The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-01-12

yard, or along the highway, and which
seems 20 be expressive Of q kind Of unrest
aud vague longing-the longing Of The
imprisoned 10 for her lost identity. she
sends her voice forth 10 that every god
on Mount Olympus can hear her plant
She makes this sound in the morning, es-
pecially in the spring, rs she goes forth
~ Craze.
4 Large-H Hearted View Of the Indian.
81 don't take the same view of tue
North American Indian that most PEG
pie do" said professor Bangs, in n discus
sion down at the grocery store in a
suburban town, the other night. "NOw
SOME think that the red man displays a
want of good taste in declining to wash
himself, but don't. What is dirt? 1t
is simply, matter, the same kind of mat
ter hat exists everywhere. The earth
is made of dirt; the things we eat are
dirt, and they grow in the dirt; and
when we die and are buried we return
again to the dirt from which we were
made. Science says that all dirt is clean.
The savage Indian knows this; his orig
inal mind grasps this idea; he has his
eagle eye on science, and he has no soap.
Dirt is warm. A layer one-sixteenth of
an inch thick on a man is said by profess
sor Huxley to be as comfortable as a
fifty dollars suit of clothes. Why then
should the child of the forest undress
himself once a week by scraping this off,
and expose himself to the rude blasts OF
winter? He has too much sense. His
head is too level to let him take a square
wash more than once in every two hun
bred years, and even then he don't rub
hard.
"And then in regard to his practice OF
eating dogs why shouldn't a man eat a
dog? a dog sometimes eats n man, and
turn about is fair play. A we'll digested
dog slowed away on the inside of n
Choctaw squaw does more to advance
civilization and the christian religion
than a dog that banks all night in a back
yard and makes people get up out of bed
and swear, don't it? And nothing is
more nutritious than dog. Professor
Huxley says that one pound of a dogs
hind leg nourishes the vital forces more
than a wagon.lOad of bread and corned
beef. 1t contains more phosphorus and
carbon. When dogs are alive they agree
with men, and there is no reasOn why
they shouldn't when they are dead.
This nation will enter upon a glorious
destiny when it stops raising corn and
potatoes and devotes itself more to grow
ing crops of puppies.
"NOw many ignorant people consider
scalping inhuman. / don't. / look upon
it as one of the most benefcent processes
ever introduced for the a~melioratisn OF
the sufferings of the human race. What
is hair? 1t is an excrescence. If it
grows it costs a man a great deal of money
and trouble to keep it cut. If it falls
out the man becomes bald and the
flies bother him. What does the Indian
doin thisemergency? With characteristic
sagacity he IFS out the whole scalp and
ends the annoyance and expense. And
then look at the saving from other
sources. Prot. Huxley estimates that
two thousand pounds of the food that a
mar eats in a year 60 to nourish hishair,
Remove that hair and you save that
much food. If had my way ! would
have every BABY scalped when it is vac
cinated as a measure Of political economy.
That would be statesmanship. | have
a notion to organize a political party on
the basis of baby-scalping and to go on
the stump to advocate it. If people had
any sense | might run into the presi-
dency as a b~aby-scalper.
"And as for the matter of the Indians
wearing rings through their noses | don't
see why people complain of that. Look
at the advantage it gives a mar when he
wants to hold on to anything. If a hur-
ricane strikes an Indian all he does is to
hook his nose to a tree, and there he is,
fast and sound. And it gives him
thing to rest his pipe on when he smokes,
while, in the case of a man with a pug,
the ring helps TO jam his probOscis
down, and to make it a Roman nose.
But / look at him from a SANITARY
point of view. The Indian suffers from
catarrh. Now what will cure that dis
ease? Metal in the nose in which cleo
tricity can be collected. Prof. Huxley
says that the electricity in a metal ring
two inches in diameter will cure more
cartarrh than all the medicines between
here and Kansas. The child of nature
with wonderful instinct has perceived
this, and he teaches us a lesson. When
we, with our higher civilization, begin
to throw away finger-rings and earrings
and to wear rings in our noses we will be
a harder race. | am going to direct the
attention of congress to the matter.
"Then take the objections that are
urged to the Iudian practice of driving
a stake through a man and building a
bonfire on his stomach. What is their
idea? They want to hold that man
down. If they sit on him they will OBJ
struct the view of him. They put a
stake through him, and there he is Sc
cured by simple means, and if il isdriven
in carefully ii may do him good. Prot.
Huxley says that he once kew of a man
who was cured Of yellow jaundice by
falling on a pale-fence, and having a
sharp.pointed paling run into him. And
the bonfire msy be equally healthy.
| When a mans stomach is out Of order
YOU put a mustard plaster on it. Why ?
TO warm it. TIE red nan has the same
idea. He takes a few faggots, lights
them, and applies them to the abdomen.
1t is a certain cure. Prof. Huxley
ooh, dry up about Prof. Huxley y
exclaimed Meigs, the storekeeper, at thi;
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