| Show THE BED MAN A Dream > J For the HERALD The post known as Fort Douglas occupies oc-cupies a most conspicuous and commanding com-manding position on the high tableland table-land at the foot of the Wasatch Range It is a ten company post or in army parlance a regiment is there The boys are brave and true to their espoused cause and are always ready at any moment to answer the assembly call with belts well filled with ball cartridges to repel any foe and above all obey orders Some of them have seen service A few were in the Sitting Bull campaign and were spoken of in the most complimentary com-plimentary terms by their commanders for tne dash and bravery in pursuit of the wily Sioux chieftain who eluded capture for so long A few were in New Mexico when that redoubtable Apache Nara with his devoted band was ravaging rav-aging and laying waste the country around about the Black Range of the Sierra Madres Others in the command com-mand wear war stripes and speak in glowing terms of the many fields of carnage they had fought over But to the point Now do not consider con-sider us a disciple of our longtime friend Col Joseph Mulhattan the ex candidate for the President on the Drummers ticket and the founder of anew a-new line of fiction whose title is B L Big Liar and who is proud of it No dont confound us for we speak of actual ac-tual occurrences and to this tale will be attached a moral On Wednesday the 2bth inst a delegation of Utes paid a visit to Camp Douglas Among the many wearers of the blue was one of foreign birth whose optics had never before rested upon a genuine American or as we say Indian j This genus homo followed the red men in their walks about camp He interviewed inter-viewed one of them and felt highly elated at being permitted to exchange words with a fullblood Indian He had read romances of the far west had spent hours scanning historys pa e concerning the red man had eagerly grasped every opportunity to post himself him-self regarding Indian warfareall he had read now flashed across his mind he thought of battle he concocted plans and inwardly desired a conflict Blood blood he wanted and blood he musthave All persons of an extremely nervous temperament and possessed of good appetites should beware of filling their minds with such ideas for nightmare is sure to follow The last call was sounded lights extinguished and all was quiet save the sounding footsteps of the alert sentry as he passed his post Our hero dreamed he heard the call the bugles were loudly sounding the assembly the commanding officer was in the saddle and orderlies were being hastily dispatched to the different company com-pany commanders with orders for im ihediate attack The skirmish ling was hastily formed and commenced deploying The moon shone brightly As far as the eve could reach were seen the crouching thousands i of the wiy redmenour hero trembled he was on the extreme left of the deploying de-ploying line they were crowding him loudly he cried to his comrades on the right and left to aid him Save me save me he cried but no one responded res-ponded He was captured and uttering utter-ing a piercing iekfell back as if dead At this juncture his comrades awoke the wild and wierd sounds so disturbed dis-turbed them that a self appointed committee com-mittee investigated and found all was a dream superinduced by seeing the red warriors the day previous |
