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cleanliness in person and food, and also learning to do well the work for which they were employed. That anything in the shape of evil will not do, but must come up to a standard.

I saw them learning to realize that they were not hired merely to receive their pay, or, if possible, to "boss" the job, and have their own way about it. Knowing that the brothers of many of these men have offered to take care of their families, stock and farms, while these go away to earn money to help all, I can but class your great exhibition as an industry which will benefit the Indians of Pine Ridge Reservation. Most respectfully yours, JNO. ROBINSON,
Missionary Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota.

COL. T. A. DODGE, U. S. A., re U. S. CAVALRY.

Harper's Weekly, June, 1891.

This able magazine has done effective work in the past years in faithfully illustrating the same subject that the Wild West is simplifying to the present generation by animated tableaux--thus aiding the permanent character of the marvelously correct and imperishable illustrations of their artist, Fred Remington (and their contributors--notably Col. Dodge and Theo. Roosevelt), time enhancing the literary, artistic, and historical value of their work. Liberty has been taken to remarkable Relief of Pine Ridge Ride, by Guy Henry's command, whose dark-skinned "Buffaloes" furnish a chapter to Western experience by having their feet "chilblained" and their thin faces sunburned) by old Sol's reflection from the snow) on the same day. Col. Dodge intelligently discourses on American riders, and relates the following cavalry trips:

"Our Western cavalry is now the pattern of the cavalry of the future. Let us quote some isolated facts, quite apart from the civil war, to show that our cavalrymen on Indian service have stout hearts under their army blue as well as stout seats in the saddle, and earn credit for them both. Mention need not be made of the risk every scouting party or detachment runs of pershing in an Indian ambush, like Custer of Forsyth; nor of frightful marches of many days with the termometer at forty degrees below zero, like the command of Henry. Let us look at some good distance riding, for it is in this that our men excel. General Merritt, in 1879, rode with a battalion of the Fifth Cavalry to the relief of Payne, and covered on hundred and seventy miles from 11 A. M., October 2d, to 5:30 P. M., October 5th--two days and six hours--accompanied by a battalion of infantry in wagons, which much retarded the march. He arrived on the scene in good order, and ready for a fight. Single couriers had ridden in over the same distance from Thornburg's command during the previous two or three days in less than twenty-four hours.