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The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-05
How a Piute Maiden Rejects a Lover

INTERVIEW with Saran Wlnnemucca.
If Piute girl does not like her lover
she tells her grandmother, and when the
young man comes again at night, that
good old lady rises from her bed, takes a
handful of hot ashes from the fire and
throws them in his face. That's the
mitten.
If be persists in his attentions and
continues to come again and again, the
whole family unite in heapiug indigni.
ties upon him, but the girl is never a
party to this. Her brothers and sisters
and father and mother throw ashes upon
him, dowse him with water, flagellate
him with stout switches and drive him
from the lodge.
Sometimes an Indian persists, in spite
of such assaults, and goes again and
again to the tent where the girl is sleep
ing. Sometimes this perseverance wins
her heart, but not often. If the girl
likes him and is willing to marry him,
then she tells her grandmother, who in
forms the girls father.
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not the best of moods. There are some
very noble faces among these appari.
tions-I rather mean expressive of a
great nobility; but have never seen
among them the mask of pity, or love,
or of any tender emotion; or grief,
scorn, pride, hatred, greed, cunning, in
quiry, eDvious or triumphant mockery.
These apparitions are entirely indie
pendent of the will. The golden span
giles and the flock of sheep / can gener-
ally call into vision when please, but
the faces come and 60 as pleases them.
You may be awake with your eyes
closed, thinking of the weather or the
last change of Government In France,
and, as wreath of smoke might rise,
there is q face in the dark. 1t is useless
to seek to retain it FIR contemplation,
or TO attempt to recall ii when it has
faded out. This you may greatly wish
to do, for sometimes the phantom has
profoundly meaning, or appealing, or re-
vealing look; but all your arts of imag
inatiOn fail to project it ON the air again
when it has once died away Only for
few seconds does it ever remain, and it
never returns. But what frequently
happens is that one face changes to an
other after the manner of "dissolving
views" And the change is almost al.
ways for the worse. A face that begins
by being strange and interesting, ends
by becoming something awful or hideous
beyond the power of description and the
will to describe.
All that need add, perhaps, is that
though these faces have been my IA.
miliars for many years, they have be-
come neither more nor less numerous;
nor are they more frequent than / have
observed, nor do they change in charac.
ter. They appear pretty often, but they
have never given me any disturbance,
and | do not know that their coming
and going depends in any measure on
varying conditions of health OF ease.
Maybe they do; but if so / am not
aware of it. Lastly, that my sight was
not weak | must believe, since it has
gone hardly through trying and almost
ceaseless labor from nv youth up.
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married bout year, ami cum GOWN n
git the baby's clothes ready The
Misses Giggler show signs of mysteries
and look out of the window; Smiths bea
girl turns red, and Smith himself ner-
vously trots infsnt.)
o. L-(Seeing infant first time, makes
a dive at its left lung with her dexter
finger, wrinkles up her old face into .
species of a smile and says). Kootsy,
wOotsy, bootsy, Dress its dear little heart
Ito Smith.) Takin' the little darlin' out
for an airin'?
Smith turning red) Yes, ma'am,
that isl mean-no, ma'am. balance
of passengers become interested).
o. L. That's right, that's right, moth
ing like good country air for the little
darlin's. Looks just like you. Sudden
ly) Boy or gal? entire coach load in
convulsiOns.)
Smith Cunning pale and looking
frightened). Damfno. | beg pardon,
really that Confound you, Stacey.
you internal idiot, what are you bowling
att I'll pay you for this. Think you're
smart, don't your
o. l.. Hey7
Smith desperately and loudly. I
say, it's boy.
Miss Giggler. Why, Mr.. Smith, it's 8
girl; can't you tell by the way it's dress
edf'
Smith (savagely) don't care what
it is. Here, driver, stop. want to get
out Take your brat, madam. | wouldn't
hold another baby for 81 ,0OO,O 900 min
ute.
o. L. mot understanding commotion).
Hey, what's the fun; tell met l like
fun.
Smith (burriedly getting out). Fun be
bowed. 60 Stacey who is in convul-
sions). You had better send for the
black maria and squad of police to
bring you back. I'll be revenged on all
of you, and sticking bis hands deep in
his pockets he started down the dusty
road toward town, followed by yells of
laughter and the mocking voice of Stacey
shouting Papa"
Smith says the daisies will bloom over
several new-made mounds soon if the
boys don't stop saying "boy or gall when
he is around.
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The Parrot and the Monkey Story
[Longman's Magazine

lLoh5 4iet5 tNiut.I
A well-worn American anecdote de-
scribes the result of owning both par
rot and monkey. When the owner Of
the bird and the beast comes home one
day he finds the monkey decked with
red and green feathers, but he does not
find the parrot for a long while.
At last the bird appears from an OBJ
scure corner, plucked bare, save a single
tail feather; he hops upon his perch with
such dignity as he can muster, and says,
with infinite pathos: "Oh, we have had
a hell of timeI'
At first nothing could seem more
American than this, but my friend, Mr..
Austin DObson, has recently drawn my
attention to story essentially the same
in Walpole's letters. Yet another parrot
popular in New York, where we'll
known wit happens to be a notorious
sufferer, is as little American as this of
Walpole's.
The sufferer is supposed to ask the
man who offers the parrot for sale if it
c-c-c-can t-t-t-talk. "If it could not talk
better than you, I'd wiring its neck" is
the vender's indignant answer. / found
this only the other day in Buckland's
"Curiosities Of Natural History" first
published nearly quarter OF century
ago; in all probability it is yet more
ancient.
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The impotence of the parents of the
young lady over the long and fruitless
visits of the chronic caller was pictured
in comic colors some years ago by fun
ny writer. 1t seems that it was mid
night. The young man had farewelled
himself out, and Emeline had locked her
door and was untying her shoe when
her mother came down stairs with bed
quilt around her and said.
Wanted to creep up stairs without
my hearing you, Ell? Didn't think it
was an hour after midnight, did your"
The girl made no reply and the moth
er continued.
did he propose this time"
"Why mOther!" exclaimed the daugh-
ter.
you can why mother all you want
to, but don't | know that be has been
coming here for the last year? Don't l
know that you have burned up at least
four tons OF coal counting around here?"
The girl got her shoes off and the
mother stood in the hall door and asked:
"Emeline haven't you got any grit?"
81 guess So"
81 guess you haven't. / Just wish that
fellow with false teeth and mole on his
chin would come sparkling me. Do you
know what would happen EmelineP'
mo"
"Well I'll tell you. He'd come to
time in sixty days or he'd get out of
this mansion like goat jumping for
sunfiower seeds"
And Emeline went to bed hugging this
thought to her bosom.
Occasionally such visits become so
burdensome that the young lady talks to
the young man herself. At least they
had such girl out in Colorado. She
had been receiving the attentions of a
young man for about year, but becom-
ing impatient at his failure to bring mat
tiers to a crisis, she resolved to ascertain.
his intentions. When he next called
she took him gently by the ear, lead him
to seat and said:
"Nobby you've been foolin' round this
claim fur mighty near a year, an hev
never yit shot off your mouth on the
marryin' biz. I've cottoned to you on
the square clean through an hev stood
off every galoot that has tried to chip in;
an now l want you to come down to bus
mess or leave the ranch. Eff you're on
the marry and want pard that'll stick
rite to We till We pass in your checks an
the good Lord calls We over the range,
just squeal, an we'll hitch; but ef that
amt yer game, draw out an give some
other Teller a show fur his pile Now.
sing yer song or skip out" He sang.
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a Gentle Nurse.
(London Society.l

At public meeting for opening some
church schools at Padiham, in Ian.
cashire, Sir James Kay ShuttlewOrtb
mentioned that he had been once called
in by the queen and prince to organize
some schools for her for the scattered pop.
ulation of Windsor forest.
The children were not only to be in.
structed In religious and secular knowl.
edge, but also in making clothes, in cook.
cry, and In gardening. The plan cost
the queen thousand year, and the
queen took strong personal interest in
visiting the place and watching its de.
velOpment. The prince of Wales was for
some time In the habit of examining the
scholars.
At meeting held at Cambridge, on
behalf of the Army of Scripture Readers
society. the chaplain of the forces at
Aldershot narrated the following anec.
dote:
"The incumbent of Osborne had oc-
casion to visit an aged parishioner. Up
On his arrival at the house, as he entered
The door where the invalid was, he found
sitting by the bedside, a lady in deep
mourning reading the word of God. He
was about to retire when the lady re
marked, Pray remainl should not wish
the invalid to lose the comfort which 8
clergyman might afford, the lady re
tired, and the clergyman found, lying on
the bed, book with texts of scripture
adapted to the sick; and he found that
out of that book portions of the scripture
mad been read by the lady in black. That
lady was the queen of England" Many
are the instances on record of the visits
Of her majesty to the school and cottage,
The workhouse, and the hospital
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Boy OK GIRL.
{ n Young MANS Misfortunes ON Ae-
count OF n Borrowed RaDy

Smith is fond Of babies, says the Wash.
fngton Capital. That is, be was before
that unfortunate trip to Tenally town.
Since then he would rather take snske
to his bosom than sn infant, no matter
how sweet and pretty the cherub, and
the sight of the Tenallytown coach gives
him freckles ON his back. This is bow It
happened:
Smith and his second best girl, in COM
psny with the two Misses Giggler and
Charley Stacey, concluded to call on
some friends in Tenallytown one evening
last week. and took the coach. The
coach was full when it started, but stop
PED to take in lady and three small
children, the youngest an infant in arms,
two band boxes and a pot of flowers.
Smith enjoyed it, as it compelled him to
sit closer to his next best girl, and Stacey
seemed to relish being squeezed to death
between the two giddy Gigglers. The
poor tired little mother finally got settled,
and the coach started again, to be stop
pcu OuCS mOAo On Tue OuIskiIIs OF the
city by an old woman. To her anxious
query: "Eny rum?" the driver cheerily
said: "Oh, yes, mum; git right in" The
old lady appeared at the door, looked
anxiously in and said: "'Pears to me
you are pretty well scrOuged up now"
Smith Rugged up closer to his b. e. and
said to the little mother with the trio of
infants: LET me hold the baby,
ma'am."
Little Mother. Oh, thank you kind
ly, but il will be too much trouble.
Smith. Not at all, ma'am (taking the
child). Now, madam TO the old LADY,,
crowd right in. And after some more
"scrouging" the old lady wedged herself
down next 70 Smith, and the following
comedy was enacted:
Old Lady Undressing Smith). How
long does it take to git to TenalIy?
Smith. Bout'n hour, / guess, ma'am.
o. l. Heyf
g. (louder). Boutn hour, guess
ns'am.
o. l. Pm pretty hard O. hearin'.
3. (getting nervous and yelling)-
Boutn hour, / say.
o. L-Yu don't say sol Sakes alive
/ Just came down last week to see my
Einndy. She lives in Gso'town. Mar
I'D john nills. the blsekSmith. Bin
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Wen Who influenced Their Age.

Fireman. IN Fortnightly Review
The course Of history is not mere
game played by few great men; nor
yet does it run in an infexible groove
which no single man can turn aside.
The great man influences his age, but at
the same time he is influenced by his
age. Some of the greatest of men, as
far as their natural gifts went, have
been useless or mischievous, because
they have been out of gear with their
own age. Their own age could not re-
ceive them, and they could not make
their age other than what it was. The
most useful kind of great man is he who
is just so far in advance of his age that
his age can accept him as its leader and
teacher Men of this kind are them
selves part of the course of events; they
guide it; they make it 60 quicker or
slower, but they'd not thwart it.
Can we, for instance, Overrate the
gain which came to the new born fedora
ton of America by finding such a man
as Washington ready-made to its hand7
UE take men of quite another stamp
AAOu TIC VII Sluldu utllNtItI. lie
course of our history for the last 500
years has been largely affected by the
fact not only that we underwent a for
eign conquest of a particular kind, such
as could be wrought only by man of a
particular kind
The course of our history for the last
300 years has been largely affected by
the fact that, when English freedom was
in the greatest danger, England fell into
the hands of tyrant whose special hui
NOR it was to carry on his tyranny under
the forms of law.
English history could not have been
what it has been if William the Con
gueror and Henry VIII. had been men
other than what they were. One
bushes to put the two names together.
William was great in himself, and must
have been great in any time or place.
Henry, man not without great gifts,
but surely not great man, was made
important by circumstances in the time
and place in which he lived. But each
influenced the course of events by his
personal character. But they influenced
events only in the sense of guiding,
strengthening, and quickening some ten
denotes and keeping others back for
while.
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Iarking around in the night

dancing. and larking around in the night
generally.
His religion has no relation to morals
it is something to be enjoyed tor liz
own sake. The question OF domestic
service is a very serious one In Virginia
I just now. The negro has the monopoly
of this labor market, and be likes to show
his independence. No servants, men or
women. live in the house where they are
employed, not even in the hotels They
come in the morning, when 1t suits their
convenience, get through the work OF
the day as easily as they can, and then
go home. The consequence of this Is
that there Is no control and no discipline.
1t is the general complaint that only
the elders who were slaves before the
war are of much account as servants.
They are not on hand in the evening, and
they come around in the morning to get
breakfast at such an hour as suits their
convenience or pleasures of the night.
Ii Is also a common complaint that
both house and field labOrers slight their
work, and 1t Is impossible to give them
realizing sense of the eighth Command.
ment. They see no reason WHY they
should not help themselves to whatever
they want from the larder or the field, OF
take articles convenient Ia wear. A
curious annoyance | heard spoken of:
Articles sent TO the washerwoman are
apt to be worn by her and her friends
some days before they were sent home.
1t must be owned that The Virginians
endure the anomalous condition of affairs
with more good humor than northerners
would, and patiently hope that education
and time will change them. But edu-
cation thus far does not appear to teach
industry, thrift or morality. and fancy
that the best thing that could happen to
the negroes would be some competition
In the labor field
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bill Nye.l


But what shall we do with the warm,
personal friend who sets up nights to
love us but hurts us in every corner by
his indiscretion? We cannot whip him
and throw him away. We cannot get
him shut up in an insane asylum, be-
cause the asylum was not designed for
idiots.
1t was made for people who once had
brains. 1t is conundrum which more
than one of us has given up If the
fool friend could have his jaws locked
with time-lock, and then fed by al
attendant through the vest pocket, we
could then set the time-lock to open
after election or just before breakfast on
the day of judgment, or at such other
date as we desired, and all would be
well, but you cannot do that. The Jaw
of the fool friend wags ON and on till the
goose of the one be loves best On earth
Is cooked to rich, deep brown.
An enemy may say mean things of
you, but they lose force because people
know at once by his bitterness that he is
your enemy, but be who knows your in
most heart. who knows what salary you
receive and how much it lacks of main
taining you, how mean you are in your
family and how pleasant you are in other
peoples families, how you smile through
the day and snore through the night,
how earnest you are in your labors to-
ward reform in every thing except your
own habits, and a thousand other little
glimpses into your home life which none
but friend may know, when he has no
brains to balance his warm affection for
you, think what ruin he can furnish you
at carload rates.
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THE MODERN VIRGINIA NEGRO.
Hartford Courant.l

ll1ditlOlu NOuldutsI
The second generation, grown up since
the war, is not without education, but it
wholly lacks discipline and sense of re-
sponsibility. Naturally, having escaped
out of slavery, it regards liberty, often
interpreted license, as the chief good,
and is very slow to learn habits of in
dustry and thrift. Idle and ill-clad ne
groes about the streets are a common
sight. Perhaps the women are more in
dustrious; they certainly develop fond
ness for dress and cheap jewelry, but
their morals are not recognizable quail
ity among the assets of character.
The negroes-and it is the same wher-
ever | went in the state-are gregarious;
they like to live in town, to huddle to-
gether in close neighborhoods and good
many in a tenement. Many of them
own little places and cheap houses of
their own, but their present ambition
does not GO beyond hand-to- mouth ex.
istence. A good many of the girls go to
White Sulphur and other watering places
in the summer and pick up enough in
one way and another to keep them dur
ing the winter. Some of them who are
single or have become so by the loss of
their husbands, frankly say that they
prefer to remain alone rather than un-
dertake the support of an idle darkey-
too many "good for nothing niggers"
around seems TO be their point of view.
The long and short of it is that the
colored brother likes to enjoy himself
with as little exertion as possible, and he
has equal delight in religion, balls and
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THE CHILDREN.

Give Us light amid our darkness;
Let us know the good from III;
Hate u not fsr al our blindness;
Love Us. lead us. show US kindness
You can make Us what yoC will.
We shall be what you will make us
Make Us wise. and make Us good
Make Us strong. for time Of trial;
Teach us tenn erance, self-denial,
Patience, kindness, fortitudel
II Wordsworth
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A ARADOX.

I recoilect hos grieved I was
When Cousin Amy married.
j thought her very cruel because
For me she had not tsrried.
She gave 70 my affection green
encouragement IN plenty,
For ! vas under seventeen
And she was ave and-t twenty.
Fair Amy is a widow s0w,
Her sorrow fast outgrowinR.
IT'S very singular. I vow,
The way the years are going,
With me, at allegretto rate;
With her a grateful lente--
Now ] am nearing thirty eight
And she Is six-and-twenty.
i should be Rratified TO know
How others, like my cousin,
A tSeiyemontb older only grow,
One year in half dozen.
u. ChrODosi tell the secret me,
The power superhuman
That causes time with men 20 fee,
But bids II wait with women.
-lChicagO Tribun
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ExEmPLIFYINe OsCULArToN.

Into the glowing crate he gazed
In silent meditation.
Until her eyes the maiden raised
And said, What's osculation?"
The lover slowly bent his head,
And with some trepidation
He kissed her on the lips and said,
Sweet love, that's oscillation"
Then while her heart went pit-a-pat,
Till she could almost hear il.
She said, 81 thought il must be that,
Or something pretty near it,"
II R0sfon Courfar
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The UId rIIne Doctor.


The old doctor who years ago was such
a great man in Arkansaw has retired
from practice. His old saddle bags hang
on the quilting frames under the shed,
and his grand children peel apples With
his surgical instruments. The bones OF
his old morse have been used as a fertil-
izer by some progressive Yankee There
was day, though, when the old man,
now so gray and feeble, was strong, al
most "a strong as the medicine he car
ried His word was law in numerous
households. Quinine and calomei were
the only medicines for which he had
any respect. When these medicines.
failed, it was thought time for the pa
tient to call on a higher power for natu--
raliZation papers In another hemisphere.
The lancet was great factor. If man
was slightly ILL., bleed him. If he was
dead, wait awhile. Bleeding was msniS
among the doctors. 1t ragged like an cpl
demic. If man had too much blood
they would bleed him, aud they would
bleed him if he didn't have enough If
a man had his left arm torn off, the next
thing was "sOuce" knife in his right
arm. 1t did not seem to enter the minds
of these 'old timers" that man needed
blood. With them, flesh might enter the
kingdom of Esculapius, but blood was
excluded.
On one occasion a young doctor sup-
gested to several physicians with whom
he was holding a consultation that il
would no doubt be better not to bleed
the patient any mere. The old physi-
clans looked at the young fellow IN amaze.
ment, and one of them found breath to.
exclaim:
WHAT"
81 say that I don't think that it would
be good idea to bleed him any more az
present"
The old physicians looked at each
other and sorrowfully shook their heads.
Upon what do you base this wild as
sertiOn, sir"
81 base it upon common sense. The
patient was suffering in the first place
from loss of blood, then we bled him, and
now say, that it would be better to
wait until he is able to stand another
drain upon his system"
"He's hopelessly insane" said one Of
the doctors.
II don't know that his case is hope
less one of the party replied, "but it
soon will be unless immediate action is
taken. He needs bleeding" and they
seized him and cut hole in his scalp.
All of these old fellows have retired
from practice, with records red with the
blood of their countrymen. They have
not become reconciled 10 the new and
less bOisterous mode of practice, and even
now, if one of them should be called
upon, he would have his knife in the pa
tent in less than FIVE minutes