San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-11-15

| to provide, lnelr hearts were bowed WlJn
the tidings that the Great Spirit had
summoned the Gray Fox" to happier
hunting grounds.
Then was there no other appeal? One
one which had never failed to wiring
from the government the concession de-
sired. Old chiefs might plead in vain,
but the blood of the young warriors is
hot and stroAg, the lust for reputation
as vehement as of yore. Every brave
! stood ripe for action, and no Indian
| leader ever eQualed in craft, in cunning
| in adroitness the scowling old sinner
| Sitting Bull, and no man need doubt
that it was he who gave the cue. Every
medicine man in the Dakota Nation be-
gan 10 preach the coming or the Mes
siah, but the Messiah craze was only
the means to an end. Un-koi-to, the Ii
dian redeem +r-he who ordained that
his children should prepare themselves
by the savage rites of the ghost dance
to meet him and all their dead ancestry
and with them wipe the paleface from
the land-Un-koi-tO was fraud of the
first water a maSquerading scamp of a
white man at odds with his own kind,
and progressive Indians knew it. But
even to such a saviour, when urged by
the charlateN IS in every village. the su-
perstitious nature of the red man turned
in eager adulation, and the CHASTITY, mad
dening dance went on.
Night after night all over the broad
northwest the skies We're aglow with the
Indian fires. The vault of the heavens
echoed to thu sound of frenZied shrek
and yell and the furious beat of the
Indian drum. 1t is but step from the
ghost dance 20 the scalp dance-from
Indian wors.-Ip to Indian war. A year
ago in every ALLEY of beautiful South
Dakota cattle were browsing on the
bunch grass, settlers blowing ON the
plains, women sewing and singing under
the new raised rooftrees, and gleeful
children playing in the golden heaps of
corn. Now the pillow stands idle in the
abandoned furrow; the cattle have gone,
to make up, presumably, for the reser-
walton shrinkage; wOmen's songs have
changed to sobs, children's laughter
hushed to terrified silence, as the settlers
seek the refuge of the towns. New red
glare i'll the sky at night, and the new
ranch house lights the way of many
savage warrior, bound with arms and
ponies to swell the hostile ranks in the
mazes of the Bad Lands.
God only knows how soon it may
come" read Farquhar, but week be-
fore, but | think you would better be
with your command" Farquhar re-
linquished his shooting trip and at once
got him home. He could not bear to
tell his people, in the happiest garrison
the regiment had ever known, that perc
haps it might be as well to drop the
plans for the cavalry ball and the
Christmas theatricals, the cherished
projects for the coming holidays. He
hated to have any one ask him if he
thought there were not just chance
just a chance-Of' their being ordered
Up there. But even before he left he
and Berrien had been talking the mat
ter over. The idea was to always have
the regiment ready for anything, and it
did seem as though with all the sum-
mer and fall marching and scouting and
maneuvering in the field they were, as
the Englishmen would say, pretty fit. ="
Fit, certainly, for any amount of scout
ing or fighting on the southern plains
and yet utterly unprepared for the
rigors of a Dakota winter. Any colonel
who, serving in Arizona or in the Indian
Territory, was to apply for canvas
overcOats, blanket lined, for fur caps,
| gloves, boots. leggings, etc, intended
only for service in the high ATTITUDES,
would have been laughed at, if not
snubbed. Farquhar decided it best not
to let any of the women worry over a
possibility. No use borrowing trouble,
he said. Long years had the regiment
served in that wintry land. Fierce and
incessant had been its campaigns against
the Indians Dire had been its suffer
ings and losses. Only recently-only
within the year-had they reached this
| paradise, with its hay landscape, its
lovely, peaceful homes, its kindness
and greeting yet warm in remembrance.
the edge of its cheer still new and I'M
worn.
And then Kenyon came back from
leave, burly major of foot who had
been visiting at his old home in Chicago
and was reported to be wearing the will
low for a girl who had but just married
a mere junior first lieutenant in the
Eleventh, their predecessors along this
line. 1t might be that Kenyon was
| cross and Grabbed The younpStars
called him 'grumbly" at first acquaint-
ance. 1t might be that he was so hipped
and unhappy himself he could not bear
to see the bliss and content on every face
about him. He and Rolfe were con-
genial spirits, said the boys, for both of
tharn GOT left y Rnt Knn,-on n1O..