The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-03

QlSCanC CE1oS OF painted horse men charging. From my hard won vantage on the ridge had an unob- structed view of the encampment a great circle of tepees and teRes three miles in circumference, crad4ed in a sag of the mberless hills.
 Five thousand Sioux were here in alE their martial sp1endor, painted and decked< and trapped for war; living anew their tales of might and repeat ing in mimtcry their greatest battles Five days the feasting had continued. Five meEn1ngs had I been awakened at dMwn to see thousand ochered, femffBexed horsemen pour out of the guH1es upon the camp, their horses rearing and plunging. their rifles snap ping and splitting, while the valley rocked tortflefr baftiecries and to the anszzeEing cla1nor of the army which met them The oeFors of a savage people had begun to pail on me. the sound of*asstrznge language hadAbegun to snzaDysana, and I I1cnged for smother wf1foe man or a word in my own tongue. Next to&n1y tent was another one ve7slehrhad <heen erected during my absezce, and fhnough tae flap was thrust the esheafb ef my friend. the gov ernmen5 doctor.
  shook ha@ hnxad. s'I'm as lonesome asa deaf mute atsas song recital"
 ssnatss the matter 7s Won't the In- <aians <azkstoxy xyouT
 -T guess they would if they could, but thex can't Out o6 these 5000 Sioux I hapenst found one who can un<lsrsfaud g word say, and I've tried scAss z96D of them"
 The old ee1f1emaA lRuEhed-
 ssEour government schools have Eone -baeksdn the betting with me, doe. You 11zlst keep your graduates under aocksand Hey-"
 ssThey can a11-speak English if they want to-that is, the younger ones can. Some few of the cid people are too proud to try, but the others can talk as well as we can until they for get-''
 DO you mean to say these aborigiv mes have been fooling me2 I don't be lieve it,~ said l. There is one that can't talk English, and I'll make bet on it" I indicated a passing brave with an eagle feather headdress reaching far down his naked legs He was magnificent animal young, 1.-the and as tall and straight as a sap Iing-and- was decked from head to feet in his gorgeous panop1y- I've tried him twice, and he simply doesn't undersfand.''
 My friend called to the warrior:
 Hey. TomI Come here mfnute.' 7 The Indian came, and the doctor con timed:
 s.when do you hold the horse races. Thomasgs
 tTomorrow. o'clock, unless 1t rains," said the fellow
 .eAre you going to ride?v
 eNe. My race horse is sick.''
 As the ocher daubed figure vanished 1nte the dusk the old man turned to me. saying:
 ssFaae-D
 -Whats'
 -xaze. B. A. He's graduate.''
 s7u7posszbIer' I declared- sfWhy, could hardly understand him. He kalks like foreigner or as if he was 6ust 1earning the language
 ssExaez1y. That ha1ting unfamiliari- Ey wfth English marks the death and necey o1 his learning. In three years hacrs hsMF he an Indian again through and through Oh,s the reservation Is full of fellows like that" The doctor continued. with sigh: "ft's melan7 eholy acknowledgment toJ make, but Dur work seems to count for nearly nothing. Ttss-their blood.
 s9've heard a graduating class read Theses from a platform, sing cantatas nn chorus and deliver oEa4dons- Then I have seen those same young fellows three months later squatting in te- pees, grunt1ng in their natfve-tongues and eating with their fingers
 Some years ago I felt was well on my way to success, for I found a youth who offered every promise o1 great manhood. studied him until ] knew his every trait and his every strength He did not seem to have my weakness. I raised him under my own supervision into a tall. straight xellow as handsome as figured bronze and with a mind far in advance of his people and his years. He had the best blood of the nation in him, being the son of war chief, and they called him Thomas Running Elk. He was educated at the agency school under me. and he went through his college course like a stag at the head of 2 great herd, a silent, dignifed, shad owy figure, unapproachabIe and mys terious to his fellow students. In al things he excelled, but he was besi perhaps in athletics, the credit fol which also took, feeling godHkt satisfaction in my work
 News came to me of his victories on track and field and gridiron, fol his professors kept me posted, being likewise interested in my experiment. but as for him he never wrote. It was not his nature, nor did he tommuni / rate with his people.
 "It was in nay protege's senior veal that the great thing entered his life the thing I had craftilysS built upor from the start and had well nigh de Epaired of. The girl entered, but in stead of Running Elk being drawn te the woman, as I had planned, the wo Egan went to him.
 ou'veA heard of olG Henry liar manz Yes, the railroad king It was his daughter Alicia