The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-04-11

The Indians.
Indian Summer is very pleasant style
Of weather.
wish the Indians had tried their hands
ut the rest of the season, and given US this
sort Of weather the year round.
Not being in the coal business, could
stand it.
The Indians are entitled to general graf |
itude for inventing this second edition OF
summer, short as it is.
Their meteorological ideas were good, as
Ear as they went-about ten days. But it
must be considered that their educational |
advantages were limited.
They had no public schools, with pretty |
female teachers, and an economical board
Of education.
Their pastimes were hunting the deer
and following the roe, and fighting each
other. Scalping people was one of their
most pleasing diversions.
Scalping is quite an interesting opera
ton; except to the party operated on; it
consists in taking all the hair off the top of
mans head: and the skin with it.
Bald-headed Americans are sometimes
supposed to be descendants of the original
gettlers, who were settled by the Indians.
There were Indians at one time on Long
Island. Fortunately they had retired to
their happy hunting-grounds before came
here.
They were not at all suited to this hem
isphere.
The noble race has, however, much de-
generated.
On account of bad whisky.
don't know what the Indians ever did
for the cigar business, but the only public
interest cvinced in the red man is by the
cigar store pcn, who are erecting monu.
mcnts to the Indians all over the city.
Thus the memory Of the Indian is pre-
served in his native wood.
People who have studied the Indians IL
their native woods, say they prefer the In
dams in wood to the Indians in the woods
There is one thing more to be said Of thu
cigar tribe: they are always smoking thu
pipe Of peace.
Where the Indian came from before h
landed in this country, is question still
open for investigation. But SO far tn
American people have been less concerne
about the Indians coming than his going
The Indian cannot be gut to any pract
cal use.
His complexion is not dark enough fo
politics. Nobody demands suffrage for tn
rod man.
Massachusetts never took the slightes
interest in him, except to kick him out {
the commonwealth, and appropriate h
landed possessions. ..-a.s~sss'
The south won't 6gh r6Ga71aiacturine il
The coMlbscountry have been slight
teresAsted by his taste for whisky.
Otherwise nothing can ever be made GU
Of him.
The Indian, like mosquitoes and publ
lecturers, was no doubt created for SON
wise purpose.
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