Show A FASHION r F A AS S ibon i 0 IN SCALPING SOME OP THE VARIETIES OP HAIR RAISING 4 chils af men sail 4 indians KIT lists different of cottnair Cott It tny lair off their ra locki cowards rotor tj 17 th the balades ba lages who lists the them it la Is tha fall of 1 1578 tho choy critics with their place in tho the indian I 1 territory orri tory havo broken into email small band bands and aro are breaking for their old homos homes in to tho the north two riyo companies com panlee of united cavalry aro are in pursuit but tho indians outnumber and when whon the troops cot got too close thoy turn and fight liko like cornered wildcats every day the soldiers eold lora find fresh evidence evidences of tho the foro ferocity olty of tho the thoy they are pursuing every along choir path las boon bonn tho mutilated bodies of mon inon llo in tho the four or iho flo 13 1 oury town finally the troops rc clied tho the iliago of tho the there they find twenty sm bolon on doad dead mon moo and boys almost the entire mulo malo population of tho town the indian indians were loei loss merciful to tho the women A fato fate worse than death was theire several of thorn aro are found naked nud and emark wandering tho pral ric there are othor marauding bands of Idal rans in tho the country but tho the bork of the Clo yenne IB Is unmistakable tho the bodle anro not scalped scalded ped this ls Is the way of expressing contempt for choso ho he kills thoro there Is no flory glory in carrying tho the scalp of u loan laan who 11 not ono at 0 tho the Artl articles clos of tho the faith ol 01 the loot toot that constitutes tho the population of the vil lago ingo la Is abhor anco of war and end all manner mannor of bloodshed thoro there was not a firearm in tho the allago whon when tho the two hundred indeli indiana ris swept through it further on tho old sold leie lets find a wounded boreo horse lying on tho prairie near him Js 1 a cowboys cow bos hat by it ho lie two or three empty rifle cat bridges thoro there was a fagut hoie here A hundred yards further on tire moro shells and tho the erase grass Is spotted with blood fifty yard yards further they find tho the body of a R cowboy about him are more shells pistol cartridges this timo time tho the cowboys long hair la to cono gone hero was an adversary whom thorn was some glory in killing jo tho soldiers sold lora familiar with alfo a and death on tho the plains thoro there ie Is no mystery about what they see on iho tl tayro ire t tho the cowboy met tho the indians and rodo wo for his life awny away from thorn them but among all those who pursued somo some must hae had horses swifter than tho the cowboys pony ho ila tried to koop keep them back with his rifle but the aro are not cowards so iho the unequal raco race wai was run tho the indiana indians firing 1 as they pursued they shot his horse and bo he tried to make a fort of the animals body wy maybe ho he kept theta oft off for a uno timo the empty shells would indicate as ts much then they began to cirelo circle out around him to tako him man from tho the roar rear his ills fort was no longer tenable and he ran a again ain where tho the second ethellr and tho the blood erase grass found a bullet reached him mat and be he wont went down still fighting fichtl ng ho ila must havo have recovered clou L to nako maki another effort another st ot reached him as ho he dropped from exhaustion and ibo fought on to tho end with bis elx six shooter that Is why they took his scalp J just tho the hair on tho the top of the dead cowboys head was gone tho scalping knife cut around just below tho the lino line of tho the hair on abo forehead toro hoad then the knife circled his bead viking aikin in that portion of tho the scalp where tho the hair divides behind that Is 13 the way they scalp 1 a whito white man MAD had their victim bean boon a sioux or a alowa they would not have taken so much but a whito white man does not dis aunguish his tho the consists of tho axis of tho the sc alp ilp just that spot bhora tho the hair that you brush to iho the front ind ild to the eldes sides joins that which you Z A brush grush back bacic toward tho the neck nock nearly 1 nil lit the indians tako take great trouble with the they lot the hair arow rol r there than oleo else ed ind braid it as carefully as a chinaman doe doo hi its queue frequently thoy they braid of buckskin or rabbit aln skin in with it and ornament it with bits of glass or bright metal death to ono one of these indians provided hu does not lose his ho ft ho lie is never rover dishonored wallo wb this wisp of hair is still attached to wise hid his skull in ibo W earlier days of anlian fight a whole tribe would hold holds a danco clance of DI rejoicing if it thoy they found their dead after a battle some of tho the western tillos havo have a belief that accounts for the consideration with alisch iho the Is regarded it la that tho the spirit of the dead indian it lifted up to tho the happy hunting g bounds toy by his and that without tb s appendage appen dago ho hd cin never reach roach the tho icalan paradise bo bu these indians will do any anything thIne to pr trout their scalps from ornamenting the bolt or at of nn tin enemy era ro numerous instances tancos of warriors who eluding eladio thom them solves cut ot from all hope of escape have ridden over precipices and gone down singing a song of triumph because tho the onomy enemy could not cot got their hair thie this ti Is aliu also the mason reason that tho the indian indians aiwas carry ott off their dead and hido tho be bodies where they can never bo found |