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Prices range $8.95, $10.95, $12.50, $14.95, $18.50 DRESSES $10.00 One rack 42 Dresses in Taffeta, Satins, Crepe and Serge, some sold high as $25.00, to close out quickly Friday and Saturday $10.00 APRONS 85c * Bungalow Aprons in Percales and Ginghams. In all colors, plaids arid stripes. Special Friday and Saturday. 85c CORSETS $1.18 One counter Corsets, some sold high as $3.00, to close out the lot Friday $1.18 WAISTS Our collection of Waists is the most complete we have ever shown. Crepe de Chine, Pongee, Flaxon, and Voiles. Save the difference. Buy your waists here. 85c, $1.98, $3.98, to $7.95 I F HRID'. . Sells for Less!. SUMTER, S. C. emmmm// An Indian Chief's Versioi Flying Hawk, a Survivor From His Standpoint; a Valuable Origir Future H By M. J. M The writer of this article formed friendships with Flying Hawk, Iron Tail and other chiefs and he was adpt ed' into the tribe and made a chief, with the title Tchanta-Tanka, which may be translated "Great Heart." The historic Battle of the Little Big Horn was a frequent subject of conversa tion with Flying Hawk, and on one occasion the old chief was induced to make a statement' on the subject, which Mr. McCreight took down. Here is the statement, only the solecisms of the Indian's broken English hav ing been omitted. Of the hundreds of fights that marked the era of warfare between the whites and the aborigines in the course of our "Winning of the West," that which stands out most distinctly in the memory of men still living and in the more or less veracious chroni cles that form the basis of thousands of tales of wild adventure is the Bat tle of the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. Particular pathos was given to this event (described by the whites as a "massacre" and by the Indians as a "battle") by the death of one of the most dashing and romantic of cavalry leaders, General George A. Custer, himself the hero of a hundred fights and idolized by the army and the frontiersmen of his time for his picturesque and charming personality, his valor and his soldierly qualities. In the galaxy that included General Nelson A. Miles, Phil Sheridan, Buf falo Bill and Pawnee Bill, Custer was a bright and shining star. In connection with the celebration of the forty-fifth anniversary of the battle last June, when a monument in honor of General Custer was un veiled on its site, several narratives of surviving witnesses of the fight have appeared in the magazines and newspapers. It is hardly strange in view of the fact that Custer and all his men-all the actual participant: on the side of the American troops were killed, that these narrative! should be in many instances cloudy and conflicting. The writers saw the action from a safe distance and ir the confusion and excitement of th< occasion, it is scarcely to be oxpectet that they could have noted the inci dents of the battle with any degre of accuracy, to say nothing of the al lowance to be made for the faults o memory in the lapse of 45 years Most of these accounts, indeed, ar made up from observation of circum stantial evidence after the battle wa over. All of them are written b, white men. Moreover, the fact tha Indian fighting was not carried of with the nice regard for system, de sign and carefully plotted plan taught at West Point and practice< by the Civil War veterans of tha day, makes it unreasonable to assum that these reports could possibly b, in agreement or entitled to any hig] degree of authenticity. For the first time, the actual stor; of the Battle of the Little Big Hor is now given to the public from th standpoint of the Indian. In regar to this particular fight as in regard t the major events of the century-lon strife on the American frontier, Am erican history is practically silent a to the Indian's side of the story Some (lay the whole sanguinary tal will be told impdtrtially. And who it is told, the rep~utation of the Indlia will perhaps emerge, if not untarnish ed, at least a bit less black thani has b<:en painted. It is the old stor of the difference it makes whose o)xi gored. Just now we are learnin. howv much it matters whether th~ story of a war is told by -victor vanquished in regard to the greates of all wars, a war that involved muc of the wvorld. PA Soul Plan to lof Custo's last flght >f "Massacre," Tells Story . Statement Considered al Document for istorians. cCREIGCT Custer, commanding the Seventh Cavalry, divided his forces to the forth and south of the junction of the Big Horn with the Little Big Horn, and with five companies, containing 208 men, dashed at the center of the Sioux position, whose strength he had underestimated. He was pushed back, completely surrounded, and his com mand killed to a man. When .two' days later Captains Gibbon and Terry came upon the bloody scene and wired their report to Washington it is little wonder that the country was thrilled with the horror of the story. It is to be noted that in the accept ed historical records, the killing of Custer and his troops looms large even to this day while comparativelyl no mention is made of our violation of the Black Hills Treaty which led up to the Indian insurrection of which the Custer massacre was an in cident. One must search carefully to find mention of the fact that Custer and his command killed more than 100 Indians in an engagement at Washita that preceded the Little Big Horn fight. Possibly this Washita in cident is regarded by the Indians much as we have all along regarded the later' fight-as a "butchery" and a "massacre." For the sake of the sharp light of contrast, let me cite briefly the ac cepted historical version of the san guinary struggle in which Custer was killed before coming to the version related to me by an Indian partici pant still surviving among the nations wards on the Sioux reservation in North Dakota. The Indian outbreak followed for the violated treaty that robbed them of their lands. In the Big Horn at tack, Custer's plan was to converge upon the hostiles in three columns, Gibbon from the west, Crook from the south and Terry from the east. Terry's division included the famous Seventh Cavalry under Custer, 600 strong. In advancing from the south, Cook was hindered by repeated at tacks and delpyed; Terry moved up the Yellowstone as far as the Rose bud, where he made a fortified camp. Custer moved around to the south I and up the Rosebud to drive the In -dians clown the Big Horn into fire of the larger force that was to march up stream; he sent Reto with seven companies across the Big Horn to descend it and attack from the west. Before he could do this, he was him - self attacked and held on the defen sive for 24 hours. Custer, with the re / maining five companies, came upon t the Sioux camp and without hesita I tion charged the Indians. The par - ticulars of the fight can never be t clearly known, for every white man I engaged was killed. It was all over t in 20 minutes. Curley, Custer's scout wrapped himself in a Sioux blanket e and alone escape. Our history continues: "Gibbon and Terry, ascending the Big Horn, f came upon the bodies of Custer and i his companions two (lays after the e massacre. Custer had been shot in :1 the left temple, and his was the only body that was not mutilated." It was found that the Seventh Cavalry - lost 261 killed and 52 wounded. Terry s having lost 53 killed, escaping the .fate of Custer's force by retreat to e the wvest bank. a Recently there appeaired the story n. of a survivor who says: "I was in - the thick of the fight on the Little t Big Horn from start to finish, saw~ y the first man fall by my side and s lived through the two (lays' battle to g help bury General Custer andl his e gallant men." Continuing, he de r scribes the finding of the bodies. t "The bodies of Custer and the mien h trapped with hinm were in an indis criminate heap. The Indlians had LMA ith Carolina's I IJMBIA L 1T* 22 come and SANII Shaving Next Door to WHITE B SANITARY We Ask Your Patrona stripped every private in the ranks, 3very officer save one, Custer. They lad scalped every man except the eneral. Custer's body had been ifted from the heap and laid to one aide, a handkerchief spread over his face. A knife had been inserted deft ly under the lower rib and the heart extracted. We found it set upon Custer's breast, a silent testimonial of the completed vengeance of the Sioux chief. Some time after the bat tIe, when I talked to Rain-in-the Face, he told me he had vowed to General Custer that he would some day cut out his heart, and that he left it on the battle field as his boast that he had carried out his threat." Properly to understand this inci dent of the heart-cutting, we shall revert again to history and quote an other line or two: "Chief Gall was leader in the mascare. Rain-in-the Face was the Sioux chief who killed Dr. Hulzinger and Mr. Balliran in 1873 on the Rosebud. These men had fallen behind Custer and his com mand, and were found (lead with no traces of their slayers. Some months later, Rain-in-the-Face told of the killing, in the hearing of Reynolds, one of Custer's scouts, who reported it to the general who arrested Rain in-the-Face and locked him in the guardhouse, but he escaped." It was this arrest that inflamed Rain-in-the Face and his friends, among whom the nearest and best loved is none other than the author of the statement hereinafter quoted-Chief Flying Hawk, who was with him throughout these campaigns, was present in the 187:3 incident and during his arrest and confinement, and took a promin ent part in the massacre under Rain in-the-Face's leadership. But here again it is necessary to call up some history and try to understand the In dian's viewpoint and the cause and manner of the arrest. The Sioux and Cheyenne count. included the Black Hills, where gold was discovered in 1874, it was on their "reservation"; they had been driven out into this bleak and supposedly valueless land, just as they always had been, and herded together like so many wild animals, and, like animals, were supposedly fed and clothed by the government in this "reservation set apart and sacredly proclaimed by solemn treaty to be theirs forever. It was under these conditions and while facing starvation, that Rain in-the-Face wandered from the re servation to hunt along with others, This, wit the blame for killing Hulz inger and Balliran, furnished an ex cuse for his arrest and inhum'in con finement. It was then that he made the threat that some day he would cut out the heart of General Custer, It is believed that failing to "con vict" th.e chief in a court-martial pro ceedittg, the general issued orders tc his jailers to remain off duty whik Rain-in-the-Face "escaped" from the guardhouse. He had not "murdered' Hulzinger and Balliran, for it wa; in "war" that they met their death So the Indian had a "grudge" that from his viewpoint, was entirely nat. ural andi fully justified. It wvas witi this feeling of great personal injur3 and humiliation that he wvent into th< Custer fight on that beautiful Jun< (lay in 187b, and if wve arec to believ< the statement of the white sui-vivoi quoted, he made good his thr-eat al last. But we arc yet to hear from th< old chief wvho knows most about it the man wvho wvas the best friend o Rain-in-the-Face and who was wvitl him in the fight and sawv just wvha occurredl there. -It is the story of th< lig Festival M See the beauty Quee the State and the Queen after the old English cust< display of Merrie Englan street p~aradle with Coun floats; The Baby parade; display witnessed last yer Showv; Industrial Exhibith the daily band concerts. tures and be on hand fo Star Night. Palmafesta Madri Grass. Don't miss bring all t 'ARY Parlors Home Bank ARBERS! SERVICE ge. victor and is told in the same manner and with the same indifference that the white man tells, in our history, of the fight at Washita. Flying hawk was born in the Black Hills; it was his home that he whites had invaded; it was his gold they took in violation of law and sacred treaty; it was his buffaloes they slaughtered for amuse ment, so causing him to go hungry and cold. It was from him and his friends and relatives that they with held food and blankets and money that was due them under their treaty, and grudgingly gave them "bones" and "rags" and "10 per cent" instead. It was his friend they had humiliat ed by arrest and imprisonment un justly. All this was followed by a further series of abuses until there was a general uprising of all the Da kota and neighboring tribes in retalia tion. Because they had begun to show this spirit of retaliation and had left the reservations, American troops were ordered to drive them back into the bondage they had de liberately, and as they considered, rightfully, abandoned. It was in this "rounding up" opera tion that Custer met his fate. Justly CITATION NOTICE The State of South Carolina, County of Clarendon. By J. M. Windham, Probate Judge: Whereas, Hattie Levy made suit to me to grant her Letters of Adminis tration of the Estate and effects of Edmond Levy. These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all and singular the Kindred and Creditors of the said Edmond Levy deceased, that they be and ap pear before me, in the Court of Pro bate, to be held at Manning on the 17th (lay of April next, after publica tion hereof, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, to show cause, if any they have, why the said Administration should not be granted. Given under my hand this 23rd (lay of April Anno, Domini, 1922. J. M. Windham, c. Judge of Probate. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALI - Pursuant to an order of J. M. Wind ham, J.udge of Probate, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, at the residence of the late L. R. Tindal, near Summerton, S. C.. on Friday the 14th (lay of April, 1922 at 11 o'clock A. M. the following per sonal property, to wit: 3,000 pounds of cotton seed, 10 bushels of peas, about 1200 bushels corn, about 5 tons of hay, oats and fodder, 40 bushels of sweet potatoes, 15 hogs, 38 pigs, 4 milk cows, I calf, 3 yearlings, 1 horse, 6 mules, 1 Ford son Tractor, Plow and Harrow, 2 two-horse wagons, I one-horse wag on, 1 buggy, 1 grain drill, 5' Dixie Plows, 5 plow stocks, 1 three-horse Moline Plow, I two-horse Moline Plow, 1 saddle and bridle, I harrow, 1 mowing machine, I rake, 4 V shape HaInrrowvs, Corn andl Cotton plantres, 3 Fertilizer Distributors, 1 lot of mis cellaneous tools, 10 tons of coal, 1 piano, 1 org.an, 1 lot of household and kitchen furniture, 27(0 volumes of hooks, 9 large rugs, 20 small r ugs, 1 lot of personal effects, I pistol, 1 gun and 1 Ford Coupe, and any other ar ticle of persoinal pro)perty. Jlulia C. Tlindal, c. Administrator. Summerton, S. 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