Evening journal., 1892-07-29

leader ever eqnaled IN craft, IN cpnpIue.
in adroitness the scowlng old sinner
Sitting Bull. and no man need doub.
that it was hc who gave The cue. Every
medicine man in the Dakota Nation be-
gan to preach the coming Of the Mes
siah, but the Messiah craze was only
the means TO an end. Un-koi-to, the In
dian redeemer-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, masquerading scamp Of
white man at odds with his own kind,
and progressive Indians knew it. But
even to such saviour, when urged by
the charlatans in every village, the SUI
perstitious nature Of the red man turned
in eager adulation, and the eghastly. mad.
dening dance went on.
Night after night all over the broad
northwest the skies were aglow with the
Indian fires. The vault Of the heavens
echoed to tho sound Of frengied shrek
and yell ana the furious beat of the
Indian drum. It is but a step from the
ghost dance to the scalp dance-from
Indian worship to Indian war. A year
ago in every valley Of beautiful South
Dakota cattle We're browsing on the
bunch grass, settlers plowing on the
plains. women sewing and singing under
the new raised ro0ftrees, and gleeful
children playing in the golden heaps Of
corn. Now the plow stands idle in the
abandoned furrow; the cattle have gone,
to make up, presumably, for the reser-
vation .shrinkage; womens songs have
changed to sobs, children's laughter
hushed to terrified silence, as the settlers
seek the refuge Of the towns. New red
glare in the sky at night, and the new
ranch house lights the way Of many a
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 per-
haps it might be as well to drop the
plans for the cavalry bali and the
Christmas theatricals, the cherished
projects for the coming holidays. Ho
hated to have any one ask him if he
thought there were not just a chance
&c
up there. But even before he left ne
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 latitudes
would have been laughed at. if moi
snubbed. Farquhar decided it best moi
to let any of the women worry over &
possibility. No use borrowing trouble
he said. Long years had the regiment
served in that wintry land. Fierce ant
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 thii
paradise, with its hazy landscape, il
Lovely, peaceful homes, its kindlinesi
and greeting yet warm in remembrance
the edge of its cheer still new and un
worn.
And then Kenyon came back from
leave, burly major of foot who ha,
been visiting at his old home in Cmcag,
and was reported to be wearing the will
low for a girl who had but just marie,
mere junior first lieutenant in tn
Eleventh, their predecessors along thi
line. 1t might be that Kenyon wa
cross and grabbed. The youngster
called him ''grumbly" at first acquaint
ance. 1t might be that he was so hippel
and unhappy himself he could not bea
to see the bliss and content ON every fac
about him. He and Rolfe were con
genial spirits. said the boys, for "both o
them got left" But Kenyon clos
mouthed as he was at times, had watche
things q day or two and then had give
Farquhar a pointer" He had hear
something, he said, at division head
quarters. Hence the order for "tur
out everybody, field kits and fift
rounds"
The maddest man at mess at one-thii
ty was Mr.. Carroll Brewster-"Curl
b. his comrades called him in the year
gone by, when he had much kinll to th
blond hair of his handsome head, an
not a vestige thereof to tho down on hi
lip Now, as first lieutenant of tn
"Black Troop" with a mustache a
bristle and curl, and with pate where
on the curls were cropped to regulatio
lines, he was a very different sort Of fe
low. All the morning long he had So
on a garrison court, where as "swin
member" he had not enough to do {
keep him from brooding over his woe
He had counted on spending the houi
from two until stables baslling in II
! / inlf of those wonderful deem dar