Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-04-03

new kind Of seed potato and her third
husband. he was in the express car,
"here u was sort Of quiet. / envied
him. One of the neighbors said that he
was Killed by being run over by a train
because he could not hear it coming.
Foor man! He lost his hearing most
mercifully just after he was married.
ohe Is plain woman, but firm, with
grim determination and set teeth. She
SET them several weeks ago, and expects
them to come off the nest now in few
days. She says that this is the Arc de
triumph gooSeberry which she has. 1t
Is superior to the Polled Angus goose
perry, running more TO jam and less TO
worm than the Angus or the Isabella.
She wears a white flannel yachting cap
with catSkin earmuffs to it, and a seal
plush cloak that is prematurely bald on
the shoulders. l judge also by the front
OF the cloak that she got her wraps on
before she ate her breakfast, and then
only hurriedly ate a soft fried egg and
some buckwheat cakes with real Yer
mont maple slrup on them.
When she reads this In her quiet little
home near Fort Dodge she will be sorry
that she wore out all the foliage OF her
gooseberry bush on a great coarse man
who is not fond of shrubbery.
lama, la, is not a large place, but the
center Of rich farming county and
the social center Of large colony OF
Indians, numbering $50, believe. These
red men demonstrate the fact that Cha
Indian may be made self supporting, for
these Indians own their lands, on which
they raise mushrats. The government
gives each Indian about S42, IS annually
as a reward for being neither absent nor
tardy on pay day. With this the Indian
is enabled to buy lemon extract, by
means Of which he is enabled to get
/ drunk.
These Indians are Sacs and Foxes
mostly. What work is done is done by
the wife. She has a low, groyeling
streak in her nature, and so she works.
| The husband has nobility Of character
I and other things also which heis willing
TO impart to those near and dear to him.
While 1 was at Tama the Indians were
I just cleaning house. House cleaning
among the SacS aud Foxes is attended
20 very much as il is done among the
other Indian tribes. 1t is done by NOV
ing the house.
The Sacs and Foxes need a thorough
/ renOvating aud a Kelley institute. They
were the first to ascertain that lemon
/ extract and cologne taken in sufficient
quantities would intoxicate, and 1t is
| said that one of these Indians will drain
| the life blood from an alcohol stove at
one sitting.
There was considerable sickness
among these Indians last spring. 1t was
caused in a singular way. All the cigar
stores in Tama had alcohol cigar light
| ers, and the Indians got to lighting
| their pipes at these, aud while osten-
sibly lighting a refractory pipe they
did, then and there being, suck the
I Juice out of the alcohol retort by
means OF a straw. Dealers then put
SOME foreign substance into the alcohol
reservoir, and most all the men folks OF
I the tribe Staid az home for quite awhile
and complained of not feeling first rate
Tama has streets which in spring are
composed mostly Of adhesive copying
| ink. There is no bottom to the mud. II
| is impossible to drive over it when the
| frost is coming out Of the ground.
At Fairfield we found the same state
of affairs. There was no use for omni-
| bus or baggage wagon. They could not
make the trip, and had long ago given
/ it up, so we walked from the depot half
a mile 10 the hotel. 1t is callen the
Leggett House.