The Princeton union., 1900-09-27
THE PRIN UNIoN: TIu RsDAY sEPTEafBER a. 1000

5 + e $4,000 Ea5Fs =
witty, brilliant fellow, who only
danced square dances, and several ca
Diet corporals, all hop managers, in
their red sashes. Why, she was just the
proudest girl in the room! And when
the drum beat and the hop broke up
she couldn't believe she'd been there
an hour and three-quarters, and then
Mr.. Dean escorted her back to the
hotel, and Daddy had smiled and
looked on and told him he must come
into the cavalry when he graduated
netx June, and he'd show him the
Sioux country, and Pappoose would
teach him Indian dances. It was all
simply lovely. OF course she knew it
was all due to Jessie that her splendid
big brother should give up a whole
evening from his lady friends. (Afiss
Brockway spoke SO patronizingly to
her in the hall when the girls were all
talking together after the cadets had
scurried away to answer tattoo roll
caN.) Of course she understood that
if it hadn't been for Jessie none of
the cadets would have taken the
slightest notice of her, mere chit,
with three years of school still ahead
of her. But all the same it was some
thing to live over and over again, and
dream of over and over again, and the
seashore seemed very stupid after the
Point. Next year-neXt June-when
Marshall graduated Jessie was to go
and see that wonderful spot, and go
she did with Pappoose, too, and though
it was all as beautiful as Pappoose
had described, and the scene and the
music and the parades and all were
splendid, there was no deiriously
lovely hop, for in those days there
could be no dancing in the midst of
examinations. There was only the one
great ball given by the second to the
graduating class, and Marshall had so
many, many older girls to dance with
and say good-by to he had only time for
a few words with his sister and her
shy, silent little friend with the big
brown eyes to whom he had been so
kind the previous summer, when there
were three hops a week and not so
many hoppers in long dresses. Still,
Marshall had one dance with each, and
introduced nice boys from the lower
classes, and it was all very we'll, only
not what Pappoose had painted, and
Jessie couldn't help thinking and say
ing it might all have been so much
sweeter if it hadn't been for that odious
Miss Brockway, about whom Marshall
hovered altogether too much, but, like
the little Indian the girls sometimes
said she was, Pappoose looked on and
said nothing.
All the same, Mr.. Dean had had
glorious graduation summer of it,
though Jessie saw too little of him,
and Pappoose nothing at all after the
breaking of the class. In September
the girls returned to school, friends
as close as ever, even though a little
cloud overshadowed the hitherto un-
broken condolences, and Marshall
joined the cavalry, as old Folsom had
suggested, and took to the saddle, the
prairie, the bivouac and buffalo hunt
as though native and to the manner
born. They were building the Union
Pacific then, and he and his troop,
with dozens of others scattered along
the line, were busy scouting the neigh
borhood, guarding the surveyors, the
engineers, and finally the track-layers,
for the jealous red men swarmed in
myriads all along the way, lacking
only unanimity, organization and lead
ership to enable them to defeat the
enterprise. And then when the whist
ling engines passed the forks of the
Platte and began to climb up the lon &
slope of the Rockies to Cheyenne and
Sherman Pass, the trouble and disaf-
fection spread to tribes far more nu-
merous and powerful further to the
north and northwest; and there rose
above the hordes of warriors chief
whose name became the synonym for
deep-rooted and determined hostility
to the whites-Machpealo (Red
Cloud )-and old John Folsom, he whom
the Indians loved and trusted, grew
anxious and troubled, and went from
post to post with words of warning on
his tongue.
Gentlemen" he said to the commits
sloners who came to treat with the
Sioux whose hunting grounds adjoined
the line of the railway, "it's all very
we'll to have peace with these people
here. 1t is wise to cultivate the friend
ship of such chiefs as Spotted Tail and
Oldham Afraid of His Horses, but
there are irreconcilables beyond them,
far more numerous and powerful, who
are planning, preaching war this min
ute. Watch Red Cloud, Red Dog, Lit
tie Big Man. Double, treble your gar
risons at the posts along the Big Horn;
get your women and children out of
them, or else abandon the forts entire
ly. 1 know those warriors we'll. Thew
outnumber you twenty to one. Re-
enforce your garrisons without delay
or get out of that country, one of the
two. Draw every thing south of the
Platte while yet there is time"
But wiseacres at Washington said
the Indians were peaceable,. and all
that was needed was new post ard
another little garrison at Warrior Gan,
in the eastward foothills of the range.
Eight hundred thousand dollars would
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