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COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
Proceedings of the Board of Super,
visors at their last regular session.
Board met in auditor's office Thurs
day, Sept. 8, 1898.
Members all present.
1
Called to order at 9 a. m.
Minutes of Tuesday, Sept. 6, were
read and approved.
On motion claims were allowed as
follows:
Dan McGrath assessing saloons... $ 3 00
Dan McGrath labor Langley dis
trict 3 00
Wise repairs on farm 1 75
W Langley numbering bridges
Charter Oak township 10 50
W VV Rhodenbaugh numbering
bridges Hayes, Iowa, Nishna
!i botna East Boyer townships— 30 75
John White numbering bridges
Milford, Stockholm townships.. 33 15
Otto Hink committee work 38 70
Otco Hink to cash paid laborers on
road 336 50
Trustees of Otter Creek township
to one-half of mulct tax 110 00
Burmeister labor Hink district 15 00
Win Shlernbeck labor Jepsen dis
trict 1100
Haugh & Eemming merchandise
for Jail and farm 13 35
Salomon merchandise and re
pairs 5 80
W. P. Hover repairs 3 00
O lvens merchandise and re
pairs 35 40
Conner house rent for Roberts 4 00
O lvens material for bridges 10 55
Vail Lumber Co coal for poor
lumber White district 33 50
Jas McGuire repairs at court house 3
Christensen repairs 3 55
Dugan labor White district 10 00
Ed Monahan labor White district 5 00
S Jordon labor White district.. 4 15
McConnell labor White district 6 00
HA Quinn & Co lumber Hink dis
trict 30 70
Charter Oak township material..*. 1 95
On motion official bond of F. L. Bock
Soldiers' relief committee was approv
ed.
Board adjourned at 12 noon to meet
at 1p.m.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Board, met at p. m. and allowed
claims as follows:
Green Bay Lumber Co lumber
Rhodenbaugh district $ 17 95
W Graham merchandise for Fos
ter and Palmer 50 00
Wm Devineshoes for prisoners... 150
Cook & Staley stationery 4 50
Meyers & Tucker stationery 4 00
W Evans M. D. to medical at
tendance of paupers claim $35.14 30 00
Fred Jepsen labor Jepsen district 16 00
Henry Bell balance due in convey
ing Insane to Clarinda 40 60
Sisters of Mercy care of Otto
Brengleson and Julia Flanigan 85 15
HE Pease & Son coffin for Mary
Carbaugh 13 oo
W Wright M. D. salary for
August
33 33
On motion official bond of H. J. Cum
mings, delinquent tax collector, was
approved.
On motion school applications No.
805-806 was approved.
Shirtcliff one transcripts 7 95
Shirtcliff clerk oo
Carroll Blank Book Co supplies... 4 00
John Berndt house rent for Mrs.
Denker 15 00
E Gulick house rent for Mrs.
Cochran 15 00
Jas McKim one J. P. transcript... 39 30
Keane one J. P. transcript... 11 30
Montgomery one J. P. Tran
script 3S 50
Wm Rath material and repairs at
court house 33 15
W Langley to cash paid labor
ers on road 985 15
John Ward material and labor
Rhodenbaugh district 364 08
Ordered that a remittance of $3.77
be made to Messenbrink of taxes
of 1893 on account of double assess
ment.
Claim of Christ Harm for the sum
of $30.00 was rejected.
Highway petition No. 860 came up
for hearing and on motion was laid
over till November session and Hink,
Rhodenbaugh and White a committee
to view the same.
Board adjourned at 5 p. in. to meet
Friday, Sept. 9, at 9 a. m.
JOHN T. CAREY, FRED
JURSEN,
Auditor. Chairman.
Warrants issued by auditor between
sessions:
John Carey salary for June $100 00
A Stueber 50 00
Ida Lorenzen 50 00
A Lorenzen 135 00
Emil Krugor 116 07
A Myers 104 00
NJ Wheeler no oo
CHBollesMD" 45 00
Henry Bell boarding prisoners,etc 70 06
Huntington work for county in
June 78 00
Fred Jepsen agent to pay county
officers 5 00
John Carey salary for July 100 00
AG Stueber "...... 50 00
A Lorenzen 135 00
Ida Lorenzen 50 00
N Wheeler .. 50 00
A Myers KM 00
W WrightMD" 33 33
Henry Bell boarding prisoners,etc 77 43
Huntington work for county in
July 60 00
Fred Jepsen agent to pay county
officers 5 00
Holmes work at institute,etc. 115 00
W Van Ness work at institute 15 00
Hess work at institute 10
ptdays 90 00
Failor work at institute 10
days SK) 00
Alice Wilson work at institute
10 days nooo
Hoist work at institute loo 00
W Van Ness work at institute.. 35 00
W Von Coelln work at institue. 15 00
Stanley Brown work at institute
9 days 27 00
E Houston work at institute
5/4 days ic so
Thos Luney janitor 00
Caswell printing 26 35
Wm Eggers care of paupers on
farm in June 151 00
Wm Eggers care of paupers on
farm in July 143 48
Wm Eggers care of paupers on
farm in August 131 55
iRolnnd Weed six wolf scalps 13 00
Soldiers' Relief Commission for
June 9S 00
Soldiers' Relief Commission for
July 98 00
•Soldiers Relief Commission for
August 98 00
Henry Bell conveying MeC.Innis,
Claussen and Margaret Ewoldt
insane persons to Clarinda 150 00
Board mot in Auditor's oilica Friday,
.'September 9,1898.
Members all present.
Called to order at 9 a. m.
Minutes of Thursday, September 8,
weie
•read and approved.
On motion,claims were allowed as fol
lows:
Henry ^Laumbach, labor, Jepsen
district 9 50
J. B. Romans, merchandise—... 30
FrankBrown.labor,White district
claimed $50.50 40 00
W. A. Butler, labor, Langley dis
trict 10 00
ENemltz, material and labor, Jep
sen district I2
E Duffy, labor, White district.. 7 00
W Langley, committee work.... 37 20
Pharr Wieland and Gebert, mer
chandise for poor
Pharr Wieland and Gebert, mer
chandise for county
Montgomery, Justice of the
Peace, transcript
Crawford County Observer, pub
lishing proceedings, etc 3175
Denison Zeitung and Demokrat,
publishing proceedings, etc 33 2j
Fred Jepsen, sitting with board.. 17 00
W W Rhodenbaugh, sitting with
board 16 00
W W Rhodenbaugh, committee
work 3 5o
Otto Hink, sitting with board 10 55
Otto Hink, committee work 3 40
John White, sitting with board... 18 00
John White committee work 3
W Langley, sitting with board. 17 40
W Langley, committee work ... 3 40
Claims of the Towns of Arion for the
sum of $84.40, and Vail for the sum of
$190.50 were rejected.
Order that a remittance of S4 bo made to
Harry Volkman, of taxes, ou account of
not being of age.
Claim of Lizzie Loughran for the sum of
$10 was rejected.
On motion official bond of Henry Bell,
delinquent tax collector, was approved.
Ordered by the Board of Supervisors of
Crawford county, Iowa, that tho sale of
lots 4 and 5, in block 5, in town of Vail,
Iowa, to James Maynard for the sum of
$1,000, is hereby approved.
On motion the Board of Supervisors
fixed the license for peddlers per year as
follows:
Vehicle, drawn by 4 animals $"0 00
"3 48 00
"1 16 00
Pack peddler 8 00
It was moved and carried that Jepsen.
Hink and Rhodenbaugh be appointed
a committee on a boiler at jail.
Board adjourned at 13 noon to meet at 1
p. m.
AFTEUNOON SESSION.
•5
Board met at 1 p. m.
On motion report of Henry Bell, sheriff,
was accepted.
On motion auditor's roport of school
loans was accepted.
Ordered by the board that all applica
tions of renewals of school fund loans be
made to the county auditor.
COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
Of fees collected during June, 1898 $ 60 05
July, 36 00
r." August 65 35
Total ... 151 30
And same was deposited with county
treasurer as shown by receipts attached.
EMIL KKUGEH, Clerk.
On motion report was accepted.
Highway petitton number 859 came up
for hearing and on motion vacation of
same is granted.
Highway petition No. S57-856 came up
for hearing and on motion are laid over
till November session, 1898.
Consent hi ghv/ay petition No. 737 came
before the board for rehearing and as a
highway has been established on the
south line of section 34, township 82,
range 37, the same is hereby vacated.
Consent highway petition 858 came up
for hearing and was established as a pub
lic highway.
Ordered by the board that the following
named persons be appointed to act as
judges and clerks of the coming election
in the several townships and precincts as
herein named:
Township. Clerk. Judges.
Iowa E Hatheway John Hockett
Nish. John Bayles Win Boeck
Wash. O Bicknell
Union Wm Flshel
Boyer Albert Barsby
Hays Dan'l Leitner Brpckelsby
E. Boyer Thos Quinn
Denison Chas. Smith Christ Denker
Paradise Ed Jackson EENewkirk
Willow Joh. Riessen
W. Side P. John Suhr Herm'n Peters
Vail Prect. John Cranny John Cook
Vail Prect. E Price Dugan
Milford Albt. Halberg
Goodrich Carey Phillips H'mn. Stensen
Hanover EATopf Chas. Schelm
C. Oak W S McVey
Jackson Rob't Deiter Rob't Hannah
Stockholm Wm Lindberg A Pithan
Otter Cr. Fritz Witt O'Green
Morgan Jur. Krohnke Peter Neilsen
Soldier A Neal PRose
On motion board proceed to levy tax for
year 1898.
Tho following levy was made:
Iowa township-
Incidental 3.1
Teachers 7.7
Board of Health 1.0
Nishnabotny township-
Incidental 2.6
Teachers 5.0
Board of Health 2.0
Washington township—
Incidental 1.8
Teachers 4.4
Union township-
Incidental 3.1
Teachers 9 3
Library 5
Boyer township-
Incidental 1.4
Teachers 6.6
Hays township-
Teachers 10.9
Board of Health .5
East Boyer township-
Incidental 3.0
Teachers 4.0
School house .4
Board of Health .2
Denison township—
Incidental 1.0
Teachers ,....5.1
Board of Health .3
Paradise township-
Incidental 2.2
Teachers 3.5
Board of Health .3
Willow township-
Incidental 3.0
Teachers 7.3
Board of Health .3
Cemetery ...:.y
West Side township-
Incidental 3 1
Teachers 5.1
Milford township-
Incidental 3.8
Teachers 11.0
Board of Health 1.0
Goodrich township—
Incidental 30
Teachers 7.7
Board of Health .5
Iianover township-
Incidental 3.8
Teachers 7.0
Charter Oak township-
Incidental 3.8
Teachers ,8.9'
Board of Health .5
Jackson township-
Incidental 4.6
Teachers 7.0
Stockholm township
Incidental
Teachers
School house
Otter Creek township
Incidental
Teachers
School house
Morgan township.
Incidental
Teachers
Soldier township.—
2o ,3
Shaw Van abstracts of school
loans, claimed $20.50 1®
Incidental
Teachers.
00
355
Denison Bulletin, publishing pro
ceedings, etc 32 9.
Denison Review, publishing pro
ceedings, etc 31
Incidental
Teachers
School house
West Side.—
Incidental
Teachers
School house
Manilla.—
Board of Health
Corporation
Sinking
Dow City.—
Board of Health
Corporation
State
University
County
School
Bridge
County road
Insane
Poor
Soldier Relief
Dog (male)
(female)
Poll
3.0
7.0
3.0
3.3
6.6
1.3
7.5
1.0
5.8
INDEPENDENT DISTRICT.
Denison.—
Incidental
Teachers
60 09
School house
Library
Hoard of Health
Vail.—
9a
5.4
15.3
4.4
.0
2.8
13.1
7.0
20.0
5.0
,u
a
Incidental
Teachers
School house
Board of Health
Charter Oak.—
Incidental
Teacher
School house
Board of Health
Dow Co
incidental
7.7
14.0
4.5
3.0
10.6
19.9
11.3
.6
4.4
Teachers
Aspinwall—
Incidental.... r.o
15.0
Teachers 12.0
School house
2.0
Board of Health 1.0
INCOITPORATIOXS.
Denison.—
1.1
Corporation 0
Special 3.0
Grading 30
Vail.—
Board of Health
Corporation 10.0
West Side.—
Corporation
Manilla.—
Board of Health •, '^3.0
6.0
Corporation 10.0
Charter Oak.—
10.0
2 0
3.0
10.0
3.2
.1
4.0
1.0
3.0
1.0
.5
1.5
.3
50c
$3.00
50c
Ordered by the Board of Supervisors of
Crawford County, Iowa, that the Auditor
be, and is, hereby authorized to issue his
warrant to the County Treasurer to col
lect the taxes for the year 1898, as herein
levied by said board.
Board adjourned at 5 p. m., to meet
Monday, November 14,189S, at 10 a. m.
JOHN T. CAREY, FRED JEPSEN,
Auditor. Chairman.
a Bath In Wine*
Take a wine bath. Sacli, we are as
sured, is the gist of a circular which
has just been issued in one of the de
partments. A sojourn of 30 minutes in
a tub into which 100 liters of malve
sio have been poured is described as the
most invigorating process that can be
imagined, it being nddod that the oper
ation can be repeated with tho same
wine 100 times. "You empty the whole
hectoliter on each occasion into the
bath, and when you have had your dip
you put the wine back into the cask."
So the same malvesie does duty over
and over again, a fact which at least
ought to weigh with persdns who are
not of an extravagant turn of mind.
But this is not all. The wine is not lost
even now. It can be drunk. "For,"
concludes the circular, "after the 100
baths tho malvesie is distilled, and the
result is a delicious brandy," which, it
is to be devoutly hoped, is at least to be
kept by the patient for his own person
al consumption. These wine baths, if
they become fashionable, open out such
a vista of awful possibilities as to in
duce nervous or squeamish people to es
chew malvesie and cognac for the re
mainder of their days, or for that mat
ter to become teetotalers outright. But
after all the majority may still bo ex
pected to act on the blissful ignorance
principle. Paris Cor. London Tele
graph.
Oypsy Dancing Girls of Seville.
In The Century Mr. Stephen Bonsai
irrites of "Holy Week In Sovillo."
He says: On returning homeward
we enter a gypsy garden, where, iu
bowers of jasmine and honeysuckle, the
G^ditan dancing 'girls disport them
selves as they did in the days of tho
poet ^Martial. Penthelusa is as graceful
and as lissom today as when, in tho
ages gone, she eaptured Pompoy with
her subtle dance—as when Martial do
scaiited upon her beauties and graces in
classic words centuries ago.
Tho 'hotel keepers in Soville are gen
erally very careful to yitroduco their
patrons only to gardens where tho Bow
dlerized editions of tho danco are per
formed, but I commend to thoso who
think they can "sit it out" tho archaic
versions which are danced naturally to
day, as they were in the days 'of tho
Caesars, by light limbed cuehainers of
Hearts and flamenca girls with brown
skins and cheeks that are soft liko tho
side of the* peach which is turned to tho
ripening &uu, and iu their dark, lus
trous oyds you read as plain as print tho
story of the sorrows and the joys of a
thousand years of living.
Now thoy danoo about with tho graeo
of houris, tho abandon of •nirenads or of
nymphs beforo Actason "peeped, and
now, when tho danco is over, t!io mo
ment of madness past, they cover their
feet with shawls, that you may not seo I
how dainty they are, and withdraw so
dately and sjjd from tho merry circlo
and sit'for hoursunder the birnana trees,
crooning softly some mournful cuplet in
the crooked gypsy tongue. I
Sale Bills in English and Ger
man at Review office.
PPP
THE LOST ORDERLY.
It was not yet noon, but the running
fight which had disturbed the solitude
of the Buttes since early morning was
over. The troop had scattered after
them with a great deal of threatening
and intentionally wild firing, but it
was no part of Captain Pillogg's orders
to unduly slay or even harass. His de
sire was merely to impress "the fear of
God and Washington" upon the deluded
tribe and drive them back like sheep to
their fold. Besides, after the morning's
amusement, the hot sun made rest wel
come.
"Sound the recall," said Pillogg to
his senior trumpeter, and at once threw
himself from his horse, lay at full
length on the grass and produced his
flask and cigar case.
The bugle sang brightly over the
plain, and as its clear command filled
the distant hollows and rang from
bluff to bluff the distant shouting and
firing gradually ceased. While the cap
tain puffed his cigar at ease, and the
trumpeter stood holding the horses be
side him, the roar of the first sergeant
forming the troop came to their ears,
and in a few minutes, with much snort
ing of excited horses and clatter of
steel, the men came galloping back in
column of fours, formed company front
swiftly and halted.
"Call the roll," said Captain Pillogg,
remounting, and the first sergeant,
drawing a paper from his blue shirt
pocket, faced the men and rattled off
the names, while the officer eyed eaoh
man critically as he answered. Here.''
There were some casualties. One man
was badly hurt by a shot in the side
others were scratched, but one alone
was missing. The captain, who had led
the fight in the beginning of the affair,
thought consolingly of the number of
Indians bowled over, who had mostly
been carried off by their comrades. The
first sergeant swung his horse about and
•aluted.
"One man missing, sir," he reported
"the second trumpeter, Thomas Cox."
"Anybody know anything about him?
Anybody see him drop?"
A trooper replied that Tommy was
riding hard mouthed Rip and in the
pursuit appeared to have all he could
do to hold the horse in. The trooper
opined that Rip, being half crazy at the
best of times, had gone mad with ex
citement and borne Tommy Cox "into
the next county." The captain had just
ordered the sergeant to
detail a corporal
and men to look up the missing when
from the direction of the Indians' flight
there came a mad batter of hoofs and a
shout. Dp charged the missing bugler,
a smooth faced lad, with saber rattling
wildly against his side, his bugle pound
ing his back and his bridle hand, though
touching the rein, evidently powerless
to control his foaming, wild eyed horse,
who dashed pellmell into the troop and
came to a standstill only when it had
jammed itself between two bruised and
onrsing troopers. Tommy's right arm
desperately embraced a wriggling bun
dle of dirty shirt and red brown skin,
and from this bundle came a hideous
succession of howls and snarling lamen
tations. The troopers leaned forward
on their horses' necks to look, and at
once there ran from right to left a rum
ble of sardonic laughter.
"What is that, sir?" the captain ask
3d and peered disgustedly at the bundle.
"Please, sir," said Tommy, a year in
the service and glorying in his first ex
pedition, "a prisoner, sir."
"Oh, h—!" cried Pillogg, and the
troopers roared. "Let the papoose go.
Are you a dry nurse, sir?''
"No, sir," said Tommy, very red and
anxious. "But he's such a little devil,
an he's hurt, an I—I'm afraid I've
killed his father, so I—I thought I'd
bring him along. Oh, ah, oh!"
Tho wriggling Indian child had
writhed about until it got Tommy's
hand between its teeth and was now
biting like a rat. When the next man
in ranks overcame his liiughter suffi
ciently to release th* bugler, the cap
tain was smiling.
"You killed the father, eh? How did
it happen you did not keep up worth the
troop?"
Tommy, eager to excuse himself, and
hot at the laughter qf thegrizzled troop,
hastily explained.
"Rip got a bit the best of me," he
jerked out, "an ran wild. We lost
sight of the other follows, sir, ap over
thero the horse bolted up a cooly.
Thero was an Iu jun without a pony, an
this kid ou his back, running ahead, au
ho turned an fired on me. So I fired
back with my revolver, an (Tommy
grinned with modest pride) I dropped
the son—dropped him, sir, deader than
stuffing. This here kid howled I guess
the bullet grazed him. An—an I got
Rip in hand an dismounted an took
tho kid he fought liko a wildcat, an
tho bites—jing, can't ho bite!"
If you'd taken the rifle it would
havo been more sensible," Pillogg
drawled. "What do you want to do
with him?"
"He can't walk, sir," Tommy pro
tested, "an I was kinder sorry for him.
He's so durned cute when ho wrastles
an bites an—an ho'd dio if I lef' him
there all night."
Tho captain turned away.
"When these beggars have come to
their senses again," ho said, "they'll
send for him. You can bring him along
if you'll guarantee to nurse him. 'Ten
tionl Right forward, fours right,
march!"
In this manner tho Weasel was
brought to Fort S. and introduced to
tho mysteries of civilization. His fa
ther and mother dead, none of his triho
claimed him, and Tommy Cos, the
bugler, became, despite of tho men's
frequent jests, a father, tutor and friend
to him. Tommy was yet young ouough
to retain great freshness of soul and
simplicity of heart. The fact that he
had shot the little savage's father and
made au orphan of the Weasel weighed
upon his conscience, and he was very
Rpppp-
zealous in his care of the Indian. Never
theless, a 7-year-old- redskin is a trou
blesome anomaly in the garrison, where
the women of laundress' row looked on
him as they might upon the direct
spawn of the devil, hailing their own
offspring from him when the Weasel
would have shared their games. Had
they had their way the boy would have
been sent back to the reservation.
A powerful influence was exerted,
however, in the Weasel's behalf, an in
fluence than which none greater was
felt in Fort S. Miss Toonie Adair, lit
tle 6-year-old daughter of the colonel,
who had been christened Judith (a
name to which she never answered), to
the horror of all the laundresses took a
fancy to the Weasel, and at once adopt
ed him as her own special protege.
What Toonie said, when she said it
from the colonel's knee with her arm
round his neck, invariably was accept
ed as a post order, and the Weasel's po
sition was assured.
"You're a dreadful wicked little sav
age, said Toonie, seated on the colo
nel's porch, with the Weasel squatting
In front of her, his big, black eyes sol
emnly staring into the depths of her
big blue ones. "Ain't you sorry God
borned you a savage? Do you like blue
eyes? My eyes are blue, and they're
very pretty. When you know how to
speak English, you must tell me I have
pretty blue eyes. Everybody does—ev
erybody I like. You've black eyes.
B^lack eyes is savage. Did you ever scalp
anybody? If you were to scalp me, my
father would kill you—he would, with
a pistol and svjord, because he says my
hair is the prettiest in the world. You've
black hair. It's not pretty, it's savage.
Ain't you glad I'm taking care of you,
little boy? Because it's not your fault
yeu was borned an Injun, and if you're
good I'll make you a Christian, and
then p'raps God will make your eyes
blue and pretty like mine.
"Papal" she cried in the first enthu
siasm of her liking for the littlte savage.
"Now I'm a real, real colonel, just like
you. I'm going to have au orderly.
And, please, papa, may be have a uni
forms"
Tho laundresses and all others ill dis
posed toward the little Indian had now
no word to say. Toonie's orderly be
came a feature of Fort S. Where the
little girl went there went he, even
to accompanying her—at the regulation
distance behind, for Toonie was noth
ing if not disciplinarian, and kept him
in his place—on her sudden dashes,
pony back, into the surrounding country
and about the post. For him—when the
big black eyes softened, it was at Too
nie's voice when he bent to study his
lesson it was at Toonie's behest when
he returned, as he did several times,
after running away in search of savage
freedom, it was to stand meekly and
mournfully before Toonie's tearful re
buke. For Tommy Cox he had a regard,
varied by sudden outbursts of passionate
disobedience to Toonie his devotion
was always unbrokenly simple and dog
like in its faithfulness. Sometimes the
officers joked the little maid on her or
derly, but never after the year in which
she was 9 ai:d the Weasel about 10.
She had dashed away on one of her
willful trips of exploration, followed at
a gallop by the Weasel. It was glaring
summer time, and by the river far from
the post grew big red plums in succu
lent profusion, cool and juicy. To feast
on these at leisure the girl dismounted,
and the Weasel tied the ponies to a
tree. He was not yet finished with this
office, Toonie plunging at once in the
bushes, when the boy was startled by a
terrible cry. He quickly made tho
ponies fast and darted to the child's aid.
She sat upon the ground in tearful
fright, white and sobbing.
"The snake! The snake!" she cried.
"A great big rattlesnake—it bit me."
She clutched her aukle and moaned.
The little Indian did not hesitate he
did not lose his head. At some time in
his life with his own people he must
have witnessed some such scenes, for
now he acted with decision and knowl
edge in a case where a white boy would
have been helpless. He tore tho low
shoe and little stocking away, and
there, already, was the swelling redness
of the serpent's bite. He owned a knife,
the gift of a brotherly trooper, and this
ho whipped out. No doubt his black
eyes gleamed strangely with excite
ment, for Toonie was overcome with
new terror at sight of them and of the
sharp and shining blade.
In spite of her screams the grimly
silent Weasel seized the leg and deliber
ately and firmly cut into the flesh
round tho wound until a portion was
hacked out. To the cut he applied his
lips and sucked vigorously. Toonie's
shrieks and howls filled tho air, but the
boy uttered uovor a word, only stopping
now and then to peer into his mistress'
blue and frightened eyes anxiously.
These did not dim, her rigor did not
lessen, and the Weasel sucked away
with condfience. At last he took her
handkerchief and bound up the wound,
draggod her to her pony and holped her
mount. She was a wonderfully strong
and healthful young person and did not
whimper nor faint, only howled in a
sturdy and wholesome way. Tho Wea
sel rode by hor side at a tearing gallop
back to the post and straight to tho hos
pital. The doctor applied his remedies,
but they were not needed, for the rude
promptitude of the Indian's action had
drawn the poison. Toonio boro an ugly
scar afterward and botrayed an awed
respect for and a little fear of her order
ly for a long time, but the doctor was
enthusiastic, and the colonol let it be
understood that tho Weasel was hence
forth his owujparticular charge.
In the passage of timo it became nec
essary for the girl to desert tho wild
but healthful lifo of tho western plains
and go east to bo educated. Tho colonel
decided to send Weasel away at tho
same time to one of these great institu
tions ivhich are maintained for tho ben
efit oi the nation's wards. Thus it came
that tho two parted, the mistress and
the orderly. Toonio gave him her pho
tograph with tears.
"You're never, never to forget me,"
she said. "Promise."
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"Never," said the Weasel, with sad
1/ earnest eyes.
"And when I come back you'll be my
orderly just the same promise."
"Just the same," said the Weasel.
She looked up from the chair where
sh6 was reading some letters—looked at
him with a smile of curiosity.
"Well, I never, papa!" she said.
"He looks quite civilized. I am glad to
hear you get on so well," she added.
with a nod to the Weasel, and resumed
her reading.
The Indian went out silently, nor
looked so tall and straight and happily
expectant as when he entered.
He had ridden in from the mission,
ten miles from the post, where he was •.
quartered. The moon was up when he
silently left the post after that chilling
indifferent greeting. The clouds that
scurried low between earth and moon
cast flickering, hasty shadows on the
uneven plain, but the shadow that had
fallen on his life never lilted. Before
him, as he rode, stretched the shimmer
ing, shallow river, darkly fringed by
those low bushes whence the rattlesnake
had darted—so short a time ago. It
had seemed to him so short a time, .un
til tonight. Now he realized that an
age had passed. Perhaps it had never
happened it was a dream. It must have
been a dream, or the chill young lady
in the parlor he had left, who had told
him BO carelessly he was quite civi
lized, would have remembered.
He was civilized. For years he had
lived with white people. He barely re
membered the baby days of tepees and
squaws and ponies and bows and ar
rows. She had civilized him, she and
the long, happy thoughts of her in the
days at school and college when his
own blood brothers had been things of
pity to him, because they had never
been blessed by friendship with her,
when,his teachers had wondered at his
towering ambition and his intense in
dustry. His horse, unhindered, fell to
walking leisurely. The Indian's head
dropped. Swiftly there came to him a
conviction of the wrong done him. Over
all those great plains there were two
peoples, two great families—the white
and the red. Each member of these had
his brother, his father, close ties .'of
kinship. In all the breadth of the land
he stood utterly alone and apart. He
was civilized—half and half, neither
one thing nor the other. He-had turned
away from his brothers at the beck of
his teachers. He had done his task, he
had succeeded. He had been held up as
a shining light, an example of what
might be done with one of his race.
There it stopped. He had dreamed of
being a white among the whites, whose
creed had been dinned in his ears—"all
men are equal." Only tonight had she,
by a glance and a word, let him realize
how he had deceived himself. To please
her he had obeyed as a child, studied
as a boy, labored at college. To please
her.
"Well, I never 1 He looks quite civi
lized. I am glad to hear you are getting,
on so well," she had said.
He would not go back to the post nor
to the mission. He cared nothing for
their good will if he was not to be one
of them. What then?
At a crossing of trails he met an old
Indian freighter going to the post to
sell watermelons to the soldiers. The
Weasel stopped him and gave him some
money and made a bargain, and the old
freighter went on his way with a good
suit of clothes from the east, and the
Weasel dashed into the darkness, wlj^re
hid far, far away the Indian reserva
tion, and on his legs and feet were
fringed and beaded moccasins, and
round him was wrapped a gaudy blan
ket.
He had chosen his family, his peo
plo, among whom he would be as equal
at least. He had rotrograded, lapsed in
to savagery. One of the chief delights
of his eastern teachers when showing
off their star pupfl to congressmen and
inquiring philanthropists"'had been to
dwell upon the £»ct that the lad belong
ed to one of the most unruly and hope
lessly savage tribes on the plains—a
tribe which1 was constantly restless, an
annual annoyance to the Indian baseau,
addicted to sun danees, ghost dances,
raiding and other symptoms^ of incura
ble Indian fever. Just at this few they
were disturbed unusually "by the pidmi
nence among them of a certain young
buck who aspired to leadership and was
inciting his comrades to all manner of
Indiau deviltry.
His heart was sore. He had been
merely an interesting plaything lor
philanthropists, the old colonel tnJ her.
Ho was rejeoted of his own people. No
tie was Jeft him. On his* breast, ^n a
little dlerskffi^ pouch fastened to his
neok, lay a picture—the photograph
Toonie had given him when she went
•way to school, her heart yoni^j and
tender to the devoted boy who had sav
ed her ljfo. Ho toro it out as be,ode
and rent it to shreds and threw tltotn
to the wind with a wild cry.
He galloped furiously onward, inland
out of tho shadows, over low itarelcfies
of sand and across n)cky ridges. In
front of hiim was a rising, bluffy ypijose
farther sido dropped precipitously to a
deep ravine hewed out ages^ago b&gKi
cial snows. Here had old time $oims
driven the great buffalo hards, smttkg
the madly frightened brutes tmtbi&g
mid bellowing to a crashing death down
the cliffy Hero rode tho Weasel now, at
full tilt, nntil, with one long, wailkig
yell, he plunged headlong.—B. Y. Black
in Chicago Inter Ocean.
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But when she came back she was no
longer Toonie, the child. She was Miss
Adair, no further opposed to being
called Judith—indeed preferring it to
the loving pet name of her babyhood,
which, she said, was silly. The Indian
was back on the plains, very tall and
straight, in neat garments' of civil^a
tion. He had passed through the school
with much honor and was now to act
as a missionary among his own people.
The colonel was amusedly proud of
him, as of a fine dog of his ofai breed
ing. He sent for him on the night of
Judith Adair's arrival.
"Here's your old orderly, my dear,"
said he.
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