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A CROW VICTORY, "if. Story of India ttlo Told in Oid Letter. si XV re Thcro hns recently come Into our 30 bands a letter which possesses so much Interest as a reminder of old n' times in the West that It seema worth " *" ar re-printing for present day readers, less perhaps for those resident in me ca East than for those who live in the prosperous and growing State of Mon- 0 tana. ? The letter was written to his young- C{ er brothers Just out of college back in the East by a young man who was accompanying an exploring expedition as naturalist. While lacking in details it yet paints a picture of incl- w? dents that in those days happened in * the West not very uncommonly. The Charley Reynolds spoken of in the ar letter is that celebrated scout and gentleman ? sometimes known as Lonesome Charley ? who for some years was chief of scouts at Fort Lincoin. Neb., and who less than a year after the date of this letter was killed by the Sioux and Cheyennes on the hanks of the Little Big Horn River wnen uuster's command was wiped rpj, cut of existence and Reno's suffered , so severely. At the time this letter was written a^ Camp Baker and Fort Lewis were th military posts, each garrisoned by a ga single company of soldiers. They are . now the one a flourishing town on Big Trout Creek, a fork of the Judith w. River, and the other a military reser- wj vatlon about forty miles east of Hel- ^ ana, Mont. j_0 The letter, dated at Camp Baker ^ August 1, 1875, reads as follows: "While you have been slaying the . woodcock right and left and now while you are loading cartridges for the rail 1 have not been idle. 1 have x had my first regular grouse shooting. ^ The young sharp-tailed grouse are ^ about as large as banties, the young sage grouse as large ?3 common hens and the young blue or dusky grouse about tho size of partridges. All of I them are delicious easing, and I have j done what I could to keep the camp I sunnlipft with ttion, t ....... .....in. ? aujiijjse- mat ^ In all I have killed between seventylive and 100 of them, and of these not , six have been shot cn the ground. Of course I have missed a gnvt deal, but ^ on the whole with a properly loaded gun I think I can stop them three times out of five. 1 have not taken 1 many birds as yet owing to lack of j time. I have, however, managed to;(1, take two specimens of the rare Xeo- ; j ?orys spragubii and two or three or j Aeglalifis asirlicu3 var, racntanus,! ^ Coues. Almost all ray grouse have ' been killed with cartridges loaded for to small birds, r.n:l I can assure you it seems somewhat absurd to see a full grown sage grouse at twenty-five j ' yards fall to a hr.if ounce of dust. I ' [" killed my first clu3ky a week or so , "4l ago. Have or.iy get three or four. S x "The day before v:o go; to Camp ;n Lewis a small party c! Piou:; cam? to j 2,. that post in the cv.nirg before sunset, -..V tr.o-1 ? ?- 1 ?.? VI ivy t U.I ?- II UiJ 11 'J?' il. i\OW ^; it so happoncJ that there were se campsd near Lewis about 250 lodges no of the Mcuniain Crows, a tribe friend- js ly to tho v/h!tc3 and bitterly hostile Q. to the Siou::. As soon as they saw ! f the hostllrs they siartod aLer them. ?*e The Sioux ran and at dark the trail svas lest and about three-quarters of the Crows?300 in number?returned Al to camp. The ether 100 camped on a j tp, mountain side and sent out scouts on pe the highest hills to watch for the cn- tu emy. Next naming the scouts re- ar ported that tho Sioux thinking all tho Crows had gone Lack were returning to make anocher attemr.t cn the pest, and before long the main body of the Crows could sea tho enemy coming J directly toward them. Tho uniucky fij: Sioux came right up to where the ,pj Crows were ambushed and the latter ,jj fired and killed five, and then charg- _ lng killed tvo mora befora they could " get Into the timber. The Crows lost on one man, but ho was a great chief; in ^ fact, one of their principal war chiefs. He was named Long Horse. A Sioux Ethot him in the side just below the ribs, the ball passing just in front of the snine nnd pnm(n? ? *u- -*' " VWU?IU5 WUI ai IIIC ULIItT I side. Long Horsa fell, but managed ' to raise up again and to shoot dead ai the Indian who had wounded him. 8 Then he died. J* "We had been about an hour In camp and Charley Reynolds and I were taking a bath In Trout Creek tc near the post, when we heard several at shots and whoops, and as three men j*1 had been killed a few days before ' 1 within a quarter of a mile where we were swimming, we crawled up the 11 I bank and looked about. We saw four Indians riding down the b>uffs sing- 'T Ing and yelping and occasionally firing shot. Three of them were nicely dressed and had war bonnets trimmed w with the tail feathers of the golden ^ ea vie the fnnrth wo- 1 nno Iianrir aiiu cmrled In one hand a pole, at the end of ** which dangled a bunch of long black t<3 hair. We had heard about the chase hi after the Sioux and saw that this v< must be the Crow party returning. le We hurried into our clothes and soon tl saw the women and children coming ft oat to meet the party. Pretty soon the procession came down the hill all to jf"* dressed out in the finest war costume. P< They were all in black paint and some si of them had splendid bonnets reach- s< lag from their head away down to p yjf their horses' flanks. Some of them m had only shirts on and their naked J* | legs looked rather absurd. E "Every now and then a warrior rl * would pass holding a scalp on a pole t< and around him wonld be ten or a tl dosen others shooting and singing v and firing shots In the air. The same dsmonsUations of triumph were la ^ ulged In when one of the captured onles was driven by or when one ol le captured guns was held up to ew. One old fellow had saved the hole head of his Sioux and had >read it out and dried it so that it as as big as a dinner plate. As he ide along be slowly twirled his pole > that the long black waving hair id the bright red fleshy side alteritely appeared and disappeared. "After all the warriors had passed id quiet had settled down on the mp we heard from up the valley unds of mourning, and soon saw a ?y about fifteen years old leading a ule on which was the body of Long orse wrapped in a green blanket. :hind him rode a squaw and behind r a buck, and they alternately sang rges as they moved slowly along, hen they reached the trading post th dismounted, and walking up to a igon standing near each laid one iger on the wheel, and drawing out eir butcher knives chopped them oft d then remounting rode off. As cy want off the squaw gashed her ad with her knife again and again, iter in the day another relative opped off two fingers at the trading St."?Forest and Stream. AMERICAN MEN. icir Fury For Work Called a Dis?ase?Young Men Uninteresting? "The American masculine claim of sorption in his work does not in e least justify such a condition," ys a writer in the Atlantic Month" Frenchmen support their wives d still find time to go shopping th them, tool Englishmen do likese and find energy left to place eir sons in school, energy to watch ienly the love affairs of their daughrs, unhesitatingly bidding this or at man be gone; moral courage and lyslcal vitality left after the day's >rk to be in fact, as well as in fancy, 10 head of the house.' "They have the wisdom to leave >ur3 for play, for pure boyishness of ring. And all this may be observed the same middle class that with i turns the whole issue over to the ife, expecting of her all wisdom, ough knowing her sheltered youth; id all vitality, to run unceasingly id unaided the whole machinery of ie family. "No wonder our women have erves!' No wonder they are becomg more and more restless (one of ie first evidences of strain), more id more discontented as time passes, asculine kinHn?r.c tn nili- i? imetimes so tangled up with selfish^ss that there need be no surprise at there is some confusion regardg thorn. "Xot that our men want the money ter which they are striving for emsolves. They are almost noriously generous. Our rich men ve, give, give; to their wives, their ildren, to colleges, to hospitals, to urches, until the whole world is n a zed at their generosity. "The habit and fury of work, unasoning, illogical, quite unrelated ary need, is a masculine disease this country, and the whole social stem has for years paid the lnevltas penalty. Here and there a man ies to stop in time, but finds himIf obsessed by work so that he can ' longer think of anything else. He r.s much a slave to it as is any ium taker to his drug and drunkd to his potion. It is a grave danr not only to the individual, but to e whole American civilization. "If the truth were told, most young nerican men are not especially inresting. They do not keep up their auing. They have a national obndity when it comes to music, to t, to literature; nor do many of em take any of these things at all riously. "The young among them are not od conversationalists. Our clevert meu are monologists pure and mple. Thoy lecture admirably, ley are born orators along modified les. They arc inevitable story tells. None of this is conversation; id women like conversation, like Its urtesies, which at least pretend a ;tle interest when their turn comes the game." Time to Celebrate. Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, of central enusylvania, is a good storv teller. id most of his yarns are on hlmdf. One of his latest he has remnted at length in his new book. My People of the Plains." It seems tat the Bishop went into a certain >wn in his diocese and was seated . dinner at the "hotel." A man in te far corner of the room called out. Bishop, come here and eat with a tiler!" As the Bishop did not see exactly in that light and as the man id apparently been Imbibing over eely ha refused, whereupon his jighbor came over to him and said: Well, then. Bishop, if you won't eat 1th me I'll eat with you." During te course of the meal he said: "Bishop, are you going to talk to te boys here to-night?" Dr. Talbot tld him that that was the object of is coming. "Well," he added, "I am sry glad, for God knows, these felrs here need it. You see, Bishop, te trouble with the boys here is that tey drink too much." He was obviously the last person ? complain of that weakness on the irt of his brethren, so the Bishop iggested: "Well, my friend, I am ?rry to hear that, but, If you will ardon me, it seems to me that you re suffering from that same trouble our self now." "You are right, Bishop, you arc ght, but when the Bishop comes to ?wn a feller has to celebrate," was te reply.?Detroit Free Press. There are organisations in England I fight rats and sparrows. T- : < -TTKSpq&f? | d9MM>?)9939?9MS?>?gb | HOUSEHOLD MATTERS J ^ee?ee c?e? eeeeeecec^ Spinach Souffle. Coll a measure cf spinach In enough water to cover It, with a pinch of salt and another of soda. In :en minutes press the spinach through % strainer, then rub through a wire sieve. Add two well beaten eggs and a cup of milk, a dnsh of nutmeg and pepper and salt. Mix thoroughly and bake in buttered souffle dishes, ?New York World. Strawberry Souffle. Steam and wash a quart or more of strawberries and put into a saucepan with the grated' peel of half a lemon and a cupful of sugar . Let simmer on the back of the stove or in a double boiler until the sugar is entirely dissolved. Beat the yolks of four eggs in a pint of milk. Sweeten to taste and cook in a double boiler until thick. Liue the sides of a glass dish with the strawberries, making a high wall of the fruit but leaving the centre hollow. When the custard is cold pour It into the centre and cover with a meringue made of the whites of the four eggs.?New York World, Clear Soup. Clear soup is made from a shin of beef or from beef and veal. Crack the bones and cut the meat into fine pieces, cover with cold water in the proportion of one quart water to onehalf pound meat and bone. Ering to the simmering point and keep at that tenineratiiri* for covomi to have good soup it must be kept even. Do not skim off the scum while cooking, because this is a needful part of the meat. Cool and skim off the fat. Reheat, adding flavorings, an onion, a small carrot cut fine, one teaspoonful celery seeds, one teaspoon pepper, two tablespoons salt, then serve.- -Boston * st. English Cliow Chow For English chow chow take two large heads of cabbage, shaved very fine, three cauliflower broken in small sections, thirty cucumbers sliced, onequarter peck of small white onions, cne pint grated horseradish, one-hall pound of white mustard seed, one ounce celery seed, cne-half cup ground pepper and the same amount of cinnamon and tumeric powder. Pack all in a large stone jar ovet ui&ui, b)u luiiniig a large cup or salt between the layers. In the morning pour off the brine and conk in vinegai end water for a day or two. Strain again and mis the spices with three pounds of sugar and six quarts ol vinegar. Scald, then pour over the pickle while very hot. Repeat this operation two more mornings, then when quite cold add two boces ol French mustard mixed with one pin) of pure olive oil.?New York Times. French Peas. If you have a fancy for the tlnj French peas, canned, you may save money by doing them at home. Thej should be very fresh and young. II you buy them in the market you will have to take them "as they come." By getting a quantity you will be sure to find enough that are too large to pass for the French dainty morsel, and these may bo cooked for Immediate use. Shell the peas and sift them through a colander with coarse 01 large holes. Use the small peas thai will go througn, for canning. Fill pint, or even half pint jars with the peas and stand In a cooker 01 steamer for forty minutes. Then put Into each pint jar a half teaspoonful of salt, same of sugar and fill up with fresh helled water. Steam again for twenty minutes, then ceal up.?Iu? dianapolis News. To cut warm bread or cake alwayi beat the knife. A tablespoonful of coal oil lni a quart of warm water is excellent to remove fly specks from brass. If you want to keep coffee from boiling over add a lump of butter about the size of a small marble. To prevent the contents of a juicy pie running over, wet the edges of the lower crust with white of egg or iced water. In canning time remember to hold a Jar under hot water before filling with the hot syrup. If the jar is set on a folded wet cloth while being filled, it will be less apt to break. Olives, salted nuts, glace and crys. tallzed fruits in small silver or cut glass dishes placed at regular interrals around the centrepieco add freatly to the decorative effect of the lible. Always keep a Jar of bread crumbs an hand. They will come in so nlcelv [or croquettes or pudding should company arrive unexpectedly. It li well, too, to have a supply ol browned flour for gravy. Prunes, to be eaten with meat, should not be sweetened. Soak a jound of carefully washed prunes in :old water over night. Put them into s stew-pan with a quart of fresh , water, and two lemons that have been rut into thin slices, from which the seeds have been removed. Lei then simmer gently for three honrs. 3erve cold. They are to be eaten with pork, veal or duck, in plaee ol Use sour apple sauee usually served. TOW With the Fxinrtx v* People Are Queer. The people people work with best are ofte very queer, The people people own by blood quit shock your first idea. The people people choose for friends you common sense appall, But the people people marry are the queei est folks of all. Playwright?"Yes, but the real dll I Acuity about getting an audienc comes later."?Boston Transcript. ! i Where the Rub Comes. Friend?"I suppose it's difficult t get an audience with a manager fo ones' first play." | A Parting in High Life. "What were the terms of the dl i Torce?" "She keeps the poodle."?Blrm Ingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. One of the Rare Ones. Scott?"Is Jones married?" Mott?"I guess not. I neve i heard him blame his wife for any thing."?Boston Transcript. At the Library. "Good morning, Miss Readwell what Is the best book for an old mai 1 about to get married?" "A bank book."?Illustrated Bits The Personal Consideration. "Father," said little Rollo, "wha ' is a plutocrat?" "A plutocrat, my son, is a man whi is vastly wealthy, but declines to en dow any project in which you an immediately interested."?Washing ' ton Star. A Bad Marksman. r Teacher?"When that boy thre\ , 6tones at you, why didn't you com r and tell me, instead of throwing thee p back?" I Small Boy?"Tell you? Why, yoi > couldn't hit the side of a barn."?' , New York Mail. > Kept Him on a String. "I kept my husband on a strlni five years before I consented to marr; 1 him?" "Why so long?" * "Well, you see, I waited until could see his way clear financially!' [ ?Llppincott's. j On the Contrary. t "The apparel does not make thi . man." said the ready-made philos , opher. "No," answered the man who wa signing cheeks for flve-hundred-dol , lar gowns; "but it may go a long wa] I toward breaking him."?Washingtoi Star. Intuition. "The worst has happened, John!' panted Mr3. Jipes, sinking feebly lnt< 1 a chair. "Well, we'll have to advertise fo: i another one; that's all," moodily an swered Mr. Jipes. For he knew, without being told i that the cook had left.?Chicago Tri bune. What Reduction? i "That price includes stateroom an< i meals, I suppose?" said the prospec tive ocean tourist tu the steamshi] agent. : "Yes, sir." "Then what reduction do you mak< to * man who is seasick all the wa: across?"?New York Journal. Getting Back. "Captain, what time does that boa start?" "It starts, madam, when I give th< word." "Then I've always had the wroni idea. I thought it started when thi engineer pulled a lever, or did some thing. Thank you ever so much."? Chicago Tribune. A Cmel Test. "Mike," said Plodding Pete, "dere' wuss t'ings dan gold bricks." "What's happened?" "De lady up de road said dat if I'< chop an armful of wood she'd gimm a cake." "Didn't she keep her word?" "Yep. She handed me a cake < ' eoap."?Washington Star. * 7' ' * ' djmffiric Miss Addams President. Miss Jano Addams, of Hull House. ? Chicago, has been elected president of the national conference of charities e and correction for 1910. This is the first time In the thlrty-slx years of the organization that a woman has > been elected to fill its highest office. Miss Addams' election was unani,m rnous.?New York Sun. 8 ??? Tent Woman Saves Lives. Eut for the presence of mind of MrB. Jennie Llewellyn, an aged womo an, who flagged a west-bound Wabash passenger train near Missouri City, Mo., a head-on collision with a freight train which occurred at that point at night doubtless would have resulted in many fatalities. As It was one man was killed, one woman badly injured and ten persons ? slightly Injured. Through the warring given by the woman, who lives In a tent near the railroad, the engineer was able to lessen the speed of his train neiore the crash came, r Probation Officer. Mrs. Jesse L. Pickering has been appointed head probation officer in Philadelphia at a salary of $S5 a month. Under a law passed by the j last Pennsylvania Legislature probation officers are Included as part of ^ the juvenile court system. The city * of Philadelphia is divided into fifteen districts with one special probation officer for each, while five other probation officers will work in the city at large. These officers are to bo in no 5 way connected with any charity organization and are to receive their s salaries from the city. Two woman ' physicians, Dr. Anna L. Bacon and Dr. Mary J. Rochell, are on the list.? New York Sun. Must Prosecute Her Chum. Miss Delpha Robinson, of Loogootee, Ind., has been appointed Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Martin County, and her first case is the prosecution of an old school chum for al leged bigamy. Miss Robinson has asserted she will not be swayed in her work by ties of friendship or by any personal feeling of hostility. She has entered office with an open mind, and so will press the charge against her old-time friend. Miss Robinson was graduated from the Law School of Indiana University, and she has been ry ? Corn Dumplings.?M ' chopped fine with half a "JTJ * '! 'uls ?' butter; two eggs iy J one-half teaspoonful of CZL o- necessary to make a dor v , . S teaspoonful of baking p e 3 w | drain before adding an; a CD o '' pieces of the dough abou *" j tween the palms of the I a ?j ? to cook until nicely broi t r -i -S stock to cook until the . ? \ serve them with meat, c 5 I1 sauce, and in the latter f**> J the soup. s practicing law for four years. In that ^ time she has gained a reputation as a clever pleader. It was because of her success in defending criminal cases J that she was appointed Prosecutor.? New York Press. Summer School For Working Girls. Q Miss E. Doheny presided recently _ at the opening of the summer school conducted by the Young Women's 9 Christian Association of New York. _ The object of the school Is to make f the summer pleasanter for the shopj girl, the factory girl and other working girls who are forced to remain In the city during the hot weather. Last year 1200 girls attended the school, and this year it is hoped to ' double the number. There are a good i many entertainments connected with the school, as the management realr lzes that girls do not feel like giving - all their time to study during the hot weather. . Monday evenings are set apart for musicals, dramatic recitations, moving picture shows, flower parties and other similar entertainments; Tuesdays for song service and Bible readj ings; Wednesdays for physical culture and parlor and kindergarten p games; Thursdays there will be classes in fancy work, millinery, shirt waist making and wool work, while B on Fridays teachers in singing, elocu noii una gymnasium will take charge. ?Sew York Sun. The Pump Bow. t Tho bow of the moment is the one called the pump bow because it is a copied from the one put on low shoes. It 1b made with three loops at one end g and three at the other of equal width a but not equal length. There are no * ends. The centro is covered with a oneInch strip of the ribbon, laid in two or three pleats down the centre. Everything about the bow must be stiff, precise and well measured. It is customary to make these bows of silk velvet ribbon, as velvet is having such a remarkable popularity as trim& mlng. * As a rule this bow is sufficient addition to the usual hat. It is quite enough trimming for the every day ' hours. It is not against millinery Ideals, however, to offset the bow with Mfc immense bunch of flowers on the /' 'I a other side, or a wide blown rose on the brim at the back. One must be careful to place the trimming on a good line with the bow, otherwise the balance 1b lost, and the lines of the hat are bad. While the loose bow copied from a *9 child's hat is always placed at the .'A back, the pump bow Is across theUr front or the side. It is a new fashion to place It on the brim instead of the crown, or run it half and half in a bias line. The conventional method to which many adhere is to place It directly on the crown across the front, ?Philadelphia Ledger. , Pretty Hair Ribbons. There is no detail of the small . girl's toilet over which mothers lln ger as lovingly as the arrangement of . the soft, silky hair. The little girl's hair should be kept in scrupulously dainty condition, the fortnightly shampoo with pure, soapy water being supplemented by nightly brushlngg to make the locks fluffy and lustrous. The color of the little girl's hair V ribbons should be carefully selected. ? Not every color is becoming. The j pure white hair ribbons which many y mothers like for formal wear, are often distinctly trying to their young wearers. Clel blue and rose pink are usually pleasing with rosy cheeks and bright eyes, and vivid scarlet is delightful with either dark curls or blond hair. The art tones?Dutch blue3, burnt yellows and more delicate greens? are often very smart when worn with cotton frocks showing the same color tones, but fashion's caprices in color, like peacock, mustard,cLtron and such shades, should never be put near childish faces. Satin taffeta ribbons are the most ue&irauie ior tying tne nair. They are soft and pliable, yet crisp in character, and are beautifully lustrous. The lllet of ribbon, outlining the shape cf the head, with a loose bow at one side, Is charming on a very pretty child. Less trying is the double row arrangement, with the locks caught back at each side of the face under a big, soft bow. The young girl of thirteen or fourteen wears her hair in a thick pleat ended by' a curl. The fad is to allow the hair to hang quite loosely front the head, the pleat not being started ix the contents of one can of corn l pint of milk, six level tablespooni, one-fourth teaspoouful of pepper, salt, half-pint of flour, or more if igh that can be easily handled; one lowder. If the corn is very Juicy, f of the contents. Tear off small t the size of a butternut and roll belands and drop into smoking hot fat vned; or drop into boiling hot soup , y easily float. In the former case >r for supper with tomato or brown , case place in the soup dishes with i I for several incheB below the collar. At this point a wide,soft bow of black rlhhen * it- ?- - - - nuuuu o licu uuuui mo nair ana Delow it the thick braid hangs down* ward.?Washington Star. fc ~Drertyr ^Jnmos \tf'eor Some of the best tailored blouses come with adjustable collars. Many of the lingerie gowns for summer wear are In empire style. Tassels are again In great favor upon evening dresses and wraps. The cuirass effect is seen on many of the handsome imported gowns. New things Include cut glass hat pins with a beautiful iridescence. Cool, dainty little natlne^ or dressing sacks increase in popularity. The net or chiffon blouse, the exact tone of the costume, }s still modish in Paris. Scarfs of black tulle,draped around the shoulders, are very smart for evening wear. Linen bags, braided with linen soutache, are very smart, as are also the linen pocketbooks. White dotted net over satin of a soft pastel shade makes an exceedingly beautiful gown. Park *?t ? .u-.uuisii> us ir/iug 10 escape from the popular demand for d I soutache decoration. I Bands of crosswise or diagonal " tucking are used as a trimming on a tailored blouse of sheer material. A tailored suit of linen or light* jjs weight Berge or panama cloth seems to be necessary in every wardrobe. The Dutch collar vogue allows the neck to be more comfortably dressed this season than for a long time. Very chic are skirts mad^ with long, large yokes all around, from which hang a pleating of the goods. Many children's dresses are being mnde from the striped and figured dimities, dotted lawns and Swisses and flowered organdies. Italy has seventeen tobacco fa?torles. Ninety per cent, of the operatives are women, who are paid on a piece system and earn from fertyelght to fifty-eight cents a day.