The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-05-18
A Man In VOLTS
Clothing
By DONALD CHAM-ERLIN
Copyright by American Press Asso-
ciation 1911

rs any that can lie made. At Tangier
one finds about him the swarthy ma
tive. wearing the baracan, q long
white cotton garment-probably the
to"a of the Romans, WHO once con
ouered his country. handed down to
the present day-and of different re-
licion from what he has left on the
other side of the strait. if his system
of SUI erstiti0n can be called religion.
AT Tangier | outfitted for a trip to
the great desert of Sahara, aiming to
penetrate as far south as Tuat, thence
northeastward to Tripoli. l had sew
eral camels and a dozen men as serv-
ants and guards,
There is no loneiier place on the face
of the earth than the desert, though
will admit that on a starlight night
there is a solemn grandeur about it.
When we were not moving at night IN
stead of the day established guard
about my camp just as if we were an
army marching through an enemy's
| country. and. strange to say. this Wig
| lance was simply exercised against
| thieves and robbers. The ingenuity
| of these lying rasca,s IS remarkable.
| They are natural spies. They would
| come into our camp in the most friend
| ly way for the purpose of theft, if they
| could get their hanGs on anything. and.
| if not, to gather information as toshow
| they could rob us at another time.
| One day q band Of Tuaregs, as they
| are called, came into camp Tor the
! purpose, ! felt sure, of observation
4 They numbered about as many as we.
| but as my force was under the COM
| mand Of European and well armed
| they would not think of attacking us
| That same night my sentinel put
4 one man on guard-was shot dead /
/ heard the distant crack of rifle and
calling several of my men, hurried them
1 cut in different directions after the
! murderer went myself. but saw moth
| ing, only the great sandy pillows. Oneo.
my men reported'seeing.a wolf running
away. but no human being was found
The next day we buried the muir
1 dered man and proceeded on our way.
| That night while every one except the
/ man ON guard was asleep there was
/ another crack and a sentry was killed.
| Again l depl0yed my men, proceeding
| farther than before. but not even a
! wild animal was found. There was
ample opportunity for any one to hide
among the sand pillows, and by cover
!! ing himself with his .baracan he was
not likely to be seen. At any rate, we
were obliged to give up the search.
| ] surmised that the party of Tua-
regs who had visited our camp were
towering near us, intending to pick off
man every night till our number
should be SO reduced as to render us
an easy prey Then our camels. our
tents. our supplies, our arms and am
munition would fall into their hands.
The outfit would be a fortune to them.
/ concluded that l must stop their
game at all hazards.
The next night l planted tent pole
in the ground. fixed Il crOsspiece to
it, and. tying some eSparto grass
about the. two. l made the body of a
manikin This l covered with bara-
can aud put a fez on the head, Thus
had dummy sentinel who might be
shot to pieces without being hurt.
had taken care to fix our camp on the
edge of an oasis. where ] could elimi-
nate the approach in one direction. and
noted convenient place of conceal
ment--a hole in the grOund-a few
hundred yards from the camp. Soon
after dark. taking a rifle, went out to
my hole. The moon gave sufficient
light for me to see any one approach
the camp.
had a long wait, for it was near
dawn before I saw any living thing,
and then nothing more than wolf
providing around in search of some
thing to eat. But, having nothing
else to watch. I watched the wolf.
He would stop here and there and dig
up the sand. then GO on, with his nose
to the ground, to another spot and dig
again. All the while he was nearing
the camp Presently he stopped and
after turning in circle lay down. He
fixed on the spot where had last seen
him.
q Suddenly at a point still nearer the
camp saw a fash. heard crack,
and the wolf. raising himself on his
hind legs. ran away like deer.
i had good view of the creatures
silhouette against line Of dawn. and
/ am good shot on the wing. Rails
ing. my rife, achieved an excellent
aim and fired. The wolf pitched for
ward and lay STILL r.
/ had instructed my foreman,
Hamet, that If he heard shot to wake
the men and If he heard a second one
to bring them out. In a few minutes
they came running toward me.
called to them and joined them. Then
we went to the body of the wolf had
slain. We found him to be one Of the
Tuaregs who had come into our camp
a few days before, villainous look.
ing rascal, who seemed to be a sort OF
sheik among them.
We secured the country for awhile,
but found no one else. Trust an Arab
for finding a place of concealment.
T tooks similar DrpcautiOnS tho npvf