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ably, being feasted and feted by the inhabitants, whose esteem they gained to such an extent that their departure was marked by a general holiday, assisting hands and such public demonstrations of regret that many a rude cow-boy when once again careering o'er the pampas of Texas will rest his weary steed while memory reverts back to the pleasant days and whole-souled friendships cemented at the foot of the Vosges mountains in disputed Alsace-Lorraine.
In Alsace-Lorraine! whose anomalous position menaced the peace, not only of the two countries interested, but of the civilized world; whose situation makes it intensely--even sadly--interesting, as the theatre of the future human tragedy for which the ear of mankind strains day and night, ilistening for detonations from the muzzle of the acme of invented mechanisms of destruction. The lurid-garbed Angel of devestation hovers, careering through the atmosphere of the seemingly doomed valley, gaily laughing, shrieking exultingly at the white-robed Angel of Peace, as the latter gloomily wanders--prayerful, tearful--hopelessly hunting, ceaselessly seeking the return of modern man's boasted newly-created gods: Equity, Justice, Reason!
What a field for the vaunted champions of humanity, the leaders of civilization! What a neighborhood where in sow the seeds of "peace on earth and good will to all men," What a crucible for the universal panacea--Arbitration! What a test of the efficacy of prayer in damming up the conflicting torrents of Ambition. Cupidity, Passion, and Revenge, which threaten to color crimson the swift currants of the Rhine, until its renown as the home of wealth and luxury be eclipsed by eternal notoriety as the valley of Death!
Leaving the temporary coony under the charge of his director partner, Mr. Nate Salsbury 9whose eneergy found occupation in attending to the details of the future), Col. Cody, the Indians and your humble servant departed to America, arrivin safely; and after refuting satisfactorily, by the Indians themselves, the vase slanders that emanated in the imagination of notoriety-seeking busy bodies, proceeded to the seat of the Indian difficulties in the distant State of Dakota. The splendid action of the traveled Indians, and the record of the Wild West's representatives