Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-06-18

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carriage
Forty per cent. in gold levied on al
peanuts or other Indian curiositie
purchased in Canada"
photographs of the Falls taker
here"
-Visitors will please notify the su
perintendent of any neglect on tht
part OF employees to charge for com
modities or services
i (No inattention of this kind oh
| served.
@Don't throw stones down; they
may hit people below
"The proprietors will not be re.
sponsible for parties who jump over
the Falls" More shirking of re.
sponsibility-it appears to be the
prevailing thing here.
1 always had high regard for the
signers of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, but now they do not real
ly seem to amount to much along
side the signers of Niagara Falls.
10 tell the plain truth, the multitude
OF signs annoyed me. 1t was be-
cause | noticed at last that they al
ways happened to prohibit exactly
the very thing | was just wanting to
do. l desire to roll on the grass; the
sign prohibited it. wished to climb
tree; a sign prohibited it. Ilonged
to smoke; the sign prohibited it.
And kwas just in the act of throw
ing stone over to astonish and pull
verize such parties as might be pic
nicing below, when sign l have just
mentioned forbade that. Even that
satisfaction was denied me (and l a
friendless orphan There was no
resource now but to seek consolation
in the flowing bowl. l drew my flask
from my pocket, but it was all in
vain. A sign confronted me, which
said:
mo drinking allowed on these
premises"
On that spot might have perish
ed of thirst but for the saving words
of an honored maxim that fitted
through my memory at that critical
moment, "All signs fail in a dry
time" Common law takes prece-
dence of the statutes. / was saved.
The noble Red Man has always
been a darling of mine. l love to
read about him in tales and legends
and romances. l love to read of his
inspired sagacity; and his love of the
wild, free life of mountain and forest;
and his grand truthfulness; his ha-
tired of treachery; and his general |
nobility of character; and his stately |
metaphorical manner of speech; and
his chivalrous love for his dusky |
maiden; and the picturesque pomp
of his dress and aecoutrement. When /
1 found the shops at Niagara Falls I
full of dainty Indian bead-work and |
stunning moccasins, and equally
stunning toy figures representing hui
man beings who carried their weap-
Ons in holes bored through their
arms and bodies, and had feet shaped
like pie, was filled with emotion.
| knew that now, at last, | was going
to come face to face with the noble
red man. A lady clerk in the shop
told me, indeed, that all her grand
array of curiosities were made by
the Indians, and that there were
plenty about the Falls, and that they
were friendly, and that it would not
be dangerous to speak to them. And
sure enough, as l approached the
bridge leading over to Luna Island, /
came upon a noble old son of the for
est sitting under tree, diligently
at work on a bead reticule. He wore
a slouch hat and brogans, and had a
short black pipe in his mouth. Thus
does the baneful contact with our eff
Terminate civilization dilute the
picturesque pomp which is so
natural to the Indian when far re-
moved from us in his native haunts.
addressed the relic as follows:
''Is the Wawhoo-W Wang wang of the
Wack- -Whack happy? Does the
great Speckled Thunder sigh for the
war path, or is his Heart contented
with dreaming of his dusky maiden,
the Pride of the Forest? Does the
mighty sachem yearn to drink the
blood of his enemies, or is he salts
fed to make bead reticules for the
papooses of the paleface? Speak,
sublime relic of by-gone grandeur
ruin speak"
The relic said:
'.An' is it meself, Dennis HOoligan,
that ye'd be takin' for bloody Injin,
We drawlin lantern-jawed, spider leg
ged divil! By the piper that played
before Moses, I'll ate YEP I
went away from there. Ii
By-and-by, in the neighbOrhood of /
the Terrapin Tower, | came upon a I
gentle daughter of the aborigines, in
fringed and beaded buckskin mocca- s
sins and leggins, seated on bench
with her pretty wares about her. ]
She had just carved out wooden ]
chief that had strong family re- J
sembhnce to a clothes-pin, and was
now boring hole through its abdo- !
men to put his bow through. hesi- I
tated moment and then addressed
her:
'.Is Ehe heart of the forest maiden
heavyi Is the Laughing-T -Tadpole {
lonely Does she mourn over the ex- {
council fires of her race, ]
and til. vanquished glory of her an {
cestors' Or does her sad spirit wan
der afa toward the hunting grounds
whittier her brave Gobbler of the !
is gone? Why is my {
daughtr silent? Has she aught !
againstthe paleface stranger"
The maiden said: E
"Faig an is Biddy Malone We dare {
to be calm names! Lave this, or I'll t
shy yor lean carcass over the catha- s
ract. u snivelling blagyardr' {
I adjourned from there also. "Con- /,
fOupd fhese Indiansn T cold Gs+bo,, ,