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1900 m i ASHINGTON. -- A litho­graph that has survived the . attacks of tiipe shows Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Col. W. F. Cody mounted on spir­ ited horses and over looking from a bluff *the last great X m 1NEWS FROM THE STATE CAPITAL NOTES AND G08SIP GATHERED AT SPRINGFIELD. DENEEN NAMES COMMISSIONS Legislative Order Concerning the Lake Erie Celebration and Mississippi Valley Conference. with a leg­ islative order, Gov. Deneen named the commission to represent Illinois at the observance of the centennial anni­ versary of the battle of Lake Erie, to be held at Put-in-Bay Island in 1913, as foliows: Capt. R. C. Hayes, department com­ mander G. A, R., Joliet; William Por­ ter Adams, president Society War of 1812, Chicago; Capt. Wi|lis J. Wells, vice-commander general Military and Foreign Wars of United States, Chica­ go; Lieut. Chesley R. Perry, Naval and Military Order Spalnish-Amerlcan War, Chicago; W. JH. Mcintosh, com­ mander-in-chief Spanish-American War Veterans, Roekford. Illinois representatives to the Mis­ sissippi valley legislative conference on uniformity of constitution concern­ ing women and children, to be held at Chicago October 2, were named by Gov. Deneen aB follows: Col. Nathan William McChesney, Chicago; John C. Richberg, Chicago; Charles L. Billings, Chicago; Louis F. Post, Chicago. camp of the Sioux Indians when com­ ing in from the warpath. The Sioux surrendered to Gen. Miles in Janu­ ary, 1891, but they came very near, a few days after the surrender, to the point of breaking away once more. The story of it is this: Gray dawn was breaking at the Pine Ridge agency when an Indian runner broke headlong into the vil­ lage of the surrendered Sioux. He stopped at the tepees of the, prin­ cipal warriors long enough to shout a message, and then leaving the camp where its end rested against tin abrupt hill, he made his way with a plainsman's stealth to the group of agency buildings, circling which and (extending beyond, crowning ridge after ridge, were the white Sibley tents of the soldiers. Breakfast was forgotten in the troubled camp of the Sioux. The chiefs and the greater braves rushed to quick council and the lesser war- Viors, the squaws and the children Btood waiting with do^ed patience in the village streets. The council was over. An old chief shouted a word of command that was caught up and passed quickly to the farthest outlying tepee. An army might have learned & lesson from that which followed the short, sharp order. Mounted men shot out from the village and as fast as fleet-footed ponies, pressed to their utmost, could accomplish the distances every out­ lying ridge was topped with the fig­ ure of rider and , horse, silhouetted against the morning sky. Every sentinel warrior hag his eyes on the camps of the white soldiery. Sud­ denly from the east of the agency, where lay the Sixth cavalry, therf came a trumpet call that •welled and swelled and ended in one ringing note that sang in and out of the valleys and then, subdued to softness, floated on to be lost in the prairie wilderness beyond. The motionless figure of one of the hilltop sen* tinels was moved to instant life. A signal ran from ridge to ridge, finally to be passed down­ ward into the camp of the waiting Sioux, who sprang into action at its coming. The pony herds of the Sioux were grazing on the hills to the west, unrestrained of their freedom by lariat or herdsman. In number they nearly equaled the people of the village, a few ponies for emer­ gency use only having been kept within the camp. Upon the--ponies in the village jumped waiting warriors, who broke out of the shelter of the tepees for the hills where the herds were foraging on the snow-covered bunch grass. It seemed but a passing moment before every pony In that great grazing herd was headed for the village. The animals were as obedient to the word of command as is a brave to the word of his chief. During the gathering of the ponies the women of the camp had slung their papooses to* their backs, had collected the camp utensils and were standing ready to strike the tepees, while the braves, blanketed and with rifles in their hands, had thrown themselves between the village and the camps of the soldiers of Gen. Miles. The Sioux, who had surrendered less than a week before, were preparing to stampede from the agency and to make necessary the repeating of a campaign that had lasted for monthB. The Indian runner had brought word that Great Chief Miles had ordered his soldiers to arms early in the morning and that the surrendered Sioux were to be massacred to the last man, woman and child. The medicine men had told the Indians that this was to be their fate and the runner's word found ready belief. Miles sent a courier with a reassuring message to the chiefs, but they would not believe. The braves prepared to kill before they were killed and everything was in readiness for the flight of the squaws and papooses* while the war­ riors, following, should fight the soldiers lusting for the Sioux blood. Gen.! Miles had planned a review of the forces i n t h e H e l d a s a l a s t a c t o f t h e c a m p a i g n , a n d i t ' was the order for the gathering and the march­ ing that had been taken as an order of massacre ttt the suspicious Sioux. Trumpet and bu­ gle calls of "boots and saddles" and "assembly" b u r- dened the air. The {troopers and "dough-- boys" had fallen in, 5,000 strong. The column started west with flags and gui­ dons fluttering. The head of the com­ mand. the greatest that had been gath­ ered together up to that time since the days of the civil vfar, reached the b l u f f a b o v e t h e Sioux village. A shout would have started the stam­ pede of the savages; a shot would have been the signal for a volley from the warriors lying be­ tween the white col­ umn and the vil­ lage. The soldiers passed on and the review began, but out on the hills the Indian sentinels still stood, and between the marching whites and the village were the long lines of braves still sus­ picious and still ready to give their lives for the women and children in the heart of the valley. „ What a review was that on the snow-covered South Dakota plains that January morning 15 years ago! Gen. Miles on his great black horse watched the 5,000 soldiers pass, Boldiers that had stood the burden of battle and the hardships of a winter's campaign and had checked one of the greatest Indian uprisings of history. The First infantry, led by Col. Shafter, who aft­ erward was in command in front of Santiago, was there that day. Guy V. Henry, now lying in peace­ ful Arlington cemetery, rode at the head of his black troopers, the "buffalo soldiers" of the Sioux. Capt Allen W. Capron was there with the battery that afterward opened the battle at Santiago. The Seventh cavalry was there, two of its troops, B and K, having barely enough men left in the ranks to form a platoon. These two troops had borne the brunt of the fighting at Wounded Knee a month before when 90 men of the Seventh fell killed or wounded be­ fore the bullets of the Sioux. When the two troops with their attenuated ranks rode by, the reviewing general removed his cap, an honor oth­ erwise paid only to the colors of his country. The column filed past, broke into regiments, then into troops and companies, and the word of dismissal was given. The Indian sentinels on the ridges, signaled the camp in the valley. In anoth­ er minute there was a stampede, but it was only that of the thousands of Sioux ponies turned loose and eager to get back to their breakfast of bunch grass on the prairies. Two Strike, tho Sioux, watched the review that day. Old Two Strike was one or the warriors who went out with a following of braves on the warpath the month previous. Two Strike wore no ghost shirt. He was above such superstition, even though he took no pains to urge his com­ rades to follow his shirtless example. Two Strike was glad of the craze that had " brought war, for he hated the whites harder than he hated anything on earth except the JPawnees, the hereditary enemy of his people. Two Strike knew in his soul that the buffalo were not coming back as the medicine men had declared, and that no Messiah was to be raised to lead his people against the pale faces to wipe them from off the face of the continent. What he did know was that he was to have one more chance to strike at the encroachers on the lands of his people be­ fore the enfeeblements of old age took the strength from his arm. Two Strike was a great warrior. He had fought on many a field and he had won his name from * the overcoming of two warrior foes who had at­ tacked him when he was alone on the prairie. Single handed he had fought and killed them and "Two Strike" he had been from that day. He was the leader in the "last battle which took place be­ tween hostile bands of savages on the plains America. For years without number the two na­ tions, the Sioux and the Pawnees, had hated each other. . In one of Cooper's' novels Hard Heart, a Paw­ nee, taunts a Sioux thus: "Since waters ran and trees grew, the Sioux has found the Pawnee on his warpath." The fight in which Two Strike was the leader of the Sioux was fought against the Pawnees on the banks of a little stream known as "The Frenchman," fn Nebraska in the> year 1874. In the valley of the Platte river the buffalo were plenty, but the Pawnees had said that the Sioux should not hunt there and they defied them to come. "The Pawnee dogs called the Sioux wom­ en," said the story-teller and old Two Strike sneered. It was When the grass was at its best that the Sioux started for the country of the Pawnee. The teller of the tale made no secret of the intention of the Sioux to exterminate the Pawnees, sparing neither women nor children if <the chance for their killing presented itself. Two Strike and his Sioux reached the edge of the buffalo country and there they waited oppor­ tunity. They did not have* to wait long. Runners told them that the Pawnees in full strength had started on a great hunting expedition led by Sky Chief, a noted warrior. When the name of Sky Chief fell from the lips of the interpreter old Two Strike smiled and closed his fist The Sioux left their encampment and struck into the heart of the hunting country. There a scout told them that the enemy was encamped in a prairie gulch and that their women and children were with them to care for the hides and for the drying of the meat of the buffalo. Two Strike led hie^jnen by "a way around," as the interpreter put it, coming finally to a point less than half a sun's distance from the camp in the valley.. The Sioux struck a small herd of buf­ falo and they goaded the animals before them right up to the mouth of the gulch. When the buffalo were beaded straight into the valley the Sioux pricked the hindmost with arrows and* the herd went headlong toward the encampment of thf Pawnees, who "were foolish jpen" and did not watch for an enemy. When the Pawnees saw the buffalo they mount­ ed their ponies and followed them out through the far end of the valley to the level plain, leaving the women and children behind. Then the Sioux went in to the slaughter, spar­ ing neither infancy nor age, and they had almost ended the killing when the Pawnee braves re- .turned. Then followed the last great battle which has been fought on the plains between tribes of red men. The story-teller in the tepee at Pine Ridge did not^Say so, but it is known from the account *ofc a white man, Adabel Ellis, who knew the cir­ cumstances, that the Pawnees fought that day as they had always fought, bravely and to the death. Sky Chief, the Pawnee, rode out in front ofx his men, shook his hand and called out that Two Strike, the Dakota, was a coward. Then Two Strike called back that the Pawnee was a dog's whelp and he rode out, armed with his knife, which was the only weapon Sky Chief held., --The tifu '"vT aiiu iuusiit. They dis­ mounted, turned their ponies loose and grappled. The story-tgtler lingered not on the details of the fight. He said simply, "the Pawnees heard Sky Chief's death cry." The tale ended. Two Strike rose, bared his right arm, drove his hand downward and then upward, and smiled. Logan County Pioneers Meet. In the memories of the 2,000 people who attended the celebration of Old Settlers' day at Mount Pulaski, will ever live, as the greatest' of all cele­ brations of the association. The cele­ bration started in earnest when, fol­ lowing another short program fey the band, Rev. Gilbert Jones, pastor of the Christian church, opened the meeting with prayer. President S. J. AVolatid presided over the meeting and introduced Rev. H. B. Montgom­ ery, pastor of the M. E. church, who delivered an address of welcome. Sev­ eral song selections offered by the Mobile quartet of Springfield made a hit with the crowd. The last of the morning celebration was the talk by J. M. McMurray, president of Lincoln college, in which he gave several in­ teresting reminiscences. President Woland opened the meeting with a short talk following which he intro­ duced John A. Sterling. His talk was interesting, being a tribute to the old settlers, men and women, and to their system of schools, and to the present generation with their rich agricul tural resources. He claimed Illinois as the best Btate in the best country on the face of the earth and said Logan county was the best county in the state. Then he gave a short talk on agriculture, tell ing of how he once considered Penn­ sylvania as the best corn state in the union, then coming west he gave the palm to Ohio, next Indiana, then Speaker Cannon's district, later to Congressman McKinley's district. and on to JWcLean county, but not until recently did he change his opinion of the standing of the various places in the union as to the corn crop until he came to this city. He stated Logan county had the best corn crop in the world. When he added: '"That's xs truthful as I am," however, a loud laugh went up from the crowd. States Dis Who Will Succeed Bethea? - The funeral of United trict Judge Solomon Bethea ducted in Dixon from the home of Misa Elizabeth Shaw, a sister of the judge s late wife. The house and grounds were thronged with the personal friends of the federal jurist, Including •*5 or eighty federal office-holders, em­ ployes of Judge Bethea's court and other friends from Chicago and other cities throughout the stat^ Collector John Ames came from Minneapolis to attend' the funeral, Judge J. Otis Humphrey came from Springfield and Clerk Dan Hogan of the Danville district joined the delega­ tion. Judges K. M. Landis, C. C. Kohl, saat and Peter S. Grosscup, Gen. Fred­ erick Dent Grant, Marshal Hoy, Dis trict Attorney Sims, Commissioner Foote, Senator Gardner and several other Chicagoans attended. Following the obsequies talk was renewed among the politicians and office holders concerning the likeli­ hood of a fight between Senators Cul- lom and Lorimer over the naming of a successor to Judge Bethea. It was the first time the politicians had been together since the Spring­ field senatorial, deadlock was broken. A new candidate for Judge Bethea's place was brought out in Municipal Judge John Hume, who lives in the Twenty-first ward, Chicago. He is a Yale graduate, a friend of Mayor Busse, and ranks high as a lawyer. His fellow Yale men in Chicago are making an active campaign for him. President Taft is reported to have expressed the opinion that Yale is not as well represented in official life as he would like to, see. On this ex­ pression Judge Hume's supporters hang their hopes. Several private reports concerning the meeting of Senators Cullom and Lorimer in Washington were received by office holders who came to the funeral. There is still doubt about whether Edward D. Shurtleff would take the judgeship, and Mr. Lorimer's coming is expected to clear up that question. The friends of State Senator Cor- bu8 P, Gardner, who is Cullom's choice, are confident that their candi­ date is in the lead. M AN EASY WAY, " f " Iff Cure Kidney TrouoiM and Quickly. It is needless to suffer the of an aching back, the misery of back­ aches, rhteumatic pains, urinary disor­ ders, or risk the danger of diabetes or ^rights disease. The cure is easy. Treat the cause--the kidneys--with Doan's Kidney Pills. H. Mayne, Market St, Paris, Temu says: "Weak kid­ neys made my back stiff and lame. The urine was cloudy and irregular and I had to get up many times at night. I lost en- ergy, became weak and could not work. Doan's Kidney Pills removed all the trouble and re­ stored my health and strength." Remember the name--Doan's. Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foa- ter-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. THE LAW'S DELAY. filx--What's the best way t» < settle a question? Dlx--Go to law about it. i If a man never told a lie It's be­ cause no young mother ever askeA him what he thought of her baby. Many Good 8tate Jobs Open. Examinations for engineer, fireman, graduate nurse, stenographer, cooks, assistant cooks, laundryman, broom maker, teamster, porter, attendants, domestics and laborers will be held by the Illinois civil service commis­ sion September 8-9 in Chicago, Quincy, Watertown, Springfield, Anna, Golcon- da. Peoria, Elgin, Kankakee, Lincoln, Jacksonville, Marion and Mount Ver­ non. Women attendants especially are required. They receive $18 to $20 per month from the beginning. In addi­ tion to their board and quarters at­ tendants are given the opportunity of entering the training school for nurses. They receive an excellent course in nursing. If they took the course else­ where they would be at considerable expense, but the state pays them for their services and enables them to be­ come nurses. When they complete their training they receive $40 per month and board in the institutions. Camp Meeting la Held. The twelfth annual camp meeting of the Illinois Holiness association was held in Machinery hall at the state fair grounds in Springfield. Rev. A. H. Hills of Oskaloosa, Ia„ Rev. I. F. Hodge of Wichita, Kan., and Rev. A. H. Johnson of Akron, O., were among those participating. The local officers in charge were: Rev. William Ashbrook, president; Thomas Mason, secretary, and W. A. Nickey, superintendent. ALL INTERESTED IN POODLE #-- * ^ Mark Twain Unnoticed by New York Crowd Which Was Watching' Trick Dog. The sidewalks of the avenue were thronged. Moving at a leisurely pace a cohtlnuouos stream of pedestrians "ttrew a brilliant ribbon of color as far as the eye could reach. At For­ ty-fourth street, at the most crowded |kour, a small knot of gathered, obviously intent upon the same object. A woman who was just behind the group observed the cause of this little gathering, as she sup­ posed, and turning to her companion: "How gratifying!" she said. "See, there is Mark Twain waiting for a bus, and so many have stopped to look at him. He has his back to them and doesn't know a thing about it. Quite a Sfribute, isn't it?" '•f-Aa-...;.* But by this time the women were abreast of the group. The real ob­ ject of interest obviously was some­ thing eMirely different. Standing back of Mark Twain was a woman, and be­ side her a French poodle sitting up­ right, his mistress* purse held tight­ ly in his mouth. Not one of the group had recognized the distin­ guished author nor had a moment for him in the absorption of watching the trick dog.--New York Herald. Some people set good examples, bu,t expect others to hatch them out t-T • ' On- Porpoise. A porpoise can neither play football nor yell, nor even so much as wave a flag. He can't smoke a pipe. He can act like a fool, it is true, but he can't entertain the notion that in so doirig he is bright. He can't call his father the pater, nor his mother the mater. He can't, merely by filling his with the east wind, get to himself simply it Why, then, do w« continue to speak of schools of par poi ses ?--Puck. Bethea's Cash to Charity. Aside from the disposition of ex­ tensive law and general libraries. United States District Judge Solomon Hicks Bethea, who died at Sterling, made cash bequests to the Palmyra as4 foniptm association and to the Dixon hospital in his last will and testament, which was filed at Dixon. The two cemeteries received a total of $1,500 and all the rest of bis estate, which is estimated at $100,- 000, mostly in Lee county farm land, was bequeathed to the hospital. No Lorimer-Cullom Fight. Senator Lorimer, who has returned from Washington, put the minds of the federal office-holders at ease for a time by declaring that no shake-up nor slate-making would be indulged in until December, when he and Senator Cullom get together again in Wash­ ington. Senator Lorimer will not start to Europe until late in the month and will spend the interim at his summer home at Pistakee Bay and in a busi­ ness trip or two. He and Senator Cullom will make no suggestions to President Taft concern­ ing the succession to the late Judge Bethea, unless the president wishes. He believes that the appointment of Congressman Madden of Chicago and William A. Rodtnberg of East St. Louis fkf the committee on rivers and harbors insures an appropriation for the deep waterway at the next ses­ sion of congress. "Senator Cullom and I had an ex­ tended talk in Washington," said Sen­ ator Lorimer. "We came to an agree­ ment to agree. That expresses it fully. Otherwise we did not discuss appointments and nothing will be done in that direction until congress meets again next winter. ""As to a successor to Judge Bethea, I think the president will use his own discretion. I suppose he will make in­ quiry regarding available men when he comes to Chicago September 16, but think that the vacancy will not he filled until after he completes his transcontinental tour." Before Gov. Deneen departs on^iis vacation the executive and Senator Lorimer expect to meet at the Union League club for more than one long conversation. j~ M, Milk Supply Is Bain's 8ubject. Dr. W. G. Bain, state bacteriologist, and well-known in his profession, ad­ dressed a large number at the cham­ ber of commerce rooms on the sub-, ject of the milk supply for the city. He said: "The dairies have quick­ ly recognized the necessity of co-op­ erating with the board of health in all their efforts. I am now going to de­ scribe the details of a plan by which the dairies of Springfield are endeav­ oring to obtain an ideal sanitary con­ trol of the milk supply. 'Sanitary control of a milk supply 1» necessary for two reasons: First, to create such condition of produc­ tions as will keep the milk sweet for the longest time; and, second, to keep out the disease germs." Illinois Day Celebrated. The Illinois club celebrated Illinois day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo­ sition, and Col. Clarke E. Carr of Galesburg, former United States min­ ister to Denmark, was a speaker. Several thousand former and pres­ ent residents of the state were in at-_ tendance. On the registers of the various buildings since the fair opened, Illinois leads everjr. other eastern state in the number of vis­ itors. OWES HER ufeto Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Vienna, W. Va.-- "I feel thatlow» the last ten years of my life to Lydi* E. Pinkham's v ega. ta.lv1" r» -*-* Eleven years ago £ was a walking" shadow. I had been, under the doctor'# carebut gotno relief. My husband per­ suaded me to try Lydia E. Pinkham's vegetable Com. pound and i t worked like a charm. It re­ lieved all my pain» I advise all suffering- women to "take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."--MRS. EaatA Wheaton, Vienna, W. Va. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- Eound, made from native roots and erbs, contains no narcotics or harm­ ful drugs, and to-day holds the record for the largest number of actual cures of female diseases of any similar medi­ cine in the country, and thousands of voluntary testimonials are on file in the Pintham laboratory at Lynn, Mass., from women who have been cured from almost every form of female complaints, inflammation, ceration,displacements, fibroid tumortL. irregularities, periodic pains, backache,, indigestion and nervous prostration. Every such suffering woman owes it to- herself to srive Lydia E. Fmkham'ft Vegetable Compound a trial. If you would like special ad vie* About your csme write a confiden­ tial letter to Mrs* Pink ham, at ILynu, Her advice is frect adpL always lielpfuL ,')V;.*5§ misery. Food Products 'Month Breaks Record. "With 6.47 inches of rainfall, the month just passed, had the greatest amount of precipitation of any July for ten years past, with the exception of that in 1907, when the record shows 6.70 inches. The heaviest rainfall in 24 hours vfras on July 5 and 6, when 2.45 inches fell. The highest temperature was »4 de­ grees, on July 2, and the lowest was 51 degrees, on the glorious Fourth. The greatest daily range of tempera­ ture was from. 8ft to it degrees, on July 21. x 8pringfield Fair Date* Announced. The chamber of commerce has an­ nounced November 22-27 as the date for the "Made in Springfield Fair" in 1909. It was stated the arsenal has been secured for the event, and elab- plans have been-made. Springfield pyblic. with the memory of the last fair success fresh in mind, will look forward to the coming event as one of the greatest in central Illi­ nois. Each merchant will be urged td display in unusually attractive style, the wares of his business. Fire Alarm Travels 200 Miles. An alarm of fire for a blaze which originated in the north part of Ed wardsville was sent over 200 miles in a circuit and returned to a point ten blocks distant in three minutes. There is no telephone in the yard station, so Kearney notified the superintendent's office in Decatur, 100 miles away, by wire. T^e dispatcher called Poag, the nearest station to Ed wardsville. that had a long distance telephone. The Poag operator notified the exchange j in EdwardsrUle and tike operator nag the alarm. Llbby't There's a marked distino tion between Ubby*» O ookeid O o r n o d Boot and even -tW beat that's sold in bulk. Evenly and mirkfly cured and scientifically cooked in UM/a Groat WMtm tOtokmrn, all the natural Savor of the jsesh, prime beef is retained. It is pure wholesome, delicious and teady to serve at meal tine, Saves w«rit aad wofty a* Other LAby "HeafcMa)1* lleal-Tkne-Haata, ai to serve, are: ••purity goes haod in hand With Products mi the Libby brand". Write for fan Bookkt,-- "How to a i^ i Things tm Eat". - f i > m m y*m at vwr grocora.