Exeter Advocate, 1901-4-18, Page 2pirriiii(701118RE2
BY M. QUAD.
Copyright, 1901, by C. B. Lewis. §
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A DREA,M.
stood where giftS were shoWered on men
beaven,
And sores hadbenera end the joy thereof,
jiiad some recelved With solernu, radiant faceS
,The gift of love.
Tbe green 1 sae of bayleaves and of, laurel,
Of gold the gleam. -
hi voice spoke to me, standing empty handed„
"Ii‘oi: thee—a. dream."
• Forbear to pity ye whO, yield.), laden,
Forth from the place .of heaven's bounty went.
Yv'ho marvel that I stnile, my hands still.fempty;
I aux content.
'Xe cannot Ifiless hew dowered beyond the measure
Of your receiving to myself I seem. .
VonelY aM1 cold, I yet Pass ell enraptured;
I hav:., my dream.
--Anne Reeve Aldrich,
teem
They said it was a reckless thing to
do and that only Americans would
have attempted it. On the west side of
the Sierra Madre mountains in Mexico
are the roaming, grouads of the Yaqui
endlans, and between the Yaqui and
Vuerte rivers is their main stronghold.
And yet lye opened the Sunset naine
with only the mountain range between
us and every man from president to
• the cheapest workman realizing that
we might be attacked at any hour. The
Yo.quis have warred with the Mexicans
for the last 200 years, and their hands
are raised against all others who in-
vade their domains.
We were months in getting ma-
chinery over from Chihuahua, erecting
buildings and fairly opening the mine,
and, though we had a guard of 50
Mexican soldiers, we worked In the
shadow of death, as it were. If the
Yaquis ,came through •the pass, they
would come In such numbers as to
overwhelm us. Strangely enough, as
we thought at the time, they let us
alone, and at length the guard was
withdrawn, and we were left to our-
selves. We had a force of 30 white
men and 100 peon laborers. Not one
of these peons could be depended on
SEP.IES OF EXPLOSIONS SHOOK THE EARTs.
In case of a row. The engine louse we
made our fort, and 30 men behind its
loopholed walls would make a good
fight of It. But yet we had something
more than powder and lead to depend
Ileon. If the Yaquis came through the
mountain pass, they woule approach
the works, two miles distant, by way
ef two ravines which led quite to our
doors. In some places these ravines
were only six or seven feet deep, in
others over 30, with stone walls on
either side. Under the direction of a
civil engineer powder and dynamite
charges were hidden away in these
walls and buried in the earth and wires
connected with the power house and
an electric battery.
Had it been possible to buy the
friendship of the Yaquis we sbould
have attempted it. and thus secured
our safety, but we knew they were
not to be tempted by anything we
could offer. We had been working
full force for three months, with an
Warne now and then, when wedearned
evloy we bad not been disturbed by
raiding parties. The whole flghting
force of the Yaquis, umbering be-
tween 4,000 and 5,000, was gathering
for a grand effort to sweep across the
mountains and clear the country to the
Rio Grande. This had been the dream
of the chief for years, ‘and his people
bad been treasuring up rifles and am-
munition. When the force was finally
ready to move, the Mexican govern-
ment was powerless to. stop it except
on the north, and It was too late to
send out anything like a general alarm.
The 4,000 web armed savages, know-
ing no mercy, fell upon prospector,
freighter, bunter, miner and villager,
and not a man escaped from their
bands. Almost by accident we got
word of the movement, and the mine
• was closed, the peons were sent away,
and we prepared for a siege. nook -
outs were established along both es -
:vines, and we had four days in which
to bear the tales of panic stricken
fugitives who prissed,our way.
The Yaquis had no pity for age, sex
Or condition. They found the people
almost defenseless, and when they laacl
captured a village every man, WOrtifitl
and child was put to the torture. Ev-
ery habitation was burned, live stock
wee slaughtered, and even the dogs
and cats were killed. The idea was te
leave nothing alive behind them. The
army did not push forward at swift
pace, but dallied along and spent houre
witnessing the torture of its victim.
Wo kn,eW when the Indians finally Me-
tered tbe mountain pass, headed
straight for. us, and 11 was half an hoer
before sunset one evening when we
Saw the first of tbeir force debauch on
the plain and begin a close survey of
our situation. We Were ready for
them, but we knew that no attack
:would be made before Maiming. They
Would have bad 0 long Mardi and be
eatigued, ancl they would wait uutil all
their -force was up. An hour after sun.
rise next morning we witnessed a spec-
tacle that made tile fleeli creep a bit.
Vully 4,000 Yaquis gathered in e com-
pact body between us and the mouth or
the pees and chanted a wild and sav-
age song, and we were only 30 against
them. They sent no flag of truce to de-
mand a surreucler. They may have
even hoped we would show fight, as
they hail met with no resistance as yet
As we had hoped and planned for, the
Yaquis advanced by the ravines. A
body of about 500 was told off for each
ravine, skirmishers were sent on ahead,
and the main body looked on. Thirty
men with Winchester rifles inside of a
stone fort are no mean foe, but we soon
realized that in this case we were al-
most helpless. So swiftly and steadily
did the Indians advance and so hot was
their tire at the loopholes that we soon
had five men killed and could not reply
except at great risk. Their advance
was within a stone's throw of us in both
ravines when WO resorted to the elec-
tric wires. Few men will ever witneS$
the sight we did. There was a series
of explosions which shook the earth for
miles around, with bursts of flame and
smoke leaping to the clouds, and after
One fearful yell there was silence in
both ravines, It was half an hour be-
fore the smoke blew away so that we
'COUIC1 see the main band. The warriors
stood there without movement, seem-
ing to have been struck dumb, and it
was another hour before they broke up
into small parties and marched into the
.mouth of the pass. We thought it a
ruse, and no man left the power house
until next afternoon. Then it was dis-
covered that they had gone for good,
and that without looking after their
killed or wounded.
Down in the two ravines, buried un-
der the debris or lying scorched and
toru mid mangled among the rocks,
were over 900 warriors, all wiped out
at the tick of the clock. It was such a
• stupendous loss, such a terrible and
mysterious calamity, that even the
tierce Yaquis were terror stricken and
turned back. They returned to their
valley, awed and frightened, telling
a story that awed and frightened those
left behind. and from that date their
power was broken. They have made
war since ouly in small parties and In
a balf hearted way. and their dream
of driving out the Gringo and the Mex-
ican and recovering their own has
been sbattered forever.
The Women Shave Their Heads.
One part of Egypt shows where the
ontward and visible evidences of the
aboriginal have been softened down
with a veneer—which the spfteners
fondly imagined is indicative of in-
ward and spiritual grace. This is along
a 350 mile stretch of the White Nile,
where the Shilluks live and move and
have their being.
NOW, the Shilluks are a picturesque
and a promising people. They have
their Fashoda for a capital and their
memories of Lord Kitchener of Khar-
tum which no nmn noisy take from
tbem. Wherefore, what matters it that
they have lost their original lawless-
ness, their former turbulence and their
cbeerful specialty of roasting the en-
emy on the point of ttle spit?
Now the Shilluks are so civilized
they carry short wooden clubs after
the fashion of the Broadway police-
,
man and occasionally brandish a long
spear in true light opera style. They
lead an enviable life, these Shilluks;
nothing to do all the livelong day but
lie on the mossy bank and spear the
horny bided hippopotamus as he glides
within range, or make a dead crocodile
of a live oue by the simple expedient
of harpooning him through his vitals.
As for work, that is for woman, and
my lord of the Shilluks never puts his
hand to it.
Agriculture Is yet an undeveloped
Industry, and what little developing
has already taken place has been at
the instance and heeds of the wives.
The Shilluk country is not the birth-
place of the seven brotherhood sisters
of glorious hirsute memory. All the
women of the tribe shave their heads.
--New York Herald.
Terrible Effect of Bud Air.
At every moment of the human life
the air which we breathe goes coursing
through the most delicate and sensitive
of the wonderfully constructed organp
of the human system to purify and re-
invigorate tbe vital currents of life.
But what if the purifier sloall itself be
unclean and laden with the seeds of
pollution? Having once done its work
and come forth tainted and foul, what
if it shall again and again be called to
perform the task for which it is no lon-
ger fitted? 'The natural and inevitable
deduction is not far to reach. The
blood is no longer purified, but it goes
coursing through the body, the source
of disease and corruption instead of
being tbe fountain of pure, perfect
heal t hfulness.
Other organs ey sympathy or by di-
rect contagion become affected. The
imagination is too often influenced as
well, anticipation conjures up dire
evils, and the sufferer, who is now in
euch earnest, Mee from one "bloott pu-
rifier" or "toule" to another, gaining
perhaps 'temporary and questionable
relief at tbe expense of a system loaded
with poisonous and harnotul drugs,
WIlOSO reaction may be expected at any
time and in ahnost any horrible form.
A Quick iseveet.
A leading counsel for the defendant
In an accident damage case where the
injury hall been occasioned by a jet of
eteam scalding the comploinant's back
and neck as he was driving past the de-
feudant's place argued to the jury tloW
the plaintife was guilty of contributory
negligenee and should have looked tie
to avoid the accidePt. 'I'he quick wit-
ted counsel for the complainant retort
ed: "Oh, no. If he bad looked up, in-
etead olf suing for damage to the back
of our head we should have bad to
charge you for the IoSe of both eyes,"
NtlIOWSER.BOAS,p.1,.
WHILE HIS WIFE IS AWAY HE TRIE8
BOARDING •HOUSE LIFE.
Ire EnSlir FOutid o, Place "Wlflt AU
tile Comforts or Home," but TItere
Wits Trouble at the First Ideal, am
flower Was Told to Go.
[Copyright, 1001, by C. E. Lewis.]
Mrs. Boevser had not been in good
health for a time, and the doctor had
prescribed a visit to her mother in the
country.
"You will go, certainly," replied Sir.
Bowser whee informed of what bad
been ordered. • "There is nothing what-
ever to prevent, and it's a wonder I tlid
not think of it myself."
"But you will be put to great trou-
ble," she protested. "You can sleep
'DON'T YOU wonne. ONE LITTLE BIT ABOUT
bere nights, of course. but you don't
like lunching around at restaurants."
"1)On't you worry one little bit about
me. I shall neither sleep bere nor
lunch around. 1'11 shut the house up
and go to some private bearding
house."
"I'm afraid you—you won't line it,
auil there is the cat to he considered'.
"Exactly.. our teeme are all right,
and I thine I'll join the family."
Mr. Bowser sent his trunk over and
turned the cat outdoors, and that even-
ing he "joined." He was just in time
for dinner. For ap hour past . he had
been thinklug o3reteieeoup, porter-
house -steak, ference fried potatoes and
Mocha coffee, and he sat down with an
aPPetite., Soup was brought him. It
was thin soup; it was watery soup; it
was soup which tasted of nothing in
particular. Ile sipped a spoonful and
glared around him at the "family" and
realized that he was in for a row.
There was steak, but it was not per-
terhouso; there were maehed potatoes,
but they were' full of lumps. Mr. Bow-
ser chewed at his meat a moment, tast-
ed of the potatoes and then leaned
back in hs chair. Had Mrs. Bowser
been there she would have felt the
earth trembling and hastened to pre-
vent a calamity, but the lanelady saw
no signs. When she saw that Mr. Bow-
ser aid not eat, she tenderly said:
"1 suppose, poor man, you are think-
ing of the wife who is far away, \and
so you have no appetite?"
"Madam, is this what you were
pleased to term your festive board'?"
he queried in reply as be waved his
hand over the table.
"Is anything wrong?"
He was about to reply that there
was and to give particulars when the
"family" froze him into silence with
their looks. There were 11 'of them,
and they were “agen" him to the last
ene. Realizing the situation, he rose up
as calmly as possible, left the room and
went up to the fiewly papered r000I
with southern exposure. The landlady
folletved him. It Was Wer duly as the
bead •of the "family" and a motherly
woman to comfort the disconsolate.
"You and your wife haven't been
parted very often, I take it?" she said
as Mr. Bowser opened the door to her.
"Look Imre, woman, what sort of a
baeh house do you call this?" he de-
manded as be turned on her and ina
stinctively looked around for the cat. 1
"Sir! Sir! Is it possible that you
are speaking to me?" she demanded.
"Of. course I am! Do you expect
that 0 man who has ever had a home
of his own can put up with such fod-
der as was placed before um? That
soup was slop; that beef came from a
neck piece. Your slovenly cook did
net half mash her potatoes. Why. ir
Jig
\
THE "FAMILY" FROZE HIM INTO SILENCE WITIOI THEIR LOOgS.
-Haug the cat!" beartily exclaimed
err. Bowser. "If sbe isn't big enough
to fisb for herself, she'll not keep me
banging around here. I'll drop over
occasionally to see how she gets along,
but no cat is going to interfere with my
progeamme. As for my not liking
boarding house life, I expect rather to
enjoy it. I've long had a theory about
boarding houses, .and now is a good
time to see what it is worth. You
just get ready and trot along and don't
worry over me."
"If you have any rows with land-
ladies, you won't—won't let them get
Into the papers?" pleaded Nies. Bow-
ser.
"What will I have rows about?" he
innocently queried. "The room, the
bed and the cooking twill be all right,
and tbere'll be no occasion for any
hard words."
elrs. Bowser departed by an early
morning train, and Mr. Bowser lost no
time in looking out for quarters. He
knew of a score of boarding houses
not too far away, and within an hour
he was pulling the bell at the top of
a flight of steps. It was the landlady
herself who answered the ring, and
when she understood that he was in
search of a temporary home the frozen
look she had put on for the benefit of a
canvasser was replaced by a smile
that she tried her best to make appear
motberly.
"I think I understand you," she said,
with a friendly nod. "You are looking
for a place which will extend the com-
forts of home, and you have come to
the right house. You are used to a
good bed and a dainty table, and you
desire to meet congenial people around
the festive boatel."
"Esactly, ma'am, and Providence
seems to have guided my footsteps.
I am sure we shall get along famous-
ly. I'd like to 'send my trunk over
during the day and be Imre to dinner.
What are your figures?"
"For an elegant front room, newly
papered and with running water and
plcinty of belie—for this room and my
luxurious table I must ask yeti ere
per week. I could have got $15 yes-,
terday, but I didn't like the looks of
the man. Ile looked. to Inc to be what
they call a kicker. I have never bad
one of iny boarders find a word of
fault yet. We are the same as a faint-
ly, you know, and many pf us call each
other by our given names. It will be
the same as ntlopting yoa into a tender
hearted Christian family. You don't
look like a fault finder."
"I hope not, manilla"
"end instead of great hunks of corn-
ed leief you prefer dainties at table"
my cook had dared to set such a meal
before me I'd have--have"—
"You are intoxicated,. sir!" she inter-
rupted.
"Bosh!"
"Then, sir, there is no excuse for
your language, and as the head of this
Christian family and as the owner of
this festive board down stairs I shall
have to ask you to vacate this room."
"I was going on my own accord," re-
plied Mr. Bowser, who wanted to kick
over chairs and jump at the cat. "I
have always had a theory that a board-
ing house which would feed its patrons
on lamb chops instead of bull beef, on
potatoes mashed with a club instead
of a crowbar, on Java or Alone cof"—
"Never mind your theories, sir!" in-
terrupted the "mother of the family"
as she,waved him out of the room and
.along the ball and down stairs. The
other'boarders had gathered to see the
kicker depart. They were tall, thin,
cadaverous boarders and most of them
two weeks behind with tbeir cash, and
they lined up in the hall and looked
coldly and cruelly at Mr. Bowser as he
passed. When the door bad closed be-
hind hirn with a bang and be had de-
scended the steps, he looked around
at the darkness and thought of Mrs.
Bowser and home and the cat, and a
tear gathered in his eye and ran down
his nose. M. Queen.
[To Be Continued.]
'quack! Quack:
Mrs. Yotingsved-el can't make 'at t,
dent, how it is yea have taken such 8 -
to duces fifthly..
lit. Youngeved (who has eust become
rnedico)—Ifind their remarks se pea.
eonal,
THE GENTIAN.
As one Irde wakened to the call of love,
Whose eager youth ran by nor yielded ton,
Withheld aloof beneath a cold control,
Disdaining heart and throning mind above;
Yet In millife, at floodtide of succeSs,
Lays power and honors down before her feet,
Compelled to mighty love by love as meet,
Unselled, unswerving, final, measureless;
Se wakes the gentian with November near
roa
OuNtloirv:slist\l'irssuanungalc'tr tnondb\t'e: th'
But as late loye, with passion unto death,
—Grace Richardson in Atlantio.
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The writer OWCS to Dick Huy' a debt
not exactly oe gratitude, as the story
will demonstrate, which she, by writ-
ing his biography, seeks to discharge.
Dick Huyns history will never be writ-
ten by me nor by any one else who
knew him to adorn a Sunday school li-
brary. He was not that kind of boy.
Dick Was an Apache Indian, with all
the characteristics of total depravity
that the word Apache conveyor sug
gests. We were children together,
Dick and I. We lived, fouglat and play-
ed together for two years in the same
army post. On one memorable occa-
sion Dick, instigated by the devil—for
1 firmly believe in the devil, if only for
Apaches—dropped • down the neck of
my frock coat a live toad. It was the
cause of my first fit of hysterics, and I
determined if I ever grew old enough I
would tell the whole world how bad a
young Apache could be.
In 1872, if I remember rightly, Gen-
eral Crook had succeeded, after years
of bloody war and the loss of hundreds
ef good men, in subduing most of the
bands composing tbe Apache Dation of
New Mexico and Arizona. They had
dwelt in the strongholds of mountain
and desert, from which they frequent-
ly emerged to rob and murder all min-
ers or emigrants that they could am-
bush, leaving nothing for the human
mind to conceive of in the way of cru-
elty wbenever a white man fell into
their power.
At the reservation, although tbey
were well fed and quite decently treat-
ed, it was necessary to watch them
constantly, and large bodies of troops
were detailed for that purpose. Never-
theless, scarcely a week passed but
a small squad of Apaches, usually led
by some attractive squaw, would slip
quietly past the guards and escape
through the darkness into their beloved
cactus plains and mountain barrens.
Roll call nearly every morning devel-
oped these absentees, and nest clay
would come news of murder, rapine
and bermes generally. A favorite
Apache mode of disposing of tee un-
suspecting freighter, miner or emi-
grant whose camp they had succeeded
In raiding was to tie tbe victim by the
four limbs to stakes and then to build
a fire on that portion of his body desig-
nated in the old fashioned almanacs
as "virgo."
There seemed to be something par-
ticularly fascinating to the Apache
temperament In this form of torture.
Death being long in coming, it gave
the squaws and papooses plenty of
ebance to invent small torments on
the side, as It were. The women and
children emigrants— But enough. Suf-
fice it to say that the absolute hatred
entertained by these Indians for the
whites was fully reciprocated, especial-
ly by the soldiers. It was no easy
matter to track and successfully fol-
low the runaways through the cactus
and mesquite thickets, over the barren
deserts and desolate mountains that
make up .the topography of Arizona.
But in that parched country water is
only to be found at certain springs and
water boles, between which days of
travel often intervene, but which are
equally well known to soldiers and to
Indians.
So when the morning report showed
to General Crook that so many war-
riors, squaws arid papooses were
missing the grim old warrior would
make no sign of pursuit, but on the
night following or perhaps the next
one a squadron of mounted men would
Ole silently out of the reservation bear-
ing orders to move as rapidly as pos-
sible to the water hole of Palo Pinto
or to Agna Grande spring or to some
other place where the presence of the
precious fluid favored a camping place
for the tee/legacies. The troops were
always positively instructed to bring
bach no prisoners, all matters of de-
tail toeing left to the officers in com-
mand. Ope .June morning tbere were
reported missing '8 Indians and 11
squaws and papooses, including Wah-
nein°, than whom a more depraved and
cruel Indian never existed, even in Ari-
zona.
Two nights afterward a squad of the
Twenty-third infantry, Crook's OW11
regiment, under Lieutenant Iluyl, a
splendid young fellow, who has since
left the service, was sent out on a
scout with the usual orders. No trace
of the renegatles was found, but a
bullied ranch and stage station and a
cremated cowboy gave sufficient evi-
dence or Indians at large. The next
eight, or rather just at dawn, after a
long and fatiguing 'morel), the scents
reaehed a natural rock basiti at the
foot of one of the steepest and most
inaccessible linobs to be folind in des-
olate Arizona. This basin had often
collected a supply of acrid water,
which, however, was drinkable enough
in that country. A thin Vfl por of smoke
from a nearly spent fire eonvinced the
troopers that their night's march had
not been in vein, eel 00 creeping up
as close as possible the hostiles were
outlined neatest the rocks faet, asleep.
Mae little squadron silently deployet,
out tse as to aYold missing 0 Single shot
and at the word of eommand fieed, kill-
ing nearly every one oe the Indians.
The others jumped up, only to be eut
down by the reserve fire. The only two
unhurt were Wahuemo and his st-year.
old papoose. Grasping the child, he
sprang for the mountain side, scaling
the rocks like a eluunois amid a show-
er of Mallets, soon distancing his pur-
suers and getting out of range of their
rifles. Halting on a shelf of rock, he set
the child down and proceeded to in-
dulge no every exeibition of contempt
and derision that bis imagination could
invent to aggravate the discomfited
troopers, who gnashed their several
Sets Of teeth in rage at the insults of
the old heathen. They were relieved
at last by the arrival of Lieutenant
anyl, who bore in his hand a new tar-
get rifle, received only the day before
the scouts started.
This wonderful gun was guaranteed
to carry—I forget -1,100 yards with ac-
curacy, and the lieutenant, who was
one of the best fellows in the world in
garrison, but quite cold hearted and
bloodthirsty where Apaches were con-
cerned, announced that while he was
, doubtful of his gun carrying near the
Indian, yet he was going to try. The
Apache, feeling secure against their
carbines, continued his taunts until
Huy!, taking deliberate aim, with
sights raised for 1,500 yards, fired. His
aim was true and the gun all that it
was boasted. The old savage plunged
face forward over the -ledge and crash-
ed clown the rocky mountain side at
the very feet or his slayer.
The attention of the soldiers was
now directed to the papoose, the sub-
ject of this sketch. That'interesting
infant still calmly occupied the ledge
and was evidently turning the situa-
tion over in his mind. The troopers,
with Lieutenant Intiy1 at their head,
slowly and painfully clambered up the
rocks and finally approached the or-
phan, who, instead of squalling as a
civilized Christian child would have
done, commenced tlitowing stones at
his pursuers, bitting Lieutenant EIuyl
squarely on the nose with a. half pound
rock and drawing blood copiously. 1 -Te
followed this success by other good
throws, causing as uearly.a panic as
possible. At last, by flanking him, our
Apache was knocked down by a blow
from a saber and stunned. His capture
was now easy, but the lieutenant's
orders were to return no prisoners.
"What shall we do with the little dev-
il?" asked one of the men. "Shoot him
el. throw him over the cliff after his fa-
ther?" The "little 'devil" bad regained
consciousness by this time and deliber-
ately set his teeth into the calf of the
'soldier's leg. Lieutenant Huyenvipecl
his bloody nose and replied: "A. baby
W110 fights this way ought not to be
• killed in cold !stood. By George, I'll
take him back to San Carlos if it costs,
me my commission!"
A gag was put into the young one's
mouth to prevent any more biting, and,
with a soldier holding each hand, he
was landed on the plain below. There
he was placed on horseback, a lariat
tied to one foot, passed under the horse
and tied to tbe other, and thus floe
troopers returned to the reservation. t
' Lieutenant Huyl was a great favorite
with General Crook, but he had dis-
obeyed orders and confidently expected.
to be put under arrest. But the general!
had already heard something of thc.
stone throwing affair and had enjoyed
a hearty laugh over Huelts broken
nose. When the lieutenant in linking
bis report reached the point where.
Wahnenoo was killed, the general in-
terrupted him with, "Be the way, I
think you had better not let rne know.
officially any •more of this scout than
you haie already told." Then glancing.
at the swollen nose he burst into a roar
of laughter, in Which all tbe other offi-
cers joined.
The young Indian was confined in
the arrnoey until his first fright was
overcome. The soldiers of Company re.';
named him Dick Ethyl and, fitting him
out with a uniform fashioned from the '
lieutenant's old clothes, regularly
adopted hitn into the service.
In less than a month the small re-
cruit learned to express himself toleree
bly in English and in a very short tiine
had accumulated all the accomplish-
ments of tobacco chewing, and profani-
ty possessed by the soldiers. He else
picked up a wonderful knowledge of
bugle calls and evolutions, always turn-
ing out at roll calls and taking his,
place at the extreme left of the compa-
ny when in line.
. When I first knew him, he had been
under the refining influences of the
United States service two years. If
that Indian had Improved in that time,
I an) very glad I did not know him be-
fore. 1 -le was not beautiful according
to classic standards.
The Apaches flatten th,e heads of
tbeir babies between boards, and this,.
as much as anything else, served to
render Dick unattractive .to us chile
drew Then he had such a predilection
for carrying snakes in his pocket! The
.eoldiersespoiled him, or course, and up-
held him in every villainy be chose to
perpetrate. When be shot I'm ruffles in
an ambulance filled with W0111841 and
children, catising a runaway- fuel a
SLIRTSll tip, one Soldier thraslied • him
with a barrel stave and a dozen inert3
gave him 5 cent pieces to comfort him.
They alternately pounded and petted,
but it was all one to him. He seldom
laughed and never cried. Ile was au
A Dade.). '
I said he never meal. I will note an
exception. Every Saturday afternoon
the men took him out behind the quar-
ters and gave him a bath. 'Inds procese
was very simple. They stripped off his,'
elittle savage could be beard all over thO
10)oTistgdt
post, ues e aonee a:1 or nriesdt the the
l s 11 i?iseek' $0101 inho
I have not seen Dick SillCO 1 Was D'
years old, but I liee to think that he'
grew up and regularly enlietecl in thei
eld regiment and is DOW 80 honor to
the service.—New York Tribuina