The Reporter. (Chelsea, Indian Terr.), Vol. 9, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, October 16, 1903 Page: 2 of 8
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THE REPORTER.
A. It. A It. K. MILLER, Publisher*.
CHELSEA, - INDIAN TERRITORY
FROM "PHYLLIS ISLE.*
Lupt in mum hi no in t h> gleaming
Yellow In-uuty nf tlu< hand,
.Evur> new llili' tH'iulo It streaming
Up (In- edge* ni' my land,
And I welcome It, an, hounded
Through On- thlckciH of the huh,
it oiimi'n, dcllcuuiy rounded,
Climbing lip tlif lank* in nio
1 remember whore I ho ihiuider
<>V the nurnes roll* afar-
Where you «ee yon rlrciliiK wonder
i >f white Mon-guIlM mi tin' bur,
ltoxc the fain hi of fair ImIiuuIh,
W illi IIh fret(imI r.illcM of coast,
\\ 'hispcrfilg coves, anil lireessy highland*,
• 'hunting what my noul loved most.
l>own the white koj'H ni'iMenlly
I bin l he linger* of the tide,
And the woodland* Itunnst ulley
<'alight the echoes and replied.
All the Island—fur and lonely,
I "ntII I'Ii.vIIIh made It smile—
Chanting I'hyllls, and her only:
licncc I lulled It Phyllis Isle,
N imed it Phyllis, and the nmber-
Shlnlng waters, evermore.
As they ran In sport In clumber
tip the pebbles on the sliore.
And till- wild sea-gulls, careening
Dii the forelands, saw It go,
And the hemlocks, long and leaning.
Sighed it to the vtvu Below.
Hut the Death-king rode dividing
Ills black squadrons fur assault,
A kid the clangor nf their riding
Reach the high and heavenly vault,
And the awful thunder rumbled
Through the blackness of the shore,
'/'III the promontories crumbled
And the island wa no more.
Nothing of those days remaining
In the corridors nf mind,
S ave the pa. sionate complaining
Of the wave and of the wind—
S:n A voice rem te and yearning
From the hollows of the sea,
A.- the waste of sand returning
Brings my Island home to ne .
—James Herbert More, In tlie Atlantic.
v
of ih
Sioux
CHAilLES
UoDyn-V., 1S0£, by The Eo^irt Coupfi.ny
CIIAPTI
The major commanding lonkt
from the morning report and
veyeil the post adjutant with some-
thing of perturbation, if not annoy-
ance. in his grim, gray eyes. For tho
fourth time thnt week had Licuten-
:int Field requested permission to be
absent for several hours. The major
knew just why the junior wished to
go and where. The major knew just
v.'liy lie wished him not to go. but
sart fit to name almost any other
than the real reason, when, with a
certain awkward hesitancy, he be-
gan:
"\V—eil. is the post return ready?"
'"!l will be, sir, in abundant time,"
was the prompt reply.
"Vou know they sent it back for
correction last month," hazarded the
commander.
"And you know, sir, the error was
n it mine," was the instant rejoinder,
so quick, sharp and positive as to
carry it at a bound to the verge of
disrespect, and the keen, blue ■ yes
«>f the young soldier grazed, frank
nnd fearless, into the heavily am-
lui lied gray eyes of the veteran in
the chair. It made the latter wince
itnd stir uneasily.
"If there's anything I hate. Field,
"Nothing, sir; and far better would
It ho for everybody concerned If they
spent more hours In the saddle ami
fewer lit the tore."
This wax too much for one listener
In the room. With something like
the sound of a suppressed sneeze, u
tall, long-legged captain of cavalry
started up from his chair, an out-
spread newspaper still full-strelehetl
between hliu and the desk of the
commander, and, thus hidden us to
his face, sidled sniggering off to the
tieure>i window, Young Field had
fearlessly, if not almost Impudent-
ly, hit the nail ou the head, and
metaphorically rapped the thrum-
ming lingers of Ids superior otlieer.
Some com mantle rs would have raged
and sent the during youngster right
about iu arrest. Major Webb knew
just what Field referred to- knew
that, the fascinations of pool, "pitch"
and poker held just about half his
commissioned force ai all "off duty"
hours of the day or night hanging
about llii" officers" club room at the
post trader's; knew, moreover, that
while the adjutant never wusteil a
moment over cards or billiards, lie,
I he post commander, hail many a lime
taken a hand or a cue and wagered
his dollars against those of his de-
voted associates. They nil loved him.
There wasn't a "mean streak in his
whole system," said every soldier at
Fort. Frayue. lbs had a capital rec-
ord as a Milunteer—a colonel and,
later, brigade commander in the
great war. lie had the brevet of
brigadier general of volunteers, hut
repudiated any title beyond thnt of
his actual rank in the regulars, lie
was that rara avis -a bachelor field
officer, and a bird to be brought
down if feminine witchery could do
it. lie was truthful, generous, high-
minded, brave- a man who preferred
to be of and with his subordinates
rather than above them—to rule
•ougli affection cud regard rather
lhan the stern standard of command,
lie was gentle and courteous alike to
officers and the rank and tile, though
he feared no man on the face of the
globe. He was awkward, bungling
and overwhelmingly, lavishly, kind
and thoughtful in his dealings with
the womenfolk of the garrison, for
he stood in awe of the entire sister-
hood. He could ride like a centaur;
he cotildnl' dance worth a cent. He
could sun if a candle with his Colt at
~'0 paces and couldn't hil a croquet
ball to save his soul. His deep-set
gray eyes, under their tangled
thatch of brown, gav.eil straight into
the face of every man on the J'latte,
soldier, cowboy. Indian or halfbreed,
but fell abashed if a laundress looked
at him. Hilly Kay, captain of the sor-
rel troop and the Ir.M light rider in
Wyoming, was the only man lie ever
allowed to straddle a beautiful thor-
oughbred mare he had bought in
Kentucky, but, bad hands or good,
there wasn't a riding woman at
Fraviie who hadn't backed Lorna
time and again, because to a woman
the major simply couldn't say no.
And though his favorite comrades
at the post were captains like lilake
and Hilly Kay. married iik^i both
whose wives ke worshipped, the ma-
jor's rugged heart went out especial-
ly to llevorly Field, his boy adjutant,
a lad who came to them from West
l'oint only three years before the
autumn this story opens, a young
fellow full of high health, pluck and
principle—a tip top soldier. said
everybody from the start, until, as
tiregg and other growlers began to
declaim, the major completely spoiled
him. Here, three years only out of
military leadingstrings, he was a
young cock of the walk, "too dam
independent for a so >nd lieutenant.,"
said the officers* club element of the
command, men like Gregg. Wilkins.
Crane and a few of their following.
"The keenest young troop* r in the
regiment." said Wake and Kav, who
it is to have my paper.- sent hack by were among its keenest captain", and
some whipsnapper of a clerk, inviting
:ittention to tiii.i or that error, and 1
expect my adjutant to see "to it that
they don't."
"Vour adjutant does see to it, sir.
J'm willing to bet a' month's pay
fewer errors have been found in the
papers of Fort I rayne than any post
in the Department of the Platte.
< ion. Williams told you a,-> much when
you were in Omaha."
The major fairly wriggled in liis
cane-bottomed whirligig. What young
Field said was true, and tin major
Knew it. lie knew, moreover, there
wasn't a more painstaking post ad-
jutant from the -Missouri to the
mountains. He knew Fieir monthly
reports—"returns" as the regulations
called them—were referred to by a
model adjutant general as model
papers, lie knew that it was due
to young Field's care and attention,
nnd he knew he thought all the world
<>f that- young gentleman. It was
iusl because he thought so much of
bim he was beginning to feel that it
was high time to put a stop to some-
thing that was going on. Hut. it was
;t delicate matter; a woman was the
matter; and he hadn't the moral
courage to go at it the straightfor-
ward way. He "whip sawed" again.
*1 hriimming on the desk with his lean,
bony lingers, lie began:
"if I let my adjutant out so much,
-what's to prevent other youngsters
asking similar, indulgence?"
The answer came like the crack of
a iviyp:
never a cloud had sailed across the
.crone sky of their friendship and
cst-'em until this glorious Si ptembe.r
of U-s. when Nanette Flower, a bril-
liant. beautiful brunette came a visi-
tor to old Fort Frayue.
And it was on her account the
major would, could he have seen the
way. -:ii«l no to the adjutant's request
to be absent again. On her account
and that of one other, for tiiat re-
quest meant another long morning
in saddle with Miss Flower, another
long morning in which "the sweet-
est. girl in the garrison," so said
they all. would go about her daily
duties with an aching heart. There
was no woman at Fort Frayne who
did not know that Esther Dade
thought ail the world of Heverly
Field. There was «jnc man who ap-
parent Iy had no inkling of it i'cvcrly
Field himself.
She was the only daughter of a
veteran ollicer. a captain of infantry,
who at the age of 30, after having
held a high command in the volun-
teers during the civil war. was still
meekly doing fluty as a company
ollicer of regulars nearly two decades
after. She had been carefully reared
by a most loving and thoutrlit ful
mother, even*in the crude old days
of the army, when its lighting force
was scattered in small detachments
all over the wide frontier, and men,
and women, too, livid vn soldier ra-
tions. ck" I out with game, and dwelt
in 1 ."nt-' or ramshackle, one-storied
Lui s, "built I \ ! !ie la!;i r of troops."
At IS site had been placed nt school
in the far east, while her father en-
joyed a two yen rs' tour on recruiting
service, iiiiiI there, under the care
of a noble woman who taught her
girls to lie women indeed not wipid
votaries of pleasure and fashion, Fa-
ther spent live useful years, coining
back to her fond father's soldier roof
a winsome picture of girlish health
and grace and comeliness—a girl
who could ride, walk and run if need
lie, who could bake and cook, mend
and sew, cut, Cushion and make her
own simple wardrobe; who knew al-
gebra, geometry and "trig" quite as
well as, ami history, geography and
graiuinur far better than, most of the
young West I'olntcrs; a girl who
spoke her own tongue with accura-
cy ii in I was not badly versed in
French; a girl who performed fairly
well on the piano and guitar, but
who sung full-lhroated, rejolcefil%
exulting like the lark the soulful
music thnt. brought delight to her
ageing father, half crippled by the
wounds of the war days, and to the
mother wlio so devotedly loved uiul
carefully planned for her. Within a
mouth from her graduation at
.Madame Piatt's she had become the
darling of Fort Frayne, the pet of
many a household, the treasure of
her own. With other young gallants
of the garrison, i'-verly Field had
had been prompt to call, prompt, to
be her escort when dance or drive,
ride or picnic was planned in her
honor, especially the ride, for Mr.
Adjutant Field loved the saddle, the
open prairie or the bold, undulating
bluits. But Field was the busiest
man at the post. Other youngsters,
troop or company subalterns, had
far more time at their disposal, and
begged for rides and dances, strolls
and sports which the post adjutant
was generally far too busy to claim.
It was Fsther who brought lawn ten-
nis to Frayne and found eager pupils
of bolii sexes, but Field had been the
tirst to meet and welcome her; had
been for a brief time at the start
her most constant cavalier. Then, as
others begun to feel the charm of her
frank, cordial, joyous manner, and
learned to read the beauty that
beamed in her eiear, truthful eye
uiul winsome, yet not beautiful face
they became assiduous in turn two
of them utmost distressingly so—and
she could not wound them by refusals.
Then came u fortnight iu which lit
father sat as a member of a court-
martial at old Fort Laramie, where
were the band, headquarters and four
troops of the th, and Captain
and Mrs. Freeman who were there
stationed, .begged 1 hat Mrs. Dade and
Ksther should come, and visit them
during the session of the court.
I here would be all manner of army
gaities and a crifwil of outside of-
ficers. anil, as luck would have it,
Mr. Field was ordered thither as a
witness in two important cases. The
captain anil his good wife went by
stage: Ksther and Beverly rode every
inch of the way in saddle, camping
over night with their joyous little
party at La lion to*. Then, came a love-
ly week at Laramie, during which
Mr. Field had but little to do but de-
vote himself to, and dance with, Ks-
ther. and when his final testimony
was given and he returned to his sta-
tion. and not until then, Ksther Dade
discovered that life had Utile interest
or joy without him; but Field rode
back unknowing, and met at Frayne,
before Ksther Hade's return, a girl
who had come almost unheralded,
making the journey over tbj Medi-
cine How from Hock Springs
Springs on the
I nion Pacific in the comfortable car-
riage of old Hill Hay. the ]w>st trader,
escorted by that redoubtable woman,
Mrs. Hill Hay. and within the week of
her arrival Nanette Flower was the
toast, of the bachelor's mess, the
talk of every household til Fort
Frayne.
Hay. the trailer, had prospered in
bis long years on the frontier, first as
trader among the Sioux, later as sut-
ler. and finally, wiien congress abol-
ished that title, substituting therefor
the euphemism, without material clog
upon file perquisites, as post trader
■ it Fort Frayne. ,\o one knew how
much he wa'- wi'tli. for while appar-
ently a most open-hearted, whole-
souled fellow. Hay was reticence it-
self when bis fortunes or his family
were matters of question or com-
ment. He had long been married,
and Mrs. Hay, when at th^ post, was
a social sphinx—kind-hearted, chari-
table, lavish to the soldiers' wives
and children, and devotion itself to
the families of the oflicers when sick-
ness and trouble came, as come in
the old days they often did. It was
she who took poor .Veil Kobinson's
young widow and infant all the way
to Cheyenne when the Sioux butch-
ered the luckless little hunting party
down by Laramie Peak. It was she
who nursed < apt. Forrest's wife and
daughter through fen weeks of
typhoid, and, with her own means,
sent them to the seashore, while the
husband and father was far up on
the llowstone, cut off from all com-
munication in the big campaign of '7C>.
It was sh. who built the little chapel
and decked and dressed it for Faster
and Christmas, despite the fact that
she herself had been baptized in the
Koman Catholic faith. It was she who
went at once to every woman in the
garrisor whot.e husband was ordered
out on sc-, :t or campaign, proffering
tild and comfort, despite the fact longf
whispered in the garrisons of the
J'hitte country, that In the old, old
•Ih.vs she IiiiiI fur more friends among
the red men than the white. That
could well be, because in those days
while men were few and far between.
Kveryone had heard the story that it
was through her the news of the
massacre at Fort I'hil Kearney was
made known to the post comninniler,
for she could speak the dialeeis of
both the Arapahoe and the Kioux, and
she had the sign language of the
plains veritably at her lingers' ends.
There were not lacking those who de-
clared that Indian blood ran iu her
vein's that her mother was an
Ogallala squaw and her father a
French Canadian fur trapper, a story
to which her raven black hail* and
brows, her deep, dark eyes and some-
what swarthy complexion gave no
little color. But, long years before,
Hill liny had taken her east, where
he IiiiiI relatives, and where she
studied under excellent masters, re-
turning to liiin summer after sum-
mer with more and more of refine-
ment in manner, and so much of
style and fashion in dress that her
ii nulla I advent had come to be looked
upon as quite the event of the sen-
son, even by women of the social po-
sition of Mrs. Kay and Mrs. Blake,
the recognized leaders among, the
young matrons of the th cavalry,
and by gentle Mrs. Dade, to whom
every one looked up in respect—al-
most in reverence. Despite the mys-
tery about her antecedents there was
every reason why Mrs. Hay should
he held in esteem and affection. Hill
Hay himself was a diamond in the
rough- square, steady, uncompromis-
ing, generous and hospitable; his
great pride and glory was his wife;
his one great sorrow that tlicir only
child had died almost, in infancy. His
solecisms in syntax and.society were
many, lie was given at times to pro-
fanity. and at ot!i#rs, when niadame
was away, to draw poker; but offi-
cers and men alike proclaimed him
a man of mettle and never hesitated
to go to him when in financial
straits, sure of linustirious aid. Hut
even hail this not been the case* the
popularity of his better half would
BIRDS' GARDEN OF EDEN.
Unthnalnlle Admirer Met* Apnrt n
Aura Forbidden lit CnU and
Nuiull llii)i,
A bird garden is rather a novel ido*,
but ono which If faithfully exploited
will prove oh real a delight an any gar-
den of blossoms. An enthusiast on
the subject has set apart a spot of per-
haps an aerc's extent as forbidden
ground for cats nnd small boys, and
the birds have become very tame, says
the Now York Tribune. Bermuda
grass, whose matted tangles are a har-
bor for bugs nnd worms, eovcrs tlm
ground. Hydrants are left dripping
where tho many kinds of feathered
folk that this garden has attracted
may drink and bathe to their hearts'
content. There is an abundance of
seeds and fruit, which mature at dif-
ferent seaxon3, and old logs under
which congregate tho fat grubs that
are a bird's dollnht. If these natural
stores seem to run short at any time,
sunflower seed and crisp lettuce hearts
are spread on a stajid called th«
"birds' banquet board," that none maj
want. Strings, threads and fluffy eot
ton are spread about for nesting time,
and as many as twenty different spe-
cies have been counted building oi
rearing their young at one time. Thlr
ty four varieties frequent this garden
of Eden, and their sweet notes and
bright plumage make it as charmins
aa any conservatory of rare blossoms,
CHILDREN OF THE STAGE.
Mnny <>f 1 Ik-in Come frum 1'roMperuut
Hoinc«, Tin sh the Motli-
i'r'n Ambition.
It is an odd fact, says Alex*
ander H. Ford, in Everybody's
Magazine, that poverty ('rives few
children to the stage door, and, inva-
riably, the successful juvenile actoi
is the child of comparative wealth.
Lores Grimm, star at the Children's
theater last season, may he said to
have a fortune in his own right, and
even brain enough to manage it; for,
during his summer vacation from
stago work, it is his delight to buj
out a news store, build up a larga
have carried him through, for there j custom, then sell out at a great ad-
was hardly a woman at Frayne to ! vance in the fall. In fact, he secures
speak of hey except in terms of gen- : all his theatrical engage'menfs. and
nine respect. Mrs. liny was truth- makes his own terms. Anita Heckles
telling, sympathetic, a peacemaker, j has a prosperous father, yet this little
a resolute opponent of gossip and ( maid is the fourth of a family of girls
scandal of every kind, a woman who to grace tho stage, and so it goes,
min.le.l her own business and was through the list of the successful ones,
only mildly insistent that others 1 at least. I do not recall an instance,
should do likewise. She declined all however, where a father capable ol
overtures leading to confidences of earning a living has wished to p'.aos
her past, and demanded recognition his children on the stage; it is inva-
on y up,.,, the standard of the pres- ; riab]y the mother who is ambitious
en which was unimpeachable. | (hat hor young8tera pursue a his.
All the same it came something . uionic ca^e,..
like a shock to society at Frayne
that, when she appeared at the post ! WHAT THIEVES THINK.
this beautiful autumn of 188—, nearly |
three months later than the usual
time, she should be accompanied by
this brilliant anil beautiful girl of
whom no one of their number had
previously heard, and whom she
smilingly, confidently presented as,
My niece. Miss Flower."
The
Tliey Are llelil In Check nt Wcildinfft
nnil Funeriila li> .SuiiertlU
tlouM Fear*.
The pickpocket is superstitious. Hi
will rarely rot) a person who squints, this
being accounted a certain sign of disas-
ter, and if it happens that the purse hi
steals contains foreign as well as Brit-
CHAPTER II.
major sought to block that ! istl mon(1.v. it Is believed to augur that
nous will of the younger soldier pre
vailed, as he might have known it
1
morning ride in vnin. The impet- ! 'ravel a good deal in the immedi
ate future; but whether in the eompanj
of a couple of police officers or not thert
is nothirg to show.
Weddings and funerals are significant
events for the professional thief, sayi
an exchange. To pick a pocket at a
funeral would he to court Immediate dis-
aster, but many of them think if a purst
stolen at a wedding contains gold it por-
tends the best of luck for the thief dur-
ing the ensuing six months.
FROM THK RKAR GALLERY OF
HIS QUARTERS. MAJOR WEBB
WATCHED THE PAIR.
THE GENERAL MARKETS.
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would, and from the rear gallery of
his quarters, with his strong field-
glass. Maj. Webb watched the pair
fording the I'latte far up beyond
Pyramid Hutte. "Going over to that
damned Sioux village again," he
swore between his set teeth. "That
makes the third time she's headed
him there this week," and with I CATTLE—Steers
strange annoyance at heart he turned SHEEP-Western*
away to seek comfort in council with j WHEAT—No. 2 red
his stanch henchman, Capt. Ray, i CORN—No. 2
when the orderly enme bounding up
the steps with a telegraphic dispatch
which I lie major opened, read, turned
a shade grayer and whistled iow.
"My compliments to Capts. Blake
and Kay," said he, to the silent young CATTLE—Steers
soldier, standing attention at the SHEEP
door st'-p, "and say 1 should be glad 1 WHEAT—No. 2 red
to sec them here at once." CORN—No. 2
I'i'o Be Continued.] . OATS—No. 1
OATS—No. 2
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FLOUR— Winter patents
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