The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 2, 1891, Page 2

sR A TT eT RRP AStOKY OF SIM SON'S KOCK Fighting Indians for Fourteen) Days and Then Death by Starvation Chicago Herald Out at Trinidad, Colo, just south fthe town, is a huge. flat topped vock on the top of a bill perhaps 300 feet high. It «ck aud is is called Simpson's ove of the historical points of the west trag vent of history from that time when heroic deeds, made sacred by) the spilling of white man’s blood, the safe and prosperous era of white man’s rule. shered in Simpson was a pioneer und eame t the place before the uame of Trinidad was heard of. He was a feiyhter, and finding advan- tayes about the spot, tome for his family on the bank of the Purgatorie river. He had a wife aud two boys in his home at Santa Fe, and man ever more lovingly prepared a lodge for his (ove than this rough driver fashion- ed a dwelling in far away Trinidad. He had everything in readiness as he passed through to the east, and meuit to brivg out his wife and chil- d-en on his next trip west. Bat the {idians had risen that fall and swept all the settlements dowu the They found Simpson's house just ready for ocenpancy, captured many he prepared a no river. the man he had employed to take care of it, and then lay iu wait, with out disturbing a thing, till the own- e stould come. had and knew Sompson seen the knife » dl were devastating the country wayes, fh eireled around his cherished 1 ie and saw enough to warn him. Ho lrove to the foothills the river, bes south of and preparations bat at fon puarded camp AUS Lut not wait for barricades, The sliughtered at the first assault, but with one canteen of water, the line of screaming Utes and elambered up the bili. as they could, Scupson: fought bis way throug darkness but signs of the] and | They followed him as well | favored | A Sad and Hopeless Quest. | AMERICAN WCRKMEN. Wild of eye and disheaveled of ate | Their Froductwe Power as Compared | tire he wandered from town to town, ! j through the crowded “" Btieets lalung the dusty highways and ways of the country. : quisitive people stared in his melancl and abstracted look, be heeded They questioned | him, but he made noanswer, and pur sued his way. as inteut and absorbed | | a8 ever. aud wondered at his Lot nor paused. Tudeed it is a! About the cities Le wandered. dis consolate aud forlorn, peering into | oda corners aud gazing up aud down (the streets He passed through the | Lotel lobbies, he weut into the news- paper offices and looked accusingly at | the editors, he attended all the polit ea meetings aud glowered He trod the lanes, and the farmers’ wives scuttled with frightened faces, into their kitch en, when they saw his repellant fuce looking-over the garden fence. He stood on the hill tops and his eye swept the valleys. Neither the rivers nor the mountains stopped him, but on and on he went. It was appar ent that he was seeking something, a greatétreasure that he had lost o @ jewel that he was destined never to find, for nubody could give him any upon the speaeers country assistance, as none knew where it was Who was the mysterious and lom - Was it Aucient seeking a wedding ly stranger: the Mariner guest to transtix with bis long gray Was it new beard and glittering eve? Diogenes, without the lantern, come jto the world aguin to find au hones man and desparing «f his quest Was it the Wandering Jew driven on mountain tute: fiom ocean to ocean, from to meuntaip. by his merciless living death is the result ment of funct what she lly sate In all cases of stoppage, hin. and he gained the hills Plept ot tulor other irr noming they found him, and he re jclauyie at spabiiees treated alittle: further up the bill, | broggiet fin kihag several of bis asstilants fron | « hetter cover In the afternoon} Denver, Co + November. 24. —The they drove him from that, he clam | g#tme warden at Meeker reports thi beved a little hieher up So the over the Bove mountain country maay they would not leave him alive but they could not eaptare him. The! accoud night Simpson retreated to the very top of the hil, relled up a elter of stones in a spot) where he} could command the ove approach, med waited. He had eaten nothing, wd could hope tor no food. The o ly chance for deliverance Jay in the possible coming of soldiers to avenge the massacre of settlers. Ly iny there in the boiling sun by day jtry and from Coon springs chivide clenv to Yellow creck the bilis are full of. st do bat uneut bodies o deer A dozen difiere: camps 0 }both the Uintah ancompabere Utes | have been thers and have simply s! |down ever heudo w Hfind | Wa says that a very {conserva Stimate of the number | [Killed wor rn them oat fro | 4,000 to 6,000 head whieh these Ute ind the chilling air by might, the) At grim old man watched sleeplessly, | Present? ate of 2 there wil pieking off his enemies as they crept | be deer left to stock the mationai one by one up thie path Day after day for ther food than cactus root, with no rweek without water than that one canteen fall, he He till a head was in sight. and he al ways killed. pray ed for death. Eleven, and he his cartridge belt. He feebly crawling about his little fort, on the evening of the twelfth. He killed three Indians on the thirteenth. | In the thick the stook of his enemies never shot Ten days, and b lost found it, darkness before dawn of the fourteenth day he felt! can alwavs be een ed 4 rather than saw an Indian in the 4 by H I path, and shot without a waver. He Mueh depends on Ute roll the precipice and pumped in another heard the voiceless down cartridge. This was his last. They found him | so at noon, his dead eyes open wide, his rifle lying along the rock, his pinched, heroic frame starved fer food and famished for water, so thin that they spurned it with their feet For fourteen days he fought and then he died detiant had them, ‘Trinidad peo} have rau eross to mark pecuate th hopeless, the nallthe 1 ste Some Foolish Pe 1 ye reach of me t will wear ow Most cases it wears them away. Could thev be ir duced to try the successtul Kemp's Ba am, which is o6 a positive guarantee cure, they would see the excellent effect after taking first dose. Price soc and $1. Tria: siee free. slow } “They sav. re. At all Druggists, | 3 }park within three years from now You should rot Every family i lia itary taint ot 1 Tact {have a rem | this torr taken at f it gets Ballard’s Hore in its earlvs It is guarar case, when use throat, lungs a vith stcan rea a serious hold round Svruy geswille j tion, inflamation of { tis, asthma, whooping cou It's pleasant to | Wild creatures may be domesticated by influences.” A pair of young lynx. captured near Tuseou Ariz., r and at once adopted by the f, “home brought home by their captor cat. The creatures are now as } as their f¢ ster m las pl 1 be as her natur Though Ke face | with That of Englishmen. Every one agreed that the American skilled artisan puts forth more physical y-4 effort and produces more work in a given time thanthe English workman or y other manu- facturing i struck ime and many experien ors of | works most forcibiv. Bi uding j our tonr T had the fying ands pression After v the workman of a comm elsewhere {I arrived at the same con their efficiency. ‘Their productive power is greater than that of the English workers in the sam> time, and their working honrs are longer and their. re- muneration is greater. I met one of my old workmen at Mr. Carnegie’s works inP ittsburgh, and he indorsed my opin- jon. Speaking from h experience: “1am quite a different m: said, “from what I was in j country: I don't know why it is so; whether it is that Llive in as atmosphere or whether ple set me; but I know 1 e got the go in me here. I can do more work; I fee! that I have it in me; but I also feel and I know that it won't last. I shall be done in ten years.” No, it wont last. The extreme physi- cal effort put forth resnits in greater production, but it saps the vital ener- gies and cuts short the career. The continental work at high pressure does not payin the end. “It won't last;” and the remark applies with equal force to the employers as well as to the workers. Competition between mann- facturers is keener than in this country. They work their business at high pres- sure. There is a terrific struggle be- tween them for possession of the mar- kets. They put forth their utmost energies, and when they succeed their reward is great: but all car be the leaders in industry. This fierce compe- tition reacts on the men. We were sur- prised to find in a democratic country like America that the workmen had little power and were to such al extent the docile instruments of ene on as to wn actical here,” he mulating am- so irge r- getic employers 2 1 5 J No: the hopeless wanderer was none | aan this bosses” | long. inthe shap usnake | of these | k uty ¢ 1No one bata Chinaman o | and “ting the t of Y t Le &] work : © flown Lye known that they hiis lost character Ex | ite ve th at t astonishing eifective- ores ean un factarecs tl possible Woman's Health eas v bh least re service James | x nown | depends more on regulari Kitson y is ae bear ieat pelnaten is co:n- SOME DEAF ARISTOC The Peincess of Wales Aimient sin Mich bite a de RATS. Yeas Var- sation with | sible? wr ratitic es a corr tion which = st her mothe .and from v | 1 farnilic ate » deaf. Sr ex-Wing | Queen Isabella of Soa | of Genoa, moth \ | of Italy, could s 1 he 4 t of acannon if f | Prince Ale j Flanders. are i hea is exe ext the franti rort prince of tace particular } Was extrem of ough very Sensitive on the | point of g deaf. At dinner they jsatone side of the prineess, and ; being each convinced that the other was | deaf commenced = at one j other in such a manner as to absolu drown the conversation of the remain- | derof the guests. Of course each of ' the two oid fellows got angry at being shouted at by the other, and commence to mutter ide conceruing the im- bee! ng so loudly, convinced, | of course, that the party whom they | | coneerned was unable to hear them Fortunately neither of the two generals realized that our inextinguishable | +) laughter was caused by themselves. Indeed, they were so another that the with one rose from t perime: tag, of - germs vf six mont after several Health. Antiquet— Yor, woman's sphere —-Miss know wh. do not is.” Mr “Don't I2 What's the mat- th old maidenhood being woman’s Washington Star. the old! The “hosses "as the foremen and} mang of factories are call | the mea to an extent that employers |, would neverdream of attempting in| this coint-y. There ies unions. | but t »not sé le to protect | | | ; consumption in the | pound KITES OF THE FAR EAST. At Once the Envy and Despair of Civilized © Western Youth. On muse he national nout taking notice « ion of extraordinary Chinese ik rspended over head in the middle of the west wing Nev ss. they are well worth look- ing at. exhibit ingenuity indrean -y do a versatile flying apparatus Amer y Europeans or cans. The small boy of the United States. born an inventor because he is a Yan- kee, thinks he is performing a feat if he succeeds in causing to soar a simple pentagon of sticks and paper, of most primitive shape, with a tail of rags. ch a contrivance, in comparison with the scientific kites of China and Japan. | is the merest erudity, unworthy of a ivilization that vanats itself superior i te .a@ hoary and efete east the youth —. this continent afford to confess a mechanical inferiority to Chinese and Japanese of equal age? Assuredly not. And yet it must be ad- | ted that the adolescent intelligence of those races would regard the kites | | one sees in this country with an utter and superior contempt. The Caucasian kite bears the same re-| lation to the Chinese flyer as is borne | | Can by the flint hatchet to the modern ax. | It represents the acknowledcement of a primary principle, improved upon by | thought. In the collection spoken of | are kites in the shape of frogs, lizards, | cranes, owls, gigantic flies and enor- mous locusts. | Speaking of locusts, one is reminded of acertain novel, translated from the English into French, in one chapter of which there was mention of the hero's | tying his horse to a locust tree in front | of the heroine’s door when about to make her a visit. | Unfortunately the translator thought that the word ** referred to the | and explained the | rin an off-hand foot-note, which ithatin the United States locusts requently grew to such gigantie size that they were stuffed and utilized at curbstone for ng horses to. nothing to do with that name, insect faster However. that has bedat the museum | all sorts. as well imals of paper and alrea ly st “thirty f Les men- extraor- tor more j nary of all is the me red to a cord of the dragon, with diameter, faste spaces between by eneth timay be coutr may be co afloat the I and let latined that i wes not less superior to | than it of tying kite | 2 ' | Wasiinstoi Sta | THE RIOATEST MEAT-EATERS. | they Are to Be Pound Aeong the Ans \ tralian Col yw that the the ingest eo orld, the annum sis 120 | nited Stat in the amo . and and to pointing out that | i an colo- | rrikin type | lan- n no re- that the | addicted | F futur *rophetic | hints are given of a Australia | pled by excitable dyspeptics with } characteristics outdoor sports. overin will be due to | ulgence in meat diet.—The | rlishman. - The Coal of f Great Britain. 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