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join in three days on the Yellow stone at the junction of the Big Hom. On that fateful Sunday morning Custer, who had struck and followed the main trail of the Indians, saw an Indian village over the Little Big Horn. He sent Major Reno with six troops to cross the river below the village. He left Capi. Benteen with one troop to guard the pack train and with five troops started across country to strike the village at the upper end. The attack of the two commands was to have been mad > simultaneously, which Custer expect ed would stampede the Sioux. Major Reno crossed the river as directed, ran into yore Indians than he had ever seen before and at once retreated to the other bank, where, on a high hill, he entrenched his command. Custer’s Last Stand. Meanwhile Custer' surprised the village and started the stampede. The Indians did not know which way_ to turn. They fled in terror, but soon were brought into action by Gaul, who made them circle the handful of men with Custer. It was not long before the soldiers’ horses stampeded or were killed to be used as breastworks for the men fighting valiantly and waiting momentarily for Reno to attack from the other side —waiting for an attack that nev er came, waiting for assistance that was needed and never given. One by one the little command fell be fore the merciless fire of the hordes of fiends before them. At last, am munition gone, hand-to-hand combat resulted, the soldiers killing many Indians with their sabres. The com mand sold their lives dearly and at such terrific cost to the Indians that after the battle the squaws and chil dren horribly mutilated each body, except that of Custer, the last to fall, the bravest Indian fighter of them all. The battlefield is today laid out and marked by stones. Each stone bears the wording: “A U. S. soldier died here.” On the four sides of a mammoth shaft are cut the names of all the officers and men who fell —262 vic tims of more than 3,000 Sioux. The stones indicate the perfect discipline maintained in the face of terrific odds. Each of the five troops is distinctively marked, each man almost in skirmish formation. The shaft stands on the spot where Cus ter fell, surrounded by the remnants who made the “Last Stand” —it was a heap of soldiers surrounded by a fringe of Sioux, victims of soldiers selling their lives dearly. Near the high ground and not far from where the monolith , is erected, the body of Kellogg, special correspondent of a New York newspaper, was found by Gen. Terry and his command when they came upon the scene, on the twenty-seventh. He, too, has a head stone to tell that he died as a hero. In 1886, in conducting a commis sion over the field, Chief Gaul said: “Had Reno fought one-fourth as hard from his side as did Cue! er there would have been no massacre; instead, victory?’ Custer has been criticised and blamed. He has been charged with disobeying orders and generally blamed for leading his men into a WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. trap, but Iron Tail disproves the claim of an Indian ambush. —New York World. Leathersville, Ga., June 28, 1907. Hon. T. E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir: I find from the label that my Jeffersonian has not been moved up from Jan. 27, 1907, to Jan. 27, 1908. If you remember, five or six weeks ago, I met you on the street in Thomson and gave you $1 on my subscription. I write this to remind you, thinking that you failed to get my address, not charging you with any carelessness in the matter. But, knowing you have so much on your mind, you failed to make a note of it. I want to say to you, in this con nection, I have been a strong friend and supporter of you, from the time you made your first speech in Lin coln county at Wheat’s old camp ground, denouncing the Jute Bag ging Trust, along with other things. And also down through populism I have always supported you, stood by and sympathized with you in all of your disappointments and hardships that you have undergone. And I expect to stand by and help you in my feeble way as long as you continue to represent these grand principles that you have been fighting for these many years, and for which you will some day reap your reward. May the good Lord guide you in your work. My wife has been a lifelong friend of yours, also. You may have for gotten her, as you have not seen her to know her in a long time. She was Miss Sudie Steed, daughter of Iren eus E. Steed. She often speaks of you, in attending school at Thom son, Ga., when her cousins Leek and Tom Steed taught there. We have several of your pictures that she cut from papers and magazines and some as good as I have ever seen of you. I just write this to remind you of some of the by-gone days. No more for this time. Most respectfully your friend, JOHN T. BENTLEY. 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