Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 25, 1891, Page 12

0 THE BACKS OF U, SENATORS. A View From the Gallery of the Nation's House of Lords, EACH STATESMAN HAS PEZCULIARITIES. Evarts’ Stooping Shou) Bentences—Ingalis’ Angular Framo- Walcott the John Sullivan of the Chamber. ers and Long Wasiisoros, Jan, 23, Corre- spondence of Tir Ber fn cnoof the publin gall Special 1 write s of the United States senate. + [ have left the press gallery, which faces the chamber, and have come hero to geta rear view of ourstatesmen, 1 wantto note them as the stran 1 sit here surrounded by colored citiz have crawled in to get out of the cold, by ourists who are doing Washington in th irty six hours and by bridal partics who whispe sweet nothings to each other while Senator Sherman makes one of his greatest speeches. An old, gray-haired, black-faced uncle slum- bers peaccfully by my side, with his iron spectacles resting on the tip of his nose, which emits an audible snore s I write, and backof mo 1 hear agreen country el ask- fug the guide to show her Serator Tom Ry and saying that she don't believe that V President Morton wears o wig, as the papers nave reported. Below mo is the big Bear Pit known as the senate chamber, and I count eighty old backs with queer-shaped heads tied to the backs of them resting in all attitudes imaginable in manogany arm chairs with red cushions behind little mahogany desks, These are the backs of our gree at Unitel States senators. They are owned by these cighly men who have six-years' con- tracts with the government yable monthly. They receive ne t£5,000 & year, y $100 per week or about $15 & day year inand y out, aud toall outward appearances thoy get the moriey chiefly for rosting those backs against those red leather cushions for about twelve months out of the two vears which maleup the lifo of a congross. There ono of them dropps a pencilon the floor and & page in knickerbockers runs and picks it up for fear he should bond that &,000 back. Herea private secretary furnished by the govern- ment at #ia day, takes down the directions of onaof the senators for fear ho should get astudent’s stoop in those £,000 shoulders by bending over the desk, and therea third son- ator in order to rest the easier, has thrown himself back against the red leather cushions and has propped his feet on the chair beside bim and seems to be going nto a doze, It is a soft snap. T don't know auything better than the posi- tion of a United States senator and here from the rear it scems softer than ever. Seo how the great men amuse themselves. Cullom of llinois is playing with astring. Reagan of Texas 15 poking thoend of his spoctacles 1to his cars, and Payne of Ohio s chewing a wooden toothpick to digest the bread and milk which has formed his frugal lunch. I sce two round, fat backs below me and I hear the clink of silver as [ bend over the rul and look down, Georgo Vest and I hiletus Sawye are sitting and chatting togother and their big heads almost bump each otheras thoy whisper under their breath, Sawyer has two silver dollars in his haud and he posses these in a fonaling way s though he loved them from one paw to thoother, Heis urging Vest to sign o petition which lies before him, and by this ho will beenabled to passa pensj ek one of his constituents gutyafape™ o der. Sawyer jaélas awd "ot the regular or- Iiae & s ik Yooy Bagstoclk, STOUGH, BUT DEVILISH LY. He gets through more pension bills than any other man in the senate, and this is the way he opcrates, Hois one of the successful men of the senate, and those silver dollars which _clink are only two out of the £,000,000 which he is said toove worth and which he has made out of that bix, round bald-head wh is pasted down info those big broad shoulders helow me. The back is o good index of character. Thereis a positive force in tgtback of Saw- yor's, ory one of its fat Whmps is indic tive of push and porsevers and the vroad shoulders, the firmly set héad and the t powerful irms, are ‘emblematic of the success of its owner. Senator Vest has the back of a fighter, and here from the gallery ftlooks like theback of a bully. Vestre- minds one of the bad man from Bitter creek. His shouldors are thrust forward and his neck pokes his great head with its frowning eves, out from them, and vou_look to see the chip'on his shoulders which his manner asks you to knock off if you dare. And still Vest [s'a atod fallow, Ho has hoen & gront ma for yu He was amember of the confed- erate congress, aud ho rauks here as one of the strong meri on the democratic side of the chamber. He has a strong back, but not a diplomatic one, and he holds hisown by sheer forceof intellectand will, % TAKE THAT TACK OF EVARTS, Tt is stooped with the study of many years, The frame inside its broadeloth coat has lost Its uprightuess from the burning of gallons of midnight oil, and Evarts is one of the best read men in public hfe. He has o mighty head, fastened by a thin neck to those stoop- ing shoulders, ad when he begins 10 spenk you think his'words muss be coiled up inside his frame like a watch-spring, for he pulls them out, adjectives, nouns aud verbs, until you are dizy in trying to keep track of them, and be will reel off 400 of them before he minkes a period. I asked him one duy as to these 400 word sentences, and ho replicd **My boy, I have been more than a gencra- tion iu public life, and 1 have occupied a number of positions of trust, and it seems to me that when a man has gone through the different periods of public life that I Luve and the ouly thing that can be said against him {s that ho uses sentoncos 400 words long, it does seem to me that tihe criticism is such an one as should not keep him uwake o' nights. Besides,'" ho went on, ‘‘all the greal orators of antiGuity used long sentences. Demos- thenes recled out pages of words without a stop. Cicero used long sentences, and, in fact, it is a question as to whether the proper oratorical sentence should not be u long one.” SENATOR DAR'S CONSERVATIVE DACK. Senator Hoar has a good, fat, old, conserva- tve back. It is prosperous and well- tounded, and its owner seems to have that contented spirit which is better than groat riches. Senator Cul- lom has as mavy angles in his backas Hoar has curves. He thinks his back looks like that of Abe Lincoln's, but as he stands erect Inside of his desk, he makes me think of the frame which the farmer puts up in his corn- field when the crows are plenty, and his coat seems to hung from his shoulders. Another angular buck s that of Senator Sanders. Banders 1ooks as though his bones were hung on wires and he throws his stomach to the front instead of his chest,as he stands up- right. He has not the fat paunch of Senator Sawyer, and his belly has ten wrinkles to that of Reagan's “one. His shoulders stoop slightly and he has the fighting back of Senator Vest. He isone of the bravest men in the senate aud when ho has gotten out of the babyhood of senatorships he will make himself felt, INGALLS TIAS AN ANGULAR BACK Hels tall and thin, and the newsboy who called him u skeleton dressed up was not v far wrong. ‘I'he top of his frame is the mo: curions part of it, and from the rear houp- pears to have a very large head. T.ooking at him from the press gallery his forehead is narrow and his head small. Here, it is ns big 88 that of any of the United States sonators. and the remprk that | heard last night in r gard to it, made by Congressman Tarseney i unjust in the extreme, Said Tarsenay: * about Ingalls’ head. He has no head at His neck has merely grown up and hai out.” Ingalls’ head inreality is not baa loo lug. At any ratd it has more in it than you will find in ninetenths of the heads of his brother senators, and the gray matter in his bratn will outweigh that of ‘any member of the house with the exception perhaps of that of Tom Reed's. SOME NOTABLE CHARACTERS, Senator Plumb bas just risen to speak. He has the aggressivo business back. Ho is fat and strong and blustering. Every line of bis this letter | NN - haaa rear is practical. His shoulders aro square and 80 square that they hurt your eyes. His shoulder blades are turned in towards his chost and he doubles up his fists and pounds theair when he talks, He whips himself | this way and that and you sce that there is | nota weak joint in bis vertebra, and yon can most see the backbone of the man, though it is padded with a thick covering of flesh He fs speaking on the sflver bill end T won- or whether the big silver mines which he owns in Coiorado is i general specnlator as | and broker, and he has lots influence his specch. He well asa banker of money out at interest. Just back of him stands young Senator Wolcott. e has a puir of Shoul- ders 50 broad that had he been Sinbad, the “old man of the sea” would bave never left him, and e is & good deal like Plumb, only | better made and better rounded. He as | short neck, a big well combed head, and he | has shown himself to Just beside him I note A LEAN LITTE of about one hundred pounds weight, I would take him for a clerk if I did not kiow that he was Senator_Chandler, and as T look at the big fr £ Wolcott, one af the legs of which 1 around almost as Chand- be a good speaker. FELLOW ler's waistand the head of which corres- | ponds to Chandler’s as a_footbail does to a 11, I see that advoirdupois is no index ns and that a little man may co as abigone. Chandler's back does not s more that o foot and a half from shoulder to shoulder, His neck is so thin that it conla bo twisted off like thatof achicken and it bobs this way and that, and he twists his shoulders in and out as be sits there and thinks. Ile is the most nervous body in the senate, but his dyspeptic organuzation is acked full of vitality and he hus had exough ins to muke him secretary of the uavy » him for years in the United by and 10 ke States senat Vo EES A8 A FAT, DUTCH BACK His frame is tall, heuvy an dapopleptic. Tt is an aggressive back and a sort of bullying back, and he has made lots of moncy atthe law by throwing those big shoulders back and bulldozing tha jury. He is owe of the finest lawvers in Indiana, ana it issaid that he makes £25,000 a year at the practice. He vor and he has s many murderers as any man in ysenate, Eustis, whosits beside’ him, is s0 8 lawyer, and his_back looks up’ to the gallery with all the lines of good living and good clothing, He hasan income bigger thau that of Voorhees, and I haveno doubt but that he could buy Voorhees a half dozen timesover. His big frame has been fed with a silver spoon from the timeit first saw light as a bouncing big baby, until now when it holds its own as one of the six-foot millionaires of the United States senate. Eustis comes from one of the oldest families of the country. Heeraduatedat Harvardand has been a professor for vears in one of the uni versities of New Orleans, One of his brothers married My, Corcoran’s daughter and the senator himself inherited a fortune. Heis a man of great ability and great culture but hie is 00 rich and too lazy 0 cut a groat figure in the United States senato and he takes things easy and seldom makes a s peech. Senator Vanee has the back of a fat, old werandmother and his double-breasted 'coat with long slcirts makes you think he is an old woman in a black **Mother Hubbard as you 100l at him from the gallery. His back 13 full of good nature and he is one of the ablest as Wi onoof themost genial men on the democratic sidoof the cbambe A RAZOR-BACKED SENATOR. .@Bldgett of New Jfersey is one of the razor- backed senators, He is tall and thin and he is famous as a criminal gotten oft tt scares you when ho begins to get up. He rises and rises until you wonder where he will end and the bald spot on his erown,when ho stands crect, s somewhore near soven fect from the floor. He has the student's stoop but ho gotit from bendingoverthe machinory of a locountive rather than over books, ard bis reputation has been made out ef railroads rather than politics, He began lifeas a loco- motive engineer and he worked his engine so well that e wheeled himself into one of the chicf offices of the road and hohas for some yoars been the head of the Loug Braneh di- vision of the Jorsey Central railvoad. He lives at Long Branch and is _said to bo in close connection with the Sewell party of New Jersey politics, Another tall, lean senator s Walthall of 188188 pni. Ho L Sl frasesistrate - ] Holy —IK-AL\ Wl ana about s broad. His shoulders are narrow and his longhair flows down in curls upou them. Looking at bim from the gall you would ardly kuow whether lis head was that of @& man or a woman, for the bair is combed a la pompadour and it flows in _graceful curls down the nape of his neck. He is o _high- toned southern gentieman and he is said to be an cminent lawyer. He is always dressed in the cleanest and neatest of clothing and in this e is somewhat different from his col- leagiie, Seuator (reorge, who looks us though he had vcen modeled by one of nature’s bricklayers iustoad of onéof nature's sc tors an‘t whose negligent ways have caused | his bitter-tongued euemies on- the other side of the chamber to call him the SEDUCATED PIG € nony." George, howover, 1s vy good fellow. Me isa man of considerable brains and he is a great coustitutional lawyer. It is not true that his trousers are cut with a ci saw, and lis coats are in reality made in Washing- ingzton instead of at home. Vaned says he never takes o rear view of his old friend Georgo without vhinking of what ono of his colored constituents suid about an elephunt. This old uncle had been to a circus and Sen- ator Vanco, upon his return, was asking him apout the animals. He bad his own opinion ubout all of them, and at last asked the sen- ator: **And how about the elephant, Uncle Ned! Did you see the elephant!” “*Yes,” roplied the old uncle, *I done sced the elephant.” “And_ what kindof an elephant was it. Uncle Ned?'? ““Wal I never seed an elephant afore, but T Ylow this & mighty smart elephant, only it ‘peared tome that he sutinly had a heap of slack leather w bis pants,” And soitis i Senator George's clothes. Thero seoms to be a lot of slac cloth in them and his dress and mannar would never tell you that he had been o soldier in the Mexi- 1 war under Jefferson Davis, and a briga- dier general during the late unpleasantness, that he had been chief justice in the supreme court of Mississippi, that be had published some of tho best law books in Georgin and that he is now serving hissecond term with credit in the United States senate. A GENERAL VIEW, One of the broadest backs from the gallory is that of General Stanford, but broud as itis, his immense wealth could plato it with dia* monds and_leave millions to spare. Itis a straight back and a comfortable back and the senator’s Chinese cooks have padded it out with muscular flesh. It would make two of at, thin back of Senator Sherman’s and Stanford's head at the top of it, is one of tho largest in the cliamber. Sen- aton Cockrell hus & hard working buck. His shoulders are stooped with the barden of tho United States governmen® which rests upon, them and he pogs away over his papers all day, from the tine the senate bogins until it closes. His stoop might bo called the sona- tor's stoop or the student's stoop, for nearly ail the old senators bave it. Edmund's shoulders are bent. The top of 18 back is turned into a bow, aud Henry B. Payne Dawes and Ishm G Harrls uro putling chins down into their chests. Higgins is as strajght as a string, Hiscock Is too proud to bend intoany shape whatever, Dixon is as straight as a' Lake Superior oak and Blair's head is so often floating in the air that it pulls his shoulders into line and keeps them stiff, FRANK G, CARPENTER, i No Evidence by Inference. court last week The Utah supreme By S B L 5 e By W. Hancock, convicted of murder at Provo last fall. The crime was com- mitted in 1838, Houry Jones was the vietim. were said to be At the time of the killing there about forty witnesses. But two were living at the time the trial began. This fact, said Mr, Brown, who appeared for the appellant, was sufticient to warrant the judge who presided in giving the jury an instruction to the of- fect that the law presumes that these witnesses, if living, or some of them at least. would have testified in favor of the defeudant. But the court refused this instruction, hence the appeal. Counsel could not understand why the man had not been arraigned befc The crime was committed thirty your ugo, und yet no complaint had been filed until last fall. Decision was reserved, gl Of w1l articles used to grace a_tatle none imparts more brilliancy than Dorflinfier's Awmerican cut glass. It 18 the richest cut glass in_the world. Tuquire forit of your dealer. Every piece has flinger's trade- warh lavel. S AAAAAR AR A AR AL A 100 MUCH FOR HIN. New York Herald. He could talk in Dutch or latin, And could translate from Choctay, Chinese fell as slick as satin From this verbulist jackdaw. | He was learned in all the speeches { Of this lingual human race, Anud was never known to teach his Pupils one word out of place, But he tumbled down comple In endeayoring to talk With o maiden who said sweetly She resided in “Now Yawk!" THE MEBRASKA FUGITIVES. | A Story of the Present Indian Ujris. | ing. | V. GRISWOLD, | BY SANDY 0. | CHAPTER VI THE PATAL LEAP, Upon ordinary circumstances Plerre Bap- tiste would have scorned to turn his back upon a single foe, white or red, but knowing that there were other savages not far behind, he now acted the part of wisdom, and did his best to get away from his eager pursuer. But Big Crow did not intend to be thus signally buflled in obtaiuing the covetea fame with which the scout’s death would surely vese him, sohe straiued every nerve and | muscle in his huge body, and his moccasing scem to hardly touch the carthas he flew along. It was plainly eviaent that his quick, pan- ther-like bounds would soon carry bim within throwing distance, unless something Provi- itinl interposed to save the hardy balf- breed from his frightful peril, Buptiste was now swiitly approaching the wansion, He was running down o narrow and unfrequented ravine ' whicn led down through the grove from the northwest, and was secretly congratulating bimself that ho would soon reach the house, when e discov- ered immediately lying across his path wn old cottonwood, which' had been prostrated by some severe storm. Numberless, sharp-pointed, broken and rag- ged brauches, stuck up perpendicularly from the trunk, obstructing the scout’s way as ef- fectually as if it had been a bristling chev. aux-de-frise, A singlo glance took in the situation, and an expedient was not lacking in one so versed in the loreof Iudian warfare. Pierre knew too wellthe nature of the struggle he was engaged in to lose one single precious moment. Healso saw that his only hope was to clear the up. rooted cottonwood at a single bound, for should he turn to run around it the impotus at which his big pursuer was coming would atterly preciude all possibility of escape. It was certainly a stupendous leap for a ready nearly exhausted man to make, and a rfeezing chill van through the scout's frame s he realized that it must be attempted. Desperate cireumstances require desperato remedies, andour indomitaple hero dete mined to throw his lite into the hazrd of one tremendous bound. . With a yell of defiance Baptiste shot right ahead with unslackened specd, as if resolved to tear his way literally through the jagged barrier, and in sooth, a coltision between him and the ponderous cottonwood scemed act- uaily unavoidable, when, with a quick and powerful impulse, his body rose in the air, and went completely overthe formidablo ob. struction like a bird npon the wing, Pic had leaped upward with almost superhu strength; butonly for an instant was his doubled form seen in mid-air, when it disap- peared over the fallen cottonwood ! Alighting safely on the other side,Baptist without a glance behind, or hardly a thought of the marvelous acrobatic feat he had just achioved, ran on out upon the clearing’ to- ward the dwelling with scarcely diminished speed. But hardly had & score of yards been traversed, whei he was prerced through and through, by a wild, norrid, lentheued cry, so snrill, so keen, 6 peneirating, that it rtg far and ‘wide slumberous evening nir. Thep. femoment of such proigd st s guceceded this fierce irlorraption, that one who had for the first | time heard such @ sound, might readily have fancied 1t the efects of some wild and fearful illusion. Turniug his as he ran, the govern- mentscout saw @ sight that murdered his sleep for many and many a uight after, and one which he cin probubly close his eyes aud reeall with chilling vividiess to the last day of nis life. (o The daring Sioux, in blank astouishuent, had witnessed the almost incredulous vault made by the scout. over the prostr wood, and nothing dauated, but v shaken coufidence in his own capub had attempted the samo feat. Though the Sioux was fleet and powerful of limb, azile and muscular in body, he lwcked thé. desperation of motive which had rendered the bulf-breed’s leap successful, and bis fail- ure to accomplish the mighty bound was a fatal one! ¥ Just as hesprang into the aif Lis foot caught among the lower brauches aud his whole weight cawe down upon one of the sharp, jageed, upright points of a shiverea Limb, which passed upward into the cavity of Lis durk chest, letting out the life blood in a sickening torrent and _hopelessly impaling the misersble wrotch betwoen eaven and carth ! 3l the CHAPTER VI NIGHT AWK, THE FRIENDLY, ‘The sun was an hour or 0 past the meri- dian when the cumbersome farm wagon with its load of anxious refugees was gotten fully under way, Ou enteriug the narrow belt of woodland that lay a couple ot miles south of the Barrett ranch, the seemingly cautious Sioux ordered w hatt until he had made a careful observation. Reporting the coast clear of imminent dauger, the little party once more turped their pallid faces to the southeast and the lumbering old vehicle moved on, ‘Thecharacterof the country through which the fugitives were obliged to journey, was not very well caleulated for rupid travel with such an unwieldly conve ¢ asthe farm wagon W Instead of striking a compar- atively level prairie ufter emerginug from the woods, the surface of the couutry was diver- sitied by luxuriant vegetation, streams, bills, valleys and oceasionul mottes of timber. Of theso the ugly gnide invariably evinced the strongest apprehension, and took scrupulous pains Lo make as great a circuit around them s possible, The horses were only kept in u moderately fast walk, as tho red guide in- formed our friends that he thought it highly probable that their utmost speed and eudur- ance would be required before their destina- tion was reached. Le Loup maintained his position in ad- vaunce of the horses, Lhis black, restless eyes coutintally flitting hither and thither, apparently on the constant alert for danger, Scipio managed the quad- vupeds with the dexterity of a vetesan in the profession, yet bis suble “countenauce wore a grave, soughtful expression, aud it was quite evident that ho ~ was wrestling with some problem too abstruce for his not over brilliant intellectuality, and the many cur- sory, half suspicious glances tlashed at the dusky guide would bave led one to think that this individoal was in some wise connected with the negro's poudering. Young Cameron sut at Nan's side, chatting gayly in an undortone, endeavoring in every Wiy nuaginable to dissipate tne shudow thav had setticd over ber bright, girlish face, but she was uncommonly unrespon- sive, sober and thoughtful The sudden and terrible change in the current of her smooth flowing life, nad for a time, drived all mirthfulness from her disposition, and more than this, an unpleas- ant suspicion had _entered her mind on sev- cral oceasions during the afternoon, as to Le Loup's fealty, Ho deporsed himself in so siugular o manner that she was reiolved at at least, 10 keep an eye on him, While it was not at all unlikely for the Indian to be just what he had _represcuted himself in every particular, still there was an inconsisten an air of improbability about his story thut had not escaped the notice of the quick-sight- cd girl, and shie watched every movement ho made with a jealous eye. Once the red guide seemed to conceive the idea that the young | girl was keeping au unwarrautable sirveil- laneo upon his actions and he glared at her like some ferocious heast of prey. Then ob- | serving the shudder of apprehension which run over her body,the cunuing Sioux changea his tactics and it would be dificult to depict the look that illumined his swarthy counte- nance. He permitted his dark oyes to re- | maiu full upon Nan, but their savage fierce- uess subdued into a softer light, the mu around his mouth wwitche a little. A wrinkle or two gathered, is white dlistening teeth becume visible, but she only pectcd Lhat he was smiiing, As the old wagon slowly moved across the prairie, there was but little Lerchanged among its occupants. Occasionly, | Bowever, the odd bumor ot th sable driver Ashsaas balf sus- | onversution i | U AV As N a | would break f5R in some casunl observa- | tion, mauger the conundram puzaling his brain, ind at rarg ntorvals the pungent wit | aud siivery Jsugther of Nell Browning broke | the prevailing Milende. These, however, | were' but -t spasmodic roactions | of & genidl temperament, weighed { down by doubt and _gloom, for | the face of overy one was sad, painfully ex pectant and terrified, It soomed that thoy were hurrying sigto their doom, instead of to ahaven of s Once in a w ward a hundrd wagrou, stealin " Le Loap would glide for- rds or so in advance of the way along as carefully as if pursued by gn funvelenting foe, his wholo vature seemingly ongaged in searching tor signs of his hostile kindred, and as circum speet, vicilant and skillful as the most faith- ful white gnide could have been, Thus our little party advanced, neglecting no precautionaryneasure that could contrib- ute to their chances of safety, and although numerically small, they were still far more powerful than many another party flying for their lives at that very moment over the boundless plaius and through the great sand: hills of Nebrasku, By the time tho sun had reached the west- ern hill-tops the domands of nature became imperaiive and the scarlot guide informed the fugitives that they had better halt at once and securo food. as ho was confident there was no immediate likelihood of mo. lestation from any of his copper-coloved brethren. 'The plains in this section abound with chicken, and our friends gave them- selves no concern on the score of being ablo tosecure all they should need. As they were now traveling over a consid- erable siretch of perfectly level prairie, Lo | Loup ordered Scipio to swerve to the right, in which direction, about_a mile away, could be seen the shadowy outliunes of a grove of timber, where, ho conjectured, there would be no difficuity experienced in finding water and in bringing down what chizken they would need, . To the perspicacious senses of the picious Nan this moyement on the part of their guide appeared like @ very quos. tionablo aud equivocal one, and she awaited in extreme alarim for his next demonstration before lifting her voice in open remonstrance. ‘Chis, however, had a tendency, in & cortain degree, to dispel her fears, for’ after giving his injuuction, the litho form of the Indian glided forward as noiseless as a shadow, to reconnoiter the grove, before allowing the wiwon 1o enter it. As our friends neared this littlo patch of woodland they deseried their red leader standing on its margin and beck- oning them to hurry forward, The wagon shortiy entered the grove, and after ponctrating it a short distanco’ wus brought to a hait und the little band of wan- der hited from the conveyance and nar surveyed their surroundings, amoment all was as still as the tomb, when suddenly every soul was startled by o sound such as'a dying man would utter, Our friends shivered with anovertowering mis ing,and gazed furtively around,andagain that strange, chilling” sound such distineness that thero could be no mistake in its character —some poor mortal was in bodily distress. The sound had evi dently issued from a dense copse of under- growth, not fifty feet dis and actuated by one humane impulse, the entire party hur riedly repaired to the spot, where they found au Ludinn warrior stretehéd out at full length upon his back, apparently badly wounded At the fivst glance, it occurred to Nan Bar- o this time with rett that there was something strikingly familiar in the wounded Indian’s face, despite the coagulated blood aud hideous paint with which it was disfigured. Bend: ing cautiously over him, sho closely scanned the besmeared lineaments, almost instantly exclaiming, as she turned to her wondering parent, who stood a few paces backgwith her arms thrown protectingly around Nell. “Why, mother, It is Night Hawk, as sure as we live. You remember the young Chey- enne whom Bob used to call’ my sweetheart, because he visited our house so often last winter." And without the least manifestation of fear the excited girl beut tenderly over the pros- trato figure of thogavave, and exla mid SWhAL LA happened to the Hawk ! Who hurt you—don't you_know me—Nan Barrett Sunshine, you used to call mol” The wounded Tudian, whom Nanhad thus suddenly recognized, tiad once been a firm and faithful friend. He haa visitel her father’s ranch many times during the past s, How. ever, the Night Hawlk was especially romem- bered and singled from amony them all, as he had taken quite a strong fancy to the old s daughter, bestowing upon her suphonious appellation of “Su shin besides imnumerablo strands of beads, gay colored feathers, beauti- fully worked moccasins, and other gif while the sensible girl ' return had recipro: cated the poor Indian's kindly evidences of or and friendliness, by many gentle and considerate acts, Nan Barrctt unaerstood the character of the North American Indian toowell to repel or mistreat bim. She knew them to be a race of people who never forgot an insult,but never forgot to avenge one, and thus 1t came to pass that a somewhat inti- mate friendship sprang up between this in- congrueat pair. 10 BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK. -~ HOW WIT COME Bo ton Courier, “Weren't you surprised to find," said Joe, ““Miss Sillie Boyno so witty? She has the dullest face [ know Of any in the city.” “Not in the least,” quoth Tom, “for it Quite definitely tallies With my expericnce, that wit Oft comes 1 little Suliies,”” — GULARITIES, S1A A French pair of Siamese twins has been born in Cannes. They are girls, A West Virginia man has lost a half pint of braius and yet retaius his senses, Geneva, O, thinks it has the only norse in tho world that can turu a complote somer- sault. There are 1,000 unclaimed Christmas pres- ents in the New York postofice because of the senders’ carelessnes: 2 The wife of Mr. C. Beaupre of St. Ray- mond, Quebec, presented her liego lord, who i soventy-five years old, with twins, A druggistin St Petersburg has invented a method of tipping cigars witha prepura tion 80 that they are lignted like a mawh by rubbing agaiust any hard surface, Artificial eyes are supplied to all the world from Thuringia, Germany. Nearly all the grown inbabitants of someof the vil- lages are engaged in their manufacture, An eminent German his been countiug the number of hairs in human heads of differing colors. In & blonde one he found 140,400, in & brown 100,440, in a black 102,062, and’ in & red one 88,740, The largest amount of wild honey ever taken from one tree was reported from Oregon recently. A furmer 100k 700 pounds from one cottonwood tree, in which a huge warm of bees had stored up the annual ac- cumulation for many years. M. L. Levi, near Newtonville, Ind., had an apple tree which bore three crops in one seq- son, This led to_ newspaper comument, a par- agraph fell under the eye of -Mrs.. Lou Clifford of McCordsyille, his sister, whom he bad notseen nor heard of for thirty years, and they were reupjted. Emwa Wiley, aseven-year old girl of Au- burn, while recovering from the diphtheria was afflicted wath g clot of coagulated blood in the main artery of the left leg, Asa ro- sult the linb mortilied from the knce down and mnputation wis . found necessar, clot that caused the trouble was the r the diphtheria, There was born on the Plummer ranch, fourteen miles from: Sucramento, a few days ago,a pig which bhad two hesds. The heads were closely joined, and while there were only two ears, therpwere three eyes—oue on each side and onp-an the center—and two well-deflued snouts ,aud mouths, The pig survived only twenty-four hours, but duriug its brief career evinced a monopolistic teo- dency, 85 it would, when feeding, take o teat iu each mouth. The mother may have de- spaived of s0 many mouths to fill, and she ended the monstrosity's life by crushing it. e Chilly. Life 1 placed on her sweet mouth a kiss | As we stoo d'neath the sycamore troo: | My heart it ran over with bliss | As she shyly returued it 1 me, | Iplaced on her finger a ring As we stood "neath the sycamore treo; Now iU's winter and then it was spring— And she's ulso returned it to me. - A squaw man, or & white man who marri s | an Indian womian, is defined as 8 man who wants o wife who will work for him and | allow bim o go six mouths without changing his shirt, UL UNAN R ity A A N T POOR L0°S TENDER PASSION. A AT LD, Pathetio Stcry of the Buming Love of an Indian Maiden, INSPITE OF ALL, SHE ADORED THE DOCTOR. fits of Indian Romance—Spottod Tail's Slayer—The Soft Side of Indian ) ature—A Scene at ¥ine Ridge Agency. Pixe Rinoe Acexcy, 8. Dy, an, 24 cial to Tne Be The Indian is gener not erodited with much regard or affection for nis family, but this improssion was dis- pelled from my mind during my recent tiip 10 Pino Ridge. Of a numberof friends I made amone the Indian chiefs, 1 will always ro- member Ameriean Horse, n man of much prominence among the friendly Sioux. When hie learned that I represented a newspaper he gave my hand a cordial shake,and remariced : “How cola; good.” He had one of his squaws with him, and through asimple but beautiful sign Language informed her of my vocation, and sho too said “How; good,” ' and shook hands, Amor fcan Horse then brought out ayoung pappoose of about six years of age, and informed we that it was his youngest, and then be patted the littlo oneon the head and gave it an affectionate squeezo, Ina joke Tasked him what he would take for the little Slouxvenir. ITodid not at first under- stand whether 1was in carnest or joking, and Lwas afvaid I had offended the old Horse, but ho shook his head, pointed bis finger toward bunch of soveral. hundred Tndian ponies, thon to a troop of cavi stamped his foot upon the ry horscs, arth and waved his hand about bis head, and [ understood that not for all the horses and ponies on eurth would he part with hischild. He, however, did what_he could tooth ornament from the little and presented it to Tue Ber as & memento, and with a grant of satisfac- tion and another “How,” he took the littlo one by the hand and wallked nway, At the close of the Indian campaign of 1876 the captive Cheyennes and others were taken to Port Leavenworth to be transferred to the Indian torvitory. Captain Edie of the hos pital corps at Pive Ridge was at that time stationed at Port Leavenworth, and related wme another instance of Indian affection and pride in theiroffspring, T'he transfer to and cut an elk Sioux’s d S sorrespondent the Indian territory was a_ terrivle blow to the proud Cheyennes and was d as humiliating and_degrading in sme, One of the noted chiiefs of that tribe whose name has unfortyuately slipped my memory, was especially bending under the imagin humiliation, and made several murder attempts 1o oscape. He hud for a squay wember of another tribe, and two boys were the result of the union. Before the final ransfer was made frow the fort 1o the terri- tory, the military concluded to separate tie different tribes, and while the Cheyenne hos tiles were to be sent to the territory, the others were to be returned to the north. This news wis conveyed to the Cheyenne chief, and the prospects that his sons should not shave 1 his disgrace gave him undisguised pleasure, until he was iuformed that families would not be separated and. that they would have to accompuny him. He grow morose and down-hearted, and one day he walked into the hospital, and before any one was aware of his intentions he had selzed a pair of scissors and with the point of it ripped a gash clear across his abdomen, from his left side to the right. He expected 1o die, and said he wanted his wife apd. gl ! - i ro- tumed 10 elF-4onis 1 the north, but his LGl f-sacrifice availed him nothing, for inspite of himself he recovercd and with his family was taken to the Indian tervitor where hé was lost to publie notice, When Spotted Tail, that noted chief, was inthe neight of his glory at the head of a argo band in Dakota, and beforo ho met his death at the hands of a rival chief, his hopes and aflections were contered in a young daughter, whom rumor credits with having been a remarkably hundsome girl. The dunghter of Chicf Spotted Taill was tho leader of the Indian women of her tribo and her beart and hand were sought by all tho young braves far and nearbut she refused them all, and througn his great afiection for her er father allowed bher to have her “own way. Like many of her white sisters th pautiful Indian princess bestowed her love unasked and "The object of her leart and soul was a white medicine man, a doctor who lived with wifo and samily in' neighboring village, and who had been” summoned by Spotted Tail to at- tend his daugnter, who was stricken with that hopeless malady—cousumption. She would follow the doctor from her tepec to his house, and from his houseto any placo he might go. She refused to beliove that he was bayond her reach, and like a faithful dog she wasat his heels upon every opportunity. Expostulations and remonstrinces from he fricnds and the doctor were uscless ; arr unwelcomed, t and confinement hal no effect upon her, for us soon as released she would drag horself to the homso of the white medicine man where she would sit from night till moraing, chanting weird Indian tales of love, until removed by force, “The doctor refased to come again to the lodgo of Spotted Tail, and the chief broken hearted over the condition of his daughter The dread disease made terrible upon the unliappy girl, and one mov dead body was found on the road the doctor’s lome, The death of his daughter made a woader- ful chunge in Spotted Tail's charicter. From a good and peaceable Indian, he be came quarrelsome and turbuleat whicl was the i L cause that led 1o his death, There grew wp a rivaly for supremicy in his wibe between bimself and Great Elk, and it soon reached that point where cach threatened to shoot the other on sight. The two chieftains met one aay, and Great Elk belug the quicker of thetwo, Spot- ted Tail's spirit took 1is thght to the happy nunting grounds. The famous tral of Great Elk is familiar to many newspaper 1eaders, His own people tried him for murder, aod was fined a large qurber of ponies, which he paid. Ho was afterwards arrested by the civil authorities, aud had two trials, and cach time was sentenced to be hung. *His caso was appealed to the United States supreme court and decided in his favor, and ho was released. I met him at Pioe Ridge, and & muwal fricna mado us acquainted. My friend told Eik that I was & newspaper maun, and presented the slaver of old Spotted Tail with a copy of Tig_ Bee, which he accepted with evident gratification, Thoold chief nsked me to put Lis name in the paper and tell the people he was & good Indiau, Hothen wanted to know where Tie Brr's tepee was, and I eulight- sned him upon that subjeet the best I could, but bo eyidently understood me to say that it was published amongz the Omaha Indiaus, for be answered lnterrogatively: “Indians " He ding to bad forgotten thenameof the lawyer w. defended him in his wial for life, and he wanted Tue Bee to tel bim 0 write to his old client. The old chiel's association with tie white people during his confiuement in_jail has about oby- 1lized him and he is an odd * character amony the Indians at Pine RRidge. It has made an old wowan out of hiw, for instead of allowing T squaws todo the bard work aud drud heis credited with doing it all himself now cutting the wood, woving the tepee, and car rying the_pappoose. After all I don’t know but what N Burke's scheme o take all the Indians on a tour of civilization to Eu- Topo is uot & good one. Its cffeets on a limit- ed number has certainly been beneficial, The Indian is not slow to_recognize his friends, and I do not believe there is an In- dian around the entim agency who would intentiounlly harma newspaper man. They believe that the newspapers are their friends and it is wondevful how soou they learn what tho newspapers are saging abouc them, and they aro just as anxions to seeor hear of their names veing In print as a white man, Corr N. M. 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