The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-06

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hop on when the train starts. / improved
the time by cultivati1g the acquaintance
of the beautiful and picturesque outcasts
known as the Piute Indians. They are
| a quiet, reserved set of people, who, by
saving nothing, sometimes obtain rep
utation for deep thought. / always envy
anybody who can do that. Such men
! make good presidential candidates. Can
| didates, / say, mind you. The time has
come in this country when it is hard to
unite good qualifications as candidate
with the necessary qualities for sue
cessful official.
The Pluto in March or April does not
go down cellar and bring up his gladiola
or remove the banking from the side of
his villa. He does not mulch the aspar-
agus bed or prune the pie plant or rake
the front yard or salt the hens. He does
not even wipe his heart broken and neg
lected nose. he makes no especial
| change in his great life work, because
spring has came. He still looks serious
and like a man who is laboring under
the impression that he is about TO be-
children Of the Piute brave never ma
ture. They do not take their places in
the history or the school readers Of our
common country. The Piute wears a
bright red lap robe over his person, and
generally a stiff Quaker hat with leath-
er band. His hair is very thick, black
and coarse, and is mostly cut off square
in the neck by means OF an adj, | judge,
or possibly it is eaten off by moths. The
Piute is never bald during life. After
he is dead he becomes bald and beloved.
johnson Sides is a well known Piute
who had the pleasure of meeting me at
Reno. lie said he was a great admirer
of mine and had all my writings in
scrap book at home. He also said that
he wished I would come and lecture for
his tribe. afterwards learned that he
was an earnest and hopeful liar from
Truckee. He had no scrap book at all.
Also no home.
Mr.. Sides at one time became quite
civilized, distinguishing himself from his
tribe by reading-the Bible and combining
his shirt tail to the narrow confines of d
pair of cavalry trousers instead of Civ
ing it to the irresponsible breeze as other
PiUtes did. lie now established an hotel
up the valley in the Sierras and decided
to lead life Of industry. He built an
hosiery called the Shack-de- Poker-Hunt-
us, and advertised i'll The Carson APP
peal, paper even the editor of which,
Mr.. Sam. Davis, says fills him with Won
der and amazement when he knows that
people actually subscribe for it. Very
soon Piutes began to come to the Shack
to spend tie heated term. Every Piute
who took The Appeal saw the advertise
ment, which went on to state that hot
and cold water could be got into every
room in the house and that electric bells,
baths, silver voiced chambermaids, over
charges ard everything else connected
with first class hotel could be found
at this place. So the Piute people locked
cat, they spat on the fire and moved
to the new summer hotel. They took
their friends with them. They had no
money, but they knew johnson Sides
and they visited him all summer.
In the fall Mr.. Sides closed the house,
and taking a rubber cuspidOr, with a
capacity of two gallons, he resumed his
blanket and went back to live with his
tribe. When the butcher wagon came
the next day the driver found a notice
of sale. and in the language of Sol Smith
Russell, Good reasons given for sell
ing"
Mr.. Sides had been a temperance man
now for a year, at least externally, but
with the humiliation of this great finan-
cial wreck came wild desire to flee to
the maddening bowl, having been mon
keying with the madding crowd all
summer. So silently he concealed bot
tie of Reno embalming fluid and secreted
himself behind a tree, where he was
asked to Join himself in a social nip. He
had hardly wiped away an idle tear with
the corner of his blanket and replaced
the stopper in his tear jug when the
local representative OF the Z. G. j. Z. 7.
A. of Reno came upon him. He was re-
ported to the lodge. and his character
babe fair to be smirched so badly that
nothing but saltpeter and consistent