Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-12-16

yerize Sucn partleS as mi9nt ne PIC
nicing below, when a sign / have
Just mentioned forbade that. Even
that satisfaction was denied me, and
was friendless orphan.
There was no resource now but to
seek consolation from the flowing
bowl. / drew my flask from my
pocket, but it was all in vain. A
sign confronted me which said:
No drinking allowed on these
premsscs.r
Onthat spot might have perished
of thirst hut for the saving words of
an honored maxim that fitted
through my memory at that moment: :
aAll signs fail in dry times" Com
mon law takes precedence of the stat
utes. was saved.
TIE noble red nina had always
beena darling of mine. | loved to
read about him in tale and legends
and romance.
l6ve to read Of his inspired sa-
gacity, and of his love of the wild,
free life of mountain and forest, and
his grand truthfulness; his hatred of
treachery, and his general nobility of
character, and his stately metaphori-
cal speech, and his chivalric love for
the ausky maiden, and the pictur-
esque pomp of his dress and ac-
coutrements.
When | found the shops at Ma
CARA Falls full of dainty beadwork
and stunning moccasins, and equally
stunning toy figures representing hu-
man beings who carried their weap-
ons in holes bored in their arms and
bodies shaped like pie, | was filed
with emotion. | knew that now
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 were
made by the Indians, and there were
plenty about the Falls, and that they
were friendly, and that it would not
be dangerous to speak to them.
l came upon camp of them
gathered in the shade of tree, max
ing wampum and moccasins, and adj
dressed them in the following Ian
guage of friendship:
s'Noble red men, brave, grand Sa-
chem, war chiefs, squaws and High
YOU muck "a -mucks, the pale-face from
the land of the setting sun greets
YOU? You, benificent oolecat; you,
devourer of mountains; you, Roar
ing Thundergust-the pale-face from
beyond the great waters greets you
all.
'War and pestilence have thinned
your ranks and destroyed your once
proud Nation. Poker and seven-up
and a vain modern expense for soap
FankH6~n-teS- ,sesss glorious ancestors
have depleted your purses. Appro-
priating in simplicity the property of
others has gotten you into trouble.
disappearing facts in your sinless
innocence has damaged your reputa-
tion with the soulless usurper.
Trading with forty y-rod whisky to en-
able you to get drunk and happy and
tomahawk your families has played
the everlasting mischief with the pic
turesque pomp of your dress, and
here you are in the broad light of the
nineteenth century, gotten up like
the ragtag and bobtail of the pur-
lieus of New York. For shame
Remember your ancestors Recall
your mighty deeds! Remember I'm
cas-! and Red Jacket! and Hole-in-
the-Day! and Horace Greeley! Emu
late their achievements! Unfurl
yourselves under my banner, noble
savages, illustrious guttersnipes"-
down wild him.
"Scalp the blaggard"
"Hang him.
sDhrown himn
1t was the quickest operation that l
ever saw. simply saw a sudden
flash in the air of clubs, brickbats,
fists, bead baskets, and moccasins-a
single flash, and they all appeared to
hit me at once, and no two of them in
the same place.
In the next instant the entire tribe
was upon me. They tore all the
clothes off of me; they broke all my
arms and legs; they gave me thump
that dented the top Of my head till it
would hold coffee like saucer; and
then, to crown their disgraceful pro-
ceedings and add insult to injury,
they threw me over the Horseshoe
Fall and I got wet.
About ninety mine or a hundred
feet from the top the remains of my
vest caught on a projecting rock, and
was almost drowned before | could
get loose.
1 finally fell and brought up in a
world of foam at the foot of the fall,
whose celled and bubbly masses tow
cred up several inches above my
head.
Of course l got into the eddy. i
sailed round and round it forty-four
times, chasing chip and gaining on
teach round trip a half mile
reaching the same bush on the bank
forty two times, and just exactly
missing it by hairs breadth every
time.
At last a man walked down and sat
down close to that bush and put a
pipe in his mouth and lit match
and followed me with one eye and
kept the other on the match, while he
sheltered it IN his hands from the
wind. Presently puff of wind blew
| it out.
The next time swept around him
he said:
"Got match?'
"Yes-in my other vest. Help mt
out, pleaseT'
sNot for joe"
i When came around again l said
! "Excuse the seemingly imperti
nent curiosity of drowning man
but will you explain this singular