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I 2 TIME AND THE ROSE. The rose til the garden slipped her bud, And the laughed In the pride of her youthful blood, As she thought of the gardener standing by— "He is old—so old! And he soon must die!" The full rose waxed in the warm June air, And she spread and spread till her heart lay bare; And she laughed once more as she heard his tread '•He is old now! He will soon be dead But the breeze of the morning blew, and found That the leaves of the blown rose strewed the ground; And be came at noon, that gardener old, And he raked them softly under the mold. And I wove the thing to a random rhyme, For the rose is Beauty, the gardener Time. —Austin Dobson. Employment. Adam exchanged his paradise for plowing; Eve made up millinery with fig leaves. The earliest knowledge from the tree so know in-, As far as I know, that the church receives; And since that time it ueed not cost much showing That many of the ills o'er which man grieves, And still more women, spring from not employ ing some hours to in akc the remnant worth enjoy ing. —Byron. A TENDERFOOT AT WAR. By Capt. A. Fighter. As the Santa Fe train climbed toward the Rockies out of the Arkansas valley, I was awakened by that crushing sound of the wheels in the Enow that is heard only in very cold weather. It was music to my New England ears. I raised the curtain of the sleeping berth to look upou a wonderful sight. Snow covered the earth, and all nature was glorified in the white moonlight. Right in front ot me, near at hand they seemed, rose the Spanish Peaks in all their stately grand uer, shinning like mountains of burnish ed sil' er, distinct in every outline. A fairer moonlit bit of earth human eye may not see. Next morning we Imd pussed the snow land by crossing the Raton mountains. At the north of them cattle were freezing and starving on the range. Here the grass was green and the cattle fat. The time, early in December. Another won derland. An ugly stain soon showed on the beautiful scene. The conductor pointed out the site of a lynching of a human brute for maltreating a woman. Not a reproving note was heard from the com pany ; most would have helped at the lynching. Woman was almost worshiped on the frontier in tho3e days. I was bound for the Cimmaron range in search of dry, mountain air, out-door life and health. A couple of months on a cow pony gave me all in full measure. Ah! what a glorious physical life one may live in the saddle, after years of overwork in town! A 20-mile wagon drive with a friendly rancher, brought me to the city of Cira* THK RANCH. marou—a "cify" of fully 200 souls. I soon found n.y old New York friends, the Marsh boys, and quickly concluded a whack-up bargain to share their abode residence—l.3 f..et iqaai*, 8 feet high, nestled near the river for convenience to water. How we did live! What appetites for the rare beef and coarse bread, canned vegetables and fruits. Genuine Boston baked beans and pork never tasted sweeter to Puritan boys, than did ours baked in old tin pails in the earth under our fire place. Jack rabbits and wild turkeys were plentiful, but we cared more for the exercise in the invigorating atmos phere. In truth, we were mighty poor nimrods. But to my story. Another tenderfoot, not I, is its "hero." He was fresh from New York, and had come out to the ter ritory as clerk for a big land company. He was a bold, brave youth, determined to fight the Indians and cowboys if need be, and brought along a full armo-y of rifles, shot guns, and pistols, ad. lib. The old Ute Indian reservation extend ed down from the mountains to within a few miles of the town. A year or so pre vious the Utes had been removed to Col orado. Cholly had an idea that the In dians were angry at their removal and were sure to return to the Cimmaron country. Of course the boys fostered the idea! and Cholly kept pretty close to the town and his not very busy clerical desk. Among the things be learned about In dians was that on the eve of an uprising signal fires would be seen among the foot hills and at prominent points along the edge of the high mesas (plateaus) above the canyon. And shortly after that Cholly discov ered the signal fires and retailed the news with great excitement. The old settlers feigned disbelief, and when he pointed out the spots of flame here and there to ward the mountains, coolly told him that it was evident a scrap with the reds was on hand. Fears were expressed for the safety of a half dozen young men who had gone hunting that day in the moun tains, but Cholly thought it was his duty to remain in town and help protect the women and children rather than join the proposed rescue party. Soon, however, stray shots were heard in the distance, and in a few minutes a little troop of reckless riders came dash* ing into town. Then all was excitement, and ('holly was called on to lead one of the defending parties that were to be sent out on different sides of the city. His great experience as a fighter, judged from his own account and his full armory, es pecially fitted him for the post. After much persuasion he marched out in the rear of his men, as became a commander, loaded down with several rifle?, as be might not have time to reload after ex hausting either one of his magazine guns. The position taken up by Captain Cholly was iv ao arroyer (a dry ditcb) whose perpendicular Bides and five feet of depth made a superior breastwork from whence to tight the oncoming sav age horde. No sooner had the men got into the ditch, surrounding Gapt. Cholly of course, than a movement toward the chapparel bush brought Cholly's excited order to fire, he setting the example by pumping away with his Winchester at rapidly as possible. Some return shoot ing, and a few bullets whistling over the heads of the devoted ditch defenders drove poor Cholly quite wild and he dropped down on the bottom of the ditch, while pandemonium reigned supreme and loud yells and rapid firing all around made Cholly think his time had come and soon the boys discovered him crawl ing out toward town. Of course they followed their commander in his wild retreat, yelling at him and expostulating against his disertion of his post. But the pursuit by the savages (?) was kept up in full cry and Cholly quickly got into his adobe and locked and barred the door and piled his furniture against it. Then he heard what seemed a furious fight with the pursuing Utes. At last all was still and he thought that he alone was left alive in the little city. He had fondly hoped that the Indians might withdraw without discovering that he was still there, and he kept very Ht 11, half dead with fear. Soon, how ever, there was a fumbling noise about his door, and calls for admittance in supposed Indian dialect. But Cholly made no response. Then the door was battered do vn and an entrance effected. The defunct captain was dragged out, as he thought, to a frightful death at the stake. Once outside, however, and with in the glare of the bonfire he was politely invited to behold on one side the corpses of his friends, and standing over them with brandishing hatchets, the terrible Utes. (.'holly looked in a dazed way, then looked again, to see a row of grinning figures slowly rising onto their hands and knees, and the scalping savages on closer sight became only n wild looking but harmless lot of the town boys. When he learned that it was all a hoax, the redoubtable Captain Cholly wanted to fight in earnest —with his tongue. When it was proposed to try the warrior in a mock court, Cholly begged off, and gave away his armory to the last piece to his tormentors —the 2 a revulsion of feeling set in in his favor and the trial was given up. He had been initiated, they said, and was a tenderfoot no 1 anger and soon became one of them. Fred Greene, Tacoma agent of the Great Northern, tells me that that railroad is bringing about 70 people out to the Yak iin a valley, their transfer to the Northern Pacific being made at Spokane. All countries and all railroads will contribute to the develop* uieut of the great Inland Empire.