The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-16
Among the Indians.

ssOur buildings are of adobe. The
ront is one plain wall, with a piazza
it. We have no windows on the
and only n front door; it is
safer so. the windows all open into
IN interior court. The buildings are
Ill only one story high. An Indian
house is not at all like the traditional
wigwam. The Spaniards named the
inhabitants of New Mexico and Arizona
Pueblas, they built regular villages OF
The Indians house is some
what like a round pyramid in shape,
and has but n opening, and that in
the roof. The same opening answers
for door, window and chimney. Dur
ing the daytime a ladder stands out
side, but at night the last one to mount
pulls the ladder up after him and down
inside with him. A bake-oven in the
daytime becomes a dog kennel at night.
'tAfter the girls have been with US
months they look as nice as any
little girls. They are delighted with
white peoples clothes and readily learn
to make all they wear. To put away
their dolls for the night every girl at
first drove a tack in the wall above her
bed, tied a string around her dolls neck
and hung it up.
"The boys don't take quite so kindly
to white peoples clothes as the girls do.
When we got a lot of boys in we had a
great deal of trouble to induce them to
put on trousers. And the first night OF
their arrival, when 1 wentinto the boys
dormitory, 1 found they had all gone
to bed with their trousers on.
skT~lso, aL,1lro. o,.a nronhofsno11u
good children. They have pleasant
dispositions and seem perfectly inno-
cent, knowing nothing of the naughty
little tricks that sometimes spoil white
ones. They are smart and learn very
fast, and are quite Is susceptible tc
moral influences as other children. Ii
is a mistake to say that the Indian
character is naturally silent and re.
served. Indians enjoy fun as much as
anybody.
:sAn Apache, in full war paint,
stalked into our school one day. The
children were Immediately terrified,
and tremblingly told us he was a bad
Indian They said an uncle of one OF
our boys had killed his brother and they
feared he had come for revenge. As il
was dinner time I saw nothing better tc
do than have the children march into
the dining-room, as usual. We KEEP
open house to Indians at all times and
treat them as distinguished guests, so ]
motioned to our Apache to take a seal
at the table. He sat down, terrible in
his wal paint, and laid two loaded re.
volvers before him. The children be.
gan to tremble, Miss Verbeck, my as.
sistant, turned pale and a panic seemed
inevitable. But I summoned all my
courage and said: Put those revolvers
on the window The Apache neve
moved. The cook placed before him 8
cup of coffee and abowl of soup. Take
away that coffee and SOUP I com
manded, with my. heart in my mouth,
adding to the Indian: You shall no
haye them until you put those revolver
on the window Trembling for hel
life, the cook obeyed. When the Apache
saw his dinner removed he deliberatel.
arose, picked up his r~evolvers and
shall I ever forget that terrible
moment?-quietly laid them on thu
window. His dinner was restored t.
him; he ate it in silence and thel
picked up his property and walked GU
without a word.
sI did not see him again for years
But on my way home, as 1 was waitin!
in the train at Sante Fe my terrible
Apache, in all his feathers and var
paint, got into the car and walked it
whole length, as if looking for som
one. My blood ran cold. He stoppe
beside me, gave a grunt of satisfaction
and broke into smiles. Then nothin
would do but 1 must vigorously shak
hands. He then left the car and IT
turned with a dozen other braves, q
horrible as himself. He introduce
them all and all must shake hand:
Immediately there was a commotion i
the car and 1 found myself the cynosul
of all eyes. But when my Indians le
1 felt myself laughing over my old-tim
adventure. 1 realized that I had game
the Apache's complete respect an
frightened him as thoroughly as he ha
frightened me
"We had a lady with us once WI
was afraid of every Indian she saw.
said to her: Don't let them see tn;
you're afraid of them But it was
no use. One night, having a very i
secure fastening on our door, to qui
the fears of all the timid ones in I'll
house 1 piled up all the tinware 1 cou.
find as a ~barricade. About midnigh
when everything vas quiet, we heard
terrible rafting, combined with Il
noise of the falling tinware and son
swearing. We were all very muc
startled. But little quiet examinatic
revealed the fact hat it was only
harmless Indian, who had brought
his daughter.
"At first we had some difficulty
convincing the parents that int
: lions were good, but when they can
/ and saw the children well and comfol
: able they seemed to think it all rigf
? One girl went home on a visit and tn,
sent us word that she could not cor
! back again. Fearful something w
} wrong we went out to the Indian v
l lage to make inquiries. Contrary
our expectations, we found the moth
: and grandmother delighted with 0
q pupils accomplishments. She had ma
3 her father a white mans shirt and pl
a scented it to him, properly done u
0 Consequently her mother and gran
mother thought she knew quite enou!
she knew more than they did, so
e course she was ready to be marie
Z Anu ehio was why ShO Souiu hoo SOi
back.
t "We seriously excited the SUSPECT
g of one old lady by taking the pho
e graph of her granddaughter. S
sobbed and cried as though her he;
g would break. Finally we drew out
her that she thought that we were n
gicians and had robbed the little girl
part of herself.
d 1.-The Chippewa Indians consider d
soup a rare delicacy. On one occasi
they wanted to treat me unusually we
so they invited me to a dinner party,
which the principal dish was to be d.
d They first singed the hair off the amin
1t then held it by the tail and stirred
around in a pond, by way of washil
1t was then ready to be boiled who
It But 1 had a sick headache and v
obliged to decline their kind invitati,
g These southern Indians do not eat d.
.e L have brought several specimens
y their bread. The different colors-whi
d. mink and orav--ara cauSed nv tho diff