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WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER -20. 1900. 11 BRK5A"DlElta Copyright, i8j7, by CHAPTEK L Riding at ease in the lazy afternoon sunshine, a single troop of cavalry was threading its way in long column of twos through the bold and beautiful foothills of the Big Horn. Behind them, glinting in the slanting rays, Cloud peak, snow-clad still, although it was late in May, towered above the pine crested summits of the range. To the right and left of the winding trail bare shoulders of bluff, covered only by the dense carpet of bunch grass, jutted out Into the comparative level of the east ward plain. A clear, cold, sparkling stream, on whose banks the little com mand had halted fcr a noontide rest, went rollicking away northeastward, and many a veteran trooper looked longingly, even regretfully, after it, and then cast a gloomy glance over the barren and desolate stretch ahead. Far as the eye could reach in that di rection the earth waves heaved and rolled in unrelieved monotony to the very sky line, save where here and there along the slopes black herds or scattered dots of buffalo were grazing, unvexed by hunters, red or white, for this was 30 years ago, when, in countless thousands, the bison covered the westward prairies, and there were officers who forbade their senseless slaughter to make food only for the worthless, prowling coyotes. No won der the trooper hated to leave the foot hills of the mountains, with the cold, clear trout streams and the bracing air, to take to long days' marching over dull waste and treeless prairie, covered only by sagebrush, rent and torn by dry ravines, shadeless, springless, al most waterless, save where in un wholesome hollows dull pools of stag nant water still held out against the sun, or, further still southeast among the "breaks" of the many forks of the South Cheyenne, on the sandy flats men dug for water for their suffering horses, yet shrank from drinking it themselves lest their lips should crack and bleed through the shriveling touch of the alkali. Barely two years a commissioned of ficer, the young lieutenant at the head of the column, rode buoyantly along, caring little for the landscape, since with every traversed mile he found himself just that much nearer home. Twenty-five summers, counting this one coming, had rolled over his curly head, and each one had seemed bright er, happier, than the las.t a but the lt 1 A A A ft AAA A. A -f- A. -- .. . A A. . A - - - ' s MEN'S We. oiler some two hundred Black Clay Worsted Suits, goods from the famous Washington Mills, warranted fa-t colors, sold by other houses at $12 and $14 ; our price $10 a suit, all cuts and sizes. Are we leaders in low prices ? Notice this lot of Men's Suits. Come and see them, find out for yourself where the place to save money is. Three hundred Men's a l wool fancy Worsted and Cassimere Suits, made to sell for $12 and $15; our prices, $7, $8, $10. ; One of the great features in Our Men's Suit Department is the large variety cf Black Worsteds in both plain and fancy effects. 3? Ik F. Tennyson Neely. one he speni as a nara-worKea -pieDe" at the military academy. His gradua tion summer two years previous was a glory to him, as well as to a pretty sis ter, young and enthusiastic enough to think a brother in the regulars, just out of West Point, something to be made much of, and Jessie Dean had lost no opportunity of spoiling her soldier or of wearying her school friends through telling of his manifold perfec tions. He was a manly, stalwart, hand some fellow, as young graduates go, and old ones wish they might go over again. He was a fond tmd not too teas ing kind of brother. He wasn't the brightest fellow in the class by thirty odd, and had barely scraped through one or two of his examinations, but Jessie proudly pointed to the fact that much more than half the class had "scraped off" entirely, and therefore that those who succeeded in getting through at all were paragons, especial ly Brother Marshall. But girls at that school had brothers of their own, girls who had never seen West Point, or had the cadet fever, and were not im pressed with young officers as painted by so indulgent a sister. Most of the girls had tired of Jessie's talks, and some had told her so, but there was one who had been sympathetic from the start a far western, friendless sort of girl she was when first she entered school, uneouthly dressed, wretchedly homesick and anything but compan ionable, and yet Jessie Dean's kiad heart had warmed to this friendless waif and she became her champion, her ally, and later, much to her genu ine surprise, almost her idol. It pres ently transpired that "the Pappoose," as the girls nicknamed her, because it was learned that she had been rocked in an Indian cradle and had long worn moccasins instead of shoes (which ac counted for her feet being so much finer in their shape than those of her fellows), was quick and intelligent be yond her years, that, though apparent ly hopelessly behind in all their studies at the start, and provoking ridicule and sneers during the many weeks of her loneliness and home-longing, she sud denly began settling to her work with grim determination, surprising her teachers and amazing her mates by the vim and originality of her meth ods, and before the end of the year climbing for the laurels with a mental strength and agility that put other ef forts to the blush. Then came weeks of bliss spent with a doting father at .. A -- -- .. A -- -. A .. . - x - - - - -V"w "C"7" TU J? x uu uuyeia 01 iu.eu a wearing .pparei are a d crux no supply yourselves wren suixaoie Clothing for the Fall and Winter season. The idea uppermost in your minds is to get some thing good and serviceable at the very lowest price. We are going to do business right through to is fall and winter, giving good, honest goods at fairest prices. You will find us prepared to please and certain to carry out our promises. And what a stock we have for ydu to choose from! Every article brand new and made by the very best houses in the clothing business. Of course we ask no one to buy be cause we claim to give bargains in quality1, and price. We state these facts in order that you will be sure to come. When once you are in our store goods, that we cut the fancy price in our stock is guaranteed in price, and also" bears the the city carrying all Union Made goods. BLACK CLAY SUITS. Occupy a prominent place in our store. By selling very best goods on close margin, we have built up largest trade in the city. All Hatsarfc Union, Made; prices 50c, 75c, $1.00, , $1.25, $1.45, $1.9$;; $2.40, $2.90, $3.00. E Niagara, the seashore and the jroint a dear old dad as ill at ease in eastern circles as his daughter had been, at first at school, until he found himself welcomed with open arms to the offi cers' messrooms at the Point, for John Folsom was as noted a frontiersman as ever trod the plains, a man old offi cers of the cavalry and infantry knew and honored as "a square trader" in the Indian country a man whom the Indians themselves loved and trusted far and wide, and when a man has won the trust and faith of an Indian let him grapple it to his breast as a treas ure worth the having, great even as "the heart love of a child." Sioux, Shoshone and Cheyenne, they would turn to "Old John" in their councils, their dealings, their treaties, their per plexities, for when he said a thing was right and square their doubts were gone, and there at the Point the now well-to-do old trader met men who had known him in bygone days at Laramie and Omaha, and there his pretty schoolgirl daughter met her bosom friend's big brother Marshall, a first classman in all his glory, dancing with damsels in society, while she was but a maiden shy in short dresses. Oh, how Jess had longed to be of that party to the Point, but her home was in the far west, her father long dead and buried, her mother an invalid, and the child was needed there. Earnestly had old Folsom written, begging that she who had been so kind to his little girl should be allowed to visit the seashore and the Point with him and "Pappoose," as he laughingly referred to her, adopt ing the school name given by the girls; but they were proud people, were the Deans, end poor and sensitive. They thanked Mr. Folsom warmly. "Jessie was greatly needed at home this sum mer" was the answer; but Folsom somehow felt it was because they dreaded to accept courtesies they could not repay in kind. "As if I could ever repay Jess for all the loving kindness to my little girl in her loneliness," said he. No, there was no delicious visiting with Pappoose that summer, but with what eager in terest had she not devoured the letters telling of the wonderful sights Jhe little far westerner saw the ocean, the great Niagara, the beautiful Point in the heart of the Highlands, but, above all, that crowned monarch, that plumed knight, that incomparable big brother, Cadet Capt. Marshall Dean. Yes, he had come to call the very even ing of their arrival. He had escorted them out, papa and Pappoose, to hear the band playing on the plain. He had made her take his arm, "a school girl in short dresses," and promenaded with her up and down the beautiful, shaded walks, thronged with ladies, officers and cadets, while some old cronies took father away to the mess for a julep, and Mr. Dean had intro duced some young girls, professors' daughters, and they had come and taken her driving and to tea, and she had seen him every day, many times a day, at guard mounting, drill, pontoon- ' ing or parade, or on the hotel piazzas, but only to look at or speak to for a minute, for of course she was "only a child," and there were dozens of so ciety girls, young ladies, to whom he A -- ..... A A A A A A A A. A A A -. A A. v. A A ."4. A -r T f T- T V T V V y T" V T rV T T T V T- IT T V HIT TIT MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS AND HATS KILDUFF CLOTHIERS, oot, had to be attentive, especially a very stylish Miss . Brockway, from New York, with whom he walked and danced a great deal, and whom the other girls tried to tease about him. Pappoose didn't write it in so many words, but Jessie; reading those letters between the lines and .every which "way, could easily divine that Pappoose didn't fancy H, nude her tko hi aim. Miss Brockway at all. And then had come a wonderful day, a wonderful thing, into the schoolgirl's life. No less than twelve pages did sixteen-year-old Pappoose take to tell it, and when a girl finds time to write a twelve page letter from the Point she has more to tell than- she can possibly contain. Mr. Dean had actually invited heir her, Elinor Merchant Folsom Wino na, as they called her when she was a toddler among the tepees of the Sioux Pappoose as the girls had named her at school "Nell," as Jessie called her sweetest name of all despite the ring of sadness that ever hangs about it and Daddy had jactually smiled and ap proved her gqijbg to the midweek hop on a cadet captain's broad chevroned arm, and she had worn her prettiest white gown, and the girls had brought her roses, an(J Mr. Dean had called for her before aji tbejbig girls, and she had gone off with him, radiant, and he had actually j mtde out her card for her, and takri Three dances himself, and had presented such pleasant fel lows first claS'smenr and "yearlings." There was Mr. Billings, the cadet ad jutant, and Mr. Kay, who was a cadet sergeant "cut on furlough" and kept back, but such a beautiful dancer, and there was the first captain, such a witty, brilliant fellow, who only danced square dances, and several ca det corporals, all hop managers, in their red sashes. Why, she was just the proudest girl in the room! And when the drum beat and the hop broke up she couldn't believe she'd been there an hour and three-quarters, and then Mr. Dean escorted her back to the hotel, and Daddy had smiled and looked on and told him he must come into the cavalrywhen he graduated netx June, and he'd show him the Sioux country, and Pappoose would teach him Indian dances. It was all simply lovely. Of course she knew it was all due to Jessie that her splendid big brother should give up a whole evenimr from his ladv friends. (Miss V A A A A A A A. A A a"a'a Aa'A ..A A A A AAA A V T T T T V t'TTTTT V 'V T V V 'V 'V 'V V TTT A .1 1 we will proceed to system- but of our 3 if HATTERS - AND Brockway spoke so patronizingly to her in the hall when the girls were all talking together after the cadets had scurried away to answer tattoo roll call.) Of course she understood that if it hadn't been for Jessie none of the cadets would have taken' -the slightest notice of her, a mere -chit, with three years of school still ahead of her. But all the same it w-as some thing to live over and over again, and dream of over and over again, and the seashore seemed very stupid after the Point. Next year next June when Marshall graduated Jessie was to go and see that wonderful spot, and go she did with Pappoose, too, and though it was all as beautiful as Pappoose had described, and the scene and the music and the parades and all were splendid, there was no deliriously lovely hop, for in those days there could be no dancing in the midst of examinations. There was only the one great ball given by the second to the graduating class, and Marshall had so many, many older girls to dance with and say good-by to he had only time for a few words with his sister and her shy, silent little friend with the big brown eyes to whom he had been so kind the previous summer, when there were three hops a week and not so many hoppers in long dresses. Still, Marshall had one dance with each, and introduced nice boys from the lower classes, and it was all very well, only not what Pappoose had painted, and Jessie couldn't help thinking and say ing it might all have been so much sweeter, if it hadn't been for that odious Miss Brockway, about whom Mai ..hall hovered altogether too much, but, like the little Indian the girls sometimes said she was, Pappoose looked on and said nothing. All the same, Mr. Dean had had a glorious graduation summer of it, though Jessie saw too little of him, and Pappoose nothing at all after the breaking of the class. In September the girls .returned to school, friends as close as ever, even though a little cloud overshadowed the hitherto un broken confidences, and Marshall joined' the cavalry, as old Folsom had suggested, and took to the saddle, the prairie, the bivouac and buffalo hunt as though native and to the manner born. They were building the Union Pacific then, and he and his troop, with dozens of others scattered along the line, were busy scouting the neigh borhood, guarding the surveyors, the engineers, and finally the track-layers, for the jealous red men swarmed in myriads all along the way, lacking only unanimity, organization and lead ership to enable them to defeat the enterprise. And then when the whist ling engines passed the forks of the Platte and began to climb up the long slope of the Rockies to Cheyenne and Sherman Pass, the trouble and disaf fection spread to tribes far more nu merous and powerful further to the north and northwest; and there rose above the hordes of warriors a chief whose name became the synonym for deep-rooted and determined" hostility to the whites Machpealota (Red Cloud) and old John Folsom, he' whom the Indians loved and trusted, grew anxious and troubled, and went from AAA. A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A .tr. A A A A A A A V T " V V T V ' V W4T T V ' T'i'VV'VT T TTTTTTTtTTTTTTTTT V f' V ' T 'V 'V ' i A -I prove thoroughly, with first-class stock that each and every article Union Label, being the only store MEN'S OVERCOAT DEPARTMENT The first thing we have to say is that every Overcoat is new, and what a line we have for you to see. Kerseys, B avers, Meltons, Fancy Worsteds, Chinchillas, Vicunas, all ors and si es, from $5, $7, $8, $10, $12 to $25. The Largest Boys' Department in the City. That is what we have, carrying and doing as much busi- ness as any two houses in the city. Prices lower than other houses is the reason for this great business. All Wool, Snis fti ft qo K9.no. &2.0. Rova' Short Pants. 2oc 7 -"7 47c, 72c. FURNISHERS, Waterbwry, Oorsti. post to post witn words of warning on his tongue. ' . . "Gentlemen,' he said to the commis sioners who came to treat with the Sioux whose hunting grounds adjoined the line , of the railway, "it's all "very well to have peace with these people here It is wise to cultivate tbe friend ship of such chiefs as Spotted Tail and OldMan-Afraid-sf - His -Horses, but there are irreconcilables beyond them, far more numerous and powerful, who are planning, preaching war this min ute. Watch Red Cloud, Red Dog, Lit tle Big Man. Double, treble your gar risons at the posts along the Big Horn; get your women and children out of them, or else abandon the forts entire ly. I know those warriors well. They outnumber you twenty to one. Re enforce your garrisons without delay or get out of that country, one of the two. Draw everything south of the Platte while yet ' -re is time." But wiseacres at Washington said the Indians were peaceable, and. all that was needed was a new post and another little garrison at Warrior Gap, in the eastward foothills of the range. Eight hundred thousand dollars would build it, "provided the labor of the troops was utilized." and leave a good margin for the contractors and "the bureau." And it was to escort the quartermaster and engineer officer and an aide-de-camp on preliminary survey that C troop of the cavalry, Cr.pt. Brooks commanding, had been sent on the march from the North Platte at Fetterman to the headwaters of the Powder river in the Hills, and1 with it went its new first lieutenant, Marshall Dean. CHAPTER n. " - Promotion was rapid in the cavalry in those days, so soon after the war. Indians contributed" largely to the gen eral move, but there were other causes, too. Dean had served, little over a year as second' lieutenant in a troop doing duty along the lower Platte, when va cancies occurring gave him speedy and. unlooked-for lift. He had met Mr. Folsom only once. The veteran trader had embarked much of his capital in business at Uate City, beyond the Rock ies, but officers from Fort Emory, close to the new frontier town, occasionally told1 him he had won a stanch friend in that solid citizen. "You ought to get transferred to Emory," they said. "Here's the band, half a dozen pretty girls, hops twice a week, hunts and picnics all through the spring and summer in the moun tains, fishing ad lioitum, and lots of fun all the year around." But Dean's ears were oddly deaf. A classmate let fall the observation that it was be cause of a New York girl who had jilt ed him that Dean had foresworn so ciety and stuck to a troop in the field; but men who knew and served with the young fellow found him an enthusiast in his profession, passionately fond of cavalry life in the open, a bold rider, a keen shot and a born hunter. Up with the dawn day after day, in saddle long hours, scouting the divides and ridges, stalking antelope and black-tail deer, chasing buffalo, he lived a life that hardened every muscle, bronzed the A. A A A A A A .. A - A .. A A A A A A A A. A. A 1 J "1 A "l 1 - ' w. ' ' the CO sKin.ciearea tne'eye ana orain and gave toeven monotonous existence a "verve and zest the dawdlers in those old-time garrisons never knew. - All the long summer of the year after his graduation, from mid-April until November, he never once slept beneath a wooden roof, and more often than not the sky was his only canopy. That summer, too, Jessie spent at home, ' Pappoose with her most of the time, and one year more would finish them at the reliable old Ohio school. By that time Folsom's , handsome new home would be in readiness to receive his daughter at Gate City. By that time, too, Marshall might hope to hay) a leave and come in to Illinois to wel come his sister and gladden his moth er's eyes. But until then, the boy had said to himself, he'd stick to the field, and the troop that had the roughest work to do was the one that suited him, and so it had happened that by tho second spring of his service in the regi ment no subaltern was held in higher esteem by senior officers or regarded with more envy by the lazy ones among the juniors than the young graduate, for those, too, were days in which grad uates were few and far between, except in higher grades. Twice had he ridden in the dead of winter the devious trail through the Medicine Bow range to Frayne. Once already had he -been sent the long march to and from the Big Horn, and when certain officers were ordered to the mountains early in the spring to locate the site of the new post at Warrior Gap, Brooks' troop, as has been said, went along as escort and Brooks caught mountain fever in the hills, or some such ailment, and made the home trip in the ambulance, leav ing the active command of "C troop to his subaltern. ; r With the selection of the site Dean had nothing to do. Silently he looked on as the quartermaster, the engineer and a staff officer from Omaha paced off certain lines, took shots with f.heir instruments at neighboring waters of the fork. Two companies of infantry, sent down from further posts along the northern slopes of the range, . had stacked their arms and pitched their "dog tents," and vigilant vedettes" and sentries peered over every command ing height and ridge to secure the in vaders against surprise. Invaders they certainly were from the Indian point of view, for this was Indian Story Land, the most prized, the most beauti ful, the most prolific in fish and game in all the continent. Never had the red man clung with such tenacity to any section of his hunting grounds as did the northern Sioux to this, the north and northeast watershed of the Big Horn range. Old Indian fighters among the men shook , their heads when the quartermaster . selected a level bench as the site on which to be gin the stockade that was to inclos the officers quarters and the barracks, storehouse and magazine, and omin ously they glanced at one another and then at the pine-skirted ridge that rose, sharp and sudden, against the sky, not 400 yards away, dominating the site en ' tirely. (To be Continued.) " A A A A A A A A A . A- A A A itiAlfc rli ,fH(1 T . A. A- A, ' in - it -- f.AJj,., ft . ft if i