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1, 1 1 for \p- ly Tan •kly gh, Jog ing pi. .ber - •ho mew Jon Fer - brae by per an. THE MOST 5RESTLESS TRIBE OF INDIANS ON EARTH. Atway• Crave for Blood—lintrenotied In the Bad La tan Where They Bulk to !their Umtata Content—Three Red We (Spechil Correspondence.) 11E' Sioux Reserve - Cell is the best pos- tible combination if prairie, hills, emuntains and timber lauds. The letter is composed it cottonwood, ash, elin and box elder. il'he rivers are jciostly narrow etrea 111.9 of great length. Water is sce.rce and of an al- kaline character. Something like $45,000,000 has been expended since 1e68 on the support and eivilization of the Sioux, yet the pro- gress has been VEry small in proportion to the expenditure. One-fourth of the entire Indian appropriation goes to the Sioux. They are givee agricultural im- plements, wagons, htreess and fences. At the various agenries the Indians employ two days in every two weeks going to and from the agencies for ra- tions. They have la be practically driven to do fermi:ea, and are forced to attend school, harks back to toe ways of his ances- tors. The Sioux are still permitted to hold their dances, with the single exception of the sun dance. This was too bar- barous for government endurance, al- though nobody was hurt by it but the Indians themselves. It was the cere- mony in which the young braves \qualified\ as full-fledged warriors. It wtts a sort of Maypole affair, in which the Indians danced around a pole while hanging to ropes. They did not hang with their hands. Two deep gashes were cut in the skin of their breasts, ami the rope was passed un- tter the skin and flesh and tied. Then the young braves danced and cavorted and howled around the stake until the rope wore through the skin and set them free. When this occurred they were suppos el to be full fledged warriors. ‚Voe to the buck who faint- ed or fell from exhaustion. Ile was thenceforth regarded as a squaw man and shunned by the rest of the tribe. The finding of gold in the Black Hills brought the whites and the Sioux to- gether with a clash. In those days that short -legged, game -footed warrior, Sit- ting Bull, was in the heyday of his pow- er. His warriors murdered and were murdered right and left. These troubles culminated in the uprising in which General Custer and his soldiers lost their lives. To Sitting Bull has been attributed the questionable honor of planning that massacre. If reports may be believed it was that fine old barbarian Gall who did the work. Sit- ting Buil was only a medicine man who had outgrown his mummery TWO STRIKES. A Sioux Chief. The Rosebud agency Is one of the „Jost beautiful spots in Dakota. It is so named from acres and acres of rose bushes along the creeks. It was at this agency that Red Cloud, Spotted Tail and other great Sioux chb fs have made their most dramatic appeals for and against war. Not can ever eradicate the love St blood and war from the nature of the Sioux. They are a warring nation by tradition and Instinct Generally S - peaking, they are tall, large boned awl RAIN IN THE ACE. A Friendly (\lief. at Het ic school . children mes s nee eivillz‘d boys and girls, but the older Indiana still cling to their moccasins, earrings, leggins, eagi,lt-i' feathers, hedgehog quille rind paint. To these all fathers of the least taav be at • triloitod much of ti.e trgnele with the whit ,- ;, although thssee le 'settling quite 50 bad as on educate! Ira! .an boy who and his tom-tom. He was by no means a man of person- al magnetism, and It was not long after the Custer massacre before White Ghost, Drifting Goose and other promi- nent sub chiefs of the tribe withdrew their support and followed Gall. Two Bears, Big Head and other leaders. Thin was a crusher to Bull, but tis promptly rallied a few of his faithful followers and started a sort of Clan -na - Gael society, called the \Secret Eat- ers.\ Nobody ever found out the par- ticular diet Indulged in. Most of the warriors laughed at It, and finally Sit- ting Bull, disheertened and grown old, took to farming. in which occupation he was engaged when he met his death. Gall is one of the few Sioux chiefs whose love for his people Is sincere. He never mrtequeradcd as a patriot to secure his own ends, and in all his in- terceurse with the whites he has pre- served his dignified personality as an Indian. The medicine man is probably the worst enemy to civilization encoun- tered by the agent.. among the Sioux. There is no and either to their mum- mery or tioilr villainy The following story show, the fat mus dispositien Of t tribe Sonne four years ego the Roll of Red Fish, a young warrior named Frosted, made tip his mind that he would become a medicine man and a prophet. lin had a vision Then he began to howl. Ile was surrounded by all the warriors of the village, who began to suspect that hp hail the stomach ache He enlightened them. \IA!\ Raid he; \1 ha'-» seen nhn Crows coming; they hay\ eri)gped the Cannon Rail River and run as flip hat ee of the forest. Our wives and children are in danger. I hare spoken.\ 'I hen he began to howl again seem , thee previously the government had taken the firearms away from the In- dians, but they manag‘d to sirop» np some bows and arrows and old muskets and away tbey went In their war paint after Frosted. He led them acres)) the river, where he lay down and had an- other vision. The Crows were at a cer- tain butte. Away went the Sioux to the butte. They found no Crows. Then Frosted prognosticated another butte. No Crows were there. The war party visited butte after butte, but found no enemies. Then they came back dis- gusted. Some time afterward Frosted had another vision. He ex- pressed his intention of bring- ing the Standing Rock to life. Standing Rock, after which the agency is named, is about four feet high and a foot In diameter. It is supposed to be a petrified squaw who ran away from her husband. Agent McGillicuddy, In order to show the foolishness of the thing, 111:mored the young prophet. lf he brought the rock to life he ‚vas to receive a valu- able present. If he failed he should go to jail. The day arrived, and Frosted began operations in the presence of a great assemblage of spectators. He pranced and howled around the rock and rattled his bones and spells and cut up his monkey shines for half an hour or more. The rock did not budge. The spectators began to sneer, and Agent McGillicuddy seized upon Frosted and thrust him into durance vile. This proved to be a great blow to In- dian superstition. Generally speaking, a Sioux has no idea of the fitness of things. Some time ago a warrior walked into an undertak- er's shop in a frontier town and pur- chased a coffin for a child whom he ex- pected to die in the following week. The child got well and the buck had a cotlin on his hands. He is probably saving it for future use. The drawing of rations by the Sioux is an exciting event for even a cool blooded spectator. It panders to the Indians' love o. llood in a way that is unpleasantly suggestive. The steers in- tended for beeves are kept in a pen near the agency. Each steer is calcu- lated to be enough for thirty Indians, whose names 'ae i e drawn by lot. These Indians station themselves in a line on their ponies about three hundred yards away. At a given signal a steer Is released. Then like an avalanche the wild sons of the prairie rush down on the ani- mal with yells and whoops and swing- ing lariats. The steer is killed in a jiffy. Then Come the squaws, and a scene of blood and carnage takes place that is enough to sicken the heart of a civilized person. The liver is eaten raw, and sometimes I have seen it hung from the neck of a squaw, who chewed away on it while cutting up the meat. Every part is kept and nothing is wasted. This scene is repeated until the steers are gone. The Sioux are great gamblers and will stake everything, including their wives and children, on their games of chance. They are played generally with the blue pits of pluma carved with symbols or with bones. While the gambling is going on the monotonous thump out the tom-tom Is inceseent Sometimes a buck will wager his sweet- heart, whose affections he has won, pledging to resign her in case he loses. There is no tribe in the history of the country that has given the govern- ment so mush trouble. The power of Osceola and the Seminoles was com- paratively easily broken; Tecumseh and the Iroquois were soon subjugated; Red Jacket and Black Hawk and Brant and other celebrated chiefs who at times have pitted themselves against the government were brought to terms in short order, simply because the gov- ernment had not then adopted the \civilizing\ policy. Time and again the Sioux have turned on their benefactors, returning a holocaust of evil for good. In 1862 they killed more than a thousand set- tlers, in 1866 they massacred Colonel Fetterman and forty-nine men, and in 1876 they butchered General Custer and five companies. This Is only a small part of their unsavory reefed. At HUGH HAWK. the same time there Is some degree of truth In the statement made by Gall, one of the few old-qme Indians who have not lost their permonn II t y. thn t the United States - had made tlfr t. two fiat lee with them, none of which had Wen kept by the whites. In a meletity of cases, however, the Cret. Infractions have boon HMCO! by \le Stout. - — Chocolate is still tee I in the Interior of South A'ntra foe e currcnej , as are cocoanuts all sgga. CARRIED OFF BY A CROCODILE. k Womas Is etzed and Killed, but t Lucky Shot Recovers Her Body. k'rom the Blackburn Times. A correseendent at Madras gives , graphic accerunt of an adventure with a crocodile. He says: As we were pro- ceeding in our cutter up the Jumbo Canal (Oriels) en the 17th ult. we re- ceived tht news of a weman having been takee by a mugger and on coming to the spot vie tied up and waited, in the hope .hat the reptile would come to the surface with its prey in order ta make a meal, as they are unable to feed under water. Presently there was a subdutal cry of - Mugger boi, Sanib!\ from one of the boatmen, and the man added Lie It had the woman's body in its mot.th. We saw part of its head and ba . .k above theleetter and also the arm of its victim protruding as it swam along, evidently looking for a place to land. Our excitement was intense as we cerefully followed its course and hoped for a chance of a shot. The croc- odile made for the opposite bank, but instead of going ashore it lay on the long grasses and reeds in about four feet of water,. with the body in front ot it. After waiting for some time to see if tae reptile would land and as i. seemed t,o have no Intention of doing se, H— determined to try and get a shot at It. He crossed the canal sonic dis- tance down in a small boat and crept stealthily alcng under cover of the ca- nil bond as near as he dare without disturbing the mugger, as their sense ot hearing is very keen. Peering over the top of the bund he could see its eyes and the frontal bone above water, and at this Le tired. There was a tre- mendous commotion, and the crocodile n. linquished its prey and sank, coming to the surface again almost immediate- ly. It was difficult to say whether the taonster had been hit, although the commotion and the fact of its having eome up again at once for air, led one to trilnk that it had. Unfortunately it roee between H and the cutter, so that It was impossible to fire again. The men then proceeded to search for Hui body of the woman and succeeded in landing It. The corpse was that of a woman about thirty years of age. She hall not been long dead, for the blood was ooznig from a wound in her tem- ples and the limbs were still limp. The mugger had evidently dragge4 her away by the arm, for that limb was fearfully shattered and all but torn off. Other- wise the body was untouched. The face bore a terribly agonized expression, the teeth clenched and the features set in a look of absolute horror. Unluckily we were 'messier' for time, and could not wait to see the result of the shot or get m a o c r h e nce of following it up with any imaginative Animals. The other week r spoke of the power of imagination. A friend tells me that dogs are as much under its influence as men, and he has, in consequence, discovered a method by which a tender- hearted man can bring up his pup In the way it should go without unneces- sary suffering to either party. My friend's method is to keep in his yard a big butter-tub and a thick stick. When his dog has misbehaved he chains it up close to the tub, gives it a couple of cuts with the stick, scolds It energetically, and then sets to work to larrup the barrel. With every blow that fall.: epon the tub the dog howls anil struggles. By the time my friend has worn almself out upon the, barrel the (log ha.1 received all the moral good that could heve been afforded him by a thundering' good whipping, and is repentant and conscience-stricken for the next three days. In fact, the l imagin- ative animal fancies that he really has had a beating, and le as sorry for him- self as if he had been half -killed. My friene's motto is, \Spare the tub and spoil the dog.\ Being a kind man, he hated the severity that Is necessary to te.e training of animals, and his die - revery has removed a great burden from his mind Ile can punish his dog and Immediately after sit down and en- joy his dinner—a thing that, in the old days. rottll not be thought of. He tells me that he has never found the plan to riu sorry, and he has tried It on dozen*' of dogs.—Jerome K. Jerome. One of who is not away on a vacation went to call the other day on one of his most esteemed parishioners The lady, who Is a very devout perseau. has a little daughter of the lisping age, to whom steals MOIllid htag 91a . IllS no OM. foil\ -- she haft patiently taught a number of Terre liaute Express. piona little hymns When kite minis Old Gentleman (from head of the ter called I)otty was in the nursery he. stalls at a late hour) ( •eitet. I think ing beguiled by the nurse maid f ro m ‚''il and that young nine ha%0 talked a , •ry t rug nt by the recital of - Mot her , for one evei\g.\ (lutta(1„„se,• lie,.Ill „ nt for ' right, pa. ‘%fs won ,\ t may another word.'' Ltsipiteseeç .1/.i t mene. her, aria when the had been A Trifle Mlle\. the most reverend ministers Selfishness is the devil's narritng gt io ia r g n o road to perdition.—The Ram't i Sin always has a plausible excuse for appearing in comp:lily Milwaukee Journal. A good text for e base-ball sermon- - Where are the niue?\—Durlington Free Press. Tlirre would In. no trouble in poli- tics if the politician were let alone and given his wa).- -tirydalon Truth. \When is the best time to cook a dumpling for Henry ?\ •eAfter you aro safely married to him.\ The worst thing about the woman who says el told you so,\ is that sho generally tells the truth.— 8uovruille Journal. The true moral depravity - of betting on horse races is best seen by the man wino backs the wrong horee.—Da/timore Ai It seems quite natural that the threads of conversation should souse- thues produce a long yarn.—Bingham- Ion Republican. It is a melancholy faet and much to be regretted that good people tvlio want only what is right often get what is left.—Dallus Mrs. Wiseman—\Isn't your husband a little bald?\ Mrs. Hendrieks (indig- nantly) --\There isn't a bald hair in his head!\—Cleatter. The latest distinguished horse on the turd is named Seinivolon. It must be rather dillioult to bring him to a full stop.--- Boston 'Jerald. Truth may he at the bottom of a well, but it doesn't trouble the average fisherman. He never goes there to fish- -- baker's Statesman. The average boy will make a pair o pantaloons look antiquated in a day. There is nothing new under the son. — Burlington. Free; Press. The best cure for obesity is to board for the summer at a farm -housse where ‚V ill be treated \like one of the Lin ily.\—Boston Gazelle. It is a wise man who can remember ten days after a great deed was done that it was his wife and not himself who did it. --Atchison Globe. ''Suppose your wife ceased to love you?\ suggested the cynic. said the yioing lawyer, - I would get out a writ of attiteliment\—N. Y. Sun. Guilty---\Smithers was arrested for running off with Bronson's daughter.' -Eloping is not a crime.\ -No, but miss -appropriation is.\—Harper's Ba- zar. First Mate—\Well. sir, things are going smoothly now, sir.\ Captain. --\Yes. That is because several of the sailors have been ironed.\ \Well did she refuse you point , blank?\ •'No, she was very nice about it-- said I might call around in five years and learn her decision.' --N. lk • r •l- i l li t , L wae awful,\ said Chappie nantly. - Ile said if I opened my mouth again he'd pia a head ou me. \Why didn't )ou accept his offer?\— Figaro. Life Insurance Aesent (to a man who has angered him) -••Fellow, the only thing that saves you is the feet that I insured your life last week.\ --Flic guide Rtaltet . Wickwire--\Ctlueer isn't it, that risen generelly marry their opposites?\ Mr. - litit they wouldn't if they knew beforehand.\--- Terre Butass ExP e re ;; V Inauy people who are taking In smuttier boarders are peeple who have seen better (less and lived better. So have their boarders. —Sew Orleams Picayune. Gazzam---- - Here's an opera emu pa nv advertising 'two funny usimediatis.'\ Maddox—\Well that's an improve- ment on the old kind, any way.\— asiklyn Life. - All the fools are not dead vet,\ said a eantankerous Richniend inurtul te his spouse. - Of COUlse the . e not, John.\ replied his wife, • •for if they store I'd be a widow.\- Eplipiond sor •t r 11.\ said good, old-fashionesi Mrs. Prudington. as SIM laud down the opora-gias.i, atior a survey of the 911111- 1 a C1)01114. s'pom. oI10 hag to excite. a great ‘leiti in eaten weal her.' — Post. The difference between and ‚\‚VS IIMN here 91101% a 80, plainly as in trouble. Where woman' Us Way 10 'l 11 , MI .)I tears man pro- ceeds to put up a few strong dams. -- Terre Haute Express. lle- - Witat right or what excuse had you to eteal my Mee I'S\ She ••It was a case of klelitoneinía, I suppose. Thal. is what It is called, is it not, when one Irate Youth \› here. Duzegeorry, hrongbt Into the drawitg reorn she was \ on \pal owgr 1ms that I emiltil made te give her unwilling land to • net be ',on on to pa', in deign! \ l i i\ minister, and finally was coaxe- Du/A.111aq! did not u /11 t Voll - to say same ot her little hymns that trary. I toil bun ou could be counted mamma had tonight her. Dotty thought on no' to. - rate, , ,,,, / Pp , » a moment and began: Yent le Yethus, Meet and mild— Mr. Younglove • M . % dear. I 'va, greatly two lined on lUi il'ingthis nun - fl- ing to hod Ion goiter tiirengh urny Have you any I pockets.\ Mu , Y. .Y.w un IN have The aurae caught it later on for t111- - been mortiee I et Ceding me. but just g the child s bread with tnuon_getTO lwagiuu k ny \ ora. tIf tha \13-a. 1.2. black sheep\ order(
