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Show 50 BY PATH AND TRAIL. a bit of savage tactics in war, not a particle of knowledge bearing upon attack, engagement and escape, with which he is not familiar, for he has been taught them all from infancy, and has practiced them from boyhood. He is the last of the Indian fighters, and, perhaps, the greatest. The world will never again see a man like him, for the conditions will never again make for his reproduction. With him will disappear the perfection of savage cun ning in war and on the hunt, and when he departs, an unlamented man, but withal a picturesque character, will disappear from the drama of human life, will go down into darkness, but not into oblivion. What, then, is the cause of the murderous and pro longed hostility of the Yaquis to Mexican rule? Why is the exterminating feud allowed to perpetuate itself, and why are not these Indians subdued? Must Sonora be forever terrorized by a handful of half- savage mountain eers, and must the march of civilization in Sonora be ar rested by a tribe of Indians? To get an answer to these questions I asked, and ob tained an interview with General Lorenzo E. Torres, commander- in- chief of the First Military Zone of Mex ico. With my request I inclosed my credentials accredit ing me as a person of some importance in his own coun try and a writer of some distinction. Although the general's time was filled with important military affairs and another engagement awaited him, he received me with that courtesy and politeness which seem to be an inheritance of the educated members of the Latin race the world over. Though a man of full 60 years, the general appears to retain all the animation and vitality of the days when, by his impetuosity and dauntless courage, he won his brevet at Oajaca, and the |