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Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19
THE WEEKLY GAZETTE TEXAS THURSDAY JUNE 10

sailing into space, and then it would be
the turn of Sour side" TO turn like deers
and bat it back. Sometimes they would
get TO sfvolleying, - as we do in tennis,
and the ball would snap back and
forth between the contestants with
vicious crack that could be heard across
the Colorado and the boys would grow
mad with excitement; the spectators
would bet their blankets even on the re-
suit; the air would ring with shouts and
when at last one party or othsr prevailed
and the ball was driven to earth beyond
the line, the whoops and yells of triumph
and the mad dancing of the victors were
sounds and sights never to be forgotten.
These were mountain Indians, tenn
porarily banished from their homes by
the orders of the interior department,
and the sight of their activity and life
was o revelation TO the lazy, torpid
Yumas and CocOpahs VINO infested the
low, hot valley. They would look on in
stupid amaze, but could never summon
up energy enough to try anything like 1t.
What is true of the Cocopahs is true OF
all Indians who occupy low grounds near
the sea or the great rivers and de-
pend much upon fish instead OF
game for their subsistence. The In
dians of the mountains and the prairies
of the great West are bred to life OF
daring adventure, to climbing or riding
day after day, to the hunt or the chase,
to an active and almost eunobling life.
The coast or river Indians, on the con-
trary, are apt to be slow, lazy and easy
demoralized There is much to command
admiration in such Indians as the CheY-
ennes, the Sioux, the Utes, Crows,
Kiowas and Apaches. but the Columbia
River Indians who live near the mo nth,
the coast Indians of Paget Sound and
below, the tribes of the lower Colorado,
etc, are about as shiftless and lazy
set of vagabonds as one could see the
world over. OF course there are excep-
tons to the rule. The Pah Utes and
Digger Indians of Nevada, are worth
less pack of loafers whom nothing seems
to benefit and their boys are only prema-
turely old beggars.
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The day OF cheap watches has passed. The
country is flooded with them. TIE GAZETTE,
abreast with the times, has resolved that every
one OF its subscribers shall have placed within
his reach a watch of the best kind made-one
that he will be proud to wear and have comfort
in using.
Tims was when the stop-watch with the split
second hand, used for timing horses on race
tracks, cost many hundred dollars and could be
Afforded by only few. Time was when gold
case of sufficient thickness to protect a watch
was out of the range of possibilities of nearly all
men. The decrease in the cost of manufacture
otmovements and the invention of three sheet
NOW brings both these within the means of
many, and almost to the price which is charged
by swindlers for the gold washed limitations
and brass counterfeits of common watches. The
genuine gold filled or reinforced cases,
patented and made only by half dozen manu-
facturers, are the same for and wear solid
gold cases and may be so considered and treated.
have them, on account of their greater strength.
Five points of interestto subscribers:
!. A stop watch, sweep second, each second
split into ffths. for timing horses, races, etc.
2. A gold or silver case, the gold case to be
steel reinforced, to give strength and durability
Honest metal and no plating, with 10 years guar
antee for wear.
3. The latest improvements of every kind in
winding, setting, opening, etc.
4. A guarantee of one year from the maker of
the movements.
5. AS beautiful design as could be made, for
subscribers only.
These watches are manufactured and guaran-
teed by the Manhattan Watch Company of New
York City, one of the largest and oldest as well
as best known of the fine grade watches, and
THE GAZETTE now offers Its readers their choice
OF the following watches:
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sRilant, putting and blowing like gram
pus, would come to the surface defeated.
Several times were such efforts made, all
unsuccessful. And great was the tri-
umph of the three occupants when lit
tie scamp, about twelve years old, who
had been having a whispered consulta-
ton with two young braves in the uni
form of the Cheyenne scouts, took a
header from the bank, swan from boy
to boy saying a word or two in low tone
to each, and the next thing l knew,
while two or three urchins kept up Wig
orous assault and occupied the attention
of the riders, there were three bigger
boys at each end of the log, and, grasp
ing it suddenly at a signal from the new
conner, they gave it a quick, ro-
tary motion, twirling it, so to
speak, around its own axis, as
it lay on the surface, and in the
twinkling of an eye the three straddlers
were plunged sideways into the pool and
had to swim for it. Almost any boy who
can ride pony can keep his seat when
the little rascal kicks, bucks, or rears,
bnt when he lies down and rolls it is time
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but with this difference: The sphere was
never sent spinning along the ground
It was always driven high in the air and
kept gong like shuttle-cock from one
side to the other, never seeming to
touch the earth. 1t was smaller and
harder than cricket ball, and the bats
are more like Skinny sticks, but the SKI
displayed was marvellous. The Bail
would seem 10 go clear out OF sight over
the heads of the opposing party, but
there would be a rush of dozen dusky,
slender forms, stark naked. all of them,
but for the cotton breech clout that
trafled behind them on the breeze. They
would get under it somehow, and the
leader would jabber some shrill order.
One of their number, tall, beautifully
made fellow, would poise himself, swing
back his tough stick, fix his eye on the
ball now shooting earthward like littss
black comet; there would be a resoudd-
ing whack and away it would go again
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casion was celebrated with not a little
g flourish of trumpets. The proud
father summons the village herald-a
sort of town crier with tremendous voice
points out to him the carcass of elk or
buffalo laid low by the proves of his
boy, presents the herald with pony for
his services, and that individual betakes
himself to the center of the village, and
delivers a long Grafton that cau be heard
for mile around. 1t begins with GER
tain formula, which l cannot transcribe,
and then goes on to personal applica-
ton of his remarks to the brave, skill
ful, warrIor-like and most promising
conduct of young Two Bears White Wolf,
Charging Bull, or whatsoever may
be his \ name; and then the whole
village seems to wake up, shower con-
CALCULATIONS on the young fellow and
the old man, his father, and load them
both with what are termed presents. But
let me tell you right here. boys, that
Indian presents are q delusion and
snare. They only mean that in the near
fu ure the giver expects something
equally valuable, if not more so, from
the recipient, and a boy whose people
cannot return these presents in some
form or other soon loses ,caste among his
associates.
A word on the subject of boys names.
The father almost always .bestows the
original name upon his son, and the
yungster must wear it, whether he likes
it or no, until he has performed some
valiant deed. Then he has the right to
change it without the bother of petition
ing the courts or congress. He simply
summons the herald again, gives him
pony or equivalent fee, and that
functionary, in loud tones, as before,
and with much pomp and ceremony
announces, we will say, that Chaske,
the first born son of Thunder Hawk sub
chief of the Santee Sioux, will henc
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forth be known as Lightning Spear, be-
cause of his valor and proves in STAY
ing the Pawnee brave, Mad Wolf, with
his lance in single combat. The first
names borne by Indian boys in most
tribes are the result of fancy or caprice
on the part of the parents as a rule
some imagined semblance in his tiny
features to bird or beast perhaps, or to
sailing clouds overhead; but the Teton
Sioux, the eastern tribes of the great
Dakota confederation, have a regular
system. The first boy is called Chaske
the second Harpam, the third Hapeda,
the fourth Chatun, the fifth Harka, and
these names they bear until they are
big boys aud can choose or win others
more significant and more to their lik-
ing. Sometimes a tribe, in derisl n or
perhaps in malice, will attach name to
one of their men which he dislikes in
tensely but cannot rid himself of. l
knew case of this kind among the
Shoshones and heard of several among
the Sioux.
The Indians of the plains are great
horse jockeys and racers, and the boys
enter into the spirit of such contests
with the utmost eagerness. In the great
annual races that used to be held be-
l"oSu Lu6 IElDeSy tue boy WHO WIS
chosen to "wear the colors' for his
people, was the most envied youth in the
wide West. Indians are born gamblers,
and will bet their very wives away on
the result of race or the turn of a card,
and the boy who rode for his tribe knew.
well that on his GOODNESS, skill .sa4ds
Workmanship the fortunes on q genera
ton of klnsfolk and friends depended.
No matter how feet horse may be he is
likely, if carelessly or badly ridden, to
be disastrously beaten. Therefore the
utmost care is gwen to the training of
Indian boys in riding, but in previous
articles on Indian Workmanship l have
said so much that there is no space for it
here.
Indian boys in some tribes are ball
players that would win enthusiastic ap-
plause from such "kings of the diamond -
as Ansnn, Ward, BrOuthers, and Kelly.
They play no such games as ours, and
use very different tools. The finest play
ing have ever seen was game called
'Tashaway, which was a passion
among the boys of the Hualapai Indians
of Arizona. They were down on the
flats of the Colorado ut the time, and
every day thirty or forty youngsters of
from fourteen to seventeen years of age
would start their games and be sure of q
crowd of interested spectators. 1t was
more like polo or the old-fashIoned
shiny than any other kind of ball,
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dozen young Cheyennes having the joIli-
est time imaginable. They had floated a
big log under the shade of the over
hanging trees, and two or three of
them, straddling it as they would their
ponies, were trying to ride the log to the
rapids just below, while the rest of the
party, encouraged by shouts from some
young braves on the bank, were doing
their utmost to unhorse the riders and
Chamber into the seats themselves. Fun!
Why, you never saw anything to beat it D..
The little fellows who made up the at
lacking party were swimming all around
the bulky timber, their black hair
streaming with water, their eyes gleam-
ing, their white teeth flashing. Every
now and then one of them would dive
like duck, his heels would give kick
or two in mid air and the next instant
the knee of a rider would be forced up
by some sudden, sub-aqueous power.
Shrill jabber and laughter would
fill the air. The little victim
would clasp the log with his arms and
hang on for dear life and at last the as
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TO get off. That is practically the trick
the young conspirators played the riders.
They made their floating horse roll with
them, and the yells of triumph and de-
light that followed could have been heard
for miles.
These were Cheyenne boys, and the
Cheyennes are the bravest and most
skillful Indians of the plains; but what is
true about the boys of this tribe is true of
nearly all of them. They are the nap
piest, jolliest, liveliest boys on the face
of the globe.
To begin with, the Indians are very
proud and fond of their children of
either sex, but the first boy in an Indian
family is young prince from the day he
first opens his eyes, and mis- younger
brothers, when they come, are only q
trifie behind him in paternal regard OF
course it must be remembered that the
Indian brave is supposed to do no work
though he must keep himself at all times
in readiness for the warpath or the chase.
The pride, the hope, the whole future of
the tribe depends on the boys, and so it
results that they become objects of the
greatest consideration. They are only
rarely punished, and fond father will
beat his sQuaw-the boys mother-time
and again rather than lay hands on his
son and heir. Despite the fact that thev
are taught that they are of far more con-
sequence than their mothers the boys
really show much affection for these
drudges, and an Indian mother we'll nigh
idolizes a stalwart son shooting I'D to
vigorous manhood.
Under such conditions, with no mental
labor to perform, with no school to at
tend, no book lessons to study, no con-
finement of any kind, but early in
struoted how TO swim, ride, fish, shoot
run races and play ball, the Indian boy
has almost al idyllic life of it. So long
as he is well fed he hasn't a care in the
world. All his people expect of him is
that he shall follow his natural instincts
and practice daily all the arts that will
make him brave and skillful warrior.
He has his tiny bow and arrows before he
is four years old; he is astride his pony
and on duty ss herd-guard before he is
ten; he hunts jack-rabbits, sage hens,
prairie chickens and the like as soon as
he is able to toddle, aud the proudest
day of his young life comes when he &C.
companies the braves for the first time
on a general hunt such as they IN
dulged in twenty years ago when the
buffalo were still numerous. II h.
was able to bring down big game the &C.
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UNDECIDED.
Before Releasing Their Lands-BOom-
ers Rolling In.

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, June IA special from the
Sac and Fox agencies, Indian Territory, says
the commission in its negotiations says the Sacs
sndsFaxes did not feel as well to-day as was
expected, in consequence of which delay of
some days in leaving will be occasioned.
The only clause in the agreement
which the Indian council stood back on was
that one relating to the time in which allotments
should be made. The best deal possible was to
give the Indians four months time in which to
choose their lands, with the specific under
standing that no white men will be allowed to
enter the claims until all allotments shall have
been made. With this change in the original
understanding agreed upon yesterday tine
whole matter submitted to the In
dams for final decision. The Indians
left the building saying more time
would have to remain over for an indefinite
time. The chief of the tribe made an affecting
address, saying the Indians were about to
render their lands TO the whites, and they
needed time to consider the mater. The COM
missioner granted the aid.
Quite commotion was created this evening
by the arrival in the village of a company OF
boomers from the East, consisting of FIVE
wagons with some twelve or fifteen per-
sons. The boomers pitched Atheir tents
within 200 yards of the Commission
aefs' camp. Tonight the woods are
ablaze with camp fires in dozen directions,
opening of Oklahoma The boomers report
numerous colonies in camp along the eastern
border of this reservation.
The commissioners expect to close the deal for
all the lands east of Oklahoma by the last day OF
Juue.
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,.nc Latin name particular TO itself;
q UT Instance, the yellow pus- making
lol On described above is known to his
cO ere intimate acquaintance as the
Inn. U,J pyrogenes aurens, but he
etapt there Just the same, whether the
s soy' in whom he is producing a large
pO IN one of my glass tubes, growing on
.,,Iier kind Of jelly. are half dozen
p 1tr,v cray spots about the size of large
u ,nis head. This tube was planted over
pLu months ago, for this organism grows
wv vi 1t is q bacillus, and when it
80 ~ Jodgment in the body it produces
nli'5 disease called tuberculosis, which,
,rT occurring in the lungs, as it most
hI-nonentlv does, lie probablYbetter known
~, rnder the name of "cOnsump-
10 TO-, ;, and causes over 80, 900 deaths in
Nv. w. United states every year, or more
, ,bo auy other single form of disease. 1t
s"a dinGv uninteresting looking object
nv garden, but when we con-
j. ..sor the suffering and mourning
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r,rited states. The Gelantine tube cul-
ressou you cannot ture Of cholera spir-
zee il is because it illuan.
has almost the precise color and shade of
the cut surface of the potato, and it is
only by holding the latter somewhat side
WAYS to the light that you can catch
faint gray glisten which marks the spot
where it is growing.
All Of these tubes are sealed at the bot
tom. and carefully closed for an inch or
more st the top with lightly fitting plug
Of raw cotton, which looks a little
scorrhed because it has been thoroughly
baked to kill any organisms which might
he in the cotton itself. This cotton al
lows enough air to filter through to keep
the plants alive, but no bacteria can find
their way through its meshes so long as
II is kept dry. Special Trecautions are,
of course, taken with regard to such
dangerous forms as those which l have
described and they are never allowed to
escape so long as they preserve their vi
tality and powers of making mischief.
cannot say much for the beauty of
the forms of any Of the plants, consid-
cred as individuals, but the colonies
which some of them form by multiplica-
ton and aggregation appear as very
pretty steilate or curvilinear masses on or
in the gelatin. One of them, for in
stance, which in not uncommon in ordi-
nary garden soil, produces a white, radi-
Gtng growth in the jelly, looking like
circular brush made OF white silk.
Those, however, which have any special
beauty owe it chiefly TO the colors they
produce, and which vary from delicate
shades Of rose and pink, or of blue, to
blood color or deep green. One of them
gives the whole jelly in which 1t grow as
faint greeDish tint, and if you examine
this tube in the dark you will find that it
is family luminous. There are several
kinds OF these phosphorescent bacilli,
and / am not quite cure as to the pedi-
gree of the particular form which -four
ishes in my garden, but 1 think its an
cestOrs came from the surface of some
sausages, which gave rise to great aston
ishment and fear in the family of a GER
tain butcher who found them shining in
his shop at midnight. Perhaps you
may have seen n glimmer of a greenish
light playing on the surface of rotten
wood or of q decaying tOadstool in a hol-
low stump or log, and if so it is very
probable that some of the cousins of my
luminous bacillus were producing it.
This garden looks as il it were easily
managed or kept up, but, like most other
gardens, it requires good deal of care
and trouble TO keep it in proper order.
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like second hand extending to the ffths OF n
second marked on its outer rim. The little post
on the left hand stops and starts the watch; the
little post on the right hand turns the hands,
setting the watch. 1t need never be opened. T.
movement, and as good timekeper any man
wants.
The back of this watch is engine turned or eS-
quisitely engraved by hand, and nothing more
beautiful or more artistic has ever been made or
worn, and the subscriber may trust The GA
ZETTE's Judgment and knowledge this sub
ject, or call at Office and see sample.
With each watch there goes a guarantee by the
Manhattan Watch Company to keep it in order
for one year, free OF all charge, and guarantee
from the makers of the case, Joseph Fahys "
Co., for Is years.
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o.,-,.- vegetables, are more
=, 4'ue 'uOeoui'ure or less hostile to other
'-OuSe SeP'ic'elnia' forms, and if. they
get access to the tube which contains the
bacillus of typhoid or other rarer fevers,
will soon crowd them out or poison them.
In general il is very good thing that
this is so, but il for any reason one wants
10 cultivate one of these rare forms in
order TO observe its habits and man
neTs, it requires very great pre-
caution to keep the common bacteria
out. The tubes with their cotton
plugs, must be thoroughly baked in a
hot oven TO kill all the bacteria which
they contain, the food jelly must be
thoroughly boiled for the same reason /.
the needle used for planting must be
passed through the flame the moment be-
lore it is used, and after all this care it
sometimes happens that during the few
seconds while you open the tube and
plant your seed one or two kinds that
You don I want will slip in on a particle
OF air dust and take possession, so that
when you look at the tube few days
later you find something very different
from what you expected.
But if there were no difficulties to be
overcome there would be little use or
pleasure in experimenting, for most of
The fun in life is connected with conscious
effort or work of some sort or other. 1t
Will be long time yet before We shall
nave found out all about the plants in
my garden, aud you need have no fear
That, if.you wish 1t, you will have plenty
ot room to make discoveries in q similar
garden OF your own.
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To the Voters of Tarrant County.

Soon after had announced myself a can
didate for county attorney 1 invited my oppo-
nents to meet me on the stump, where together
we could make known to the people our re-
spective policies and positions, so that before
the county convention met the people
could act intelligently in choosing from our
number the one they might desire for their
county attorney. My opponentsdid not see fit
to make such canvass and hence declined my
proposition And as did nyfr desire to take adj
vantage of " opponents Y spesking when they
were absent settled uF13kthe only alternative
left me, viz: tdtRake asssarate canvass of the
county withouSS SpsfEAgef But now will not
be able to do eveAs n the way I should de-
sire because of II FURY received by myself a:
So trust u ffs NJ the circumstances the
voters will e5eaSe me- should not be able to
meet them Sff1t is j desire, and so far as
able will nlStsAll that Wan. Allow me to say
here that 1Sbu should m5aor me with the nomi-
nation an lection, shaHSdo my duty and en-
force the US of my state. 70 Shall use all posi-
BILE energyfh getting ready 10 trial. so as not to
delay the enforcement of the faST; so as to con-
sumo little of the time OF the courts and
juries possible and put the county to the least
possible expense.
have nothing harmful to say OF my opponents
and will not attempt to lock up any convention;
but ask your support mainly and purely my
own merits if you find have any and am worthy
of the same. Respectfully,
JAMES S. DAVIS.
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Sweet vocal music brings delight
To every listening ear;
The hours of dulIness it makes bright
By its enlivening cheer.
But singing in boisterous way
Does not the soul rejoice,
Nor cultivated taste display
IT'S but strain of UOice.''
The public speaker who refrainS
From defamation loud,
Is such a one as always gains
Attention of the crowd;
While he who tones his pitch too high
Disgusts us with his noisel
Vehement utterauce and Outcry'
Is useless strain Of UOice.'
MY sON-rAN