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PRAISE OF THE PINE.
nh the pine, the green pine,
et its praises be mine! .
r heautv when south winds are
f of its OL J
SW rartr&e-yine under its shadow
s n &ow in the sunflecks
When
, lerns present arms in a rioting
the pine, the green pine,
Jjet its praises be mine.
jj-ail the evergreen pine, V
praises be mine!
, , ( , ; ,ts courage when north winds are
, of greenness in freezing and
/.I of the rose or the weight of
In - |, t ; snows,
‘J lune-siskinc builds or the last
goes,
i ; 1 the evergreen pine,
sjjH its praise3 are mine!
t the evergreen pine,
•■( untless uses are mine!
* .ije jr.ists of great ships where vast
h°- ocean- are spreading;
-. n o or nd the stairway that dear feet
1D ‘ ar e trending;
rry. e table* 'id stool, and the windlass and
~and !, nug, strong box of the king
h°- ' ar t{ the fool;
jhe-e gifts are all mine,”
jj: lie evergreen pine.
]!, ! ;e pine, the green pine,
Its it s God is still mine!
is deli' ite beauty in summer winds
sigh ins .
With e r'ngth ot its verdure in winter
undy.ay, ,
;;s >tii r ’ . Jet us rise, let us reach to
the A-i-i. .
ge glad in jr g row ing if lue sings or
° sighs: * . .
\nd ror purpose divine
Trust the God of the pine.
—E<ii L b WiHis Ginn, in Christian Reg
ister.
j THE SOW’S EAR I
He Scorns Being* Made
Into a Sillc Purse.
“I don’t care nothin’ about st^e,
myself,” observed the man with the
tobacco-stained bosom to the perfect,
stranger who sat opposite to him at
the table. “Because I drop a fork on
the floor ain’t no sign that it’s goin’
to poison me. It’s all poppycock
bringin’ on another one. After the
tip, that’s what he is.”
“It’s quite a simple matter to wipe
it off on your pocket handkerchief, of
course,” observed the perfect stran
ger.
‘ Sure—if you want to,*’ said the
tobacco-stained man. “When I come
into a restaurant I come for some
thing to eat.”
“It’s the primary object, certain
ly,” agreed the perfect stranger.
“You bet your life it is,” said the
tobacco-stained man. “There’s some,
though, that seem to want style.
They don’t care what’s brought on
so long as the dishes is all right. My
wife's that way, but I ain’t. She’s a
holy terror for style.”
7ndeed?” said the perfect stran
ger.
You bet you,” said the tobacco
stained man. ' That’s where her an’
me disagree. ‘You can give me my
chuck on a tin plate if you want to,’
I tell her. I’d as lief eat my gravy
with a steel-bladed knife as a silver
plated one with a pearl handle, so
long as the gravy's what gravy ought
to be. I don’t want no change o’
plates to eat my pie, either.”
It simplifies housekeeping to eat
an the food from one plate, natur
ally,” said the perfect stranger.
“You bet your life,” said the to
bacco-stained man. “What’s the use
o messin up half a dozen kinds o’
dishes at one meal? Does it make
the food taste any better? I’d like
to have you tell me how.”
In some countries they just bring
on the kettle and let everybody fish
iu it to su’ 1 himself,” said the perfect
stranger. “Then there are no dishes
to wash at all.”
! : y haven’t got sense enough to
Jo that in this country,” said the to-
Jacco-stained man. “There wouldn’t
style enough about it. What peo-
? e ln tllis country want is style.
at the things we’ve got in our
There’s another thing—
Uf \o g * 0 h ave our c nairs uphols
-1 1 in plush an’ velvet an’ tidies
'^ e hacks of ’em an’ centre ta
au y ases on the mantelpiece an’
hss an fixin’s wherever you turn.
111 u> t 0 stand for it, bein’ a married
an ' ljUt 1 don’t take no stock in it.”
h was luxury that led to the
owniall of Rome,” remarked the
pe ‘ f cct stranger.
(loat know about that. I
' SIU n( ’ ver South,” said the tobac
gained man. “I know what’s the
„t, ‘ Chicago, though. What’s
1 1 sc tor? it’s to live in, ain’t it?
r ,'° n 5 as there’s four walls an’ a
iju . Whac more do you want? Give
to sleep on a’ a table to
(kc , 1 an a to set in an’ an
, ‘ ° ne hut my feet on an’ a cuspi
that’s all i’ll ask of you.”
, 0:1 evidently believe in the sim
ll'l. said the perfect stranger.
a , 1 believe in it I don’t get it, by
Stan, ! sbot ’” growled the tobacco
gjm , u man - “Yes, I believe in the
fon ~ an 1 believe in solid com
an’ tn believe in common sense,
in v 3 w hat a woman don’t believe
she u *> • W - ite dont ’ anyway. What
fie, / 'I s is style, an’ she ain’t satis
she - Wlth bßing st ylish herself, but
all r -? ls lne to be - 1 tell her that’s
bon but sbe worlcs on me
m P r, n ° V/ t 0 Rosehill she won’t get
'., v ° different to what I am/’
“ /u can’t make a silk— Ahem!”
stair, 1, that?” asked the tobaceo
,(nea man.
muph 0111(1 seem to be a little too
,?‘ l t 0 expect.”
the u ; , . lles ’" r f suraed the man with
ciothei CC;o ' staine d bosom. “There’s
clothes? bat do I want of stylish
t wear clothes to keep me
warm, don’t I? Ain’t that what
clothes are for? I don’t care if they
ain’t the latest cut as long as they’re
warm an’ comf’table.”
‘‘lf you had a perfect covering of
bristles you wouldn’t want any, would
you? said the perfect stranger.——
Chicago News.
Structure of Hailstones.
By CLEVELAND ABBE.
There are three plausible hypothe
ses as to the origin of the snowy ice
at the centre of a hailstone.
(a) The hailstone may have be
gun with tile formation of a ball of
snow, and the clear ice may be a
deposit of cold water, frozen a few
seconds later by the cold of the
surrounding atmosphere. In this
case the air that is mixed with the
snowy ice at the centre would be
compressed by the freezing of the
surrounding clear ice, and would be
liberated as a babble when the hail
stone is melted under water.
(b) The nucleus of the hailstone
may have been at first a large drop
of water, containing dissolved air,
which is forced out by the process of
freezing, precisely like the bubbles
of air that are seen in cakes of arti
ficial ice. Cold water can dissolve
an appreciable percentage of its vol
ume of air, all of which is ectruded
when water freezes; a bubble of
highly compressed air might thus be
formed at the centre of the hailstone.
If such a hailstone be melted in cold
water slowly, all of this air will be
redissolved, and no bubble will be
seen to rise to the surface. If the
stone be dissolved in hot water rapid
ly, or especially if the stone be
crushed forcibly and quickly under
water, the air may escape as a bub
ble without having had time to be
redissolved.
(c) A hailstone formed of pure
water that has had no opportunity
to absorb or dissolve air can be re
duced to a temperature far below
freezing, but will eventually turn to
ice, at which moment its tempera
ture will rise to thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit, and it will assume a
crystalline structure, so as to re
semble snow. Such a hailstone has,
therefore, a snowy nucleus without
inclosed air, and on being melted
under water will, of course, show no
bubble. In fact, the central space
is occupied, not by air, but by tjie
vapor of water only, and as the
pressure is very small, we may liken
this to a partial vacuum.
All these three forms of hailstones,
and other forms as yet unthought
of, are possible; and if we could in
vent methods of distinguishing be
tween these three kinds of hailstones
we should have a better knowledge
of what goes on in the upper air
during the formation of hail.
Those who have proper conveni
ences will find that the study of hail
stones under polarized light gives
additional information as to their
crystalline structure, but has not as
yet told us much about the process
of formation.
As ice is a poor conductor of heat,
it is worth while to make some effort
to determine the temperature of the
interior of a large hailstone. The
external surface may safely be as
sumed to have the temperature of
evaporation or the average wet
bulb temperature prevailing in the
lower thousand feet of air through
which the hail has rapidly
but the centre must he at a teskrJ/y
ture more nearly
that at which the ; V/rJfrs was
formed. There is, a state
of strain that by
polarized light, 'j'/fne average tem
perature of tJ? >#if|Pnole hailstone may
be easily determined by
to melt within a
calorßA'i/er, where the heat con
suirJrcan be determined, and then
tYjr temperature be computed.—
Monthly Review.
Quite Safe.
“John, love,” said the young wife,
“you oughtn’t to have any secrets
from me.”
“Well, Tootsie?”
“You go to lodge meetings, and
‘you never tell me anything about
them.”
“They wouldn’t interest you, dear.
I don’t mind giving you the password,
though, if you’ll promise never to dis
close it to a living soul.”
“I’ll promise never to tell it to any
body. ”
"Remember, it’s to be repeated
only once and very rapidly.”
“I’ll remember. What is it?”
“ Aldaborontiphosciphorniosticos.”
“What? Please say it again, a lit
tle slower.”
“Have you forgotten the conditions
already? I said ‘only once and very
rapidly/ ”
(Tearful pause.)
“O, dear! I wish you hadn’t told
me!” —Chicago Tribune.
Drinks One-seventh of His Income.
A German physician, Dr. Hirsch
field, has been computing the quan
tity of alcoholic drink consumed in
Berlin. Berlin possessed three years
ago 12,592 drinking shops —one for
610 inhabitants —in addition to 301
where wine only is sold. During the
period the Berliners consumed 438,-
939,532 liters of beer, 24,704,525 li
ters of brandy and 19,956,062 liters
of wine. This works out at an av
erage annual consumption a head of
the population of 236 liters of al
coholic drjnk, at a cost of 100 marks,
a mark being one shilling. As the
average income of the Berliners, in
cluding women and children, is
about 683 marks, it may be said that
the Berliner spends a seventh of his
income in intoxicating drinks. —Lon-
don Globe.
TABULATED OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE COUNTIES
Shows Governor-Elect Joseph M. Brown’s Majority Over Captain
Yancey Carter to Be 95,307.
V
Report of the Atlanta Constitution, Friday, October 0.
Lor.. Joseph M. Brown’s majority
over Captain Yancey Carter in the
election of Wednesday will probably
be in the neighborhood of 110,000
votes. He carried every county in the
state.
Official consolidated reports from 133
counties give Governor-Elect Brown a
majority of 95,307, his total vote
amounting to 106,283, Carter’s total
vote in those counties was 10,906. Ow
ing to the fact that several county
committees did not meet Thursday, it
was impossible to secure the official
consolidated returns from the other
thirteen counties, al though estimated
majorities from most of these counties
are presented.
In the race for pension commissioner,
Hon. John W. Lindsay secured the re
quired majority over all other canep
Disfranchise- Pension
Governor. ment commissioner.
Amendment.
COUNTIES. bo
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Appling j 7801 131 6441 420 308| 65| 239
| 416| 4| | I
Baldwin | 576| I6| 486! 113 46 1; 35| 43
Banka | 647 | 42 | 381 294| 256! 17 322
Bartow (estimated) | 600| 0| 200 200 j
Ben Hill | 5121 9j 436 9 1 262 43 177
Blb b | 2,1361 llj 1,200 882 1,001 229 621
Brooks f 0011 34| 560 439 824 19 28
Bulloch ,901 j 48| 400 250
Burke *. 787| 0| 326 457 273 79 ; 104
Butts 565| 231 444 178 301 66| 145
Calhoun 346) 3| !
Camden ,4.341 391 271 274 138 8! 141
Campbell 423 j lo7| 365 171 174| 279| 36
Carroll 933| 333| 1,335| 69 S3o| 212 j 235
Catoosa 5991 9] 4171 195 242| Is| 165
Charlton i 96[ 0| 63| 103 1591 l| 25
Chatham 3,4431 46! 998| 2,259 943 1,245| 1,140
Chattahoochee (estimated) 50| 0| 50| 1
Chattooga 488! 385| 416 j 369 544 lo4| 103
Cherokee 1,320) 2911 | I
Clarke I,olß| 111 616| 4lß| 702 226| 88
Clay 4981 17| I 13| 1 453 44j
Clayton 499| 95| 445 j I89( 117 366| 4|
Clinch 397| 361 250! 142| 313| *27| 49
Oobb 1,391 j 246| 1, 134| 584| 981 280| 333
Coffee | 762| 258| 531! 395 j 310 651 194
Colquitt | 680 j 65| 520( 45| 431 1 4j 115
Coweta j 1,084 | 83| 984! 19B| 355 561 j 160
Crawford | 439| 7[ 276| lo4j 140 1611 96
Crisp I 636 j 17) 299| 323 j 391 ,6| 110
Dade | 556| 401 131 j 261! 16 | 574
Decatur ,| 958| 77| 600| 462! 403 55! 567
DeKalb I 941 I |s6| 863| 314| 307 515| 156
Dodge | 8291 3! | 4671 376| 6121 15| 110
Dooly | 905) 8| 552! 3931 502| IB| 171
Dougherty | 4911 |sj 207| 306| 28! 8| 455
Douglas ..j 51 lj 721 426 163! 169| 34! 387
Early | 700| 58| 499 21 l| 70| | 664
Echols | 162| |s7| 4 1211 HO! 29! 35
Effingham.. | 33S| 0! 197 192| 162{ 18 70
Elbert | 1,130! 82| 1.122 152| 975| 74! ID S
Emanuel | 1,034! | I9| 640 582! 482| 1261, 447
Fannin ! 1,025! 17! 306 1511 420 1 30| 329
Fayette I 406| 721 313 183! 27| 492! 20
Floyd | 1,5051 801 1,055 | 544! 1,027| 227| 185
•Forsyth j 575| |77| 573| 1391 377| 30; 245
Franklin j 661] 131 f 8491 56| 380! 202 jM 2
[Fulton ! 5.921! 1,3981 5,595| 1,610! 1,870 j 4,402| 865
Gilmer I 1.4611 2! 615| 7051 1,144, lOlj 300
Glascock I 379! 211 276| II 0| 279| llj 13
Glynn I 507| 6! 322| 176[ 3i2| 22! 38
Gordon I 477| 454| 724! 158! 251 j 195 227
Gradv I 5761 311 351 | 2241 365; 22| 127
Greene I 1,030! 37| 760| 7CO 677 40j 61
Gwinnett I 1,2541 458| 844! j 735 I Is| 947
Habersham .*^j^ 43l ! 30 l 378 i 64 l 211 53 > 190
Hall • 9281 296! 886' 332| 556| 135! 493
Haralson 1,047! 120( 577] 305| 57| 657 j 37
Harris .. 509! 192! 602] ll2| 400| !07| 142
Hart ’’ .. .. 618! 232| 7441 I 16l 4511 74; 290
Heard .“.... 371! 58j 441 j 311 192| 90 36
Henry . 744! 70| 632] 238) 284! 182! • 82
Irw 5591 14 l 293 l 296 1 4241 68 ! 58
’ 1,086! 176! 9601 238! 457 j ll2| 356
I 636 l 4 I 5281 /98| 306| | 109
ÜB&rbsi vis’.. V. V. ! 277! 9! 1801 1 62' 283| 2l| II
Johnson ”. 1 4 M! 37| 320| M3| 234| S2| 93
J°£" I 8! 6! lj 274| 5561 7131 Is| 57
Laurens I 1.764-! 29j 1,304) 582| 1.187! 4 7| 63
It" e 743; m isol 5031 i 133
T ibe-tv ”” ” I 65 °1 171 5621 493| 370| 1021 186
Lowndes”.: I 98 5| 157| 562] 529! 61 l| 7l| 459
L-mnkin . I 394! 22| 62' * 365| 386| 2 2
Maco „ I 3561 45! 298' 112 2781 49 j 40
Madbon 894[ 68! 628| 308 550) 401 176
MarioS ” I 407! I3| 274| 156 392| 3| 12
Mclntosh”””.'.' I 479 l 141 1911 322 4,2 1 ,4 I 95
Meriwether I 806 l 251! , 765 263! 382) 277| 422
Meriwether 1 , 322 | |4| |49l 20 i 105
M Icheil I 6381 167 l 477 > 2991 4761 1001 248
Monroe ” I 7621 206 i 174 ' 214 ' 361 l 569 |
Montgomery ! 1-069! 451 7661 370| 612] 135 98
MoSmS • *.. 808! !9! 540! 327| 497 j 272! 69
| 1,289! 84| 1,001! IBB| 240 J ■ 311 616
MuUSee ..' ! 1.3081 435| 1,496! 349| 1,298| 2011 M 9
5x .•! "M 166| 725| 3421 365! 274! 118
oSrn'o ” ” .. ••! 5351 24| 4491 147| 389! 90! 80
Pickens > 3g7 | |I2 , 3og i j 4( ); 369 j 5 3j 7
Bff 1 * 03 .'I 720! 106! 6781 1611 290! 278| 130
L l ,? ! 8321 1211 466| 358| 4281 294| 99
'; , | 8121 II 606! 223!- 556! 85| 38
P"! askl ! 360| 2! 351! 11l solid| (
Putnam. j |59( 0 | )29 40| 74| 2| S5
Quitman . 28 , | 4 | 2 30 37| 212! 22| 19
sabaibb5 ab aibb 82!! 47| 562 357 380| | M 2
j 1>0991 26( a44 285 685 j 151| 50
Richmond j 4g()1 62) 364 , 52 278 i 34! 79
Rockdale j 2 | 290 2 12 35Gt 5| 25
B-fßey , , , 4|| 25 | 673 54Q 557 | 5| 19
Bcr^f n I 742| 671 760 77| 449| 306| 63
Spaiding 733 | 531 5g4 , 34 , 55 .$ 1! 7| 82
Stephens 060 j 53 ] 349 361 [ 440| 229| 35
Stewart | 436| 5 764| 681 | 728 226| 193
Su ”? ter I 496! 5 ; 360! 174| 353 49 j 35
T a J. OO - t ! 770! 18! 359| 320| 430 32| 67
Taliaferro ‘ , , 0 08! 87! SO 11 303| I
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Telfair.. .. j sg9 | 32l 47Q | 245 632 | 8| 74
Thomas ’ 44) i 57 , 416 | 83 167 j 56! 261
| 7891 70| 906] i 3| 1311 6581 104
| 5301 52! 364| 125! 2 19 I2| 125
Turner.. .. 467 . Q i o s6 i 2 *B 350 861
Twiggs.. ;•• **. 577 , 29| 527 j 73i 496 50! 54
Upson - 734! 22 | 419 287] 53 80| 627
Walker *\ , 213 , | 46 | 743 574| 611 496| 132
Walton , ’786! 187! 760 136 j 538 245| 192
Ware j sg2 | 403 204 | 129| 54! 313
Warren.. j , 34 |i 131 |,087 278! 1,145 74| 93
Washington j ’ 500) 63 , 344 |7 ,( 205 Jo3 | j 64
Wayne j 322) 2 3i 178 188! 11l 175' 38
Webster 57 ,| 47 ; 3a3 264 | 406 86 i
White. , 335 , | l7 ,j 45 34, | 621 58! 44 3
Wilcox 670 | 4 665 32 j 275 I | 0 ! 417
Wilkes 432 , 5 368 , o| f 43 , 28 ] 6
Wilkinson ****" 797) 91 469 497| 334 IB|_ 319
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Short News Items From Everywhere.
With the election of officers the
Georgia State Association of post
masters of the fourth class finished
the business of the annual conven
tion and adjourhed until 1909. W. 'V-
Webb of Hahira was elected presiden.
to succeed S. .H- Pope of Buchanon.
W T. Kitchens of Mitchell and H. it.
Garev were elected vice presidents.
Mrs Belle Wright of Powder Springs
was unanimously re-elected secretary
and treasurer of the association.
dates by a safe margin. llis vete will
amount to about 60,000. that of hi3
combined opposition to 45,003, giving
him a majority of 15,000. Colonel A.
J. Mcßride received practically 15.000
votes. All of the counties were carried
in this race either by Mr. Lindsay °r
Colonel Mcßride, with the exception < t
Decatur, Early, Douglas, Dougherty
and, perhaps, one or two others, which
cast the largest number of votes for
Mr. Buchanan.
The disfranchisement amendment
was given a majority of 30,000 to
40,000, the vote being almost two 10
one in its favor. The total vote for
disfranchisement will probably reach
80,000. that against being in the neigh
borhood of 40,000.
It is probable that the total vote cast
will reach 140,000, 125,00 going to Mr.
Brown and 15,000 to Mr. Carter.
The proceeds of the train robbery
that occurred near Vilna, Russia,
some time ago, were vury much high
er than was at first estimated. The
robbers got away with a little over
$380,000
Fish Commissioner George M. Bow
ers said his department had planted
during the fiscal year two billion
eight hundred million fish and fish
eggs in the different streams of the
country. *
VISIT SCENE OF INDIAN FIGHT.
Where Red Cloud Wiped Out 83 Men —General Car
rington, Who Counselled Young Officer Against Pur
suit, Renews Memories. *-•
General Henry B. Carrington and
a few other survivors of old F’ort
Phil Kearny recently revisited the
scene of the Fetterman ‘'massacre”
in Wyoming and took part in exer
cises commemorating the slaughter
of eighty-three men by Red Cloud's
Sioux in 1566. As in the Custer bat
tle, there were no survivors to tell
the story of Fetterman’s annihila
tion. The bodies of the men who
were led into a trap now rest on the
brow of Custer Hill, which has been
convened into a national cemetery.
The Government has erected an im
pressive monument of bowlders
where Fetterman and his men fell,
and there is a bronze shield thereon,
telling of the tragedy in a few sim
ple words.
The Fetterman monument is on
top of what is known as Massacre
Hill, between Sheridan and Buffalo,
Wyo., a few miles north of the site
of old Fort Kearny, which was the
first outpost of civilization in that
pai*t of the West, and where General
Carrington was practically besieged
for two years by the great chief, Red
Cloud, who is now near death from
old age on a Dakota reservation.
Fort Phil Kearny was established on
the old Bozeman trail, over which
many pioneers were pushing their
way westward in the 60’s. Travel
over this trail was very dangerous,
and hardly a wagon train passed
through the hunting grounds of the
Sioux without being attacked. When
the fort was established Red Cloud
and his warlike braves were furious
and renewed their attacks upon the
white men with redoubled vigor.
General Carrington himself superin
tended the building of the fort. He
made a strong stockade, which sur
rounded the buildings and parade
ground and constituted an impreg
nable defense. Red Cloud was too
crafty to try to assault the fort, but
he laid constant siege to it, and no
body dared venture beyond the stock
ade without a heavy guard of sol
diers. In the first six months after
the establishment of the fort the In
dians killed 154 persons, including
citizens and soldiers. There were
fifty-one demonstrations near 1 the
fort, and every train that passed on
the trail was attacked.
Captain Fetterman’s Boast.
The Indians particularly delight
ed in making life a burden to the
wood cutters. Near the fort was a
hill called Sullivant Hill, on which a
sentry stood all day long, watching
for signals from the wood cutters.
If an unusually large force of Indians
attacked them, the wood cutters
would signal for more help and an
additional detachment would be sent
from the fort. On December 21,
1866, the lookout signalled that the
wood train had been corralled and
was attacked in force about a mile
and a half from the fort. A relief
party of forty-nine men from the
Eighteenth Infantry and twenty-sev
en troopers from the Second Cavalry
was ordered out. Captain W. J. Fet
terman, who had little experience in
Indian fighting, but who was a brave
if somewhat impetuous officer, asked
to be put in charge of the relief par
ty. General Carrington acceded to
his request and gave him positive in
structions to relieve the wood train
and drive back the Indians, but on
no account to pursue the Indians be
yond Lodge Trail Ridge, a long, high
ridge near the fort, extending from
Sullivant Hill. With Captain Fet
terman’s party were two civilians,
Wheatley and Fisher, both armed
w r ith new breech-loading, rapid-fir
ing rifles, which they were eager to
try in Indian warfare.
Fetterman had made the boast
that with eighty men he could ride
through the whole Sioux nation. He
now had eighty-three men, and the
sequel proved how little he knew of
the Sioux as fighters when he made
his boast. The Indians who w r ere at
tacking the wood cutters w r ere soon
aware of Fetterman’s approach and
immediately withdrew, allowing the
wood train to break coral and go on
its way unmolested. The Indians
seemed to realize that the man in
command of the soldiers was not an
experienced fighter. They kept just
out of range and taunted the soldiers
and made insulting motions, and, in
short, tried by every means to keep
the command following them. In
this they succeeded. Fetterman was
so eager to punish the redskins that
he Argot his orders and pursued the
Sioux across Lodge Trail Ridge. Once
over this ridge he was in the power
of the Sioux. Red Cloud had posted
hundreds of Indians in ambush.
General Carrington soon found
that something was -wrong. He had
dispatched a surgeon with an escort
of four men to join Fetterman's par
ty, but the doctor soon returned with
the information that the wood train
was all right, but that when he at
tempted to cross the valley to join
Fetterman he found it was full of
Indians, who were swarming about
on Lodge Trail Ridge, and that there
was no sign of the soldiers to be ob
served. The alarm caused by this in
formation was deepened when the
sound of heavy firing w r as heard
from over Lodge Trail Ridge, indicat
ing that a fierce battle was in prog
ress. General Carrington dispatched
fifty-four infantrymen to relieve Fet
terman, and a little later forty men
were sent out, reducing the garrison
at the fort to a very small number.
Indeed, so small was the number of
defenders within the stockade that
General Carrington released all the
prisoners from the guardhouse,
armed all the quartermaster’s em
ployes and citizens and then mus
tered only 119 men, not enough to
defend the walls in case of attack.
The wives and children of the men
in the first detachment were nearly
crazy with anxiety, and this deepened
when an orderly galloped in from the
relieving .party and stated that the
valley on the other side of the ridge
was filled with Indians and that no
sign of Fetterman was to be seen.
General Carrington ordered the two
relieving parties to consolidate, and
told them to unite with Fetterman.
He ordered in the wood train, which
gave him fifty-four men to spare for
the relieving expedition. Later in
the afternoon Captain Ten Eyck’s
men returned with details of the ap
palling disaster. In the wagon were
forty-nine of Fetterman’s men, leav
ing thirty-four unaccounted for. Ten
Eyck had remained on the defensive
on the brow of the hill, though the
Indians had tried by every means to
make him follow them into the val
ley. He found the bodies cf the sol
diers where they had fallen, and
there was evidence of a terrible con
flict on the hill. The soldiers had
taken refuge behind some huge rocks
and the forty-nine men he had
brought back w*ere found in a space
about six feet square. They had
been shot full of arrows, scalped and
mutilated. Captain Fetterman and
Captain William Brown, the post
quartermaster, were found side by
side, each with a bullet wound in his
temple. Evidently they had stood
face to face and each had shot the
other dead rather than be taken
alive by the Indians.
Feared Attack on Fort.
The weather was bitter cold and it
was late in December, and there was
no telling when the Indians, encour
aged by their success, would make a
determined assault on the fort. But
the next day General Carrington went
in person to the scene of that battle
with a force of eighty men, after
leaving strict instructions as to sig
nals to be fired from the fort in case
of an attack. The women and chil
dren had been placed in the maga
zine, and an officer was left in charge
of them pledged not to let the women
be taken alive if the general did not
return and the Indians captured the
fort.
General Carrington found bodies
strung along the road to the western
end of the trail furtherest from the
fort. The two civilians who had ac
companied Fetterman were found
behind a couple of rocks. By the side
of one were found fifty shells, and
nearly as many at the side of the
other, showing that they had made
a desperate fight. Wheatley had no
less than 105 arrows in him.
Lieutenant Grummond was found
some distance from the others be
hind a pile of rock, with every evi
dence of a terrible struggle having
taken place on the scene. The bodies
of the remaining soldiers, which were
stripped of clothing, were taken back
to the fort.
The weather was almost insuffer
able, and men and women were
forced to clothe themselves in furs
made from skins of wolves. As soon
as possible relief was sent to the
fort.
General Carrington was relieved
of command pending investigation,
but eventually he was absolved from
blame, as it was proved that he had
given Fetterman distinct orders not
to venture into the trap which Red
Cloud had sprung so successfully.
General Carrington was deeply in
terested in going over the scene of
his early experiences. It was planned
to have him meet his old foeman.
Red Cloud, probably the greatest
chief the Sioux ever knew, but the
old warrior was too feeble to be
there. J
Just before the abandonment cf
Fort Phil Kearny Red Cloud received
ample punishment for the Fetterman
slaughter. Captain James Powell,
who bad been detailed to guard the
timber cutters at the fort, repulsed
Red Cloud and his warriors in what
v/as known as the “Wagon Box
fight,” a short distance from the fort.
Red Cloud had assembled about 3,-
000 warriors, and determined to
make a direct assault on the fort.
Asa preliminary move he intended
to annihilate Powell and his w'ood
guards. No less than 500 Indians
made an attack on the wood train,
but Powell promptly corralled the
wagons, and behind this fortification
he and his thirty-one men defended
themselves.
Unknown to the Indians the sol
diers were armed with anew rifle
of the rapid-fire type. There w r ere
plenty of these guns* and one fron
tiersman, a crack shot, had eight
loaded weapons at his elbow'. He
kept these eight guns busy for three
hours. The first charge was re
pulsed, the Indians falling in great
numbers. Four times the Indians
charged, only to be mowed down by
the “bad medicine guns.” Final
ly Red Cloud made a last charge, but
it was only for the purpose of get
ting the bodies of those who had
fallen. Red Cloud himself after
ward said he lost 15 00 followers in
that fight. The defeat disheartened
the Sioux and caused Red Cloud to
lose the prestige he had gained in hia
defeat of Fetterman.—New York
Tribune.