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about the conclusion of
r was
me -- - -
P80 wBen
irerr03 toeleep and continue their
i5rieTnfflin the oocaslon of all this
Vossnus I my blankets
isturbtf been mnchinc on the pack
Tteb6 hich his sharp nose told him
Smadainei berth So climb
feia L stela them and also woke
Wd0 n who thought his fur coat
big whiskers Now
f nW object to a little bear
prtMlMrMil for fear that the
J r hear LittleBrulnit
IMooe belt to pack him in bis
iffie d and carry it into the baggage
n
5Sr tne next morning The
r Hioucht 11 was iuu iu nuSMu
CIIlBie - h anQ the boy who sold candy
the cub hnfrn heir
nd 1 until some one was pleased
J for themselves as well
settling
HaTfit little bear
inttnedaymthe baggage car
ffe Cni xt morning the trnm ar
Hl munnati where being wall
rda wlIh the proprietor and
S Hotel I walked into the
dtr hnse with the bear under my
tme him on the counter beside
fSlb guests write their
early before
it was
ISC1nfk and travellers or employes
Tut the oniy ones who were in
office But presently a man
mm
5eM who was dressed in stylish
m and wore more jewelry than real
inmonlydo With him was
which together
Mud ton terrier
with whom such
of people
i tie sort
equently seeu I never was
ye f Little Brum saw the terrier
5a sidowise at him and the ter
M directly at the little bear
mnM
S Sinterestedin him that he
SaVetogetupon the countermand
Uy rlcUd the man with more jewel-
has the bt I clerk and he smiled at
Itierk while saying to me persuasive-
kn ey let me utile dog worry yer
Lbecur just fer fun And the
wei clerk saw that I winked at him
ul isii 1 es it is Rood lor little dogs
7 a t uttli bears it is a new thing
the little dog a
d UL at nt may civo
breakfast even if he
rji for his
little bear only a little bit
nice to accommodate
iw it u always
t U wbeD it costs nothing and a proper
snawiedgenipnt is made so stipulating
ttit utter little Bruin had been worried
if
f Vtf orVV ll i
he iloald be comforted with a berry
jod milk breakfast at the ex
peoie of the terriers owner the
was lifted to the
meter to so his master said have somo
Itn The little bear set on his haunches
ltd Biailed The terrier was moving
ciatiouslj toward him his neck stretched
oat for a sniff Tho dogs master
tailed and so did tho hotel clerk With
vatcbta band I had just said only
ilitj seconds from tho time worrying be
clai when went the
ltrrier Little Bruin s needle like teeth
cere fast in his nose while paws with
the sharpest of toenails were fastened on
tscl ilje of Hie black-and-tans head
ItedoRs head except his voice was
pittr quiet but the dogs hind legs had
cuca movement Tho dogs being
eatn said the man Hes tired wor
rjhx tbe bear lies quite enjoying it
In he has The result was not un
eiwcted and it was cruel to have the
d suffer because of his masters bad
judgment and not good to wake up sleep-
BRCIX rEACEFUL
bt boarders It was less than twenty
leconds from the time what tho man
railed fun began before Bruin although
te scolded at being made to do so let go
tj tola and the terrier jumped off the
tranter and hurnod out of the hotel Into
tie street followed by the man whose
tithes wore hotter than his manners
for he did not stop to say good morning
or to speak of breakfast for my pet
But the chief cook n Frenchman who
Ms in the office when the man s dog had
chance to worry the little bear at
race took a likiug to Bruin and preaent
iTirent off with him under his arm
Hes all nbt now said the clerk
o happened to be 3 E Crittenden
prominent now as a hotel keeper
Tor the next ten minutes said I
lor that voungster wont be where
jre is something to oat long without
ne unexpected happening
e breakfasted together Crlt and
Ielf and presently when colored
werscamein looking as if each had
WW dosed with comio almanacs we
a what the trouble was Trouble
fJtdename fo it said tho boy
Uf s done got it onto de ole maid
l I cooks cat- Tut de little bars
JWttast bT de cats an pears when de
l tickled do bar wid her claws de bar
v nIhaed dit cat til mos do cats
Pared of an now de bars
roti i toadechif sittin in his copper of
1ary 8Trup Chlf donn want de
a fr ut he do wish de pan De bar
f tt bedlscommodated Chifs tuok
ltenhim
ta v eet flx suggested Crit what a
Mdone Let thB ittle chap
nZl 8aldI he will clean up tho
tiSP too be out of the pan and
hl3 ora W8 finUn breakfast
Hfcf red II was ns last mi
f
Ultn th9 daI but the ohef reaUy nad
n a klai t0 hm and was sorry to
irefiin tarllnK for Xew York on the
tEing tran
rBln11118 turned out probably little
lonj Rat to have beon presented to
tTinrtT lhB reDeh cook tor upon my
lthth eVTork X Tas d8talIed t0 K
ua Jte nrniy to sketch events there
em leatly received a letter from
oaldiI b sad that 8bc aotivo boys
se Uim eaier t0 look aftef than my
b which when not olimb
t tnne post in tho back yard
shel ily cat wa8 climbinjr pan-
M fiM after swpetmeats or cake
either tk s them snwed fight until
cake hox was empty or the
hotic s L The Irih cook had Kivcn
Peetei The mUkman ex
lore trusers for those Bruin
h
him the mnn wa8 slow obout f eed
i
Ua tmlk and because the bear had
Uiij Instead of petted scratched
we the rule Therefore my bear
bad been given away to a livery Btabla
man who certainly made a mistake in
accepting suoh a gift as a Louisiana bear
oub Theodore E Davis
EDMUND
Tho Story at a Self educated Man A For
onal Sketch or the Xoted Writer
and Foet
BY LOUISE CHANDLER SIOULTON
In asking mo to write you something
concerning Edmund Gosse you give me
the pleasure of speaking of one whom I
ndmirebothnsaman and as an author
I first met Mr Gosse in 1877 twelve
years ago now at the hospital house of
Mr Trubner the
publisher He was a
young man of only iwenty eight then
but already well known as a poet antt so
nareenble and Interesting that r at once
coveted his friendship You wished this
sketch to be
as personal
as I felt at
liberty to make it sol must begin at
the beginning
Eof 08see waa born Septem-
ber 21 1849
in the cltv of Tflnn
WAix fS g
within the sound of Bow Bells He was
the only child of the distinguished natur-
alist Philip Henry Gosse h It S
who though he only died last year was
already forty years old when his son was
born His work had at that time won
for him moro of reputation than of money
and the childhood of the future poet
was passed in straightened oiroumstances
Such duties fell to his lot as few obildren
have been called on to fulfil His mother
siokened of cancer and when the little
fellow was only seven he was her com
panion and hpr nurse in a cheerless
apartment In Pimlico The father was
busy in earning the money to carry on
the little household and the serious
seven-year-old baby watched his mother
and waited on hor and so made his first
forlorn acquaintance with the agonies and
horrors of pain and death for she died
before be had reached his eighth birth-
day
He as well as his father had possessed
remarkable intellectual force She was
a Greek as well as a Latin scholar at
a time when Latin and Greek were far
moro seldom studied by women than at
present She was the author of various
religious books and of a series of
tracts that were selling widely still
long after she was dead Both father
and mother were almost fanatically re-
ligious and wont he from Methodism
and she from the Church of England
into the sect called Plymouth Breth-
ren Tho mother visited the poor and
labored to bring their souls into what she
considered the true faith The father
shut himself up with his microscope
and little Edward had for friends
and playmates in those childish
years only a library of very
solemn books until he bad to stop
reading and nurse his dying
mother
After his wifes death the fathers for-
tunes began to improve His lectures
brought him in moro money nnd he left
London and bought him a home near
Torquay in Devonshire Now indeed
little Edmund could walk in a green
field as he bad so longed to do in his
London days that he once startled his
parents by declaring ho should die if they
could not somo how manage it He had
his first taste of this delight on a visit to
some friends in Wales where also he
for the first time played with children of
his own age
When be rejoined his father at Torquay
a wave of religious experience swept
over him He listened to his fathers
exhortations and was convinced of sin
aud resolved to save his soul He was
told that ho must confess the Lord in
public baptism and people thronged
from all parts of Devonshire to witness
the ceremony I can lancy those were
dark days when the terrors of the law
had affrighted him whon his father had
discoursed to him of death and of judg-
ment and when bis young mind strug-
gled with the dootrines of election and
reprobation
It was like opening a door that led
from somo gloomy dungeon into the
light of cheerful day whon In 1862 his
father married a Quaker lady who
brought into the sombre household the
sunshine of her bright nature her warm
heart her happy and reasonable faith
Edmund was thirteon then aud his
fathers marriage was the best thing that
could have happened to him From
henceforth he had a true mother in bis
borne be knew what it was to be praised
and potted and encouraged and made
much of For the years to come his
stepmother was his closest and loveliest
friend He was sent through her influ-
ence to private sohools where he found
companions and comrados among his
school mates his day had dawned
His school education however was
not of long duration In 1866 whon he
was seventeen his father brought
him up to London to earn henceforth his
own living Fortunately he was able to
do this not too painfully The Rev
Charles KIngsley was a great friend and
admirer of Gosse Sr and he conceived
a warm and active interest in the charm-
ing boy whose gifts he already divined
He prooured for him an appointment in
the British museum with o salary of
90 5450 per year
Row it was that the education of the
future poet began in earnest He gave
the day to his work at the museum but
when he got home at night it was to de-
vote himself to his lifes real business
He is one of the best equipped authors
one of the most scholarly men of our
own time and the foundations of bis
rare acquirements were laid In those busy
nights following busy days He eacerly
studied the continental languages which
were to be of such infinite use to him
hereafter in the oheerful home he
found for himself with some nice old
ladles in the suburbs of Lottenbam he
becan already to form the uncleus of
that wonderful library so rich in rare
books and first editions whioh is now his
pride
The spirit or song was born in mm in
ship with John Arthur Blaikie a yonng
man who like himself was a dear lover
of poetry Early in 1870 when Gosse
was twenty the two friends prepared
and brought out in tho summer of 1870
a joint volume entitled Madrigals
Songs and Sonnets by J A Blaikie and
E W Gosse Mr Gosse tells me he
doubts if a dozen of this first ven-
ture were ever sold but it was not cer-
tainly thrown away for it Introduced
him to Rossetti Swinbourne and others
brought him into that literary atmos-
phere for whioh he had always longed
The first editor to accept one of bis ar-
ticles was Froude at that time one of
the editors of Erasers Magazine Be-
fore this Gosse had sent articles to one
magazine and another and had them re-
turned to him as befalls most youthful
scribes He hardly expected better luck
with tho manuscript sent to Froude but
very speedily came by way of answer
the proofs of the article for correction
It was the -beginning of his success 1
wonder if anything has ever given him
quite such a glow of satisfaction since
In 1871 he made his first journey to Nor-
way nnd wrote for Frasers an aocount
of bis adventures in the Lofoden islands
About this time also he began to write
for the Spectator In 1872 he traveled
through North Germany and Scandiva
vla and met Anderson Bjornsen and
other Northern Lights
In 1873 he published On Viol and
Flute the first book of poems for
which he alone was responsible and it
brought him immediate and deserved
recognition as a poet In the next year
ho was employed on the editorial staff of
the Examiner besides frequently con-
tributing to the Academy and the
Saturday Boview As his first poetical
venture in company with Blaikie had
won for him literary friends so his sec-
ond On Viol and Flute won tor
him in a way that dearest friend of
all his wife Lawrenoe Alma Tadema
the great artist read thtbook liked it
and asked the young poet to his house
nnd at the hospitable Tadema mansion
on the Regents park Gosse met Miss
Nellie Epps Mr Tadema s sister to
whom he was married in 1875 when he
was only twenty six Mr Gosse s has
been an exceptionally happy marriage
Somo of you in Amerioa have the pleas-
ure of knowing Mrs Gosse and you
know in her a warm hearted sympathe-
tic altogether charming woman in
whom the heart of her husband may
safely trust I have seen on the fly leaf
of a book I chanced to borrow of Mr
Gosse a poetical inscription to his wife
so beautiful as poetry so true in feeling
that I venturo to copy it for you It will
tell you bettor than I could possibly tell
you otherwise how truly this poet has
been dowered with the very love of love
TO NELLIE OOSSE NOV 12 1879
If womanhood were lite the rose
That with a myriad blossoms blows
All fair allko in sweet consent
Of form perfection hue and scent
So that the gardener scarcely knows
Flower head fromflower head richly blent
Yet would my heart at once divine
Your presence by a secret sign
And to that single flower incline E W Q
Art is good nnd fame is good and
fellowship of friends is dear but surely
tho best gift of tho gods is perfect love
the love of eleotion and of profoundest
sympathy such as these lines express
Tho Gosees live in a pleasant home in
Delamere Terrace near Westbourne
square and there on a Sunday afternoon
you are sure to find some of the most in-
teresting people In London
In the autumn of 1881 Mr Gosse and
his wife went to Amerioa wtfere the poet
had been engaged to deliver courses of
lectures before the Lowell institute of
Boston and the Johns Hopkins univer-
sity besides various single lectures else-
where No man I think ever made
more friends in a single visit to America
than did Mr Gosse In Boston be was
the guest of William D Ho wells and in
Washington Mr Bancroft and General
Sheridan were his oloerones Everywhere
he said what was best and I am happy
to say he brought away most pleasant
impressions of his American cousins
The Amerionn language astonished
him the least bit in the world He fouud
that a railway station had oeoome a
depot a wnshhand jug was n
pitohor luggage had turned into
baggage a lift bad acquired the
dignity of an elevator and an en-
gine had enlarged itself into a loco-
motive He found out too that
Democraoy is a real thing in the
states
Just before Mr Gosse s visit to
Amerioa he had been appointed to suc-
ceed Mr Leslie Stephen as Clark pro-
fessor of Enclish literature at Trinity
college Cambridge a post be will have
held five years next October at which
time he will resign it I have negleoted
to say that on the very day of bis mar-
riage to Miss Epps in 1875 he received
an unsolicited appointment as trans-
lator to the board of trade with
a salary of 400 S2000 This appoint-
ment still holds nnd I am told the gov-
ernment has no more thorough and
painstaking official Busy as he is in
literature accomplishing more both in
writing and in study than almost anyone
I know Mr Gosse not only has never
negleoted in the slightest degree the
duties of his post but he has attended to
them with unusual fidelity and effi-
ciency
I think he would rank as seoond only
to his marriage among the blessings of
his life his intimate friendship with Mr
Austin Dobson Both Gosse and Dobson
belonged to tbe board of trade and Mr
Stedman in a charming article about
Some London Poets which he con-
tributed to Harpers Magazine spoke of
them as A brace of singing birds
which a smooth bore brings down at one
aim It is a very rare thing that
capricious fortuno so favors an in-
timate friendship as in the case of these
two poets Congenial in taste and in
temperament engaged id the same pur-
suits they not only live in the same
town in the midst of the same circle
but the yery business of their lives com-
pels them to elbow each other And
theirs Is an Intimacy that knows no
weariness or satiety and only gains
strength with the passing years
Having thus hurriedly set before you
the facts of Mr Gosse s life It remains
only to summarize briefly his literary
achievements I have before me a list
of his books by no means complete
made by an American admirer of bis
work who owns in its first edition
each successive volume I will tran-
scribe for you this list a sufficiently
numerous one to have been given to the
world by a man not yet quite forty who
has been occupied for many hours of
each day In his offloial capaoity at the
board of trade Here they are
On Viol and Flute IS73
King Erik a drama 1ST6
New Poems - -
Studies in the Literature of Northern
rope 1ST9
English Odes edited 1S81
Llleof Gray 1SS2
Seventeenth Century Studies 1SS3
Discourses of Sir Joshua Eeynolds edited IBS
Firdanse in Exile 1835
From 8hakespeare to Pope -- 1SS5
Loves Graduate Webster edited 1SSS
Lite of Kaleieh
James Shirleys Plays edited 1S88
Life of Congreve 1SS
Eighteenth Century Literature 1K9
An edition of On Viol and Flute
wns DUDllshed in New York in 1883 In
those days He formed a close friend Laddltioa to these Mr Gosse has written
THE GAZETTE FORT WORTH TEXAS SUNDAY MAT 25
prefatory Introductions tovnrlous other
books tnd has contributed extensively
to periodical literaturo He is at present
engaged on a memoir of his father
Of all these numerous books I think
putting aside for themomentMr Gosse s
poems that Seventeenth1 Contury
Studies Is perhaps the most fascina-
ting No cntio it Beems to me can be
more just or more catholio than Edmund
Gosse He is never blind to the excel-
lence of men in the opposite camp A
romantioist by taste and by tempera-
ment he is capable nevertheless of
perceiving all that Is finest In the didac-
tic writers of the Eighteenth century
He wrote no les9 than twenty nine of
the articles in Mr Humphrey Wards
Anthology of English Poetry In-
cluding sketches of Lodge Cnrew and
Herrick and indeed he treated poets
of every period down to our own The
editor of the Anthology in his preface re-
turns thanks to Mr Go3so whose
great knowledge of English poetry es-
pecially of the Seventeenth nnd Eigh-
teenth centuries has been of the highest
service
Besides the onthollolty of our author
the justness with whioh he treats all
schools and all phases of literature be
has the advantage of wide knowledge of
other literatures than his own and that
certainty of judgment which oomes of
extensive culture Moreover his work
is singularly beautiful in style and ex-
ceedingly felioltous in the power to hit off
a portrait in a single phrase One stops
to linger over some of his sentences for
pure enjoyment of their graceand oharm
In writing of the love songs of Thomas
Lodge he says In triese love songs a
note of passion a soaring and shouting
musio of the lark at heavens gate was
heard for the first time above the schol-
astic voioes of such artificial poets as
Watson If Gosse mokes a quotation
It is always the quotation for his purpose
1 have before this oommended his
studies of literature to the attention of
those who have not time to make ex-
haustive studies for themselves His
Seventeenth Century Studies nnd his
Eighteenth Century Literature
would turn an ignorant man into one
reasonably well informed concerning the
literary epoohs of which they treat I
turn over their pages and come upon
sentenoes that aro revelations Here is
for instance Mrs Barry who had a
well balanoed sense of her own value
and smiled at nothing lower than an
earl Again does not one know
exactly what Otway was worth when one
reads that his stroke was broad and
bold and when he did succeed it was in
figures of heroio size and on a grand
scale The Mntohloss Orinda Is
one of the most delightful portraits that
evon Mr Gosse has painted It has all
his special qualities delicacy of touch
subtlety of perception courtesy of treat-
ment and tenderness of human sym-
pathy of which so many critics are in-
capable
Mr Gosse s critical method seems to
me rather French than English and I
think tbe French are the best critics In
the world as they certainly are the best
reconteurs of what we call the short
story Gosse has been a loving student
of SaintoBeuve whom he honors as his
master in oritlcism Lemaitre is also one
of his chief favorites and to his study of
the art of criticism as practioed by the
best French critical writers he attrib-
utes muoh as he modestly puts it of
whatever success be has won To criti
cise is one thing nnd to construct is an-
other and to find a man with the sub-
tlest critical perception added to the
oreative power of the poet might sur-
prise us bad we not seen the combina-
tion already in Swinburne and lu Matbow
Arnold to say nothing of our own Lowell
and Stedman
Space fails me for an analysis of Mr
Gosses poetio power but I can give
you a brief specimen or two by whioh
you may divine for yourselves its qual-
ity Read for instance
THE ILENAD S GRAVE
The girl who once onLydian heights
Around the sacred grove of pines
Would dance through whole tempestuous
nights
If UCU iU UIUUU BUlUCSf
Whose pipe of lotos featly blown
Gave airs as shrill as Cotys own
Who crovned with buds of ivy dark
Three times drained deep with amorous lips
wine ieo dowi oi willow oars
With silver tips
Nor sank nor ceased but shouted still
Like some wild wind from hill to hill
She lies at last where poplars wave
Their sad gray foliage all day long
The river murmurs near her grave
A soothing song
Farewell itsaith Her days have done
With shouting at the set of sun
Or read for another sample of lyrio
grace this pleasant
BONO
Theres a sleek thrush sits in tbe apple tree
When it blooms all over rosy snow
And hark how he opens his heart to ma
Till its inmost hopes and desires I know I
Blow winds blow
For the thrush will fly when the bloom must go
Oh a friend I had and I loved him well
And his heart was open and sang to mine
And it pains me more than I choose to tell
That ne cares no more if I laugh or pine
Friend of mine
Can the music fade out of love like thine
Most of Mr Gos3es best poems are far
too long for copying hero but the two I
have quoted are sufficient to prove him a
true poet One or two volumes of his
poems are completely out of print at
present while they are often and vainly
called for at the book shops I am
happy to say that a volume will be pub-
lished this autum with the title On
Yiol and Flute and containing those
poems from all previous volumes which
the matured critical judgment of their
author esteems most worthy of preserva-
tion
Copyrighted 1890 by the author 1
INDIAN SCOUTS AND TKAILEES
By Charles Kins Captain V 8 A
IPV
O see the red warriors
at their best one needs
to follow them upon
the trail of the enemy
and note the marvel-
ous skill with whioh
they can track the foe
over the mountains
and through the rocky
gorges where a white
man would be at a loss
which way to go
Centuries of praotico
generation after gen-
eration of inherited
powers have given to
the Indian a keenness of vision that the
hawk might envy Nothing In nature
escapes the Indian eye when on the war-
path Not a moving object between him
and the horizon falls to excite his scru-
tiny and in tbe very actions of bird
or beast in the dim distance he discovers
indubitable signs that the enemy he
seeks is lurking where the white man
would say there wbb not a hostile
within a radius of a score of miles
Among themselves the reputation of
being a keen scout is equal to that of a
brave warrior and In the old days when
the different tribes were warring among
themselves the duties of tbe scout were
of the most solemn and important char-
acter Indians were compelled to resort
to tha utmost seorecy artifice and cun-
ning In order to obtain the faintest
advantage over enemies or their own
kind Vigilance of sentries and the
keen explorations of scouts made sur-
prises matters of the utmost difficulty
And so it resulted that as the honor and
safety of tbe tribe depended on the effi-
ciency ana ceaseless watchfulness of the
scouts these ohosen warriors were
treated with the utmost deferenoo by
forms of ceremonies are ignored or for-
gotten
Capt Clark considered that the Chey-
enne Indians and Cneyenno scouts were
superiors of all our North American In-
dians in bravery as warriors and skill as
trailors I believe that there Is no doubt
that they aro the bravest and most skill-
ful warriors of the plains but Capt
tic s vHf l vLtfsrN
their people Theirs was a life fraught
with the utmost danger too for at any
moment in the course of their duties
they were liable to fall into the hands of
foemen as cunning as themselves and
then nothing but iustant death fighting
could save them from tho slow death by
tbe fiendish tortures which were desoribed
in a previous chapter
Wolf is the Indian sign for scout
and prairie wolf or coyote well fulfills
the idea Tho yelp of the coyote is easily
imitated by the young braves and serves
for night signaling when fire would only
betray their presence The utmost care
is taken in choosing the scouts and the
old chiefs rarely go amiss in their selec-
tions Capt Philo Clark who spent
years of his gallant and useful life in
studying their characteristics and who
commauded the finest body of Indinn
scouts exer seen on our frontiers has
given nn interesting aocount of the cere-
monies attendant on sending forth the
scouts which I shall transcribe here
If there is time he says many
ceremonial forms are gone through with
in the selection and in giving Instructions
to them prior to their departure The
essential qualifications of a good scout
are courage good sense truthfulness
and a thorough knowledge of the coun-
try
Suppose four are wanted they are
chosen in counoil and then sent for some
of the head men going for them and lead-
ing them to the counoil lodge where
after much solemn and prayerful smok-
ing perhaps some speeches about the Im-
portance of the occasion dilating on the
benefits that will acorue to the entire
people in case of success and the evils
and disasters that may befall them
through detoat the special instructions
of the service to be aoquired as well as
4 k
the general instructions which all In
dians know by heart are given them by
the chief These general instruotiona
are usually to the offset that they must
be wise as well as brave to look not only
to the front but to the right and loft
behind them and at the ground to
watch carefully the movements of all
wild animals from the movements of
buffalo to the flight of birds to wind
through ravines and the beds of 4
streams to walk on hard ground
or where there is crass so as
to leave no trail to move with great care
so as not to disturb any wild animals
and shonld they discover anything im-
portant to return with all possible speed
and bring suoh information as they may
find Of late years in addition to their
arms the scouts carry a mirror and field
glass which are furnished by friends
if they do not themselves possess them
one or two only are Bent in the same
dtreotion a larger party could see no
more and in size alone would increase
the danger of discovering them to the
enemy The safety and value of a
scouting party lies not in their fighting
qualities but in their keen eye crafty
shrewd cunning and watchfulness Sup-
pose the scont is seen returning his
story Is nearly told by his movements or
by his mirror long before he has ap-
proached near enough for vocal
communication If when he Is
near enough for the sonnd of his voice
to be heard he Intimates the howl of
the wolf ho has seen the enemy The
main party meanwhile gather in an in-
complete circle with tbe opening toward
the direotion from whioh the scout is
coming and at tho opening place a pile
of buffalo chips or spread out a blanket
upon tour sticks When the scout reaobes
them if tho enemy Is too close or im-
mediate action is necessary so there is not
time for the story to be told in the cere-
monial way he kicks down tbe blanket
or scatters the chips as an oath that he is
telling the truth and then briefly and
hurriedly tells the tory If there is
time for a smoke the pipe Is filled and
lighted and the interrogator points the
stem to tbe zenith the sun the earth
and fonr winds and then holds the stem
to tbe scouts mouth who takes four
whiffs Again the pipe is pointed as be-
fore and again four puffs are taken by
the scout This It repeated four times
when tbe interrogator says You know
all the hills valleys and streams of tbbr
country you were born and grew op In
it now tell me what you have seen
The scout divides his story into four parts
which are told at intervals At eaoh in-
terval tbe smokes are repeated and the
interrogator adds perhaps to his ques-
tion tell us and your people will have
glad hearts they will praise you and
raise your name up among them On
tbe completion of this ceremony tbe en
tire story is usually told coutinuously J
without interruption This is bs I have
said tbe usual custom when there is
plenty of time Usually the return of a
scout sent out In advance of a war party
creates tho wildest exoitemont and all
Clark had never served with the Apache
Indians and probably his friend and con-
temporary who served so long on the
staff of Gen Crook Capt John G
Bourke would take Issue with him as to
the relative ability of tbe Cheyenne and
Apache tribes Bourke s experience
with the Apaches was only equaled by
that of Clarks with the Cheyennes and
my own service was so insignificant as
compared with that of either of these
distinguished cavalry officers that the
opinions whioh I should express would be
materially modified perhaps after con-
versation with them I have seen some-
thing of the work of Cheyenne
scouts on the prairies and
there is no qnestion that it is
beautiful and Bkillf ul in the highest de-
gree but whether they would accomplish
as much over rocky precipices and can-
yons as tho Apaches have done time and
again I have no means of judging To
my thinking however after seeing the
scouting work of the Crows whom we
followed on the Sioux campaign of 187C
of the Cbeveunes ana Sboshones whom
we followed In the chase after the Nez
Perces in 1877 and of the Apaches whom
we used as trailers in Arizona in 1874
I am free to say that I consider the
Apaches capable of work whioh far ex-
ceeded in skill and In oloseness of obser-
vation anything I have ever seen done by
other Indians Once in 1874 while
scouting for the hostile band of Eski
minz in tho TontI basin Arizona the
roughest and wildest and most moun-
tainous country that was ever my
lot to serve in 1 had a party of In-
dian scouts made up about equally
of Apache Yumas and Apache
Mohaves We had been hunting tor
several days and finally one morning in
June came to the foot of the precipi-
tous range known as the Black Mesa
and that day I had an exhibition of
Indian scouting such as I have never
seen equaled since Tho order of march
was very primitive a sort of game of
follow your leader We kept old
Kwonahilka nnd six or seven of tbe
scouts well out to our front then came
the lieutenant commanding on his
bronco then the first sergeant and tbe
main body all in single file and finally
the pack mules and the guards and at-
tendants Whenever wb reached a steep
place either up or down hill the leader
would dismount and take tbe reins be-
hind him his horse followed in his
footsteps each man in succession exe-
cuting the same maneuver when he
reached the spot where the ohief dis-
mounted The trail led over rocks and
ravines and canyons never wide enough
for two abreast Somewhere about
1 oclook in the afternoon
we came to a lovely green valley
at the foot of the mountains and
there suddenly one of the Indian scouts
whom we called Washington Charley
stopped and excitedly beckoned to me I
rode forward and he pointed to certain
damp splashes where water had evidently
been spilled as the carriers clambered up
the bank Ton to come here for water
Look see he said Somewhere up
there on tbe crest of that great range
then as was their invariable outom the
hostile Indians were hiding and our
orders were to hunt them to their holes
and fight It out How long the hunt
might last we could not tell nor how
many hours since they came here for
their supply of water except that the
earth had not had time to thoroughly
dry The first thing was to lead our
horses far In among the rooks and trees
and seoure both them and the pack
mules leave a strong guard and the
three packers with them Then
every man of us kicked off his
cavalry boots and spurs and pulled on
Indian mocasins the strong sole of
thick hide being amplo protection to the
foot nnd then in ten minutes my little
command was stripped for its work
When all was ready off we started no
order no ranks but In perfeot sllenco
tbe soldiers following after the lieuten-
ant while Charley with his Apache
brethren sprang noiselessly to the front
and scattered upward along the rooky
ascent and then came the pretty piece
of trailing of whioh I have spoken Close
to tbe stream the bushes and stunted
oaks were thiok Once away from it
along the rise tbe underbrush disap-
peared and we spread out right and left
over the surface Here while the trees
were numerous their branches were
high above our heads the trunks straight
and bare for twenty feet from the
ground The ground itself was every-
where covered with fragments of rook and
slate the detritus of every storm or ava-
lanche that had ooenrred since creation
Tiny blades of grass peeped up here and
there bnt we were creeping upward over
a soil on which the human foot left no
impression whatever How then could
those stealthy rascals in front so unhesi-
tatingly beokon us on For 200 yards
they covered our advance moving
noiselessly from point to point crouoh
ing like panthers on the trail of the deer
Occasionally one of them would call me
by a gesture and proud of the undis-
guised admiration of the offloer would
SfW
smwfw
n
point to where a twig was slightly bent
or abraded or where a little fragment of
rock or slate orunohed from its place by
laboring foot had turned and now lay
with the damp face upward A single
hour in the sun would bleaoh it wbito
nnd dry as its neighbors On we clam
bored steadily silently sometimes
crossing a mountain ravine some-
times over rooky ledges but all
the time our swarthy half -naked scouts
would guide us forward Onoe in a
while we would halt for breath an hour
of suoh ollmblng is very trying to tho
lungs but at last old Sergeant Stauffer
who was close to my side held up o
warning hand and pointed to the right
Two of our scouts wero kneeling behind
a little rocky barrier and peering over
motioning keep back and tho men
who were spread out unconsciously In
skirmish line halted in their traoks
Presently I reaohedthe lodge and oboy
Ing the signal of their gleaming eyes
peered eagerly over Five hundred
yards away was another and higher rocky
point aud above it boldly outlined
against tho blue of the heavens towered
a great cliff the western terminus of
the mesa A likely place for an eagles
nest perhaps but not another
living thins could I think of or
see as a possible inhabitant But
the two Apaohes by my side pointed ex-
citedly to the promontory ahead and then
one of them waved his hand upward in
spirals indicating smoke and whispered
Patchie house And surely enough
my field glasses detected what was be-
yond my eyes to see not one but several
shimmering colorless columns of smoke
or vapor rising just over tho rock to our
front and there was the rancheria
beyond all doubt They had guided U3
Bafely to the yery stronghold of the
Apaohes and in fivo minutes wore join-
ing witn us in the attack I have never
seen a piece of trailing to oompare to that
for the signs by which they were guided
wore so slight so trivial that none but
the keenest Indian eye would ever have
thought of observing them
In the chase after the Chlrioahuas In
the Sierra Madres of Mexioo Capt
Bourko tells of trailing done by their own
brothren that was even more wonderful
than this Charles King
Captain U 3 A
DOW TO TALK VfELL
An Interestlnc Clint with Boys nnd GlrU
On the Art ot Conversation
Copyrighted 1S90 by the Author
If one might choose between being
very handsome with tolerable manners
and being plain with a fine
voice and Doner manners tnan or-
dinary he should wisely prefer tho lat-
ter We do not feel the charm of well
taught speech because It Is so seldom
heard But once felt it has a spoil
whioh lingers in the mind forever Tho
beauty of the faoo strikes tho eye tha
tone of the voice stirs the heart
A fine voice whioh does not mean a
loud one by any means is always a dis-
tinct one whioh 03n be unerringly hoard
without effort of the speaker An in
distinot utterance Is always a sign ot
mental or physical defiolenoy which
ought to be promptly mastered And it
takes very hard work often to get the
better of this slovenly pronunciation
Learn to speak It is easier when you
come down in the morning to grunt in
answer to good morning than to say the
two words but you must not allow your-
self this piggish boorish habit of grunt-
ing in place of speech Noither John
Alexander must you let your sleepy
dreamy unsoolal temper control you so
that you speak in a dull thick tono at
tho back ot the throat whioh Is of nil
others the mo3t trying voioe to under-
stand
You ought to feel ashamed when any
one not preolsoly deaf has to ask you to
say the same thing one two or throo
times because you are too slothful and
indifferent to sneak as you should it is
no sort of use for you to say yoa cant
speak any other way A smart ringing
box on the sido ot your face wtiuld soon
teach vou how to speak to be under
stood It would send tho blood and ner
vous force tingling to your lips and
tongue instantly unloosing them and
vour sneeoh about that time would bo
marked by most delightful aoouracy and
distinctness Better try for it without
the slaD in tho face Any ono slow ana
thiok of speeoh should read aloud halt an
hour at a time twice a day taking a col
umn of a paper and reading through ad
vertisements news and every things or
recite the same line over fifty times tho
obiect being not so muoh to catch tho in
flation ns to accustom the lips and
tonguo to the babit of speeoh and train
them to quick movement
Slow speech is an Intolerable affront to
others and waste of timo I went to
church vesterday and set out a sermon
which wasted thirty minutes of the pos
sible forty years I have yet to live
listening to such novel and profound re
marks as these Animals are endowed
with life Human beings have rea
son spoken in a ponderous way as it
the speakers wits were wool gathering
ennh sentence iOU mav Deiieve i
would not have wasted so muoh of my
nroolous life waiting on suoh sluggish
mud flowing it the sexton had not seated
ma too far ud the aisle to get oui
out making a procession of myself before
tho congregation You must learn to
talk to the point and with celerity that
la not chattering Put wun smooto
steady flow ot language without jerks or
confusion
To have this command of language
think beforehand what you must say
what will touch the interests of those
you meet whether It is a word about the
weather inauirv for their health or
their concerns This ready change of
sneeah needs to be counted out before
hand as you have your car fare ready
to avoid fumbling for it when the oon
duotor comes around Everything in
life needs a little thinking about till you
get used to it as the brain does its pars
without conscious prompting
A smart little proverb or amusing say
ing or Ditby slang helps out human in
tercourse in common ways bnt as my
mnntnr tftlicrht ma VOU dont Want to
use slang with a biahop or old saws with
a fine iadv With your elders and
ters study to be preoise and plam in
naeoh and leave them to begin joking
T onMilr nwBPtW make the toilet ot
mnr mnnth nnd noaa with core three
tlmn n dav There should be threa
mlnntas after each meal given to per-
innni vktr rinslrig the month olearing
the throat and using the handkerchief
which should then make its appearance
as seldom as possible A habit of deep
breathing also clears the voice ana glvei
It fulness and softness ns commauu
Onlv eood feeling and great kindness
of nature can give sweetness heart
nweatnois to a voice but the smooth
vibrating tones that one listens for and
wonders at comes of physical well being
n warm lively temper of mind and body
which mav be cultivated by keeping ones
self very comfortable and then getting
nil the work out of ones sell be is ca
llable of doing
What to say and how to say it Is all
there is in tha art ot conversation Trtuu
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