Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-31

and out in a serpentine stream, orderlies
dashed hither and tlrither sentries paced up
and down and delegations of hostile and
friendly chiefs competed briskly for the honor
Of making the greatest number Of calls on Gen.
Miles within each succeeding diurnal division Of
time. Last night the only light in the
building was in the room Of Capt Pierce, who
is dangerously i'll. Where the seventh cavalry
was camped there is now nothing but q success
sion OF rings in the soil. giving the place the
appearance Of having been the recent location
OF great many miniature circuses. The earth
works, from which big rifles and Hotchkiss and
Gatling guns poked their respective and awe
inspiring mnzzles, are already broken down,
for the cattle have clambered over the low
walls and the small Indian boy has played SOL
dier within and without the breastworks, while
vagrant steers and ponies have chewed the
bark off the upper edges Of the logs behind
which vigilant rihemen were crouching but q
short time since. It is but few days since no
one could pass out to the northern defenses
without written authority from division
headquarters and the time may easily be
counted by hours since the sentries' ''Who
comes there? Haiti" broke the stiffness of
night at almost every corner. Now the citizen
may wander where he pleases, at any hour,
with nothing to interrupt his pedestrianizing
but annoyingly frequent barbed wire fences
and the innumerable multitude of canine dis
turbers of the peace who possess this place and
control matters to a very considerable extent
after nightfall; a cowardiy pack Of ours when
You know them, though, and easily scattered
On the hill just south Of the agency is the camp
OF the first regiment of infantry and that active
subdivision Of hired warriors seems to have
been suddenly stricken with dumbness. Last
night the footsteps Of passers by could be heard
distinctly, for the ground was frozen hard and
the wooden sidewalks clear. This morning men
and horses move in ghost-like silence, for
within the past six hours snow has fallen 10 the
depth OF four inches and it keeps on coming
down. Pine Ridge has suffered for weeks from
overmuch noise. Now
..silence, like pouitice, comes
To hsaa the blows q sound"
TKHouoH THE xYrs OF TIE ''TxNpEnroor. 81
"A great deal Of sensational matter has been
printed about the hardships Of this eampaisn
and OF the sufferines undergone by troops in
the field. These horrible chapters never had
any foundation in fact and that they were ever
written can only be accounted for BY the indu-
bitable testimony afforded by numerous news-
papers That their representative at the front
were more or less identified with that clasa
known IN the west N 'stenderzeet." There 4
nothing Offensive in the word '.tendexfoot," and
man who Is accused Of being ono does MOI
have to allow his angry passions to rise; 1t sim
ply nenns that the genfAeman who happens 70
be referred to has not yet becomD accuasomed
70 the habits OF those with whom he sQjourns.
After he has tramped around awhiie and
has worn the blisscrs on his heels; when
has form can Stand the sceumulntion a
three or four new geological strsta snd whom h
NO longer dispaays surpdss at such eutomo1ogi-
caa pkgregatons - may - a. 10 totn him %
his pilgrimage through Ma, sAsn k1 - gzsd.