Somerset Herald. iflC ESTABLISHED 1827, ycYra Publication. , , ,v,.ry Wednesday morning at . if PiJ in advance, otnerwiao j ' .....variably becbargea. , ..-.en will be discontinued nnUl .maw re UP" ruu"WB notify us when subscribers do f " , i wpd will be held responsible M 001 W- vrs removing from one postofflee .slmui'ii1""-"- . ... tiA name aT IKa CiPm. t i ihe rresent ofnoa. Address " Tuc SoMEasrr BoMutan, Pa, 1 F'. r n aTWi NOTARY PUBLIC U Bomeraet, la. i I'll -i r. - 1 - Jf UL Uitl-Al-UW, . ,. Hoiuena-i, Penn'a, tia'".: ... -.,fl..,r. . U. . ciTii w Uii care wlU be aV p V. -" - v Arr ikn e y-at-la w, Blid NUTAttY PUBLIC. Boiueraet, 1- h A 1 1 j i. t t --vT-LA . J ... 17i) 1'uurUi SU, l'i 'UUiburg, Pa. I i;L1ioj-StV-AT-LAW. v buiuexaet Pa. " T,-. ! UKUKLEY. 1 1 A1' AiiJUtAi-i'. boiuerbct. Pa. K;r-i uUoual Bauk. .. 11, .1 uTUT a,t;;ov-at-law. boiiierset, Pa, , ..... . ,k U j Beerll lMuck, up slaira. Jjt U. " v bomereet. Pa. .. fiixl-'CKK.Il. I 1Uj Ai loli.fc-AI-LAT. boiucract. Pa. tol'r.t.m.- House Ko, opposite Court J 11 "luwiiawjk. Somerset, Pa. V J- lNEY-AT-LAW. ' bouicTM-'t, Pa. Somerset, Pa. u-.- i.-.u.pt attention to buiueas eu- fc.i.gmi- .....r. ul'tlatllolUllllE '.'u I'll . iiouat liuw, opposiuj VALKST1NK HAY. A. U O. UAY. 11AV liV ui'tYS-AT-LAW, sjouicreet, Pa. ijolKai. ri:. li.l Estate. Will attend to JOHN H. L'HL, .UluiiTvEY-AT-LAW, tMimtrsct, Pa. Wiil pw.i-uv atK-ud to all b ts .o en t". w aavaucei on oolleo- TuHXO. KIMMEL, J AliUli.vt.X-AT-LAW, Isuiuereet, Pa. ui i'.teiiJ to a!! l.usinMS eutrUfcU-d to bis Ui rsi m ii l auJ ajoimut cod ,1-cs. wilii tim:" li.i.iuy. otluon tuiailwi iwt,kUuct.uililu'iroceO- Store. 1 L. l L CJII, J AllvU-NtY-AT-LA. tMjuitrhcl, Pa. ulScein Maa.uiotb Ulotk, up stairs. Ku tnu on M rot- fUxU -lltUou n-toio x-ltico, uUui exmineU, and all i. t,u.-.u.- tl'.viiawl 10 wiUi prouiptutaia i. J. tt'Ui' iRN. L. C tOUWUN. AlIoUNtVS-AX-LAW, tSolllerstrt, Pa. i'.baki:us c!itruiiti to our care will be rutLpuvauil luittiluiiy .U uied U. ColleC S.iBiuit iu .iut rM-1. IK-Uionl aud aUjoin- Minfii:i- iiid conveyancing iniz H rtsiMiiiatiie teruiH. UL LAKIL . AiToBNEY-AT-LAW, Houit ripet, Pa. Wiil pRioii.-c iu Soriu-rw-t aud adjoining iiuui. Aii oui.mreulruited to Una will fcvcivt iroui(l atUruliou. A H. lul l K. a 1L W. H. BUPPEJU ( toFFliU'i'H & RUPPEL, V AlfuliNEYS-AI-LAW, Soineraut, Pa. A:'. basiuw-nt runted to their care will be )imli ud puiictualiy attended to. Ulfiee i a.a trod slivet, opposite Mammoth T X. CA ROTH EltS, M. D., U 1U Vslti-i N ASU SL'KtiEOX, Somerset, Pa. Oace on ralr.-:. Btreet, opposite U. B 4lit cult ht ojce. DU. P. F. SHAFFER, l-mslClAN AuSCKGEON, Bomeraet, Pa. Ididcri. Li pmf-ssional serviOBn to the dtl- ui NmnTn-t and vicinity. Office corner ILutiCixiM j.u1 1'ntnol slreet. Da. J. M. LOUTH ER, riiYK IAN asu SURGEON, C3oa Muiu tr t, rear of Drue store. JjU. H. S. K I MM ELL, Iaiddv ui pnif.-ssUMial ncn'kw to the citl mh irf iv.nu ,-x i and vicinity. L'uIb pro Muua:.v rtia:.j.--d lie call be louud at hi of (i li.1111 .-m.. tMl of liauioud. DR. J ir iKMILLEN, oraduate iu lAliUst ry .) t:vo s , !;i,.u uon to the prenervation t" tn i;.1 u-;li. Anitii uil ik-Ui inaerted. kin i jriLraineed aUii04-ur-. Ollice 'mnimrtU U. liavis A .' store, nit: Km.i titi. aud Patriot slreeta. C H. COFFR0T1I, Funeral Director. 0"ot 6u Maiu Cross Bt. Residence, i40 Patriot St. plUNK B. FLUCK, Iand Surveyor l IMSU E. li I X EEK. LiKUe. Ia. Oils! Oils! K-flii!ng Co, PiUsbnrg Depart 'ii.i.un;. Pa, iiuko a upecuiHy of "UiUiiUiiuniig for the IiuitieeUe trade Uie dneat branda of nominating & Lubricating Oils Splitha & Gasoline, Tut an U made from Prjulmm. k ehal. r cuuipurison with every known Product of Petroleum If yon wUh the most uniformly Satisfactory Oils IX THE American Afn.rknt br wira. 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Price $1. six for $i I j ii. are the only pills to take IIUUU trills with Hood's Sarsanarilla. -THE First MiOMl Bad: Somerset, Ponn'a. . Capital, S50.000. Surplus, S26.000. o - OCPOSITS RCCCIVC- IN LAR0C AMDSMALl AMOUNTS. PAYABLE ON DEMAND. ACCOUNTS OF MERCHANTS. FARMERS. STOCK DEALERS, AND OTHERS SOLICITED DISCOUNTS DAILY. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. CHAS. O. SCULL, GEO. R. BCULL, JAMES L. PUGH, W. H. MILLER, JOHN It- SCOTT, BOBT. 8. SCCLL, FRED W. BIESECKEB EDWAED SCULL, : : PRESIDENT. VALENTINE HAY', : VICE PRESIDENT. HARVEY M. BERKLEY, . CASHIER. The funds and seen ri tie of this bank arc se curely protected In a celebrated Corliss Bl k 6 lab Pkoof Safb. The only sufe made abso lutely burglar-proof. Tiis SomersBt Coety National BA N K OF SOMERSET PA. EitiblUtwd 1877. 0rcantrriMlst!sntl,18SD Capital, - $ 50,000 00 Surplus 4 Undivided Profits, 23,000 00 Assets, - - 333,03 000 y. Chas. J. Harrison, - President. Wm. II. Koontz, - Vice Tresident. Milton J. Tritts, - - Cashier. Geo. S. LTarrison, - Ass't CasLier. D I RECTORS i Wm. End-sley, Josiah Specht, John H.Snyder, Joseph B. Davis, Chas. W. Snyder II. C Beerits, John Stufft, Harrison Snyder, Noah S. Miller, Jerome Stufft, Sam. B. Harrison. n . ink will HMl v. I h mmit liberal treat mentconsistentwltli safe banking. ; i . . I .......aw mdI nr.Ml rames wihuihb , can be accommodated by draft lor any amount. Money and valuable semred by one of Die bold's celebrated safes, with moKt Improved u me loe a. . . , . . mad In all Darts of the Unltea States. CharKed moderate. AficoaDuuiaoriMiwBuiiuwii. A. H. HUSTON, Undertaker and Embalmer. A GOOD HEARSE, and everything pertainlnf to funerals furn ished. SOMERSET - - Pa Jacob D. Swank, Watchmaker and Jeweler, Next Door West of Lutheran Church, Somerset, - Pa. I Am Mow pt ed to supply Uie public with Clocks, Watches, and Jew elry of all deHoripUons, as Cheap as the Cheatiest. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. All work guaranteed. Look at my stock before making your purchases. J. D. SWANK. A LOCAL Disease CATARRH A Climatic Affection. Nothing but a loea remeily or elianice o climate will cure it. liet a vell-knovr pltann u-culieai rein edy. Ely'sCream Balrr "AM'SS: COLD 'nHEAD II noenc and rlran uie Aaaol faH-aeea. Allays luU.iminirtion. H1 and 1 lotecM the Membrane. K stores th I Seniw if Tast ami Km-ll Kull Mze i)c4 Trial Size local l)rut.t or bv nu.iL 1.1 bUoTfaElW, 56 Warren Street, Jf. Y, V lie 50. A FEW WORDS OS 6PKIN0. What a deep and soulful meaning To the heart the springtide beatvtu! Wliat a costume Phyllis wearetn At the vernal cleaning! On the barn roof sunshiue gllHtem, Softly puff" the southern breezes Through the swelling budsy treasea And through Hiram's whiskers. Gently glides the argent brooklet By whose marge the truthful angler With his rod and flask of tangler Italia his little booklet. 'Neath the sod the flow'r seed quickens And the garden soon will gaily Bloom, If all the seed aren't daily Scratched up by the chickens. Chicago Record. HER IV AVAL CAPTURE. It was unmistakably the figure of an American girl that jogged energetiiatl ly through the narrow Hint-ts in the outskirts of the little city of llorta, on the island of Fayal, in the Azores. To the Donkey boy who puffed along be hind, as well as to the astonished beast himst-lf, this lively puce was as foreign as their fair haired mistress. Dorothy .Scott had been to the top of a neighboring hill to watch the sun rise over sea, valley, mountaiu and volcano peaks, and beautiful they were, bathed in a glory of color. Nat ure has given men few fairer sights than that to lie had from this very hill ou this dot of an Island in the mid-Atlantic. Dorothy's father, an Americau nat uralist, had come to the Azores for a summer's collecting, and had left his invalid wife aud his lC-year-old daugh ter at the little hotel at Jlorta while he explored other islauds of the Azores. Bo Dorothy, left to go about alone, tra versed town and country roads with all the enthusiasm and freedom of a wide awake Americau girl, little dreaming with what breathless won der her independent movements were studied by the imprisoned Portuguese girls who peeped at her through bal cony lattices or owr garden pates. It was still early moring, uud drow sy llorta had hardly waked when Dor othy clattered up on her donkey to the gate of an old convent, dismounted and entered. In ruins now, and aban doned by its former occupants, the crumbliug walls still sheltered a score or so of old women, the city's poor. Dorothy, who had Sjient many hours bketching the picturesque ruins, made her way through stone arched passages to the square, open court within, pass ed down an untenanted corridor and reached a corner where she had been sketching the day before. Gathering her materials together, she turned a little, when a flutter of something white in one of the cells caught her eye. ! She stepped curiously up to the door and peered into the darkness, but quickly drew back, startled and breathless. There, staring back at her, with eyes as big and frightened as her own, was the face of a boy. The stranger was tall and slight and wore a white suit, a sailor's, evidently, with an open throat tied with a blue knot. A white cap pushed back from the forehead disclosed a crop of etirly hair. Something familiar abou. his face made Dorothy falter out, after the frightened gasp: "Why-ee, I do be lieve you are an Americau! Or or don't you understand English?" she added faintly, as at her first words the boy backed farther into the dark cell. For a moment there was no answer. The boy still seemed thoroughly scar ed aud glanced about as though seek ing some chance of escape, but Doro thy's position iu the doorway blocked the only exit. As there seemed to be no alternative, he said sullenly, "Yes, I do." "Hut how did you ever get here?" she questioned eagerly. "How did you?" said the boy. "Oh, my mother and I are spending the summer here," Dorothy explained shortly. "Rut you are in a sailor's clothes, and no American ship has been here for a month. "Yes, there has," he replied. "One put in this morning." "Truly? It's queer I didn't see it from the hill! But, perhaps it's just a whaling vessel?" ' "No," grinned the boy. "No whal er togs out in this shape." He glanc ed down at his jaunty suit Then his face relapsed into its former sullenness as he went ou: "I may as well make a cleau breast of it, now you've seen me here. It's the American schoolship Victory that has put into port for a couple of days. Eighty of us fellows have just come ashore for to-day, aud as many are al lowed off to-morrow. My name is Theodore Blake. I am a first year ca det, and I" "What are you doing here' in the convent then?" interrupted D rothy. "Oh, I crowded in through a break in the wall behind a hedge; thought it was a garden, and I could hide here till night and then get away. But I'm blessed if I want to stay in this spok erish, rotteu old place all day!" "But why are you hiding? Are you in some tcrape?" "No. I've just got out of the biggest scrape I was ever in that is, I guess I've got out, if you don'e go and telL I wou't go back to that abominable old hulk again if I die for it! It's nothing but grind all day and half the night, whether you're sick or not!" The boy's thin cheeks seemed to show that his sickness had been no sham. "Mother was set on having me in the navy," he went on. "Got my ap pointment all right, and I entered in May. We had only a few weeks of drill before starting on the summer's cruise, and we first year cadets are treated no better than common sailors. I've had a month of it and that's enough. I can't resign while I'm on a cruise, so I'll hide ou the Island till the ship sails and then put myself in the hands of the American consul and get sent home, I guess mother will be satisfied then I've no taste for the navy!" Quite overcome by this startling dis closure, Dorothy sank down on her sketch stool and gazed at him in open concern. "Aren't you afraid? It seems a dreadful thing to do! Why, you would o.mer SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY, be what they call a 'deserter,' would n't you?" she Inquired. "I suppose so," he answered dogged ly, but flushing in spite of himself at a word of disgrace. "Anyway, I'd rather be called even a 'traitor than go back!" "It seems to me 'deserter' sounds about as bad as 'traitor,! " observed Dorothy. "Oh, well, it's all up with me now. You're a girl, and you'll go and tell, and that's the end of it!" "I shan't tell, even if I am a girl!" she retorted. "All girls aren't tell tales, and I'm sure It's none of my business if you want to go and be a deserter or any other awful thing!" With an offended glance she turned to leave him, but relented at the sight of his doleful countenance. "It must be pretty bad, though," she said, "to make you want to run away." "It Is! It's a slave's life, and if I've got to lie just a common scrub I prefer to work on dry land. All that talk about the 'glory and honor' of the life is rubbish. I've tried it. They wou't miss me till they go aboard at sunset but if they catch me to-morrow I'd be locked iu the brig for a week on bread and water!" Though she had no idea what the "brig" was, this sounded very impres sive and terrible to Dorothy. What a brave fellow he must be to attempt es cape iu the face of such punishment! Aud yet there seemed something de cidedly questionable about the sort of courage that led him to run away from disagreeable duty rather than stay and face it Nor could she admithat he was exactly her ideal of brave young America as he sat in a de jected heap at the far side of the dark little cell. "If I had a brother," she began slowly, her eyes fixed steadily on the resentful face before her, "if I had a brother, I think I should want him to be either a soldier or a sailor. And if he were in the navy aud got to be an offi cer, how proud I should be! To have your own brother really helping to protect your country, how safe it would "make you feel! "But," she went on sympathetically, "if you are sick all the time, I dou't wonder you hate it The American consul here is a real nice old man. I know him, and I'll tell him just how you feel, and I'm sure he will help you. But, "she continued, with a sad little smile, "I am disappointed, for all summer sinci I have been here I have been watching these Portuguese boys and girls, and they don't s ,ra half so nice as ours. The girls just sit around aud don't have any fun, and the boys act so stupid and lazy I want to shake them. I've been wishing they co-.ild cjiuc over to America and see our boys, and now I Jtist hate to have them know that tliere is a single one who isn't brave aud loyal and true to his flag." Silence followed this somewhat choky but earnest confession. The boy sat with his chin stolidly buried in his hands. Suddenly a movement in the court startled them both and, glancing through the broad arch behind her. Dorothy saw the bent figures of some of the old women, evidently returning from early mass. "Keep way back in the dark," she whispered hurriedly, while folding up her stool, "aud don't move, or they will see you. I'll come back after breakfast and bring you something to eat Goodby." Dorothy retraced her steps to the patient donkey at the gate and rode straight to an opening whence she could get a view of the harbor. There, sure enough, with sails furled, swing ing lazily with the warm summer breeze, lay the Victory, aud from its stern floated the most beautiful flag of the world. "I didn't know I should ever feel so worked up over a sight of that dar ling flag!" Dorothy exclaimed, fairly dancing in her saddle. "I must tell mother!" As she turned back to the main street she found the place alive with the white suits and sunburned faces of American sailor boys. The old town was roused from its comfortable dum ber by light hearted, strong bodied youth turned loose for a holiday. Up and. down the streets they marched. their rolling gait assumed if not yet acquired, chattering with delight at being ashore and bursting into a hear ty cheer at sight of the stars and stripes above the consul's ollice. Here and there were stragglers deep in the delights of home letters just re ceived. Some had invaded the tiny shops in search of Fayal baskets or linen for home friends, and others were bar gaining for fruit and donkey rides. Dorothy, almost torn asunder in the conflict between her desire to great each countryman and her efforts to preserve proper maidenly decorum, hastened to the hotel and burst into the breakfast room. But here a still greater surprise awaited her. She shyly drew back as she beheld her mother seated at the head of a long table, on her gentle face a little flus!x of excitement, while lining the table were two rows of jolly sailor lads. Pointing to a seat left vacant for Dorothy, Mrs. Seott soon put them all at ease. They fell to eating with a will, and "shore food" vanislied at an alarming rate. After the first shyness wore off aud tongues were loosened Mrs. Scott drew from one and another bits of their history, home life and plans, and her kindly interest in their boyish confidences staid with them longer than she had guessed, for even sailors' manly hearts yearn now and then for a "mother talk," and those who love it best die bravest for their flag. Dorothy, regaled with stirring tales of sea life, had wished herself a boy a dozen times before the meal was over, and when at last she was free to, slip away with the promised lunch for the lad lurking in the old convent there was but one thought in her mind a resolve to dissuade the deserter from Ids attempt All the boys she had talked with seemed to glory in their life. The bracing sea air would overcome flabby muscles and thiu blood, just as the tough experiences would strengthen set ESTABLISHED 1827. his weak will, and by the time she bad reached the convent her friendly heart had launched him forth on a ca reer of noble seamanship which could have led to nothing short of an admir al's berth. But alas! When she softly spoke his name at the cell door, there was no answer. She passed in and peered about. The room was empty. He was gone Had he been frightened out of his uncanny hiding place or, tired of waiting and hungry, had he stolen away and made sure of his es cape from her unwelcome counsel aud bis own honest duty? Soberly aud slowly she walked back to the hotel. Late that night the custom house guards and fishermen lounging on the quay were startled from their drowsy talk by a boyish. figure in white which brushed past them and hurried to the end of the wharf. His clothes were dusty and stained, he breathed heav ily, and the eyes that glanced anxious ly out over the black water to the ship lying so quietly on its bosom were big with fear. Yes; there were still lights shining out from the captain's portholes. Oh, if he could only report to him and not to that stern, pitiless executive officer! He turned and gazed back past the group of men and the sleeping city to the hills from whence an unconquer able impulse had driven him, but where still lay the escape for which he longed. But then returned the words which had been ringing in his ears all day from them there was no escape "brave and loyal and true to his flag!" Should he be that single one who proved unfaithful? A flush covered his thin cheeks, and following his last and best impulse he turned quickly to the men and was soon seated in the stern of a little bo it which was taking him to a punish ment honestly deserved, but bravely met As the boat swung up alougside the ship a figure leaned over the railing above and the ofiicer of the deck called out: "Is that Cadet Blake? "Aye, aye, sir!" answered Theodore, stepping quickly up the gangway and saluting. . "A trifle late, sir!" sneered the ofii cer. "The captain left orders that if you returned to-night you should re port immediately to him." "Aye, aye, sir!" Salutiug again, the boy turned, with a thankful heart, toward his captains quarters. A pun ishment, softened a little by the cap tain's compassion for the boy's thiu cheeks and haunted, weary look, .was meted out to him, and patriotism re sumed its sway in his heart It was no wonder that the next morning when, seated proudly in the stern of the captain's gig in company with the American consul. Dorothy approached the Victory to pay her first visit to a schoolship she was aston ished at beholding the face of her "de serter" beaming down at her, over the bulging side of the great vessel, nor that ter astouishmeut changed into utter bewilderment when, after a delightful hour spent in being shown about the ship, she stepped ou the gangway to desceud into the gig which waited to take them ashore, tiie captain of the Victory, with a twinkle in his kindly eyes, bowed low aud saluted her as "a fellow oflicer." "For," he explaiced, "some of our greatest nival capture have ben made on dry laud." Then she knew that Cadet Blake had told him the whole story. G race E. Johnson in Youth's Companion. Useful Hints. When there is a crack in the stove It can be mended by mixing ashes and salt with water. It is poor economy for the farmer's family to sliut themselves in health giving milk and eggs. To clean willow furniture use salt and water and apply with a coarse brush, and dry thoroughly. Cold sliced potatoes fry and taste better by sprinkling a tablespoonful of flour over them while frying. A great deal of sickness may be pre vented by the free use of disinfectants in and and about dwelling houses. New tins should be set over the fire with boiling water in them for several hours before food is put into them. Glazed Potatoes. Peel, theu boil whole, dry off at the back of the range; lay in a drippling pan, salt, butter lib erally and brown in a quick oven, beat ing with butter from time to time. Even pressed glass tumblers should never be set one inside the other. What goes in will not always come out, despite the proverb to the contrary. Or, to speak more accurately, if it does come out, it may be in unpleasantly small fragments. Sklm-milk added to twice the quan tity of warm water cleans graining or any varnished woodwork easily, and injuries the varnish le?s than any other preparation, as proved by many years' trial. It brightens up oil-cloths to wash them over with skim-milk after cleaulng. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork. It may be washed with warm soap suds quickly, wiped dry and then rubbed witn an oily cloth. Clean off the oil and polish with chamois skin. Keep cake in a tin or wooden box. To cure hiccoughs '.sit erect and in flate the lungs fully. Then, retaining the breath, bend forward slowly until the chest meets the knees. After slow ly rising again to theert?t position, slowly exhale the breath. Repeat this process a second time, and the nerves will be found to have received an ex cess of energy that will enable them to perform their natural functions. Windows and mirrors can be made to shine without long polishing, after being washed in hot soap suds they are rubbed dry with a newspaper. In making a durable whitewash aid to the slacked lime a small portion of wait and sulphate of zinc One Hundred Doses One Dollar is peculiar to and true only of Hood's SarsapariUa. It is economy to buy Hood's. MAY 20. 1897. THE CUSTER MASSACRE. An 011 St Lanisan't Fart in the Dis astrous Campaign. CHAPTXS 07 TJHWEITTEH HIST0ET. CaptaiS Grant Xarsk Brought Baok th Wouaded from tha Bloody Battls flsld Trip of ths Suamsr Far West SCOUT CUELEY TOLD THE NEWS- From the 8U Lous Globe-Democrat. When Colonel (iibbons columns left the Yel lowstone the supply steamer rr west upon which was company B, ol the Sixth lnfnlry wnsdlrc'ted to make the attempt toaseend the Bin Horn as far as the mouth of the Little Big Horn In order that supplies might be near at liana to replace uie scanty amount oi bui sistenee which Colonel tiibtiou's pack animals were able to carry. Thanks to the seal and energy displayed by Captain Grant Marsh, the master of the steamer, the mouth ofth4 Little hie Horn was reaclud by her. and she wasof lnetlm.ble service In brinsiiig down our wounded. They were sent upon her to Fort Lincoln. The above is an an extract from the annual report of General Terry, tlated November 21, 170, aud the Captain Grant Marsh referred to is the long time and well-known resident of St Louis, now the master of the govern ment steamer Mississippi, while the subject of the report was the famous campaign of 1S76, the feature of which was the terrible Custer massacre. The story of this disaster has often been told, but the important part played by the steamer Far West in that cam paign has heretofore been overlooked. No one could lie better qualified to tell this story thau the master of the boat "So many untruths have been pub lished about that expedition against the Indians that I do not like to talk about it," said Captain Marsh to a Globe-Djinocrat reporter. "I have seen but two correct accounts of the Custer massacre. One of them appear ed in the Century five years ago, and the other was that in the GIobe-Dem- ocrat of April IS last I know nothing about the massacre except what I heard at the time, but if I can add any thing to history by telling of the trip of the Far West I am willing to do so. "I had been in the employ of the government for some time previous to 1S7G, exploring the Yellowstone river the year before for General Sheridan, iu preparation for just such an emer gency as arose. I was at lanRion, D., in the spring of '70, and was not at all surprised when I received orders from General Sheriden to prepare for a trip into the Indian couutry. Pursu ant to instructions I selected the rar West from among the boats at Yank ton, as the one adapted to the shallow rivers through which I expected to go. She was of light draft and easy to han dle, a typical ri-er boat with little cabin room and open lower decks. The first week in My we loaded up sup plies aud started for Fort Abraham Lincoln, in Missouri river, opposite Bismarck, N. D. Fort Abraham Lin coln was the headquarters, for the Sev enth cavalry, and when we reached the fort we unloaded the provender we had brought from Yankton and took ou supplies for the troops. The Sev enth cavalry had already started up toward the Indian couutry aud was ten days ahead of us when I got my orders to follow with supplies. My orders were to meet the troop at the mouth of the Powder river, in Monta na, lot) miles up the Yellowstone. We steamed up the river to the mouth of the Yellowstone, where stood Fort Bu ford, 273 miles from Fort Abraham Lincoln. There we took on board Captain Stephen Baker and company B, of the Sixth infantry. From this time up to the return of the expedition Captain Baker and his company were the guard and escort for the boat, and he was in military command of the Far West "Carrying out our orders, we contin ued ou up the river, and arrived at the mouth of the Powder river three days ahead of the troops, who, wheu they arrived, established a camp there. Gen eral Terry came aboard the Far West, and I took him forty miles further up the river to meet General John Gib bons, whom he wished to see and con sult as to the details of the expedition. The Seventh cavalry, with whom Gen eral Terry had been, marched across the country, aud was ou the south side of the river. General Gibbous was in command of the Seventh iufautry, and had come from Fort Shaw to join the expedition. The generals talked over the plans for the campaign, aud then I took General Terry back to camp at the Powder river. As soon as we ar rived orders were given by him for a forward movement up the rirer. At Rise Bud civer the last camp of both the infantry aud cavalry was pitched before the battle with the Indians. "Now, right here is where I wish to differ from all historians whose works I have read as to the date when the move was inaue irom tne itose tsua river. I contend that the troops left there on June 2 The infantry had orders to move along the north bank of the river to the mouth of the Big Horn and the cavalry started directly inland to the country where the Indians had been located by General Terry's scouts. Captain Baker was ordered to proceed up the river to the Big Horn, where we were to ferry the infantry across to the opposite side of the river. . My rea son for being positive of the date on which the movement began is my vivid recollection of the events of that day. With the troops were a brother and a and a nephew of Oneral Custer. The nephew's name was Ried. Boston Custer, the brother, aud I werd great friends. He was a civilian and was going on the expedition for the fun and excitement I told him he had better get aboard the Far West and go to the Big Horn ou her, rather than make the trip with the cavalry, into dangerous I uJian country. II j had come aboard with a letter for his moth er, which I placed iu the mail ba. After considering the m-Uter he decid ed to go ou the Far West, but went ashore to get some tobacco from the camp. We never saw him afterward. Soon after he left the boat the cavalry started from the camp. Boston Custer, Reed and Mark Kellogg, a roportr for the New York Herald, all civilians, accompanied them, and . all were slaughter with Custer. After the cav era alry left camp Captain Baker ordered three men to take a boat and start back down the river to Fort Bu ford with dis patches and the mail. Sergeant Fox was in charge of the mail. Just as the biat started on its trip It was capsized and the sergeant was drowned. The other two men were saved and the mail was recovered from the river at the spot where the boat turned over. I dried out the mail ou the deck of the Far West and another detail was sent w ith it to the fort The mail bags contain ed the letter written by Boston Custer to his mother, and she received it Iu her books the widow of General Custer tells of the letter aud gives its date as June 25, and this substantiates my as sertion that the troops did not leave camp until that day. "Leaving the mouth of the Rose Bud the route takvn by the cavalry was a circuitous one across the county, and directly to the camps of the Indians. The infantry kept along the north bank of the Yellowstone until tiie Big Horn river was reached. At that Hint we ferried them across and they pitched a camp four miles back from the junc tion of the two rivers. Early in the morning the infautry started up the Big Horn. Before day break Captain Burnett came to the boat with orders from General Terry commanding Cap tain Baker to proceed up the Big Horn river as far as possible. Up into an unknown river the Far West plowed her way, dodging around myriads of little Islands and sandbars. Frequent ly we met with rapids, which necessi tated some great steamboating. The soldiers helped us under command of Captain Baker, and the work of laying Hues and runniug the capstans was thus an easy one. We were frequent ly obliged to work the loat along, but made good progress that day, and stop ped for the night not far from the in fantry camp. "The next morning, June 2S, Capt. Burnett appeared on the boat with more orders for Capt Baker. They di rected us to 'proceed up the Big Horn as far as found to be navigable, and if possible make the mouth of the Little Big Horn,' and wait there for the troops. If impossible to get that far we were to return to the point where the orders had been received. "We started early iu the morning, and about 2 o'clock in the afternoon reached the mouth of a river. As no one was familiar with the couutry there, we did not know whether it was the Littie Big Horn or not, so Capt Baker aud his nieu disembarked aud went up into the country three or four miles ou an exploring expedition. When they, returned Capt Baker an nounced tiiat it was not the Little Big Horn. We got under way and pro ceeded on up the stream the balauee of the day. Fa'ling to find another stream we turned about aud returned to the mouth of what we learned afterward was the Little Big Horn. Arriving there we expected to remain until the troops put in an appearance. It was along in the next morning some time that a number of us, river men and soldiers, were sitting ou the shore of the island fishing. The shares were low, marshy and covered wilh willow brush. "da Jdenly and without warning the willows parted and a fall-blood Indian warrior stood clearly defined against the green background. He was a mag nificent picture. Naked, with the ex ception of a breech cloth, he sat a-tride a sleek pony, his body perfectly erect aud beautiful iu it perfect proportions. His horse was unincumbered except by a tightly rolled blanket aud a rope bridle. The moment we saw him we jumped to our feet in alarm, but as he waved his carbine over his head we recognized in him Carley', an Indian scout who bad been with Custer. He beckoned to us very ex-.-itedly and we made haste to reach thi boat, wheu he dismounted and joiued us. Plainly something ailed the Indiau. He hung his head, groaned and grunted doleful ly. We tried to learn what ailed him. but without avail for some time. He sat on a medicine chest, rockiug him-s-ll to and fro, uutil Captain Baker got a piece of paper and a pencil, and, hauding them to Curly, indicated their use. We all gathered aroun-i tiie In dian. There were iu the group Cap tain Baker, Lieutenant Carlin, myself and George Faulk. Faulk was the en gineer of the Far West, and is now working as eugineer on the ferry-boat here in St L'xii.s. The naked Indian dropped down flat on the steamboat deck, got a firm grip on the pencil, and quickly drew a circle. Around the circle he drew another larger one, and then began making dots between the outer and inner circumferences, calling them 'Sioux! Sioux!" in a dismal, de spairing tone. When he had made a myriad of dots there he looked around the group who were watching him in tently and then began making dots in the inner circle, repeating sadly, 'Ooso-ri-kee! obso-ri kee? (Crow for soldiers). We hardly realized the significance of Curley's diagram uutil he took his fore finger, described a circle about his scalp lock, pulled at the tuft of hair vigorously aud then appeared to hang it at his belt and executed a war dance. Then it was we realized what Curley was trying to tell us. The diagram was meant to show that Custer's men, the dots in the inner circle, had been surrounded by the Sioux, the dots be tween the circles. The sigus with the scalp-lock and frequent sorrowful shak ings of the head and repetitions of Obso-ri-kee' told us that Custer's men had been scalp. "It was a long and tedious process to learn through the sign language furth er particulars. In course of time we kuew Curley was the only member of the commaud who escaped. There were eight Crow scouts with the troop, but the other seven were killed by the Sioux. The scalp lock of the Crows stood straight up from their heads like long pompadors. The Sioux scalp lock was long, like a woman's braids, and hung down on both sides of the warrior's bead. Knowing that he would le recoguized by the Sioux through his scalp lock, Curley threw a blanket over bis head when the car nage was at its height miugled with the Sioux, and was able to escape while the victims of the massacre were being scalped and otherwise mutilated. "We could hardly believe that so WHOLE NO. 2391. great a disaster had overcome Custer and his men, and tried to get Curley to return from whence be had come with a dispatch, it being Captain Baker's in tention to follow bitn with sn escort, but Cur'ey refused to leave the boat, re fa setl to eat, and began mourning for the dead in true Indian fashion, for he was much attached to some of the 'Obso-ri-kee,' as he called Custer's troop ers. However, we did not have long to wait for the confirmolion of Curley's account The next morning, just as day was breaking, we saw a horseman galloping toward the Ixiut from the north, while behind him was a pack of red devils yelling like fiends. The horseman was able to gain the boat, as the Indians gave up the chase as soon as they saw the steamer. The rider proved to 1 Muggins Taylor, one ol General Terry's scouts. Taylor wa. nearly exhausted from his hard ride, but when he recovered suflleietitly gave us the first news we received from a white man of the Custer massacre. He told us how Custer and his men had b-en defeated and exterminated; how Major Reno's command had been sur rounded by Iuiliaus for two days, and finally rescued by the infautry under General Gibbous. He theu told how the bloody field hail been visited, and the bodies of Custer's men found strip ped naked, and each bearing the Sioux death marks, a slit to the bone from hip to knee, and among them was the body of General Custer, his two broth ers and the New York Herald corres- ponueut, men from whom we had part ed but a few days before. "Muggins said after the battle Gen eral Terry had sent two scouts to the mouth of the Little Big Horn and two others to the old camp further down tiie river, but had failed to find the Far West As his orders had lain for us to remain at either one or the other of these places, h-; ca'ne to the conclusion that we had b?ea ctpi'tred by th In dians. The scouts must have reac'ted the mouth of the Little Big H r:i while we were journeying ou up the Big Horn after Captain Baker ma le the mUtake as to the m mth of the strea n. Taylor was carryiug disp itches from General Terry to Fort Ellis, aud when chased by the Indians found the boat by acci dent "That night two scouts came to the b at front General Terry. They had been scut out to follow the river and try to locate us. They returned to General Terry's camp at onceand re ported our location. At that time we had on board the supplies of both the cuvalry and iufchtry. The pack ani mals had all lieen shot to form a bar ricade, so our safety was a matter of considerable interest to the troops. "The following morning two more scouts came- to ths bat anl lirought or ders for us to prepare to carry the wounded down to Fort Lincola. Men were put to work at once cutting the tall grass which grew along the shore. fhe lower deck of the Far West was opeu from the boilers forward, and it was t.n its level surface we laid the gruss to a depth of eighteen inches. Around the eJ's we placed the medi cine chests. When our work was done l. Williams slid we had arranged the best field hospital he had ever seen. Just about dark we saw a strauge cav aleuJe approaching alon the river banks some miles away, but darkness shutout our view. I Sent out some of my men to meet what proved to lie the wounded men from Major R.-uo's com mand, with their escort The ground was si marshy an 1 uneven that they were unable to proceed further by night. I ordered my men out, and the built tires along the route from the boat to the cavalcade, a distauce of three miles. fue spectacle about midnight, when the boat was reached, was a most wier- ed one. Taere were fifty-two wound ed troopers being brought to the hut by their comrades of the Seventh. Each wouuded soldier lay iu au im provised ambulance. This was made by joiuing two tepee poles together with tent canvas, rigging a mule be tween the ends of the long projecting poles, then placing the wouuded nieu ou the end thus formed. Each of the wounded had an escort of four of his comrades. Reaching the boat the men were laid in rows ou the grass which covered the boat's lower deck, aud were given medical attentiou. Some limbs had to be amputated, and many of the por fellows suffered intense agony. Five of them died oa the way to Fort Lincoln and were buried along the shores tf the Yellowstone. The trip to Fort Lincoln was without incident We brought to the fort the first authentic uews of the massacre. Our wounded were taken from the boat and given medical care. "I remained at the fort until Colonel Smith and his troops came from St Paul and theu we started back with the Far West into the Indian country. Oa the way, at the R se Bud river, we found General Crook's c o:n nand with Baila'o Bill as chief of seouu. A fe d tys later General Miles came to the cauip there with the Fifth iufautry, from Fort Leavenworth. Crook aud Terry started back d)wn the river, but General Miles, with his men, remained to patrol the river aud prevent the In dians crossing to the southward. The Far Wtst Was held by General Miles and used as his headquarters for weeks, forming part of the river patr L I was thus given an opportunity of becoming well acquainted with both the general and Boffalo Bill. I got to be an ardent admirer of the great scout, and saw him go off on many expeditions from which it was thought he would never return. Geueral Miles told me one day, in au swer to a question, that Bill was the greatest scout aud the bravest man the west hail ever seen. I was in charge of the Far West with Geueral Miles until September !, wheu the water began to fall and I was forced to take the boat back to Yanktou. "It was some years after the events I have told you about that I was master of a boat which went up into the Big Horn, which I had first explored. We made our way tip close to the scene of the massacre; and on our deck was a plain marble shaft To-day that shaft stands on the spot where one of the bravest cavalry leaders our army has ever seen felL And it was about that spot that his equally courageous troop ers made their last stand before the furious Sioux warrior." All Around the Farm- From th Piiliad .-lphia Record. Hogs do not take kindly to some kin Is of coarse vegetables, especially roots, nnlest they are first cooked enough to soften them before being fed. They are very likely to ferui'Mit If put in the swill barrel, as Ls the practice of to maiy bouse wife. It U better to throw the pot at peelings away than to mix them with sour swill, which soon ferni ."ills into a compound that is often really poisonous, as there is more or lets poison In the potato, which we are saved fr m by cooking the tubers and by not eating their skins. In contact with soured milk, the potato peeling makes a compound that no decent ani mal should be expected to eat There are mtny farm operations w ier three horses can be profitably a ted. While the work of plowing, es p.'ially in spring Is comparatively liht, if grass land on stubbie has to be plowed in the fall for wheat three hors es will d i enough more work to make it dvL-a'!e to use them. If horse bah r is ch -a;w-r than hand Ia!r, as it surely is, the une of three horses instead of two increases the advantage. But the work of dragging, especially with the spring-tooth harrows, which tear up the soil, is better done with three hores than with two. Gravity creaming in the private dairy loses more fat than most farmers dream of. If ice is used at ouce after milking to ret luce the water round the cans to aliotit 4 ) degrees F. the fat will rise, leaving n it m ire than one-fifth of 1 per cent,; and if the water is at W de grees or above, 1 per cent, or more will be left in the skim milk. This 1 or m ire per cent is a third or a half of all th; fat in the milk. This suggests tbe putting up of ice by the private dairy man. The climate of Kansas provides for this and U a greater boon than many imagine. Proft ssor James Wil son. If one gets bis fodder corn in the ground at the right time he should not sow a quick maturing variety. Better results will be got from one of the slow, big varieties a variety that makes a large growth of stalk and foliage. It must be borne in mind that the prol la bility of ears being caught by fronts cuts practically no figure in growing fodder corn to reinforce p-astures. We want green feed, not only in late July, but also in late September. But odc should not put oft sowing the fodder corn until all other seeding Ls done. Good results are not obtaiuig from feed ing the corn when quite young anil lushy. riiotisands of dollars are every year a-ted by neglect of projicr care for trees that have been transplanted. Tiie most common cause of this is in the i lea that plenty of water applied to the roots can be ma le a substitute for frequent cultivation. Newly-transplanted trees really need little water on the soil. The roots of newly planted trees cannot at once begia to supply plant fl fro:a the soil. Tuey need time and irontact with moist soil, but not too wet, before , new rootlets can put forth. To keep the il sodden with water while the roots are in this semi-dormant conditiou is to rot them. Less water with thorough surface cul tivation, to keep the surface soil loose aud prevent rapid evaporation, is what is needed. If water is applied it should e in m tdera'te am Hints, and often by graying so as to keep the buds from withering uutil the roots can supply them with moister. American Culti vates Experiments with cottonseed meal have proved that it is rich in abuni uoids, and in the nitrogenious and non-nitrogenous nutrients, thereby meeting all the requirements in help in to pro luce the component parts o," milk and butter, and at the same time it re?upp!ies the waste of the body in a greater degree than any other food. The feeding of meal should be with liscretion, especially in feeding to highly-bred cattle, as cottonseed meal is too rich to feed aloue; it should lie mixed with bran, eorumeal or other ;rain. It is very important that all coarse and fine feed should be well mixed before feeding; then the animal chews both the coarse and fine to gether and properly mixes the food and saliva, and it passes into the stom ach in a porous and easilv-diiiested form. When cows are on grass two pints of meal per diem are sufficient. and when pasture becomes pxr double the quantity. It is one of the inalienable rights of every farmer's wife to have a good vegetable and small fruit garden. Without it it is impossible to make the farm table as attractive as it should he, and every honse-keeper who takes pride in her home, loves to set a liber ally-supplied and attractive Table. In fact, hoaa.s where the table is not at tractive are soldom attractive or home like in other ways. With a good gar den, a skillful housewife can set a good table with a very small outlay for such articles as cost the farmer cash. Nobody on earth can live so well, so independently and with lessexp diture of cash than the farmer who has a good garden and a g-xl wife. Many old orchards are not only dis figured, but their productiveness is al most destroyed by sap sprouts. These when they appear on the trunk are us ually the result of injuries t the trunk by teams or implements used in culti vating. Wherever the bark is cut or bruised on tha tree the injury obstructs the free passage of sap, and buds start at such pints which having a much greater supply of sap than they require grow sappy aud do not mature as they should. Sometimes the injury is be low the surface in the root Sprouts that start here grow so rank that if the winter following is very cold they will be killed. If the first winter Ls mild the sap sprouts live and soon grow into trees. Sap spr.Hits are formed in the top of the trees where extra se7ere pruuing is adopted. To prevent this many orcha lists will only prune after the tree begins to put forth leaves. Ta's checks growth, but it is less an in jury than allowing Innumerable sprouts to grow. ' If taken just as the sprouts put forth the thumb and finger will easily pinch them out This is really the best, as it b the easiest way to prune. But it requires closer atten tion than most orchadists can give. A fresh supply of potting soil will be wanted for next autumn's use, and for this purpose save all trimmings of grass edges, and with the addition of a little fresh loam taken from a pa.ture, if pos sible, make up the deired quantity. Her Secret "Yes sir, I know one woman who can keep a secret" "My wife and I have been married for teu years now, and she has never yet couseuted to tell me how Ls Is that she is always In need of money." Cleveland Leader. If you would know what it means to be rich, find out that It Is blessed to giTt. -
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