Mississippi ana showers
torecasted for Texas, the market declined
steadily from the opening, closing ut the
lowest Of the dag.
Our New Orleans correspondent wires us:
''New York chronicle out special report
with average frost; estimates crop folly as
much as last year aud more But even
this Is IN the future. The crop must be
grown and this "a the middle az tlctoner.
bat this goes TO show the nervous copdition
OF the market. We stan think about the
present prices a purchase
Richard corke A ~
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That Tacoma Story.

The story telegraphed from Tacoma that
George Gould was to succeed Hartman in
control OF the Union Pacific has been ofTi-
clally denied, The story was based on tho
grumbling OF certain departmental under
lings OF tho Union Pacific about Harrl-
mans rigid scrutiny, inasmuch as the
Goulds and Hartman are working In COM
plcte harmony George Gould and Wins
low Pierce are both members OF the execu-
tive committee OF the Union Pacific, and
Gould has MS much authority In the man
agoment of the road as any other one
man,
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COLORADO BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.
John 7. Wofford Of cusro Was Fl.o,.a
Moderation.

1oaknm' Texas, october 1.-The busi.
ness session OF the Colorado Baptist asso.
Viauon was called 10 order at 10 o,clock
Yesterday morning by John r. worora az
Nuero' moderator Of the association. rbe
morning was occupied in llstcp,n- % -,
agts ttem the various churches. A. ~
election Of Officers for de ensnire VIZ, sne
s nv io w Why lns we're elected John NJ (Vef.
tuero corresponding seerets,,. 3ile 81
AZ NV ~ Aoakum, clerk g. =. Stephensen
%. loNhAm, tipasurcr Seryicea 49,, u, "
- Sho hap,lst church last aishi ~ p sio.
Sgilee ~ SS- ntlis preached by Rev. Il. d.
sp' n, visitors % the meetibe 4 ~.
~, a. pagiels Of Mneo. reoentiy 4 mjss fs.,.
,.,,sr.. 70 Sgn 6 lulpits az ihe varjnns
tist minisinrs pe oeeunled by visiting Bap,
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lowing cabin passengers; Mrs. W. Griffin
Mrs. w. =. Vance. Mrs. Fitzgerald, Prem
tlce Fry, Miss Is. n. Lewis Mrs r. r. Van
Varick. Mrs II. Levy. Mrs H. b. Tlppett
G, u. Georgiades. Mrs, Haln. W. IT, Close,
II, G.. Holt, s. Van Horn, Il. ~ Marsh and
wife. II, Black and family, -. Skinner w.
II, Graves, DIR, Fred Kohler, II. Peeke Mrs
John Finnegan, Mrs. Anderson. Miss VIII
llaIns, Edward Seisng, Mrs. Evans. Mrs
y. S. Vanderhoyen. G. NJ. b. IIawley, Miss
Kenyon, Miss Laura Gregg, Charles Johns
ton, II. l.. Madison. Mr.. and Mrs. Schohold
v. Lemon.
The San Marcos sailed for New York Via
KeY WcSt
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FROM THE STATE CAPITAL
TWO NEW CORPORATIONS HAVE
BEEN CHARTERED.
Lieutenant Governor Browning to Appear
Before the Supreme Court In Some
Important Cases.

Austin. Texas, October 1I.--charters OF
the following corporations were fled today;
Melton Saw MIN company, with head
quarters near Melton station. Montgomery
county capital stock $1,000, Purpose, 10
conduct general lumber business The
incorporators are u. d. Cooley. David
Dean aud W. c. Love
FL Paso safe and Speciality company OF
El PAso; capital stock $4,000. Purpose,
TO conduct general merchandise bust
ness. The incorporators are n. A. Com
stock Nathan solomon and Eugene b.
Fatman.
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First Train Got rhronnh.

Corpus Christi Te1ns October 1.-THE
nrst train over the National road since
Thursday morning arrived here tonight and
will SO out tomorrow morning. 1t Is not
known whether train will come In to.
morrow night. General sympathy for the
strikers prevails here.
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Secrets of Personal Magnetism, Hypnotism
and Magnetic Healing Taught
cy Mail.
A NEW BOOK BY TWENTY EMINENT SPECIALISTS.
Absolutely Free to Five Hundred Persons in Each
State-Given Away to Advertise the Coll
Iege and to Prove the Practical
Value OF Hypnotic Power.

o.
i've he day Noth
wE Of
that 5 wit
ns prepared
sensation
Of They
p ever hon
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Rioes ANO wool.
CQFFEE.

New York, October II. Coaee.-Spot Rio
40ieti 10. invoice 5@s. Mild steady; Cor
net unchanged 20 decline n points:
snles l0,loo bags, November 10: Decein-
her Ssea02 ~ January a254f530 March
b.4ef May 0.bdfth.tH. Juno $40: Iuly d IOs
AmemsL s 50. Snnlnlnh.r n s1-ih %
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for purchase, Owing to the absence OF
certain data the bonds were not consid
on business
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" 2 WIGHT Died sudL.,,,.

wr,s ss' Texas, October NV p
A. ~ q Sheffield. Ala, dled ynadsn,v
neon ,ne az, Commercial hotel yestar.,v 800.
70 hoiS Justice Jenkins vas r si,sr,
death tesuits2l esi eifins the yerdlrt 3hst
lunka S'us'a tom hsinotrhase d ' 40
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ISLAND CITY NEWS ITEMS.

Big Cargo OF Leaf Tobacco En- Route to
San Francisco.
Galveston, Texas. October ia solid
uainlosd OF tobacco left here at O'clock
tonight for ssp Francisco This Is proba.
bly, tho largest shipment OF tear tobacco
ever shipped across the continent on ono
train. The shipment arrived here this
morning on the steamship lei Monte from
New York and was unioAded from the ship
Into the cars, which were In waiting There
were eleven cars and each TOOK $1,000
pounds OF tobacco making a total OF t,60
COO pounds On the train. II is consigned
TO Conrad 4 Goldberg OF San Francisco
and will be run as solid TOBACCO train
from the gulf TO the Pacific.
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Mortuary Report.

Galveston. Texas, October il.--Toliowing
Is list Of burial permits issued by tho
city health physician for the week ending
October 10. 1905
September IS. John Built. aged u years.
appendicitis.
October lFred Bendette, aged IS years,
chronic Bnghts disease.
october 3, Margaret Bernardone, aged .
years pnuemeniai Wilhelm Stnmpt, aged 90
years, ncphMtls.
octoher a.-iulettc Dreyruss, aged 81
Years, Senillty idlcd IN Houston.
RstAhep . Mr. ! ~ et,aitt,ssttT H-a,f ~
years organic heart disease
uNtOner 9, \, II. oycrton. aged weeks,
colorcd enterltls
October Infant OF Bette Brewer, aged
o days, eolored, premature birth.
eolored. cerebral apoplexyi Elmer Lander.
Houstonl.
October o.--villlam Hunter, aged %
years, coiored, labor pneumonia.
october lo.-Joe Marks, aged 40 years,
epithenama Of palate.
Mallory Line Passengers.
Galveston, Texas, october 1.-THE Lam.
nsaas Nsa due 70 aytiSa today Nth the FOL
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San Aufonic. October 11.-4 spark nom
: passing engine set nre % cotton bales al
tho ea1 4rfonio compress this afternoon
ard 5000 damage resulted. 1The loss we
fully covered by insuknnca.
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1919 sNgl'.n''''s. texas oetober lie. q
iisshefn, aealsr IN fruits ana confeeuoa.
Piss p %sae a. assiganeat toasy. naming
liabilities not known assets ABOUT 5000,
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Tax Rolls Filed.

Austin, Texas, October 1.-The comp
trolier today received tax rolls from the
following counties:
Gregg County Total property valuation
&,SlA, do; increase over last year S2a6, $50.
Orange County Total valuation SS,o9t,-
6iSs Increase $50 SIS.
Wharton County Total valuation S0,S9A
29os Increase SSai, SSH
Deaf Smith County Total VALUATION
Sl,tsN9So; ipcsease S2iGG2I
decrease Sis.11d.
Anderson coanty Total Valuation ST,0iS-
SOB. increase S404gg.
Kaufman County Ectai rslssslps SIR
ooa,sS0i iucrNlse over last year Sal2,s SEQ.
News Notes.
Austin, TeNgs. October 1.-THE attorney
generals department today approved an
issue OF 5000 city Of Victoria water works
bonds Ihtae bonds were Registered Ia tho
cempirolser's department..
lieutennnt Governor Browning arrived
"a town today and VIII take part In the
sarnthers 6olieson nandamus cases before
taa supreme ccgrt Monday He represents
&c actual settlers who are Interested IN
County Commissioner %. b. Henderson,
~ Uaiy estoa county was here today and
presented $4,000 worth 81 QRlvtstcn coun~
u henaa u the stats beard OF educauon
-
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A. Liver roni.
sse oAlptNE
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NJ. X. ct. r. n.

Lssye 700 an Express Tfaln. Arrive o.t0 pm
hesee. sos pm Arrive .,... 9 OF an
Al trains leave Grand Central Depot
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\. a r. 6. r, n.

Grand Ntntfal Depot
ave Nc. ssI, ioisam Arriys No. iss s.3Sp'n
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Az these trains leave the Santa Fe Congress
Ave. Depot 80 minutes later thar the above
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W.. K. & r. Dspo, Fitch Ward
Leave. so an, Arrive. g. Q an
Leave. .... .... 7 40 nm Arrive ...,. s 80 m
Fer Gslyestoa Trains sec G.. u. & X.
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and TO drink the same kind OF brackish
water which is stated to exist in some
portions of our Western deserts.
The bill was lost-1s yeas and "a nays.
The appropriation of $4,000 to buy camels
with was a reckless extravaganza that the
senators could not sanction.
OTHER ARGUMENTS OFFERED.
Then the newspapers of California took
up the scheme, and the more they agitated
il the mightier it became. They demon
strated that it was possible to form a
lightning dromedary express, to carry the
fast mail and to bring Eastern papers and
letters to California in fifteen days.
1t would be possible, too, il Congress
could only be induced to import camels
and dromedaries, TO have fast camel pas
senger trains from Missouri river points
to the Pacific coast. The camel, loading
up his internal water tank out of the Mis-
souri, and striking straight across the
country regardless of watering places and
boarding himself on sage brush the plains
across would take his next drink of the
trip out OF the Colorado river; then after
a quiet pasear across the desert he would
land his passengers in the California coast
towns in two weeks from the time of start
ing. No more running the gauntlet of Pan
anna fevers and thieving natives on the
isthmus. No more dying Of thirst on the
deserts. No freezing TO death in the SHOWS
of the Sierras; no more shipwrecks on the
high seas. The dOuble-decked camel train
would do away with all these and solve the
transportation problem until the Pacific
Railroad was built.
In December, 1854, Maj. c. Wayne was
sent to Egypt and Arabia to buy seventy
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IN THE GOsSIP'S CORNER.

Another trial of a Kentucky Republican
accused Of completely in the killing of Will
liam Goebel has held the boards in Frank
fort for the past ten days. As heretofore,
T c. Campbell, whose life is not yet al
together safe in Cincinnati, was chief in
duisitor under the terms of the Goebel
murder reward fund enactment. The re-
suit of the trial is neither here nor there.
1t did not answer the question, WHO killed
Senator Goebel?" nor yet the question,
What has become of the woman who was
going to swear that she saw Jack Chinn
shoot the SENATOR" nor that other ques-
ton, "Why were threats of lynching Chinn
so prevalent in Lexington few days after
the shooting that he suddenly postponed a
promised visit to the Heart of Blue
grass?
/ had something to say a few months ago
about the treatment of Henry Youtsey in
prison Well. [ know some more things
about II now. AS l said then, Youtsey
who is of delicate physique and never did
a stroke of manual labor in his life, was
one of the most expert stenographers in
the State. Three firms with prison con-
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CAMELS In THIS COUNTRY
JEFFERSON DAVIS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THEIR INTRODUCTION.
Were Tried Fifty Years Ago in West
ern Desert, but Experiment Failed
A Few still Left.

The story of the experiment made nearly
fifty years ago to utilize the Arabian camel
as a beast of burden on the arid plains of
Arizona. New Mexico and the deserts of
Colorado, is one of the many unwritten
chapters i'm the history of the Southwest
A few fugitive locals in the newspapers of
that time and the "reminiscences of some
of the camel drivers who survived the ex-
pertinent are about the only records of a
scheme that it's progenitors had hoped
would revolu,ionize travel and tansporta-
ton over the American deserts. The orig
inator and chief promoter Of the project
was Jefferson Davis. late President of the
Southern Confederacy.
During the last days of the session of
Congress in 1851, when the army appropria-
ton bill was under consideration, Mr.. Da-
Wis, then senator from Mississippi. offered
a bill providing for the purchase and intro
duction of thirty camels and twenty drome-
diaries. with ten Arab drivers and the
necessary equipage.
In advocating his bill, Mr.. Davis alluded
to the extent to which these animals are
used in various countries I'm Asia and Africa
as beasts of burden; and among other
things stated that they used by the
English in the East Indies in transporting
army supplies ard often in carrying light
guns upon their backs; that camels were
used by Napoleon in his Egyptian cam
paigns in dealing with race to which our
wild Comanches and Apaches bear a close
resemblance. Mr.. Davis thought these ami
mails might be used with effect against the
Indians on our Western frontier. Drinking
enough water before they start to last for
100 miles; travelling continually without rest
at a rate of ten or fifteen miles an hour.
they would overtake these bands Of
Indians. which our cavalry cannot do
They might be made to transport small
pieces of ordnance with great facility;
and in fact do here all that they are ca
pable of doing in the East. where they are
accustomed to eat the hardest shrubs,