The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1881-11-04
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~ About the time thenew comet was at
its brightest, we took the occasion of
call from Captain Sam, of the Pirte
tribes to ask HIM abont tlie notions held /
by his people in, regard to, such. celestial
visitaRts. Sam said he would presently
bring to rs an old man Of his tribe, who
had the whole DOME % heaven by heart. 1
In some trepidation after so much scere-1
nlong and preparation, we finally ven
tJlred to ask the venerable sayant If he
dkneW anything shout the comet recently
the northern sk*s He did,
Yhs khGwah about itsnIt was he said,
l6hs1Yeqnded STAR Said he, - 1T is.
GLADLY hurt, but it will get away With
Tout further ceremony or preamble he
sptoeeed6d to give tis the whole economy
IDf the7eelestlEit realms in o. nutshell, so
TO say. . 1t was as follows: s.,oa Oh, "a
Ii "The sun rules the heavens, He is
lthc big tlii9f; ttfe moon is his wife and
the stars are his 6hildren1 The 8shn he ]
sat him children whenever he gan them |
Fatch, They , are all, the time afraid
eF5hea he Is passing through the above.
NThen lie, their father, the sun gets up
ID arlylih the morning you see all the stars
e his children, fly out of sight-rgo away
into the blde, and they do not make to
'.be seen Ssaia till he, their father, is
about for going tolbed.i u Down deep un-
sleEntife ground 7-deep, deep rim a great
|. hole Here he go into this hole, and he
crawl and lie creep I'll he come to his
bed; SO then sleeps there all tho night
1Ilds hdleWisiso little and he, + the 1sun,
IS se,big that he cannot turn around in
it, so he must, when he has had all his
sleep, pass on then through, and we see
Jhlm next morning. come ottt in the east.
when he soeonles outlhe begins to hunt
itlpA through the sky to catch and eat any
that he can eat Of the stars. his children.
He,' the sun, is not all seen; the shape Of /
lllim is like Ia snake oralizardl q 1T is not
/ lliszhead that He can see, but, his belly,
stuffed with stars he has times and times |
idevoured. His wife, the moon; she goes
Binto the same hole as her husband toll
isleepiher napsa She have always great
sfear of him, the sun, that have her for
IBIS wife, end when he come into the
ID oie sleep she 1ong not stay there if /
yheabe cross. 0CShe, theEmoon,A haYe great
dove for her children, the stars, and is
happy to, be travelling up where they are.
and they. her children. Il feel safe and
sshiile as She passes along QBatsshe, the
IN other, cannot help but that one must
f9ps every month"; 1T is so ordered by !
sPah all, the, Great Spirit, that lives
above the place Of all. Every month lie
do swallow one his children. Then the
mother moon feel sorfowdi She must to |
mourn, 10 Her. face she, do,paint it black,
for child is gone. But the dark you will
see Wear sway from her face-little, lit
tie, littleevefy day. after a time we see
all the face bright of the mother moon.
But soon he, the SUI, her husband,
itgain IieT Istce inc p1tcli and the black"
Shut how about the comet?" al
s "Well,'" said the philosopher, ''some-
times you see the sun snap at one of the
stars, his children, and not get good,
fast -=only tear one hole and hurt
it. 8 It get wild of pain and go fly away
across the sky with great spout of blood
from it. Itthen very 'fraid, and as it
hylo Keep always it head turn to
watch the sun, its father, and never turn
away. from him his face till far out of his
reach,
Having thus disposed Of the whole
business of the realms above, the sage
was inclined to come down to mundane
matters, and suggested that mitch talk
made men hungry. He was not too ]
proud to accept four bits. a9HS Ya b3li4
M Same however, who had been listening
very attentiyely to the astronomical doc
trines of the wise man of his tribe, and
who evidently wished to hear more
went 5onlto say that when the white
men first came to the country and began |
TO dig great shafts. many Of his people
feared that they intended to dig down to
the subterranean passage-way of the
sun and moon, catch them both, carry
them away and leave the whole country
in darkness.
To this the old philosopher answered
that such thing was impossible, owing
to the great heat above and about the
hole. He said all the white. men could
do was to get out some Of the rocks
above the underground road Of the orbs,
and which had absorbed their brightness
as they Jay asleep in their beds. below,
these rocks producing in the case of the
moon, the white metal (silver) and in
the case 81 the sun the yellow metal {
gold. .og1aas qfT .a1flr0n.gaf.
f Captain Sam now said that they, were
ready to take their leave, and would be
glad to carry with them a small piece of
the whitemetal mentioned by the WISE
man of the tribe.7 ads ami i1r0-o sr.;A