Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-19
TOES.


--eve that Stephan was mis-.
Il ~ corner stood a high-posted,
corded bed. 1t was that kind OF an old.
fashioned bed that we used to sleep in when
we went TO grandma's house. You had tc
have ladder in order to get in, and wher
you got in you'd sink away down into tn
feather bed and nearly smother.
On the floor beside the log fireplace stoo
big cloc4. 1t was about five feet high
and on its glass front was painted bunc
of roses. Some cane-bottomed chairs, will
cushions and tides on Zone being a rocke
''for company constituted the remaind'
of the rooms furniture.
An old yellow looking grandmother ssi
in a corner, rocking herself to and fro, an
grooming to herself an old love ditty bd
tween whits from her clay pipe. She inteIl
sperSed her song with rambling, incoherentl
maudlin remarks about her troubles; about
how she used to be as livelya young woman
as ever set heel to sock. And now look
at herI Then she would sing again. From
time to time she raked coal from the fire
with her skinny finger and relit her pipe.
SLEPT IN THE BARN.
Finally one of the little tcw-heads COM
menced to whimper, and ended with wall
loud and long. The old grandmother took
it up and eoddled it and fondled it and rode
it on her knee, and sang "Now we go upy,
up, upy, and now We 60 downy, down,
downy." This monotonous lullaby kept
running through my head. became drowsy.
The old woman's voice seemed farther and
farther away. snow we 60 upy, up, upy,
and now we go downy, down, downy." fell
asleep and awoke in the morning still in the
armchair. think Stephan slept in the
barn.
After 'victuals" we iourneyed on. For
several days we travelled in this manner,
eating our three meals of cornbread, coffee
and bacon, and sleeping out upon the hard
prairie, wrapped in our blankets, and with
the wagon-sheet over us to keep the dew off,
Coming through the Sac and Fox country,
Stephan tried to secure some photographs of
Indian girls. but when he put his head un-
der the black cloth, and leveled his instru-l
ment at them, they became frightened and
scampered away as fast as tney could 60
We stopped at one of the buts, about noon
on May 4, and asked for something to eat
They pretended not to understand US, but
believe they did. At any rate we did not
care for any of their dinner. They were
eating dogs brains. The Sacs and Foxes
esteem dog brains as great delicacy. They
raise dogs purposely for their brains. 1
never saw so many dogs in my life as did
coming through the Sac and Fox country.
There were all sizes and colors The In
dlans eat their brains right out of the skull.
he dips 1t out with kind of spoon. We
saw right handsome girl eating dog brains
in this fashion. 1t was a very repulsiye
sight.
CIVILIZED INDIANS.
Passing through the Creek Nation we saw
nothing of interest. The Creeks are civil
lied, live an huts and wear store clothes On
the night of May 6 we slept at the Hotel De
Perryman, at Okmulgee, the capital of the
Greek Nation. 1t pleased Stephan wonder
fully well to find himself once more in a
regular bed" His way of putting it.
regular bed, seemed so ridiculous Since
leaving Guthrie we had been sleeping in
barns, in chairs, and out upon the hard
prairie, so that this regular bed" felt
mighty good.
On the night of May we entered the lit
tie town OF Tahlequah, place of about /, 600
inhabitants and tne capital of the Cherokee
Nation. A herd of cows came lowing down
the lane, In charge oil the town herdsman.
The tinkling OF their bells made pretty
music, and formed an accompaniment to the
chimes from the two or three little white
washed churches. A beEy of Indian girls
trooped by Us on their way to the evening
worship. They all wore red roses in their
hair and in the bosoms OF their white dresses.
There was Just enough admixture of Indian
blood in their veins to give their beauty the
Indian caste.
Ny friend and myself went to party at
an Indian girls house. Some OF the girls
are highly accomplished; play the piano and
nng beautifully. When we told them that