Show J. t VALE GERONIMO a So old Geronimo is gone gone to join 1 Pontiac fL i. i King ICing Phillip and Sitting Bull and Red Tacket Jacket j jJ inlet Osceola and the thc great Shawnee maybe on the I V hunting grounds of the thc beyond maybe in a cooler place t p possibly s in a hotter place Geronimo was in all alli i r respects ets a u bad Indian that is S originally lie lIc took look many ir lJ iy scalps lIe He was a terror for twenty twenty- years rears so i l much Uch s so that t when General 1 Miles i took him in a sigh I r roller relief went ui up all over oyer Arizona northern Mexico i and nd New Mexico He lie was a hard man to down lie lie S gofer 1 never intimidated until General Miles iles i les sprung g the thc him That awakened all nIl his heliograph on superstitious superstitious superstitious super- super fears and his heart quailed be before ore it To him the tine heliograph b was an aS cye e on the thc mountain side He Hev v said said Him light he heap bep tell Me Ie hi hide e em me think ill ill right fight Here come light on the hill Tell soldiers where Injun is No O fair chance No can stand him off If n 4 He lie was a I bad Indian but if as the sanguine be- be lic e there is a heaven for Indians as well as for I White white men and Geronimo has b gone to meet the others one after tho other made a stand against the pale race and civilization tiou from the Atlantic to the thc Pacific then in that Geronimo in company can put a claim for being a Big Injun lie can say to the thc 1 ghost of Phillip to the ghost of Tecumseh to the ghost of Df old Osceola You Yon make em cm pretty good t fight You had plenty grass plenty plent water plenty to trees trees-to to hide behind Me re make em em fight no trees 4 gj ilO no water no grass Me Ie fight em in ill the desert Ko No cover I coyer er co but hut the rocks Mo le make maIm em fight twenty years years Me lre Ie g get t em plenty scalps Me Mc big Injun all the same you And they will have to admit it When he surrendered to General Miles i the general general gen gen- eral cral said he never ne' saw a a- manlier looking man He looked a fighter all through he looked a brave man because when he surrendered d there was no trace of fear no trace of shame he met him c eye eje re to eye eje and andl l lie her gave the impression that if it happened to be the tho generals general's fanc fancy t to take him out and shoot him in five minutes he would not have quailed not for a a. second There was nothing to do but take him in and either cither kill him or confine him where he hc could do no nomore nomore more harm but he had the elements clements in him that under different auspices would have made him a pow power r. r He was a natural leader he had bad not only th the courage and the cunning but he had with the dauntless dauntless daunt daunt- less courage the tenacity that never failed him until that mysterious eye on the hillside pointed out his bis lurking places and worked on his superstitious fears until he could bear it no longer and walked into camp amp and gave himself up When the world shall be refined down and men look over the history of the dealings of the white race with t tie e red one there will be many a vain regret reo re re- re- re o gret Bret that some other wa way was not found through which w ch to tame those untutored children of the desert W i the forest another way except to kill them Of course they were in the path of civilization and had bad to be swept out b but th the doing of it was cruel beyond all aU compare and it ought to have been more mercifully mercifully mercifully merci merci- fully arranged |