Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1892, Page 10

LA THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY,-JANUARY 2. 1892—-SIXTEEN PAGES. = FOR EVENING WEAR. Designs for Haadisoase Hall Dresses to Be Worn This Winter. GAUZY GOWNS OF BEAUTY. Embroidered Silk, Filmy Crepes, Velvet and Bengaline Costumes—Beautiful Fans and How to Use Them- The Advantages of the Modish Corset—W hite Plush Wraps. Special Corresponience of The Evening Star New York, January 1, 1893. OME INGENIOUS writer has been at- tempting to explain why we dance--that is, we grown people. He is willing to admit that in nature everything young dances—the lumbkin gambols on the green, the colt leaps and prancesin the field. the calf romps in the pasture and the chil- dren. too, without wait- ing for the coming of the dancing master,exe- cute nature's rhythmic movements in their play and frolicking, “But,” exclaims this ould there be anything more ridicu- lous than the spectacle of grown folks capering about @ so-called bal! room in gauzy attire and keeping time to music faces serious enough for afuneral”” Possibly not, but it's the fashion to do so and therefore we doit. Then, again, it’s an excuse to wear evening dress and young or old, with- out exceptioa, are always glad to have an op- portunity to don one of those gauzy, filmy owns, as delicate in color as in texture, with its garniture of flowers or lace or embroidery. RICH PALL DRESSER. The moment the holidays have passed the faskionable world scts te work dancing, and there is no rest until Lenten days come to cheek the gayety. Ball dresve rich and eley: this se n. feacommon thing to see as dresses to wear with easy grace and elegant composure, for in ita woman needs two rare things to make her appear well, to wit: native and acquired grace,” and it might be added that a ball dress is like the elegant frame of » picture—it strengthens and emphasizes bad points quite as much as it does the good ones. As onr countrywomen aro the best dancers in the world, it might be inferred that they look best in ball costumes, but such is not the case. The English woman, still, te und jy the queen of the ball room as our women are the queens of the drawing room—an excellence due to their vivacity, in- telligence and spiritual beauty, -although it must be confessed that the American voice has not the depth and softuess of the English voice. STRIPED GAUZE BALL DRESS. In the fourth illustration is seen eti!] another ball dress to present for your consideration. It isa thoroughly ckarming costume, being made } up in stri The gauze skirt is made over a wi rt, which is finished with a ruching of the gauze cut on the cross. These two sicirts are mado with trains and cut ver bias in the middle of the back, but, in addi- tion, the side breadths of the faille are also cut Dias’ ‘The g is only bias as stated. There must be gores sewed in at the top and these are covered by the bouilloned gauze basques cut straight, which surround the en- tire corsage and are laced at the back. The waist darts must be made in the lining and the gauze is pleated over it The gauze for the corsage is m one piece, cut on the bias, and has only one seam, that of the frout. A dress form wilibe needed to arrange the pleats. The out is framed with bands of illu- sion, and s bertna set off with velvet ribbcn and fringe;smali bouffant sleeves. THE CORSELET is extremely modish for evening wear ani is often made np in velvet, quite distinct from the gown itself.and may then be worn with bodices of gauze, chiffon or crepe. These high corselets are usually laced at the back. A very pretty way to trim such a corselet for “a dancing dress is to have a ribbon sath first around the waist or hips,commencing at the back and then brought upand crossed above the bust, the ends being carried around again to the back and finished betwees the shoulder blades and falling to the edge of the skirt, ACCESSORIES. The woman who has her ball dress in readi- ness is about in the same position as the little boy at the breakfast table who provided him- self with salt in hopes that somebody might be prevailed upon to give him an ezg. | A ball dress calls for a hundred and one things to make itacomplete costume, lace-trimmed underskirts, silk hose of harmonious tone, silk or kid slip , also in harmony, gloves, flowers, fan, jewels and elegant wraps or mantle for use after dancing or upon leaving the scene of enchantment when the last waltz has expired With a sigh in the music gallery. Si ment must be of ultra-elegance and bear the stamp of unaffected refinement. VELVET AND PENGALINE cosTUME. an embroidered silk muslin tablier and corsage in brocaded stuff, with long basque trimmed with galloog and Louis XV revers, straight flaring collar and turned-up sleeves. Anoter lovely ball dress was in pink satin, cut very low and framed with a silk tulle bertha, tied with pearis in front and on the shoulders. The embroidery was likewise in pearls. ‘The initial illustration represents a very pretty evening gown in pink silk, trimmed in a vers original manner with white satin ribbons. In & general way pink. corn yellow and Nile green are the most modish colors for ball dresses, and the round cut-out is to be much affected, though you must not neglect to garnish it with a tulle or gauze ruche a little more than an inch tm width. For young persons nothing could be more spropFiate and more dressy than the so-called sultan crepes, deligistfully filmy stuffs in silk and wool. They display the figure to the best advarftage and are extremely reasonable in rice—quite a consideration when one has three ughters to dress for the dance. An exquisite evening gown, is represented in my second illustration, made up in v bengaline on a corn-colored taffeta found: ‘The corsage is lined with silk and close at the buck, under the velvet, which hooks invisibly at the shoulder seam.’ You may either make the foundation im princess form or with skirt and waist, only you must finish it completely before — beginning the dress itself. Border the foundation with @ small ruttie and after you have fitted this part of the dress cut the velvet jacke Done it and line it with silk. The bones only reach an Inch or so below the waist. Slash the Jacket at the second dart, first indicating the slashing with basting threads. The jacket is edged on the wrong side with a silk band. The embroidery is done on the ma- terial. The jacket isiaade with basques, but it in eplit at the back and reaches only to the seams of the back pieces. The collar. which must be stiffened, runs down toa point at the back He careful not to turn up the edges of the basques too much or you will Make them flare out. The mousseline plastron must be made after a pattern, and it is fastened on one side and books on the other. The valois collar must be Lined with linen and finished with velvet om both sides. The decolletaxe is amed with pleated crepe de chine and the dress is made in three panels infront. The back breadth makes the train. The sleeves are im crepe de chine with large bracelets of velvet gmbrovlered. For materials choose a corn- lored bengalins and either a black or a pea- cock blue velvet. bar ‘WHITE SLE PARTY DErss. In the third illustration is pictured a very eharming ball toilet made up in white silk, daintily embroidered with pearls and trimmed with biack satin and white English point The high corselet bodice ix of shrimp pink velvet. ‘There ise fan to match, of course A fan has been called @ woman's weapon, but it were more fittingly termed her . offensive and defensive. At the sale of the famous Judic's effects there were found fa? =“ fancy bazar; of colors. sizes and materials; fans for bigh spirits and low spirits, fans to condole with and to cajole with. We American women are—so our European sisters aiirm—too nerv- ous to use fans gracefully. A French writer lately recounted how he had seea a New York girl on one occasion hammer her partner with & valuable feather fan because he had trodden on her train, and. oa another, prod an inatten- tive dancer with it. To use a fan violently is considered the depth of bad form. Its very ‘shape ani material should tell one that it is only intended for beating slow and stately Measures. BALL DRESSES. Said a famous designer of feminine costumes: “Tha ball dress is the most dificult of all | tion that is The wrap which is pictured in the last illus tration will, I think. call forth praise. It is in white plush end may be lined either with Nile green or corn-yellow satin merveilleux. The ROBBING THE MAILS. Thieves Who Make a Business of Plundering Uncle Sam’s Post. AN ALARMING INCREASE. Forty-Eight Stage Coaches “Held Up” During the Last Year—Gangs Organized for Rob- + bing Post Oftices—Highway Mall Thieves— ‘Catching Dishonest Postal Employes. OBBERIES OF TRAINS CARRYING THE United States mails by armed highwaymen have been so frequent of late, a Sra reporter has learned, as to alarm the post office author- ities, More startling even than any of the recent crimes of this character in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming was the “holding up” of a postal conveyance on the public streets in Chicago the other day, on which occasion tered matter valued at $1,700 was stolen. Forty-eight stage coaches transporting letters for Uncle Sam were attacked and plundered during the last year. Until r cently the robbing of a stage bear- ing the mails was a rare occurrence in the southern states, such depredations being almost wholly confined to the wild west, where settlements were sparse and outlaws numerons. Withir the twelvemonth ended June 30 seven- teen coaches were held up and pillaged in the south, twenty-eight mets similar fate in the West, two in the middle states and one in New England. ROBBING PosT OFFICES. Eight hundred and sixty-eight post offices were robbed by burglars during the year. It has been discovered that in maay cases theso crimes were executed by gangs of organized thieves, operating under directions from a chief at headquarters im one big city or another. New York appears to be the center for the business. Aa a rule the robbers attack post offices far distant from their headquartere, where they mect at intervals and divide the plunder. ‘They are equipped with appli- ances for breaking into the ngest build- ings, frequently employing explosives, crack- ing safes by the most expert methods, and not hesitating to resort to murder on occasions No wonder that the inspectors of the department, when they met hero a fortnight ago. strongly recommended fiat increased rewards be of- fered for the capture of such criminals, DESPERATE HIGHWAYHEN. These inspectors have thrilling experiences sometimes in trying to *apture mail robbers. Cte of the most desperate criminals of this de- seniption was the notorious H. W. Burton, otherwise known as Hac: White. He achieved the repute of being the most daring highway- man of recent times, and obtained the very re- markzble distinction of two sentences for life imprismment A feature of his work was that he always did it alone, holding up stage coaches ough himself a cripple. He 1 four such robberies in one day near Austin, Tex. No bandit was ever more cour- teous than he. In one case where he went through @ vehicular conveyance on a lonely road in 1877 he took $20 from one passenger and gave him back $1 for supper; another, who was a drummer from Chicago, gave up $75 and got back $5 commission for cash, while a third unfortunate was permitted to keep his watch because of its sentimental value asan_heir- loom. HAM WHITE'S METHODS. That particular adventure, which occurred near Luling, Tex., brought about Ham White's arrest. Although sentenced for life, he was pardoned by President Hayes in 1881. But the business of highway robbery had an irre- sistible fascination for him and within six weeks Le was at itagain. Secking a new field of operations in Arkansas, his lonely figure, clad in brown jean pantaloous, cavalry boots, slouch hat and mask of black cloth, became very soon a familiar terror of the road. His final exploit was the robbing of a stage between Fayetteville and Alma, There were saw-toothed edge of this dainty garment is trimmed with deep cnenille fringe. “The wrap WHITE PLUSH WRAP. itself is made up of the fronts composing the sleeves, ani the two sides of the back ranning toa point toward the waist. In order that the pelerine may fit snugly to the figure you add an inside vest extending round tothe back. This vest is quite as long as the gar- ment itself, and hooks in front. It is garni- tured in front with a border of white feathers, forming acollar and extending down a little below the first point. You can easily make such a ball wrap as this yourself, and not lighten your purse materially. It will serve you for an occasional night atthe opera. Fur may take the place of the feather trimming. entire Wine Drinking at Dinners. It isan undoubted fact that the serving of many and heavy wines at large dinners 1s grad- ually becoming a thing of the past, writes George W. Childs in the January Ladies’ Home Journal Of course, I do not mean that wines are no longer served, for they are and will con- tinue to be, so long as civilized men consider them a feature of dinners. But I do meun that of the varieties of wine there are fewer, of the quantities less, and of the qualities lighter, than Was the custom ten years ago. Were I prepar- ing fora large dinner for men—which isalways from the nature of things more heavily wined than om crdiuary “mixed” dinner—I should not think it in the least degree necessary to order anything like the same amount or assort- ment of wines that would have Leen imperative afew years sgo. And in extenuation of the Yatement that the qualities of the wines served re becomiug lighter, the simple tact that at the average Engitsh dinner table port wi been almost entirely superseded by claret may be cited. It is also becoming a very ordinary Uhing at English dinners to meet prominent m who de not drink wines of any kind, and in our country this is also becoming more and moreafact. Of course, dinner must have fluids; the best of solids require some liquide with which to relish them, and « dinner would be but wasted energy and material without them. But I think it is no louger imperative to serve wines or at least we can serve with them some other beverage which will be of equal pleasure to the copstantiy increasing set of people who tind thet wining and dining to- gether is rather too heavy @ combination for theit ecmfort. ———_<es_—___. Birthday of the Postage Stamp, From the New York Morning Journal The postage stamp will celebrate its fifty- second anniversary May 6 of next year. Its in- vention is due to @ printer, James Chaimers, of Dundee, Scotiana, who died in 1852. Eng. land fifty-two years ago introduced the new system of preparing letter postage, and accord- ing toa decree of December 21, 1839, issued the first stamps, which were to be put bef the public May of the following your, as nota above. 4 year lator they were introduced iuto Belg and France: One of the moat foam it Valual collections: eta) and other postal devices in, the ‘world ie: the Ge s = perial Post Ofice Museum at FOR ABUSE OF ALCOHOL Uso Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. W. E. CRANS, Mitchell, Dak., almost for this proven ainist a specie tshorder, same time, allays the tear of impending, ieclas soo common to heavy drinkers fourteen passengers, thirteen men and one woman, aud they were obliged to get out one by one, while the brigand covered the head of each with a cloth sack as a preliminary to going through them. ‘This was invariably his method. ‘Iwo hours later he took lunch at the same hotel table with bis victims and was in- terested in listening to their siozies of the bravery which each had exhibited in the try- ing ordeal they had been through, although be subsequently said that he had never met with @ more peuceable party. After being captured he made adesperate attempt to ercape frou the office of the jail, being alone with the jailer, at whose bead lie presented a dummy pistolwhich he had made in his celi out of leather aud tin foil. However, the jailer knocked him down with a pair of shackles and quickly secured him. His plan was to get the keys, lock Lis guards in the Jail and run for it. REUBE BURROWS’ CAREER. In the more ambitious occupation of robbing mail trains an unrivalled celebrity was earned by the famous Reube Burrows, who may fairly be considered the most remarkable outlaw of the ceatury. Begi hae he soon found a more congenial employment in robbery and murder, betaking himself to depredatious on the posial kervice incidentally. His last important achievement of this ort was an attack upon a train near Buckatuuna, Miss., on the Mobile and Ohio railway, in September, 1859. in thisadventure he was accompanied by Joe Juckson and KeubeSmith, two criminals of almost equal notoriety. The three men mounted the tender and covered the engince and ireman with thelr pistols, proceeding thereupon to pillage the express and mail cars, taking all the registered packages which they found in the latter. SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS REWARD. By this time Reuve Lurrows had become such a terror in that region that rewards aggre- gating $7,000 were offered for his capture,dead 144 letters in all—was gone. There was great excitement, of course, and notice of the loxs was telegraphed to the postmaster at Chicago. Inguicy developed the fact that there had been $19,000 in the sack, including a bank note for $1,000 from the Cedar Rapids postmaster which was government funds. ON THE That. Within twenty-four hours two post office in- spectors had arrived upon the scene, disguised as horse buyers. They learned that the man suspected of having committed the robbery wasa mail driver named Robinson, who had brought the pouches from the post office to the station, However, they made up their minds very quickly that he was innocent and took him into their confidence ‘hey asked him if he had ever heard any one say any- thing about stealing from the port, and chanced to remember that a hack driver known as “Shorty” Lewis had once suggested to him in a joking way that to rob the mail would be a very easy thing indeed. Shorty bad himeelf been a mail driver and was sufficiently at home in the port olfice to be ac- quainted with the fact that this large consign ment of registered stuff was going out from Cedar Rapids on the night of the crime. HOW THR INSPECTORS WORKED. So the two inspectors proceaded to shadow Shorty. Still inthe guise of horse buyers, they made friends with bim and became bis boon companions. They were with him at all hours, drinking with bs . playing billiards with him and making themselves acquainted with the smaliest details of whatever he did. ‘They found out where every dollar he was paid eame from and took note of every cent he spent. Although up to that time he had never | been a drinking man nor played a game of bil- liards, ho now indulged in thove excitements to ® great extent Itwas os if he was ner ous and required something to distract his wind. Furthermore, it was noticed that he always paid for everything, setting them up for the boys ut all hours. Quiet investigation of his affairs revealed the fact that he had bought a sewing machine on installments, but was paying ahead for it. Also he was paying doubje on a house which be bad purchased on the same plan, andit was jearned that he proposed to invest in a saloon, Having taken note of all thuse things the 1 spectors made up their minds that he was ¢ guilty party. It only remained to secure the Necessary evidence against him During his his Louse and announced themselves to his wife in their true character as post office de- tectives, saying that they had come to consult her husband about the robyery. By her man- ner they at once perceived that she knew of absence from home one evcniag they went to | Postmasters are oxposed to much temptation incidentally to the handling of Unele Sam's funds. Sometimes they flud themselves in tight places financially and it seems a very simple thing to help thomselves out tempo- rarily by using some of the government cash which is lying idle at hand.” Unfortunately, they never can tell when the inspector will come along to look over the accounts. INGENIOUS RAscaLs. A Every dishonest post office employe imagines that his mothod of stealing is a new one, that he does it botter than any one ever did it be- fore, and that he can eluae detection. But such offenders are invariably caught. They can never teil when they are being watched or how. All new post office buildings are con- structed with peep holes expressly for this purpose. Tho rifling of letters is the most Usual form of theft. A clerk was caught in the act the other day at Wilmington, N. C., who haa achieved such expertness in distinguish- ing paper money by smell that after his capture he selected with Unerring accuracy seven letters containing bank notes out of 400 placed before him, though blindfolded, in order to satisfy the curiosity of the inspectors, Not merely old billa cau be thus smelied out, but new ones likewise. “Simply a keen sense, woll trained, is requi ‘Menin the bureau of engraving and printing say that they can smell out new notes in envelopes overy time. ‘Ihe method of de- tecting pap enough, as is currency by feel is familiar also that of drawing a thread with @ knot on the end of it, by the help of a needle, through a letter, the knot fetching with it somo of the tiber trom the inclosed bill ‘Two years ago # mail clerk at Lynchburg, Va., was suspected of rifling letters. A post office inspector hired a room over the one which was occupied by the supposed guilty party, in an office building, and overlooked him day and night through a bole bored in the ceiling. ‘Ihe official spy had an opportunity of waiching the progrets of a very interesting love affair and of securing damning evidence atthe same time. In another case of similar character at Charlotte, N. C., an inspector gazed upon an employe who was stealing from Tegistered letters through chinks in the ceiling. Over the post oftiee house, and the detective crawled stago so as to get his eye at a suitable crack. From this point of vautage he saw the guilty party open the “missives intrusted to bis charge by loating them ona bowl of Water, placing them afterward under a press for the purpose of sealing them with the old mucilage, ‘Thus the letters would arrive safely enough, and apparently intact, but without the valuable contents. So engrossed was the crim- inal with his little game when caught at it that the inspector was able to walk quietly inand peep the affair. Sho said: “Why, Mr. Lewis doesn't know anything about the robbery. He was at home on the night that it occurred.” Now, this was all that was needed tomake the thing a certainty, because the inspectors _knew very well thut on the night in question Shorty had not gone home untii4a.m Bat they said nothing, and presently touk their leave. How- ever, they did not return to the hotel, but waited vn the road for the man to come along. After a while they saw him approaching, run ning for dearlife over the long and lonely bridge, at the farther end of wich his resi- dence was. They had watched him run in this Way on many a night, without bis knowing i the supposition being that ho was thus in- haste because he ‘was afraid, having a guilty conscience. They stopped him snd asked him to go back with them to the post office, to which he made no objection. Having got bim there they told him who they were, saying that they wished to question hint about the mail robbery. “You d-don't suppose that I stole the P-pouch?” said Shorty, trembling. We don't suspect it,” replied the inspectors. ‘Weknow it, This very night we have been to your house, We have seen your wife and she has made a clean breast of it So the best thing you can do is to tell us all about it. Where’ ix the money and how much of it have you spent? Shorty very quickly did asho was bid. He took the inspectors to his house and helped ther dig the plunder out of the coni, where it was concealed, wrapped up ina calico dress. All the money was found save ubout ¢150, but the money orders and draits had been’ de- stroyed. "A valuable wateh and chain had been thrown into the river by Lewis because he thought it dangerous to keep. He only got one year in the pemtentiary for the crime, and thas was solved @ mystery wiich bade fair to be most perplexing. INGENIOUS FRAUDS. Ingenuity of a high order has often been ex- ercised in frauds upon tho postal service. Per- haps the most successful sceme in its way ever worked was devised by a postmaster in Idaho in the year 1887. He took his Look of blank money orders, and, having chosen a fictitious name, drew ‘orders under that name im favor of various banks in adjacent states and. territories. His advices corresponding to these orders were signed with his real name as post master. ‘Then he wrote a ictter to cach bank, signing his fulse name, saying that be bad | drawn the orders in their favor because he hud expected to be traveling through ther towas and to beable to collect the casa tuts deposited. However, he had changed his plans and would be | obliged if the banks would kindly collect the mouey and remit it by registered letter to him at a certain post office mentioning the post office not far from his own, which received all its registered mail through his own ofice complete the plan in every detail he appended in each ease to the fictitious letter his own cer- tificate as postmaster that the bogus person was the genaine remitter. Of course the banks promptly obeyed, sending the money by regise tered mail to the post o:ice indicated.” Wien the registered letters addressed to the false name passed through his own oflice on their to their destination he simply gobbled them. In this highly origiual ‘manuer he secured nearly $20,000, skipping thereupon to Canada, ‘The fraud was discovered in the de- partment at Washington very soon, and this clover postmaster was extradited on'a charge of forgery, the Attorney General holding that the issuing of a United States security without au- thority was forgery in a technical applied because the postmaster w: authorized to issue monoy orders upon ing an equivalent in cash. Five years in the penitentiary was his portion. THE ENGLISH MAN WANTED TO SEE. Aremarkable robbery occurred near Grand Junction, Colorado, 1886. Highwaymen held eralive. The Post Office Department offered $1,000 of this amount. But the robber was so drcaded that no one dared attempt to arrest him. Nevertheless, a man named Carter and another determined to accomplish it. Having watched the desperado and seen him enter a negro cabin, they offered two colored men who were passing $100 each to enter the cabin,seize Burrows when off his guard and ery out for their assistance. The negroes carried out their part of the program aud Carter and his com- panion rushed in, covering Burrows with their guns. Having bound the captive they latd him helpless across the back of « muie and carried him in that way to the neighboring village of Myrtlewood, Ala. BURROWS DESYEMATE ATTEMPT. e There being no one in charge of the jail, Bur- rows was taken to a house near by and guarded for the night by tho two negroes and one of the white men, while Carter went toa hotel at alittle distance to sleep. During the night Reube said that he was bungry and asked one of the negroes to hand him the canvus eack containing his “kit,” in which were some crackers. The request was complied with, und, plunging his manacled hands into “the bag, he drew forth two pistols, with which he covered his captors. Having thus secured the advan- tage, he obliged them to romove his bonds aud compelled the two negroes to bind and gug the white man. Then he made one of the colored men similarly bind and gag the other. HE WANTED Too MUCH. A less desperate ruffian would have been con- tent theseapon to make bis escape, but Bur- rows declared that he proposed to recover his ritleand money which Carter had taken. So be compelled the remaining negro to icad him to the room in the country hotel which Carter cecupied, obliging him at eg eat muzzle to kitock’ aS the ‘door and ony that Carter was wanted at the jail. Carter opened the door unsuspectingiy and found himself confronted by Reube's revolver. However. be was a Draver man than the desperado had and, instead of surrenderimg, be hi oy drew bis own hom og au So firing. tremendous illade ene the fight bemg carried out to the street, where Burrows fell m wounded. Carter wus severely burt and en arm in conse- quence of a wound in his shoulder. He subse- queatly received the whole of the government reward, as well a3 a share of the c@ of the $7,000... Reube Smith is in prison for life. Joe Jackson stabbed one of his guards in the jail at Jackson, Mias., and ran up a stairway) to the top of the buil covered with rifles, rather than be taken, he hecataly dived sixty feet to the stone floor below ‘was smashed to pieces own It wars bilter eof night o winter ac ‘the mail waiting for the train ee the $form ion, while those sboald’ have wtehed side. A few moments py = later it was stiwovered up a mail train, having piled tics on the track to stop it. They put the conductor and fi man out on a pile of rocks alongside the tracks and kept them covercd with guns while they got the postal clerk and the express messenger and put them under guard likewise. Bein; content with pillaging’ the express and mai cars, they did not interfere with the passengers, but one Englishman on his travels was so de- lighted at the notion of encountering so. wild aud woolly au adventure that he insisted upon leaving the car, in order to sve what was going on. Wien the porter tried to restrain him, say- ing that he would Le killed if he went outside, he replied, “But I want to observe how they rob a train'in this blooming couutry, don't you kuow.” He did actually get as far as the plat- form, when a bullet through hiv hat induced him fo retreat precipitately. Ihe robbers were pursued by inspectors and United States mar- sbuls through Colorado and Utah toa “dug- out” where they had taken refuge. There were four of them and each got five years. ED. REEVES’ GANo. A gang of highwaymen led by the notorions Ed. Recves held up a train on the Panhandle roud in Texasin 1887. ‘They robbed tho ex- press car, knocking the messenger senselces with a six-siooter, but-the postal clerk refused to open the mail car in response to their demund. So they blew open, the door with dynamite and cut open the pouches, Then they went through the sleeping cars. and col- lected watches, rings, diamonds and other valuables from the passengers. Altogether it was yery thoroughly done, und, besides femelry, they secured 87, in cash, was subsequently captured after a desperate fight, during which he was, shot ive times, and, preferring death to imvrisonment he offered the “eberiff. $50. to wall him Five inspectors and deputy” mar- shals lay in wait for Whitley, another des- rate member of the band, at his house. When. fe entered they covered him with their guns, but he opened fire at once and fell riddled with bullets, dying pistol in hand and with the half smile upon bis face which meh Wear who die from gunshot wounds. = STAMPS BY THE THOUSAND. One of the most remarkable post office rob- beries on record occurred at Minneapolis Tuly, 1886. The thieves entered through the stamp window at night, closing the shutter be- hind them. Then they proceeded to break into the safe in which the stamps were performing the task with a diamond quietly that men working close by in the ide aid not bens them. “in front of was had e> late glnas window, ‘but it with frost so that no one sce through it. The burglars secured 2-cent stamps and 200,000 I-cent stamps. sides some money, the whole amounting to value of over $14,000. ‘They tried to dispose their booty through other persons who ax “fences” and in this way they were poe nr ain ¥ e ¥ ces ue teres ‘During the last year fifty-eight twenty-three assistant postmasters, forty-Bvo clerks in post offices and sixty-six mal car- that the pouch containing registered matter—| riers were arrested on charges of dishonosty. over his shoulder, suying, “What uve you got there, my boy?” "The guilty ono’s reply, as bis knees gave way under him, was simply, “Good Lord! You've got me.” —_—_—— BLONDES AND BRUNETTES. Here Is = Philosopher Whe Says That the Former Are Passing Away. 66JRLONDE WOMEN ARE BECOMING ‘scarcer every year,” said an eminent an- thropologist to a Star writer. “You have not lived long enough to remark the fact, but women with blue eyes and light hair are grad- ually though surely passing away asa type. In each successive generation there are fewer of them than in the Inst. Already such a thing as « real blonde, purely such, is so rarely seen in this country as to excite remark. Golden tresses are so very infrequent that real ones are usually suspected of being dyed. In short, itbas become evident that before very long there will be no blonde women any more. “The samo thing is true of men. Among their sex light hair and blue eyes are fast dis- Sppearing. You may judge how rapidly they are going when you consider the fact that, wherever a bran man marries a blonde woman or vice versa, 66 per cent of the children born have dark hair and eyea. At that rate not very many centuries will be required to wipe out the blond type altogether. You wonder how this matter has been determined with such ac- curacy? Simply by including such statistical observations in the ceusus of nations. In Germany and France the very school children are examined and have their characters re- corded from an anthropological standpoint. “Observations made in this way 80 as to cover millions of persons of both sexes have Ferulted in the discovery that the dark people bring more children into the world than do ue light people. Furthermore, they have greater muscular vigor and they live longer. Thus in every point which has to do with the perpetuation of a species they are superior. The rule in nature secms to be that pigment, which produces the color of the hair and eyes, is an indication of force. Albinoes among ani- mais and pallid plants are always weak. ‘Aiter all, th ively few light people in the world. Ail the straight-haired races aro dark. All the aboriginal Americans are dark, from the Aretie Circie to Cape Horn. All the Asiatics are dark. All the Oceanic peo- | ples are dark. All the Atricans are dark, ex- sta few blonde tribes in the Barbary states, Likewiso all the southern Europeans are dark. ‘The dark people have the great advantage of being able to stand any climate, while the light- complexioned races cannot endure the beat of the tropics. LIGHT PEOWLE GOVERN THR WORLD, “An apparent contradiction to all this is afforded by the fact that wherever the light- haired and blue-eyed peoples bave come into conflict with races of dark complexion the Iat- ter have always been defeated. The light peo- ple govern the world today. Queen Victoria Tas bine eyes, and tho enn never sots on her Cominions. ' Descendants of Anglo-Saxons dominate the new world. Even South America, Africa and the civilized part of Asia are fairly run by the English and Germans. Germany leads all the nations of the earth in seience and learning, and three-fourths of her population are blue eyed. The yellow-haired Swedes, Danes and Norwegians furnish the sailors of the wor! English is the language of the globe. French bas often been called the ‘uni- versal language,’ but it is in fact merelya court language outside of France. The Chinese have a ‘pidgin’ English, but not a ‘pidgin’ French. All the modern jargons of the world, for trade purposes, are modifications of En- moderns. By their superior intelligence and bravery they bnve conquered the world; but their task in accomplishing this has implied an enormous strain upon their powers. So great astrain has not been conducive to the prolongation of their existence and to the perpetuation of their kind. Races of people are like breeds of horses and cattle, or like stocks in plants. ‘They Inst for awhilo, but not forever, disappearing sooner or later. If asevere strain is put upon them in one way or another, they will pass ‘away so much the more quickly. The high culture wo are giving our children, stimulating their mental activities to the utmost, has the effect of reducing the number and physical strength of their offspring, thus shortening the life of eir race. eke owing to such causes as these, we find that the blue-eyed and light-baired people are diminishing in numbers ata very rapid rate. ‘We take notice of it in the women particularly. Soon must we say, ‘Farewell ye golden tresses and violet orbs!” During centuries to come the dark people are destined to uchieve and hold domination in the world, until, as is very likely, tue cycte of complexion’ has gone around and blond shall rule again.” —_>——_. ‘Written for The Evening Btar. ‘What's the Odds! ‘What though you win not idle praise, And ne’er loom up to public gaze; ‘Though tramp of fame ne'er sound your name, Life is not all a losing game; ‘There waits a prize for him who plods, So what's thé oddat Doyon « grievous burden bear Tn close companionship with care? Take heart of grace, and mend your pace, And you may win in life's es race, ‘Though now only carry Fee oy Oh, what's the oddat ‘The world may coldly pass you by, And care not if you live or die; Bend to your task, and scorn to ask In Fortune's fickle smiles to fools set up as little sie Pahaw, what's the oddst Although your songs may ne'er besung, Or all your pictures stay unhung;- ‘Though you've forgotten all you've read, And all the brilliant things you've sald, ‘Though former friends vodchsafe but nods, ‘Still, what's the oddal ‘Fer all the bloom of life be gone, And hoary age comes creeping on, Clasp to your soul the living truth Ana you shall win eterna) youth; Though you may lie beneath the sods, ‘Then, what's the oddat ‘Husky 8, ‘Nantucket. Mags. . Thoax: North con! quarters iusured. NEW YEAR CALLS. The Practice Originated in New York in This Country. STILL IN VOGUE HERE, But It Has Been Abandoned in Nearly Every Other City—The Custom of Precedence in French Society, Which Wouldn’t Do With Us—The Question of Dress. 66]/T DIES HARD.” ‘This was the remark that grected the ears of a writer for Tux Stan the other day on Con- necticut avenue. The remark by itself was too indefinite. There are many things that die hard, notably cats and prosidential booms, #0 8 question was aske: “What dies hard, my dear sir?” “The custom of New Year calling,” was the answer, and as he said it shore was atone of sadness in his voice. “But it isn't dead yet, is it?” “No,” said he, “it is not dead yet by any means in Washington, and Ido not suppose it will ever die out here, but in New York, Phila- delphia and Boston New Year calling is no longer what it used to be. It is truc that a good many people keep it up still, but asa mat- | ter of fact the backbone of this time-honored | observance is hopelessly broken and it is ‘Of course, it can’t disappear in Was! The President and other high ofiicials throw open their doors on that day and receive their friends, and as long as this is tho case many New Year calls will be made, but still the card basket hangs out in front of many doorway: that used tormerly to be wide open for the re- ception of guests. When calling on New Year day shall have entirely coased what sort of ceremony will take its place? Is the day to be a mere biank, witb nothing to make it memorable? WHAT 18 A LEGAL HOLIDAY FoR? Every such day has its individual purposes. Thanksiving day and Christmas are days for religious observance as well as for feasting and making merry; Washington's birthday, Dec- oration day, Independence day aro logal holi- days for @ specific purpose. What, then, will become of January 1, supposing that general calling on one’s friends shall cease? If such a thing should ever happen depend upon it there will be something to take its place. Of all the days in the year this is the one that has been marked by eluborate observances the longest. The world has only observed Christ- mas for 1891 years, but an autiquarian has dis- covered that in the year 713 B.C. a great feast was instituted on January 1 by Numa and dedi- cated to James, who was supposed to preside over the new year. Butanew year does not necessarily begin January 1 to all people, and Christians did not observe that day until Charles IX of France decreed in 1654 that henceforth the new year should begin on the day that the Romans had always accepted. THE CHINESE CELEBRATION. Even now the Chinese celebrate their new year on February 9, and if anybody cares to go to Chinatown in Sau Francisco he can see what they do to enjoy themselves. They hang out lanterns, of course—Chinose lanterns of bright-colored ae They put up red rolls of paper, and they mark them with sentences | running up and down, and Chinamen will tell | you that the queer looking hieroglyphics mean “Welcome” and ‘Peace to all men” and “Come in and drink to hing of that kind, aud you must accept what they say, because {oBean't disprove it. Then they are fond of urning punk or joss sticks, and they explode their famous “crackers.” “Lhey pay calls on ‘one another, too, the ladies upon the Iadies and the men on the men, but not the men upon the ladies, which would 'be considered highly im- proper. When these calis take place there is a tremendous amount of “kow-tacuing,” and they utter many hightlown, philosophical sen: tences, for the language of peoplo from the east, like their raiment, is gorgeous and plenti- trewn with flowers. Itissafe to say that the Chinese new year will be ushered in by more calling in China- town than there is on 5th avenue on January 1. Yet New York claims the honor of having in- troduced the custom in America. Before it was New York aud whea it was a anaint little Dutch community called New Amsterdam, th solid citizens ieft their pipes and ey; went from house to house to pay their respects to their neighbors’ wives and daughters. They walked in and wished each other “a happy New Year;” they were given something to cat and possibly—nay probably—a ginss of old Geneva or schnapps, and then they passed on to the next house.’ Leaving out the Geneva and schnapps and substituting sherry and punch there is not much difference between the way the old colonists and the people of the city up to ten years observed the day. THE DAY IN WASHINGTOX, But, of course, the calling here in Washing- ton had from the very beginning an eclat that no other city could boast, for here the Prosi- dents have always received. The program that is now tollowed does not differ materially from the rules luid down by John Adams. It does not require an act of Congress to make a law of this kind, and yet an act of Congress would be ammnch easier thing to have repealed thanan established rule of etiquette. Nevertheless, the day here is not what it used tobe. It is only afew years ago thut a Washington man who wished todo isis duty was obliged to get in a carriage shortly after breakfast and dash iu and out of houses all day long in order to call on all his acquaintances. ‘The lists of visits ran up above a hundred often, ‘The method of calling and the conversation were something like this: The caller: gton. | from sending valuables in that way by the fact low d'ye do? Wish you s happy New Year.” The hostess: “Happy New Year! Have you paid many calls today?” ‘The caller: “Yes, and Ihave many more to pay Good-day.” bg ‘hostess: “Won't you have something to eat?” The caller: “No, thanks; can’t stop. Good- day,” and on he would dash to the next house, where the same conversation would be carried on. Itdoesn't take @ person very long to see why the system of wholesale calling lms boca abandoned. It was carried to an extreme, TRE DEATH AND BIRTH OF TIME. But New Year day is not the only celebra- tion of thistime. Theevening before is equally important, and for avery simple reason. At midnight on the ist of December a year 1s done and another year begins. There is some- thing mysterious and strange in this death and birth of time. Every moment of the day and night it happens, but mankind has agreed that they shall ail stop and consider it particularly at midnight of December 31 ‘There are several beautiful superstitions bora of this custom. ‘Among the rural populations of Germany it is the custom to celebrate New Year eve by shaking hands at midnight, but a woman must shake bands with a man and not with another woman, or it is an unhappy omen. When the supper is scrved they havea pretty custom of nig two Lal shells of a walnut and, putting a tiny candle by way of a mast in each, they are launched from the opposite shores of'a tul of water. If they sail over to each other and rest side by side it is an omen of happy love for the ensuing year; if they float apart there will be estrangement, but if either one of the on any tho twelve nights that follow Christmas will come true, but this is a bad belief and cannot be recom- mended, for at this time of heavy a many le will have indigestion, and gestion brings most horrible dreams, which it Would be very disagreeable to bave come true. While New York claims the honor of the intro- duction of New Yoar calling, it may be ques- tioned whether it is not really more of a French than « Dutch institution. Certainly the rule of calling is Pronch. Here iti as laid down many years ago, ‘aay that there Sas boon Basle cc no change dace,” ill i ait ii i i F k L f ff 4 f i E I parents in town and his uncles sunts, again. on Capitol Hall, To call on his uncles and aunts immediately after calling on | The True Theory Gra: his parents would be very wrong. Etiquette would require him to post up to Capitol Hill first, then to Georgetown and then back to Capitol Hill. The thing is too inconvenient for busy Americans. The rest of the French etiquette is substantially as it is with us. You must call after attending a dinner party, a wedding, a christening or @ funeral. After a friend has recovered from an illness you should call to congratulste him. You should return the visit of anybody who honors you with a call, and you ought aiso te call upon any friend who you have heard bas been making inquiries about you. You should make « round of visite just before you go away from a city, you should be prom: upon any one of your friends great happiness or calamity befall him, or who has suddenly achieved high honors or disgrace. A visit of ceremony should not iast longer than a quarter of an hour. This is rather artificial, it must be confessed. It is clear that such visite are made sishply because there is a social law requiring it, and that there is no real desire on the part of the people to see one another. No FULL DRESS MERE. The French rule also requires that the New Year calls be made in full dress, but it is very many years since full dress ceased tobe the proper thing in areaboutdo not. The truth is that the swallow-tail coat is the safest garment in the world for.a man to wear at night, and the most dangerous to wear by ‘Ihe poor fellow who goes calling on New Year day in his even- ing clothes is almost as much to be pitied as tho man who wears such a costume at an after- noon tea. The custom of wholesale eslling on January 1 30 taid to have ori French, and its abandonment 1s due to the imi- tation of our English cousins, which, it ie to be feared, is practiced by a good many of the | peopie who constitute society. English peop are generally more self-contained than are the French. They do not relish having a large list of callers, and s0 when New Yorkers became | Anglo-mauiace they ceased receiving on New Year day. Of course, the wives and daugh- ters did it. They either left the city on New Year or stayed at home and received no 2allers: so ina few years the callers stopped coming. The feminine half of the world ought not to grumble at their exclusion from legisiative bodies. They make the laws that govern the Social side of life, and any man who violates these laws is sentenced to banishment from 00d society. SEE Res MAILS SECURED FROM THEFT. Why It is Worth While for People to Register Letters and Parcels. S6Q\HRISTMAS TIME IS THE SEASON when there isa flood in the streams of registered packages passing through the mails,” said an official of the post office toa Sram reporter. “Many people are deterred that Uncle Sam gives them np insurance of safety in exchange for the fee of 10 cents re- quired, save for extra precautions taken, while a registered parcel or letter always advertises itself on its face as something worth stealing. When a mail car or a post office is robbed almost invariably the registered matter is taken. “Although this is true, yet such occurrences are comparatively infrequent, and the precau- tions exercised are so thorough as to render a registered letter or package many times safer than one that is unregistered. Not one euch parcel or inclosure in 60,000 goes astray. The system is so arranged as practically to preclude the posmbility of dishonesty cn the part of postal employes. Every person who handles it must give his receipt for it, an-, if it is lost, we can put our hand at once on the spot where it disappeared. ordinary mail matter the case is very different. A missive sent from Washington to Chicago which does not reach its destination may have disappeared at any point on the way, and the chances of finding out what has become of it are comparatively small. But the moment a registered letter or bundle is missing we can go right tothe person who had it when it vanished and hold him re- sponsible. Where a theft occurs we know ex- actly at what spot to begin our search for the thing stolen, and we are very likely to get it baci: re is aclass of people who make use of the mails for paying debts without cost to themselves, alleging that they have sent money which never reached the persous to whom it was addressed. In numerous cases of this sort we have been able to prove by the checks which govern the registry system that claims thus | made were fraudulent and that cash stated to have been inclosed in registry envelopes was actually not so. Another class of persons we have discovered who make similar excuses for the non-payment of social obligations by de- claring that they have replied to correspond- ents on specified dates. In instances of this latter sort there is sure to be inquiry at the other end, and very often we have found out such cheats, even where no question of regis- tering of of the transfer of value was con- cerned. REGISTERING MONET. “Strangely enough, the Lritish postal guide gives advice against registering money. It is a common practice in that country to send one- half of a bank note in one letter, inclosing the other half in another. In 1800 the Postmaster General of the United States advocated the abandonment of the rogistry system on the ground that it was ‘fruitful only of danger to what it was designed to protect.” Fortunately this was not done, and since then the sys! has been greatly extended, being made in 1575 to include all classes of mail matter. The gov- ernment itself utilizes the system to avast ex- tent. During the last fiscal year it sent by mail 2,500,000 pieces of registered matter. by the Treasury Department alone €925,000,000 in bonds, currency and revenue stamps were transmitted. In the same ——— only 287 pieces of registered mail matter were lost by the dishonesty of post office officials, which does not seem very many when it is considered that 135.000 persons in the service bandied 15,000,000 registered pieces during that period. ‘Phere was a curious case of stealing regis- tered mail that occurred a while ago in Texas. The pouch was robbed repeatedly between a town and an army post, which were about 125 miles apart. ‘This distance was traversed by ten stage couches to and fro, each of which did a portion of the way. The trouble became 60 sorious that officers of the garrison did not dare to send money home, and two of our in- spectors were put on the case. They were led to suspect that a certain man named Hank ‘Smith was the thief, partly because he was the only driver who happened to be on duty on every one of the occasions when the robberies took’ - Ofcourse, the difii was to find out on which stage of the route the stolen letters disa, 4. Perhaps the most pazzling thing about it was that the regisiry pouch al- ways arrived apparently intact. ‘The inspectors fixed their attention upon Hank Smith and found that he was accustomed to go when off duty to a town across the Mexi- can border ané indulge in wild dissipation, blowing in as much as 2150 a night. So ther had no doubt finally that he was the guilty party, and they became entirely satisfied on the joint when they discovered @ lot of torn-up tters and registry envelopes concealed neat the road which his coach traversed daily. Tana Ina UTTaneuapmmsommmmmmmemsscossessss se a ee nT TLE eae ee ee ee CUSTEE’S LAST RATTLE. 4 COMMANDER OF A TROOP UXDER crsteR orvee TUR RESULTS OF BIS IXVESTIOATIONS ON THE QNOUND, SHOWING THAT NO ATTEMPT was MADE TO FORD THR RIVER. From the Century. The accepted theory for many years after the battle, and still persisted in by some writers, was that Custer's coluinn had turned the high Diuffe near the river, moved down the dry (Reno's) ereek and tempted to ford the river near the lowest point of these bluffs: thet he was there met byan overpowering force and driven back; that ho then divided his battalion, moved down the river with the view of attack. ing the village, but met with resistance from the enemy posted along the river bank and ravines that he was compelied to fall back, fighting, tothe position on the ridge. The rumerous bodics found scattered between the river and ridge were supposed to b Victims of the fight. Iam now «x these were men who either survir the ridge or attompted to esc Cusier’s route was and his ec linge than his final pos Wife of Spotted Horn Bull w en giving me bi in saying that T's column did not atiem, cross at the ford, and appealed to her husband, who sup- a her statement. On th hie” Ce lindicated Cu and it tie hashed upon me th seen Custer’s trail. Un J burying the dead, I asked Maj. Reno's permis ston to go on the high ridge cast or back of the field to look ior tracks of shod h tain if some of the command mught not have escaped. When I reached the ridge I saw thie trail and wondered who could bave mad but dismissed the thought that it bh mad de xt, been e by Custer’s column because it did not ae- rd with the theory with which we were thea Billed, that Custer had attempted to cross atthe ford, and this trail was too tar back and showed teading toward the fi no jas stationed at Fort Custer, pias orderly when visiting the ttle: . Peuweil corroborated my rec field rated my recolicction of WHAT STARTED THE FoRD THronY. The ford theory arose from the fact that we found there numerous tracks of shod horsea, but they evidently had been made after the In- dians bad possessed themselves of the cavalry horses, for they rode them after capturing them. No bodies of men or horses were foun: anywhere near the for id these facts are con- ‘ive to my mind that Custer did it the ford with any body of men, 8°? As soon as Gall had pore Iron Cedar's report he beat we riors battling against Ri siven for them to leave at onc could do so the great bod: Reno and hastened tack Custer, This ex- plains why Keno was not pushed when so much contusion at the river crossing gave the La- dians every opportunity of annihilating bis comman Not long after the Indians began to show @ strong force in Custer's front Custer turned his column to the left and advanced in the direction of the village to near a place now marked as a spring, halted at the junction of the ravines just below it and diemounied two troops, Keogh's and Caiboun's, to fight on foot. ‘These two troops advanced at doubie time to knoll, now marked by Crittenden's monu- ment. The other three troops, mounted, fol- lowed them a short distance in rear. The led horses remained where the troops dis mounted. When heogh and Calhoun got to the knoll the other troops marched rapidly to the right; Suaith’s troop deployed us skirmishers, mounted, aud took position ona ridge, which, on Smith's left, ended in Keogh’s postion (now marked by Crittenden’s monument), and on Smuth’s right ended at the hill on which Custer took position with Yates aud Tom Custers troops, now known as Custer's Hill and marked by the monument erected to the command. Smith's skirmishers, holding their gray horses, Temuained in groups of fours. TUE LINE OCCUPIED PY CUSTER. The line occupied by Custer’s battalion was the first considerable ridge back from the river, the nearest point being about baif a mile from it, His front was extended about three-fourths of a mile. The whole village was in full view. A few hundred yards from Lis line was another bat lower ridge, the further slope of which was not commanaed by his line. It was here that the Indians under Crazy Horse from the low part of the village, among whom were the Chey- eunes, formed for the charge on Custer’s Hill. All Indians bad now left Reno. Gail collected his warriors and moved up @ ravine south of Keogh and Calhoun. As they were turning this flank they discovered the led horses with- out any other guard than the horse holders, They opened fire upon the horse holders, and used the usual devices to stampede the horses— that is, yelling. waving blankets, &c.; im this they succeeded very toon and the Lorses were caught up by the squaws. In this disaster Keogh and Calhoun probably lost their reserve am- munition. which was carried in the saddle Gall’s warriors now moved to the foot of knoll held by Calhoun. A iarge force dis- mounted and advanced up the slope far enough to be able to see the soldiers when standing erect, but were protected when squatting oF lying down. By jumping up and firing quickly they exposed themselves only for an iustant, but drew the tire of the soldiers, causing waste of ammunition. in the meantime Gi was massing Lis mounted warriors under the protection of the slope. When everything was in readiness, at a signal from Gall, the dis- mounted warriors rose, fired and every Indian ve voice to the war whoop; the mounted In- Sitas put whip to their ponies and the whole mass rushed upon and crushed Calhoun. The maddened mass of Indians was carried forward by its ows momentum over Calhoun and Crit- tenden down into the depression where Keogh was with over thirty men, and all was over on ‘that part of the tieid. THE SAME TACTICS AT CUSTER's HL. In the meantime the same tactics were being pursued and executed around Custer's Hull The warriors, under the leadership of Crow King, Crazy Horse, White Bull, “Hump” and others, moved up the ravine west of Custer's Hill, avd concentrated under the shelter of the Tidges on his right flank and back of his posl- tion. Gail's bloody work was finished before the annihilation of Custer was accomplished, and his vittorious warriors hurried forward to the hot encounter then going on, and the frightful massacre was completed. punth's mon bad disappeared from the ridge, but not without leaving enough dead bodies te mark their line. About twenty-eight bodies of men belonging to this troop and other orgam izations were found in oue ravine nearer the river. Many’ were found scattered over the field between Custer's line of defense, the river, and in the direction of Reno's Mill These, doubtless, were of men who had at- tempted to escape; some of them may have bee sent as couriers by Custor. One of the first bodies I recognized and one of the nearest to the ford was that of Sergt. Butler of Tom Cus- ter's troop. Sergt. Butler was a soldier of many Years’ experience and of known cou Vhe indications were that he bad sold bis life dearly, for near and under bim were found many empty cartridge shells. ‘All che Indian accounts that [know of agreo that there was no organized close-quarters fighting, excopt on the two fiauke; that with the annihilation at Castor's Hill the battle was virtually over. it dors not appear that the In- dicns made ony advance to the attack from the Betore they f warriors had lett Bante direction of the river; they did have « defen ve force along the river and in the ravines, Thich destroyed those who left Custer's line. ‘here was a great deal of firing going om over the ficld after the battle The man who has a trade iss thousand times better equipped than the man who has none. Let every boy select the trade that best suite 3 i | i i { i it $ H * i ili uF ard