one of the military commnander's official reports says, "The hostile body was rions agencies, where the malcontents were, doubtless, in many cases, driven to desperation by starvation and the heartless frauds perpetrated on them ;" and that the Interior Department is obliged to confess that, Such desertions were largely re-enforced by accessions from the va largely due to the uneasiness which the Indians had long felt on aceount of the infraction of treaty stipulations by the white invasion of the Black lills, seriously aggravated at the most critical pe- riod by irregular and insufficient issues of rations, nccessitatod by inadequate and delayed appropriations."

It was at this time that Sitting Bull made his famous reply: Tell them at Washington if they have one man who speaks the trnth to send him to me, and I will listen to what he has to say."

The story of the military campaign against these hostile Sioux in 1876 and 1877 is to be read in the oflicial records of the War Department, so far as statistics can tell it. tory, which can never be read, is written in the hearts of widow Another his ed women in the Sioux nation and in the nation of the United States

Before midsummer the Sioux war was over. The indomita ble Sitting Bull had cscaped to Canada-that sanctuary of ref uge for the Indian as well as for the slavo. Hore he was vis ited in the autusin by a commission from the United States, empowered by the Presidout to invite him with bis people to return, and be " assigned to agencies," and treated"in as friend ly a spirit explained to him that every one of the Indians who had SIurrendercd had "been treated in the same manner as those of as other Indians had been who had surrendered." It was your nation who, during all the past troubles, remained peace- ably at their agencies." As a great part of those who lhad fled from these same agencics to join Sitting Ball had done so be- cause they wero starving, and the Government knew this (had