ee “ * RCNA Ante ae it tactic ss * LF nna ae Pe Bog | ; 4 ; é 5 THE WA R-T RA t L ! CHAPTER LXXVI. ON THE WAR-TRAIL. ScARCELY staying to quench my thirst, I led my horse across the stream, and commenced scrutinizing the trail upon the opposite bank. The faithful trackers were by my side—no fear of them lag- ging behind. I had won the hearts of both these tien; and that they would have risked life to serve me, I could no longer doubt, since over and over again'they had risk- ed it. For Garey, strong, courageous, handsome in the true sense, and noble- hearted, I felt real friendship, which the young trapper reciprocated. For his older comrade, the feeling I had was like himself — indefinable, indescrib- able. It was strongly tiactured with admiration, but admiration of the in- tellectual rather than the mtnoral or personal qualities of the man. Instead of intellectual, I should rather say instinctive, for his keen intuitive thoughts appeared more like instincts than the results of a process of ratiocia- ation. That the old trapper admired me—in his own phraseology, ‘* liked me mightily’— I was aware. [Te was equally as zealous as the younger in my service; but too free an exhibition of zeal was in his eyes a weakness, and he endeavoured to conceal it. His admiration of myself was perhaps owing to the fact that | neither attempted to thwart him in his humors nor rival him in his peculiar knowledge—the craft of the prairie. In this I was but his pupil, and behaved as such, generally deferring to his judgment. Another impulse acted upon the track- ers—sheer love of the part they were now playing. Just as the hound loves the trail, so did they; and hunger, tlvirst, weariness, one or all must be felt to an extreme degree before they would volun- tarily forsake it. Searcely staying, therefore, to quench their thirst, they followed me out of the water; and all three of us together bent our attention to the sign. It was a war-trail—a true war-trail. There was not the track of a dog—unot the drag of a lodge-pole upon it. Had it been a moving encampment of peace- able Indians, these signs would have been visible; moreover, there would have been seen numerous footsteps of Indian women-—of squaws; for the slave-wife of the lordly Comanche is compelled to traverse the prairies a pied, loaded like the pack-horse that follows at her heels! But though no foot-prints of Indian women appeared, there were tracks of women, scores of them, plainly imprinat- ed in the soil of the river-bank. Those slender impressions, scarcely a span in length, smoothly moulded in the mud, were not to be mistaken for the footsteps of an Indian squaw. There was not the wide divergence ‘at the heels—the toes turned inward; neither was there the moccasin-print. No; those tiny tracks must have been made by women of that nation who possess the smallest and prettiest feet in the world—by women of Mexico. “Captives!” we exclaimed, as soon as soon as our eyes rested upon the tracks. “Ay, poor critters!” said Rube, sympathizingly ; ‘‘the cussed niggurs hey made ’em fut it, while thur’s been spare hosses a plenty. Wagh! a good wheen o’ weemen thur’s beeu—a score on ’em at the least. Wagh! I pity ’em poor gurls! in sech kumpny as they've got into. It ur a life they’ve got to lead. Wagh!’ Kube did not reflect how heavily were his words falling upon my heart. There were the tracks of more than a hundred horses, and as many mules. Some of both were iron- shed ; but for all that we knew they had been either ridden or driyen by Indians ; they, too, were captives. The sign helped my companions to much knowledge that would have been uniutelligible tome. It was certainly the path of a war-party of Indians on the back track. They were laden with plunder, and driving before them, or | forcing to follow, a crowd of captives— horses, mules, and women—children, too, for we saw the tiny foot-marks of tender age. The trai! was siguificant of all this —even to me. But my comrades saw more; they no longer doubted that the Indians were Comanches—a moccasin had been picked up, a castaway, and the leathern tassel attached to the heel, declared the tribe to which its wearer belonged to be the Comanche. The trail was quite fresh ; that is, but a few hours had intervened since the Indians passed along it. Notwithstanding | the dryness of the atmosphere, the mud! on the river-edge had not yet become ** skiuned,” as the trappers expressed it. The Indians had forded the stream about the time the prairie was set on fire. r" The horses we had beea following across the burnt plain were those of a THE Mr. Blake’s Tenure of tho Leader- ship Precarious. SucCESSOR ?-——CAN- OPPOSITION Wo wILL BE m3 VASSING CHANCES OF SUBALTERNS. (From the Toronto Mail.) Almost the only thing te speculate about, is the precal jous position | the Opposition are in. Itis w eil urtlers stood that Mr. Blake is far f:om strong, and that he does as little headwork as possible. In the event of his sucocumb- ing under the the great questions he has grappled with during the session, sueh as the windew panes, 9 by 10 inches, the other heavy subjee ts which are contained in the 9,- 751 foelscap pages of returns already brought down at the bidding of the Opposition, it is plain that the Opposition must, figuratively speaking’, ; Sir, Richard Cart- style, supereilious il propensity to . 5 weight of and vo to the dogs. wrighU’s seeing mannner, und general | mix and muddle, have put him eut oj the race for leader in the not improt- able event of Mr. Blake giving up and going to Kure pe again, Mr. Mac- kenzie’s connection with contracts ef a shady eharacier have so weighed him downfthat it is not likely be will ente: the field. Mr. Charlton, like Gold- smith’s chest of drawers, has been put to so many different uses that he cannot in the judgment ef his confreres take the place of Mr. Blake. Mr, Mills has irretrievably ruined himse!f by bis lack o appreciation of the propricties, as seen in his acting as retained counsel for Ontario in the boundary question while Minister ef the Interior, &Sir Al- bert Smith being a knight hae no chance whatever. Messrs Patterson and Ross (Middlesex) are considered too light weights. Mr. Laurier has too smalla felliowing and besides belong to a race which Mr. Charlton branded with an epithet that will rankle in the minds of the French-Canadians for many aday. Altogether the outleook for the Opposition is very gloomy. Their hopes are centered in one poor weak totterlng maa without backbone er policy. eitiiliestiiaaniiiiads Minister of Agricuiture’s Report. —a- Hon. J. H. Pope recently laid on the table of the House the annual report of the Department ef Agriculture. It shows that the vumber of cattle and sheep exported last year fe 5,370 cattle and 19.442 sheep less than the previous year, which is attributed to the formation of aring amongst ship- pers to control freights. The usual quarantine reports are made which show that the year was a healthy one, and that but four vessels had to be placed in quarantine. The number of patents granted dur- ing the year was 1,752, and amount of fees collected $52,856. The total num- ber of registrations of copyrights, trade marks, ete, 451, and thefees collected $4,773, With reference to the Tracadie Laza- retto, Dr. Smith, the visiting pysivian, reports that there are now in the Laza- retto 22 inmates, representing all stages of leprosy. One death occurred during the year, and seven new cases were admitted. 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Lights,however, on the author- ity of Scientists, are not to be compared in direct proportion, but in proportion to the squares of their powers, and such a com- parison with the case of the use of Gas, its cleanliness, freedom from odor and dangers, renders its use desirable wherever it can be introduced,” As the above experiments were made with Gas at $3 per 1000 feet, and not consumed through Brey’s Burners, it will readily be seen how much more economical it is to con- sume Gas instead of Oil, when its price is only $2.63. per 1000 feet as now charged here when consumed, more especially through Bray’s Burners. 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