The Huttig news., 1909-03-13

| Turmoil and Riot Shadowy forms danced madly about in the faint moon l light. shooting incontinently. yelling horribly, beating pans. Fact had 1t | that the occurant of the house having that day been married, his friends were indulging themselves in the in- 1 delicate western custom known as a "chivaree" - assailing the nupt1al abode with a sort of epithalamial chorus of hideous noises until the groom should appear with brown jugs of sedative liquors Fancy, however. knew well that here was a wild night of battle; hoarse shouts of blood thirsty outlaws; deafening detonations of musketry; throbbing tom toms Of savage allies; groans of wounded. ighs of dying; rapine, pillage, slaugh- ter
 With no thought of retreat, but in pitiable perplexity as to the identity of friend and foe, Don Quixote made 'eady his weapons and urged Res inante hither and thither about the borders of the melee. The uproar waxed terrific. eliminating in vast and universal ululation of victory, when Benedict. yielding at last, brought forth his tribute to the turbu- lent disciples of Bacchus. noisy division of the spells followed, and Karl was edging in closer, when an unsteady figure staggered toward him, engaged with furious combat with his own shadow. The shadow be- cane superimposed upon Don Quixote, and it occurred to the befuddled war rior to discharge his pistol in close 1 proximity to the ear of Rosinante. The result was retreat inglorious, un- 3tayed, incontinent; and when Karl at length pulled in his trembling teed, darkness and silence enveloped him.
 Yet at last stern Fact took nimbe Fancy to wife, and their offspring was Adventure. Crouching by the roadside 9ver fire of brushwood he had with difficulty constructed, Karl passed a sleepless night, obsessed by haunt ing dread that though the gods might vouchsafe to him a Pisgah sight of these, their promised glories, they would deny him participation. And l and spurred the unwilling Rosinante onward, his heart was very heavy. Then it was. however that he at tained and achieved.
 For, To! out of what could but be Dead Mans gulch there appeared an undeniable stage coach, drawn by six 1 quicktrotting mules. It debouched upon the main road, overlook Karl and passed him in cloud of glorious dust. It does not matter that the normal function of this vehicle had long since been usurped by 40horse- power Mercedes; nor that it now served merely as reliable and dust proof carriage in which to transport from the railway station the superin- tendent of the Golden Eagle mine. the monthly satchel stuffed with pay-en- velopes and an occasional visiting 1 stockholder. Nor is it even of impor- tance that the man who stood waiting with drawn revolvers behind a bowl der a little farther on. was not a recrudescent road agent. but discharged gang foreman. seeking at once revenge and recuperated for
 
 in all fundamentals identical.
 And so when Don Quixote, relent- lessly spurring Rosinante forward in the hope of one last glimpse galloped over the crest of little ridge he saw before him a true. real and indu- bitable stage coach robbery - the three hapless passengers standing with uplifted hands at the mercy of the menacing weapons in the hands of a lone. masked bandit The supreme moment had come, yet Don Quixote did not hesitate, for his part in the drama was all too obvious Instantly he slid down from the unstable back of Rosinante. and, kneeling, rested upon a rock the long, brass bound rife of the Schutzenveren. Facing about the road agent opened fire upon him, but Karl did not hasten unduly. Four times the bandit fired, and though he missed. received no reply; the fifth bullet from his revolver, striking Karl in the hip, spun him over in the dust unconscious. But in that same in- stant, the long target rife had spoken also. and its word was deadly.
 Thus briefly ended Don Quixote of the Market his knightly errantry For though the mine superintendent caused him to be cared for most ten derly. yet even when he emerged from the delirium of the initial fever it appeared that he was not wholly sane. And it was therefore deemed best to send him. under the care of doctor. to that address which, along with some moneys, was found in a curious old wallet under his shirt Thither he came safely, and when he had been nursed back to health by his brothers wife. he told a tale of his adventures in that far, free, fabulous western land, which they needs must believe even as he did, for he bore it's proof upon his l person.
 Under the gigantic dummy ham which hangs before the door of the 1 meat market Karl E,uppI.s fat Spauiel