The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-06-24

He looked at the watch, and then he
looked at a railroad folder. then he looked
at the MS. of an address or lecture which
he took now and again from his hand
bag. Wetting his lips with some restora-
tive which scented up the car. he would
practice in a low, r%etreating breath. fit
ting the gestures to it SO that people near
him vacated their seats. while ever and
anon he would hiss something through
his clinched teeth and bite a large hole
in the somewhat fixed air of the car.
Then he would open his satchel and take
out d manuscript, which he read over
earnestly, and then he seemed to be re-
peating it in his mind. Then he woul |
add gestures to it and bite large holes in
the atmosphere and look wild.
FINALLY went owe and spoke to him.
! asked him what seemed 10 be the
trouble. He said that he was billed to
lecture at Archy that evening. and that
already he was two hours behind. Ii we
did not make it up, he would lose $40. he
said. and he looked at his watch again
and then at the schedule. Then he ran
over a portion of his lecture and es-
ainined the joints in some of his gestures
to see It they We're working smoothly.
For some time | remained with him.
talking with him and c~onsoling him as
best might. finally telling him that |.
too, was a lecturer. though | was keep
ihS 1t as qnlet as ! could on account of
my family, and SO | went on trying to
brace him up and give him courage even
while could hardly smile myself. His
agent seemed 10 be along with him. and
to him | finally addressed myself in the
smoker a little later on.
Can you not get a special or do so1le-
thing to relieve the anxiety of your at
tractlons | inquired. He seems to be
suffering s o much over it
My attraction said the agent. biting .
of the ragged edge of his cigar WRAPPER
and looking out at the frosty miles of
country. has been this way for
eight years. ! am taking him to the
asylum. Eight years ago lie was a young
man. He made a hit when he graduated
and delivered a thrilling speech regard .
ing the American Indian. Never having
Seen the American Indian, he loved him. (
He said. among other things, that the
Indian approximated more
nearly to what maj should be-mauly.
grand, physically perfect. morally great
and trle to the instincts Of his conscience
any other race of beings, civilized
OF uncivIlized. Where he asked. do
we hear such noble sentiments Or meet
With such examples of heroism and self
as the history of the American
Indian furnishes: Where shall we 90
again to hear such oratory as that Of
Black Hawk and Logan: Certainly the
Of our SO called civilization do
furnish it. and the present century
is devoid of it. They We're the true chill
dren of the Great Spirit. They lived
nearer to the great throbbing heart If
the Creator than do their palefaced con-
querors of today who mourn over the
lost and undone condition of the savage.
brave and the soul Of honor.
their cruel and awful destruction from
of the face of the earth is a sin of such
that the people of America
well shrink from the just punish
ment which is sure to follow the assassi-
nation of SO brave a race He had quite
a lot of things like that in his speech, and
his father. who had a chattel mortgage
the press Of The Home and indicator
Of our place. got it printed to the ex-
clusiou of the tax list and other spicy
reading.
sFriends then petitioned him to let the
boy lecture. He swelled up with par
donable pride and encouraged the young
man. and 30 he started out. He was all
wrapped up in the Indian, and SO he pre-
r,ared a lecture on The Red Man, Past
and Present. Lie put al the poetry into
It that a boy WIG h4d never seen an l.
dian would. Il lracticed q his PEE