Pace 6. THE CEMTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA., FEBRUARY 11, 1909. BY BUFFALO BILL “I FROM TRUE TALES OF THE PLAINS’ COPYRIONT, 1906, 5Y WILLIAM I. CODY oY \ y A ; 3 a A «lv PY Mo » 4 A B “\ (rhe HAVE been many times asked If | might find our trall, and they would the solitude of the plains was not burdensome and oppressive to a man who was some of the vast expanses of the west, where for hundreds of miles there was no one to see but himself, a boundless level of prairie grass, the blue sky above, with its sun by day and its stars by night, At first question seemed strange, but I understood how a man who has lived all his life in dally touch with Broad way might go melancholy mad in a single day in a region where he could see and hear absolutely but the wonderful panorama of nature and its voices. There was a multitude of things around him to arouse interest, which to the plainsman meant safety or danger, life or death, but which would mean to such a man, indeed, no more than so many blades of grass This silent excitement of the solitary ride over the broad prairie, where the city man would see nothing but dull monotony, was something more excit ingly fierce than anything 1 had seen in a town, and I had seen Wall street crazed. I have watched street riots, 1 have witnessed royal pageants, and I have seen men lynched. These things stir the blood, but they all seem pale to what I have felt when out alone on & scout. Consequently the scout on duty was compelled to invent ruses of his own to assist him In And when some extremely dangerous ml slon had to be undertaken the often puzzled the commander fusing ald in the f shape of traveling along 11s horses, the soon nothing emergency. scout by re a squad or diets io a company hin part of dls alone or witl rades whom yi was own picked the one and hac horse,” well tre stand by him in every emergency. He had only himsel k out for, and with a good lead horse In a race for life had a fresh remount. Therefore I always kept myself well provided with well trained steeds, who became wonderfully proficient In scenting dan- ger and even game. The fact that your horses were unshod was another puzzle to a tralling Indian, as a shod horse print gave him a clew to a white man's presence or the proximity of the military. One of my ruses was to take with a bugler of the Fifth cavalry named Kershaw, who devel oped a capacity for comradeship such adventures. Kershaw, after re tiring from the army, chief of police at Chester, Pa, near Philadel phia, and died there several years ago Generally 1 preferfed, like others, go ing alone, as then | had only to look out for I took Kershaw with me often, as | knew the was infested safety me in became myself country with The tu jle call threw them into comnfus large bands of Indians, when it was too dangerous to travel in daytime and your object could be best accomplished in the night. Ills value as “a striker ean be best explained by the following Incident: On one occasion we slept dur Ing the day In a well wooded box can tein | yon, near a little stream of water, with | plenty of grass for the horses to browse | on, and at the same time we were hid flen from view, Toward evening, when we thought it convenlent to continue our scout, just as we were about to emerge from our hiding place a large band of Indians assembled down the vanyon to eamp for the night. Mount ed as they were, It was useless for us to attempt flight, so, moving farther backward In the woods, we remalned concealed until they had settled down There was no way to get out except a dash through the Indian village. We dared not stay till daylight, as they have us corralled, so we quietly walted until they had settled down, when we mounted and of the villt nue of escape course, alarmed the camp, sneaked toward the edge where there was an ave Thelr faithful dogs, of best ge, 80 the we could do was to make a wheel ich and Kershaw blew the around the village, we made al | at tl and fire as with hl charge 11441 TR TN little Hiring stampeded their quick mou in one dire went my self were riding jor Brown, Captain Bache, ck Hayes and a detachmen Ff, went on the trail, which | followed for two days, and the Indians were severely pun casualties on our side. Getting fresh meat ished, we were greatly anne our buffalo hunt by 1 the Indians, who in generally Many a for it elng Jur those Was nex wit ed out bet Hiding the soldiers in this ravine, we proceeded ot journey and had not the wagons half filled before striker, Bill White, announced Indians in the distance, “and a big band, too,” sald Bill. Away we wemt for the hog back, and It lickety the Indians gaining us We reached it, ked our t ap 4 my split, with every min was on threw our wag uffalo ute ns o position, pac hams $ for int int as i a bhatt 1hout breast worl threw some straw dead grass t er. listening chief. Bang! old Winchesters the ravine, bugle blew tumbling here, out of thelr saddles, the rest scatter with the speed of jack rabbits in al directions. Assembling on the distant hills, they realized that the up, particularly when they cavalry coming In the distance how or other during the remainder of the season they never seemed to mo lest the butcher wagon with the same appetite. And the fort always had fresh meat. A country of such vast expanse, un- settled save for a few forts as places of refuge and succor so comparatively few in number as to be, as It were, like pebbles on the seashore, rendered the campaign In winter, with the blizzard conditions, not only hazardous and dangerous, but even If successfully combated attended by excruciating suf fering. This the old army officers and soldiers of the early campaigns will never forget, the physical discomforts and mental worrying with climatic conditions far excelling those that de feated Napoleon In his winter cam paign In the region about Moscow I relate two or three examples. On one occasion 1 was out with some of the Fifth cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Bache, a descendant of began Kersh charge, while the the Indians there and everywhere ng wns the Some Jig saw | Benjamin Franklin and a member of a well known Philadelphia family and, | by the way, a magnificent young offi. | eer, who In various campaigns showed a bravery and dash that one would | not associate with his aristocratic bear ing and extreme gentility. A blizzard arose. Fortunately we were near shel ter In the shape of some bluffs and | seattered wood. When the blizzoed | was over It was necessary for us to | strike out on the path of duty. The | thermometer was away below zero and | the wind cutting and sharp On coming back from the lead to con- | sult with Lieutenant Bache 1 passed by him to eantion the sergeants to look out for thelr men from the cold and see that they did not become drowsy, | and on my return | found indications | of numbness and drowsiness even In the case of the leutenant. 1 aroused him. and appealed to him to pull him. self together, but he was just In the | humor to resent it, In consequence | had to take the Into my own hands and shake him up In lively style, first taking the precaution of slipping his revolver and placing it out of his reach, As he did not to my efforts on the horse, | ed, pulled him from the and used him In what one svould think a rather rude and rough manner, In fact, I had to make a punch bag and foot ball out of him, much to™he h ment of the young troopers, who came up and were gol my apparent to thelr offi. cer, though some of the older men ex- plained its necessity, Eventually 1 got the is feet, and while our horses taken care of an If hustled him race until we got law respond simply dismount horse astond of some ng to avenge discourtesy lieutenant on were bel old sergeant and myse along on s foot his blood in circulation, and so, over- coming the danger, we eventually ar rived safely i On and General Euge consulted ar one of the and equipped Indian ghters 1 rontier the roster the army, we cluded tha n account of men on both con- the pecul balmy cor » weather a bliz- zard wou ng in or ved to strike camp ear { country then in a bleal I ) ’ and over GOIty {les from water, This wood and wa lower country, where there was only one gap which would furnish descent | foto the valley, and that bad to be reached by careful attention to direc- tion Starting early and getting of the wind, we had n« water were the point t gone far be fore old Boreas began his revels eral Carr, of « the commanding in regard to | the men and to any of then I shall sen ourse orders to Micers of comt gave anles was be« wind ar blindir from the | scattered a kept so « horse's tall my rection, left cheek position r eight ft and ear against the and, of co suffered greatly frostbite. I dared not did many of the others, General Carr himself nearly tance, leading his horse. 8 3 st from i. as yurse, dismour all the dis I had stuffed my ear with a plece of saddle blanket but notwithstanding that the eardru: was frozen, and for a time It gave me intense pain and suffering, and up to the present day it has quite affected my hearing on that side. But by this pertinacity we reached the gap, and when | had made the point success fully and the descent down Into the canyon became assured there were never 1.000 men who let out such yells and paeans of Joy On another occasion 1 had a very try ing experience when General Penrose’s command had been sent to reconnoiter the surrounding country by General Sheridan and were known to have been somewhere In a blizzard. Not hearing from them for several days we knew they were up agalnst it, but as all tralls were covered and obliterated by the drifting snow It was a problem to find them. General Carr, of course, consulted with me in the mat ter, and he relates the Incident In de tall in “Carr's Campalgns” of my su cess In finding the men. In this In stance, knowing In what direction thes had gone, 1 had to travel fifteen miles to find a ridge that they would cross and that the storm would blow the gnow away from and leave bare. Fol lowing this ridge for five miles or walking serions= more, 1 found the trall of thelr horses | and wagons where they had crossed and by the hoof tracks located the di rection In which they had gone. | sue ceeded In reaching them, showed thing had been eaten up to such an extent that the horses and mules had eaten the manes and talls off each other. Returning the next day, relief was sent, and the commands became reunited NEXT WEEK: "TWO FAMOUS INDIAN FIGHTERS." in [and In a terrible condition, for every “QUOUSQUE TANDEM.” Statue of Cinero by Vincenzo Alfant In Academy of Design Exhibition An Interesting exhibition ture of the re Not Academy of Desig toman orator Cl fano. Mi Alfano country in 1808 w before coming to tl a8 a professor for ni years of the Industrial m 1m in Na ples and wus also professor in the Roy al Academy of Flne Arts. Hse The figure « THE STATUS Clcero was origh tor for and received 1.000 11 play ana Pur received which Is | as just r man ser nunc! Mr sculptur rived bul! ™ in N tals desire & 1 but those foe or hes- Juer every Save death, y doubt tate, Condemned to fallure, penury and woe, Beak me In vain, uselessly Implore- I answer not, and | return no more, ~John J. 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