The Capture and Escape, Or, Life Among the Sioux. Sarah Larimer

our own language, and having the smothered seed of Christian knowledge in their hearts through the dim recollection of early teachings, rush to ruin, without heeding the loving warning, "Repent ye, why will ye die? '' Yet be it said for the Western prairies, as a general thing, their towns are not churchless.

      The questionable advancement of Julesburg was of short duration. Like its predecessors, it has sunk into insignificance. As the Union Pacific Railroad pro- gressed, other towns sprang into existence farther West-

      and divided its prosperity, until the inhabitants, seeing