Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 10 September 1897 — Page 3

——— $h»2ilu«ouutg§mofrat •U MmC. STOOP*. Mitor and P.oprletor. PETERSBURG. - - IKDIAKA. TO MY GRANDDAUGHTER. Bo you are twelve yean old to-day, And. bless me! quite a woman grown! Or rather. I perhaps should aay. A sweet and lovely rose, halt blown. It seems a very little while Since baby, with a face so (lad. Was asking grandma, with a smile. What sort of fruit or cake she had. And there was always in reserve Some dainty for this precious pearl, Borne toothsome morsel or conserve, To please her winsome baby girl. This little girl, now twelve years old. And. bless me! quite a woman grown. With what delight mine eyes behold This sweet and lovely rose, half blown.

'What can I ask for her this day. As on life's threshold still she stands. But that through all Its checkered way Her guide shall be the Father's hand; That His love and His blessed peace . May In rich fullness with her dwell. Bach cars to soothe, each Joy Increase. That In aach grace she shall eacel. Stay for awhile thy flight. O Time. And cease to turn thy sanded glass. And lengthen out this precious chime Of happy youth, too son to pass. For cares must come and tears must fall. The battle must be fought and won; *Tis so appointed unto all. And from this are exempted none. Bight let Thy hand rest on her. Lord! A hand of guidance and of love: Bet Thy rich grace be on her poured. That all Thy goodness she may prove. Be Thou to her a sun and shield. To guide and keep, and safely lead. That precious fruit her life may yield. In blessing others who may need. Shine bright. O sun. her path along. Ye tall old trees, wave all your plumes. Bet each bird sing Its sweetest song. And flowers pour forth their rich perfumes; Bet Joy and gladness reign supreme. And be all shadows brushed away. While I indulge the pleasant dream— Our darling's twelv-e years old to-day! *-Willtam Q Haeselbarth, in Christian Work. I Deed o! Kindness. BY OAVIO WECHSLER. (Copyright. iSjt.3 |

WK HAD come upon an Indian village along the banks of a creek close under the steep sides of a mountain. and we charged it at once and soon had possession. Most of the war-1 riors were away on an expedition, but •a sub-chief named Gray Wolf, w ho was -lame from a wound, was in command. •Our revolvers and sabers made quick work of those who opposed us. and. in seeking to get.aw ay. Gray Wolf WW knocked down by a horse and rendered unconscious. He was one of the 2$ prisoners we safely conveyed back to the fort, and as he was know n to be one «jf the most bloodthirsty of his tribe hi* confinement was a rigorous one. lie was pieced in a cell in the guardhouse by himself, loaded down with irons, and all members of the guard on duty I were " permitted to stare at and outrageously abuse him by word of mouth. •Gray Wolf was a young man of dignity j .and pride, and he perhaps felt the in-j Lillis more than the confinement, though j he made no complaint in either case, j He had been confined for three weeks when, as sergeant of the guard, 1 looked in on him one day and began a conversation in his own tongue. It resulted in his show ing me that the irons were galling him. and of his asking protection from farther insult. 1 reported to the officer of the day and the irons were removed, and I got some ■salve from the hospital steward to soothe the broken flesh. I gave Gray Wolf news of his'fellow-prisoners and. of his tribe outside, and at the risk of censure spliced out his prison fare with a part of my rations. 1 did these things for him as 1 would have done them for a wild animal, and not because I sympathized with him as a human being. An Indian may be technically cal let! a human being, but it is nearer the truth to refer to him as a human devil. In getting the redskin released from his Irons 1 did him the turn he was hoping for. That night, w ith a wideawake sentinel standing only six feet away. Gray Wolf tunneled under the basement logs of hia prison and made good his escape, and it was only by a close shave that T escaped a court-martial. The fellow showed the devil in his nature even as he fled. Coming across a teamster lying under his wagon in a drunken stupor Gray Wolf paused to murder and acalp him. and from that hour on a price was set upon his head and every noldier in the west was determined to shoot him down, even if he offered to surrender. Two months after the escape of Gray | Wolf, and while hia tribe was still waging a relentless warfare. I was ordered but of Fort Gray with a squad of troopers to bridge a creek about five miles away. No Indians had been seen within ten miles of the fort, and we knew for a fact that the main body of them were raiding 50 miles to the west. Seven troopers fully armed and exercising due vigilance were thought abuii- i dantly able to take care of themselves, and ttvo hours after leaving the fort we were hard at work. We needed a straight tree-trunk 28 feet long for one I of the string-pieces of the bridge. Leaving my horse at his picket-pin I started out alone in search of the right sort of tree. We were on a forest-covered foothill, with masses of rock outcropping here and there. I was about 40 rods from the men and just passing one of these outcrops when I was struck down. I saw the arm of an Indian and a club, and then there was a crash and a legion of fiery stars. It was perhaps five minutes before I opened my eyes and found myself lying on the ground. The Indiana, of whom there were three, must have heard of me through Gray Wall, lor I was oue of the two men at

the poet who could speak the Sioux dialect, and one of them said to me: “If 70a erjr out we will kill youl Get up and come along!” I staggered about as I reached my feet, and one of them took my arm to help me along. With one leading the way and the other bringing up the rear we set off in a western direction and were soon out of hearing of the axes of my comrades. For a time my head throbbed and ached so that 1 thought my skull had been fractured, and we had gone a distance of two miles before I fully realised that I was a captive. The one holding my arm was the one who had struck me with a club, and by and by I asked of him: “Why didn’t you use your tomahawk instead of a club?" “Didn’t want to kill you,*’ he laconically replied. “Have heap more fun to burn you at stake.*’ “Who is your chief?” “Gray Wolf chief of all now. H© know you. Go fast now and don’t talk.” The Indians had their war paint on ; and were well armed, and had perhaps been skulking about for two or three days in hopes to get hold of a straggler. After a rough walk of four miles we came upon their ponies and a rough camp, and no time was lost in mounting and getting away. I was ordered up j behind one of the warriors, and they

left my hands and feet entirely free. While this was a favor to me. it did not add to my chances of escape. In fact, with an Indian ahead and another behind, there was no show whatever. At the first move on my part, as I whs warned over and over again, I would get a bullet through me. We rode about 30 miles in w northwesterly direction and then reached the head village on j the banks of White Clay creek. A war party of 140 men under Gray Wolf was out, but the warriors, old men. squaws and boys at home numbered fully 500. As we rode into camp there was great excitement, and I looked for personal abuse, but I was safely conducted through the'Crowd and confined in a lodge in the center of the village. It was three days before the band came In, and during this interval I had nothing to complain of in the way of food or treatment. After Gray Wolf had feasted and smoked I was conducted to his lodge and left alone with him. As I had seen him in the guardhouse he was ragged, unkempt and suffering. Here he was king of a tribe, and he looked it in word and action. I saw his eyes light up in a revengeful way as I

“I wanted to send yon book to tbs Fort," he began, “but; my young men talked me down. Yon shall not die ot torture, however. You are to be bound to a wild, fast pony, given a good start, and If come up with they will kill you.** I thanked him 'for his “mercy” and was hustled out to find five or six warriors holding an unbroken pony by ropes. It may have been an animal lately captured from a wild herd, but I am sure no one had ever been on his back. It took two warriors ten minutes to seat me and tie my legs under his belly, and he was then led straight out on the bush-covered plain, yelled at until almost frightened to death, then suddenly set loose. As he bounded away I heard the yells of mounted warriors behind, with cheers from the squaws and boys, and the race had begun. I was an old rider and had seen some pretty hard mounts in my day, but that pony capped the climax. Even while running at top speed he tried every trick to shake me loose, and but for being tied I could not have kept my place five minutes. What I feared was that he would make a circle and return, but he had been so frightened that he was glad to cut loose from camp, and nothing on legs could have overhauled him. The Indians hung to us for a couple of miles, probably hoping to see the animal turn or stop, but after that I heard no more of them. The first ten miles was down a long and

narrow valley; the nest hve was across broken ground leading up to the foothills. It was only after we got among the rough hills that the pony slackened up. and by reaching forward and cuffing his head with my hand I guided him fairly well. A little more than two hours after being turned loose 1 struck the trail leading"to the fort, and it is a matter of military record that the orderly sergeant of company C rode into that post on a wild cayuse of a certain August morning, and that it took most ; of the men of his company to hold the | animal and cast the fugitive prisoner ( loose. Gray Wolf yet lives. Two years after my escape I met him at a reservation. and as we shook hands he said: “How—how! My young men complained that I gave you too good i pony!” » SAD NEWS FOR THE BIRDIES, Fanuni I.nw of Mmiarlinaetta Practically \nl lilted. The famous law which was intended ; to prohibit the wearing of feathers or bodies of birds for ornamental piwH poses in Massachusetts has been inter

"I HEARD THE TELLS OF WARRIORS. AND THE RACE HAD BEGUN.

stbod before him. and it was two long minutes before he said: ‘They should have captured all your men as well. We can burn six or eight at the stake as well as one.” I had been wondering what sort of attitude to assume towards him. That he should remember to my. credit what passed in the guardhouse 1 did not for a moment believe. To beg my life would only be to win his contempt and spin out his torture. In an even voice, therefore, I replied: “Gray Wolf was only a sub-chief | when 1 saw him last, lie is now chief of all, and 1 am glad to know it. Black Eagle was a chief but not a brave man. ■ He tortured soldiers at the stake in- | stead of shooting them.” “I w as a dog under their feet at the ; fort!" he said as his face grew hard and wicked. "And yet you escaped." Here was an Indian who had been ! born to hate a pale-face. Every day j ot his life he had been told they were j his foes—that he must have no feeling j o{ mercy for old or young—that he j could invent no torture too cruel for | those who had-overrun his territory and j brought death and wounds to his friends and relatives. At that moment he was waging a war of extermination, < and outside his tent the youug warriors were shaking fresh scalps in the air] and boasting of their prowess. On the other hand, I had aided him to escape from a degrading imprisonment and to become-what he was. He owed me a debt of hatred and one of gratitude. As a warrior he would have paid the first with rejoicing. As a chief be felt the obligation of the last. The mental struggle lasted fully ten minutes, and there were times when the weight of a hair would have turned, the scales against me. At length he said: “Yes, 1 escaped, and it was owing to you. 1 heard that they wanted to imprison you in my place. Gray Wolf has never yet spared a pale-face, and his heart is full of hate and revenge. I do not know what 1 shall do. 1 will take the night to think it over.” As soon as 1 was taken back to tbe lodge where 1 had been confined there was great excitement in camp. The word went round that Gray Wolf wanted to spare me. Ever}' warrior raised his voice in opposition, and the “talk" which was entered upon lasted til! midnight. 1 figured it out that the chief would jrive me some sort of show in the moriung and then fell into m troubled sleep and did not awaken until he sent for me at sunrise. A glance at him seemed to show that he waa la better temper.

preted by Attorney-General Knowlton 1 in such a way that there is practically no prohibition at all. In an exhaustive | paper he has given the opinion that the bird law does not prohibit the bringing of birds into the state. In the summary of his paper the at* I torney-general says: “1 am of the opinion that the stat- j utes of 1897, chapter 534, is not to be construed as prohibiting the having in possession or the wearing of the body or feathers of birds taken or killed without the commonwealth.” New York was especially interested in this matter, because many of the feathers used by the local milliners are procured through New York. It was stated at the time of the passage of the ait that the measure was an honest and earnest attempt to stop the killing ol birds for ornamental purposes and to discourage the wearing of feathers in women’s bonnets. As Mr. Knowlton’t opinion practically removes such le* striction. those who have been earnest in fighting for the cause of the birds believe that the legislators of the state will not let the matter rest at its pres* , ent status. A new erusade will probably b« started next winter. TO CULTIVATE RARE PLANTS — Agricultural Department to Adopt Mew Plan tn Seed Distribution. James Wilson, the secretary of agri* ! culture, was in Denver, Col., the othei day, on the tour he is making for the purpose of familiarising himself with the conditions and necessities of the west. The cultivation of the sugai beet and the breeding of cavalry horses are the two moat important matters which he will investigate. “It is the intention of the department of agriculture, in the matter of seed j distribution.” said the secretary, “to ; procure seeds of rare varieties of use* | ful plants and such as are difficult to j obtain and distribute them in such parts of the country as are suitable for their growth and are of the same soil and climatic characteristics os the countries in which these plants are in* j digenous. “In pursuit of this idea, the depart* ! ment now has an agent in Siberia in* ' vestigating the j. ’■asaes of the elevated plateaus of that region, who will secure ! seeds of these plants, if possible, and experiment with them in the arid and semi-arid regions of the west, with the view of the selection of such as may prove to be advantageous for feed for the stock of our great plains.”

PERSONAL AND LITERARY. —The late J. F. Russell said of Charles Lamb: “On rising to leave him, on my last visit. 1 could not open the parlor | do Jr. ‘Ah,’ he exclaimed, with a sweet smile, 'you can unlock the springs of | Helicon, but you cannot open the ! door!’” —The story is told orf the elder Dumas, that when he was presented to Mme. Charlotte Wolter, the Austrian tragic actress, he threw his arms around her to express his admiration, not being able to make her understand in any other way. —Very appropriately, the carved image of a sailing ship, her prow pointed to the western Pacific, is the design for Robert Louis Stevenson’s monument, to be erected in San Francisco. At the bow, is a figure of Pallas, looking towards the sunset.

—The Berkshire County Historical society is endeavoring' to purchase Miss Susau B. Anthony’s birthplace, in Adams, Mass. The house was built by her grandfather. The society’s wish is to make a small park of the land and a library and museum of the house. —Rev. Edward Everett Hale, in Youth’s Companion, tells of James Russell Lowell’s first client when he began to practice law. After Lowell had nervously given his client s chair, taken his hat, and sat down with his notebook to take notes on the case, he found that visitor was a painter come to collect a bill. —James Taxton Yoorhees, son of the late senator from Indiana, for many years connected with the art department of the congressional library, has resigned in order to devote his entire time to art. Mr. Yoorhees has for years been known as an artist, many of his productions in marble having given him high rank as a sculptor. He is completing a bust in marble of the late Senator Hearst, of California, and another of his father, the late senator from Indiana. -- ■ POPE LEO’S SUMMER LIFE. WrltiiiR More Latin Poetry aa«l Studying I'p Arbitration. Notwithstanding the intense heat, | which in Rome has this year really as- j sumed extraordinary proportions, Leo XIII. maintains his usual health, feeling, indeed, rather better and;stronger than in the winter. His holiness passes the hot hours of the day in the apart- ’ inent especially prepared for him in the i tower of Leo IV. in the Vatican gardens. ! where, by reason of the thickness of the walls, the temperature is always fresh, j Trof. Lapponi. his personal doctor, has often remarked to me that the summer . fceems to benefit him. and that the sea- j son to be feared is the winter, when it is almost impossible to keep an even tern- j perature in the immense apartments of the Vatican,and to prevent draughts,the | slightest of which is felt by his holiness. \ Resides this, the pope lends in the sum- i iher months, without doubt, a much ;

easier me than in the winter, because of the comparatively small amount of business to be transacted and the almost entire suspension of functions and receptions, which are for him most exhaustin'?. Now the pope rises rather early, and immediately receives a resume of news coming from all parts of the world, prepared purposely for him in the most condensed form by a special office in the Vatican, which works from midnight until his hour for receiving it, summarizing it from telegrams, letters and newspapers. The general outlook over the world is shortly after completed by a visit from Cardinal Rampolla. with whom he discusses the most important affairs. After a frugal breakfast. accompanied by his private attendant, he descends to the garden and is driven to the tower of Leo IV., escorted only by a member of the Noble guard, w ith whom he converses amiably about the doings and gossip of the town. He usually descends from the carriage to take a w alk in his flower garden, w hich, though not large, is bright wifh blossoms. and in which he is said, to take « great interest. He occupies himself also with the growth of his grapevines, speaking personally on the subject with his gardener9. Grapes are among his favorite fruit, especially the pizzutello, an oblong white grape, found almost exclusively near Rome. In the tower he attends only to ecclesiastical or literary work, especially Latin poetry, in which he is such an adept, and a little before sunset returns as he came to the Vatican palace. If nothing of great importance has occurred he is tot disturbed with polities until the next morning. It is asserted that the pope’s attent ion at presenLis again directed toward the subject of international arbitration, of whieh he is such a stanch advocate, and which he considers a principle peculiar* It appertaining to the domain of the papacy. He says that the duty of the common Father of the Faithful and of the Head of Catholicism is to work for the establishment of permanent peace among nations. He seems to think that the concert of powers, which has so long succeeded in remaining unanimous with regard to the Levant question. is a step toward the realization of his cherished ideal.—Pall Mall Gazette. Laram end Dives A colored exhorter, enlarging on the impossibility of rich men getting into Heaven, said: **Look at Latherus. When he wuzon de airth he ax Diwees fer de crumbs dat fall frutn his table. En what did Diwees do to him? He call his dog. Moreover, en sick him on Latherus. Latherusputup a purty good fight, but de dog licked him! Den Diwees wuz so mad dat he took a fit en died, en when he wake up he fin* himself in hellnre, en he look troo de skylight en see Latherus en Father Abraham in a huggin* match: en be call fer Latherus ter turn on de water en he*d pay de bilk Ej> wbjtdld Latherus say? He des lean overde banister en holler out: *Go ’long, man. en sbet yo' mouf. De water wus cut off on de tenth. Milk en honey ia de bes’ I got!’ ”—AV lanta Constitution. ■

WIT AND WISDOM. —Atkins—“What kind of an alarm Slock have you?" Hennypeck—“My wile’s elbow."—Puck. —“Our landlady had to lower the fining table three inches.** “Why did she do that ?** “Nearly all the boarders are scorchers.’*—Indianapolis Journal. —Gentle Hint.—Danseuse—“Baron, if 1 were to receive a bracelet anonymous* ly to-morrow morning, I should be sure that it came from you.”—Fllegende Blaetter. —The Golfer’s Scorn.—First Golfer— “Did you hear about Weever? He’s (earning to play lawn-tennis.” Second GoWer—“He must be paying an election bet.”—Brooklyn Life. —Justifiable Homicide.—“Good day

for the race,” said Abel. “What race?” said Cain. “Human race,” said Abel. “Darned if I haven’t bitten at that thing again,” said Cain, and then, he used bis club.—Truth. —Old Lady—“This must be a very healthy place. Now, what may the death rate be?” Grave Digger—“Wonderfully steady, mum — wonderfully steady. Just one death to each person right along.”—Sketch. —“I must have been a fool when 1 married," 6aid little Tompkyns, glaring fiercely at his wife. “Certainly, my dear,” said Mrs. Tompkyns, sweetly; “it couldn’t come on so badly all in two years, could it?”—Tit-Bits. —“Miss Grabbs declares her girl friends can't deny that her attachment to that gentleman with a title was a case of love at first sight.” “That’s very true,” replied Miss Cayenne; “she saw him first.”—Washington Star. MAID OF MANY ACCENTS. Experience of a Chioaeo Girl with the Varied Pronunciations. People who are under the impression that accent betrays not only nationality but provincialism as well will perhaps be somewhat disillusionized by reading the following incident: The experience is that of a Chicagc woman tvho made the trip to New York a short w hile ago. Up to the time of her visit to the eastern metropolis she supposed that she spoke fairly good English. She read none but the best authors, and as her friends were all numbered among cultured people there really seemed no reason why she should not couch her sentiments in pure, substantial Anglo-Saxon. Neither did she | affect an accent. At least she was not aware that she did. After arriving in New York, however, she learned that I she not only had an accent, but that it was a many-sided affair that was truly perplexing. She attended a reception one evening where literary and artistic people predominated. The first person she talked with was a man with a bushy red beard and gold eyeglasses. “I am? so glad, madam.” he said, in j the course of the conversation, “tc know that you are from my town. That Boston accent is bound to betray the speaker w herever it may be heard.” The Chicago woman flashed him one keen glance; then, seeing that he was in earnest, she said: “I fear you have made a mistake. ] am from Chicago.” Soon after she began talking to an elderly woman. “You are from Georgia, of course,”

said the older woman. "1 can always tell a Georgian anywhere. There is nobody on earth who pronounces a’« and u’s like a person born and bred in that state.” And again was the Chicago woman forced to proclaim the city of her nativity. Later a young man commented on her accent. “From Nova Scotia, of course,” he said, pleasantly. “I hail from there myself, and it’s a pleasure to see some one who speaks as they ds at home. The minute you pronounced my name I knew you were from my part of the country. Nobody else could say it with just that accent.” j Again she gasped out something j about “Chicago.” A half hour later another man claimed j her for a kindred spirit. “I’ve been lonesome and out of place j tonight,” he said. “Nobody here from n»y section of the globe. You’re the I first person I’ve met all evening that hails from west of the Rocky mountains. The minute I heard you speak I said: ‘Here's a woman from the far west.’ We never lose our accent, it seems, wherever we may go.” Just before the reception ended the suave young man who stood at her side leaned forward and said: “I’ll drive over and see you some day, If you don’t mind.” “Y’ou’ll do what?” “Drive over and see you. I’ll wagei wc don’t live more than ten miles apart. My home is in Robinson, W. Va., and you cannot live far away. An- accent such as yours and mine is never heard outside our immediate vicinity.” They were on their way home at last. “You’ll be apt to have a caller tomorrow,” said her cousin. “That young doctor from Montreal is anxious to know you better. He feels confident that you belong to his city. He says he was attracted Ay your accent from the very first. He’s homesick and would like to talk to some one from his native town. I didn’t tell him any difference. You—" But the young woman gasped “Chicago” and fainted.—Chicago Tribune. Knew now It Himself. Hinsman (watering his lawn)—A funny thing happened down the street last evening. Gorman was sprinkling his front yard, when a fellow came up behind him and asked him a question. Gorman turned round to answer, and without thinking gave the man the full force of the stream. Dumleigh (standing in the rear)— How was that, Hinsman? Hinsman (turning on his heel—Why, you see— However, you know how it !• yourself now. Sorry, but then, you know, one always forgets that he has the hose In his hand when he la spoken to suddenly.—Boston Transcript.

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