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nai.'s article concerning the donation of by the Hoard of County Commissioners to Wabash College, says: 11 is surprising that any person in Montgomery county should object to /this action on the part of the Commissioners. The appropriation is a small return for what Wabash College has done for the city of Crawfordsville and •.the county of Montgomery during the last fifty years. Not to speak of the college plant in ground aud buildings, which are estimated to^be worth 000. and the large amount of money annually disbursed thereby students and professors, the moral influence of the institution has been beyond all estimate. An influence which has been potent enough to make itself felt v:throughout the State aud far beyond .its limits" must indeed have been most beneficial in the immediate community from which it emanates. Crawfordsville was known as the seat of Wabash

College long before natural gas was discovered in Indiana, and though it is not in the gas belt, nor participating in the "boom" which some other cities tire enjoying, it will still be known as the seat of Wabash College long after '•the last factory in Indiana shall have ceased to be supplied with natural gas. and after the history of that interesting epoch in the State's history shall have been written and closed. So much more enduring are spiritual than material things, and so much more important moral than physical results.

The same might be said of other eolleges and college towns throughout the State. What would lUoomington be without the State I'uivcrsitv, Ureencastle without I)el*auw, Hanover without Hanover College, and other college towns without the institutions that take them out of the list of ordinary to\snsa»d make them like cities set upon a hill, radiating light and life with an energy as unceasing as that of the sun itself. Indiana has reason to exult in the wealth of her material resources. in the products of her farms .'an*! lields. her mines and factories, in .- the commerce that traverses all parts of her surface, aud the wealth that nature has stored below tlie surface, '•but she would be poor indeed without her schools, academies and colleges,

In view of what Wabash College, in common with other institutions of its ckifv.. has .'one for the State* -at large and for the immediate community in which it is situated, it is surprising to learn that even a few persons in Montgomery county should be inclined to criticise the action of the Commissioners in appropriating the paltry sum of 5?t.ooo to eke out a subscription of ^''•o.ooo for the college. They would /much better criticise the Commissioners for not making au unconditional appropriation of the full ammount permitted bv the law—$10,out).

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Pi took hard work and a long tithe last fall to repeal the silver bill but.it was repealed.—lyit^-Scirs.

His presumed that the Aiynx-XcivK refers to the purchasing clause of the Sherman act. If so that paper will recall the fact that had it not been for Republican votes the act could not have been repealed. In the Senate there are more Democrats who voted against it than there were who voted for it. So whatever credit is attached, if any, to the repeal of this law the Republicans /are entitled to a full share.

11ik discussion of the tariff' on wool, sugar and rice is a little premature just now, as no one knows exactly what will be done with those articles,—Ar-

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CHAPTER

"Halt!" It is ten o'clock in the forenoon of a June day. Ten white topped wagons, drawn by us many spans of heavy horses, •re strung out in line on the plains of Northern Dakota, while fifteen horsemen are distributed its length to act as guards. There is a driver to each wagon, and you can thus count twentyfive souls. Twenty-five? Ah! but sharp eyes detect the fluttering of a woman's dress ou the seat of one of the wagons. Twentv-six, then, with their faces sternly set to the west, each man heavily armed and every eye scanning the country ahead and about for signs of danger.

Who are tliey? The gallant Custer has made his report of gold in the Black Hills, and fifty thousand seekers after wealth are moving to the west. The country is still in the hauds of the savages, and infuriated at the thought of being overrun and pushed to the wall, as has been the case over ami over again, every man who can bear arms is on the warpath to drive back tho invaders.

This party has come out from Brule City, Dakota. It followed the White river for more than two hundred miles, and left it to strike northwest for the forks of the Big Cheyenne two days before we found them. For the last three days Indian signs have been plenty They have entered upon the territory of the hostiles, and every mile of their progress will now be watched by keen eyes. "Haiti Is there danger ahead?"

The wagons close up rapidly, as the drivers have been drilled to do, and in ten minutes everything is prepared for whatever may happen. "Here, Uarkins—here, Taylor!" calls tho leader to two of the mounted men, aDd as they ride forward he continues: 'The old man is going to turn up his toes, and I've called a halt to let liim die in peace. He's been asking for both of yon."

Who was the old man? He had joined the party at the last moment, coming from no one cared where. He was an old hunter and trapper, and had been in the Black Hills country. Ho could guide the party by the iiest and most direct route, and he had the money to outfit himself. He gave his name as Saunders, and his queer speech and actions made the crowd look upon him as weak in the bead. He had been taken very ill the day before, and both Harkins and Taylor had shown liini many acts of kindness. No one expected his death, and the announcement that his hour li.id come created much surprise. However, after each had spoken his mind about it, tho majority of the men threw themselves down on the grass to smoke or chat, and more than one impatiently estimated tho distance lost by this delay.

Harkins and Taylor dismounted and climbed into the wagon where the old man lay. A few hours had wrought a great change in him, and it was plain enough that his time had come. "Look a-here, men," began tho old man as tho pair expressed their sorrow for him, "this has come a leetle sooner than 1 looked fur, but I'm not goin to complain. Fur forty years the Lord has let mo live to roam these yere plains and dwell in the mountains, and my race is run. I hain't got no word of cpmpTaint.''

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is dead!"

'Do you wish us to hunt up your friends and tell them where and how you died?" asked Harkins. "Friends!" laughed the old man. "1 never had one. 1 hain't got any." "But can we do anything?" asked Taylor. "Fustly, prop mo up a leetle higher and then give me a drink of whisky. 1 never sot as much by the stuff as some, but mebbe it will keep life in mo till 1 can spin my vara. Now, then, did ye ever hear tell of old Bridger?" "1 have," replied Taylor. "He was an old hunter and trapper, who was wiped out at tho Fort Kearney massacre." "Correct and they've got a fort named after him somewhar' out here. Bridger and me was pards fur many years. We was in this Black Hills country together upward of twenty years ago. I've been wanting to gut back thar fur these last five years." "Did you and Bridger lind any gold there?' asked Harkins. "That's w'nut I'm comin to. I didn't, but he did. Wo went thar to hunt, bein satisfied if we got enough skins and pelts to keep us in powder and ball. One day when a war party made a dash at ns we got separated. I took to tho timber and Bridger hid in a cave in a canyon. It was three days before we cum together agin, and then wo had to dust out to save our scalps. It was on the way home that Bridger told mo what he found in the cave."

Tho men almost held their breaths, while the old man waited a minute before resuming. "Bridger never told a lie in his life. What he said about that cave kin be depended on same as if you read it in the good book. Thar was gold thar in heaps. He said if wis in Imnm !!111 hrtrq jlh if it had been melted up—mor a span of hosses could draw. He was in thar a 3ay aud a half, and he had time to be jartin." "It was tho red man's treasure house!" exclaimed Taylor. "Waal, no. Bridger didn't reckon the Injuns had ever diskivered the place. He allowed that tho gold Had bin thar fur a good many years—way back to the time when tho Mexicans kivered this country. I've hoard tell thar was a white race all over tho west." "Yes, the Aztecs," replied ono of the men. "Them's it. Jt was them instead of the Injuns who stored uii tho irold. We

allowed to back after it some dav, but the year.i went on, Bridger got wiped out and now I'm headed that way only to feed tho wolves." "And—and you will tell us where this cavo is?" anxiously inquired Taylor. "1 will," replied tho dying man, as a smile Hit ted across his face. "Hain't it enrus? Ono lays a-dvin, thinkin of tho hereafter, and the other is jist a-trem-blin in his anxiety to git hold of wealth and spend it? It's like poor humanity. Tho thought of that gold novel- bothered me an hour, while you will risk your lives fur a sight of it. But I'll tell ye. That's what I axed ye to cum in here fur. You've bin white with tne, and I kin reward ye fur it."

Harkins and Taylor glared at each other across the dying mail. Tho fiend of avarice was already whispering in their ears. "If yon strike the big Cheyenne at the forks," said the hunter, "the mountains will bo duo north of you. The big peak in front of ye has been named after Custer. About five miles to tho right of that peak is a canyon—the ono up which Bridger fled. He said ho went about a mile and then took into a smaller one leadin to the left. He hadn't gone fur before he grabbed a bush to pull himself upon a ledge ont of the bottom, and as he reached tlie ledge ho was at the mouth of the cave. He reckoned it was eight or ton feet up, ami ho thought a path led from it up into tho mountain. It ar' always dusky in those rifts, and yo might pass up and down a lifetime and see nothing. It may tako ye a month of sareiiin, but ye'U find a big reward."

Each man had caught his every word and sought to impress it on his memorv, and each secretly hoped that the other would forget. This eagerness resulted in a curious error. Harkins understood the hunter aright when he said to tho right of Custer's peak. Taylor understood him to the left. "Ye'll hev to be on the watch fur redskins." said tho old man after a long pause. "They're out aud in arms and they'll show ye no mercy. This rush of white men will drive 'em back after a time, and 1 counsel ye to let the cavo alone till it's safe to go thar. Then yo kin mako up a small party, bring it off and divide it up as is fair." "Never!" whispered Taylor as he clenched his b""ds. "Divide witn him when 1 can got it all!" demanded Harkins of himself.

They hail been friends in danger. Tho prospect of wealth had turned their friendship to hate. An hour ago they would have periled their lives for each other. Now they wished each other dead

The possession of gold may bring happiness. The thirst "for it may lead to murder. "Ye hev been good to me and I wish ye luck," said the old man in a whisper, but neither of the men heard him. They were thinking and planning. "About five miles to the right of Custer's peak," Harkins kept repeating to himself. "About five miles to the left of Custer's peak." Taylor repeated over and over again. Two or three minutes passed away, and then the latter bent forwml and cried out: "Why, the old man is ilet.d!"

So he was. He had mad" no struggle —even no sign, "Well, that was white in him not to delay us," laughed the leader of tho caravan when informed of tho event. "Some men might have kept us here all day and theu concluded no* to die after all. Now the only thing is t» plant him."

A couple of men were soon scooping out a shallow grave with their spades, and within half an hour after the flame of life had flickered out the body was covered and the wagon train moving on.

Then a couple of great vultures dropped from the sky to earth to wait. Three or four gaunt wolves, their long hair dirty and ragged, came skulking over the broken ground.

Five painted and feathered Indians crept out of a dry i-avine scarcely forty rods away, and with tlm vengence of devils set to work with hands and sticks to uncover tho body. There was a suppressed shout as it was rolled out and another as the scalp was held aloof.

Five minutes later the wolves and vultures had the body to themselves.

CHAPTER II.

And now, as the wagon train makes its slow way over the broken country, let us see with whom we have to do.

Two years before this story opens Harkins had como out from England to better his fortunes. He was English, bred and born, a resident of Leamington, and his wife hail died the year before. Though a widower, ho was not childless. The woman in tho wagon traiu was his daughter, Bess. A woman? No, a girl of eighteen—a typical English girl of tho middle class. The father had tried ranching and failed, and had put his last dollar into the outfit of the gold hunting party. Should Bess le left behind among strangers in a strange land, or taken on an expedition which had its peril for every hour? "Are you crazy?" queried the gold hunters, when Harkins asked them to decide.

But when the train was ready to move out of Brule City, and the men saw the red cheeked English lassie seated beside young Joo Blvn, who was to drive the Harkins wagon while the owner rode horseback, they lifted their hats as they rode past. And when they saw how hour one rode away to the west to bear information to the chiefs in waiting.

The gold hunters must be wiped out to tho last man. Their number had been counted over and over, their weapons noted and the chances calculated. The timo was not yet. The lay of tho ground was not suitable and enough I ndiuns had not come up. They dared not attack with fifty—a hundred —a hundred ami fifty. They would move upon the little band with two hun dred or more—four or five to one. Th.it is Indian bravery.

When a dozen of them have run down a hunter and lifted his scalp there are shouts of victory—words of boasting—a war dance about his body. They never figure on odds—unless against themselves.

When the train was ready to move on after its halt the leader called all tho men together for counsel. Ho had been a soldier, as had many of the men. He knew what to exjiect, and was prudently nrenariiiL' fur it. Each horseman and brave sue men to iook ami act, ana understood that she was willing to bravo all perils for tho affections she lx)re her father, they said to ono another: "There's a girl to be proud of. Let's give the Englishman a fair show."

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She it ivix who Ir.iclt Irrnide Ihc grave n* the old hunter.

hunter, laid away in such unseemly haste and with so little ceremony, aud uttered a short prayer in behalf of tho dead, and though some of tho wilder spirits affected to ridicule, there was a look of pride on their faces as they turned them upon the girl kneeling before them.

Who was .loo Blyn? An American of twenty-four, ranchman, scout, gold hunter brave as a lion and tender as a woman. He had been with Sheridan and Custer, with Miles and Cook. He had carried dispatches from field to fort, from post to headquarters. The soldiers and civilians knew him as Joe the Indians called him "Tho White Wind." Moro than once they had found his trail and pushed him hard, but never had they overtaken him. And within an hour from the time Joo Blyn helped Bess Harkins to a seat on the wagon ho knew that he loved her. and she realized that she had fallen in with agreeable company.

Who wits Taylor? An Iowa farmer a man of will and nerve, who thirsted to acquire wealth speedily. l'eoplo at home called him stingy aud grasping.

Au hour after the old hunter's death tho light of avarice shone so brightly in his eyes that a physiognomist would have whispered to himself, "There is a man who would do murder for gold!"

With tho others we have little to do. Expeditions such as this are made up of anybody and everybody. No one asks where they come from and certificates of character are not demanded.

When ono speaks of the plains of the great west you must not confound them with tho prairies. "Uod made tho prairies," says an Indian legend, "while satan made tho plains." The one is a level, covered with rich grass and carpeted with flowers, and tho soil turned up by the plow is the richest of earth. Tho other is rolling, broken ground, ridged, tumbled, confused. Rock outcrops, the soil is almost flint and nature can scarcely force a weed or bush to grow. Wolvo and serpents are at home 011

these desolate stretches of country, but all other living things avoid them. There is a lonesomeness and a desolation and a homesickness about them which has caused men to go mad.

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