Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-21

the tree top and make it feed from their lips and como at their voice. We are like the deer and tho wild bird. We listen for your voice, and WIG follow your steps.
 This was said at Mount Vernon bar racks, Alabama, where the Chiricahua captives havc been for the last six years living ill indolcncc and with abundance of good things, but never ceasing to pine for their native mountains. Mount Vernon barracks are, according to lovers of tho picturesque, the most beautiful army post in the country, situated about six miles north of Mobile and in para disc of oak, magnolia and other subtrop- ical trees and shrubs. The climate is in every way unlike that of Arizona, and the Indians suffered accordingly, so it was once decided to remove them to the Fort Sill reservation, in Indian Terri tory, but that was promptly vetoed when the border men pointed out the obvious fact that they could easily es- cape thence and mako their way back to Arizona
 It Is hard tu believe that tho Apaches. bloodthirsty and untamable, are first cousins to the progressive and rAthcr pleasant NavaloCs. but both are from the same great Offshoot of tho Athabas- can race. The NaVajocS combined with remnant of the old and srmiCiviliZcd Mexican Indians and hayo maintained an art and civilization of their own, while the ArachCS took to tho noun tains and grew more savage every year. Fifty years ago the department estimat- ed that ill Mexico and the United States they could muster 30, 900 warriors. This was an congregation, but still they were vcry powerful. When General Crook went at them 20 years ago, they did not havc to exceed 1. 800 warriors, yet that small number had pretty near ly dcpopulatcd Arizona
 In 1872 the huStilcs of that territory were in thrcc great bands. tho greatest under tho famous Cochise. General Howard. with single aid. penetrated to | his mountain faStncss md made treaty which CocIise kept hnnorably till his | d' ath Geronimo broke away, and u long | and rather romantic war followed. In 1883 Gen, ral Cruuk captured the whole band, numbering GOO. and located them on reservation, but Geronimo and Nechcs broke away again, murdered l34 whites and escaped into Mexico. In lSSG General Miles captured the last of ! the EoStilcs, their surrender being on | the agreement that their lives were to be spared. In two years they had killed 176 Americans.
 They claim that one of the terms of the surrender was that they were not to be taken out of Arizona. but they were sent to Fort Pickcns Florida, and later to | Fort Marion, near St. Augustine. Their native land is very high and very dry. with cool nights; their land of captivity is low, moist and hot. In the former they had range over some 10, 900 to 60, 900 square miles, and in the latter they were confined to a few acres. Yet they did not all die, as might have been expected. Many of their young people have been fairly we'll educated The lads are employed in Pennsylvania as cattle | herders and farmhands and the girls at the domestic occupations Day schools and Sunday schools have been success fully maintained among them. and those enlisted i'll the army have made good soldiers. Meantime another large branch of the Apaches has been located in the Indian Territory. and civilization has made great progress among them. So it has been decided to allow the old pris- oners to die at home and the youths te | start anew there