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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1899-10-14
prfaou life NJ Dreyfua

Word comes from Dutcn Westminster coz
corning the daily life Of that most inter est ii :
. of prisoners Dreyfus. According to the l.
don Talccrn .,l,. +he Butch 'nceal ~, -.
neighborhood Of Devils isle when some French
officers boarded her and asked the captain IL
ne would lend them his cook for q little while,
as the regular cook had broken his arm. Ths
captain acquiesced and the cock was forthwith
taken to the island, where he remained for
some time, often having an opportunity to OBJ
serve Dreyfus The unfortunate prisoner rose
every morning between and Z O'clock, had q
cup of chocolate, a bath and, II the weather
permitted, a walk. While taking the bath the
prisoners wrists were tied around with q cord,
one end of which held by warden. This
was to prevent any attempt to commit suicide.
After the bath the former captain breakfastcd
on bread and butter. an egg ana q bottle Of
beer. This meal being over he read books On
military topics and wrote letters and his ME.
roirs, the epstles always being sent to friends
through the military governor of Cayenne.
Dreyfus is also allowed to play cards with his
! warGens, but not fer money. as, he is not al-
lowed TO retain possession OF a sou. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon the prisoner receives
bread roast meat, vegetables, dessert and beart
At O'clock in the evening he has supper OF
cold ham, with moe bread and beer. Tho
Dreyfns, who asked htm to greet the outside
&cr,d for him. Contrary to general belief, the
pris oner Is not kept in iron cage but Is al
lowed to range over the entire island afwoyA.
IT course. being under the. eyes OF guard.
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Indians from time immemorial as a place
to trap the buffalo, and with what sue
cess one may judge from a visit to-day.
Below the ledge, where the trap once
stoop, are thousands of horn tips, the
last part of a buffalo to sGccumb to the
| elements; the bones have long since rot
ted. away. By little search one can
ind, too, arrowheads of flint and oh
sidian, spear points and knives of the
| same. material and various stone tInpie-
ments. Rivet told this story of the fight:
ut was in July, 1S4h That was the
season, you. know, when the hair of, the
Buffalo was shortest, the hide strongest
and therefore most fit to tan into leath-
er for new lodges, for moccasins and for
many articles of use. Also it was a good
season to dry meat and pemmican for
winter use; the meat was fat and the
aot sun would dry it quickly when cut
rto the thin, wide sheets. The chiefs
| consulted together and they said: We
Will move up to the pisl<an pound, corraD
On the Two Medicine and have the great
| success So we moved-we were camp
ng down in the Bears Paw-and in a
sew days arrived at this place. There
were only thirty lodges Of use-some 20
people, I guess-and of them about seven
,y-ive were men-warrfors. All the rest
IF the Blackfeet, the great camp, were
over across the Missouri We placed our:
edges in the edge of the timber, just
flrations to snare the buffalo. At the foot
/ IF the cliff yonder, where the rocks arc
highest, was corral; 1T started out from
he cliff, and, making big half-circle,
struck the wall rock again a hundred
yards or more from where 1t started. Ycu
will see it was very big corral. It had
| stood many, many years; some OF the
great tree trunks which formed q part
Of 1t had been placed there before tie
indians got axes, and they had been
! burned down instead Of chopped. Then
here were small trees, poles, big boul-,
lers, anything was used which would
make strong barrier against the power-
sul rush of the buffalo. Now. then. from
the top Of the ledge er8the corral two
lines Of rockpiles extended far out onto
he prairie like the letter v, ever diverg-
ng until where they ended they were at
east a mile apart. ALI day the women
we're busy cutting brush and dragging 1t
gut on the prairie, putting heap of 1t at
each rockpile. Behind each one of these
plies there were to be- one or more peo-.
pie concealed when the time came. The
ouffalo were to be decoyed into the apex
| # the ", and once there as they passed
.urther IN the people were to keep rising
Up from their places OF concealment- and
should reach the edge Of the cliff. Then
| II course, the foremost animals would try
20 stop, but the others would crowd them
In their terror, and most OF the band
would go over the cliff; those not being
billed or crippled in the fall would be
unable to pass out Of the corral
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CORRAL OF TIE BUFFAI- III /;

(which befell him. His long, low log mousse
where he lives with his half-Dreed cnll-
idren and grandchildren, stands near the
shore Of the beautifully wooded Two MED
hcine river, a clear, cold, mountain stream
noted for the large trout which are 70 pc
found in its deep, wide pools. Rivet
came West in the employ OF the Amer1-
can Fur company in 1881 He well re-
members the great artist George Catlin,
who visited the company's post, Fort
Union, in the following year, and he saw
MIN painting pictures Of the Indians there
I in his temporary studio, pasuon OF the
fort. At that time the company was
having q great deal Of trouble with thu
5Blackfeet, the largest and most warlike
!. tribe In the Northwest, who murdered
the trappers whenever they found them.
The Blackfeet seldom came to Fort
Union, trading mostly with the Hudson
Bay company, which had a post, Noun
tain Fort, on the Upper Saskatchewan,
far to the northwest. To secure this
trade the company determined to build
q post further west on the Missouri, and
IN order to secure immunity from this
tribe it insisted that its employees, from
the agents ana clerks down to the hum
blest voyageurs, should marry women
IN that tribe-that is, marry in the In
dian fashion; the woman selected, the
price agreed upon, the parents received
| I1Ac sum ana the woman De-
came the property of the trapper, whether
she wished to or not. Thus it was that
Rivet found himself married man SOON
err than he expected or cared to be, and
Tor many years he roamed the plains
with his tribe and their allies, the eros
Ventres of the prairie. 1t was his duty
while plying his vocation as trapper to
keep the Blackfeet away from the Hud-
sons Bay company If possible
Where Rivet is living to-day is the very
spot where, in the fall Of 1917, occurred
one of the most desperate skirmishes that
he was ever engaged in. Opposite to his
cabin the side Of the valley is formed by
ledge Of sandstone from five to fifteen
feet high, but not so steep that person
could not scale it in most places. At the.
foot of the ledge there is very steep
slope of fifty lfeet;ior more down to thei
level Of the valley. From the top of the
ledge the prairie extends to the north for
long way in one fiat and unbroken
stretch. tbs Mace had been used by the
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Stood His Ground.

Youths Companions: Can you hollowgrind
this razor?" asked a customer who had
stepped into a razor grinding establishment
presided over by a hard-headed; man with
bristling hair and an aggressive look on his
face.
..You want me to hollowground it. sup
"No, sir" rejoined the other: ST want you
to hollowgrind it, fs55.. T
If it's ground hollow. amt It hollow
= If you grind it hollow. don't you hollow
grind it, sir?''
.Do you think you can come In here and
teach me anything about my business? Rve
been hollowgrounding razoFs sfor twenty-five
years.
NO. you haven't; II you've1a,een shollowsrind-
ing them
:Do you reckon I don't know what I DO
foc living?'
you hollowgrind this razor 81
mo, sir; I won't. I'll hollowground 1t or
won't touch IT,
The customer reflected . moment.
'.See here, my friend" he said. Can
have it ground hollow here?'
Certainly"
AND they compromised on that basis each
tesiinEsk',at EasSsss 2 LITTLE. head ..I.----.-
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was an exciting time. s hated; to climb
that cliff, but i felt that we must, or, as
the chief said, we'd all be killed and
scalped, and worse would happen to the
women So when our leader said Coz
Just grttted my teeth and aaid to myself
fore we got to the foot oe the slope three
Of our number fell and while climbing
up It and over the heap Of dead buff
falo two more dropped. And now we
were at the rock, and 90 many buffalo
were piled up there that dis soon as we
We're twenty-five or thirty Crows stand
there, and they were busy, some firing
arrows at us, others reloading their
guns. We shot into theni, most OF us
having guns, and then wei ducked down
and reloaded as fast as Vie could. But
while we were doing SO the Crows came
right. to the edge of the wall and began
party had bows and arrows and stood
them off pretty well, although four more
of us were dropped before we could be-
gin to use. OUR guns agaiiIt But when we
did you ought to have sa1sn those Crows
drop and. the rest run fsf their: horses,
which one Of their numhsr was holding
some distance away. We dumped tup on
the ledge and took after them, but they
had too much the start OF us and Just
.scampered Off as soon as they could
mount. We had fifteen Of them, though,
lying near the ledge, and the way the
Blackfeet yanked their scalps on and
some of them still kicking-Was cou-
ton: b
Meanwhile the fight was still going on
down below, and the chief went back with
the men who had bows and arrows, leav-
ing us with guns to guard the ledge
and shoot down at the Crows about the
corral. But in few minutes they start
ed off, too, for they had lost pretty heav-
ily-forty-one men, as we counted later.
But when they left the corral they just
sailed down the valley and drove off our
,horses-every one of them. tell you
it was sad old time. a Twenty-Five Of
our men, five women and children. were
dead or wounded, and there we were set
plumb afoot. You bet there was no re-
joicing and feasting that night. 4
What did we do foEi horses? Well,
two or three young fellows went and stole
lot from the Assiniboin and another
little party stole a big bunch from their
other enemy, the Crees, and meantime a
runner went across the Missouri and told
the main Blackfoot camp what had hap
pened They sent. q big party against
the Crows for revenge, and the rest came
right over and joined us. Oh, we soon
on+ n.antv of Eo-ses. but 3 tell YOU that
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Tt had an encircling rail made with pieces
of brass taken from English Implements
or furniture, and was decorated with
other trinkets, perhaps religious symbols.
colored cloth. sewn together. But
whether it had been embalned,'' said an
other of the artillerymen, IT could not
say, having no experience of how bodies
look after undergoing that process
Sc. Nobody cared to describe what hap
pemed inside. the tomb. THAT is a mat
ter for those in authority one was told.
However, 1t was presently said that the
order was given to take the body from
where It lay and to sever the head from
the trunk. '"The corporal went to that
end. On lifting the head it broke clean
away from the body, and he held it in his
hands,"
The body was then wrapped UP, weighted
and carried across the three miles that
lay between the tomb and the! Nile and
at once cast into the river. II never heard
that anything was seen of it again. said
ono artilleryman, '.and the fact is it must
have been washed away along the bed
of the river Another added that the
dervishes are, CT course, essentially super
stitious, and that they might in the flu
ture, no doubt, be imposed on by the
production of another dead body. But, =
he added, whatever may be said of the
body, they will never get the head of their
mahdi.''
what became OF the head ?''
TT is a very short story. The head was
carried on board the gunboat and put into
an empty kerosene can-one of those
square cans, you know, that oil is kept
in It stopped there a few days. The
other officers used to come aboard and
say, Gordon, show us that head and the
corporal, under orders, would then lift
it out. None Of them would touch It. 1t
was not nice. might say that the mahdi
must have been fearfully ugly man.
The lower jaw protruded further than in
any man have ever seen. The forehead
was not particularly high-for an Arab.
His hair was Jet black. The lower part
Of one side OF the face was gone-decayed
-and we took off part Of his beard. 1t is
here in Eastney. l have a piece myself
"a fine, glossy, black, apparently the hair
of a man in his prime.
after the head had remained few
days in the can wooden box was made,
and it was packed in that. It was sent
to Cairo for dispatch to England, and but
for the discussion in parliament it would,
no doubt, have been on view before now
in some museum or another. The war
office, I should think, will know where
that box is. must say no more
Afte- the hody of the r.ahdi had been
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| the ground, and the many rose no more,
| until a struggling, grooming, gasping heap
of them were piled nearly to the top Of
the LEDGE and then those still, coming
slid down over them, regained their feet
and rushed madly around the corral. AT
last only q few were left on the top Of
the ledge. There was none to push them
on, and, seeing the fate which awaited
them, they ran off to the right or left
and, back out on the prairie. The men
now all mounted the corral and with their
guns and bows and arrows began to shoot
down the frightened creatures, which
were running around trying to find way
out The bulls were spared because their
flesh was tough and their thick hides diff
cult to TAM. When all the rest had been
killed except those lying crippled up by
the ledge, space was opened in the cor
raj, the bulls driven out, and then every
one rushed in, women as we'll, as men,
and began to skin and cut up the great
killing which had been made. How many?
Oh, should judge, calves and all, there
were three hundred or more.
every one was busy at work, myself
Included, when suddenly from that big
coulee just above here a big party of
mounted Indians rode into the valley and
charged down. on us. The women and
children screamed and hid themselves
among the dead buffalo or along the sides
Of the corral as best they could; the
men srasped their weapons and prepared
to fight. think all Of US felt that we
had the best of it, with the corral for
a barrier, and when the oncoming party
shouted their war cry, which we recog-
nized as that of the Crows, we answered
them back with good will The Black
feet We're always ready and anxious to
fight when they had anything like a
chance to succeed. We thought likely
the enemy would rush right up to the
corral before delivering their fire, and
we waited for them. But when about 300
yards distant they wheeled and rode of
little way, then turned, came back and
wheeled away again without firing shot
but keeping up their singing all the time
and brandishins, their weapons at US.
We couldn't imagine what they were up
to, but we were soon to learn, for all at
once another party of them who had
ssneaked around unobserved and gained
the top Of the ledge began to fire down
at US, and at the same time the main
body charged In earnest. Well, we were
In for 1t. Some. Of us fired at one party
and some at the other, and although we
kept dropping some Of those riding
around the corral we were doing no dam
age to those upon the ledge, who wero
shooting down our people pretty rapidly.
Things began to look pretty black for
us when the war chief, Eagle Ribs, shout.
ed out: Some OF us must climb the ledge
and drive those people of or we'll all be
killed. Now, them and he began to call
OF the names Of those he wanted to go
with him; there were twenty seven In
all and was ona OF them Well. sir. II
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| well, everything was ready; the cor
raj had been repaired: the brush was III
place; all we waited for was big band
| Of buffalo to come within a couple OF
miles Of the place. All day long watch
| ers were on the hill looking out for them.
Down in the camp the medicine men
were praying all the time, and he who
was to call the buffalo was fasting and
praying with them At last, on the third
day. about noon, the watchers came in
and said that big band had been seen,
! quite long way out, but that the chances
were they could be decoyed. The people
who were to hide III the brush piles hur-
ried out to their places, and soon the
calling man started out. He was mount
ed on a small but very swift horse the
color of a buffalo, and wore a large buff.
falo robe hair side out. The medicine men
remained in their lodges and prayed hard
er than ever, and made sacrifices to the
sun. Not every one could decoy buffalo;
to be successful one must initiate per-
fectiy the frightened bawling of q buff
falo calf, which is very difficult.
"WeI, the man rode down the valley
below the ledge, then up the hill onto the
prairie, and 1 climbed upon the ledge and
lay down out Of sight, where I could see
the fun. The buffalo were about three
miles distant, some feeding, a few lying
down. The caller, STOPPING low on his
horse, was slowly approaching them by
riding in circles and zigzagging He Was
an hour or more getting near enough for
them to hear him, and then began, to
bawl as a calf would when pursued by
wolves. could not hear him, of course,
but knew, for I saw the buffalo sud
denly start toward him. Oh, the poor
buffalo! Why couldn't they see that the
thing bawling so piteously was bigger
than four calves-as big as bull, for
that matter? But all they thought of
was, that one of their offspring was III
trouble, and they became mad. They
changed their trot into a run; into q.
fierce rush. but ever the thing they pur-
sued kept it's distance from them. There
was no use Of bleating now; the pounding
of thousand gathering hoofs on the
hard, baked prairie soil would have
drowned thunder itself On they came,
nearer and nearer, until they came into
the mouth of the V. I saw the people
rising up behind them, shouting and
f1ourishing their robes. I saw the call
ers slip out to one side of the line, and
then I slid down the ledge. In a minute
or two the poor animals came to the
edge Of it. wild-eyed, snorting and tossing
their shaggy heads and then-a solid
mass, waterfall of them began to pour
over the cliff. Head first, tail first, on
their backs. on their sides. they struck
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.'disinterred'' and disposed Cf his tomb
was destroyed. Lyddite was used, as it is
still necessary to note the action of that
explosive owing to the sometimes peculiar
conduct of lyddite shell, $50 that we had
an experiment Of two kinds" said one OF
the artil1erymen. 1--WE experimental in
religion on the poor mahdi and in gun
merry we tried on his tomb. It certainly
seems little above the mark to try con-
clusions with dead body
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was a sad blow to us and caused lots OF
sorrow. Indians grieve as much Tor lost
relatives as white people do"
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SLAUGHTER OF BEASTS FOLLOWER
BY A BATTLE WITH MEN.

some Considerations In Connection
With the Old-Time Trapper OF the
Far West-Unexpected Marriages
Made by Order-The Great Buffalo
Trap-A Fight Between Blaclkfeet
and Crows-A White MANS Life
With Enthusiastically an Excit-
ing Time.
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a pot on it, or ever knew any one else
to try it. and he will reply: .Of course
not. If I built 'ouse without pots on
the chimneys no one would rent It," Tic
next great institution, and the one that
particularly tmpresses an American, Is
the English barmaid. Like the chimney
pots, they seem to- be preferred to the
American style, because they are sup
posed to draw better, although the al
legged reason for employing them is that
they are more honest. Any one who has
had anything to do with the British work
man knows that he makes a lifelong
study of cheating his employer, either by
"sOjerfng' In time at the bench, or by
abstracting small sums from the money
drawer. Keepers of public houses think
that barmaids are more honest, and they
know that pretty girl draws certain
amount of custom and tends to keep the
customers that she has.
These barmatds are to be found in every
grade of saloon, from the lowest pubs.
in Whitechapel, where an American would
suppose that a retired prizefighter and
professional bouncer would be more ap-
proprtate, to the most exclusive private
hotels in the West End. It is the samei
all over England, and pretty barn1aiG
has often good deal to do with attract
ing the patrons of what are known as
commercial hotels-that is, hotels FREE
Quented by drummers. It is an old saying
lIlaI sluS HdLlu sIlldI puUS the Deer engine
gees with the face that brings the trade.
AS a class, barmaids have two character
tstics: they are always good looking and
always young. II you find a woman owe:
tkirty-five in attendance at an English
bar, you may rest assured that she Is
the housekeeper and that it is the bar
maids evening out. The typical English
barmaid has round face, strong eye
brows. firmly cut mouth and very good
teeth-signs OF good sense, self-contres
Judgment of human nature and a cheerfE
disposition. She is always plainly BIZ
neatly dressed, speaks in low, Weil-b.et
voice. and has the EaroJ faculty OF be-
ing all things to all
Where do all these young and pretty
girls come from and how do they happen
to select such a business as tending bar?
All ranks of life have their outlets fo7
the restless spirits. In all classes there
are to be found certain percentage of
girls who are fond of life and amusement
and for whom home comforts have no at
traction. They are bored to death with
the nonotony OF sewing and dishwashing
Just as some boys have craving to go
to sea instead Of to business, so some
girls long FOR a freer and wider life than
Girls OF the middle classes who have the
advantage Of good education usually
go upon the stage II they are good look
ing enough; otherwise they go into bust
ness as clerks or typewriters, or even
as salesWomen in the big stores. Girls
of the lower classics. who have little OF
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