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-Qaoi! d mere Beru - b boane psosts d ten.
voyer!
Point! js mo suis invile. Of mamsn soussnti.
Cest lanDiverire do ma naiaucs aooordhu villain tu.
teur qui ny peDses pas
LIE pere Noel prit Made lsine dsus eas bras
-Je ny pensas pas !: to aurais Va q soir. Rerrde
cstte boits qui est a. ssr i chemipee mais ny touche
pas: c'est one surprise N.S8
Pais. oovrant i porte qui doasait l'escalier;
-Eh Catherine. cria-t. vito % convert Do plus 1t
IN pate avec des pots de crAme dc Saint. Gervaii
Urbain massait lee euillets de q barcarolls, aue le
pere Noel await tes q ct u Madeleine - souroa vsrs
lui. E as rsnsrS.ss sssas 4 ass
-voos ~. eonpc.ss Dc Il jolss chooses y ssres-vous
rieu ponr moi ditelle.
oh voos laves sptepda.. II parait que j suis tras
fort sur.es faules dharmouis 80 .se' stfAfss3
-vous saves que 10 pe Nos gronds toujoors Ecrives
tout de meme Je ne sas pas sdemoaslls d C4ry mais
cela fers plaisr. e..* -.
-Ah tu parles eomns %. tout es .psrdu dis 10
psre Noe. qui rsntrait en = frottant les Mains
Madeleine pris M cir mulip
-Chscuu parle CONNIE II lentead ditelle voas 4svs
tigues. moi s sares Doos monsieur Urbais faites .
que je vous deusnds st j vooa rensrcersi ! s
-Eo stsndans prends Don brss pstss, .pous dteuas-
roes dams y afdio, = sera plus gsi dit pirs Noel
lie convert ttat mis- une tonpelle sur u pappe
beD bauchc voya gros bouquet prepare par Cahe.
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rne y eabisst & verdurs % ltst parfsnl a X h.
-Susje ttosrdis s'lcra Madseins sn s'ssssyast
ai dsss poshs asux letrss que on ma remisss pour
vsas. monsieur Urbain, momsns oa j mon.as vosrs
musqus ma kis tout oublisr ~ yff1 g9 fe. G8
Urbaio pris Ice lstrss q lee ssvrie B ffi1a9 ybbe
-Qoes.ee que cela I! demands h pars Nosl. So
-Cest uno invitation diner chss e president do ri.
buna ct sos aurs Dc madame De Boeard qui me pre Dc
sise Dc a uusque chez ss dennis sor 90 petit soist
repond Urbsn don't iss oues sstssns sosvcrtss uus
legers rongear. .t'-.a .,st9 81 s,.z,
Ls pSrs Noel fsppa Dc son eooteau sur L table.
--Boe dit.il. encore dss invitations Il hhI df
.-Mss repliqua Urbair. ~ faut-i pas me Greer de-
relations qui pourrout N etre ulilss un jour :! b rg y,
-Compts sus toi ~ lieu De eomptsr sur les salous m
On taposs d. piano. or babie CONNIE des moiueaux sur
% to on - eoses t.d ct 10 eudemsin 90 % f sisn
voyes cspcDdsnt les psrsooDes Ies plus sonsid9rs.
Dies cc p vlie mont psomslssr spp0i.. rl.s s4H
>Et 70 psssssnt ton ie,aps Chswns de traverse oue
tout sels' Ls svai ct psude VOLTA lee seus vrsis che
mns IL sons roides mais III m4neDt tout dros a 9a
Urban !egardait par.dessos 10 du jardn e faisa
aes 500 pied sous IL table. ri qsst 80 s...,ltta
Eh bisn die Madeleine en- coupant 10 paiS, NJ Urban
ire dabcrd ches e president pois ches madame de Bos
gard e senaps sovsnts il fers tout ce que vous voa
dses. Ne groodes plus om a aaahissa. d J77isr 7.l
! sssf.a 'asAt9 AAEDEE AcHARp.
Ia suite au proclaim ssn<,o.)
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AVIS SPECIAL
RELATE All FRET

A dater do mardi. - decembre, un train
de fret circule entire Donaldsonville es
Westweeo, partant de Donaldsonville 4 =
heures du inatin, pour Ia Nouvelle- Orleans
ct stations Intermediates, le mardi. le ieudi
ct le samedi, arrivant 4 Westwego 1 s heu.
res ct / ID Nouvelle. Orleans 4 4 4heures so
de 'apras- midi ;et, a dater du ! ! decembre,
psrtant de Ia Nouv-lls Orl<sns 1 & heures
ct d. Wes:wsgo 1 8 heures dn matin. pour
DonaldapnviIlr et stations Intermediates, Il
lundi. le mrrcredi ct le vendreli, srrivant !
Donaldsonvilie 4 6 hcures du soir.
Fret, pour Donaldmnville ct stations
Intermediates, reeu su d6pdt de ID rue
Girod. avant 5 heures .du matin. expedie 4
8 heures.
Pour renseignements sur le prix du fret,
sadresser aux agents G.S. LANDRY.
Westweeo, on JIM. KNIGHT, Donaldsou-
vile.
G..W..R. BAILEY, surintendant general.
W.J. PHELPS, agent geoeral do fret.
1871
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aux princies de l'Ecole de Paris. d.
l'Ecoie a,atomique. CONNIE d'aucun'
l'sppellen avec dedain, qu'elle le doit
Ellie occup encore aujourd'hni ce rang
dispute. Nielgues annSes encore. ct ellie
laura peru 81 ION ny met bon ordre
Voici en- eux mois pourquoi.: l'snato.
mie est dvenue impossible.
Les rosanciers ont abuse des froides
dalles. % cadavrcs de jeunes 6lles
reconnus par leur amanf, des borreurs
de 10 mo p'ofauee. etc, etc. LIE public
est aujo'd'hui rrevenu, ct pen de per.
sonnes nt capab.es d'examiner ayec
!e sang-oid qui convent Ia question
des disctions hnmaines.
II s'e forme plusieurs societies don't
l'objet 4 de fournir aux morris les de-.
penses une sepuliure chrtteans. Get
objet e, ,assurement fort honorable, car
il repo, snr un sentiment don't Ia deli.
catesse 'echappe 4 persoune. Cepen-
dant csen;iment nest pas 4 sa place
lei.
On il que les malades qui succom-
bent Dis ros h6pitaux sont rendas 1
leur faille qui les reclame, tandis que
ceux d ne sont reclamts par personne
sont ;res aux amphitheatres pour
l'instrtion des eIeves. Ce sont ces
dernis qpi ont excite IL sollicitude
des s.efes Inflammation.
penible. il est vrai, dc dire
que tte creature, don't les emotions,
les ids, les passions. ont etc les n6tres.
que tie creature. qui vecu CONNIE
nouaoit etre ouverte ct dissequee, ct
que cite pauvre guenille humane
n'au pas immediatemens le repos
suql Ia mort sewbls lui dooner tant
de sits.
IcGur Sc serre d cette idee, ct le
preer movement est de s'opposer A
ce ;rilege commits par ID science sur
Fore de Dieu. Msis II faut refschir
ct dire que sans % 'sscrilege" de
tojes jours. il ne - formerait pas IN
semedecin capable de conservcr Ia
vie nos freres ct de- nos 6Is.
Gus avons tous eprouve ces heures
dgoisse qui sabatient sur nous pen-
d, la maladie dc ceux Que nous al.
us. Ces heures.la ne s'oublient ia.
n. La maison est bouleversee, 10
Mt est Ia au chevet de celui que nous
dons; nous Ia voyons. nous en- sen.
u pour sinsi dire I'etreinte dana les
uvements indecis, dams 10 soufle
snge de celui qui va nous quister.
ms attenduns le medecin. nous cher.
'ns 4 lire dams ses yeux 10 verdict
ii va prononcer. Sill hesite. s'l ne
I pas. quelIe angoisss Mais ii
rs. svcc Ia nettets d'esprit que ls-'
de dc l'anstoupie lui aura donnte ; ii.
&c ID sdrete de main sui ne s'scquiert
ID lamphithaatre, nous ls voyons
ire une optration hardie st nppeler
vic qui sen alIait, ls bo0heur nous
inverse ct depasse Tat. oce angoisse
ii nous etreiguait quand nous le
'yious ignorant ct hesitant. VOLTA les
ais sentiments. les sculs qui soisnt
gitiues. VOLTA les emotions quill faut
rappeler quand on q demands s'il
ut s'opposer aux dissections !
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sssassins qni ont encore les MAINS
ronges de sang. VOLTA ponrqnoi ces
tristes communities du Sud, qu'on
accuse de rbulence lorsqn'elles
sont opprimees ct ruinSes. ont ban.
nj de leur esprit les idees d'inde.
pendance qui leur etsient 81 cheres,
ct ne songentplns Qua payer d'nne
soumission sans bornes ls tntelle ct
Il protection dun pouvoir fort ct
incontcste. Tendance deplorab!e.
mails assurenent inevitable dams le
cou.s actuel des chooses.
Pendant que. les anciens seces-
sionistes leveHt les bras en- anp-
pliants vers le d6partement execntif
de PUnion, leurs vainqnenrs iirritent
contre les empietements ct les abns
de ce meme departement. On q de-.
convert one u douane de. New
York Stait un engin politiqne ct un
sntre de rspine. que Ie President ct
ct ses secretaries se servaient dans
les campagnes electorales. des EN-.
ployks federaux de cette institution,
ct qu'en outre plusieurs des susdits
employees levsient une dime frsu.
duleuse sur le commerce dimpor.
tation de ID cite imperiale. Fait sur:
prensnt pour les sonrds qui ne ven.
lent pss eDtendrc on les avengles qui
ne veulent pas voir. le President
avsit ett plusieurs fois averti des
exactions de fonctionn aires NOMINEES
par lui ct n'avait pas rompu le ma.
jestaeux si!ence qni coavre ct dissi-
mule % nnllite ct - depravation.
II ma fallu rien moius gu'une accu-
sation directe. formnlee par Carl
Schurz, le tribun de la reforme. en-
plein senat. ct designant, conme le
complice interesse 1 Ia pe.petra.
ton des vols flagrants de 10 Douane.
IN homme place derriere le secre.
taire da Trssor, ct plus puissant
qnelui. Mis- en- demesre. Ie Congress
) nonm6 m comite d'enqa4te don't
le but parsit ltre de saaver Ie Pre-.
sideut par 10 sscrifce des snbor.
donsss maladroits qui mont pas 81
tromp-r L. vigilance de i'opinion
publiqss. Hais Peveil est bien doS'
nj ct h cri dc rsforne est universal
Toatefois. CONNIE nons.le disiohs,
les citoyens ltsts ds Nord. alIant
en- sens inverse de ceux dn Sud,
penscnt plulot ! d6membrer pExecu'
tif qua le fortifer. lie trouvent qo'iI
sort Do ID Naison Blanche une main
qui ne Pest pas, ct qui est 81 Tongue
qu'ells - jusqu'as fond des poches
des marchsnds notsbles de 10 cite,
ct esux.ci ne sont pes gens 1 bsdi'
ner en- matiers d'interlt. Les doua.
aes Aossi sont l lsurs ycux des forts
dStsches, peuplts Dc creatures poll
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SUFFRAGE Er PATRONAGE


LIE Congress americain ne doitpss
eprouver un mediocre embsrrss :
statuer sur les reclamations qni lni
arrivent dcs divers points de rU.
MON. Au Sud, nous conjnrons LEG
legislsteurs de Washington de ve-
mir contempler les monstr"enx pro-
duits du suffrage universal, tsDdis
ou'au Nord les citoyens Sc rscrient
contre le patronage gouvernemes'
tai. Pour eur le NAL Went den
haut, pour nous II part den bas.
volontiers New.York en- appelle.
rait du nepotisme presidential ! 10
plebs, ct sans beaucoup hesiter
nous fuirions l'incube africain jus
que dams les bras dune dictatare
ennemie. Hier, une grande partie
de 10 population lonisiansise, Ia
msjorits peutttre, edt applaudi Ala
proclamation de ID loi msrtiale, ~
risque de psrcourir un cercle conno
ct de se retrouver dams le meme
defile ct dams la meme impasse. Par
un singulier revirement, 10 fameuse
thsorie des droits d'Etat, repudiee
par le Sud, ne tardera pas 1 etre en-
honnenr an Nord, ct nous verrons
Ncw.York on Boston rehabiliter
Calhoun.
En- efst. il est clair que i son.
verainets rrovinciale. apres avoir
ete l'ecuel qui fit sombrer les Etats
affligts du Hsau de Fesclavage, est
devenue ls bloc qui leur barre an.
jourd'hni le chemin. L'antorite.
don't ils etaient d fiers It ii jalonx,
q pass6 toat eDtiars entse lee mains
dune majorit4 d'sfiranchis. lis ca
'e!a'e". uo"' oo' "'''"'. - s.soe'
raient l II perte de prerogatives
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Ssailis,os su nssssaissi a ss raran,-G Gssreu'
LIE MUSICIEN DE BLOIS

Al sIt,ie \ bos tsaes
sieap aai urbsis sapprseta da piano . s;Aass. Il
-Ds AraA iosjsss - fagss! ssrnsn y jsuss
= shomms.
4 saat = Nm qsslqss ms dtlisstruusst. % iu-
st.at - sogn preessasest psk shvis psis n saSi
m1sssk ss1ne sssitle ~ = nesveucpt.
-Eh: e! dit.il h - ne passit 10 ~. nj ~o.r
do ooots.tulat ef' II -,s s-ss .,
noesesss esps.daah pss ssreta 4 ~ 49, plsms.
-Pabjss disi. - ssss pesr ssts ktsatole que 4
file d rSesvssf gestrsI ~ dsGasdts lsstrs josr.
Urhsin sst best sessst 1eun - tro paGee q eerae
tssss eyphisSs aps1s sss \ bsttit - naise
..-Cahe - nsl =. - hJthns - rapid = ~: 1
Mlls = O.y = ME - - niIb eosPiinsals.j esss
qa'sls = y sossait eu1ss.
nta = larsasolIs psss lGi41.s, III Il dsdssel!
slgns = hvs = alluns - secosd sigrs
"A present rcspirous % peu reprit.il
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AVIS

Les docteun soussignSs ont l'hopneur
de prevenir lcur clientele ODE dssormais
lis prssentesoo. leurs complies d'honoraires
: P'ssue Dc d nsladis de- prsoones pour
iesquelIes leap Soins anront 6t5 r6clam6s.
~. Q. cHADAUD. t'.ff
Dr. wm. HAaf. lrag
StJean Bsptists. n janvier 1879.
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'''o' AS0yVU In --------- MI
iourcne l2. Is 1. 90
G.W..R BArLEr, surintendant general.
CIT. BENEDICT. assistant. surintendait
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lie soussignk . rhonpeur de prSvenii
les families gull e cbsrgera de l'entretisn
des ton,bes dams le cimetiere de la paroisse
St'Jesn. Bap,iste, ainsi que de l'oaverture
des foars, de ID construction des monuments
et de toutes les feparations n6cessaires an
bon eiat de O. qui lui sera comic.
mars 1869. HAusriS RobRIouE. o
~Ssdresser, pour renscignement., soft
~ Rev. JIM. Ravoire, cure de l6glise
st.Jean. B.ptiste, soft su signataire du
present avis. " ~ igt 80 -
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20
Mark Twain Abroad.

An Athens correspondent of the Hart
ford Courant writes: AS stood on the
buttress of the wall, looking down upon
the city and the vineyards extending to
the sea, | could but recall Mr.. Twain s
account of his visit to the Acropolis. II
you have not read it you will thank me
more for calling your attention to it
than prating on it in my poor way.
Popular as are Mark Twains books at
home, | believe they are still more so
abroad. Published in two volumes in
London, at one shilling each, 1 meet
them everywhere and at all times. If
see a party on board an India. bound
steamer laughing heartily, am sure it
is over some oftrepeated jest of Mark
Twain's. If | hear notes of subdued
laughter from hotel bedroom or steam
ship cabin, some happy fellow is enjoy
ing the Innocents Progress" At
every railway station, at every bookstall
from London to the Pyramids, from the
Pyramids to Pekin, these two yellow
volumes are in the greatest quest. On
every Nile diahabyeh there was at least
one copy last winter. No tent outfit for
Palestine was complete without a CODY
of Murray and Mark Twain. Here at
this hotel, Byzanci, of Constantinople, 1
am no sooner housed than on my room
table | espy copy of the Innooents,"
whose well-worn condition constrasts
oddly with the well.conditioned Scrip
lures furnished in hotels at home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20
Gyro Shooting.

The sportsmen of Syracuse have, VIC
understand, purchased one of the new
English inventions, called Bussey'
Gyro pigeon and trap" The object Of
this invention was to find a substitute
for the wild pigeons used for trap shoot
ing, which are generally costly, and at
times cannot be obtained at any price.
The gyro is said to be an excellent sub
stitute, requiring even greater skill in
the shooter than the live pigeon. This
machine may be briefly described as fol-
lows: The engine that supplies the
power is composed of iron, steel and
brass, and is fastened to the ground by
iron stakes. 1t contains a spring which
is wound up and held by a catch. This
catch is pulled off by. a string when the
word is given to send off the bird. The
gyro is a piece Of thin steel with shear.
ing blades like those of propeller
This is placed upon a pin attached to
the spring, and when the spring is let
loose it scars away into the air in a way
resembling tho fight of pigeon. One
of the machines, with one hundred steel
gyros or pigeons, costs about twenty-six
dollars, which is only the cost of one
hundred live pigeons. If this invention
proves an acceptable substitute for live
pigeons to the sportsmen, it is intimated
that Bergh, the anti-cruclty to animals
man, will present one to each sports
men S club and put an end 10 the shoot
ing Of pigeons.
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Divisions OF Time.

AS is well known, the methods of diyid.
ing time vary in different parts Of the
world. The Chinese, who begin their
day at midnight and end it on the mid
night following, divide the interval into
twelve hours, each equal to two of ours,
and known by name aud particular
figure. In the Turkish Empire time is
reckoned by certain portions of the ma
tural day, resembling the " watches Of
the ancient Jews and Romans. Public
clocks not being in use, these divisions
OF time are proclaimed from the
minarets. The various ancient diyi-
sions Of the day differed widely from
the customs of our time. Chaldeans,
Syrians, PerSians and Indians, began
the day at sunrise, and divided
the day and night into four parts. The
division Of the day into quarters was in
use long before the division into hours.
1t was only after the first sun-dial was
brought from Catania, in Sicily, to Rome
that the Romans divided the days into
twenty-four hours They call the time
between The rising and the setting sun
the natural day; and the time in the
twenty-tour hours the civil day. They
began and ended their civil day at mid
night, and took this practice from their
ancient laws and customs and rites of
religious use. long before they had any
idea of the divisions into hours. The
Greeks divided the day into twelve hours
"A practice from the Babylonians-
while in Egypt the day was divided into
puuaI intarvu lg nf tino
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est girls in Blankenberge are giving up
the ugly custom Of hiding their hair,
when bathing, in hideous oilskin caps.
Aphrodite and Undine would have been
frightfnl in such an abominable head.
gear. They are doubtless all very well
for the gray-hsired mammas, and thin,
ringletty, whispy, emaciated aunts afore-
said; but the German girls, with their
wonderful hair, do we'll TO let it tumble
down their backs, and to scamper across
the sand with their luxurious yellow
tresses streaming in the wind. The ad-
vantage gained by the discovery of
maiden hair at Blankenberge, however,
is lost in another respect. There is no
possible excuse for sea-slippers on a
sand smooth as a billiard table, and in
nocent of shell and pebble as floor Of
marqueterie. The ladies of Banken-
berge patronize costumes of the most
unexceptionable length, reaching as they
do occasionally below the ankle; but
surely once year the white feet may
be exhibited in public.
There is much to be said for and
against this public bathing; but when
all is said and done, the male sex at
Blankenberge look supremely ridiculous
in the. water, gamboling and attitudiniz.
ing and splashing like lot of school
girls, never attempting to swim a stroke
and going through numerous statuesque
performances intended TO inspire the
ladies with the sense OF their manliness,
but looking to me as paltry as the prize
fighters representations of ancient sculp-
ture. Young girls and children are al
ways graceful in the water, but the men
should be weeded out or kept apart
and somebody should persuade the dear
old folks TO see themselves as others
see them. No costume in the world
will disguise the defects of old gentlemen
and ladies past fifty. Many people
laugh at them, but it is a sorry and
ghastly joke. / saw to-day little, bald
headed Daniel Lambert Of a man escort
ing to the water lady of the most
alarming shape--all of which would be
hidden in England with the flowing bath
ing-dress; yet they did not appear in the
least conscious Of the mirth they were
creating. They bounded and bobbed
like exaggerated corks or buoys; they
rolled one another in the waves; they
playfully dashed water into one anoth-
er's face like children, and then waddled
home again, srm-in-arm, dripping and
draggled, TO their dressingroom. The
water parties last from the instant after
breakfast until the bell at one o'clock
summons the whole of Blankenberge to
dinner; and there / will leave them for
the present.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20

An Italian bishop who had struggled
through many difficulties without repin
ing, and been much opposed without
manifesting impatience, being asked by a
friend TO communicate the secret of his
being always SO happy, replied:
" 1t consists in single thing, and that
is, making a right use Of my eyes"
His friend, in surprise, begged him "a
explain his meaning.
Most willingly" replied the bishop.
" In whatsoever state am, FIRST look
up to heaven, and remember that my
great business is to get there. then look
down upon earth, and call to mind how
small space | shall soon fill in it. /
then look abroad in the world, and see
what multtudes are, in all respects, less
happy than myself. And thus l learn
where true happiness is placed, where all
my cares must end, and how little reason
] ever had to murnur, or TO be otherwise
than thankful. And to live in this spirit
is to be always happy"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20
MEMPHIS TENN: FRIDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 90 1872

thirty years later Gregory ~ enjoined
penalties upon every bearded priest. In
the twelfth century it became again the
fashion to shave, and bearded face was
almost unknown. In the thirteenth CEN
tury Honorius III allowed his beard to
grow, and boards thereupon became
fashionable, and continued so, though
the right of the clergy to wear them was
disputed, to the reign of Henry Nv. In
England the beard is almost universally
seen on the faces of the men of the days
of Elizabeth, declines in the reign of
Mary, and of late has revived and is
worn By all classes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-09-20
The Gentle Savage ON His Native
Heath-AbOrfginal Dandfes and
Bellies at Ute Council.

A correspondent of the Denver News
writes from the Los Pinos Agency as
follows:
A Ute village, suppose, is much like
any other Indian village-is just as dirty,
the tepees are of the same shape, the
women look quite as frowzy, the bucks
are just as dignifedly lazy, and the pa
pooses just as naked. 1t affords some
pleasure-perhaps real satisfaction-to
one accustomed to the straight-jacket
fashions of the metropolitan centers to
see with what abandon these idigenous
people attire themselves. In fact some
of them have nothing but band on.
When the high juinters-that is, the
august and austere commissioner
drove into town Il cant get out of the
habit of calling this huddle of agency a
town., some OF the high muck-a-mucks
and bucks of elevated position, youth
and hoary age, came out to meet us.
And they were dressed up in their good
clothes, too, and it was quite apparent
to me that the Ute fashion inventor
and Ute tailors, generally, had set
their wits and their fingers to work to
prepare for the great occasion. How
childlike and bland did that old heather,
with the variegated countenance and
squint eye, appear as he rode up attired
in the northwest corner of an old shirt
tail cut en- train. And how charming
was that sweet faced Hiawatha, her hair
hanging in unkempt looseness about her
mouth, who wore fragrant pine cone
on her left breast, and whose lower ex-
tremities were attired in q charming
pair of peg topped pantaloons fringed
with the hair of some old Arapahoe siu-
ner. | shall not soon forget the pic
turesque scene presented by youth Of
seven summers who, in the negligee
costume of simple hickory shirt
ripped on both sides from the bottom to
the arm-hole-went waltzing up the road
while caressing breeze sent both sides
Auttering towards the heavens. And
then that dignifed old cuss sttired in
an old fashioned muzzle loading rife
and pair of red moccasinsl There
was another fellow on a rearing and
fractions borro, who came prancing
around in full dress suit of whitewash,
scalloped on the edges and looped up
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equally elegantly, if not so fashionably,
attired; and | was visibly affected by the
scene that drifed across my vision as
we moved up to the agency building.
Ute styles are variegated this year, and
colors are mixed-being principally yel-
low and red ochre and lamp-black, laid
on in fantastic stripes. Fashions in
clude little of everything IL you got
breech-olout, pair of old army shoes,
a shirt guiltless OF soap and water for
fifteen years, an army coat, infantry
shoulder-straps, navy stripes, plug hat
made by the halter TO his Excellency
old Noah, the ship.builder, and sling
lot of cheap, beads promiscuoudy |
around, you are rigged out in costume
that viii be warranted to command envy |
if not respect, among the others of the |
tribe. A Ute bnck is heavy swell on
style, If he doesn't save cent