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(XVII. ROBERT
BONNER,
COR. OP WILLIAM,
AND SPRUCE 81S.
SATURDAY, MARCH 2,
1S72.
TERMS. 1B Oras
R ANSTM,
“ THE IMAGE OF LOVE IN CLAY,’ ”
BY MARY KYLE DALLAS.
of Love in elay
od ence ona pedal there
Tshung thein wway to-de
‘The shards of that statue fate.
For the Tmaxe of Lave in ca
tins been shattered;
‘The Tm
why hon the od dein
thing 80 battered 1
sit “thers re are treasures
14 gold,
Sona anvnant tal Pleamuces,
‘To have and to hol
Fairer and fraller ‘en an}
You have had your las!
0 Fears can never be nM
Por the Image of Lave a lay.”
MARK HEE HEBER'S ER'S LUCK;
Life on the Plains,
> Ry LEON LEWIty
avmiton oF hme BOY a
1H BROKEN mon a a
“TUE cLUB-FOOT NRA
JOURNEYING ON 1
Gay Teber had scarcely made t Whe alarming
discovery of the approach of the savages.
when the Conner i zlerang out asecond
and yet more stat tin jast, that joed far
Ml Sica over thsore Lice pra Ie. “Tee echo
had not yet died out when Mari
shrill boyish voice was heard, calling to Gay
‘camp.
‘Ne me the sonnd_ of Mark’s voiee
in full tight backs
her sinall, 4 skim:
Thing over sono earth Uillove, Gow half Dost to
vi rr in some low swale. She fled wi th the
swiftne:
in her deli tate frame stretched, to ite
tension, her big brown
Sagims, inte which the women and children
Weve alteady hnrrging, concealing themselves
Gay was |
SFEE
ane
beh arrels.
fi ied the camp and the Heber wagon
ety, Mark hurried her into the wago
di kaw her jong boxes and bar-
rele the nea ‘a vcrned head below the
Op ihe fort, and th in he hurried
ire hewmen in the detence of the
{the wyagona, ere a pire
seth in the form of a and the auimale
reall ‘ariven into ties Srrcloa josure thus formed.
“ie rn se rea aati iy
re al:
© cont
Meagan cool ana
inca et nd
onsossed at this moment ag if he bad been
. _ vita “paiore “and indeed far more
Fle Hed in. Taian rari fo
rt ‘cnsiderao
pon a 8 field saasin|
a ‘han ih cue eye upon Thendvandive
dians, aid the other upon his
‘troop.
‘here are twe y savages,’ he
alist voles gutting the air Hike a billet
‘anil there are ite St us: couuting to Wie.
d a.
one aiges ranged | fom seventeen
y-0ne, Tesponiied by a tighter gr ari on
ud an express
m every
on ot
Conductor Landford assigned to the young
a half circle, and resumed their approach,
With tho evident intention of attacking the
camp on three sides.
See Run? cried Landford. “Give it to
ny, Whitmay
eRe e it to them.” One toneh
of sia linger ‘and the fittie fil
ry rain
sa
of death. mowin;
i Sotad ctn aak
itera iolling over and over in horrible deat!
hhe remaining savagesagain cameto.a halt,
but only for an instant,
Bhoop, they came on again to tho ¢ e grelaneht,
as they camer ated Looking ke near”
nate demons.
“AU together ” etied the
tan was loading ii6
81 is
le piece again,
from ot an begei
Ne tte ahen and all the boys fired,
ial aim. "Six mou ean vanes
fai
each with e
felt before the dead
A panic bnunediatel ized npon the survi-
re In t it, hitman arinly
ece’a
Painted 4 vane hang by by astirrup.
At the dist a mile
(Indians panera for a: mom
send u an iuettertual shower of bullets,
and then continu hits
neo meh tor an o sci Langford,
piping his forehead and ‘ard upon
irl, * yrAny one b
cam
nory had a bullet "round in his shoulder,
eux) ‘ther position. "Then he shonted oe ae ee ag a oe eed at
ihe Have out the gan!” | his arm, but neither of ‘theso injuries were
he men ‘one of the wagons and | poricuree
arnaged outa anall swivel felt -piece, which | "The cattle and live stock were found to be
uninjured, tely prow
‘This was placed in position, and Whitman | tected them from the atrows and bullets of
Toasted it, and manned it pitnselt enemy.
All these preparations h d taken but afew] “But the ocenpants of the wagonst How
fe camp had raw put on awar-| nad they vagy
omen and ¢l Iitdren were hud-| yf; rk WAS OTL
ew
the in the wogonss the eattle verre gathered
within the inelosnre, and ane ed, by their
anger
iy thie savages were within a mi
of rch eann, prand etill coming onward like
fer They, wil attack us in front” said the
aide, They are in. war paint, and. an
The rive bar rear, and.
extra mon to tm aa it breve
eb of the Ted-sking, from, that di-
When I give the word, fre”
ed down fro
id
: enemy. 1 shail gi
Fine Anse fromthe nies, he boys shal have
the first shot.”
Every ritle was brought into position.
Ina me hearer aud nearer, ad-
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SEE
aay
2
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25
thoy
camp, Landford’s shel cigar vo
the prairies comman:
If they did not compen a his words, they
anoiredty did the gesture accompanying fhem,
but with loud whoops of der ou aud
anee, they kept on in their
Naw, hove give them a hint that we are
not fooling.” said the guide grimly.
gail Heber and bis young comraites fired a
wl
shots did no especial damage to the
ww for inafirst Indian night young hands
nt ated onng hearts
ira inti: bat ie brant the Indiane ae
silt, and they ey seomed to parley among
xt moment a shewer of bullets came
bortiing toward the defenders of the eamp.
Tho emigrants, young and old, atood their
ground, ‘There was ne coward Dived itr all
Eth tite band, Man “8 pl
ile hig heart throbe m Mairal, and bi
ali face stern and xpression
oe grin determination. ry and reso
Tate, ho seemed in ‘that swomeny ton velop
chara id ener
Tandtord gravee glance around him. No
one was hurt.
Tho Indians, a Tittle deliberation
among {ittpioelves spread out in the shape er
Se.
Ne
ng to his
own mary thon’ Seat Sera bead was
anxiously rahe ftom its fron pair
of v brown eyes, ooked ‘alter the
ug indiana, aod ghen settled.
Marke with an expression of tmatterable ov.
: nt safe, Gay?” demanded Mark,
coma toward
Gay.
but Bn ost smothered,” anawered
nt are you Dok lark
fv “
ot
prow Oty Aud
you. within anc inch of
you Nhat yas tertibled Have the
Savages surely gone, Ma “Kr
Gay. cautionsly efept forth while she
ing Mark showed her that theush the
indian cen ned near i that clear: atmos,
hore, thar they motesiveads guicacet ata
still in full surat 1 2
iay leaped to the ground, and
antoned her sy pte ‘and aid to
Am ate oun B Armold. 7 ‘The temain-
disgorged their ing ocen-
nen and children coming forth pale
bug ful of joy! ie rat je at
Ghote cecape ams death, 0 an
death. | Mrs, Amor fended. tp om her hus:
Nand, and. Sire Arnold exte ited
her ain with a mother’s fond pride and sym
a
The camp took on its usual appearance even
fefore the retreatit ne anes ‘were entirely
t to view in the
tne oxen and ‘sther anianaly were allowed
ong the rivet bay nk. The boys gath-
tnd branches of tro that freed
the he iver, and built wo or three
and filled the ‘Ketteg sth water: from the
river. camp life was ally
Featmed.. ‘The. women, iueludlag eto
roceeded to prepare “the 8 supper, whi!
and others milked the cows, rel roared the
niles, and il other things caval necowa
The emigrants gathered
fe neat {he wagons. ench farnily by itself
yet all near together, to ‘eat their evening
meal,
Little Gay, with a, ond, housewi ely, ait
set before Mark a a vin conta
fram aud hosted po tof cotter, and
some hart c aired which, Mark at
tacked with a nikecn hs ae tite.
3e
2u
os
Bs
SE
‘TRE INDIANS DEFEATED IN THEIR ATTACK UPON THE CAMP, )
near
With a war: | sou!
guide.
as | the savages have frieuds to aid them within
And while they ate and talked of the recent
RNTRRED ACCORDING 70 ACT OF CONGRESS, IX THX YAK 1872, BY ROBKET BONNER, TX THE OFFICE OF THR LIBRAKIAN OF CONGHESS, AT WASHINGTOX,
DEN
Viiv
conflict, the lon:
ng western tpg fterea its
soft shadows down upon the
plaine—
shu
hot thickly like eastern twilights, lit sot
and acy Uke a thin vail
drawn over the face
ey ever do at tho
suns by their ra-
lender creseent
on crescent in the
jetween its tree
with
now and then some shrill
ar off from sone prowlin
in inthe Gistauce wit
the enigra
hile the emigra
fhe, dishes were
the importance dite @
a anil, fat up wich the matsons aad elder
girls.
Conductor Landford held a consultation
wi the men and elder, boys,
fo-night.” said
The task wi
tuned to the preeinets of the ea
‘The women und girls retired to t Ons,
Hh men mot on guard followed theirg ete
and Whitman,
were left to their
wo, can
balancing his ritle
val
i tut with sol-
‘lesen now, she a8
ne, and then wake you
morning.”
T assented and went to
i almost immediately
oulder.
the springing
erly tread. tite
teh tit! on
Ups watch emt m
lopkius aud Heb
their’ wagous, fallin
e
It seemed but a few minntes when Whit-
man called them in alow voice, saying that.
Was one o'C
it was one o'clock, ‘They eame'out iu their
greatcoats, for @ Kansas Digit is alwas cool,
4nd proménaded to. and iro, riles on thei
shoniders, walle Whitman tarued
went to shoe
Ther ign of Indians anywhere
the ate IevahStows agarose the far
rorizon no sorinds of stealth
ihe night, The boy ploncer
he oy uae oft
looked the 0 ataregemmaed “aks, ad the
We may be ai
the y
in. te
at weil depend epon whetl
a few hour distance. We must be prepared
intend of the weanl single sentinel,
Whitinan, Hopkins and Mark Heber, if they
ayengobjections to offer, can serve an guard.
ke three named accept
to-night,
runt.
for use
ie. “Tae
any, t,? €or hi
are treacherous rascals, and if they
ter up sufiicient force, these painted denians
who have already attacked us will come
agai
“ ve done abont them Injnn
asi Whitman, potting ta the
stark, painted figures strewing the ps
soil at a litle ‘aintance.
“They ad better be buried,” Lan
ford. shall have pack of eo oyotes on us|
Get sour spudes,
fore morning if wo leave them unburied;
work,
ite ek aotened fo. bein thet
pra
Marie among the others, and set to wor
of sniticient width and depth to contain all
the vodies of the
we wear scene, the steady a t
fof the soil, with, the Daid iia
hodies lying around, and the mooulight and
starlight lori fag the limitless laine, Gay
women watched it with fascin
opening
tho savages,
“Before burying the
n them
many of the
plumes, worked moceasins, ‘and bor
And pistols, to be kept for use or to display a8
cutriositien. The pistols weroexamined closely,
and Mr. Arpol red them of the newest
and best manufacture, and wond tered how
they came into the bande of the fed m
“They, are sa) d to he 16 Ha ai by tie tite
trades ford, * alony
feat ant Sinnetn it n a
Jowed 0 sell these wea)
Indians, we shonlda't
with the
Yara
aor wiiisky fo the
re so much tro
‘on, instead of Ren
the indians, "tite te
ders and trontions-
60 Fanci then shout
Tuissionaries to 2
should send them to the tra
men. We wonlda’t hear
bites
ndian atrocities, if the traders and wi
‘ere reforni
ee yon think, ‘the Injrms are noble and al
ing man, |
du
uired Whitm
co ie
Tent thao
etically ey
the first place,
tine fonda and taught to drink w
atever they w
ser
hear
read ¢
ae
a
ford
cheated “out, of
inky but
Fepay,
general thing, the
ons, blood-thirst
have to be elem ‘an
ne
im upe
he great land ea, ‘and ine eoul welled
sithin ‘him, aud, nobler impulees ANNE | a
is
rear.
“There 8 something in Tife besides the
gaiving of wealth,” be thought, “I mnst
ake itn be
ife
fue very shade
plain seems to me ap emblem ity
He had time for mang thought like
as ro, like a young tater
Hopkin. being eqaally sie
three beg nf nthe
o'clock the thiah of cunts
be
camp was ust
business of the day wasa
“After break@ust the line of march wae again
Fegnmad. | They made the average numer of,
miles that day unter:
Indians. ‘They met @ dos ‘wn engons,
however, the occupants of which t they warned
seaiuat the
them, riseed scarcnnaes ef oxen and
nes an Sue rach hones of these
and of. bu The pes at
nid fired a few ante, 1
Dasie of the meal a
¥ lini, and tha in the a
Solitary:
32
mn which wae
ie and little « "Gar endowed
th all virtues, and
Shed for her
Chiltrencoves whose esolation the young gir]
shed teats of tender exmpat
hey encamped 1
nd ade entire
© | proach of 8. pack of cox ates fuhin
of a half mi mimnintained aa on
the previous nights but no Indiaus were to be
seen.
mn the prairie,
berond the ap-
the distai
Every day for the week that followed the
encampnetit en the Little Bie was fail af
cident, but all ‘of tho pen thing
oata am the em
War the sweeket It se arent foy
atid relief, they arrived at Fort Kearney.
CHAPTER TV.
UAINTAN
The smarts did not halt at the fort, but
pressed ont to Kearney Cite, wherp they ene
camped jut at nightfall. The nena baatle at
ceeded. Supper was eaten, and several ott the
fen ntrolled inte: the “Ci familiarly kno pnowny
to the people of that regions "Adobe To
avd in an ambitioantittto
Dossaned, at the
ont
z
28,
tema of ‘ha P latte river, a
lof which we write, se
brtwo. The
8
ali of them re
‘the ext. moral
inte [the tow nd
hos a ata we
r
coon over, aud the men re-
n her own mind afamity of | foUNe
and 1
at Leavenssorthy and of which be had since’
felt the need.
the afternoon the yonng people
rip ment over tothe fart, where They. ‘rere
well received, and whei
tral ours returning to the reap
wet,
Gondactor Landford was returving to the
vous little party
Hel ber went
‘ nde he cums
ur aah f = torretu me Thins
in to make up the comple:
etna wo are to be swallowed up in this
train 1” asked Mark.
“Yes, And what is more, 1 a take
charee of the big The conductor of
the, other Kot ito a Net lant bight
hing lowes filo srho has lieen in
with him e ee thes and the
ductor. ‘sot ‘Gitked, “He's lying over at the
hotel, in_a dangerous, condition. ‘The
inapeetor hae syfiven the charge of t eine
trains fore, Rod I iene Yabo have
“An aitempt was made to
ant of thes anndnctor, but other
of the
Rete no se shack csamore
» sa aa a 2 ate
lieve the majority of the Higrins po e other
train were honest men. std il a0 4
other train comes, let the ing specter a
* Wee shall, bave ho difficulty.” said ane
cheerfully, “The of the men in the
ofher train must be howest, and there are if-
teen of us all told, 80 we will gre iy out
tol
ber any dishonest’ ones.”
You dou’t quite, know the wort, of man a
Wert 0 34,7 aaid the guide,” He
iboften iy league with ihe Tndianes as often, +
amenber of an organized band of outa {
who gverland mail and the
grant trai
feared than the Indiais.
low, who had aa Vief Kill 9 man as o
y eld 80 cheap
Wrst. Bor he added more chwerfully,:
Till hope that we shall have no outlaws or
m the train, If we,Lave, we
out he coongh for’em, that's
apy, fis time the two entered: the camp, .
Whitman and the others came forward to
ieee with the guide, and learned
the train wha to be enlarge ra to th
ar uinbe and alowed
g unde resent a uct;
Ie that had. bee -
or.
2 made a
contnctrof tl i onsly arrived train was
dinesiony aud rearet that
was w
fect de
mon. T kno’ ask Hfed ocveral meus
pome in fale Wane ‘an sonig he na foutly ae
ated, f 4a
ae hed al tal isa muerte "pelt in
was ou mir
of miners eho
eet]
“Blue Jack!” cried
one or two boys.
#0 becange one side of his
=u, an if brojeed,” sand Landford.
ae if the blow bod settled cuder die
it’s the mark « ‘upon
* hut me need not love time in talkingod
We are safe not to meet him, thank the
for that!”
Hie gronpe lingered about their camp fire
pnt ten o'clock, and ten crept nol
The et en ett , -
= jest
por
tain
"The camp. wate astt
at
piter breal fast, the ether trai whi
join tha iidford, came up. ean A
‘agone iow ‘n on the plains
seliwam re,” gailin ‘smooth ly, over the wal ake
level. ‘They cane to a halt ot Landford'a
camp, and the pi emigrants are
galled in that regi camné swanning ont of
their wagons, male heir
{ature ‘fellow:tray returned the
gaze with inte
was bonnd for Denver, a8
Janitor h had tend bet aa) oF the pilgrinss in
intend to stop there, tht
en on fait then
Tnelnded "eeu men, besides their sree fag
hildeen.
Of the remainder of the pilgrims no such
faxorabe ver sical be ele
atornear
tind as“ donb fu
Gouthet between two part
ficult to pr
‘The remainder of the pilgrinns w
fakably of the ‘can tat. ith
and bowie-k ir belts.
belonged to these men, ‘she Had ho Seema
Rith them, “There were tive of there despe:
and ¢ cet hehe pum:
Totndfond tat allow Tem travel under fis
guidance and the protection of bis train.
A few introductions took
some cons
sy Isery"
Moves Michera in in the order nae Closet .
hind the Heber wagon, and the cow tied be -