The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1877 Page: 1 of 4
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JACKSBORO, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1877.
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BETTKJt IT WBJtS.
B«ttier It were fcr the world, I My,
Better MM for a mia'a own food.
That he should «it stUl where he vm
ieltknd of ■tod, or of oil fend earn,
White m-bonkr or great black wood.
' NO. 14.
Than to wander the woiM.aa I hai-e done,
**-' ^ deer woman that b under the
. r , . !q«wi A. i v "-/'il "t'nu" ,
Better abide, though tlwaklea be dim,
And the riven eapomed of the toe and
m '
Better abide, thoogti the thistles grow.
And thedty of iiltebe obeearsd df the
...
Than tose< ties and the iweet
JUEWLT jomro PAVK JU
oy bioux.
KPJ
® ' yjj.
ing around. discovered an Indian
beside him. Some Chinamen
would have ""played calf at
once," but Lung-Sing was work*
in* for $200 per day. At the
second Jerk on his queue he
seized his torch and thrust it in-
to the face of his captor. The
next instant he was rattling his
canoe-toed shoes down the dark
passage , with ft noise like a
horse galloping on a plank side*
walk. When h* climbed out on
the hillside and looked down he
saw a score of Indiana around
the mouth of the cave, andon*
of them was hopping around aft
if he didn't feel well. Luug-8ing
sat ' there behind a bush and
ohnckeled and grinned for an
a#d when the red-skins
hewwtbftcktoi^
fiinkTin one
fool he find oatee." - ,
'certain to come
He had no atfo*
K>d0ipt Boston
content
strin$*un-
his wqrit' and
' £$! '
sage as far as the material would
go. Then 1m pulled our his
match-box and listened and
waited. He reasoned that tin-
Indians would return by the
same routes, and he was right.
lie heard them in the three pas-
sages almost at the same time.
and when the foremost was not
more than forty feet away the
matoh was lighted. The grass
war like tinder, and the draft
drew the roaring flames into the
passage in an instant. Three
yells lrom the three
banda reached Lung-Sing at
once, and be put bis finger on
hi* now and softly said: "Lung-
fitng somebody's flool, maybe."
Ijedskiw gpt a terrible
roasting. .Ir had. been twice
stated by members of the same
band that tiot a savage escaped
and it is certain that
more than a dozen cooked and,
charred bodies were found in
the| passages- weeks afterward
:by wMte men. Those ' who got
out tare terribly burned, and
several died at their village. As
- -l/ pSMiM M found no one
pies- in the cave the Are
mpergtition. They; be- huge rocks fifty feet down are
score of Heved the place to booccupfed
df b^ ^O spirit ot some outlawed
warrior; he had kindled the
flames in revenge on them for
daring |to intrude. None Of
liiisi f 1 iMiflMiyig
tnem
cave
Lui
■
broad expanse of the mnj^atic
lake lies before us, encircled on
all sides by towering mountains.
Half of the lake is in Nevada,
the other half in California. It
is twenty-eight miles long and
from twelve to sixteen miles
wide, and has been sounded to
a depth of 1,800 feet. Its wa-
ters are a beautiful ultrlmarine,
and it must be called the purest
water in the world, containing
Ouly four per centum of impuri-
ties. It is so light and mobile
as to be easily lashed into foam
or calmed to mirror-like surface.
In the enriy morning it is like a
looking:glas8> with surrounding
otgeets reflected in It with sur-
prising accuracy. Several steam-
ers of small tonnage ate used in
navigating ltv Its altitude is
about six thousand Ave hundred
feet; 1t isalways cool and
pleasant in the hottest weather.
The lake never freezes, and nev-
er gives up its dead. No person
that was drowned has' ever been
known to rise to the Surface.
Wood, a BOOB as it is saturated,
sinks to the bottom. The w*
*! '•• clear as crystal,
platalydiscer nflbde.
Acaacade of surprising beau-
ty is seen at the head of the
It is over one hundred feet
high. The towering masses of
wOuld intimate thai "when peo-
ple bought tobacco they might
exercise a little judgement, And
not get stuff that a man couldn't
use." These little peculiarities
of Mark's nature, though some-
what expensive for Dan, were
nevertheless enjoyed by him;
but one day Mark overleaped
the bonds ol Dan's amiability,
and that individual got mad.
Think of Dan De Quille in a pas-
sion I
It seems Mark ran out of n
tooth-brush, and how to replace
it Without sacrificing some of
his mining stock puzzled him
considerably. But a brilliant
idea one -day thrust itself into
14s troubled sconce. "Heaven
be praised for the thought!" so-'
liloqulzed he; "genius will be
rewarded I** So one morning,
standing by the washstand, just
after rising, he picked up the
cOveted article, and, turning it
rofcnd and round fa his hand,
■said to Dan, who was still snug-
ly ensconced between his blan-
kets, bat with oneeye on Mark:
"Bagr, Dan, that looks like my
brash?, u ';
"Lift* 1" shouted Dan*, "that
brush did an Egyptian to my
mot^tfver
"The bell r shouted the pro-
fane Mark ; 'and .has the old
woman practiced onit, too!"
verily lM quoted Dtin.
r long, my peifum-
,-sweater, have you
" fonl snags of
for JBostoa
slid
iDtv mouatam mam ana
Wian by the front
'i
;wara
nartz rock In
TfijtWUJr
Slripri
%
.HHP
there, Indians
luiheaiftenjoon
after lie began
, ^ :^toi*j|«i) .iWho was
working by torchlight, felt a
twist, at his pigtail, and glano-
oave, and when the heathen dia-
oovewd the grass, and saw ^hat
none of the savUgeS had re-
mained behind, he nearly
wrenched himself to pieces to
«ar*y out ft suddenly connived
plan. In the coarse of seven or
eight ttthntes he had carried the
grass to the point whew the cave
split, and he choked eaoh pas-
n op to
VOtoek.
murmur-
<Pk qvittm
WW
almost
ouldha
and named
arity" said-hfaf
m
"Oem
tend from
if^fVuckee
K canon bearing the
I ■ ■■ HWfliien miles
He got long, with a succession of fine,
" " eisws the whole length of the
road.'-,;
The snow-clad terras are on
Md beautifullr^
successftU fish farm is in op-
J ffbousands
df trout can be seen In every
i>f trout's existence. As
we reach the head of the canon
or at the head of the Trnckee
river, whose waters, like all the
riveia of Nevada* are lost>io
sinks "llone of them kaveaa
outlet into the oeaan. .
The view as we emerge from
the canon Is benntiftli, The
ould
welW^t^yhin.
blow Dan npilS
of drnwert Or an undershirt, ot
even a pair of socks; bnt he you HOmf
would walk the streets In a' suit ^
of Dan's be*t, *kielt he had ap-
propriated from" the latter's
bff the shirt He #ould go to
Dan's trunk, examine the arti-
cles therein; and then turn to
thai person and ask him if he
we fiad we are also St the outlet, didn't hare a pair of socks with-
out* hole In the heel
mid Dau were both iu-
smokers, and of course
We kaow who- bought the tobao-
co. If Dan should happen to
get hold of an inferior brand,
and fill the box with it, Mark
and
d-
ose
day
his
ted
es
■ "
'•I am
in the
with a
ror truth
which did Qot>apossesH one in
hia favor. "Ohr said hsr little
ladyship, regarding hw disUu-
iliiIsIiii il liilaiitb wirli firiuli in-
-no, i
am notOoah." *Are yon 8hem,
thear "No, I am not Shem."
;A yon Ham f "No, I am not
even Ham.M ♦Theft yon must
be Japhet," insisted the littlo
maiden, at thi end of luw his-
torical tether and growing,some-
ty Which sorrounded her aged
relative's identification. "No, I
am not Japhet)" said his lord-
ship, wagging his head,inten««-
ly enjoying theybke. "Then,
grandpapa," Utile maid
en, firmly andTffedMvely, "you
area beastlw
—Common sence in an uncom-
mon degree is what the world by
general consent calls wisdom.
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Robson, G. W. The Frontier Echo (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1877, newspaper, October 12, 1877; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth233867/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.