The Huttig news., 1910-01-22

Turmoil and Riot. Shadowy forms danced madly about in the faint moon light, shooting incontinently, yelling horribly, beating pans Fact had it that the occurant of the house having that day been married, his friends were indulging themselves in the in delicate western custom known as a chivaree assailing the nuptia abode with d sort Of epithalamia3 chorus of hideous neises 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; deafenng de;onstions Of musketfy; throbbing tom-toms of savage allies; groans of wounded sighs of dying; rapine, piliage, s'augh- ter.
 With no thought of retreat. but in piiiable perplexity as 10 the identity of friend and foe. Don Quixote made ready his weapons and urged Res inante hither and thither about the borders of the melee The uproar | and universal ululation of victory. when Benedict, yielding at last, brought forth his tribute to the turhu lent disciples of Bacchns A noisy division of the spoils followed. and Karl was edging ill closer, when an unsteady figure staggered toward him. engaged with furious combat with ic !, rTst. ! came superimposed upon Don Quixote. : and it occurred to the bafuddled war rior to discharge his pistol in close proximity to the ear of Rosinante. The result was retreat inglorious, un- stayed, incontinent; and when Karl at length pulled in his trembling steed, darkness and silence enyeloped him.
 Yet at last stern Fact took nimble Fancy to wife, and their offspring was Adventure. Crouching by the roadside over fire of brushwoed he had with difficulty constructed, Karl passed a sleepless night, obsessed by haunt ing dread that though the gods might youcbsafe to him a Pisgah sight of these, their promised glories, they would deny him participation. And at dawn. when he mounted st.fly 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 quick-trotting mules. It dsbouched upon the main road. overlook Karl and passed him in a cloud of glorious dust. It does not matter that the normal function of this vehicle had long since been usurred by a 40horse. power Mercedes; nor that 1t now served merely as a reliable and dust proof carriage in which to transport from the railway station the surerin- tendent of the Golden Eagle mine. the monthly satchel stuffed with pay-en. yelopes and an occasional visiting stockholder. Nor is it even of impor- tance that the man who stood waiting with drawn revolvers behind a bowl l der a little farther on, was not a recrudescent road agent, but a discharged gang foreman. seeking at once revenge and recuperated for tune. Reality and appearance were 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 true. real and indu- bitable stage coach robbery the three hapless passengers standing with nplifted hands at the mercy of the menacing weapons in ihe 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 Sehutzenverein. Facing about. the road agent opened fire upon him. but Karl did not hasten unduly. Four times inc 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 it's word was deadly
 Thus briefly ended Don Quixote of the Market his knighlly errantry. For though the mine superintendent caused him to be cared for most ten derly yet even when he emerged from the Gelirium of the initial fever it appeared that he was not wholly sane. And il 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 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 upop his person
 Under the gigantic dummy ham which hangs before the door of the meat market. Karl Engels fat spaniel sleeps the deep sleep of noontide and of repletion. Within, Karl Engel him.