Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-08

himself are still shown to city people
whose faith was not overworked while
young.
Old Polka Dot was a firm man, with
double teeth all around, and his prowess
got into the personal columns of the pa
pers every little while. He had a daugh-
ter named Utsayantha, which means ''a
messenger sent hastily for treasure" SO
/ am told, or possibly old Polka Dot
meant to imply lone sent off for cash."
This idea is my own, and possibly of
little value.
Anyhow Utsayantha grew to be quite
comedy, as Indian women go. L never
saw one yet that couldn't stop an ordi-
nary planet by looking at it steadily for
two minutes She dressed simply, wear
ing the same clothes while tooling cross
country before breakfast that she wore
at the scalp dance the evening before.
In summer time she shellacked herself
and visited the poor. Taking little
box of water colors in a shawl strap, SO
that she could change her clothes when
ever she felt like it, she would go away
and be gone for a fortnight at time,
visiting the ultra fashionable people of
her tribe.
Finally white man penetrated this
region. He did it by asking the brake
man on the West Shore road how to get
here and then doing differently. In that
way he had no trouble at all He saw
Utsayantha and loved her almost in
stantly She was shocking muskrat
at the time, and he could not but adj
mire her dizziness and skill. From that
moment he could not drive her image
from his heart. He sought her again
and again to tell her of his passion, but
she would jump the fence and flee like a
frightened fawn with split stick on its
TAIL if such comparison may be per-
mitted At last he won her, and mar
ried her quietly in his working clothes
The nearest justice of the peace was
then in England, and so rather than
wait he was married informally to Ut
sayantha by repeating to her with great
solemnity the following stanza:
Ena mena nina mo,
Catch niger by the toe;
When he holers let him go
OUT spells out.
While this had no special bearing on
the case it awed Utsayantha, and she
went home very much impressed, in
deed. That fall a little russell baby
came to bless their union. The blessing
was all he had with him when he was
discovered.
Then the old chief Polka Dot arose in
his wrath, to which he added pair of
moose hide moccasins, and he upbraided
his daughter for her course. He up
braided her with piazza pole from his
wigwam. He was very much agitated.
So was the pole.
Then he cursed her for being the
mother of ! breed child, and stalking
It'll he slew the white man by cutting
open his trunk and disarranging his
reins. He then wiped the stab knife
in his tossing name, and grabbing his
grandson by his swaddling clothes he
hurled the surprised little stranger into
Lake Utsayantha. By pouring another
pailful of water into the lake the child
was drowned successfully.
Then the widowed and childless Ut
sayantha came forth as night settled
down upon the beautiful valley and the
day died peacefully on the mountain
tops. Her eyes were red with weeping
and her breath was punctuated with
sobs. Putting on pair of high rubber
boots she waded ont into the middle of
the lake, where there is quite a deep
place, and drowned herself.
This should teach us never to kill a
son-in-law without getting his wife's
! consent.
When the old man found the body of
his daughter he was considerably morti-
fed. He took her to the top of tie
mountain and buried her there, and