Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-04-13

OF the laW.J
THE VALUE OF LIFE.
ElEoS Horses and q Cow
Catch um-B -Brown-Bear did not love
Little Smoke; Little Smoke wore yellow
blanket, the like of which no Indian in
the valley had ever seen, and which the
squaws persisted in admiring, in spite of its
glaring outrage on the time-honored red
in which all Calispelles of good standing
and title had from time immemorial wrap
ped their manly and smoke-coated forms.
Little Smoke might, however, have
never furnished theme for the oratory of
Easter Sunday Ga day "all same F6th
July," say the Chinaman on the gold bar
near his LODGE, had he not, in persistent
disregard of the wounded feelings of his
rivals, actual Or prospective, strung his
horses name and tail full of immense
beads, and of red beads. Now Catch-um-
Brown-Bear admitted that red blanket
and yellow-beaded horse was not so bad,
but that he could tolerate the style but
the reverse, the yellow blanket and red
beads, would not do. So he took a knife
and opened Little Smoke down the back
as he would have treated a salmon. He
didn't take the back bone out, nor did he
smoke him, but Little Smoke died for all
that and was hoisted between earth aud
heaven on mating. where his father had
been suspended before him. A brief sus-
pense in his fathers case, however, as the
ingenious coyotes had in some way climb
ed up and cut him down. Coyotes don't
climb as rule, but this may have been a
case on par with that of the other, who,
"Damn it man. did climb! he had to, for
the dogs were after him.
Catch-um-B-B went his way very
| Ho'. "0 l'o''"~ '''>' ''----'e "-I oil the
world, and probably would have remained
50 had not Little Smoke possessed a
! brother, a most unreasonable brother, who
hearing of his annoying experience pre-
pared to interview Catch-um with intent to
kill.
His plan, however, was frustrated. His
intended victim nagnanimously made him
an offer of eight horses and COW to stay
proceedings, but the naughty brother,
Seven Dogs by name, refused to be COM
forted by anything legs than "eight horses
and two cows" and not being able to
come to an understanding, it was decided
to refer the question Of tho number of
COWS it would take to balance the dead
Little Smoke, to the council of chiefs at
the Jesuit mission on the occasion of the
now approaching Easter Sunday celebra
ton, and the two worthless now bowed
and separated, each one certain that the
council would 80 one COW in his favor, for
Seven Dogs father was a chief of the
minor circle, and Catch-um's connections
made him sure OF the influential lobbying
of the Padres at the mission.
But as We have said, Seven Dogs
was unreasonable he had wanted
to hurt some one, and in spite
of the eight horses and COW, singu
lar or plural, which were dancing in his
head, he could not rid himself of the con-
sciousness that he had ''hauled off and let
some one alone"
So he hied him to the nearest ranch and
shot what he probably considered a low
grade Of white man, one for which he
would have to pay say. from three to four
horses and half COW at the outside,
leaving him then with something TO show
for his powder and net profit of so per
cent. on Catch-um's first enterprise. That
Seven Dogs was of a practical turn is still
further shown by the fact thai he possess
ed himself of six dollars which his victim
no longer needed, and was thoughtful
enough to fill his blanket with a dozen
pounds Of soft soap which he found on
hand IN. B: 1t is, however, doubtful if
he knew what the soap was for) but
Seven Dogs got to the end of his know
ledge, and was brought up with
shocking round turn; for on inno-
Gently announcing that he was ready to
open negotiotions with the brother or
executor of A., the aforesaid white man, for
whom he had never had any use and whom
he had just made useless to any one else,
he was discourteously seized by several
rough white men evidently unacquainted
with the Christian mode of adjustment,
which had obtained ever since the mission
was established, and much to his surprise
he finds himself tonight, soft soap and all,
in the "Skookum house, of a frontier
fort under guard of soldiers.
A Chinese Surial
Auy one who NAV have soft sDot in his