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HiHHntnminmniiHHHHt»uitnmnimimmniiiinnniiinniinnntniiinnmniniii«. C A P T A I N S O F A D V E N T U R E B y RO G E R P O C O C K csilllllfllllilllllllllllllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmtiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiuilillrs ___ Copyright by Bobbs-Merrlll Company K I T C A R S O N A . D . 18 4 3 Once Colonel Inman, an old frontiers man, bought a newspaper which had a full page picture of Kit Carson. The hero stood in a forest, a gigantic fig ure In a buckskin suit, heavily armed, embracing a rescued heroine, while at his feet sprawled six slain Indian braves, his latest victims. “What do you think of this?’’ said the colonel, handing the picture to a delicate little man, who wiped his spectacles, studied the work of art, and replied in a gentle drawl, “That may be true, but I haln’t got no recol lection of it.’’ And so Kit Carson handed the picture back. He stood five feet six, and looked frail, but his countrymen, and all the boys of all the world think of this mighty frontiersman as a giant. At seventeen he was a remarkably green and Innocent boy for his years, his home a log cabin on the Missouri frontier. Past the door run the trail to the west where trappers went by in buckskin, traders among the Indians, and soldiers for the savage wars of the plains. One day came Colonel S. Vrain, agent of a big fur trading company, with his long train of wagons hitting the Santa Fc trail. Kit got a job with that train, to Mrd spare stock, hunt bison, mount gtfard and fight Indians. They were three weeks out in camp when half n dozen Pawnee Indians charged, yelling and waving robes to stamped* the herd, but a brisk fusil lade frail the white men sent them scampering back over the sky-line. Next day, after a sixteen-mile march the outfit corraled their wag ons for defense at the foot of Paw nee Itock beside the Arkansas river. \I had not slept uny of the night be fore,’’ says Kit, “for I stayed awake watching to get a shot at the Pawnees that tried to stampede our animals, expecting they would return; and I hadn’t caught a wink all day, ns I was out buffalo hunting, so I was awfully tired and sleepy when I was posted at my place at night. I must have gone to sleep leaning against the rocks; at uny rate, I was wide enough awake when the cry of ‘Indians’ was given by one of the guard. I had picketed my mule about twenty paces from where I stood, and I presume he had been lying down; all I remember is, that the first thing I saw after the alarm was something rising up out of the grass, which I thought wms an Indiun. I pulled the trigger; It was a center shot, nnd I don’t believe the mule ever kicked after he was hit!” At daylight the Pawnees attacked in earnest and the fight lasted nearly three days, the mule teams being shut in the corral without food or water. At midnight of the second day they hitched up, lighting their way for thir teen miles, then got into bad trouble fording Pawnee fork while the Indians poured lead nnd arrows into the teams until the colonel and Kit Carson led a terrific charge which dispersed the enemy. The fight cost the train four killed nnd seven wounded. It was during this first trip thnt Car- son saved the life of a wounded team ster by cutting off his arm. With a razor he cut the flesh, with a saw got through the bone, nnd with a white- hot king-bolt seared the wound, stop ping the flow of blood. In 1835 Carson was hunter for Rent’s fort, keeping the garrison of forty men supplied with buffalo meat. Once he was out hunting with six oth ers and they made their camp tired out. “I saw,” says Kit, “ two big wolves sneaking about, one of them quite close to us. Gordon, one of my men, wanted to fire his rifle at it, but I would not let him for fear he would hit a dog. 1 admit that I had a sort of idea that these wolves might be Indians; but when I noticed one of them turn short around and heard the clashing of his teeth as lie rushed st one of the dogs, I felt easy then, nnd was certain that they were wolves sure enough. Rut the red devil fooled me after all, for he had two dried buffalo hones in his hands under the wolf-skin and he rattled them together every time he turned to make a dash at the dogs! Well, by nnd by we all dozed off, and It wasn’t long before I was suddenly aroused by a noise and a big blaze. I rushed out the first thing for our mules nnd held them. If the savages had been at all smart, they could have killed us in a trice, but they ran as soon ns they fired nt us. They killed one of my men, put ting five shots in his hotly and eight in his buffalo robe. The Indians were a band of snakes, and found us by sheer accident. They endeavored to ambush Us the next morning, but we got wind of their little game and killed three of them, including the chief.” It was in his eight years as hunter for Bent’s fort that Kit learned to know the Indians, visiting their camps to smoke with the chiefs and play with the little boys. When the Sioux nation invaded Comanche and Arap ahoe hunting grounds he persuaded them to go north, and so averted war. In 1842 when he was scout to Fre mont, he went buffalo hunting to get meat for the command. One day he was cutting up a beast newly killed when he left his work in pursuit of a large bull that came rushing past him. His horse was too much blown to run well, and when at last he got near enough to fire, things began to happen all at once. The bullet, hitting too low% enraged the bison just as the horse, stepping into a prairie dog hole, shot Kit some fifteen feet through the air. Instead of Kit hunting bison, Mr. Buffalo hunted Kit, who ran for all he was worth. So they came to the Ar kansas river w’here Kit dived while (he bison stayed on the bank to hook him when he landed. But while th« bison gave Kit a swimming lesson, one of the hunters made an unfair at tack from behind, killing the animal. So Kit crawled out and skinned his enemy. One of his great hunting feats was the killing of five buffalo with only four bullets. Being short of lead he had to cut out the ball from number four, then catch up, and shoot num ber five. One night as the expedition lay in camp, far up among the mountains, Fremont sat for hours reading some letters just arrived from home, then fell asleep to dream of his young wife. Presently a soft sound, rather like the blow' of an ax, made Kit start broad awake, to find Indians in camp. They lied, but two of the white men were lying dead in their blankets, and the noise that awakened Carson was the blow’ of a tomahawk braining his own chum, the voyageur, La Jeunesse. In the following year Carson was serving as hunter to a caravan west ward bound across the plains, when he met Captain Cooke in camp, with four squadrons of United States cav alry. The captain told him that fol lowing on the trail wras a caravan be longing to a w’ealthy Mexican and so richly loaded that a hundred riders had been hired as guards. Presently the Mexican train came up and tlie majordomo offered Carson three hundred dollars if he would ride to the Mexican governor at Santa Fe and ask him for an escort of troops from the point where they entered New Mexico. .Kit, who was hard up, gladly accepted the cash, and rode to Bent’s fort. There he hud news that the Utes were on the war path, but Mr. Bent lent him the swiftest horse in the stables. Kit walked, leading the horse by the rein, to have him perfect ly fresh in case there was need for flight. lie reached the Ute village, hid, and passed the place at night without being seen. So he reached Taos, his own home in New Mexico, whence the nlcnlde sent his message to the go\ernor at Santa Fe. The governor had nlready sent a hundred riders but these had been caught and wiped out by a force of Texans, only one escaping, who, dur ing the heat of the fight, caught a sad dled Texan pony and rode off. Meanwhile the governor—Armijo— sent his reply for Carson to carry to the caravan. He said he was march ing with a large force, and he did so. But when the survivor of the lost hundred rode into Armijo’s enmp with his bad news, the whole outfit rolled their tails for home. Carson, with the governor’s letter, nnd the news of plentiful trouble, reached the Mexican caravan, which decided not to leave the protecting American cnvalry camped on the boundary line. What with Texan raid ers, border ruffians, Utes, Apaches, Conmnches, nnd other little draw backs, the caravan trade on the Santa Fe trail was never dull for a moment. Here, for example, .is a description of the Americun army of the Bear Flng republic seizing California In 184fi. “A vast cloud of dust appeared first, and thence, a long file, emerged tills wildest wild party. Fremont rode ahead—a spare, active-looking man, with such an eye! He was dressed in a blouse nnd leggings and wore a felt hat. After him came five Delaware Indians, who were his body guard and have been with him through all his wanderings; they had charge of the baggage horses. The rest, many of them blacker than the Indians, rode two and two, the rifle held in one hand across the pommel of the saddle. Thir ty-nine of them are his regular men, the rest are loafers picked up lately; his original men are principally back woodsmen from the state of Tennessee, nnd the banks of the upper waters of the Missouri. . . . The dress of these men was principally a long loose coat of deerskin, tied with thongs In front; trousers of the same, which when wet through, they take off, scrape well inside with a knife, and put on as soon ns dry. The saddles were of various fashions, though these and a large drove of horses, and a brass field gun, were things they had picked up about California. They are allowed no liquor; this, no doubt, hns much to do with their good conduct; and the discipline, too, Is very strict.” One of these men was Kit Carson, sent off in October to Washington on the Atlantic, three thousnnd miles away with news that California was conquered for the United States, by a party of sixty men. In New Mexico, Kit met General Kearney, and told him that the Californians w’ere a pack of cowards. So the general sent back his troops, marching on with only one hundred dragoons. But the Californi ans w’ere not cowards, they had risen against the American InVasion, they were fighting magnificently, and Fre mont had rather a bad time before he completed the conquest. It wTas during the California cam paign that Carson made his famous ride, the greatest feat of horseman ship the world has ever known. As a despatch rider, he made his way through the hostile tribes, and ter rific deserts from the Missouri to Cal ifornia and back, a total of four thou sand, four hundred miles. But while he rested in California, before he set out on the return, he joined a party of Californian gentlemen on a trip up the coast from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Two of the six men had a remount each, but four of them rode the six hundred miles without change of horses in six days. Add that, and the return to Kit Carson’s journey, and it makes a total of five thousand, six hundred miles. So, for distance, he beats world records by one hun dred miles, at a speed beyond all com parison, and in face of difficulties past all parallel. For some of us old western repro bates who were cow hands, despising a sheep man more than anything else alive, it is very disconcerting to know that Carson w’ent into that business. He became a partner of his lifelong friend, Maxwell, whose rancho in New Mexico was very like a castle of the Middle ages. The dinner service was of massive silver, but the guests bedded down with a cowhide on the floor. New Mexico was a conquered country owmed by the United States, at intervals betw’een the Mexican re volts, when Kit settled down as a rancher. The words “settled down,\ mean that he served as a colonel of volunteers against the Mexicans, nnd spent the rest of the time fighting Apaches, the most ferocious of all sav ages. Nenr Sant Fe, lived Mr. White and his son who fell in defense of their ranch, having killed three Apaches, while the women and children of the household met with a much worse fate than that of death. The settlers re fused to march In pursuit until Car- son arrived, but by mistake he was not given command, a Frenchman hav ing been chosen ns leader. The retreat of the savages was far away in the mountains, and well forti fied. The only chance of saving the women and children was to rush this place before there was time to kill them, nnd Carson dashed in with a yell, expecting all hands to follow. So he found himself alone, surrounded by the Apaches, and as they rushed, ne rode, throwing himself on the oil side of his horse, almost concealed behind its neck. Six arrows struck his horse, and one bullet lodged In his coat before he was out of range. He cursed his Mexicans, he put them to shame, he persuaded them to fight, then led a gallant charge, killing fiye( Indians as they fled. The delay had given them time to murder the wom en and chi'dren. Once, after his camp had been at tacked by Indians, Carson discovered that the sentry failed to give an alarm because he was asleep. The Indian punishment followed, nnd the soldier was made for one day to wear the dress of a squaw. We must pass by Kit’s capture of a gang of thirty-five desperadoes for the sake of a better story. The officer, commanding a detachment of troops on the march, flogged an Indian chief, the result being war. Carson was the first white man to pass, nnd while the chiefs were deciding how to attack his caravan, he walked alone Into the council lodge. So many years were passed since the Cheyennes had seen him that he was not recognized, and nobody suspected thnt he knew their language, until he made a speech In Cheyenne, introducing himself, recall ing ancient friendships, offering all courtesies. As to their special plan for killing the leader of the caravan, nnd taking his scalp, he claimed that he might have something to say on the point. They parted, Kit to encour age his men, the Indians to waylay the caravan; but from the night camp he despatched a Mexican boy to ride three hundred miles for succor. When the Cheyennes charged the camp at dawn, he ordered them to halt, and walked into the midst of them, explain ing the message he had sent, and what their fate would be if the troops found they had molested them. When the Indians found the tracks that proved Kit’s words, they knew they had busi ness elsewhere. In one more campaign Colonel Car- son was officer commanding nnd gave a terrible thrashing to the Cheyennes, Iviowas and Comanches. Then came the end, during a visit to a son of his who lived in Colorado. Early In the morning of May 23, 18GS, he was mounting his horse when an artery broke in his neck, and with in a few moments he was dead. But before we part with the fron tier hero, it is pleasant to think of him still as a living man whose life is an inspiration and his manhood an example. Colonel Inman tells of nights at Max well’s ranch. “I have sat there,\ fie writes, “in the long winter evenligo when the great room was lighted only by the crackling logs, roaring up the huge throats of its two fireplace; . . . watching Maxwell, Kit (’ar son and half a dozen chiefs silently Interchange ideas in the wonderful sign language, until the glimmer of Aurora announced the advent of an other day. But not a sound had been uttered during the protracted hours, save an occasional grunt of satisfac tion on the part of the Indians, ot when we white men exchanged a sen tence.\ IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL S i m d a y S c h o o l ' L e s s o n T (By R E V . p . B. FITZW A T E R , DJX, Dean o t the Even In* School, Moody Bible Institute o f Chicago.) (©. 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR FEBRUARY 17 JOSHUA AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN LESSON T e x t —^Tosh. l : l - 9 ; 23:1-3. GOLDEN T E X T — N o t one th in * hath failed o f all the * o o d things w h ich the Lord your God spake con c e r n ln * you.— Josh. 23:14. IN T E RM E D IATE AND SENIOR TOP IC— Lessons P r o m the L ife o f Joshua. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP IC— J oshua and the Conquest o f Canaan. The book of Joshua, from which our lesson is taken, is a history of the con quest of the Promised Land and Its apportionment among the tribes of Is rael. It takes Its name from Its princi pal character, Joshua. During the wil derness journey he was Moses’ minis ter and captain of his army. When Moses was denied the privilege of going over the Jordan, Joshua w’as ap pointed to the leadership of Israel. Moses, the representative of the law, brought Israel to the borders of Canaan. Joshua was the man chosen to lead the people into the place of rest. The name, “Joshua\ has the same derivation as the name “Jesus”. I. Joshua’s Call (Josh. 1:1, 2). Moses was dead, but God’s work must go on. The w’ork was continued by colling Joshua to take it up. Joshua, no doubt, was sorrowful over the loss of his master, but there was now no time for mourning. II. God Renews His Promise of the Land to Israel (Josh. 1:3, 4). This promise had been given to Abraham and renewed to Isaac, Jacob and Moses. It is now renewed to Is rael w’hen they are about to enter upon Its possession. The borders of the land were “from the wilderness nnd this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the HIttites and unto the great sea tow’ard the going down of the sun” (v. 4). The nearest it wms ever possessed was during the reigns of David and Solomon, though not then fully realized. This land still belongs to the Jews and In God’s own time they shall possess it. Their possession of this land was due entirely to them selves. God promised them that wher- ever their feet set upon the land, It was theirs. If they failed to secure possession, it was because they failed to claim it. III. God's Presence Promised to Joshua (Josh. 1:5). Joshua was entering upon a perilous and difficult enterprise, but the Lord said, as He wms with Moses so He would be with him. The difficulties be fore him were: 1. The Jordan River (v. 2). This river was now nt its flood (Josh. 8: 15), making it impossible for armies to cross. 2. The People Were Living in Walled Cities (Nura. 13:3S). Notwithstanding this, God is ready to insure success. (1) “I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” (v. 5). (2) “There shall not any man be able to stand before thee” (v. 5). (3) “As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee.” Joshua had been with Moses throughout their forty years’ experience, from the Egyptian deliverance to the time of Ills death. Because he believed that God was with his master, he was willing and ready to cross Jordan nt its flood and cour ageously meet the enemies on the other side. IV. Conditions of Blessings in the Land (Josh. 1:6-9)’. 1. “Be Strong and of Good Courage” (v. 6). His mission was to go in and divide the land among the tribes for an inheritance. It required strength and courage to do this. 2. Unwavering Obedience to the Word of God (v. 7). In a land of Idolatry It required much courage to be true to God. Prosperity and success are conditioned upon unswerving obedience to God’s commands- In all his work lie must conform his life to the law of God. To pass from the path outlined therein would bring dis aster and ruin. In order to accomplish this, the law of the Lord must be In his mouth continually. He was to meditate therein day and night. Joshua rendered prompt obedience. He did not stop to cavil, but nt once gave orders for the march. God made the plan and gave the directions. V. Joshua’s Retrospect (Josh. 3:1-3). As his life was now drawing to a close, he summoned the people and rulers to give some farewell counsels. 1. Rehearses God’s Goodness (v. 1). God had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies. 2. All That Had Happened Was Done by the Lord. God had fought for them. No one had been able to stand against them; therefore He urges upon them fidelity. God’s Way. I find my Lord Jesus cometh not In the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways !—Rutherford. With God. Give God the blossom of your life! Put Him not off with the fallen leaves ! —Nicholls. Be Obliging. We cannot always oblige, but we can always speak obligingly.—Voltaire. 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