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SITTING BULL RECALLED j Sergeant Who Prevented His Escape \ is Teaching Mail Clerks to Shoot. GREAT STORY OF FRONTIER TROOPS I .* . * I b-*r | ' Was Best Shot in His Regiment but M He Mitced Bad Injun Six Times? Happened Just After Massacre of | ' Custer. By William Dibble. "Next."' Thti kortsorial jcall. shouted In the bilscmerit of the 9th Regiment Armory f.'by. "Sergtj Coriie; 23d Ehglneerh. moused a fat mail clerk with gin-sRes. who-Stepped to the pistol rrnge. He ? was a* timid man, this clerk who was being taught to kill Iwndlts, and his *r mp* pudgy fingers trembled about the gun. He fired. He fired again and again, Then the marker stepped forward and ' examined the target. . "Six 11113808!' The clerk grew pale and rubbed his " hands in agitation. * a "Now," caid Sergt. Corri , compassionately and gently, "you vc got to do better man mm. niercs u wmw . out that If you can't shoot h. April"? , "I know," said the clerk. , "Well, take six more, and see if you can do better." ri1-,So it goes, day after day. "The pistols apout llama the crashes Of the 1 * guna make loud fno ranges, and mail j clerks pass or don't pass ; nd shoot ft aKa5n. first slow lire, six shots at twenty feet, then rapid fire, three " shots in a minute's time. And day after day Scrprt. Oorrie, crack shot, winner of a dozen prizes, cajoles, pets, advises young men and old. ex-army ... men with half a dozen children, men jRrho have lived in mail offices all their lives and shftdder at the feel of the pistol, bravos who know they can shoot and then nearly biow their feet . "woff, idubs who look down the barrel, to put these chunks of lead somewhere near the hull's-eyc. f. It is a risky job, this .teaching, but * Pefgt. Corric is a man without nerve*, and he has a kindness that no amount of stupidity can spoil. '"Tell me, sergeant." I said one afternoon, when there were only a few candidates for heaven left, .11 me something about yourself." The ser' geant is a modest man, oh, a very modest man. timid, you might say, a respect for officers that be- | trays long service in the Regular Army. I urged him to synk about a match in which Gen. P^mhing and himself had congested. But Sergt. _ .Corrie appeared abashed. He shuffled ? his fftet removed his glasses and wiped "It^. would be fresh," he murmured. ^ "to omiplc my name with a general ofricVvirJlift'Vttitfci And he would not speak more about that match. So then I asked him to |e ' iell me about his prises ar.d about his I services in the woolly West, those s days when the Indians galloped tn.e I fF plains and picked off United States troopers in facile manner. $ He' hemmed a little, pushed back p., ,^is white hair from his ruddy, smooth forehead, considered. Th-'n he began: "I enlisted in the 17th Infantry in 1879. Well, in September, 1881, I was V at Fort Yates, S. I). That was a little time after the Custer massacre, "^ lind Sitting Hull and about three hundred of his men were at the fort waiting to be taken to Fort Randall by a party under command of C'apt. Howe. The day came for Sitting Hull to be carried away, in a wood burning boat, tfp the river. "Now, there were about ten thous? and Sioux Indians on the other side j of the river. They had heard of SitViili* :'Iflh'g Hull's removal, and they were -hanging around in the distance, hoplaA r>. ing that maybe he would get away to them. "The boat came in sight and Sitting CD,,1) nn/1 Kio mnn 1i.ai.fi mil niwl i placed under guard close to the river \ liank. I was there, right near him. j Well, sir, the boat gave a toot and let let off a cloud of white smoke. That V must have sounded bad to Sitting "Bull. I guess he realized that his Inst | chancy had come. So what did he do? Vp goes his arm with the handcuffs V k 1 TEN OX POWER SPEEE 4 ?' -* * y.+ * *? JksSH One of the most picturesque ? recent '.'Days of 'W celebration ;at 1 timers jdtnltted; that the- ISfSl njot 4 tained that when-it came to travel! Above, Miss Edith Sperry of Springfield, Mass, one of the three chosen to go abroad on a mission for the American Committee for Devastated France. Above, at right, Miss EHsabeth, Rooney of Schnectady, another member of the Good Will delegation. Miss Marion See of Newark, the third member of the party, is at tho right. The party will sail on - July 22. on it and ^knocks the sentry's gun " - 1 -AT ?..... uu_ ! rrom nts snomaer, anu un. 6? ???--.| "ting Bull, running for a spot further down the river where his friends might make a stab at getting him away. Off he goes, hell for leather, through the officers' tents, and nobody dared to shoot him. But I wus right behind all the way, ahout fifty yards back, and running to beat the band. On and on wc go. I guess I never ran so fast before or after, and I began to gain on him. ""Stop, Bull!' ,1 yelled. I couldn't yell 'Sitting Bull,' it took too much bgeath. Stop Bull,' and I pulled my pistol out and took a crack at him. Missed. Bang?I fired again, misSed again, nndMhcn I gave him the whole works, four , shots, and missed him clean. ftut I was coming -close to j him, and now 1 "put everything into 1 my legs and gained ten yards on him.-1 Tins* tft Him and eould-have-al-* most hit hini with the em'pty gun. Then I gained a?little, gave a devil of a jump and landed on ^his neck Down he went and I began to load my gun. I would have finished him off right there if the interpreter hadn't come up just at the wrong minute,and stopped me." "Hut why did yon want to kill him?" "I dunno," said Sergt.. Corrie~ Innocently, "I guess I was angry. Hut wouldn't that heat the Dutch how I missed him six times, and me the best shot in the**regiment!" "Oh, you were a crack as early as that ?" "Sure," said the sergeant, grinning, "I could shoot ever since I was a tiny lad, and I'll be darned if I know where.' I learned how. County Monaghan, Ireland, is where I was born. I never missed a bird there. t "The best shots out of the bunch j that come in here," Corric went on j "arp the men fr.om the railway mail. A lot of them are service men. Hut ! some of them"? He abruptly ceased his mournful headshnke and rose. "Hey," he called, "quit pointing that | sun around like that." The rookie ! turned with the sun in his hand, its j snoot directed at us. I shuddered a*id j calculated quickly my chances of par- ) adise. Scrpt. Corrie moved toward j the offender. "Don't you know you shouldn't do that?" he said quietly, lay ins his hand on the pistol and pointing it down the range. "Never point a gun at a ' > wagon op : M -.l:...: c >':V' i': ,3ft.. ...:.;;.';..... i sights in the revival of the scenes of . Sacramento, Oal* was this ten ox teai 1$1 jtru-.lf (lid not ftave u? much speed r ing'un<'tr adverse conditions the old ox t - ? - - ^ JU/. L DELEGATES^ TO TOU K ' 11111111] man whether it's loaded or not." Then ho tifrnod, smiling, to me. "You see?" TEXAS POLITICS Ex-Governor Ferguson and Wife Both crinmnrpiliA Nomination. Both Ex-Oov. James E. Ferguson | and his wife, Marlon, have entered the race for the Democratic nomination for the U. S. senator, says an Austin, Texas, dispatch. Ferguson several years ago was impeached while, governor and he then formed the American party in Texas, which he supported in Iho last general election. A state law provides that a Democratic candidate must certify that he supported the Democratic party's candidates in the last election, which Ferguson cannot do/ But while/he may be barred his wife won't, for she voted the Democratic ticket. Another provision of the law says that if a twfintv-fivo citizens to i petition to have his name placed on ! the ballot the state committee may place him in the field. Hut Ferguson is taking: no chances. He is afraid flint he will be barred anyway, and if he is he will stump for his wife. If he does pet on the ballot then his wife will withdraw and stump for her husband. During: her husband's term as pqxTfnor Airs. Ferguson assisted liiiu. She is regarded as a capable womar. Just "Playing Safe." "I am not running against jny wife for the nomination." Ferguson explained. "I nm simply moving to protect my rights, ft is true that I did not support the Democratic nominees ttvo years ago. There is another provision in the same law, however, which provides that twenty-five qualified voters may' ask the state committee to put a man's name 'on the ballot. In that event the candidate only must ihdorsn across the application that he will qualify for the office if elected. This was done in my case, in strict compliance with the law, and j the committee will have no legal ground for keeping my name off the ballot. "The fact thm it has no legal :aufgrnia revival. pp ^ ' ^ *1 former years, which featured the in and old prairie schooner. Old is the l/?22 model, hut tney muiueani was at the hoJd of the Hit. R FRANCE. ^ KEYSTONE PHOTOS 2 ground, liowever, dors not necessarily mean that It woyld not keep hie bit. It haB the arbitrary ppwer. I feel that my name will be placed on the ballot, but I am taking no chances. I have no gnoney to fight' an action through the coifrls compelling them to olnco mv nnme on. should thev re (use. It is for that reason that m? wife has filed. There can not be a shadpy of excuse for refusing her a plare on (he ticket. Two years ago she supported the nominees of the Democratic party* > ' Wins if He Loses. "If it should develop,/ which I do not expect, that tlm committee arbitrarily bars my naipe.' T will continue ^ on the stump for my wife, explaining to the people of Texas that I wilt be her private secretary if she is elected, with full privileges of the floor of. the senate. " v Forty thousand signatures = to the wine and b?er petitions have already been received by his office, Ferguson said. Abolition of the whole- Federal Reserve banklng'gystem and 'restoration to the government -of the privilege and duty of issuing sufficient amounts of money to carry on the commerce of the country in advocated as part of his platform. "I saw a man in ^a.| iaotol recently pay $3 for a meal,". ?wgnson said. "They? are families of Uvt. by the thousand, in Texas who live on $3 a week; and the Federul Besterve System, by contraction of the currency, is mainly responsible for this'awful condition." " o SCHOOL FOR BRIDES Welfare Worker Says There is Greal N?ed for One. Everybody has heard about the poor husband, who, after a hard dfty in shop or office, pomes hopie to dinner prepared^ by the extensively advertised thousand cooks Of certain well known cantfers in collaboration with the delicafe&hen man on the corner i Rt ? And, in pnssing, nearly everybody has pitied the poor husband and censured his lazy, presumably, i^iovie mad or gaddy gossip wife, writes Mary Margaret McBride in the. New York mail. Nearly, I say, bui,'not everybody, for here's Mrs. Willard D. Straight, sooicty woman. welfare worker, perfect mother, and, accord- j ing to those who kno\? exemplary j housewife, rising to put 'n a defen- | sive word for the wife. "Perhaps it's not her fault," Mrs. i Straight suggests. "Perhaps she's ! never had either time or place to ' learn the business of bfefng a wife ! and a housekeeper. In spite of the haughty censpsj w'ho, never having heen one, classify a housewife as "having no occupation," there's considerable of a job- connected with the title. Girls Not Used To Housework. "And the working rAdn's wife, es pcclally if she happens to be an exworker herself, jg facM by more of a problem than the casual bystander imagines. Before marriage she lives in a crowded flat where the housework is usually done by mother. The PROFESSIONAL CARDS | Dr. C. L. WOOTEN ? DENTIST ? OFFICE OVER THE POSTOFFICE Telephones: Office, 128; Residence, 53 CLOVER, - - S. C. 71 t. f. r.m J. S. BRICE Attorney At Law. Prompt Attention to all Legai Business of Whatever Nature. Office on Main Street in the Moore Building, First Floor, formerly occupied by 8. E. Spencer. J. A. Marion W. G. Finley MARION AND FINLEY ATTORNEYS AT LAW nAitrf^mtan v^im c UJ^JW.IIIU me wu> iuvuac, Phone 126. YORK.S. C. YORK FURNITURE CO. Undertakers ? Embalmers YORK, - 8. c. In All Its Branches?Motor Equipment Prompt Service Day or Night In Town or Country. JOHN R. HART ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. . Prompt end Careful Attention to Alj Business Undertaken. Telephone No. 69. YORK. 8. C. 76 f.t II ' \ girl is too tired to help out in the evening even if mother didn't usually regard her as more of a nuisance than a help. "During the day she toils over a machine, usually doing one tusk over and over, day after day, until she be- \ comes accustomed the routine and loses her adaptability. r "She is used to crowds, hurried", unhygenie meals and excitement. After I working hours, disl'king the clutter at 1 home, she goes to bnd or a movie or % dance. Totally without responsibility Except in the narrow groove of her factory job, she lends an abnormal life (in which excitement and monotony al-. ternate.'* ' ' '? Mrs. Straight paused and seepied to contemplate with pitying eyes the picture she had drawn. Tl^en she hasteneil on, as if to have the worst over. Then." nhe continued, "the girl ' TAKE NOTICE The Sanitary Market Has moved from Congress Street to Madison Street And wo-arc now ready to promptly fill all orders, ^fust continue to Call No. 6 t*? ?n } uur wants 111 an kinds of meats. SANITARY MARKET LEWIS Q. FERGUSON, Mgr. See, Phone or Write to THOS. C. O'FARRELL FOR High Grade Monuments In Marble and Granite Plant on Eaat Liberty Street, Adjoin* infl Rote Hill Camatary. miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiy. ICATHOUC BOOKS ! ? - i I SENT FREE ON APPLICATION, 5 get your information r = = first hand. I r = 5 ' E s questions answered by = 5 mail. I i = write to Hi ~ | REV. W. A. TOBIN E Saint Anne't Church S ROCK HILL, S. C. iTiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihT . I H WHA1 |' ^ 1 ( SIRpf i I i \ g g g; m.;g;p? I : / \ ;j& r-^;.'- ^j; ii^T B^r : villi i I V j i I Is J ?<JC^ -.1 ) ?>i ? J ?J stops working and marries. Unless < she is very lucky, her drama immediately takes on a tragic tone and the end will be that of all tragedies. "She begins work of the hardest, j yet of a kind utterly unfamiliar to her. She misses the people who constantly surrounded her in her old environ- i ment. Hen husband gets home tired ! and not as given to suggesting. 'Lets go dance awhile' as be was before ' marriage. Babies Make Life More Nf^ging. "When the babies come there are new Jobs to learn and sometimes the wife grows peevish, slatternly, nagging. She has ^ever learned to cook ! I AWN I n 11 t | IF IT IS AWNINGS J Wo can fix you up. They* X the hot sunshine and bo ri I ICE CREAM FREE! ? Ice Saws, Icc Ilooks, Ice ' i Glasses. Come and let us X mer's necessities. i & Ask'td sec the "Hot o | picnics and other outings a ? n i 11. r*n?% i < ttt ?i hi $ uau at tne xiiiu "w oi X Wants. We can sup; x v ? | YORK HARE JvwvwywvwwywyvtwyiAAAAMVw 4 " VTT? r ? UNDERWOOD S9 We have made arran | writer Emporium, (Shipi ? Chicago, for the sale of t j; Typewriters in this teT | Ward Mfg. Co., specializ | wood machines, devoting X cago to this work alone. % years they have rebuilt ar 2 sajids of Underwood Ty ? which is sold under an iro X every way equal to NEW X antee. Etei'y machine Z - machine, in either No. 4 c % 4 carries 76 characters ai * acters. Both have 10 incl a * ' ' We will sell Vou either ? * ^ ;; stallments as you prefer, j; for $77.50 and the No. 5 ;; press charges. The inii ; j ments is $3.00 cash, and $ f, If you prefer to pay ci $ is 10 per cent less than X plus the express charges. t f The Shipman-Ward N ? sponsible references as ? buyer on installments. ? We will be pleased to $ formation you might desi L. M. GRIST'S SC X ? ERE IT K EVER YOU YV IF you're looking v. you have someth III wAciilfo cn^olir onr I i^ouuo out vijr unv WANT ADS. [ \ THERE ARE mr I waiting to make ai j and many of them X whom you want to { ) TJIE WANT ADS I itable fairy god-mot M time or other, so a1 / Opportunity. \ The Yot ' k i *. ; 1 / .? v >? well and the canner and delicatessen man inevitably are her best friends." " It is characteristic of Mrs. Straight that-she doesn't stop with stating a proljlctrr. Utiles she has a Solution to offer prefers to go silently on 1n^ sti^aHng. -riiis time she believes the solution is at hand, and that is why she ifi-'tt leader In the effort society women; are making to help the Women's Trade Union league to get a building tliat working girls and women ran use as th^lr more fortunate sisters do the exclusive cllibs uptown. * %-<? it9 John D. Rockefeller never sold a luprlcatit, equal to ''courtds^." ING$ I . ! , f a a YQU WANT call 011 Us. | are going good. Cutout f lore, comfortable. X ZEES, ICE PICKS ;; Tea Glasses and Sherbet ;; i show yoi; some of sum- |; > ?.i' Cold" Gallon Cans for 11 ?i ?? >0re for Your Hardware " * ply them. . " >WARE CO. TVPFWRITFRR I A 11 LIT! 1%I A ArfAW * I j J 1 ' <? genrents with the Type- <? nan-Ward Mfg. Co.)J of <? heir Rebuilt Underwood ? j ritory. Thh Shipman- ?? es on rebuilding Under- ;; a large building iti Chi- i; During the past dozen ;; id sojd hundreds of thou- ;; pewriters, eyefy one of \; n-elad guarantee to'be in , with a Sjvl-Year Guar- ;; offered is an up-to-date ;; >r No. 5 Models?th? No. ; \ id th, f No! 5 has 84*char- ! I i ed triages. < * . %v?a>1 a1 Pncih ah nn iti- Z IJ1UUC1 1U1 VilOii ui uu in ? , The Model No. 4 sells | for $83.50?plus the ex- | tial payment on install- | 5.00 per month. | isli on delivery, the price ;; the installment prices-^ !\ '' 4* 4 1 < > [fg. Co., requires two re- <j to responsibility of the <; ' *? !! v give you any further in- <; re. See or address-r)NS, YORK, S. C. | ?? V I y. rANT! f for a "job," or if J ing to sell?to get I quickly, use the ? V' ' ' | . \TDREI)S of people just I i exchange of some sort, J . l are just the ones with ? ?et in touch. { HAVE PROVEN a ver- f ' - - 1 ? A- l'rt I n/\rv? A if aer to inosi iu?iv? <*i r vail yourself of the same f kville Enquirer j