Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-23
LOS LEGENDS LEARNED.
BARBARIAN BALLADS BY A BRIGHT
BOHEMIENNE.
From Comic Opera to Country Clerk
by the Invalid Route-Sno-
qualmie.
Written for the SUNDAY US1oS.I

qualmie.
Written for the SUNDAY UNION
Twenty years ago man who learned
one trade and deserted it for another was
snubbed by solid business men, but nova
days genius must apply itself in any ave-
nue. to win renown or gold. "Jack of all
Trades" is the fashion in either sex. Who
hath not diversity of ideas is dullard
Down with the Plodderl Who doeth
many things with fair degree of praise is
the hours idol Long live the Peoples
Darling
OF THY BOHEMIAN KIND
Is she who sang gay songs each night
for thirty weeks. Constant travel in
burning sun, alkali dust, cutting wind or
pouring rain; out Of bed at all hours :;
meals, perhaps-perhaps not; study in
car, couch or steamer; rehearsal on land.
ing; caper until midnight; bow, smile,
dance, sing over and over for throngs in
front; make laughter when letters from
home tell of dearest friends dead, when
salary is unpaid for many moons, when
eyes, limbs and heart ache for rest that
never comes; don five or six costumes;
pack and strap big trunks; run to the
train; travel until noon next day without
a spot to rest; hunt country stores for ma
terial devise and make new costumes ::
study study all the while to originate
something new and, above all, never grum-
bic at anything these are features of a
profession that seems gay ease, an actors
''on the road"
ONLY TIRED, THAT'S ALL.
Three weeks diet on quinine broth, pull
verized snakes tails, tricasseed pig-iron
and like delicacies made no effect upon
daily malarial matinees so physicians put
their heads together, and arrived at this
dictum:
Yours is q severe case of materia
medica in the phelangial nerves The
tie1or profundus is refexed upon the inter
maXlllary region, causing acute distention
OF the compressor narum minor. This will
eventually produce orbicular palpebraum
of the lapsus lingua. Nothing can save
you but change of occupation. Avoid
night work, travel, excitement. Seek quiet
life, monotony and unfamiliar faces with
out regard to salary. We recommend
clerking in country store, accessible to
pine forests. Fifty dollars, please"
ON THE NORTHERN COAST.
Happily good friends knew " the very
place" altar up Puget Sound, where log
ging camps, big sawmills, Indians and un-
trammeled nature promised useful field
for old clothes So hither hied the song
stress, and forthwith went behind counter.
Nowhere can human nature be so well
learned, friends or enemies so quickly
made, as IN 4 big country store. This one
had a large trade from Indians along the
rivers clear up to British Columbia They
would pass Seattle and Tacoma and paddle
forty miles up stream to trade with the
Boston woman" who humored them so
much as to learn "Chinook iargon' in or
der to speak their native tongue They
are suspicious creatures, bu3 kiudzass and
tact soon win confidence. Then their lives
became an interesting study What can
be seen is easily told, so everything about
Indians has been more commented on than
their thoughts
Fearing ridicule they naturally are reti-
cent, but fate brought opportunity to learn
what scope is given Imagination by to-
tally untaugbt mind. An Indian woman
came to trade, bringing a pretty, half
white boy of seven on crutches, crippled
for life by a logging car. A camp-stool for
the child to sit on, blanket on the coun-
ter for her sleeping baby and a simple pre-
scription TO cure its rash, made friend
for life of "Pilchuck Mary" Next Sun
day she padded her own canoe to the
store wha-f laden with pretty pine cones,
curious fern growths, some odd pebbles
from Pilchuck creek, dried licorice, fern
root to chew, big armful of pitch pine
splinterS, nice for lighting quick fire or
to burn for the resinous order, and quart
of pine tree gum. Gratitude is so beauti-
full from either a white or red mans heart,
the grocery department gladly paid tribute
by feast, and then Mary, being good
humored, rolled away tubs, barrels, etc,
stood in her clearing and chanted in Chi
nook, with much dramatic effect, the
TRAVAIL OF THE TREES.
A long time ago all Siwashes lived in a
far north land Plenty ice was there,
plenty snow and long cold times. Only
little bushes there or moss to burn When
warm time comes Siwashes catch plenty
fish to dry make hot fire, never let it go
out. One time sun get lost (Artic winter,
keep lost long time. Siwashes burn fire
all time. Bimeby halo (no) bushes, halo
piah fire. Everybody cold. All go bed
wait for sun. Sun no come Siwashes
sleep dilate very long time. Bimeby all
hungry. No can see catch deer, catch fish,
no piah cook something. Tenas klooch-
man (children) all cry. Siwashes hiyu
wawa (all CALI Speow. He dilate smart
man, all fox inside. Make him in deer,
fox, bird, bimeby be man some more. He
feel sorry see people cry, say he so hunt
sun in sky. hunt fire, hunt wood, bring all
home. Siwashes no more cry. Know
Speow find everything. He tell very
strong man come out with bow and arrow,
shoot up very hard. Ppp-fff-whrr r.
Man shoot, arrow stick in sky no can come
out. Speow tell another man shoot.
Whrr r whoo-pthrr. Arrow stick in first
one, hang down more long. All Siwashes
shoot. All time arrows hang to last one I;
bimeby come ground. Little boys all
shoot arrows, plenty in first row. Then
Speow call he grandmother She old
woman outside, jay bird inside Turn all
bird now, run up, run down, tp, tip, tp, bite
arrows all fast together like ladder to sky.
Work long time ole jay bird.
THE STRAIGHT AN ARROW WAY.
Speow tell Siwashes all klahouya,
(good-by) start up ladder hunt sun. He
climb 10 sky, cut piece out, put head up
look through sky. He see big sun just as
he think. See pretty valley, all green
grass. all big trees, all nice creek on one
side. Spoon think sky Siwashes love up
there very much, kill him he come. He
look down, all cold, dark. He look up,
all sun, warm. He go up cover hole so
nobody See He think 'spose sky Siwash
live by creek, catch fish all same below.
Speow turn beaver, swim up creek, look
what can see. He feel nice warm, go
pretty near sleep, ptr-ktp-chkri! run nose
in trap, get caught fast. Bimeby ole sky
Siwash come, heap laugh see nice fat
beaver. Take out, cut throat with sharp
rock, carry by tail, give skin to klooch-
man (wife) put meat in pan. KIoochman
put skin on board by fire. Speow find fire.
Speow got heap skookum-tum-tum (strong
mind) no can kill that. His mind go
everywhere look what can see. Find big
pile wood, plenty dry fish. Bimby ole
Siwash bring sun under arm, lock door, go
bed. Pretty soon all dark outside. Speow