The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-11-06

in the cattle and the count. NO matter
how much beef might shrivel on the hoof
IN the old DAYS, the Sioux, If he were at
all sharp. got more than was his share,
and most of the Sioux were as sharp as
their knives. Other tribes might have
starved and suffered, hut not they. With
the new order of things came full stoin-
achs for hosts of other aborigines, but
fault finding for these Dakotas. No
more ..tepee counts" on the contrary
heads Of families paraded their entire
force. and while enumerators with
book and pencil went along the front
of the line, Uncle SANS bluecoats on the
border keenly watched the rear and put
sudden stop TO all sham and swapping.
Now the shrinkage came to be Privation,
and. turning in appeal TO the general
who headed the great commission and
won their faith, appealing to Crook for
the remedies congress had utterly failed
To provide, their hearts We're bowed with
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 strong, the lust for reputation
as vehement as Of yOre. Every brave
stood ripe for action, and no Indian
leader ever equaled in craft, in GINNING.
in adroituess 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 TO preach the coming of the Mes
siah. but the Messiah craze was only
/ the means TO an end. Un-koi-te, the Ia
/ dian redeemer-he who ordained that
his children should prepare themselves
by the savage rites Of the ghost dance
10 meet him and all their dead ancestry
( and with then wipe the paleface from
/ the land-Cn-k0i-to was a fraud Of the
/ first water, maSquerading scamp of a
/ white man at odds with his own kind,
/ and progressive Indians knew it. But
/ even 10 such a saviour, when urged by
! the charlatans in every village. the su-
! r,.rstitious nature OF the red man turned
in eager adalation, and the ghastly, mad
/ dening dance went on.
Night after night ali over the broad
northwest the skies were aslCw vita the
/ Indian fires. The vault of the heavens
echoed to the sound Of frenZied shrek
and sell and the furious beat of the
/ Indian drum. II IS but step from the
/ ghost dance TO the scalp dance-froln
/ Indian worship to Indian war. ! year
ago in every valley of beautiful Soutl
| Dakota cattle were browsing on the
bunch grass. settlers piowing on the
/ plains, women sewing and singing under
! the new raised rooftrees. and gleeful
children playing in the golden heaps OF
corn. Now the plow stands idle III the
| abandoned furrow; the cattle have gone,
20 make up. presumably, for the reser-
walton shrinkags; wOmen's songs have
changed TO s9bs, 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
faGch house lights the way of many a
savage NaFrior. bound with arms and
.4 ] ponies 10 swell tiA>lAlG isAiAhS IL tAAS
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.
Iiaguished his shooting Tip and at once
got him home. He could not bear tC
leil his people. in the happiest garrison
u I L..
haps il might be as well 10 drop the
plans for the cavalry bail and tho
Christmas theatricais, the cherished
projects for the coming holidays. de
hated to have any one ask him If he
thought there were not just chance
inst A chance-of their being ordered
81 thefe But even before he left he
and BerFien had been talking the mat
ter over. The idea was 70 always have
the regiment ready Cor anything, and If
did seem as though with all the sum
mer and fall marching and scouting and
maneuvering IL The field they we're. as
the English1nen would say, pretty fit.
Fit, certainly, for any amount Of scout
ing or fighting on the southern plains
and yet utterly nnprcpared for the
rigors Of a Dakota winter. Any colonel
who, serving in Arizona OF iR the Indian
Territory, was TO apply for caETaS
oyercoats. blanket lined. for fUr caps
gloves. boots. lcgginss. etc. Intended
only for service in t.. high attitudes
would have been la ed IT. if not
snubbed. Farquhar decided il best no;
10 let Gny of the women worry over d
possibility. No nse 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
inss and losses Only recently -oIIl:
within the year-had they reached TIN.
paradise, with its haZy landscape ii.
lovely. peaceful homes, lis kindlines.
aud greeting Yet warm in remembrance
the edge al its cheer still new and nm
worn.
And then Kenyon came back froT
leave. a bUTly major Of foot who had
been visiting az his old home III Chicago
and was reported to he wearing the vii
low for a girl who had but Just married
| "A mere Junior first lieutenant in the
Eleventh, their predecessors along TIN,
line. 1t might be that Kenyon va:
cross anl Grabbed. The youngsters
called him .'grumbly~ at first acquaint
ance. Il; might he that he was so Eipred
and unhappy himself lie could Eot be;u
70 see The bliss ana content on every face
nt.out him. He and Rolfe Were con
genial spirits. said the boys. for both OF
them cot left" But Kenyon, close
mouthed Is he was AT times. had watched
things a DAY or two and then had giver
earquhar a pointer" He had heard
something, he said, at division head
quarters. Hence the order for turn
ont everybody, field kits and fifty
rounds"
The maddest man at mess at one-thir
ty was Mr.. Carroll Brewster-"Curly
B" his comrades called him in the years
gone by, when he had much kink to th(
blond hair of his handsome head. anC
not a vestige thereof to the down on hi.
lip. Now, as first lieutenant of tn,
BLACK Troop" with a mustache al
bristle and curl, and with pate where
on the curls were cropped TO regulation
lines, he was very different sort of Eel
low. All tie morning long he had sat
on a garrison court, where as "swing
member he had not enough 10 do tC
keep him from brooding over his woes
he had counted on spending the hours
from two until stables basking in tha
light Of those wonderful, deep, darb
ewes of Miss Winifred Berrien. Some
what petted and spoiled in his earlier
years of service, Brewster had had muci
Of the nonsense Knocked out of him i,