Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-07-22
THEIADIANS' FOURTH
A WILD ORGY, TaE LIKE OF WHICH
 MAY NEVER BE KNOWN AGAIN.

Pine Ridge Agency tho Scene of Sun
 Dance Under Red Cloud, In Which
 5000 Yelling Redskins Took Part-A
 Hideous Mass of shrieising savages.
 The morning of the Fourth dawned at Pine Ridge agency, 8. D., amid the whooping of Indians, neighing of po- nies and yelping of dogs. all excited by q sun dance.
 Such wild, picturesque conglomera- tion of sights and sounds may never be known again. Those familiar with such things think 1t will be impossible to ever again gather such throng of un- tutored children of the plain.
 There were 5, GOO of them-Brules, Ogalallas and Cheyennes, At their head was that historical old patriarch of the tomahawk and scalping knife. Red Cloud. While the aged saehem was boss of the day, he had numerous illustrious assistants-He Dog, Big Elk, Dog Ear, Running Bear, Lone Dog. Bear Upside Down, Wolf Nose and scores of others distinguished alike on the wartrail and in the chase.
 There were squaw dances the night before in the light of 100 campfres, while the young bucks were engaged in horse and foot races and like sports. The monoteneus beating of drums, com mingled with the hoarse shouts of the old and the falsetto chant of the danc- ing squaws, was heard long after mid night.
 Nevertheless Aurora had hardly be- gun to silver the tops of the tallest buttes in the morning before the whole plateau was ill very paroxysm of un- earthly sounds and motion. Scores and scores of half naked, feather bedecked warriors dashed hither and thither over the plain on their little rats of ponies, yelling like fiends and firing rifles at every jump.
 Painted Indians on painted ponieA were shortly swarming the plain, while q wall of squaws two and three deep inclosed the vast arena and kept the aiI vibrating with shrieks of encourage ment or walls of lamentation. So like coyote's is the tongue of Sioux belle that it is all but impossible to tell when she is nightly tickled or in the last agony of death,
 There was a short interval of banter. ing between Big Elk, stripped to eagle plume and breechclout, and Standing Bear, in war bonnet reaching to his heels and with big brass breastpin. Big Elk shook his rife in defiance, while Standing Bear worked his brace letted arms and long lance in the wild est manner
 A hush, and then simultaneously each sounded his warcry. Then came very delpge of white ponies with green tails, black ponies with yellow stripes and pink names, polka dotted and checked ponies. and ponies, in fact, of all the colors of Joseph,s coat-some with tails plaited with gaudy ribbons, withea and willow branches; others with buffalo horns attached to the sides of their heads and scalps and coyote tails stream ing from bits and girths. Their wild riders bore lance and shield, their faces and naked bodies bedaubed with fam ing serpents and horsetails. Rifles cracked and bows twanged to the accom- paniment of the feroest, most hair rais- ing yelps and whoops that ever rent summer air.
 In a flash all were in writhing, struggling, shrieking mass, conyoluting ill the smoke and dust like huge col ored serpent, The squaws, all in stiff legged motion, were in frenzy and walled or screamed. it was impossible to tell whether in exultation or lamen- tation.
 It would be difficult to say which side won from the way in which they drag ged off the dead and dying and the in- extricable tangle in which they wormed themselves after the battle was over. - New York World.