Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-06-13
Mistellaneuns &eading.
INDIAN IDEAS OF ENGLAND.

INDIAN IDEAS OF ENGLAND.
The following pages from diary of an
evident stranger in New York contain
brief illusions to several love topics, and
are published herewith by special arrange
ment with the writer:
"May 2O.-Buffalo Bill arrived here to-
day and went over to see his troop when
it got off of the boat in Tompkinsville.
He locks we'll, though rather refined. His
hair is still fluent, and was glad to see
that he wore a checkered fore-and-aft hat
home with him.
"Buffalo Bill has boarded at Balmoral
for a week at a time, they tell me, and
used to sit on the throne and read the
'sThe animals of the show seem to be
real tickled to get home, especially the
Indians. Red Shirt said to me in SUBJ
stance that too much moisture prevailed
in England to suit him, and that chewing
tobacco was almost unknown there. He
also said that he had no use for country
that was run by squaw. He claims, that
it costs more to live in England than in
the West. Society demands more of a
man, he says.
"In the matter of clothes alone he is out
E7 for new blanket and FL for a large
red comforter which he wore when he
was presented to the queen. Red Shirt
says we have little idea along the banks
of the Rosebud, the upper Missouri and
the Sinking Water what slaves the Eng
lish people are to social ettiket. Some
times they are five hours eating what he
could eat in ten minutes.
II had quite long talk with Red Shirt
oh ~ Lo 10 md nor rf
of the way. He was not real sick, but
missed several meals, understood him
to say. I asked him why he didn't ad-
vertise for them, but he could not under
stand me. An Indian cannot appreciate
humor, especially after he has been in
England long time.
Buffalo Bill said the Prince of Wales
is very lonely since William has come
away. He will soon come to this country,
so Red Shirt states, and camp out at Earas-
tin for several weeks, where he can be
near the B. Bill and hear the wild buffalo
paw the ground and beller. The Queen
will have to stay at home and reign this
summer, though she does so reluctantly.
She leads busy life reigning over the
British isles, bossing Europe, umpiring
India and writing Tor syndicate. She
told Red Shirt that a good many people
envied her lot who couldn't pay taxes on
it if they had it.
'Red Shirt says that he likes the dra-
matte profession better than living at the
agency and rubbing mutton talloW on his
chilblains every spring. He was lot both
cred with stage fright but once, and that
was when he tried to play first passenger
in the Black Hills stage coach at matt
nee. He says they have tried good many
amateur Indians in their troupe, but few
had the proper conception of the part they
were to play. In the massacre most In
dians are too apt to everyday their part.
They allow their enthusiasm and realism
to carry them too far, he says. Of course
that isn't his language, but it's what he
meant.
"Red Shirt says he was offered good pay
to start an Indian outbreak in England
while there. He says that England and
the allide powers is all ready for a rip
snorting good war. They have got lots of
arms and soldiers and ammunition. All
they want is somebody to start the war.
He was offered good wages to 60 on the
road and work up feeling, but he is at
tached to his profession and states that he
has given up carnage and will henceforth
work for the elevation of the drammy.
HE says that all he asks for is chance
to act it out. Life can give him nothing
sweeter than the applause of the people
and good press notices, which he can paste
in his scrap book. With few intimate
monarchs and plenty of rich, wholesome
food he is willing that the war-path should
become overgrown, though he dislikes to
see an overgroWn war path more than
anything else he knows of.
"Red Shirt has not been spoiled by adu-
10 f;o,, 1,ou,ax,or T boH foo rn6 hpt l,ppw
me right off. Iasked him why he did not
write me while abroad. He said that he
found after he got there that all the hotel
people have to pay for paper, pens, ink,
envelopes and ct cetera extra. This and
the fact he could not write any way had
much to do with his silence.
"He will ride buckskin palfrey this
summer and whoop in shrill manner as
usual. He says that very beautiful pale
faced woman in England fell i'll love with
him and wept when he came away. She
saw him act, and from that moment his
image was ever in her heart. He says
if he had not been on his guard, his dra-
matte future might have been clouded by
a scandal. An actor cannot be too careful,
he thinks. Red Shirt wears on his neck
lace two artificial front teeth given him
by prominent foreigners who tried to ride
in the Black Hills coach; also one of the
ear tabs from B fiat cornet.
"He states that the prince is as pleasant
gentleman as ever sat in his sock feet
and. saw himself getting gradually bald
headed while waiting for his mothers
Shoes"
While I do not agree entirely with the
author of the above sentiments, nor with
all of the remarks made by Red Shirt, there
is food for thought in some of the state
ments made, and herewith turn them
over to the thinking minds of America.
People using other kinds Of minds, of
course. will find little else to interest them.
The thinking mind will rarely be disap-
pointed in anything recommended by me.
BILL NYE.
MAKE YOUR DAUGHTERS INDEPENDENT.