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

and out in a serpentine stream, orderliee
dashed hither and thither. ~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 a great many miniature circuses. The earth-
works, from which big rifles and Hotchkiss and
Gatiing guns poked their respective and awe
inspiring muzzles, are already broken down,
for the cattle have clambered over the low
walls and the small Indian boy has played sol
der within and without the breastworks, while
vagrant steers and ponies have chewed the
bark of the upper edges of the logs behind
which yigilant rifiemen were crouching but a
short time since. 1t is but q 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
might 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; q cowardly 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 regimento 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 clear. This morning men
and horses move in ghost-like silence, for
within the past six hours NOV has fallen 70 the
depth OF four inches and it keeps on coming
down. Pine Ridge has suffered for weeks from
overmuch noise. Now
.'silenee, like . pouitice. comes
To heal the blows Of sound"
THROUGH THE Ens OF THE '~'rENDEnroor."
Agreat deal Of sensational matter has beer
printed about the hardships of this campaign
and Of the sufferinss undergone by troops in
the field. These horrible chapters never had
any foundation in fact and that they were eves
written can only be accounted for BY the indu.
bitabie testimony afforded by numerous news
papers that their representative at the front
were more or less Identified with that cias1
known In the west M 'tenderfeet." There 4
nothing offensive in the word sfenderfoot," and
q man who Is accused Of being one does mo-
have to allow his angry passions TO rise; 1t sim.
ply neAns that the genflemaa who happens q
be referred to has not yet become accussomed
TO the habits Of those with whom he sQjourns
After he has tramped around aWhile and
has worn the blistcrs Oh his heels; wher
his form can stand the accumulntion a
three or four new geological strata md whsn b
no longer displays surprise 1t inch eutomologi
cal a4greea0ons - may go ~ 10 jotn him %
his pilgrimage through hfe, tAsn kas ~ grsd'