The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-03

Yesterday l rode most all day In .
seat just back of lady who was travel
ing with a large gooseberry bush. Why
do women feel better while travelling If
they can convey large, thorny parrot,
or a young plum tree, or jug of but
termilk? 1t certainly cannot enhance
the pleasure of travel either for them
selves or others. Every time would
get sleepy and droop forward / would
bury my face in this gooseberry bush.
1t annoyed me very much, but she kept
on carrying it, and even reproved me
for knocking young thorn loose with
my eye.
She was on the way home to plant q
new kind of seed potato and her third
husband. He was in the express car,
where it was sort of quiet l envied
him. One of the neighbors said that he
was killed by being run over by train
because he could not hear it coming.
Poor mani He lost his hearing most
mercifully just after he was married.
She 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
berry, running more to jam and less to
worm than the Angus or the Isabella
She wears white flannel yachting cap
with catslzin earmuffs to it, and seal
plush cloak that is prematurely bald on
the shoulders. Judge also by the front
of the cloak that she got her wraps on
before she ate her breakfast, and then
only hurriedly ate soft fried egg and
some buckwheat cakes with real Yer
mont maple strip on them.
When she reads this in her quiet littls
home near Fort Dodge she will be sorry
that she wore out all the foliage of her
gooseberry bush on great coarse man
who is not fond of shrubbery.
Tama, Ia, is not large place, but the
center of rich farming country and
the social center of large colony of
Indians, numbering $50, I believe. These
red men demonstrate the fact that the
Indian may be made self supporting, for
these Indians own their lands, on which
they raise mushrats. The government
gives each Indian about S42.1S annually
as 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 low, groveling
streak in her nature, and so she works.
The husband has nobility Of character
and other things also which he is willing
to impart to those near and dear to him.
While was at Tama the Indians wers
just cleaning house. Honse cleaning
among the Sacs and Foxes is attended
to very much as it is done among the
other Indian tribes. 1t is done by NOV
ing the house.
The Sacs and Foxes need thorough
renovating and Kelley institute. They
were the first to ascertain that lemon
extract and cologne taken in sufficient
"Ou4u lubOAlCdtc. dHu IL II
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 singular way. All the cigar stores
in Tama had alcohol cigar lighters, and
the Indians got TO lighting their pipes
at these, and while ostensibly lighting a
refractory pipe they did, then and there
being, suck the 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 the tribe staid at home for
quite awhile and complained of not feel
ing first rate.
Tama has streets which in spring are
composed mostly of adhesive copying
ink. There is no bottom TO the mud. 1t
is impossible to drive over it when tbs
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