Morning journal and courier., 1893-04-06

blasphemy to apply sueh term to every
woman whose husband or father happens,
by the 'blind nigger luckn of our dirty
politics, to be dumped or hoisted into q
petty Office at Washington.
Judging by q good many of the pic
lures sent out through the illustrated
press associations by some of these cor
respondential gushers and oversloppers
during the administration just defunct q
half dozsn of the average alleged "beiles
and beauties" of the capital would have
scared all the coyotes out of the Bad
Lands. During the Sioux outbreak two
ment that Ii might summarily end all the
troubles by sending bevy of these wood
cutty darlings out to the Pine Ridge and
wounded Knee region. / maintained that
the widest savage that ever wore war
paint and o breecholout would break his
neck dozen times getting away from suoh
An appalling phalanx of apparitions.
We soon had an opportunity to test my
plan. l was then living on DEVILS Lake, q
realm of which the only respectable fes-
ture Is the name. One Sunday morning
In January, 1891, the papers were filed
with panicky dispatches about the Turtle
Mountain Indians, my most civilized and
agreeable neighbors, taking the warpath.
They were reported burning, ravagina and
massacring all over the frigid deserts that
pass for wheat farms about Bottineau.
northeast of my place. Settlers were said
to be flying for their lives. Frantic sp-
pesls were issued for troops, arms and am
munition. The governor of the state kept
the telegraph wires ablsze ordering out the
militia, and sent his heroic staff officers
cavorting Ike red-hesded Bobsdils here
aud there and everywhere-excspt where
anrIld ha afNE-
warriors of Fargo, Grand Forks, Jim
town, Bismarck, Hellville and other elias.
sic settlements were under arms day and
night, and visions of scslps and carnage
filled every body's dreams.
In the nick of time received a big
batch of papers. Washington's ink gey-
sers OF gush and slush were out In force.
One paper contained two column rhapso-
dy on "the peerless beauties of the Sea-
son" and lot of stereotype portraits of
the semi-divine young creatures, who were
described In terms that split all puffery's
brszen trumpets into hsirpius, az queen
ing 1t in cspitoline society. Monday night
hung the paper with the Beauty Pic
tures" on tamareck tree on the Indian
trail not far from my cabin. Tuesday
morning our scouts, headed by death
dealing Major Makee and Captain Yor-
key, reported that there Was not an Indian,
not a savage with red hide, left in all the
neighborhood. They had folded their
ghost shirts, like skedaddling Arabs, and
fed In wild dismsy. Within twenty-four
hours they were clear over the Manitoba
line and still a-runnipg. The Turtle
Mountain Indian wsr was over. Beauty
such besuty-is q powerl
Seriously is 1t not time, in the name of
American decsncy-if there is any euch
thiDg-to call a halt In newspsperial
Hunkeyism and sbiect jenkinsismi For
four years a disgusted world has been del
uged with sdulation of the Hsrrisons and
Baby Mckee, the Millers, Mobiles, wana-
makers, Elkinses, ct i'd omne crowdum.
Who knows or cares where or how they
are to dayi
The same slush engines are being
turned loose on the Clevelsnds and Baby
Ruth, the Stevensons, Hoke Smiths, Bis
sells and Lannon'S. For gracious sake call
off the tafy-squirts and give us a rest. /
am tough in endurance, but the limit Is
well-nigh reached. Yours sppeslingly,
P DOMAIN