The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-09

mas seen the thousand elephants laden
with treasure, is exceedingly fond Of
talking about his son.in.law.
Liberty or Death.
A few miles from the banks Of the
Alabama river. about fifty miles
above the Gulf coast, in n lovely
wooded country, is n beautiful army
post, called after the home Of Wash
ington, Mt. Vernon. Several COM
panies Of United States soldiers, with
their officers constitute the garrison.
A railroad runs Immediately by the
post, Of which It Is n Of the stations.
Travellers on this road find objects Of
peculiar interest in seeing there h
famous Indian chief. Geronimo. and q
part Of his band, who a few years ago
out Arizona and New Mexico, and
kept detachments Of our army In dill.
gent and dangerous march for them
for many months before they were
captured. They have since then been
prisoners at Mt. Vernon.
Geronimo and his braves are now
engaged in the peaceful occupation OF
making bows, arrows and blow-guns.
which they sell TO the travellers who
stop on their way to see them.
A pathetic incident, showing the
Indians undying love for liberty,
recently occurred at Mount Vernon.
A young Indian, who had been for
three years at Carlisle, Pa, after his
course there was finished. enlisted in
the army and was Sent to Mount
Vernon. HIS name Is James One Star.
Perhaps he was over-persuaded to
enlist. At any rate. he did not APP
preciatc what q soldiers garrison life
meant. After a trial OF its regularity,
monotony and confinement, he con-
cluded that 1t was not the life for
him. So one night he quietly laid
down his gun and slipped away.
Following the north star. he made
his way along the banks of the river
till he reached an inland town, about
a hundred miles away. There curiosi-
ty or need led him to stop, and there
he quickly came to grief. He was
arrested and information OF his pres
ence was t~elegraphed to Mt. Vernon.
During the interval of a day or two
between his arrest and the arrival of
the sergeant sent to take him TO his
post, One Star reposed behind the
bars of the city prison, where he was
the object of much interest to the
citizens, and Of friendly sympathy
when he gave his reasons for desert
ing.
II vas kindly treated" he said,
land we'll cared for. had everything
I needed or desired. except liberty.
That I could not live without. I
wanted to be free and go and come
and do Us I wished"
When asked il he did not fear pun
ishment when he returned to his post,
he said:
mo. They will certainly inprison
me, with all its hardships. Perhaps
they will shoot me. But 1 don't care
to live without liberty"
Poor One Star is now suffering the
penalty Of his desertion. Philadelphia
Times.
The Parrots joke.
There is q parrot IN Philadelphia
and his name Is Jim. He is right up
to date so far as the grasping OF
opportunities is concerned, and every
once in awhile he does something that
serves to keep this impression firmly
fixed in the minds OF those about him.
He gave M Of his object lessons the
other day.
Adjoining the house where Jim
> rules supreme is q coal yard. There
are trcstles in it on which the hump
. back iron horses push cars laden with
black diamonds. The freight men
have q peculiar cry, indicating when
TO shoot the cars on the tresties. II
is something like "Wah-Hoo.o
Whoop." Jim's cage was moved to
the side of the house where the Goa
yard is the other day, and through
the window he heard the cries Of the
trainmen and saw the cars shoot,
The cry wasn't in Jim's vocabulary,
2 and he took to it like q duck does &c
!, water. That night he began to prac,
4 tice on the vocal signal. The im,ta'
/; tion was a little ragged edged ut first
/, but the festive bird soon had his voca'
chords trained down to the accompani-
ment.
I Then he waited for his chance. L
came the following day. The window
where his cage was placed had beer
, put up in order to mir the room. Thu
coal train came putting along. Their,
was a little drilling and q section wa,
Q taken out, part Of which was to go OF
8 the trestle of the coal yard. Their
came Jim's opportunity. Before tn,
- two center cars could be coupled thu
, mischievous bird inflated his lung
and shrieked ''Wah-Hoo-o- Whoop."
, The engineer pulled the lever ant
o away shot the u%ncoupled section OF
! t~restle. 1t was up the incline befor,
' half the force had been expended an
three Of the cars jumped the guar,
Q and tumbled into the yard below
The trainmen stood aghast with as
constituent, and Jim-why he jus
o grinned.