Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-02-02

people who range their concave abdo-
mems up against the heated guns of a
hostile fortress and wait for an honorable
death. Nyether would they scale re-
doubt in the teeth of q CALLING fire. They
are not constructed according to those
Specifications. On the contrary, they
sail up in sort of circle, sort of tan
tailze and pick at the advancing foe,
shake their travel stained nighties at the
moving enemy, and, emitting a war CRY
as melodious as the crampy remark of a
cuckoo clock, they go away from them.
After the battle the Arabian papers
announce that fifteen hundred handsome
Englshmen, with beautiful sloping
shoulders and Venus de Medici figures.
nave bitten the dust, while one elderly
Arabian has sprained his thumb by fall
ing from his horse and striking on the
sharp prong of gopher hole.
But this has nothing to do with the
late religious craze among the red breth-
| rem.
The Indian is no worse than all other
oarbarlc people who scorn the sacred
and secular press. Politics may be cor
rupt and leaders venal, but intelligence
Will win at last. 1t is where people do
not advertise that the bogus Messiah is
permitted to do up the people. 1t is
where the Washington hand press and
the primary school house yet slumber in
the womb OF the future that people fall
down and worship a warty prophet who
cannot safely refer to the place where he
was last employed. The red brother. as
many of us know, is not educated. He
has for generations gone fishing in his
youth, and III his old age died in igno-
| rance. That is why religious fanaticism
finds him ready prey. That is why he
Is enabled to make, as the French say,
one fox pass after another, and to fall a
ready victim to the wiles of the crafty.
The ghost dance is not likely. how
ever, to become popular at the Patriarchs'
balls this winter, | am happy to say, as it
is danced entirely by the males, the
squaws not being in it, as Mr.. McAllis-
| ter, the blooming cad of an otherwise
creditable epoch, would say The squaws
| are sometimes present at these religious
dances, but not generally allowed to par
ticipate. Below am permitted to give
/
Ridge small and early, as given me in a
private letter dated some weeks ago.
Tush-Tush, the daughter of old john
nie-jump-up, the sockless Brule, wore a
mauve drap-de-tay hat lining with breast
OF buzzard in front and side ornaments
of empty cartridges, size A. She also
wore ear tabs TO same, cut en- V and
made of muskrat skin lined with bed
ticking. She wore an alpaca vest, with
| corsage bouquet of corn fritters draped
| with New Orleans molasses. Her loose
artillery trousers lad a broad red stripe
down the side. She wore over all this
leather trimmed horse blanket with eye
holes IN it from st. Paul Her hair was
braided plainly down each side, and tied
en- masse at the ends with sinews. Where
1t parted at the nape of the neck there
peeped coquettishly forth small patch
of the beautiful skin of Tush- Tush,
bright and shiny as new cent, and bid
ding those who were brave enough to do
so to plant thereon q large, resonant
kiss.
Standing Horse, who led the ghost
dance, wore United States wagon
cover on his arrival, and also threw one
corner of it over his departure; but when
the dancing began he checked this outer
wrap, and was discovered to be dressed
lightly in a tiara of dickey birds feet
and coat of shellac. He danced until
utterly worn out and exhausted, when
he fell to the ground, and tidy was
thrown over him by an attendant.
| White Wings, who came merely to
look on, as he naively said, wore fur
cape of gopher pelts and calico shirt. No
ornaments to speak of.
Jaybird, who fetched Tush-Tush to
the dance. wore a percale shirt, which
would have been tucked into the waist
band of his trousers, if he had been
blessed with trousers, but the cold and
cruel winter, ah, the nipping, biting
bird, caught him at a disadvantage,
caught him slightly DISABILITY, caught
him shivering on the prairie, caught
him short of ere trouser; and goose
pimples chased each other, following
fast and following faster up his limbs of
alabaster When he saw Tush- Tush
and passed her, then he trembling
turned and asked her.
She allowed that she would come with
him. She said so long as they lived in
the west, what was the use of trying to
put on Tugs. East, Of course, she said
her escort would be de trop, but in the
west, where pants do not make the man,
nor want of them the fellow, there
would be no fuss made over this idiosyn-
Grassy, She then got ready and went.
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