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York, Delaware, and Pennsylvania: then, for good measure, throw in the whole of the six New England States, - and the area of all these States combined will not equal that of the great State of Texas. It extends over ten degrees of latitude, and from the sixteenth to the thirieth degree of longitude west from Washington. It has more than two hundred and fifty counties; some of the largest - Tom Green or Crockett, or instance - are each as large as the State of Massachusetts.

France has a population of 175 to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support a population of 48,000,000. Great Britain has a 260 inhabitants to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support 70,000,000 people.

Within her horders can be found an immense variety of products. The soil is probably the most fertile and productive in the known world. Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, barely, and almost all the known cereals, grow side by side with the fruits of the tropics and the hardy plants of the more northern regions.

The United States are thirty-eight in number, and nine territories not yet admitted.

WHITE BEAVER.

[From Hereos of the Plains.]

The life of White Beaver, (Dr. D. Frank Powell) bears all the solors and shades of an idyllic romance; his character stands out upon the canvas of human eccentricities in striking originality, and finds never its counterpart, save in stories of knight errantry, when hearts, names, and titles were the prizes bestowed for daring deeds evolved from generous sentiments. His has been the tenor of uneven ways, with characteristics as variable as the gifts in Pandora's box. A born plainsman, with the rough, rugged marks or wild and checkered incident, and yet a mind that feeds on fancy, builds images or refinement, and looks out through the windows of his soul upon visions of purity and fields elysian. A reckless adventurer on the boundless prairies, and yet in elegant society as amiable as a school-girl in the ball-room; evidencing the polish of an aristocrat, and a cultured mind that shines with vigerous lustre where learning displays itself. A friends to be valued most in direst extremity, and an enemy with implaceable, insatiable, and revengeful animosities. In short, he is singular combination of opposites, and yet the good in him so predominates over his passions that no one has more valuable frienships and associations than these strange complexities attract to him. He is an ideal hero, the image which rises before teh ecstatic vision of a romancer, and he impresses hiself upon the millions who know his reputation as a brave and chivalrous gentleman.

A description of White Beaver is not difficult to give, because of his striking features; those who see him once are so impressed with his bearing that his image in never forgotten. He is almost six feet in height, of large frame, and giant muscular development; a full round face, set off by a Grecian nose, a handsome mouth, and black eyes of penetrating brilliancy. His hair is long, and hangs over his shoulders in raven ringlets. In action he is marvelsouly quick, always decisive, and his endurance almost equals that of a steam engine. His appearance is that of a resolute, high-toned gentleman, conscious of his power, and yet his defernce, I may say amiabiltiy, attracts everyone to him. He is, in short, one of the handsomest as well as most powerful men among the many great heroes of the plains.

In addition to his other qualifications peculiarly fitting him for a life on the plains, he is an expert pistol and rifle shot; in fact, there are perhaps not a half-dozen persons in the United States who are his superiors; his precision is not so great now as it once was, for the reason that during the past three or four years he has had but very little practice, but even now he would be regarded an expert among the most skillful. For dead-centre shooting at stationary objects he never had a superior; his eyesight is more acute than an eagle's, which enables him to distinguish and hit the head of a pin ten ten paces distant, and this shot he can perform now nine times out of ten. Any of his office employees will hold a copper cent between their fingers and let him shoot it out at ten paces, so great is their confidence in his skill; he also shoots through finger-rings held in the same manner. One very pretty fancy shot he does is splitting a bullet on a kinfe-blade, so exactly dividing it that the two parts will strike in a given mark; he also suspends objects by a hair, and at ten paces cuts the hair, which of course he cannot see, but shoots by judgment. Several persons have told me that they have seen him shoot a fish line in two while it was being dragged swiftly through the water.

White Beaver and Buffalo Bill have been bosom friends and fellow-plainsmen since boyhood. History records no love between two men greater than that of those two foster brothers.

THE INDIANS AT HOME.

The winter camp is regarded by the Indian himself as his true home. The excitement of war, of hunting, of constant movement, is over, and he is now to settle down to a period of almost complete insection. Experienced warriors have been sent to all the streams most loved by the tribe, and to make a thorough examination of all the country. When all have returned a council is hled. The reports of the scouts are heard, and they are closely questioned as to shelter, wood, water, and grass or cotton-wood for the ponies. As each locality has its champions, the council sometimes debates the moemntous question for days, once in a while even sending other warriors to examine a favorite stream, about which, however, there is now a difference of opinion.

It is not now a question of room for a compact camp, but of the shelter furnished by the bluffs on each side of the stream, of the amount of timber and wooded tickets along its vallet, of the sufficiency of grass or cottonwood to keep the ponies alive.

When the stream has finally been selected, all go together. There is now no sort of attempt at order. The lodges of the followers of chief may be scattered for miles, each taking advantage of the sheltered nooks, formed by thickets or bluffs. Here is a single teepe is stuck away in a little corner, so kidden that one might pass within a few yards without seeing it; there two or three find room and shelter, there again bluffs, and thickets, and bend of stream all favoring, a dozen find comfortble lodgment. The great questions with each Indian are, shelter, convenience, and feed for the ponies, and these questions are paramount, though the desire to keep as near to each other as possible is apparent through all.

According, therfore, to the nature of the stream, its bluffs and tickets, and level valley, will a winter camp be compact or scattered. One winter a camp of one hundred and fifty lodges will occupy scarce a mile; another winter it may be extended four, five, or even six miles along the stream. Sometimes several friendly tribes occupy the same stream, making an immense camp.

York, Delaware, and Pennsylvania: then, for good measure, throw in the whole of the six New England States, - and the area of all these States combined will not equal that of the great State of Texas. It extends over ten degrees of latitude, and from the sixteenth to the thirieth degree of longitude west from Washington. It has more than two hundred and fifty counties; some of the largest - Tom Green or Crockett, or instance - are each as large as the State of Massachusetts.

France has a population of 175 to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support a population of 48,000,000. Great Britain has a 260 inhabitants to the square mile; at that rate, Texas could support 70,000,000 people.

Within her horders can be found an immense variety of products. The soil is probably the most fertile and productive in the known world. Cotton, corn, sugar-cane, barely, and almost all the known cereals, grow side by side with the fruits of the tropics and the hardy plants of the more northern regions.

The United States are thirty-eight in number, and nine territories not yet admitted.

WHITE BEAVER.

[From Hereos of the Plains.]

The life of White Beaver, (Dr. D. Frank Powell) bears all the solors and shades of an idyllic romance; his character stands out upon the canvas of human eccentricities in striking originality, and finds never its counterpart, save in stories of knight errantry, when hearts, names, and titles were the prizes bestowed for daring deeds evolved from generous sentiments. His has been the tenor of uneven ways, with characteristics as variable as the gifts in Pandora's box. A born plainsman, with the rough, rugged marks or wild and checkered incident, and yet a mind that feeds on fancy, builds images or refinement, and looks out through the windows of his soul upon visions of purity and fields elysian. A reckless adventurer on the boundless prairies, and yet in elegant society as amiable as a school-girl in the ball-room; evidencing the polish of an aristocrat, and a cultured mind that shines with vigerous lustre where learning displays itself. A friends to be valued most in direst extremity, and an enemy with implaceable, insatiable, and revengeful animosities. In short, he is singular combination of opposites, and yet the good in him so predominates over his passions that no one has more valuable frienships and associations than these strange complexities attract to him. He is an ideal hero, the image which rises before teh ecstatic vision of a romancer, and he impresses hiself upon the millions who know his reputation as a brave and chivalrous gentleman.

A description of White Beaver is not difficult to give, because of his striking features; those who see him once are so impressed with his bearing that his image in never forgotten. He is almost six feet in height, of large frame, and giant muscular development; a full round face, set off by a Grecian nose, a handsome mouth, and black eyes of penetrating brilliancy. His hair is long, and hangs over his shoulders in raven ringlets. In action he is marvelsouly quick, always decisive, and his endurance almost equals that of a steam engine. His appearance is that of a resolute, high-toned gentleman, conscious of his power, and yet his defernce, I may say amiabiltiy, attracts

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