The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-03

- = +ion- The Peace Sign When
As79 -, nT.ets Red-Soldiers and In
tians. ~. vo.t Sun
little woman in the province
..ib,ia a-ross the line, who reads the
: A'' - western Indian scare with more
eva Went appreciation of what the dis
s'S- ,i, mean than most persons possess
l-'lI srsTand keeps a country crnss'road
81 ~ the Indians of a neighboring
fo's 20, are among his customers.
ros a white man in the nelghbor-
r. 20 kept cutting poles on the edge OF
reservation. The Indians warned
- stop. He kept on, and one
." about three years ago be was
I'l,I tosioe a bundle of poles dead, with
I'-rh.-e he had never any more brains
l"S bo needed. Whea the Indians have
lDAA -rsaI 70 a deed of this sort they act
,oc,1iarly-very much as rebellious
vi! ,-i, 40 They sulk and hang about
CT -, and refuse their rations. Any
SUI, ,Iin, NAV lead them into open revo-
LIIe '' ~ fair and intelligent treatment,
NiOn as thew usually get in Canadd, is apt
slcl S.Iv molIify them and bring them
IN the ration house and the old
rlI' ne instance. while they were sulking
"a hanging between war and peace,
s Il..n of them strobe into the country store
-+ora the merchants wife stood Dehlno the
counter all alone, her husband having gone
CUM ;-rT1ev. The stately blanketed figures
Oh o. a az bucks filled the little store. The
W Wv sold 81 wv doqh The Indians
N .nltad Int did not speak. Their custom
49, .sc+ with an appearance of deiiberatlon
81 fnds EXPRESSION in as much as two
vs. If silence even when they want no
nY. than a plug of tobacco. This
nv thew gradually settled into fixed
u Unions one against the door frame. two
ire on barrels and boxes, the others
..an.r the counter. They came at 10
ssi1ck in the morning. At Ills o'clock
ona If them said whisky" Ia the new
v-Svinces no one is allowed to sell or give
Ionor to an Indian on any pretex5, aud II a
vlte man as anything better than water
~ drink he must have obtained permit
INN the lieutenant governor, even II 1t is
merely bottled beer or a family keg OK ale.
mi, little woman had no whisky, and would
T1t have given toe indians a spoonful if she
isd owned distillery. She said so.
The Indians grunted aud relapsed into the
rsaoctive state. In half an hour one said:
"I0o6l we want whisky; we go take It,"
IA nointed to the floor to indicate that he
meant to 20 in the cellar and forage for the
sfnF The woman was alarmed. Ever
Tirce the murder of the pole cutter the
entire white community for miles around
had been uneasy IN proportion as the IN
dams had been sullen and impudent and
restive. The worst was feared, and this
little woman confidently believed that the
hour for the expected massacre had
arrived and that il was to begin in her
store and with her life. Every one in the
Indian country knows that when
the Indians deliberately violate the
law or the convention alities
they do 50 because they have decided to
revolt And here were twelve braves an
nouncing that they meant to have the for
hidden fuid-ard advancing toward the
back of her store to ranssck her cellar. She
did not know what to do. She was SO
frightened that her sense left her, and moth
ing was left but her sex. So she acted like
woman. She came around from behind
the counter and put her little brown hands
against the shoulders Of the leader of the
twelve and began to shove him toward the
front door. When she had showed him up
little arms and showed both mon.
you get out" said she.. "Come, now,
you must all 60 out"
She had not sufficient muscle to hold up a
Winchester long enough to empty it. But
she showed away, and the big, statue,que,
roSewood-colored bucks fell steadily back
until they were all in a bunch in the door
way. Then she gave a mighty dash at all
OF them, and said: I've got mind to call
my husband" (he was fifty miles away), and
she gave another shove and landed them
out on the porch. Then she shut the door
and bolted It, and, though / did not hear
her say so, | will warrant she went I'D
stai and had jolly good cry in further
Justification Of that sex that draws upon
It's weakness for its strength.
Her nam is Mrs Lemoine, and she and
ner husband came from Chicago. They
Keep store in Whitewood, Assiniboia. oppo-
SIZE Mr.. Hgginbotnam's-the only two
stores IN vast country where the houses
are OFTEN ten miles apart and men go mad
from loneliness.
just before she entertained me she had
Bone CUT into her backyard-which is
brlClsh America-to see what was annoyfng
her chickens. 1t was nearly dark. and she
could just make out the hencoop and a
"hite skirt on clothesline. All the rest
was maze: - e stopped to open the hencoop
Goor' and noticed that it was ajar. Before
sue LAD time to raise herself erect again a
Dls "olf lounged out of the lattice door
ana passed in front of her. She bad
noo 9me to think, she SAYS, so she lust
raised up and clutched her skirts and threw
mem up and down, crying "Shool Shoot"
NJ tne Won, as If she mistook him for hen.
ti ne Woit stiffened his timber joints and
turned end stared at her, amazed. She
, ran al him and whipped her skirts again
h ouooF, said she. A panic seized the
Deasl; Probably never before had one
oil his kind seen himself SO iustIv
t aIlu acutely measured. The contempt. the
Inpatient scorn, expressed in this treat
ll SIl cut MIN to the soul, and he fed with
yo"I from before the woman. Mrs. Le-
s .HGne Tolls that story gravely like propo-
o-tlon Ia mathematics. She adds that She
va MAS imp all over" when she got back
omen have humor more often than thew
possess the sense of ir.
You will see more Indians in iournevinp
OF oSs canada than in crossing this country.
. aley are of all sorts, from the kind t at
sew oeadwork and make baskets, near Mon
rloai' ana that have not shot ANYTHING
rnoie dangerous than a rabbit in three
eeeueFa1ions, to the warlike and magnif-
pj blacxfeet, Bloods, Sarcees, and
! 1esahs OF the plains, and the dirty,
Tpoow-dlegged, fish-eating wretches of the
: aclhc coast. Up in the forests of the
. there are fewer Indians. and
Icy are a degenerate lot, remnants
VI tne O]ibbeways, wood Crees
Hnu swamp Crees. The large game
nere Is apt to be poor and wormy, and fish
T.. tnelr mai stay. 1t is surprising how
81 1Sn eatlng will sap the manhood Of a race.