6 MY GENTLEMAN. I own a dog who Is a gentleman: liy birth most surely, since the creature can Roast of a pedigree the like ot which Holds not a Howard or a Metternfch. By breeding. Since the walks of life he trod. He never wagged an unkind tale abroad. He never snubbed a nameless cur because Without a friend or credit card he was. By pride. He looks you squarely In the face Unshrinking and without a single trace Of either dittidenee or arrogant Assertion such as upstarts often flaunt. By tenderness. The littlest girl may tear With absolute impunity his hair, And pinch his silken, flowing ears the while He smiles upon her—yes, I've seen him smile. By loyalty. No truer friend than he Has come to prove his friendship's worth to me. He does not fear the master—knows no fear- But loves the man who is his master here. By countenance. If there be nobler eyes. More full of honor and of honesties. In finer head, on broader shoulders found- Then have I never met the man or hound. Here is the motto on my lifeboat's log: "God grant I may be worthy of my dog!" —N. O. Times-Democrat. r t i a-:. MaißxsM Ta&vaadti p.— 112 1 A Daughter j | of the Sioux I By GEN. CHARLES KING. Copyright, 190.', by The H<>bart Company. CHAPTER X. A sharp affair indeed was that of this September day!—a fight long talked of on the frontier if soon for gotten ill "the states." Obedient to his orders to push to the relief of the imperiled party on Dry Fork, Kay Lad made good time to Moccasin Kidge, even tli ugh saving horses and men for the test of the later hours. Well he knew liis march would be watched by some of Slabber's band, but. little did he dream at starting that Indian >irategy would take the unusual form of dropping what prom ised to be a sure tiling, leaving the people at the stage station to the guardianship of less than a dozen braves, and launching out with a big band to aid a little one in attack 011 one lone detachment that might not come at all. But Lame Wolf reasoned that the people penned at the stage station were in 110 condition to at tempt to escape. They were safe whenever he chose to return to them, and Lame Woll' knew this of Stabber —that he had long been a hanger on about the military reservations, that he had made a study of the methods of the white chiefs, that he was able to almost accurately predict •what, their course would lie in such event as this, and that Stabber had recently received accessions whose boast it was that they had informa tion at first hand of the white ehiefs" plans and intentions. Stabber had sent swift runners to Lame Wolf, urging him to bring his warriors to aid him in surrounding the first troops sent forth from Frayne. Slab ber had noted, year after year, that it was the almost invariable policy of our leaders to order a small force at the start, and then, when that was crushed, to follow it with the big one that should have sent in the first place. Kennedy s successful coming was known to Stabber quite as soon as it was to Webb. It may *be said that Stabber let him through, feeling confident what the result would lie, and then, despite a certain jealousy, not confined entirely to savage tribal leaders, Lame Wolf had confidence in Stabbere' judgment. Kay had expected long range tlank fire, and possibly occasional resist ance in front; but, assured of Slab ber's paucity in numbers, and believ ing Lame Wolf too busy to send Stab ber substantial aid, lie thought a sharp lesson or two would clear his front of such Indians as sought to check him. and so rode serenely for ward, rejoicing in his mission and in liis game and devoted little command. "Something beyond that second ridge," he had said to Field, in send ing him forward with the bulk of the platoon, and Field, who had been si lent and brooding, woke at the sum mons and, all animation at the scent of danger, spurred swiftly ahead to join tin advance and see for himself what manner of hindrance awaited them, leaving tlie baker's dozen of his platoon to trot steadily on under the lead of its sergeant, while l!ay, with his trumpeter, followed midway be tween his udvauec and Clayton's platoon, intact, moving quietly ut the walk and held in reserve. Ordinarily Kay himself would have ridden to the far front and personally investigated tlie conditions, but he was anxious that Field should un derstaml he held the full confidence of his temporary commander. lie wished Field to realize that now he had opportunity for honorable dis tinction, and a chance to show what was in him, and, having went him forward, JUn meant to rely on bin report and be ready to back, if pos sible, his dispositions. Nothing so quickly deuioli lies prejudice in gar t < 011 a prowess iu the Held. Not infrequently has an otfieer j?one forth til. 1 u tioUtl ul IVI ...I I uudcl U crown. It Is so much easier to be a hero 111 h single fight than a model soldier throughout 1111 entire season— at least so it was in the old days. But the moment Mr. Field dis mounted and, leaving his horse with the others along the slope, had gone crouching to the crest, he leveled his glasses for one look, then turned ex citedly and began rapid signals to his followers. Presently a young trooper came charging down, making straight for Kay. "The lieutenant's compli ments," said lie, "but there's a dozen Siouv in sight, and he wishes to know shall he charge."* A dozen Sioux in sight! That was unusual. Ordinarily the Indians kept in hiding, lurking behind sheltering crests nnd ridges in open country, or the trees and underbrush where such cover is. possible. A dozen in sight? "How far ahead, Murray?" asked the captain, as be shook free his rein and started forward at the gallop. "Did you see them yourself?" "Yes, sir. Most of 'em were bunched by the roadside, jabbing with their lances at something or other. Two or three were closer in. They must ha' been watching us, for they only quit the ridge just before we came up. Then they skedaddled." The vernacular of the civil war days, long since forgotten except about the few veteran soldiers' homes in the east, was still in use at times in regi ments like the —tli, which had served the four years through with the Army of the Potomac. Old sergeants give the tone to younger soldiers in all the customs of the service. The captain and the two men now with him had caught up with Field's swift-trotting support by this time, and the eyes of the men kindled instantly at sight of their leader speeding easily by, cool, confident and as thoroughly at home as though it were the most ordinary skirmish drill. Those who have never tried it do not quite realize what it means to ride in closed ranks and compact column, silent and unswerv ing, straight forward over open fields toward some equally silent crest, that gives no sign of hostile occupancy, and yet may suddenly blaze with vengeful fires and spit its hissing lead into the faces of the advancing force. Even here where the ridge was al ready gained by two or three of the advance, proving, therefore, that the enemy could not lie in possession, men saw by the excitement manifest in the signals of the lieutenant, and indeed of Sergeant Scott, who had spent 15 years in the ranks, that In dians must be close at hand. The crest was barely 500 yards in front of the section, and they were still "bunched," a splendid mark if the foe saw fit by sudden dash to regain the ridge and pour in rapid fire from their, magazine rifles. Even as he went loping by, Ilay had half turned, with something like a smile in his dark eyes ami a nod of his curly head to the sergeant com manding, and a gesture of the guuntleted hand—a horizontal sweep to right and left, twice repeated—had given the veteran his cue, and with another moment Winser had the dozen in line at open, yet narrow, in tervals, with carbines advanced and ready for business. They saw their captian ride swiftly up the gentle slope until close to the crest, then off he sprang, tossed his reins to the trumpeter and went hurrying afoot to join the lieutenant. They saw him Kneeling as though to level his glasses and look fixedly forward; saw Field run back to his horse and mount in a twinkling; saw him whirl about as though coming to place himself at their head, yet rein in at once—his charger's fore feet ploughing the turf at some word from their leader. Field was eager to charge, but Kay had s en for himself and for his men, and Kay said no. Another moment, and all were at the front again in saddle— Field back with the advance, Kay vooily seated astride his pet sorrel— scouting a second ridge, far to the north, with his glasses, and, sending, as before, Scott and his three troop ers straight onto the front, and sig naling to the flankers to continue the move. Ten seconds' study of the po sition in the long, wide, shallow de pression before him had fathomed the scheme of the savage. The little knot of Indians, jabbering, yelping, prodding and circling about some un seen object on the turf, feigning ig norance of the soldiers' coming, was at the old-time trick to get the fore most troopers to charge and chase, to draw them on in the dash and ex citement of the moment, far ahead— three miles, perhaps—of the main body, and so enable the lurking band behind that second curtain, the far ther ridge, to come swooping down to surround, overwhelm and butcher the luckless few, then be off to safe distance h>ng before the mass of the troop could possibly reach the scene. "No you don't, Stabber!" laughed Kay, as Field, not a little chagrined, ami the dozen at his back, came trot ting within hearing distance. "That dodge was bald-headed when 1 was a baby. Look, Field," he continued. "They were jabbing at nothing there on the prairie. That was a fake cap tive they were stabbing to death. See them all scooting away now. j They'll rally beyond that next ridge, and we'll do a little fooling of our j own." And so, with occasional peep at ' feathered warriors on the far left | flank, and frequent hoverlngs of small j parties on the distant front, Kay's ; nervy half-hundred pushed steadily on. Two experiments had satisfied the Sioux that the captain himself ttas in command, and llit'j had long slnee recognised the sorrels. They knew old I Jay was not to be caught b\ 1 inn worn tricks. They had failed to pick off the advance, or the otlleem, as the troop tipproitched the second ridge. I.anie Wolf's big bund was coming fast, but only a dozen of hi* warrior* sent htsh'ng forward, hud yet r> lehed Slubber The latter *>U: . It II illli I.J to llilttk of CAMKKON COUNTY PRKSS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 13. 1903. fighting on even terms, and as Kay seemed determined to come ahead, why not let him? Word was sent to Wolf not to risk south of the Elk Tooth spur. There in the breaks and ravines would be a famous place to lie in ambush, leaving to Stabber the duty of drawing the soldiers into the net. So there in the breaks they waited while Kay's long skirmish line easily maneuvered the red sharp shooters out of their lair on the mid dle divide. Then, reforming the column, the little company bore straight away for the Elk. But all these diversions took time. Twenty miles to the north of Frayne stretched the bold divide between the Elk Fork, dry as a dead tooth much of the year, and the sandy bottom of the Box Elder. Here and there along the ridge were sudden, mound like upheavals that gave it a pictur esque, castellated effect, for, unlike the general run of the country, the Elk Tooth seemed to have a backbone of rock that shot forth southeast ward from the southern limit of the beautiful Big Horn range; and, in two or three places, during some pre historic convulsion of nature, it had crushed itself out of shape and forced upward a mass of gleaming rock that even in the course of centuries had not been overgrown with grass. "Elk teeth" the Indians had called these odd projections, and one of them, the I ~Yc?o ' "IT WAS THE SIGHT OF PUI'ES OF SMOKE SAILING SKYWARD FROM THE CREST OF THE MIDDLE TOOTH THAT CAUGHT RAY S AT TENTION." middle one of the three most promi nent, was a landmark seen many a mile except to the south and west. Eagle Butte was the only point south of the Big Horn and in the valley of the Platte from which it could be seen, and famous were these two points in the old days of the frontier for the beacon fires that burned or the mirror signals that flashed on their summits when the war parties of the Sioux were afield. It was the sight of the puffs of smoke sailing skyward from the crest of the middle tooth that caught Kay's attention the moment he reached the second ridge. A moment more had been devoted to recalling some of his eager men who, from the extreme right of the swinging skir mish line, had broken away in pursuit of certain intentional laggards. Then a dozen of the Indians, finding them selves 110 longer followed, gathered at comparatively safe distance across the prairie, and, while in eager con sulfation, found time for taunting, challenging and occasionally firing at the distant and angering troopers, whom Sergeant Scott had sharply or dered back, and Kay, after calm sur rey of these fellows through liis glass, had then leveled it at the trio of buttes along the distant ridge, and turned to Field, sitting silent and disappointed by his side. "There, Field," said the captain. "Take this glass and look at those signal smokes—Stabber has more men now at his call than lie had when he started, and more yet are coming. They were just praying that you would charge with a handful of men. They would have let you through, then closed around and cut you off. Do you see, boy?" Field touched his hat brim. "You know them best, sir," was the brief answer. "What I wanted was a chance at those fellows hanging about our front and calling us names." "You'll get it, I'm thinking, before we're an hour older. They know whither we're bound, and mean to delay us all they can. Ah. Clayton," he added, as the junior lieutenant rode up to join them, while liis pla toon dismounted to reset saddles be hind the screen of the skirmish line. "Men look full of fight, don't they? There, if anywhere, is where we'll get it. I've just been showing Field those | signal smokes. Mount and follow j when we're half way down to that dump of cottonwoods yonder. We j must reach those people at the stage station to-night, and I may have to give these beggurs a lesson first. | Watch for my signal and come ahead lively if I turn toward you and swing Jmy hat. All ready, Field. Shove ahead." And this was the last conference | between the three officers that event ful morning. As once again the ad vanee guard pushed cautiously for ward toward the banks of the arroyo in the bottom, Kay turned to Field. "Skirmish work suit* you better than office duty, Field. You look far live lier than you did yesterday. Don't yoti begin to see that the major was right in sending you out with us?" And the dark eyes of the trained and experienced soldier shone kindly into the face of the younger man. "I'm glad to be with you, Capt. i liny," was the prompt answer. "It i4.a; u.y b,,ib. b hi in, but the I was sent, or the— cause for which I was sent that stings inc. I thought then, and I think now, that if you had been post, commander it wouldn't have been done. I don't know yet what charge has been laid at my door " "There was no time to talk of rea sons, Field," interrupted Kay, though his keen eyes were fixed on the dis tant ridge ahead, beyond which the last of the Indians hail now disap peared. The outermost troopers, ! with Sergeant Scott, were within a few hundred yards of the little clump of cotton woods that marked the site of a water hole. To the right and left, of it. curved and twisted the dry water course between its low, jagged, precipitous banks. Behind the ad' vance, full 400 yards, rode the skir mish line from the first platoon, a dozen strong. Far out to the cast and west the flankers moved steadily northward, keenly watching the : slopes beyond them, and scanning the crooked line of arroyo ahead. Not a sign at the moment could be seen of the painted foe, yet every man in the troop well knew they swarmed j by dozens behind the buttes and ridges ahead. Kay and Field, riding easily along in the rear of the line, with only the trumpeter in earshot, relaxed in 110 measure the vigilance demanded by the situation, yet each was deeply concerned in the subject of the talk. But before Kay could interpose again there came sudden and stirring interruption. From a point far down the "swale" from behind the low bank of the stream bed, three rifle shots rang out on the crisp morning air. The horse of the leading flanker, away out to the right reared and plunged violently, the rider seeming vainly to strive to check him. Al most instantly three mounted war riors were seen tearing madly away northeastward out of the gully, their feathers streaming in the wind. Field spurred away to join his men. Kay whirled about in saddle and swung his broad-brimmed scouting hat high above his head, in signal to Clayton; then shouted to Field. "Forward to the cottonwoods. Gal lop!" he cried. "We need them first of all!" ITo Be Continued.l IN A GLASS HOUSE. Notwithstanding Which ItOMidcnce She I'ersiNted in Throwing; u Stone or Two. Nobody who looked at Miss Simp son as she twitched pins out of their paper and stabbed them into her small red cushion could have been in doubt as to her frame of mind— she was plainly in a fine rage, re lates Youth's Companion. "I've been working at Mrs. Port er's," she volunteered at last, after she had portioned out the basting to the meekly waiting family and taken up her shears, "and every time I go there I say it'll be the last! But I j like her, and so I go. ller oldest daughter, though, that Jennie, i can't abide! "Yesterday I gave her a piece o' my mind, and it did me good. She had been using slang all the morning, and I spoke to her about it.. J told her it didn't sound well in a young girl, and a deacon's daughter. And she up with that sassy little head of hers, and says she, 'I don't see why you should object. Miss Simpson. You ought to be the last one, I'm sure.' "Then I looked her right back, and I says, 'Because I go out sewing by the day, T suppose? Well, I can just tell you,' I says, 'that I know what's what, even if I do look like the last run o' shad; an' those that use slang can't hope to approach elegance of language,' I says, 'not within a row of apple-trees!' " A Lawyer's Advice, One of the old practitioners at the Osceola (Mo.) bar tells this' story of the good counsel which a lawyer in that town once gave a client: Shortly after the firm of Nesbitt. & Ferguson hung out their shingle an old farmer called upon them in re gard to a land suit. Some of the parties at issue were not residents of the state and it was necessary to notify them by publication. Fergu son took down a blank and began to fire questions at the farmer at a great rate, which the honest old fel low proceeded to answer after weigh ing carefully each word. The blank having been finished and putin a pigeonhole, the client asked what it was. "That is the advertisement, com manding the non-residents to appear and defend the suit." "And how much will that cost?" "My friend," said Ferguson, calmly, looking the old man in the eye, "if you are going to figure on the cost you had better stay out of lawsuits." —Kansas City Journal. Not n * leu r Title. The word "furlough" occurred In a reading lesson of a primary grade ia one of the public schools. The teacher asked if any boy or girl knew the meaning of the word. One small hand was raised and shaken vigorously in the eagerness of the urchin to display his knowl- j edge. When he received permission to speak, he rose, and with the greatest assurance saidr "Furlough means a mule." Not a wiiit disturbed at the teach er's "oh, no, it doesn't," the small boy confidently answered: "I have the book at home that says so." Then the teacher told hi 111 he niiirht bring the book to school and show it to her. The next morning he came armed with the book, and triumphantly showed ller the pictuie of an Amer ican soldier astride loand Williamspo; t to Philadelphia and Uuilalo, WilM&msport to Washington. Passenger cars from Erie to Philadelphia and Williamsport to Baltimore. 12:01 A. M. (Emporium Junction!,daily for Sun bury, Harrisburg an 1 principal ic-rriuediate ; stations, arriving ut Philadelphia, 7:22 a. m.; New York, 9:31 a. in., ween days; (10:33 Sun days); Baltimore, 7:15 a. m.| Washington. 8:30 a. m. Vestibuled Buffet Sleeping Cars and Passenger coiches, Buffalo to Philadelphia and Washington. WESTWARD. 5:10 A. M.— Emporium Junction— daily for Erie, Ridgway, and week days for Du- Bois, Clermont and intermediatestations. 10 30 A. M. —Daily for Erie and week days for Dußois andi ntermediatestations. 623 P. M. —Week days Kane and intermediate stations. RIDGWAY AND CLEARFIELD R. R. CON NECTIONS. (Week days.) Houthivakd. Stations. NOBTUWAH r.M. A.M. A.M. [P.M. I'. M. r. M, ill 13 5 53 ....St. Marys I 2 411 9SO 8 25111 Oil 6 001 Kane *l2 25 3 05 8 25 3 43 11 23. 6 22].. ..Wilcox 12 05 2 45 8 04 3 SJ, 11 3s 6 3>i|..Johnaonburg.. 955 ; 233 7 'l9 I _ I 11 I 4 10 12 10 7 00j...Ridgway 9 30 1 15 7 30 42012 20 7 10*..Mill Haven... 920 201 720 43012 30 7 21'.. Croyland.... 9 10 1 54 709 43412 33 7 25'..Shorts Mills.. 906 1 51 735 407 12 36, 7 23].. .Blue Rock... 902 147 701 4 1112 40 7 311 Carrier 8 57 1 43 6 57 4 .1 12 JO 7 4 iJ.Brockwayv'ille. 849 133 647 4 412 "4 7 4-J...Lanes Mills.. 844 128 643 I 7 SlP.McMinnsSm't. 840 638 50! 103 7 sl|.Harveys Run.. 835 1 19 635 5 1 I 10: 8 0)1.. Falls Creek... 8 3i> 115 630 6 26 125! 8 13|....Du8..is 8 20. 1 03| 6 10 512 115 8 05...Fa11s Creek... 653 1 15 63C 527 132 818 . Reynoldsville.. 63912 52 6IE 6 Of) 1 59 845 ... Brookville .. 60512 21 53S 6 45 2 38 930 New Bethlehem 11 47 4 5C 7 25 120 10 10 ...Red Bank 11 10 4 05 9 45 5 30 12 3") Pittsburg 9 00 1 3fl P. » . P. M. P. M." A.M.! A.M. P. M. " BIFFA'.O , HIT It, tlatte H47 621 151 ..... Burtville. "54 628 201 Coleman, .... j "6 34 Pli.» CUis liaiu Nws. 3 and It aarry pm*nor gnr» Tains 6 and 10 do. Tram* run on Eastern Standard I im#». Connections—At UiynfKwitii lull Biook R*f j fbr points north an»l south. At B &S. Jure* I tion with Buffalo & Susquehanna k. E. north for Wellsville, south lor (Jaleton ami An«'ii>ia. At ; Port Allegany with W. N. Y.&P. R. R., north | for Buffalo Olean, Bradford and Hmethport; j south for Keating Summit, Austin, Kiuporiuui ana iVun'u It. It., points. H. A. McCLURE iJon'lSupt. Coudersport, Pa. BUFFALO &. SUSQUEHANNA R. F Time 1 able taki IJK Effect June 2.1, VJJ2. Buffalo «nd Suiqtrthanna R**Jro«d ••The (irand Scenic Route." RF.AJ) DOWN. A. M. P. M. P. M.'A. M.| WK'tingSmt... 12 40 7 30, » 10 ! Austin 6 35 1 05 8 00 9 50 Costello 0 44 1 14 ' ....Wharton...., 6 56 1 28 ; 3 10 Cross Fork Jet. 7 ....Corbett 8 06 2 36 5 15 Oerinania, 2 47 r > 1"> Lv'. jGaieton, •••• r j jjij ; Gaines Jet. j 8 36 3 06 ...Westfield 9 13 3 43 !,.... .. Knoxville.... 926 356 1 1 ....Osceola— 9 36 4 06 ... .Elkland .... 941 4 11 Jr. Addison.... 10 13 443 j A. M. P. M.; ! J "READ UP. |A. M.:P. M.I P. M. P. M.I [P. M. tr.K't'ng Smt.. 845 7 10] 12 25 | ....Austin 8 00 6 4"!: 1158 8 4.1 Costello 6 34 11 49 8 38 .. Wharton 8 24! 80411 39 82* Cross Fork J'el 5 40 7 25 10 58 7 4a ... Corbett 5 IS 6 44 10 34 7 15 .. Germania... ! 507 831 10 26 7 07 dp..Gaieton. P.M. 5 00 6 251 ar. •' 7 00 1 00 10 20 7 00 ... Gaines. ... 6 47 12 47 10 00 6 47 ...Westfield, ... 6 11 12 11 8 16 1 6 11 ... Knoxvllle ... ! 555 11 55 800 ' 55# Osceola 5 46 11 46 7 51 5 48 Elklaud ! 5 41 11 41 7 46 6 41 Lv Addison,.... 5 10 11 10 7 15 5 19 p. M. P. M.|A. M. A. M p. M. I I i ~T* Read down. Read up. < p. M. A. M. P. M.I A. M. P. M.| 9 21 7 00 lv. Ansonia . .ar 9 10 8 20 9 11 . Manhatten... 9 54 8 35 9 07 ! South Gaines,. 9 571 8 39 p. M. 8 59 6 37 ..Gaines June.. 9 59 8 42 8 45 6 25 ar I I lv S 55 .... 630 105 lv ; Gaietonjj ar j 0 10 448 i 7 30 2 08 West Bingham,. 9 C? 1 S 58 1 7 46 2 24*.... Shongo .... 853 343 I I { STATIONS. | I | P. M. P. M. A. M. ar dp A.M. P. M P.M. 3 05 2 00 7 15 Cross F'k June. 11 00 8 35 3 00 3 55 1 00 6 25 ar Cross Fork dp 11 50 5 45 2 10 P.M. I P. M. I I A.M. I A.M 858 I 100 Lv Sinnamahoning, Ar 140 IC5' 8 1") I 1 l«i I ar. Wharton lv | J 00 I '.) "3 All trainßrundail) epttiunday. 49~3undays only. CONNECTIONS. At Keating Summit with P. R. R. Buf.'"Div. for all points north and south. At Anscnia with N.Y.C.& 11R. R. for all points north and south. At Newtield Junction with C. «& P. A. R. R. west for Coudersport, eaft for Ulysses. At Genesee lor points on the New York A Pennsylvania R. R. At Addison with Erie R. R.. for points east and west. AtWellsville with Erie R. R. for points east and west. At Sinnamahoning with P. R. R.—P. & E. Div. n.H.GARDINER.Gen'I Pass'r Agt. Buffalo,N.Y W. <'. PARK. Gen'l Supt. eluding t'rov n and llrnlgo W